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Code	DS/UK/1461
Name	Attenborough; Sir; David (8 May 1926); OM CH CVO CBE FRS FRSB FRSA FLS FZS FSA FRSGS; English broadcaster and natural historian
Variations of Name	David Frederick Attenborough
Dates	8 May 1926
Gender	Male (cisgender)
Place of Birth/Origin	Isleworth, Middlesex, England (born)
Relationships	Son of Mary Clegg (founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council) and Frederick Levi Attenborough (scholar and academic administrator) Sibling of Richard Attenborough (director, producer and actor) and John Attenborough (executive at Alfa Romeo). During the Second World War, through a British volunteer network known as the Refugee Children's Movement, his parents also fostered two Jewish refugee girls from Europe (Helga and Irene Bejach)
Biography	Sir David Attenborough is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in the UK. In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC.

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