famous people of Britain

Sir Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was a politican, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century most famous and celebrated Prime Minister

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an extraordinary Victorian engineer and built amongst other structures bridges, ships, railways and viaducts

Diana, Princess of Wales

From the time of her marriage to Prince of Wales in 1981 until her death in a car accident in Paris in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales was one of the world’s most high-profile, most photographed and most iconic celebrities

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin was a British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theory of evolution. This theory forms the basis for the modern life sciences. Darwin’s most famous books are ‚The Origin of Species’ and ‚The Descent of Man’

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in English literature. He wrote dozens of plays which continue to dominate world theater 400 years later.

Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was a mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about a nature of light, and three laws of motion.

Queen Elizabeth l

The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she reigned England from 1558-1603. Her reign was marked by several plots to overthrow her, the execution of Mary Queen of Scots(1587), the defeat of the Spanish Armada(1588), and domestic prosperityand lit

John Lennon

John Lennon was a musician and composer who was the member of the Beatles, the biggest rock band of the 1960s.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Nelson is the greatest hero in British naval history, an honour he earned by defeating Napoleon’s fleet in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.

Oliver Cromwell

He was a military, political, and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War(1642-1649) and called for the execution of Charlesl. He was Lord Protector of UK for much of the 1650s, ruling in place of country’s traditiona

Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer of the South Pole who is the best remembered for leading his crew to safety after the failed expedition of the Endurance (1914-1916)

Captain James Cook

Hewas an explorer of the 18th century, known for his voyages to the PO. Cook visited New Zealand, established the 1st European colony in Au, and was the 1st EU to visit Hawaii. He also approached Ant and explored much of the western coast of North America

Robert Baden-Powell

British soldier who founded the Boy Scouts (1908) and with his sister Agnes (1858-1945) the Girl Guides (1910)

King Alfred the Great

King of the West Saxons (871-899), scholar, and lawmaker who repelled the Danes and helped consolidate England into united kingdom

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington

British general and politician. Commander of British troops during the Peninsular War(1808-1814), he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo(1815), thus ending the Napileonic Wars. As Prime Minister(1828-1830) he passed the Catholic Emancipation Act(1829)

Margaret Thatcher, Baroness 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

Michael Crawford

Actor, comedian and singer

Queen Victoria

Victoria’s nearly 64-year reign was the longest in British history (1837-1901).

Sir Paul McCartney

McCartney was a singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Beatles, the biggest rock band of the 1960s.

Sir Alexander Fleming

British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928, for which he shared a Nobel Prize in 1945.

Alan Turing

English mathematician whose body of works explored the possibility of computers and raised fundamental questions about artficial(sztuczna) intelligence. During WW ll he contributed to the allied victory by helping to decipher the German Enigma codes.

Michael Faraday

British physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction(1831) (indukcja) and proposed the field theory later developed by Maxwell and Einstein.

Owain Glyndwr

The last Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales.

Queen Elizabeth ll

Her Majesty (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary), is the Queen regnant and Head of State of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland and fifteen other Commonwealth countries.

Professor Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist noted for his research into the origin of the universe. His work influenced the development of the big bang and black hole theories.