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149 famous people found
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Jane AUSTEN
English novelist
1775 - 1817 -
John GOODRICKE
English amateur astronomer
1764 - 1786 -
John BERKELEY
English royalist soldier
1602 - 1678 -
Thomas SYDENHAM
English physician
1624 - 1689 -
John HARVARD
English minister in America
1607 - 1638 -
John HAWKINS
English naval commander and administrator
1532 - 1595 -
John MILTON
English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell
1608 - 1674 -
Augusta LEIGH
Half-sister and presumed mistress of Lord Byron
1784 - 1851 -
Catherine HOWARD
Queen of England from 1540 until 1541, as the fifth wife of Henry VIII
1523 - 1542 -
Henry FIELDING
English novelist and dramatist
1707 - 1754 -
Philip CARTERET
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69
1733 - 1796 -
Charles CORNWALLIS
British Army officer and colonial administrator
1738 - 1805 -
George BINGHAM
British Army officer
1800 - 1888 -
James OGLETHORPE
British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia
1696 - 1785 -
Richard GRENVILLE
English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer
1542 - 1591 -
John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856 -
James Clark ROSS
British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry
1800 - 1862 -
William BLIGH
Officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator
1754 - 1817 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
Thomas CAVENDISH
English explorer and a privateer
1560 - 1592