Sir Winston Churchill | Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and cel |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an extraordinary Victorian engineer. He designed and built amongst other |
Diana, Princess of Wales | From the time of her marriage to the Prince of Wales in 1981 until her death in a car accident in Pa |
Charles Darwin | Charles Darwin was a British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theor |
William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare was a playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in Engl |
Sir Isaac Newton | Isaac Newton was a mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the |
Queen Elizabeth I | The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth 1 reigned England from 1558–1603. |
John Lennon | John Lennon was a musician and composer who was a member of the Beatles, the biggest rock band of th |
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Nelson is the greatest hero in British naval history, an honour he earned by defeating Napoleon's fl |
Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell was a military, political, and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory |
Ernest Shackleton | Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer of the South Pole who is best remembered for leading his cr |
Captain James Cook | James Cook was an explorer of the eighteenth century, known for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean. Co |
Robert Baden-Powell | British soldier who founded the Boy Scouts (1908) and with his sister Agnes (1858–1945) the Girl G |
King Alfred the Great | King of the West Saxons (871–899), scholar, and lawmaker who repelled the Danes and helped consoli |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | British general and politician. Commander of British troops during the Peninsular War (1808–1814), |
Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher | Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom's first woman prime minister, and she held the office of PM |
Michael Crawford | Actor |
Queen Victoria | Victoria's nearly 64-year reign was the longest in British history. |
Sir Paul McCartney | McCartney was a singer, songwriter and guitarist for The Beatles, the biggest rock band of the 1960s |
Sir Alexander Fleming | British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928, for which he shared a Nobel Prize in 1945. |
Alan Turing | English mathematician whose works explored the possibility of computers and raised fundamental quest |
Michael Faraday | British physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1831) and proposed the field |
Owain Glyndwr | The last Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales. |
Queen Elizabeth II | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary), is the Queen regnant and Head of State of |
Professor Stephen Hawking | British theoretical physicist noted for his research into the origin of the universe. His work influ |