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Famous Brits

(Not Featured elsewhere on this Website)

See also: British Authors, British Composers, British Explorers, British Inventors, British Politicians, Kings & Queens, British Military Commanders.

Alec Guinness

Actor

Alfred Hitchcock

Film Director

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Composer

Cary Grant

Actor

Charles Darwin

Naturalist

Charles Dickens

Novelist

Charlie Chaplin

Actor

David Attenborough

Broadcaster

David Bowie

Musician & Pop Star

David Hockney

Artist

David Lean

Film Director

Edward Elgar

Composer

Elizabeth Taylor

Actor

Elton John

Musician & Pop Star

Florence Nightingale

Nurse

 

Francis Drake

Explorer & Naval Commander

Geoffrey Chaucer

Writer

Jagger & Richards

Musicians & Pop Stars

Jane Austen

Novelist

JK Rowling

Novelist

JMW Turner

Painter

John Betjeman

Poet & Broadcaster

John Constable

Painter

Laurence Olivier

Actor

Lawrence of Arabia

Soldier & Author

Lord Byron

Poet

Morecambe & Wise

Comedians & Entertainers

Oliver Cromwell

Soldier & Dictator

Owain Glyndŵr

Campaigner

Oscar Wilde

Playwrite

Richard Burton

Actor

Ridley Scott

Film Director

Robert Burns

Bard

Stephen Hawking

Mathmetician

The Beatles

Musicians & Pop Stars

Unknown Warrior

Soldier of the First world War

Vera Lynn

Singer & Entertainer

William Hogarth

Artist & Satirical Cartoonist

William Wilberforce

Politician

William Wordsworth

Poet