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Famous Britons

Based on the clues, name the famous British Person.
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Last updated: December 11, 2021
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First submittedJanuary 6, 2013
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Credited with the discovery of Penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming
Current reigning monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Only Prime Minister ever to be assassinated
Spencer Perceval
World War II fighter pilot who lost both legs
Sir Douglas Bader
Executed for High Treason for making pro-Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts to Britain during World War II
Lord Haw Haw
Founder of the Scout Movement
Robert Baden-Powell
Famous TV naturalist who presented, among others, "Life on Earth" and "Blue Planet"
Sir David Attenborough
Tyrannical Tudor king who had six wives
Henry VIII
Doctor _____________ I presume?
David Livingstone
Leading Parliamentarian who served as Lord Protector
Oliver Cromwell
Gave the "Rivers of Blood" speech
Enoch Powell
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Most famous Elizabethan and Jacobean playwright
William Shakespeare
Discovered evolution
Charles Darwin
Wrote "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" and "David Copperfield"
Charles Dickens
Creator of Poirot and Miss Marple
Agatha Christie
Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
Duke of Wellington
British officer who was key in establishing British East India Company Rule in Bengal
Clive of India
Inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Mystery serial killer who struck at least five times in Whitechapel in 1888
Jack the Ripper
Suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the King's racehorse at Epsom in 1913
Emily Davison
First sitting female MP in Britain
Nancy Astor
British commander in the Anglo-Zulu war. In command during the battles of Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi
Lord Chelmsford
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Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered on the orders of king Henry II
St Thomas Becket
All-rounder who captained the England Cricket Team and played between 1998 and 2009. Nickname Freddie.
Andrew Flintoff
Rapper who sings "Dance wiv me" and "Bonkers"
Dizzee Rascal
Beatle who was assassinated in New York
John Lennon
Hangman who executed at least 400 people between 1932 and 1956
Albert Pierrepoint
Popular Princess killed in a car crash in 1997
Princess Diana
Footballer whose hat-trick won England the 1966 World Cup
Sir Geoff Hurst
Caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament
Guy Fawkes
Prime Minister during World War II (May 1940-July 1945)
Sir Winston Churchill
Legendary admiral in the Royal Navy who was killed at Trafalgar in 1805
Horatio Nelson
Iceni Queen who led revolt against Roman rule in c.60 AD
Boudicca
Royal Navy captain famous for his voyages of exploration on HM Bark Endeavour
James Cook
Famous actor who played, among other things, Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings"
Sir Ian McKellen
Poet Laureate who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mythical King of Camelot
King Arthur
Last Anglo-Saxon king defeated by William the Conqueror
Harold II
Leading anti-slavery campaigner
William Wilberforce
Braveheart
William Wallace
First female Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
Composer of "The Planets"
Gustav Holst
Somali-born athlete who won 10,000m and 5000m gold at the 2012 Olympics
Mo Farah
Queen who saw the huge development of technology and the expansion of the British Empire
Queen Victoria
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Sep 14, 2021
Possibly change Thatcher's question to the First female PM, because of May.
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