7/27/2019 20 Famous Brits.docx

1/1

20 Famous Brits

http://foxhugh.com/list-of-lists/20-famous-brits/

1) Alan Turing English mathematician whose works explored the possibility of

computers and raised fundamental questions about artificial

intelligence. During World War II he contributed to the allied

victory by helping to decipher the German Enigma codes.

2) Captain JamesCook

James Cook was an explorer of the eighteenth century, known forhis voyages to the Pacific Ocean.

3) Charles Darwin Originator of the theory of evolution through natural selection and

author of On the Origin of Species.

4) Charles

Dickens

Charles Dickens wrote some of the most popular and widely read

novels of the 19th century.

5) David Beckham Beckham is a leading English footballer and a former star of the

legendary team Manchester United.

6) Ernest

Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer of the South Pole.

7) FlorenceNight ingale British nurse is considered the founder of modern nursing.

8) JK Rowling The author of theHarry Potterseries.

9) John Lennon Co-writer with Paul McCartney in The Beatles and solo musician.

10) King Arthur A legendary British hero, said to have been king of the Britons in

the sixth century A.D. and to have held court at Camelot.

11) King Henry

VIII

Henry VIII is one of the most famous and controversial kings of

England and broke from the Catholic Church by the Act of

Supremacy (1534).

12) Margaret

Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom's first woman prime

minister, and she held the office of PM for longer than anyone in the

20th century.13) Oliver Cromwell 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and

Ireland. Commander of the New Model Army during the English

Civil War against King Charles I.

14) Queen Elizabeth I Popular monarch of England (reigned 15581603) who brought a

period of relative internal stability. She is associated with the defeat

of the Spanish Armada.

15) Sir Isaac Newton Originator of universal gravitation and laws of classical mechanics

and laws of motion.

16) Sir Winston

Churchill

Prime Minister during World War II, historically ranked the greatest

British prime minister.

17) Vice-Admiral

Horatio Nelson

Famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the

Napoleonic Wars.

18) William Blake British poet and artist whose paintings and poetic works, such as

Songs of Innocence (1789) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(c. 1790), have a mystical, visionary quality.

19) William

Shakespeare

Thought of by many as the greatest of all English writers. Wrote

Romeo and Juliet.

20) William

Wilberforce

William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a

leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade