:: Professor Stanley Unwin, comedian and inventor of Unwinese the language. Wikipedia entry and BBC movie clip (Please let me know if these links expire). Prof Unwin also appears as spy Father Stanley Unwin working for British Intelligence Service Headquarters, Operation Priest in The Secret Service, a children's programme by Thunderbirds Gerry Anderson.
:: Unwins was a Kent-based chain of 381 off-licences with outlets focused on London and the South East. Unwins was founded in 1843 and went insolvent on 19 December, 2005. 200 Unwin stores were subsequently sold to larger rival Thresher Group.
:: Edward Unwin, sailor who who VC at Gallipoli. Wikipedia entry
:: Sgt George "Grumpy" Unwin, WW2 Spitfire pilot. Wikipedia entry
:: Stephen D. Unwin, physicist and author of The Probability of God. Wikipedia entry
:: The Unwin family were characters in TV's Coronation Street. Wikipedia entry
:: Paul David Unwin, b 1967, a New Zealand cricketer.
:: Oliver Unwin - not famous, but who was very nearly Oliver Twist! Read this extract: "Mrs Mann raised her hands in astonishment; but added, after a moment's reflection, 'How comes he to have any name at all,then? "The beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, 'I inwented it.' "'You, Mr. Bumble!' said Mrs. Mann. "We name our foundlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S,--Swubble, I named him. This was a T,--Twist, I named HIM. The next one comes will be Unwin, and the next Vilkins. I have got names ready made to the end of the alphabet, and all the way through it again, when we come to Z.'"
