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Painter of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
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John Constable
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Romantic painter and poet, author of The Ancient of Days
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William Blake
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Painter, known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent marine painting
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William Turner
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Architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire in 1666, including St Paul's Cathedral
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Christopher Wren
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Poet, author of The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Playwright, author of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare
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Playwright and translator rival of the previous one
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Christopher Marlowe
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Playwright, author of The Alchemist
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Ben Jonson
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Writer, author of A Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson
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Poet, author of Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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Writer, author of Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
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Romantic poet, author of Lyrical Ballads
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William Wordsworth
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Romantic poet, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Samuel Coleridge
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Romantic poet, author of Don Juan
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George Byron
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Writer, author of Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
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Writer, author of Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
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Writer, author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
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Writer, father of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds
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H. G. Wells
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Writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Writer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Writer, author of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Robert Stevenson
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Writer, author of The Jungle Book
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Rudyard Kipling
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Poet, author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1948
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Thomas Eliot
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Female writer, author of Murder on the Orient Express
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Agatha Christie
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Female writer, author of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
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Writer, author of 1984
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George Orwell
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Writer, author of The Lord of the Rings
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Writer, author of The Chronicles of Narnia
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C. S. Lewis
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Female writer, author of Harry Potter
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J. K. Rowling
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King, main figure of the Crusades
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Richard I/Richard the Lionheart
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The king of Magna Carta
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John Lackland
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King, famous for his eight wives and founder of Anglicanism
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Henry VIII
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Queen known for her vigorous attempt to testore the Catholicism in England
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Mary I/Bloody Mary
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The Virgin Queen
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Elizabeth I
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Statesman, Lord Protector of England and Scotland from 1653 to 1658
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Oliver Cromwell
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Queen of United Kingdom and Empress of India from 1837 to 1901
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Victoria
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Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922
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David Lloyd George
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Prime Minister, who signed the Munich Agreement
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Neville Chamberlain
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King during World War Two
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George VI
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Prime Minister during World War Two
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Winston Churchill
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Queen died in 2022
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Elizabeth II
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Female Prime Minister, nicknamed the Iron Lady
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Margaret Thatcher
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Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007
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Tony Blair
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King from 2022
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Charles III
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Former wife of the current King, died in 1997
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Diana Spencer/Diana/Lady Diana
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Sons of the current King
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Prince William/Prince Harry
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Philosopher, one of the most influential of Enlightenment, known as the father of liberalism
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John Locke
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Philosopher, called the father of empiricism and key figure of the Scientific Revolution.
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Francis Bacon
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Philosopher, one of the founders of modern political philosophy, author of Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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One of the XX century's most influential philosophers of science
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Karl Popper
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Explorer, who circumnavigated the World and famous for his role in the Anglo-Spanish War
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Francis Drake
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Explorer, famous for his voyages to New Zealand and Australia
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James Cook
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Explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions
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Robert Scott
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Royal Navy officier famous for his naval victories during Napoleonic Wars.
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Horatio Nelson
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Army officer known for his role in the Arab Revolt
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Thomas Lawrence/Lawrence of Arabia
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Commander of all Allied forces during the Battle of Normandy
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Bernard Montgomery
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Physicist who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation
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Isaac Newton
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Engineer, inventor of the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Microbiologist, who discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, the penicillin.
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Alexander Fleming
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Physicist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism
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Michael Faraday
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Physicist known as the father of nuclear physics, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908
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Ernest Rutherford
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Polymath of XVII century who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover microorganisms using a compound microscope that he built himself
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Robert Hooke
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Naturalist, author of On the Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin
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Naturalist, coauthor of On the Origin of Species
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Alfred Wallace
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Physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933
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Paul Dirac
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Chemists, whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA
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Rosalind Franklin/Francis Crick
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Physicist, affected by a form of motor neurone disease that paralysed him
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Stephen Hawking
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Mathematician, who decrypted Enigma during World War Two
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Alan Turing
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Inventor of the World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Mathematician responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Civil engineer, one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, who built the Great Western Railway
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Civil engineer, inventor of railways
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George Stephenson
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Engineer, inventor of steam engine
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James Watt
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Actor and director of Spartacus and Hamlet, four times winner of Academy Award
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Laurence Olivier
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Director of The Bridge on the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago, two times winner of Academy Award
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David Lean
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Director of Vertigo and Psycho
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Comic actor, Modern Times and The Great Dictator
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Charlie Chaplin
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Actor, who received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in comedy Hannah and Her Sisters and in drama The Cider House Rules
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Michael Caine
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Actor, winner of two Academy Award, one for The Silence of the Lambs
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Anthony Hopkins
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Actor, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Darkest Hour
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Gary Oldman
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Director of The Dark Knight Trilogy and Interstellar
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Christopher Nolan
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The first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film
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Sean Connery
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Actor, famous for his roles in North by Northwest and Suspicion
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Cary Grant
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Actor, famous for his roles in The Imitation Game, Doctor Strange and Sherlock
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Benedict Cumberbatch
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Comic Actor, Mister Bean
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Rowan Atkinson
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Actress, famous for her roles in The Nun's Story and Breakfast at Tiffany's, two times winner of Academy Award
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Audrey Hepburn
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Actress, famous for her roles in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer, three times winner of Academy Award
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Economist, pioneer of political economy named The Father of Capitalism
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Adam Smith
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Economist, whose ideas changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments
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John Keynes
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Driver, 7 times Formula 1 champion
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Lewis Hamilton
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Driver, 3 times Formula 1 champion
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Jackie Stewart
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Northern Irish footballer, winner of Ballon d'Or in 1968, legend of Manchester United
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George Best
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Footballer and sex symbol, legend of Manchester United
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David Beckham
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Tennis player, winner of three Grand Slam titles
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Andy Murray
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Composer and conductor of film music, five times winner of Academy Award
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John Barry
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Rock band of 1960s, Let It Be, Yesterday
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The Beatles
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Rock band active from 1960s, Satisfaction, Paint it Black
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The Rolling Stones
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Rock band active from 1970s, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Gaga
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Queen
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Singer active from 1960s, I'm Still Standing, Rocket Man
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Elton John
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Singer active from 2000s, Shape of You, Galway Girl
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Ed Sheeran
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However, a couple of typos - you have misgendered Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor!
also very surprised Sir David Attenborough is not featured!