Great Britons (last names)

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  1. 2. The mother of nursing and founder of modern nursing.
  2. 3. Started or added to the theories of exploding black holes, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
  3. 4. Celtic queen of the Iceni. Led a resistance against the Roman army.
  4. 5. First British prime minister.
  5. 6. Writer of Harry Potter.
  6. 8. Director of Vertigo, Psycho, and Rear Window.
  7. 10. The Father of Liberalism.
  8. 11. Discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
  9. 12. Creator of the theory of evolution.
  10. 16. Helped defeat the Spanish Armada and circumnavigated the world in a single expedition.
  11. 17. Father of Railways who opened the first public rail line.
  12. 22. Defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar.
  13. 23. Abolished slavery across a quarter of the world using the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
  14. 24. Founder of Ragged schools for poor children.
  15. 26. Victoria Cross recipient and youngest group captain of the Royal Air Force.
  16. 28. Writer of the Lord of the Rings.
  17. 29. D'Day Ground Forces Commander in Chief.
  18. 31. Creator of the Great Western Railway.
  19. 32. Comedian of Morecambe & Wise Show along with Ernie Wise.
  20. 33. Rower who won five gold medals at the Olympics.
  21. 36. Founder of the Scouting movement.
  22. 37. Founder of the Salvation Army Charity.
  23. 39. The "iron lady".
  24. 41. Composer of Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
  25. 43. Famous actor who played "The Tramp".
  26. 44. Inventor of the Suit.
  27. 46. Great explorer and first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
  28. 47. Creator innovative educational nature programs such as planet earth.
  29. 49. Inventor of the Turing test, and cracked the Enigma machine.
  30. 52. Inventor of the world's first effective antibiotic substance, penicillin.
  31. 53. Writer of Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
  32. 54. Inventor of the first autonomous robots.
  33. 55. Writer of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations.
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  1. 1. Prime Minister who beat Germany and fascism in WW2.
  2. 4. Inventor of the World Wide Web.
  3. 7. First private founder of a space company to travel to the edge of space.
  4. 8. Field Marshal of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in WW1.
  5. 9. Inventor of the Marine chronometer.
  6. 11. Member of the Catholic Gunpowder Plot who is burned on Bonfire Night.
  7. 13. Inventor of the telephone and first practical telephone.
  8. 14. Founder of the Beatles with Paul McCartney.
  9. 15. Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  10. 18. Creator of the modern municipal fire service.
  11. 19. Organized the UK suffragette movement achieve women's right to vote in the UK.
  12. 20. The Father of Capitalism and Economics.
  13. 21. Singer of Space Oddity, Ziggy, and Heroes.
  14. 25. Broke eight world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s.
  15. 27. Inventor of the turbojet plane engine.
  16. 28. Painter of Fighting Temeraire, Fishermen at Sea, and Dido building Carthage.
  17. 30. Invented calculus and the theory of universal gravity.
  18. 34. Diplomat and soldier who aided the Arab Revolt and brought down the Ottoman Empire.
  19. 35. Creator of the smallpox vaccine and the father of vaccines.
  20. 37. Writer of the poems Songs of Innocence and Experience, Jerusalem, and Milton.
  21. 38. First American President who was a British Subject.
  22. 40. Writer of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.
  23. 42. Inventor of the Watt steam engine that started the Industrial Revolution.
  24. 45. Writer of Areopagitica and father of freedom of speech and expression.
  25. 48. Creator of the National Health Service.
  26. 50. Archaeologist who led excavations of Tell es-Sultan.
  27. 51. Inventor of the first programmable computer.