Great Britons (last names)

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