| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert Adam |
Architect |
3-Jul-1728 |
3-Mar-1792 |
Scottish Neoclassical architect |
| Joseph Addison |
Author |
1-May-1672 |
17-Jun-1719 |
The Spectator |
| Edmund Allenby |
Military |
23-Apr-1861 |
14-May-1936 |
Defeated the Turks in WWI |
| Queen Anne |
Royalty |
6-Feb-1665 |
1-Aug-1714 |
Queen of England, 1702-14 |
| Clement Attlee |
Head of State |
3-Jan-1883 |
8-Oct-1967 |
UK Prime Minister, 1945-51 |
| Francis Beaumont |
Playwright |
1584 |
6-Mar-1616 |
Collaborator with John Fletcher |
| Aphra Behn |
Playwright |
10-Jul-1640 |
16-Apr-1689 |
Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave |
| Ernest Bevin |
Politician |
9-Mar-1881 |
14-Apr-1951 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51 |
| John Blow |
Composer |
23-Feb-1649 |
1-Oct-1708 |
Venus and Adonis |
| Anne Bracegirdle |
Actor |
1663 |
1748 |
Actress in Congreve's plays |
| Robert Browning |
Poet |
7-May-1812 |
12-Dec-1889 |
Prominent Victorian poet and playwright |
| Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
Novelist |
25-May-1803 |
18-Jan-1873 |
The Last Days of Pompeii |
| Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts |
Philanthropist |
21-Apr-1814 |
30-Dec-1906 |
Victorian philanthropist |
| William Camden |
Scholar |
2-May-1551 |
9-Nov-1623 |
Britannia |
| Colin Campbell |
Military |
20-Oct-1792 |
24-Aug-1863 |
Commander-in-chief of India |
| George Canning |
Politician |
11-Apr-1770 |
8-Aug-1827 |
Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| King Charles II |
Royalty |
29-May-1630 |
6-Feb-1685 |
King of England 1660-85 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer |
Author |
c. 1343 |
25-Oct-1400 |
Canterbury Tales |
| Lord Clarendon |
Government |
18-Feb-1609 |
9-Dec-1674 |
The Clarendon Code |
| Muzio Clementi |
Composer |
24-Jan-1752 |
10-Mar-1832 |
Gradus ad Parnassum |
| Thomas Cochrane |
Military |
14-Dec-1775 |
31-Oct-1860 |
Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen |
| William Congreve |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1670 |
19-Jan-1729 |
The Way of the World |
| George Nathaniel Curzon |
Government |
11-Jan-1859 |
20-Mar-1925 |
Created the Kingdom of Jordan |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| Sir William Davenant |
Poet |
1606 |
7-Apr-1668 |
Gondibert |
| Charles Dickens |
Novelist |
7-Feb-1812 |
9-Jun-1870 |
Oliver Twist |
| Michael Drayton |
Poet |
1563 |
23-Dec-1631 |
Poly-Olbion |
| John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
| King Edward I |
Royalty |
17-Jun-1239 |
7-Jul-1307 |
Conquered Wales, persecuted Jews |
| King Edward III |
Royalty |
13-Nov-1312 |
21-Jun-1377 |
King of England, 1327-77 |
| Edward the Confessor |
Royalty |
c. 1004 |
4-Jan-1066 |
King of England, 1042-66 |
| King Edward VI |
Royalty |
12-Oct-1537 |
6-Jul-1553 |
King of England, 1547-53 |
| Queen Elizabeth I |
Royalty |
7-Sep-1533 |
24-Mar-1603 |
The Virgin Queen |
| Charles James Fox |
Politician |
24-Jan-1749 |
13-Sep-1806 |
U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary |
| David Garrick |
Actor |
19-Feb-1717 |
20-Jan-1779 |
Manager of Drury Lane Theatre |
| John Gay |
Poet |
30-Jun-1685 |
4-Dec-1732 |
The Beggar's Opera |
| King George II |
Royalty |
10-Nov-1683 |
25-Oct-1760 |
King of Britain, 1727-60 |
| William Ewart Gladstone |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1809 |
19-May-1898 |
Four times UK Prime Minister |
| Richard Hakluyt |
Author |
c. 1552 |
23-Nov-1616 |
Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation |
| George Frideric Handel |
Composer |
23-Feb-1685 |
14-Apr-1759 |
Messiah |
| King Henry VII |
Royalty |
28-Jan-1457 |
21-Apr-1509 |
King of England, 1485-1509 |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| Rowland Hill |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1795 |
27-Aug-1879 |
Invented the postage stamp |
| John Hunter |
Doctor |
13-Feb-1728 |
16-Oct-1793 |
English pathologist |
| Sir Henry Irving |
Actor |
6-Feb-1838 |
13-Oct-1905 |
English actor, Theater manager |
| King James I |
Royalty |
19-Jun-1566 |
27-Mar-1625 |
King of England, 1603-25 |
| Samuel Johnson |
Lexicographer |
18-Sep-1709 |
13-Dec-1784 |
A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Ben Jonson |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1572 |
6-Aug-1637 |
Volpone |
| Lord Kelvin |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1824 |
17-Dec-1907 |
Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
| Rudyard Kipling |
Author |
30-Dec-1865 |
18-Jan-1936 |
The Jungle Book |
| Andrew Bonar Law |
Head of State |
16-Sep-1858 |
30-Oct-1923 |
UK Prime Minister, 1922-23 |
| David Livingstone |
Explorer |
19-Mar-1813 |
1-May-1873 |
Dr. Livingstone, I presume? |
| Charles Lyell |
Geologist |
14-Nov-1797 |
22-Feb-1875 |
Principles of Geology |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Historian |
25-Oct-1800 |
28-Dec-1859 |
History of England |
| Queen Mary I |
Royalty |
18-Feb-1516 |
17-Nov-1558 |
Queen of England, 1553-58 |
| Mary I of Scotland |
Royalty |
8-Dec-1542 |
8-Feb-1587 |
Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Queen Mary II |
Head of State |
30-Apr-1662 |
28-Dec-1694 |
Queen of England 1689-94 |
| John Masefield |
Poet |
1-Jun-1878 |
12-May-1967 |
Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67 |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Laurence Olivier |
Actor |
22-May-1907 |
11-Jul-1989 |
Shakespearean actor |
| William of Orange |
Royalty |
14-Nov-1650 |
8-Mar-1702 |
Conquered England, Scotland, Ireland |
| Sir James Outram |
Military |
29-Jan-1803 |
11-Mar-1863 |
Hero of the Indian Mutiny |
| Lord Palmerston |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1784 |
18-Oct-1865 |
Twice Prime Minister of UK |
| William Pitt the Elder |
Head of State |
15-Nov-1708 |
11-May-1778 |
Seven Years War |
| William Pitt the Younger |
Head of State |
28-May-1759 |
23-Jan-1806 |
UK Prime Minister |
| Henry Purcell |
Composer |
c. 1659 |
21-Nov-1695 |
Dido and Aeneas |
| King Richard II |
Royalty |
6-Jan-1367 |
14-Feb-1400 |
King of England 1377-99 |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
| Thomas Sackville |
Aristocrat |
1536 |
19-Apr-1608 |
Earl of Dorset |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Playwright |
30-Oct-1751 |
7-Jul-1816 |
The School for Scandal |
| Edmund Spenser |
Poet |
c. 1552 |
13-Jan-1599 |
The Faerie Queene |
| Robert Stephenson |
Engineer |
16-Oct-1803 |
12-Oct-1859 |
Builder of railroad bridges |
| George Edmund Street |
Architect |
20-Jun-1824 |
18-Dec-1881 |
English Gothic revival architect |
| Thomas Telford |
Engineer |
9-Aug-1757 |
2-Sep-1834 |
Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder |
| Sir William Temple |
Diplomat |
25-Apr-1628 |
27-Jan-1699 |
British Ambassador to Netherlands |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
| Sybil Thorndike |
Actor |
24-Oct-1882 |
9-Jun-1976 |
English stage actress |
| James Ussher |
Religion |
4-Jan-1581 |
20-Mar-1656 |
Old Testament chronologist |
| William Wilberforce |
Activist |
24-Aug-1759 |
29-Jul-1833 |
Abolitionist activist and author |
