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An English professional footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chelsea and the England national team.
He is considered to be one of the best English footballers of his time, and one of the best midfield players of his generation.[01]
Frank Lampard
A Scottish professional tennis player, ranked World No. 3, and the British No. 1.
At the 2012 US Open, he became the first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament, when he defeated Novak Djokovic in five sets.[02]
Andy Murray
A British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG team. He is the 2008 Formula One World Champion.
Coming from a mixed background, with a black father and white mother, he is often labelled "the first black driver in Formula One".[03]
Lewis Hamilton
A retired boxer and the most recent undisputed world heavyweight champion.
He became undisputed champion after defeating Evander Holyfield in November 1999. After defeating Mike Tyson by KO in 2002 and stopping Vitali Klitschko in 2003, he retired from boxing in 2004.[04]
Lennox Lewis
An English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. In his four-decade career he has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.[05]
Elton John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
An English heavy metal, Grammy Award winning vocalist and songwriter. He rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English band Black Sabbath.
In the early 2000s, he became a star in his own reality show, alongside wife/manager Sharon and two of their three children, Kelly and Jack.[06]
Ozzy Osbourne
An English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Beatles.
Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.[07]
John Lennon
An English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
He has been described as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll".[08]
Mick Jagger
An English actress and model born 26 March 1985.
Her first significant role came in The Hole (2001). She gained widespread recognition in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham and achieved international fame in 2003 as a result of her appearances in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.[09]
Keira Knightley
An English actor, comedian, writer, musician and director born 11 June 1959.
From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and six Emmy nominations. He has been listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor ever in a television drama.[10]
Hugh Laurie
An English actress and singer born 5 October 1975.
She has been nominated for various awards for her work in such films as Quills (2000), Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Reader (2008) and Revolutionary Road (2008).[11]
Kate Winslet
A British actor and film producer born 9 September 1960.
He starred in comedies as Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006) and in the epic drama film Cloud Atlas (2012).[12]
Hugh Grant
An English naturalist born in 1809. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed a scientific theory of evolution based on a process of natural selection.
He published his theory of evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.[13]
Charles Robert Darwin
An English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.
His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics.[14]
Sir Isaac Newton
A British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. He was the first to set forth a cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
He is almost entirely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device.[15]
Stephen Hawking
A British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.
He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development.[16]
Tim Berners-Lee