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United Kingdom historical figures
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36 figures
William Shakespeare
Playwright & poet
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Winston Churchill
Statesman & Prime Minister
Charles Darwin
Naturalist & biologist
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Isaac Newton
Mathematician & physicist
Elizabeth I
Queen of England
Henry VIII
King of England
Queen Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
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Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Suffragette leader
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Blackbeard
Pirate
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John Lennon
Musician & songwriter
Alan Turing
Mathematician & computer scientist
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician & writer
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor & engineer
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist & cosmologist
James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist & mathematician
Michael Faraday
Chemist & physicist
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John Locke
Philosopher & physician
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil & marine engineer
James Watt
Inventor & engineer
Jane Goodall
Primatologist
Rosalind Franklin
X-ray crystallographer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer and philosopher
Freddie Mercury
Singer and songwriter
David Bowie
Musician and actor
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer scientist
Robert Baden-Powell
Founder of the Scout Movement
George Best
Footballer
Zaha Hadid
Architect
Jane Austen
Novelist
Virginia Woolf
Writer
Dorothy Hodgkin
Chemist
David Beckham
Footballer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astrophysicist
James Cook
Explorer & naval officer
Charles Babbage
Mathematician & inventor
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