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27 famous people found
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Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824 -
Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727 -
William SHAKESPEARE
English poet and playwright
1564 - 1616 -
Mary Shelley
English novelist
1797 - 1851 -
Adam SMITH
British economist, philosopher, and author
1723 - 1790 -
Anne BRADSTREET
English poet
1612 - 1672 -
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
English portrait and landscape painter
1727 - 1788 -
William Beckford
English novelist
1760 - 1844 -
Jane AUSTEN
English novelist
1775 - 1817 -
John MILTON
English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell
1608 - 1674 -
Henry FIELDING
English novelist and dramatist
1707 - 1754 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
Erasmus DARWIN
English physician
1731 - 1802 -
Charles MONTAGU
English poet and statesman
1661 - 1715 -
Elizabeth Carter
English poet, classicist, writer, translator, and linguist
1717 - 1806 -
Georgiana CAVENDISH
English socialite, political organizer, style icon, author, and activist
1757 - 1806 -
Samuel ARNOLD
English composer and organist
1740 - 1802 -
John Buonarotti PAPWORTH
British architect, artist and a founder member of the Royal Institute of British Architects
1775 - 1847 -
John DRYDEN
English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668
1631 - 1700 -
Thomas MORE
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
1478 - 1535