Years active
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Clue
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Answer
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1274-1329
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King of Scots who led Scotland during the first war of Scottish independence against England
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Robert the Bruce
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1783-1830
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The "George Washington of South America", who led the cause of freedom for Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
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Simon Bolivar
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428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347BC
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Greek Philosopher and mathematician, founder of The Academy in Athens
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Plato
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1707-78
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Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, known as the father of modern taxonomy
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Carl Linnaeus
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1755 or 57 - 1804
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American Founding Father, chief aide to George Washington and founder of the US financial system
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Alexander Hamilton
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1694-1778
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French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, real name Francois-Marie Arouet
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Voltaire
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1473-1543
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Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who wrote 'On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres'
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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106-43BC
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Roman philosopher, politician, consul and orator
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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1856-1943
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German-American inventor and electrical engineer
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Nikola Tesla
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1632-1704
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English philosopher, physician and enlightenment thinker, the father of Classical Liberalism
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John Locke
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1916-2003
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American film actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
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Gregory Peck
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1809-92
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British poet laureate throughout the majority of Queen Victoria's reign
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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1808-89
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Mississippi Senator who became President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
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Jefferson Davis
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1872-1928
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Norwegian explorer who led the 1910-12 Antarctic expedition that was the first to reach the South Pole
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Roald Amundsen
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1908-73
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Chilean Marxist physician and politician who was deposed as his country's President by Augusto Pinochet's military junta
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Salvador Allende
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1901-63
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First President of the former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), assassinated as part of a coup d'etat
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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1881-1938
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Founder and first President of modern Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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1571-1610
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Italian Baroque painter whose works include 'Death of the Virgin' and 'The Calling of Saint Matthew'
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Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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1485-1547
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Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that saw the fall of the Aztec Empire
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Hernando Cortes
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1632-1723
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English architect, famous for building London's St Paul's Cathedral
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Sir Christopher Wren
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9-79
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First Emperor of the Flavian Dynasty, who built the Roman Colosseum
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Vespasian
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1805-81
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Jamaican-born nurse who set up a refuge for British soldiers to aid battlefield wounded during the Crimean War
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Mary Seacole
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1880-1958
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British author and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights who wrote a sex manual called 'Married Love'
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Marie Stopes
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1749-1823
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English physician and scientist, pioneer of the Smallpox vaccine, often credited as the 'Father of Immunology'
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Edward Jenner
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1745-97
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Freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade and wrote the first-known slave narrative. Also known as Gustavus Vassa
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Olaudah Equiano
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1840-1926
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Artist who was a founder of the French Impressionist movement and lived at Giverny, where he created lily ponds that became the subject ofhis best-known works
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Oscar-Claude Monet
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1899-1943
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High-profile and symbolic member of the French Resistance during World War Two
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Jean Moulin
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1808-77
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English feminist and social reformer, involved in a famous 19th century court case between her husband and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne
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Caroline Norton
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570-495BC
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Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician who had a theorem named after him
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Pythagoras of Samos
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1572-1633
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Dutch builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620
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Cornelius Drebbel
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