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 James Cook	James Cook was an explorer of the eighteenth century, known for his 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) Florence Nightingale	British nurse is considered the founder of modern nursing.
8) JK Rowling	The author of the Harry Potter series.
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 1558–1603) 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