Pajiba

Yay! I immediately thought of Benedict Cumberbatch when I saw the title. Also, I would totes bang most of the boys on this list. And a couple of the girls.

Ha! I dare you to say "Cumberbatch" without taking on a British accent. Can't be done.

God he was so freaking skeevy in Atonement. I need to see him in something else so I can believe he's not that guy.

-Prince Wil's nanny, Alexandra "Tiggy" Pettifer (née Legge-Bourke)
-Bill Nighy
-Andrew Robathan MP (many of their politicians actually, check out the current cabinet)

I ♥ Benedict Cumberbatch. His Holmes is fantastic and he was great in HIGNFY a couple of weeks ago.

If I weren't actually familiar with some of these people, I would think these names were completely invented.

You do realise that British is not the same as English right?
England, Wales and Scotland all make up Great Britain and you generally find Scottish & the Welsh don't take too kindly to be called English but can technically be called British (not that I recommend it!!!)
But beside that off the top of my head: Renee Zellweger, Casey Affleck, Cam Gigandet and Jeanne Tripplehorn, so GB doesn't have a monopoly on silly names!

Ooh, I've got one: Hermione Gingold.

Yes, there was a Hermione before Harry Potter.

She had quite a career, but you may remember her as "the mayor's snooty wife Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn in The Music Man".

"Balzac!"

Nigel Incubator Jones. #3 Uppoer Class Twit of the Year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqObJtGrKaA

You seem to have forgotten Wesley Snipes.

"Not an actor, but a senior member of our previous government was Alistair Darling."

-That was kind of a running gag on Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder (Goes Forth). Many times the character was simply referred to as "Darling". And yet the jokes never got old.

"There's only one Wesley Snipes in this world!" (I love random 30 Rock quotes.)

How do you feel about the Finns?

Engelbert Humperdinck. . .not his given name. . . but still.

Everyone who commented gets a British accent in my head for the rest of this thread.

Poots.

The true test of Britishness is when you can say the name backwards and it still sounds as hoity-toity as a single-estate Darjeeling from the slopes of Bhutan, served at the First Lord Viscount's bi-annual Gala Exposition with afternoon refreshments on a doily of samite, printed as a commemorative image of William III's victory on the frothy seas at La Hogue in 1692.

Imogen Poots

Full name Imogen Gay Poots?

Engelbert Humperdinck

But he's dead now, did you hear that?

Where's Cary Elwes?!

Why does that picture of Rowan Atkinson look like he's got an eye in his mouth? I'm kind of freaking out here...

What is "Scotch-Hungarian?" The abbreviation for Scottish is "Scots" - "scotch" is a drink, "Scots" is the people. Anyway, you said you don't like the Scottish.

And as someone pointed out in an earlier comment, "British" is a term used to describe residents of Great Britain - not just the English.

All that aside, Hugh Dancy rocks.

"Burkina Faso? 'Disputed zone'? Who called all these weird places?"

Thanks to the Simpsons, I love a good Burkina Faso reference. Pretty much, when I see that country's name, no matter the context, I get tunnel vision and can't think of anything else.

That's all I got.

After reading the title I said, "Benedict Cumberbatch better be #1". It doesn't get more delightfully British than that.

Asshoooole!

Manfredjin St John

Shonda - I believe that's Manfranjenson. But I could be wrong, it was his last name, and so (especially since he's not English) I think it was all one word.

Lady Ursula Chetwynd-Talbot, second wife of the more common-named playwright Patrick Hamilton.

And funny that Wodehouse was mentioned, but not his actual name, which was even more squirmingly delightful: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.

Also, coveredinbees, it's "Slut Bunwallah".

::raises eyebrows and nods head vigorously::

And funny that Wodehouse was mentioned, but not his actual name, which was even more squirmingly delightful: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.

[Slaps own forehead!]

Of course! I was so busy focusing on Darling, that I completely overlooked what P.G. stood for. You can see why those close to him might just call him 'Plum' instead.

He was of course, the master of ludicrous-sounding names - he could have easily filled a fictional version of this list with Gussie Fink-Nottle, Honoria Glossop, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright and the like.

It doesn't get more delightfully British than that.
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It sure does, if you just put "Sir" in front of all the men's names and "Her Royal Highness" in front of all the ladies'.

Or take any two of the names and hyphenate them:

HRH Prunella Scales-Poots

Sir Benedict Cumberbatch-Popplewell

If Benedict WASN'T number one, I was going to have something to say about it.

But he is, so...I don't.

D-Day, I have one of those names. All three of my names can be used as first or last names, and I have roman numerals at the end.

My family's Welsh, and we always just figured it was because there just weren't that many good Welsh names to go around (how else do you end up with people named Morgan Morganson, or Will Williamson)?

*Fiennes

MelBivDevoe and ThirteenthMonkey just won.

One of my best friends younger sister is called
Marie-Sophia Ruttley nickname Muffy.
The whole family is so deliciously british I just squee when I visit.

Even though we are british my mother favours Irish and Fench names however I do have a doozy of a confirmation name thanks to a lot of underage drinking..........

Helena Bonham-Carter has a cousin called Crispin Bonham-Carter, Crispin!!

Pickled tink, i too am a native tootingite! Represent, as we say in the ghettoes of South London. Also, Pajiba, Britain does not equal England, British does not equal English, don't do that. Almost certainly several people on that list are not English.

I learned this very fact on these pages.. Surprise Brit Andrew Lincoln (GRIMES!) Is actually called Andrew Clutterbuck

One of my close friends sister ic named
Maria-Sophia Ruttley
Nickname Muffy.

The family is so terribly english I just love visiting them and drinking tea and saying yah.

IT’S…

The 2nd World War has now entered a sentimental stage. This morning on the Ardennes Front, the Germans started spooning at dawn, but the British Fifth Army responded by gazing deep in their eyes, and the Germans are reported to have gone 'all coy'.

Drop your panties, Sir Arthur, I cannot wait 'till lunchtime!

I must warn you, sir, that outside I have a police dog, Josephine, who is not only armed and trained to sniff out certain substances but is also a junkie.

Am I the only one who thinks he’s being followed by a giant hedgehog named Spiny Norman?

@Simon
He was of course, the master of ludicrous-sounding names - he could have easily filled a fictional version of this list with Gussie Fink-Nottle, Honoria Glossop, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright and the like.

One of my favourites is Stilton Cheesewright.

nice love poots