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Life in the UK test > Names of illustrous UK people > Flashcards

Names of illustrous UK people Flashcards

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Chris Hoy

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cyclist velodrome - Olympic Games

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Sir Bradley Wiggins

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cyclist - Tour de France

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David Hockney

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pop art - 1960s

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Lucian Freud

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German born artist - portraits

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Jonh Petts

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Welsh artist - engravings and stained glass

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Sir John Lavery

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Northern Irish portrait painter - Royal Family

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Henry Moore

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bronze sculptures

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Joseph Turner

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landscape painter

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Turner Prize

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celebrates contemporary art

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John Constable

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landscape painter - Dedham Vale on the Suffolk-Essex border

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David Allan

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Scottish painter - The Origin of Painting

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Sir John Millais
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Holman Hunt

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Pre-Raphaelites

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Henry Purcell

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composer in Westminster Abbey

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Sir Edward Elgar

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composer - Pomp and Circumstances Marches

March No 1 is played at the Proms.

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George Frederick Handel

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German-born composer - wrote for George I and George II.

Messiah is sung by choirs at Easter.

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Gustav Holst

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composer - The Planets

Jupiter for I vow to thee my country (hymn)

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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composer - orchestra and choir

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

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Paralympics and London Marathon

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Mary Peters

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Northern Ireland athlete - pentathlon

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Ellie Simmonds

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Paralympics - swimming

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Dame Kelly Holmes

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running

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Dame Ellen MacArthur

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yachtswoman - sail around the world singlehanded

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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill

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heptathlon

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Olympic Games hosted in the UK

Paralympics hosted in the UK

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1908, 1948 and 2012

2012

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Sir Mo Farah

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10,000 metres in less than…

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David Weir

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Paralympics and London Marathon

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Sir Ian Botham

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cricket captain

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Ian Flemming

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writer - James Bond

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Alexander Flemming

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penicillin - 1928

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John Macleod

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insulin - 1923

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Sir Ian Wilmut

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Dolly the sheep - 1996

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John Logie Baird

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Scottish inventor - television

1st TV broadcast London & Glasgow - 1932

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Sir Tim Beners-Lee

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World Wide Web - 1990

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Sir Peter Mansfield

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co-inventor of the MRI

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Sir Robert Watson-Watt

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radar - 1935

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Francis Crick

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Nobel Prize winner for structure of the DNA

37
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Sir Roger Bannister

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run a mile under 4 minutes

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Sir Steve Redgrave

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rowing

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Sir Christopher Wren

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St Paul’s Cathedral

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Robert Adams

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Scottish architect - influenced the Royal Crescent

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Sir Edwin Lutyens

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Cenotaph in Whitehall

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Robert Luis Stevenson

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Treasure Island
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes

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Graham Greene

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Our Man in Havana
Brighton Rock
The Honorary Consul

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Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited

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David Hume

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Human science philosopher during the Enlightenment 18th century

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Ted Hughes

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48
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Robert Burns

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Scottish writer - Auld Lang Syne (Hongmanay)

Wrote in Scots language 18th century

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Robert the Bruce

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Scottish king leading the Battle of Bannockburn (1314) against Edward II

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James Watts

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steam power inventor during the Enlightenment 18th century

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Richard Arkwright

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carding machine - Industrial Revolution (18th and 19th century)

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Nick Park

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Wallace and Gromit
(Ealing Studios)

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Tilda Swinton

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Oscar winner

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Roald Dahl

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children’s books - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, BFG, James and the Giant Peach…

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Rudyard Kipling

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Jungle Book

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Emmilie Pankhusrt

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suffragette

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William Beveridge

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economist

Social Insurance and Allied Services - 1942

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Dylan Thomas

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Welsh poet and writer from Swansea

Under Milk Wood and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

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RA Butler

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Minister for Education

Education Act 1944 - secondary

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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comic opera - Mikado, HMS Pinafore and the Pirates of Penzance

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Sir Francis Drake

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naval tradition

captain against the Spanish Armada in 1588

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