Life in the UK

all people.md

Name	Country	Years	Century	Known For
Boudicca	Britain	Unknown	1st	Queen of the Iceni, fought against Romans
St Augustine	Unknown	Unknown	6th	First Archbishop of Canterbury
Emperor Hadrian	Rome	Unknown	2nd	Built Hadrian's Wall
Harold	England	d.1066	11th	Last Saxon King of England
William the Conqueror	Normandy	d.1087	11th	First Norman King of England
King John	England	d.1216	13th	Signed Magna Carta
Geoffrey Chaucer	England	d.1400	14th	Poet, wrote Canterbury Tales
King Edward I	England	1239-1307	13th-14th	Conquered Wales
Robert the Bruce	Scotland	1274-1329	13th-14th	King of Scots, won Battle of Bannockburn
King Henry V	England	1386-1422	14th-15th	Won Battle of Agincourt
King Richard III	England	1452-1485	15th	Last Plantagenet king
King Henry VII	England	1457-1509	15th-16th	First Tudor king
Sir Francis Drake	England	c.1540-1596	16th	Naval commander, circumnavigated the world
William Shakespeare	England	1564-1616	16th-17th	Playwright, poet, actor
Charles I	England	1600-1649	17th	King executed in Civil War
Charles II	England	1630-1685	17th	Restored monarch
William Caxton	England	c.1422-1491	15th	First English printer
Henry Purcell	England	1659-1695	17th	Composer, church music and opera
Isaac Newton	England	1643-1727	17th-18th	Scientist, discovered gravity
George Frederick Handel	Germany/UK	1695-1759	18th	Composer, wrote Messiah
Robert Burns	Scotland	1759-1796	18th	Poet, wrote Auld Lang Syne
Richard Arkwright	England	1732-1792	18th	Industrialist, textile machinery
James Watt	Scotland	1736-1819	18th-19th	Engineer, improved steam engine
Sake Dean Mahomet	Bengal (India)	1759-1851	18th-19th	Opened Britain's first curry house
William Blake	England	1757-1827	18th-19th	Poet, writer and artist
William Wordsworth	England	1770-1850	18th-19th	Romantic poet
Jane Austen	England	1775-1817	18th-19th	Novelist
Lord Byron	England	1788-1824	18th-19th	Romantic poet
John Constable	England	1776-1837	18th-19th	Landscape painter
Robert Browning	England	1812-1889	19th	Poet
Charles Dickens	England	1812-1870	19th	Novelist
Isambard Kingdom Brunel	England	1806-1859	19th	Engineer, railways and ships
Florence Nightingale	England (born Italy)	1820-1910	19th	Founder of modern nursing
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Scotland	1859-1930	19th-20th	Author, created Sherlock Holmes
Edward Elgar	England	1857-1934	19th-20th	Composer
Emmeline Pankhurst	England	1858-1928	19th-20th	Suffragette leader
Gustav Holst	England	1874-1934	19th-20th	Composer, wrote The Planets
Rudyard Kipling	India/UK	1865-1936	19th-20th	Author, Nobel Prize winner
Winston Churchill	England	1874-1965	19th-20th	Prime Minister during WWII
Alexander Fleming	Scotland	1881-1955	19th-20th	Discovered penicillin
Clement Attlee	England	1883-1967	19th-20th	Prime Minister, created NHS
William Beveridge	England	1879-1963	19th-20th	Economist, created welfare state
John Logie Baird	Scotland	1888-1946	19th-20th	Pioneered television
R A Butler	England	1902-1982	20th	Education reformer
Benjamin Britten	England	1913-1976	20th	Composer
Dylan Thomas	Wales	1914-1953	20th	Poet
Francis Crick	England	1916-2004	20th	Discovered DNA structure
Roald Dahl	Wales	1916-1990	20th	Children's author
Margaret Thatcher	England	1925-2013	20th	First female Prime Minister
Roger Bannister	England	1929-2018	20th	First sub-4-minute mile
Jackie Stewart	Scotland	1939-	20th-21st	Formula 1 champion
Bobby Moore	England	1941-1993	20th	World Cup winning captain
Tim Berners-Lee	England	1955-	20th-21st	Invented World Wide Web
Ian Botham	England	1955-	20th-21st	Cricket player
Ellen MacArthur	England	1976-	20th-21st	Yachtswoman
Chris Hoy	Scotland	1976-	20th-21st	Olympic cyclist
David Weir	England	1979-	20th-21st	Paralympic athlete
Bradley Wiggins	England	1980-	20th-21st	First British Tour de France winner
Mo Farah	Somalia/UK	1983-	20th-21st	Olympic runner
Jessica Ennis-Hill	England	1986-	20th-21st	Olympic heptathlete
Andy Murray	Scotland	1987-	20th-21st	Tennis champion
Ellie Simmonds	England	1994-	20th-21st	Paralympic swimmer