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• John Adams - American revolutionary and president
• Konrad Adenauer - post-war German chancellor
• Agricola - Roman governor of Britain
• Akhenaten - apostate Egyptian pharaoh
• Prince Albert - husband of Queen Victoria
• Alexander III - king of Scotland, remembered for period of peace
• Alexander the Great - Macedonian king, general, empire builder
• Alfred the Great - Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex, repelled the Danes
• Amenhotep III - pharaoh at the height of Egyptian civilisation
• St Andrew - patron saint of Scotland
• Anne - last Stuart monarch
• Sir Edward Appleton - 20th century physicist, Nobel prize winner
• Archimedes - ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician
• Sir Richard Arkwright - 18th century pioneer of the factory system
• Arthur - mythical king of the Britons
• HH Asquith - World War One Liberal prime minister
• Kemal Atatürk - founder of modern Turkey
• Athelstan - first king of all the English, Anglo-Saxon
• Clement Attlee - post-war Labour prime minister
• WH Auden - 20th century poet
• Augustus - first Roman emperor
• Jane Austen - 19th century author

• Charles Babbage - Victorian pioneer of computer science
• Francis Bacon - Renaissance philosopher, statesman, scientist
• Roger Bacon - medieval philosopher, scientist
• John Logie Baird - inventor of television
• Robert Bakewell - 18th century poineer of stockbreeding
• Stanley Baldwin - 20th century Conservative prime minister
• Sir Joseph Banks - 18th century naturalist and explorer
• Joseph Bazalgette - Victorian engineer, architect of London's sewers
• Thomas Becket - medieval archbishop of Canterbury, murdered
• The Venerable Bede - Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian
• Mrs Beeton - Victorian author on household management
• Aphra Behn - first female professional writer, 17th century
• Alexander Graham Bell - Victorian inventor of the telephone
• Tim Berners Lee - 20th century inventor of the World Wide Web
• Annie Besant - 19th-20th century social reformer
• Aneurin Bevan - post-war architect of the National Health Service
• William Beveridge - post-war pioneer of the Welfare State
• Ernest Bevin - post-war Labour foreign secretary
• Otto von Bismarck - first chancellor of united Germany, 19th century
• Edward, the Black Prince - medieval English military hero
• Tony Blair - Labour prime minister
• William Blake - 18th century poet, artist
• Anne Boleyn - second wife of Henry VIII, executed
• Napoleon Bonaparte - 18th-19th century emperor of France, general
• Boudicca - queen of the Iceni, rebelled against Rome
• Robert Boyle - 17th century pioneer of chemistry
• Willy Brandt - post-war German chancellor, Nobel prize winner
• The Brontë Sisters - 19th century authors
• Rupert Brooke - World War One soldier, poet
• Robert the Bruce - medieval king of Scotland, national hero
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel - pioneering Victorian engineer
• Edmund Burke - 18th century politician, political philosopher
• Sir Richard Burton - Victorian explorer, writer
• George Bush - late 20th century US president
• George W Bush - US president
• Josephine Butler - 19th century social reformer
• Richard Austen Butler - post-war architect of the Education Act
• Lord Byron - 19th century Romantic poet

• John Cabot - 15th century Italian explorer, discovered North America
• Julius Caesar - Roman warlord and politician
• Caligula - Roman emperor, megalomaniac
• James Callaghan - 20th century Labour prime minister
• Caravaggio - Italian Baroque artist
• Edmund Cartwright - 18th century industrial pioneer, invented the power loom
• Fidel Castro - 20th century communist revolutionary, president of Cuba
• Catharine of Aragon - wife of Henry VIII, mother of Mary
• Catherine the Great - Russian empress for more than 30 years
• William Caxton - brought printing to England, 15th century
• Neville Chamberlain - pre-World War Two Conservative prime minister
• Jean-François Champollion - Egyptologist, deciphered hieroglyphics
• Charlemagne - King of the Franks and Christian Emperor of the West.
• Charles I - king of England, scotland and Ireland, executed
• Charles II - king of England, scotland and Ireland, restored the monarchy
• Geoffrey Chaucer - 14th century author, wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'
• Chiang Kai-shek - 20th century Chinese nationalist leader
• Vere Gordon Childe - 20th century archaeologist, theorist
• Winston Churchill - statesman, World War Two prime minister, national hero
• Thomas Clarkson - leading campaigner against slave trade
• Claudius - Roman emperor, conqueror of Britain
• Cleopatra - Egyptian ruler, last of the Ptolemys, lover of Julius Caesar
• Bill Clinton - late 20th century US president
• John Colet - educational pioneer, 16th century
• Michael Collins - Irish republican leader, soldier and politician
• Christopher Columbus - Italian explorer, discovered the Americas, 15th century
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 19th-20th century author, created Sherlock Holmes
• John Constable - 19th century landscape artist
• Captain James Cook - 18th century explorer, navigator
• Copernicus - astronomer, said earth orbits the sun
• Hernando Cortés - Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire
• Thomas Cranmer - architect of English Reformation, advisor to Henry VIII
• Crick and Watson - discovered structure of DNA, Nobel prize winners
• Oliver Cromwell - English revolutionary, regicide and lord protector
• Thomas Cromwell - architect of English Reformation, advisor to Henry VIII
• William Cuffay - 19th century social reformer
• Marie Curie - 19th-20th century scientist, winner of two Nobel prizes

• Vasco da Gama - Portuguese explorer, navigator, 16th century
• Leonardo da Vinci - Italian Renaissance artist, inventor
• Charles Darwin - Victorian naturalist, formulated theory of evolution
• David I - medieval king of Scotland, reformer
• St David - patron saint of Wales
• Emily Davison - 20th century militant suffragette
• Sir Humphry Davy - 19th century scientist, inventor of the Davy lamp
• Ferdinand de Lesseps - 19th century administrator, built the Suez Canal
• Catherine de Medici - Italian-born French queen and regent
• Eamon de Valera - 20th century Irish nationalist, president of Eire
• Charles Dickens - Victorian author
• Benjamin Disraeli - Victorian Conservative prime minister
• Djoser - Egyptian pharaoh, initiated the building of pyramids
• Admiral Karl Dönitz - German U-boat commander, successor to Adolf Hitler
• Sir Francis Drake - Elizabethan mariner, explorer
• Cornelius Drebbel - Dutch Renaissance inventor of the submarine

• Robert, Earl of Essex - royal favourite, rebelled against Elizabeth I
• Anthony Eden - Conservative prime minister during Suez Crisis
• Edward the Confessor - Anglo-Saxon king of England
• Edward I - medieval king of England, campaigned against Scotland, Wales
• Edward II - medieval king of England, deposed
• Edward III - medieval king of England at the start of the Hundred Years War
• Edward IV - king of England, established the Yorkist dynasty
• Edward V - Yorkist king of England, deposed and murdered
• Edward VI - Tudor king of England, only son of Henry VIII
• Edward VII - 20th century king of the United Kingdom, heir to Victoria
• Edward VIII - 20th century king of the United Kingdom, abdicated
• Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, Nobel prize winner
• Dwight Eisenhower - World War Two general, US president
• Eleanor of Aquitaine - queen consort of France and later queen of England
• George Eliot - 19th century female author
• Elizabeth I - Tudor queen of England, perceived as bringing a 'golden age'
• Elizabeth II - queen of the United Kingdom, reigning monarch
• Olaudah Equiano - 18th century African writer, anti-slavery campaigner
• Erasmus - Dutch writer, scholar, humanist of the Reformation
• Leif Erikson - 11th century explorer, may have discovered the Americas

• Thomas Fairfax - English Civil War general, Parliamentarian
• Michael Faraday - 19th century inventor, electrical pioneer
• Henry Faulds - Victorian inventor, credited with fingerprinting
• Alexander Fleming - 20th century physician, discovered penicillin
• William Henry Fox Talbot - Victorian pioneer of photography
• Benjamin Franklin - American revolutionary, diplomat, inventor
• Sigmund Freud - 19th-20th century pioneer of pyschoanalysis

• Thomas Gainsborough - 18th century artist
• Galen - ancient Roman medical pioneer
• Galileo Galilei - Italian Renaissance scientist, philosopher
• Mohandas Gandhi - 20th century leader of India's independence movement
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - Britain's first qualified female doctor
• Marcus Garvey - 20th century civil rights activist
• Elizabeth Gaskell - Victorian novelist
• Charles de Gaulle - 20th century French general, president, national hero
• David Lloyd George - statesman, World War One prime minister
• George I - first Hanoverian king of Great Britain
• George II - 18th century king of Great Britain, expanded British empire
• George III - 18th century king of the United Kingdom, lost the American colonies
• George IV - 19th century king of the United Kingdom, patron of architecture
• St George - patron saint of England
• George V - king of the United Kingdom during World War One
• George VI - king of the United Kingdom during World War Two
• William Gilbert - 16th century scientist, pioneer of magnetism
• William Ewart Gladstone - Victorian Liberal prime minister
• Owain Glyn Dwr - led medieval Welsh revolt against England
• Lady Godiva - semi-mythical Anglo-Saxon heroine
• General Charles Gordon - Victorian military hero, killed at Khartoum
• Francisco Goya - 18th-19th century Spanish artist
• Lady Jane Grey - 16th century queen of England, reigned for nine days
• Che Guevara - Cuban revolutionary leader

• General Douglas Haig - British World War One commander
• Edmond Halley - 17th-18th century astronomer, scientist
• Harold II - last Anglo-Saxon king of England
• Arthur 'Bomber' Harris - World War Two British bomber commander
• William Harvey - 17th century physician, discovered circulation
• Edward Heath - 20th century Conservative prime minister
• Henry I - medieval king of England, increased the monarch's powers
• Henry II - medieval king of England, strengthened royal administration
• Henry III - medieval king of England, fought with his nobles
• Henry IV - king of England, Lancastrian usurper
• Henry V - Lancastrian king of England, military hero
• Henry VI - king of England, fought Wars of the Roses
• Henry VII - king of England, first Tudor monarch
• Henry VIII - Tudor king of England, initiated English Reformation
• Heinrich Himmler - Nazi, head of the SS, architect of genocide
• Paul von Hindenburg - 20th century German general, politician
• Emperor Hirohito - Japanese emperor during World War Two
• Adolf Hitler - leader of Nazi Germany, architect of genocide
• Ho Chi Minh - 20th century Vietnamese revolutionary leader
• Thomas Hobbes - 17th century political philosopher
• Homer - ancient Greek author, wrote the 'Odyssey' and 'Iliad'
• Admiral Charles Howard - defeated the Spanish Armada
• John Howard - 18th century prison reformer
• Attila the Hun - leader of the Hunnic Empire from 440 to 453 AD
• Thomas Henry Huxley - Victorian biologist, developed theory of evolution

• Tokugawa Ieyasu - Warrior, statesman and founder of the Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns
• Imhotep - Egyptian architect of the first known pyramid
• Noor Inayat Khan - World War Two British agent, executed
• Henry Ireton - English Civil War general

• James I and VI - king of England and Scotland, first Stuart monarch
• James II - Stuart king of England, Scotland and Ireland, deposed
• Thomas Jefferson - American revolutionary, president
• Admiral John Jellicoe - British World War One admiral
• Edward Jenner - 18th-19th century pioneer of vaccination, immunology
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah - 20th century leader of Pakistan's independence movement
• John - medieval king of England, signed the Magna Carta
• Samuel Johnson - 18th century author, compiled the 'Dictionary of the English Language'
• Inigo Jones - 17th century architectural pioneer

• John Keats - 19th century Romantic poet
• James Keir Hardie - politician, first leader of the Labour Party
• Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin - Victorian physicist, mathematician
• John F Kennedy - Cold War US president, assassinated
• John Maynard Keynes - influential 20th century economist
• Khafra - ancient Egyptian architect, model for the Sphinx
• Ayatollah Khomeini - 20th century leader of Iran's Islamic revolution
• Nikita Khrushchev - Cold War Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Khufu - Egyptian pharaoh, built Great Pyramid at Giza
• Kilby and Noyce - electrical engineers, invented the microchip
• Martin Luther King - 20th century US civil rights leader, assassinated
• Rudyard Kipling - 19th-20th century writer, Nobel prize winner
• Henry Kissinger - 20th century US academic, politician, Nobel prize winner
• Lord Horatio Kitchener - British world War One general, mobilised mass armies

• TE Lawrence - British writer, soldier, mobilised the Arab Revolt of World War One
• Vladimir Lenin - Russian revolutionary, leader of the Soviet Union
• Abraham Lincoln - 19th century US president, won the American Civil War
• James Lind - 18th century physician, developed treatments for scurvy
• David Livingstone - Victorian missionary, explorer in Africa
• Louis XIV - king of France, made France dominant on the continent
• Louis XV - king of France whose policies precipitated revolution
• Louis XVI - king of France, executed during the French Revolution
• Erich Ludendorff - German World War One general, Nazi sympathiser
• Martin Luther - German theologian, inspired the Protestant Reformation

• Macbeth - medieval king of Scotland, inaccurately portrayed by Shakespeare
• Ramsay MacDonald - first Labour prime minister, 20th century
• Harold Macmillan - post-war Conservative prime minister
• Kirkpatrick Macmillan - Victorian inventor of the bicycle
• Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese explorer, first European to cross the Pacific
• Thomas Malthus - 19th century economist, developed theories of population growth
• Nelson Mandela - The first democratically-elected president of his country
• Mao Zedong - Chinese communist leader, founder of the People's Republic of China
• George C Marshall - general, politician, creator of the 'Marshall Plan'
• Karl Marx - 19th century philosopher, developed theory of international communism
• Mary I - first queen of England in her own right, persecuted Protestants, Tudor
• Mary II - 17th century queen of England, co-ruler with William III (of Orange)
• Matilda - heir to Henry I, usurped by Stephen
• Lord Melbourne - 19th century prime minister, favourite of Queen Victoria
• Michelangelo - Italian Renaissance artist
• John Stuart Mill - 19th century philosopher, economist and social reformer
• Claude Monet - 19th-20th century Impressionist artist
• Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery - British World War Two general
• Thomas More - Tudor chancellor, resisted England's break with papacy
• Jean Moulin - French World War Two resistance leader, killed
• Lord Louis Mountbatten - The last viceroy of British India
• Benito Mussolini - World War Two fascist dictator of Italy

• Jawaharlal Nehru - first prime minister of independent India
• Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson - 18th-19th century English admiral, national hero
• Nero - last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian line
• Thomas Newcomen - 19th century pioneer of the steam engine
• Isaac Newton - 17th century mathematician, physicist, discovered gravity
• Nicholas II - last tsar of Russia, executed by the Bolsheviks
• Florence Nightingale - Victorian pioneer of nursing
• Richard Nixon - 20th century US president, resigned after Watergate scandal
• Alfred Nobel - invented dynamite, established the Nobel prizes
• Caroline Norton - Victorian campaigner for women's rights
• Noyce and Kilby - 20th century electrical engineers, invented the microchip

• Feargus O'Connor - 19th century social reformer
• George Orwell - 20th century journalist, author, wrote '1984'
• Wilfred Owen - World War One soldier, poet

• Emmeline Pankhurst - leader of the suffragette campaign to win the vote
• Charles Parnell - 19th century Irish nationalist leader
• Louis Pasteur - French chemist, biologist, proved the germ theory of disease
• St Patrick - patron saint of Ireland
• Joseph Paxton - Victorian architect, creator of the Crystal Palace
• Sir Robert Peel - Victorian Tory prime minister, created the Metropolitan Police
• Samuel Pepys - 17th century diarist
• Philippe Pétain - French general, leader of the Vichy collaborationist government
• Pablo Picasso - 20th century Spanish artist
• Pitt the Younger - prime minister during the Napoleonic Wars
• Pliny the Younger - ancient Roman administrator, writer
• Marco Polo - 13th century Venetian explorer of China
• Pol Pot - 20th century Cambodian communist leader, architect of genocide
• The Princes in the Tower - sons of Edward IV, probably murdered
• Pythagoras - ancient Greek scientist, mathematician

• Walter Raleigh - Tudor explorer, navigator, favourite of Elizabeth I
• Rameses the Great - Egyptian pharaoh, prolific builder on monumental scale
• Ronald Reagan - 20th century US president, brought collapse of the Soviet Union
• Rembrandt - 17th century Dutch artist
• John Rennie - 18th-19th century engineer of docks, canals, aqueducts
• Richard I - medieval king of England, led the Third Crusade
• Richard II - medieval king of England, ended the Peasants' Revolt, deposed
• Richard III - last Yorkist king of England, killed in battle
• Jack the Ripper - late Victorian serial killer in London's East End
• Augustus Pitt Rivers - Victorian pioneer of archaeology
• Maximilien Robespierre - French revolutionary leader, executed
• William Heath Robinson - 19th-20th century cartoonist, illustrator
• Peter Mark Roget - 19th century physician, writer, inventor of the Thesaurus
• Franklin D Roosevelt - statesman, World War Two US president
• Theodore Roosevelt - 20th century US president
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - French 18th century political philosopher
• Prince Rupert - Royalist cavalry commander in the English Civil War
• Ernest Rutherford - 20th century nuclear physicist, Nobel prize winner

• Siegfried Sassoon - World War One soldier, poet
• Mary, Queen of Scots - queen of Scotland, executed by Elizabeth I
• Scott of the Antarctic - explorer, died on expedition to the South Pole
• Mary Seacole - 19th century pioneer of nursing
• Ernest Shackleton - Antarctic explorer, led the 'Endurance' expedition
• William Shakespeare - Elizabethan playwright, poet
• Granville Sharp - leading British abolitionist
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - 19th century Romantic poet
• Adam Smith - 18th century political economist, wrote 'Wealth of Nations'
• Snofru - Egyptian pharaoh, built the first 'true' pyramid
• John Snow - 19th century physician, pioneer of epidemiology
• Spartacus - Roman slave and gladiator
• John Hanning Speke - 19th century explorer, discovered the source of the Nile
• The Cambridge Spies - post-war spy ring, passed secrets to the Soviet Union
• Joseph Stalin - World War Two Soviet leader, dictator
• Henry Stanley - Victorian explorer, journalist, African colonialist
• George Starr - World War Two British agent
• Stephen - medieval usuper king of England, presided over domestic strife
• George Stephenson - pioneering Victorian rail engineer
• Marie Stopes - campaigner for women's rights, pioneer of family planning
• William Stukeley - 18th century pioneer of archaeology, investigated Stonehenge
• Suetonius - Roman governor of Britain, defeated Boudicca's revolt

• Harriet Taylor - 19th century campaigner for women's rights
• Margaret Thatcher - 20th century Conservative prime minister
• Tiberius - second emperor of Rome
• Titus - Roman emperor when Pompeii was destroyed by Vesuvius
• Charles Edward Trevelyan - Victorian pioneer of the civil service
• Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary, exiled and assassinated
• Harry S Truman - World War Two US president, ordered atomic bombings of Japan
• William Tuke - 18th-19th century pioneer of mental health care
• Jethro Tull - 18th century agriculturalist, inventor of the seed drill
• Alan Turing - 20th century mathematician, pioneer of computer science
• Joseph Turner - 18th-19th century landscape artist
• Tutankhamun - short-lived Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was found intact
• William Tyndale - 16th century theologian, translated the bible into English

• The Unknown Warrior - a memorial to war dead who have no known grave

• Vincent Van Gogh - Dutch post-Impressionist artist
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 17th century pioneer of microbiology
• Andreas Vesalius - 16th century Flemish pioneer of anatomy
• Vespasian - first Roman emperor of the Flavian dynasty
• Victoria - queen of Great Britain, the longest reigning British monarch
• Virgil - ancient Roman poet, wrote the 'Aeneid'

• William Wallace - Scottish patriot and national hero
• Barnes Wallis - World War Two aviation engineer, invented the 'bouncing bomb'
• Sir Robert Walpole - considered Britain's first prime minister
• Andy Warhol - 20th century artist
• George Washington - American revolutionary, general, first US president
• Watson and Crick - discovered structure of DNA, Nobel prize winners
• James Watt - 18th-19th century pioneer of steam technology
• Josiah Wedgwood - 18th century social reformer, manufacturer
• Duke of Wellington - 18th-19th century British general, national hero
• Frank Whittle - 20th century pioneer of the jet engine
• William Wilberforce - 18th-19th century anti-slavery campaigner
• Oscar Wilde - Victorian playwright, jailed for his homosexuality
• Wilhelm II - kaiser of Germany during World War One, abdicated
• John Wilkinson - 18th century pioneer of the use of cast iron
• William the Conqueror - first Norman king of England
• William II - Norman king of England, killed while hunting
• William III - king of England, Scotland, Ireland, deposed James II
• William IV - 19th century king of the United Kingdom
• Woodrow Wilson - World War One US president, envisioned the League of Nations
• Thomas Wolsey - statesman, lord chancellor to Henry VIII
• William Wordsworth - 18th-19th century Romantic poet
• Sir Christopher Wren - 17th-18th century architect, built St Paul's Cathedral

• Georgi Zhukov - World War Two Soviet general