Famous People of Great Britainpresented by

Nick Grnewald & Jeremy JubbApril 2010

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Kings & Queens of Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II*1926She is the present Queen of England & the Commonwealth.

Queen Victoria*1819 - 1901She gave her name to the age she lived in.

Queen Elizabeth I*1533 - 1603She said: I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but the heart and stomach of a king.

King Henry V (Henry of Lancaster)*1387 - 1422He was an outstanding king and proved himself as a soldier.

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Famous Politicians of Great BritainSir Winston Churchill*1874 - 1965He was Prime Minister and known for his leadership in World War II. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Margaret Thatcher*1925She was Prime Minister and leader of the conservative party.

Tony Blair*1953Blair's role as Prime Minister was particularly visible in foreign and security policy.

Gordon Brown*1925He is the present Prime Minster ofthe United Kingdom.

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Famous Scienstist of Great BritianSir Isaac Newton*1643 - 1727He was a physicist and is well known for the Newton law of universal gravitation.

James Watt*1736 - 1819He was the inventor of the steam engine.

Charles Robert Darwin*1809 - 1882He was a naturalist and famous for his theory of evolution, described in his bookOn the Origin of Species.

Stephen William Hawking*1942 He is a theoretical physicist and well known for black holes & quantum gravity. He is disabled by motor neuron disease.

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Famous Heroes of Great BritainCaptain James Cook*1728 - 1779He was an English sailor in the Royal Navy. He was an explorer, navigator andcartographer. He discovered Australia.

Horatio Nelson (Admiral Lord Nelson)*1758 - 1805He was an English flag officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1805 he died at the battle of Trafalgar, but the British fleet won.

Florence Nightingale*1820 - 1910She was a nurse and became famous during the Crimean Wars.She was a pioneer of modern nursing.

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell*1857 - 1941

He was a soldier in the British Army and a writer. He founded the boy scouts.

Famous Actors of Great BritainSir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin*1889 - 1977He was an English comic actor in the silent film era. His most famous role was that of The Tramp.

Dame Margaret Rutherford*1892 - 1974She was an English character actress, best known for her performance as Miss Marple.

Sir Roger George Moore*1930He is a actor and film producer, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond 007.

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson*1955He is a comedian, actor & writer, most famous for his work in the sitcom Mr. Bean.

Famous Writers of Great BritainWilliam Shakespeare*1564 - 1616He was a poet and playwright and one of the world'sgreatest dramatists.Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*1859 - 1930He was a physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Dame Agatha Christie*1890 - 1976She was a crime writer of novels, short stories and plays and well known for her detectives,Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Joanne K. Rowling*1965She is best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Famous Popstars of Great BritainThe BeatlesRingo Starr (*1940)John Lennon (*1940 - 1976)George Harrison (*1942 - 2001)Paul McCartney (*1942)The Beatles were one of the most famous English rock bands, formed in Liverpool in 1960.

Sir Elton John*1947He is an English singer, songwriter, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John hassold more than 250 million records, making him one ofthe most successful artists of all time.

Robbie Williams*1974He is a multi-BRIT Award winning English singer, songwriter, actor and musician. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That.

Famous Characters of Great BritainPaddington Bearis a fictional character in children's literature,written by Michael Bond.

Winnie the Poohis a fictional bear created by Alan A. Milne.

Rupert the Bearis a children's comic strip figure createdby Mary Toutel, and first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920.

The TeletubbiesTinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po are 4 figures from a children's television series. The series was primarily aimedat pre-school viewers.

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