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108 famous people found

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  Stan Laurel

  English comic actor, writer, and film director

  1890 - 1965
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  Robert BADEN-POWELL

  British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement

  1857 - 1941
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  Alfred HITCHCOCK

  English film director and producer

  1899 - 1980
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  Howard CARTER

  British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun

  1874 - 1939
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  J. R. R. TOLKIEN

  English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion

  1892 - 1973
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  H. G. WELLS

  English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre

  1866 - 1946
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  Charles DICKENS

  English writer and social critic

  1812 - 1870
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  Agatha CHRISTIE

  British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays

  1890 - 1976
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  Charles DARWIN

  English naturalist

  1809 - 1882
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  Winston CHURCHILL

  British politician, army officer, and writer

  1874 - 1965
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  Charlie CHAPLIN

  English comic actor, film director and composer

  1889 - 1977
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  Mary Shelley

  English novelist

  1797 - 1851
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  John Maynard KEYNES

  British economist, whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments

  1883 - 1946
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  Bernard Law MONTGOMERY

  British Army officer

  1887 - 1976
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  Lord Randolph CHURCHILL

  British statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer

  1849 - 1895
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  Aldous HUXLEY

  English writer

  1894 - 1963
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  Neville Chamberlain

  British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940

  1869 - 1940
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  AGA KHAN III

  48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, President of the League of Nations

  1877 - 1957
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  Virginia WOOLF

  English writer

  1882 - 1941
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  Ada LOVELACE

  English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine

  1815 - 1852