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Singer who was known as the "forces' sweetheart" during WW2, and in 2009 made No.1 on the British album chart aged 92.
Vera Lynn
Famous codebreaker in WW2 who was later convicted of homsexuality
Alan Turing
19 year old controversially hanged for murder in 1953 after his accomplice shot a police officer
Derek Bentley
2008 F1 World Champion
Lewis Hamilton
Inventor of the bouncing bomb
Sir Barnes Wallis
Nurse during the Crimean War known as the "Lady with the Lamp"
Florence Nightingale
Lord Chancellor of England executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII's rejection of Catholicism
St Thomas More
Jacobite Pretender who failed to gain the British throne at the Battle of Culloden
Bonnie Prince Charlie
"Doctor Death" who murdered at least 218 patients
Harold Shipman
Engineer who built the first steam railway
George Stephenson
Alledgedly invented the game of Rugby
William Webb Ellis
Wrote the original James Bond novels
Ian Fleming
Co-inventor of the World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Journalist and TV host who carried out the Nixon interviews
Sir David Frost
Horror Film director who made "Psycho" and "The Birds"
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Railway engineer who designed the "Mallard" and "Flying Scotsman" (A1 and A4) locomotives
Sir Nigel Gresley
Wrote "A Dictionary of the English language", the first comprehensive English Dictionary
Samuel Johnson
Comedian who partnered with Oliver Hardy to form one half of a famous duo
Stan Laurel
Aristocratic romantic poet who wrote "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Lord Byron
TV presenter and prolific paedophile'll fix it.
Sir Jimmy Savile
Playwright, director and actor who created "In Which We Serve" and "Brief Encounter"
Sir Noel Coward
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