Great people of Great Britain

Great people of Great Britain

Great Britain is the state in western Europe, having a great number of prominent people. Among them there is a great number of scientists, figures of art and politicians

British people

BRITISH LITERATURE

William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.

William Shakespeare

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature is most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time.

Charles Dickens

BRITISH POLITIC

John Locke (1632 – 1704), widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy

John Locke

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders

Winston Churchill

BRITISH SCIENCE

Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, and is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential people in human history

Isaac Newton

Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

Charles Darwin

BRITISH MUSIC

John Winston Ono Lennon (1940 – 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century

John Lennon

Freddie Mercury (1946 – 1991) was a British musician, best known as the lead vocalist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range

FreddyMercury

BRITISH MODERN ART

Banksy is the pseudonym of a British graffiti artist, political activist and painter, whose identity is unconfirmed. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

Banksy

Art of Banksy

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