- Was a fourth cousin of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
- Full title: Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet.
- Was the inspiration for the Elvis Costello song, "Less Than Zero", from the album, My Aim Is True.
- Founder and head of the British Union of Fascists.
- Son, former FIA President Max Mosley.
- Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels attended his wedding to Lady Diana Mosley (neé Mitford) on October 6, 1936, which took place in Berlin.
- Lampooned in a song on "Not the Nine o' Clock News".
- In Absolute Beginners (1986), Steven Berkoff plays a distinctly Mosleyesque figure (with greased-back hair and mustache), leader of the "Union of Fascists". Richard III (1995) reinvents Richard as another Mosley-like character. In P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster stories, he is caricatured as Sir Roderick Spode, leader of the "Saviours of Britain" or Blackshorts (but who secretly designs and sells women's underwear). In Jeeves and Wooster (1990), John Turner played Spode.
- He was imprisoned and his organization banned after he argued for the British government to accept Hitler's offer to end the war in March 1940.
- He opposed Neville Chamberlain's decision to form an unworkable military pact with Poland in 1939, as he argued it could not be enforced and would only encourage the Soviet Union to invade Poland.
- The Battle of Cable Street led to a surge in support for Mosley's BUF party.
- Anti-Semitism increased in the UK as a direct result of the Battle of Cable Street.
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