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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
Howard Staunton
English chess master and Shakespearean scholar
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer
J. R. R. Tolkien
British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Norman Blake
British linguist
Arthur Sullivan
English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
William Sterndale Bennett
British musician
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Kwame Anthony Appiah
British-American philosopher and writer
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
John Henry Newman
English cleric and cardinal
Ralph Vaughan Williams
British composer
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing
Michael Tippett
English composer
Christopher Wren
English architect
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Augustus De Morgan
British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)
George Frideric Handel
German-British Baroque composer
T. S. Eliot
American born British poet
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Enoch Powell
British politician
Aldous Huxley
English writer
Roger Scruton
English philosopher and writer
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic
Alan Turing
British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Ralph Cudworth
English philosopher
Isaac Newton
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar
Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer
Caroline Edwards
British lecturer in literature
Goldwin Smith
British historian and journalist
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens
British sociologist
Richard Branson
English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
Philip J. Bone
English musician
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
Imogen Holst
English composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator