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English physician and athlete who became the first person in history to run a mile in under four minutes, later a respected neurologist

British Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for pioneering inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis, particularly his work on organometallic sandwich compounds

Scottish nutritionist and physician awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his leadership as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

English politician, trade unionist, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903 for his advocacy of international arbitration

English novelist and poet best known for her iconic novel Wuthering Heights

Scotland's national poet and lyricist, celebrated worldwide for his works in the Scots language and his contributions to poetry and song

English physicist and hereditary peer, Nobel laureate known for the discovery of argon and gas density investigations

English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who founded the Methodist movement

King of Great Britain and Ireland who oversaw the unification of the United Kingdom and was the first British-born Hanoverian monarch

The first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, an American physician, abolitionist, and women's rights activist

British Army general and Viceroy of India who led significant campaigns in World War II and oversaw critical political transitions

Queen of the United Kingdom who reigned for 63 years, overseeing the Victorian era of industrial and imperial expansion, and becoming Empress of India

English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician who co-founded The Spectator magazine and penned the influential play Cato, a Tragedy

Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist, political philosopher, and social reformer who founded utopian socialism and the co-operative movement

English poet and hymnodist renowned for works like 'Olney Hymns' and 'The Task'

English philosopher and political theorist who coined "survival of the fittest" and applied evolutionary principles to sociology and ethics

English writer and philosopher known for her advocacy of women's rights and considered a founding feminist philosopher

English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature

English novelist, dramatist, and judge known for pioneering the traditional English novel and founding London's first professional police force, the Bow Street Runners

English physician, natural philosopher, abolitionist, and poet known for works like 'Zoonomia' and 'The Loves of Plants'

Welsh-born English poet, orator, and Anglican priest known for his devotional lyric poetry and association with metaphysical poets

English physician and scientist who pioneered vaccination and created the world's first smallpox vaccine

British political economist, cleric, and scholar known for his influential theories on population and demography

English historian and politician renowned for his monumental work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire