Michel Thomas (born Moniek Kroskof, February 3, 1914 – January 8, 2005) was a polyglot linguist, and decorated war veteran. He survived imprisonment in several different Nazi concentration camps after serving in the Maquis of the French Resistance and worked with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II. After the war, Thomas emigrated to the United States, where he developed a language-teaching system known as the "Michel Thomas method". In 2004 he was awarded the Silver Star by the U.S. Army.

Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet (2 May 1656 – 13 July 1724) was an Irish politician and judge. Levinge was the son of Richard Levinge of Parwich Hall, Derbyshire, Recorder of Chester and Anne Parker, daughter of George Parker of of Stafford. Through his mother he was a first cousin of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He was educated at Audlem School, Derbyshire and St John's College, Cambridge. He entered the Inner Temple in 1671 and was called to the Irish Bar. He was a Member of Parliament of the English House of Commons for Chester from 1690 to 1695. In 1692 he was elected as a member of the Irish House of Commons for Belfast and for Blessington, but chose to sit for Blessington, a seat he held until 1695. During this time he served as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He later represented Longford Borough from 1698 to September 1713 and Kilkenny City from 1713 to November 1715 in the Irish Parliament. In 1713 he was also returned for Gowran, but chose to sit for Kilkenny. He also served as Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Levinge was created a Baronet, of High Park in the County of Westmeath, in the Baronetage of Ireland on 26 October 1704. He was once again a member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Derby from 1710 to 1711. He married firstly Mary Corbyn, daughter of Sir Gawan Corbyn, a wealthy London linen draper, and had five children. He married secondly Mary Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson, Baron of the and his wife Mary Dixon, daughter of Sir Richard Dixon, Mayor of Dublin and had one further son. Of his children, Richard and Charles both in turn inherited the baronetcy. Mary married Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers, and had three daughters, including the noted religious leader ]]Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon]].