People on UK banknotes

Name the people who appear on this United Kingdom currency

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England and Wales
Denomination	Reason for Honor	Answer
All Banknotes	Royalty	Queen Elizabeth II
£5	Wartime Prime minister	Winston Churchill
£10	Author	Jane Austen
£20	Economist	Adam Smith
£50	1st Governor, Bank of England	John Houblon
£50	Inventor	James Watt
£50	Manufacturer	Matthew Boulton
Scotland
Denomination	Reason for Honor	Answer
All Banknotes	Founder and first governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland	Lord Ilay
£5, £10, £20, £50, £100	Historical novelist and poet; campaigner for the continuation of Scottish banknote	Sir Walter Scott
£1 (special commemorative issue)	Scottish novelist and poet	Robert Louis Stevenson
£1 (special commemorative issue)	Inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
£5 (special commemorative issue)	To mark her Golden Jubilee	Queen Elizabeth II
£5 (special commemorative issue)	250th anniversary of The Golf Club of St Andrews	Old Tom Morris
£5 (special commemorative issue)	Notable American golfer	Jack Nicklaus
£5	Discoverer of penicillin	Alexander Fleming
£5 and £10	Notable Scottish poet	Robert Burns
£10 (special commemorative issue)	To mark her Diamond Jubilee	Queen Elizabeth II
£10	Scottish missionary to Nigeria and campaigner for women's rights	Mary Slessor
£20	King of the Scots 1306-1329	Robert the Bruce
£20	Economist and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment	Adam Smith
£20 (special commemorative issue)	To mark this Royal's 100th birthday	Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
£50	Doctor and suffragist	Elsie Inglis
£100	Mathematical physicist and engineer	Lord Kelvin
£100	Architect and designer	Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Northern Ireland
Denomination	Reason for Honor	Answer
£5 (special commemorative issue)	Footballer for Northern Ireland and Manchester United	George Best
£10	Founder of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company	John Boyd Dunlop
£20	Engineer and developer of the modern agricultural tractor	Harry Ferguson
£50	Founder of the Belfast Sirocco Works and pioneer of air conditioning	Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson
£100	Inventor of the aircraft ejector seat	Sir James Martin

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