> FAMOUS ENGINEERS
Sir Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), civil engineer
Sir Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), metallurgy engineer
James Brindley, (1716-1772), canal engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), transport engineer
Sidney Camm (1894-1966), aeronautical engineer
William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil engineer
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965), aeronautical engineer
Sir John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical engineer
R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), civil engineer
Sir Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer
Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
George Stephenson, (1781-1848), railway engineer
Sir Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer
Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), aeronautical engineer
Sir Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer
Inventors
Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
William Congreve, (1772-1828) rocketry pioneer
Abraham Darby, (. 1678-1717), ironmaster
James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the
reflector telescope
James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
> FAMOUS INVENTORES
Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
William Congreve, (1772-1828) rocketry pioneer
Abraham Darby, (. 1678-1717), ironmaster
James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the
reflector telescope
James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
> FAMOUS WRITERS
Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter author
Ian Fleming, James Bond author
David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
Alan Ayckbourn, (born 1939) playwright
Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet laureate
Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramatist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For
All Seasons
Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
John Bunyan, (1628-88), author
Samuel Butler (1612-1680), poet and satirist
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and satirist
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of Canterbury Tales.
G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), author essayist
Dame Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author
John Clare, (1793-1864), poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
Ed Conrad, Google
Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956),poet and novelist
Daniel Defoe (or De Foe), (1660?–1731), writer
Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
John Donne, (1572-1631), poet.
John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
Daphne Du Maurier, (1907–89), novelist
George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright and Nobel prizewinner
C.S. Forester, 1899-1966) author
E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
Christopher Fry, (1907-2005), dramatist
John Galsworthy, (1867-1933) author and dramatist
Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
William Golding, writer, Nobel prizewinner
Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author, writer
Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), poet
William Hazlitt, (1778-1830)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1884-1889), poet
Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936),poet and scholar.
Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), poet laureate.
Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humorist and poet
Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet laureate, and novelist
William Somerset Maugham, (18741965), writer
A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
Kim Richard Nossal, professor, author
William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and novelist
John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back In Anger
Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century
England
Harold Pinter, (born 1930), playwright
Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943),author and illustrator
J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
Arthur Ransome, (1884–1967), author,
Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), poet
John Ruskin, (1819-1900), writer, critic and reformer
Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), war poet
Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet
Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
Edmund Spenser,(c. 1552-1599), poet. Wrote The Faerie Queene
Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-193), novelist
Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novelist
Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), novelist
John Webster, (died 1630), poet
Gilbert White, (1720-1795)
P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author
Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for her work
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist.
William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romantic poet
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
> FAMOUS ARTISTS
Sophie Gengembre Anderson, (1823-1903), painter.
William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
John Constable, (1776-1837), landscape painter.
Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-1788), painter
Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
David Hockney, (born 1937), painter
Sir Edwin Landseer, (1802-1873), animal painter.
Henry Moore, (1898-1986), sculptor
Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1723-1792), portrait painter.
J.M.W. Turner, (1775-1851), landscape and marine artist
Flora Twort, (1893-1985), painter
William Yenkevich, still life artist