List of British People
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Top 10 voted by BBC
1. Winston Churchill (28.1%) | |
2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (24.6%) | |
3. Princess Diana (13.9%) | |
4. Charles Darwin (6.9%) | |
5. William Shakespeare (6.8%) | |
6. Sir Isaac Newton (5.2%) | |
7. Queen Elizabeth I (4.4%) | |
8. John Lennon (4.2%) | |
9. Horatio Nelson (3%) | |
10. Oliver Cromwell (2.8%) |
Famous British People Living in 21st Century include:
- Tony Blair
- Gordon Brown
- David Beckham
- Richard Branson
- JK Rowling
- David Attenborough
- Tim Berners Lee
- Donald Campbell
- Cliff Richard
- J K Rowling
- Bradley Wiggins
- Wayne Rooney
- Alex Ferguson
- Boris Johnson
- Paul Hewson (Bono)
- Sebastian Coe
- David Cameron
Famous British People 20th Century
- Julie Andrews
- John M Keynes
- Tony Benn
- Douglas Bader
- Aneurin Bevan
- David Bowie
- Richard Burton
- Charlie Chaplin
- Leonard Cheshire
- Winston Churchill
- Queen Elizabeth II
- the Queen Mother
- George Harrison
- Alexander Fleming
- Bob Geldof
- Wilfred Owen
- T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
- John Lennon
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Enoch Powell
- Stephen Hawking
- Paul McCartney
- Freddie Mercury
- Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
- Bobby Moore
- Eric Morecambe
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Edward Elgar
- David Livingstone
- David Lloyd George
- Steve Redgrave
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Ernest Shackleton
- J R R Tolkien
- Marie Stopes
- Margaret Thatcher
- Barnes Wallis
- Alan Turing
- Frank Whittle
Famous British People 19th Century
- Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901)
- Lord Baden Powell
- Charles Babbage
- Alexander Graham Bell
- William Blake
- Emily Bronte (poet, author)
- William Booth
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Benjamin Disraeli
- D H Lawrence
- William Wilberforce
- William Wordsworth (poet)
- John Keats
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John Logie Baird
- Florence Nightingale
- George Stephenson
- Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
- Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
- Edward Jenner (1749 – 1823 )
Famous British People 18th Century
- John Wesley (1703 – 1791)
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Captain James Cook 1728 – 1779)
- James Watt (1736 –1819) (inventor of Steam Engine)
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
Famous British People 17th Century
- Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552 - 1618)
- Guy Fawkes (1570 – 1606
- Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Famous British People 16th Century
- Francis Drake (1540 – 1596)
- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
- William Tyndale (c.1494-1536)
- King Henry VIII (1491 – 1547)
- Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
Famous British People 15th Century
- King Richard III 1452 – 1485
- William Caxton (1420-1492)
Famous British People 14th Century
- Robert the Bruce (1274 – 1329)
- William Wallace (1270-1303)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 -1400)
- King Edward I (1272 to 1307)
Famous British People before 13th Century
- King Henry II (1133 – 1189 )
- King Henry V (1386 – 1422)
- John Wycliffe (1328-1384) (religious reformer)
- Alfred the Great (871 to 899)
- Bede 672 -735 AD (monk, historian and scholar)
- King Arthur 5th Century
- Boudicca (61 AD)
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