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50 Famous Women from the United Kingdom

Can you name 50 famous women from the United Kingdom?
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Last updated: August 29, 2024
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First submittedAugust 28, 2024
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Model of the late 1980s, the 1990s and the earlier 2000s including modern day
Naomi Campbell
Scientist who conducted groundbreaking work on DNA and discovered the double helix
Rosalind Franklin
Singer who achieved international success in the 1980s as a member of Eurythmics
Annie Lennox
Fossil collector who recovered fossils which changed the way we view the Jurassic Period
Mary Anning
Actress who played Daenerys Targaryen in the TV series Game of Thrones
Emilia Clarke
Actress who starred in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade and My Fair Lady
Audrey Hepburn
The daughter of Lord Byron who went on to become the world’s first computer programmer
Ada Lovelace
The last British tennis player who won Wimbledon after her victory in 1977
Virginia Wade
Queen of Scotland from 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567
Mary Stuart
Actress who was the protagonist in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic
Kate Winslet
Actress best known for her role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series
Emma Watson
Singer who recorded Holding Out for a Hero the soundtrack to the 1984 film Footloose
Bonnie Tyler
Actress who wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Emma Thompson
Princess of Wales who is married to Prince William
Kate Middleton
One of the highest-paid supermodels of the 1990s known for her collaboration with Calvin Klein
Kate Moss
Princess of Wales who died in a car accident in Paris in 1997
Diana
Author best remembered for her novel Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Known name of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the House of Tudor, reigning for 44 years
Virgin Queen
Fashion designer, singer, and TV personality who was a member of the Spice Girls
Victoria Beckham
Actress who starred in movies like Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth Taylor
Media personality, model, and author who gained recognition in the late 1990s under the pseudonym Jordan
Katie Price
Long-distance runner and a three-time winner of the London Marathon
Paula Radcliffe
Journalist who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I
Dorothy Lawrence
British record holder in 60 m, 100 m and 200 m sprint races
Dina Asher-Smith
Actress probably best-known for her Oscar-winning role for the movie The Queen (2006)
Helen Mirren
Singer famous for performing songs Hello, Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You
Adele
Writer whose notable works are Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Henry VIII's second wife and Queen of England who was executed by beheading in 1536
Anne Boleyn
Actress who won an Oscar for her performance in Shakespeare In Love
Judy Dench
Welsh actress who is married to Michael Douglas
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Singer and songwriter who died of alcohol poisoning on in 2011, at the age of 27
Amy Winehouse
Creator of fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
Agatha Christie
Novelist, poet and the author of Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
Primatologist and anthropologist, considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Middle-distance runner who won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Keely Hodgkinson
Author of the series of seven Harry Potter novels
J.K. Rowling
Prime minister known for actually taking the UK out of the European Union
Theresa May
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901
Victoria
The Queen regnant and Head of State of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
Elizabeth II
Lighthouse keeper's daughter who rescued the survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838
Grace Darling
Actress and singer who starred as the title character in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins
Julie Andrews
Queen consort of the United Kingdom since 2022
Camilla Parker Bowles
Author and artist of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and numerous other children’s classics
Beatrix Potter
TV presenter and the face of the ITV’s This Morning
Holly Willoughby
English-Albanian singer whose famous songs are Be the One and New Rules
Dua Lipa
Author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Political activist whose suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote
Emmeline Pankhurst
Queen of the Iceni tribe of Celtic Britons, who led an uprising against the Roman Empire
Boudicca
United Kingdom's first woman prime minister
Margaret Thatcher
2 Comments
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Level 69
Aug 29, 2024
Very nice quiz, but I think Meghan Markle as an American doesn't belong in this quiz.
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Level 53
Aug 29, 2024
Thanks. I didn't think of her nationality. I will repace her with someone else.