Home / History / British History / Famous Brits 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