List of Famous people named Basil
Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh
Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond was a British peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685.
Basil of Trebizond
Basil Megas Komnenos was Emperor of Trebizond from August 1332 until his death in 1340. Although Basil's reign was a period of stability during the civil war that dominated the pocket empire during the second quarter of the 14th century, some of that conflict had its origins in his marital actions.
Basil Thomas Fitzherbert
Basil Edward Arthur Cochrane
Basil Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford
Basil Francis Nicholas Fitzherbert, 14th Baron Stafford was an English soldier, landowner, and peer, a member of the House of Lords for almost forty years.
Basil Boothby
Basil Boothby CMG was a British ambassador.
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough,, styled Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Baronet between 1907 and 1952, was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963.
Basil Hall
Basil Hall was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. He was the second son of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, an eminent man of science.
Basil Thomson
Sir Basil Home Thomson, was a British colonial administrator and prison governor, who was Head of Metropolitan Police CID during World War I. This gave him a key role in arresting wartime spies, and he was closely involved in the prosecution of Mata Hari, Sir Roger Casement and many Irish and Indian nationalists. His equating of Jews with Bolshevism led to accusations of anti-semitism. Thomson was also a successful novelist.