UK Birthplaces of Famous People (with map)

Can you guess the UK places where these famous people were born? Click the the place/person which you believe corresponds with each highlighted city, town or village.
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Alloway (Robert Burns, Poet)
Ballymena (Liam Neeson, Actor)
Belfast (Lord Kelvin, Physicist)
Berkeley (Edward Jenner, Physician)
Birmingham (Neville Chamberlain, Politician)
Brechin (Robert Watson-Watt, Inventor)
Bristol (Cary Grant, Actor)
Burnham Thorpe (Horatio Nelson, Admiral)
Canterbury (Orlando Bloom, Actor)
Cardiff (Geraint Thomas, Cyclist)
Cockermouth (William Wordsworth, Poet)
Colwyn Bay (Timothy Dalton, Actor)
Coventry (Frank Whittle, Inventor)
Edinburgh (Arthur Conan Doyle, Author)
Glasgow (Andy Murray, Tennis Player)
Grantham (Margaret Thatcher, Politician)
Greenock (James Watt, Inventor)
Greenwich (Henry VIII, Monarch)
Huntingdon (Oliver Cromwell, Statesman)
Ipswich (Ralph Fiennes, Actor)
Kingston upon Hull) (Amy Johnson, Pilot)
Kirkcaldy (Adam Smith, Economist)
Leeds (Herbert Asquith, Politician)
Liverpool (John Lennon, Musician)
Manchester (Davy Jones, Musician)
Middlesbrough (James Cook, Explorer)
Norwich (Philip Pullman, Writer)
Oxford (Stephen Hawking, Physicist)
Penzance (Humphry Davy, Chemist)
Perth (Ewan McGregor, Actor)
Portsmouth (Charles Dickens, Author)
Shrewsbury (Charles Darwin - Naturalist)
Stevenage (Lewis Hamilton, Racing driver)
Stratford-u-Avon (Wm. Shakespeare, Playwright)
Swansea (Dylan Thomas, Poet)
Tavistock (Francis Drake - Explorer)
Torquay (Agatha Christie, Author)
Tremadog (T. E. Lawrence, Army Officer)
Wylam (George Stephenson, Engineer)
York (Guy Fawkes, Conspirator)
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