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Sir Winston Churchill, (1874-1965),

was a politician, a soldier, an artist, and the 20th century's most famous and celebrated Prime Minister.

Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom's first woman prime minister, and she held the office of PM for longer than anyone in the 20th century.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Nelson is the greatest hero in British naval history, an honour he earned by defeating Napoleon's fleet in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.

Oliver Cromwell(1599–1658)
Oliver Cromwell was a military, political, and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642–1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. He was Lord Protector of England for much of the 1650s, ruling in place of the country's traditional monarchy.

Sir Thomas More
English politician, humanist scholar, and writer who refused to comply with the Act of Supremacy, by which English subjects were enjoined to recognize Henry VIII's authority over the pope, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London and beheaded for treason.

William Wilberforce (1780–1825)

British politician. As a member of Parliament he campaigned for the British abolition of slavery.

Guy Fawkes(1570-1606)

English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament

Sir William Wallace
Scottish patriot who led resistance against the English and briefly gained control of Scotland in 1298.