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1 FAMOUS PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN

2 There are many outstanding people in Great Britain
There are many outstanding people in Great Britain. Britain produced statesmen, thinkers, explorers, musicians, writers, scientists and other people who are well known around the world

3 Isaac Newton Isaac Newton one of the greatest men in the history of science was born in the middle of the 17th century. He studied math at Cambridge University. He is the founder of the modern mathematics and physics.

4 Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was born in the beginning of the 19th century. He was a great biologist. He created a new theory of evolution.

5 Michael Faraday Michael Faraday was born at the end of the 17th century. He was interested in electricity very much. So he opened many laws of electricity and magnetism.

6 Rutherford Lord Rutherford the great pioneer of nuclear physics received the Nobel Prize in 1908 for his investigations into decay of elements chemistry of radiated substances.

7 Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell first invented the telephone at the age of 29, in The following year, the Bell Telephone Company was established.

8 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare, the greatest and most famous of English writers, and probably the greatest playwright who has ever lived, was born on the 23d of April, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon..

9 William Shakespeare . Shakespeare wrote 37 plays: 10 tragedies (such as Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth), 17 comedies (such as As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing), 10 historical plays (such as Henry 4, Richard 3). He also left 7 books of poems and sonnets.

10 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare died at the age of 52 and was buried in Stratford-upon-Avon.

11 Lord Byron The English poet Lord Byron was one of the most important figures of the Romantic Movement. Because of his works, active life, and physical beauty he is the perfect romantic poet-hero.

12 Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was the longest Prime Minister of the 20th century. In 1979 she was elected as Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Her nickname was “ Iron Lady”.

13 The Beatles The English ROCK MUSIC group. The guitarists John Winston Lennon, James Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and the drummer Ringo Starr, Richard Starkey were all born and raised in Liverpool. They formed their own group, The Silver Beatles, in 1959

14 The Beatles As The Beatles, they developed in local Liverpool clubs, and their first recordings, "Love Me Do" (1962) and "Please Please Me" (1963), quickly made them Britain's top rock group.

15 Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, (1889 –1977) was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent film era.  His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death at age 88.

16 Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten was a famous English composer whose name is known in many countries of the world. He was born in the By the time he was nineteen, he was already both a musician for a film company and a composer. He wrote music for the plays of several English writers.

17 Agatha Christie Agatha Christie is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. She wrote 78 crime novels, 19 plays and 6 romantic novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have been translated into 103 foreign languages.

18 Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd ˈkɪplɪŋ/  (1865 –1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. ‘’The Jungle book’’ is the most well-known.

19 Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles L. Dodgson. the man who wrote a famous book for children Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Charles L. Dodgson was born in England in He got his early education at a public school. Then he became a student at Oxford. Charles studied mathematics and later taught this subject in the same college.

20 Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859 While in school, Conan Doyle began writing to earn a little extra money. He worked for a time as a ship's doctor, then opened his own medical practice. In his spare time he did more writing. A novel  A Study in Scarlet is the story which introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world.


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