What famous people are there in Britain?
Famous writers
William Shakespeare - arguably the most famous writer in the world.
Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne), Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, J.
R.
R.
Tolkien and Charles Dickens....
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What famous people are there in Britain?
Famous writers
William Shakespeare - arguably the most famous writer in the world.
Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne), Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, J.
R.
R.
Tolkien and Charles Dickens.
Famous Poets
Lord Byron, Robert Burns, and Thomas Hardy.
Famous Composers
William Byrd , Thomas Tallis , John Taverner , Henry Purcell , Edward Elgar,
Arthur Sullivan , Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten.
The Greatest Britons of all Time chosen by the people of Britain.
In November 2002, the British public voted to find the Greatest Briton of all time.
Over a
million people voted.
NB.
The list contains a few non British entrants includinding two Irish nationals (Bono
and Bob Geldof) and Freddie Mercury, who was born in Zanzibar to Indian Parsi
parents.
Here are the results:
1.
Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th
century s most famous and celeb
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