People Flashcards
Sir Roger Bannister
1st man to run a MILE in under 4 minutes, 1954
Sir Jackie Stewart
Scottish, won Formula 1 world championship; 3 times.
Bobby Moore
Captain, English Football team, won the World Cup, 1966
Sir Ian Botham
Captain English Cricket team
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
GOLD medals for ICE DANCING at the Olympic Games in 1984
Sir Steve Redgrave
GOLD medals in ROWING in 5 consecutive Olympic Games
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Athlete, uses wheelchair.
Won 16 Paralympic medals, 11 GOLD in races.
Won London Marathon 6 times.
30 world records.
Dame Kelly Holmes
2 GOLDmedals for RUNNING
2004 Olympic Games
Dame Ellen MacArthur
Yachtswoman.
Fastest to sail around the world.
Sir Chris Hoy
Scottish CYCLIST.
6 GOLD and 1 SILVER medals.
11 World Championship titles
David Weir
Paralympian. Wheelchair.
Won 6 gold medals.
Won London Marathon 6 times.
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Cyclist. Tour de France (1st Briton).
8 Olympic medals
Sir Mo Farah
Distance runner.
Olympic gold 10k meters (1st Briton).
Has gold medals for 5k and 10k
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
Hepatathlon
Gold 2012 and Silver 2016.
Sir Andy Murray
Scottish, Tennis Player
2012 won singles US Open
1st British to win singles Grand Slam since 1936
Wimbledon singles 2013, 2016
Olympic Gold 2016
Ellie Simmonds
Paralympian GOLD for SWIMMING.
Youngest in British team.
Henry Purcell
Organist (Classical Music)
Westminster Abby
George Frederick Handel
German-born COMPOSER.
Water Music for King George I
Music for the Royal Fireworks for George II
Wrote oratorio Messiah
Gustav Holst
COMPOSER
The Planets
Sir Edward Elgar
Born in Worcester
March No 1 (Land of Hope and Glory) played at Last Night of the Proms
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wrote MUSIC for orchestras and choirs (influenced by traditional english folk)
Sir William Walton
Wrote MUSIC (film scores to opera).
Marches for coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
Best work: Facade (ballet) and Bleshazzar’s Feast (large choir)
Benjamin Britten
Operas
Work:
- Peter Grimes
- Billy Budd
- A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Thomas Gainsborough
portrait painter
David Allan
Scottish, portrait painter
Joseph Turner
Landscape painter
John Constable
landscape painter
The Pre-Raphaelites
groups of artists
second half 19th century, painted detailed pictures on religious in bright colors
- Holman Hunt
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Sir John Millais
Sir John Lavery
Northern Irish, portrait painter
Work:
Royal Family
Henry Moore
English sculptor and artist
Work:
Large bronze abstract sculptures
John Petts
Welsh Artist
Work:
- engravings
- stained glass
Lucian Freud
German-born British artist.
Portraits.
David Hockney
important contributor to ‘pop art’ movement 1960s
Jane Austen
English Novelist
Books (mariage and relationships):
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
Charles Dickens
Famous novels:
- Oliver Twist
- Great Expectations
Famous characters: - Scrooge (a mean person) Mr Micawber (always hopeful)-
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wrote books:
- Treasure Island
- Kidnapped
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Thomas Hardy
author and poet
Novels:
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Jude the Obscure
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish doctor and writer
Best known for:
- Sherlock Holmes
Evelyn Waugh
Satirical novels:
- Decline and Fall
- Scoop
- Bridgeshead Revisited (best known)
Sir Kingsley Amis
English novelist and poet.
20+ novels.
Novels:
- Lucky Jim
Graham Greene
wrote novels (religious beliefs):
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Honorary Consul
- Brighton Rock
- Our Man in Havana
J K Rowling
wrote Harry Potterand children buges
she writes fiction for adults now
