The following list of people buried or commemorated in Westminster Abbey provides links to information about them and their monuments. The list is necessarily selective, but further names and information will gradually be added. At this stage we have concentrated on the most famous names and those about whom we receive frequent enquiries.
Most pages about individual monuments include a transcript of the inscription and an English translation if the original is in Latin. You should note that in some contexts Latin uses the letters I and V where we might expect J and U respectively, and that many names are given in their Latinized form. For example, Iacobvs (or Jacobus) is the Latin for James. The spelling of names in English has often changed over the centuries and they do not always appear on monuments in their modern form. This does not mean that a mistake was made in cutting the inscription!
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Adam,
Robert Adam
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Addison,
Joseph Addison
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André,
John André
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Anstey,
Christopher Anstey
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Atkyns,
Edward and Robert Atkyns
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Atterbury,
Francis Atterbury
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Attlee,
Clement Attlee
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Austen,
Jane Austen
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Ayton,
Robert Ayton
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Baden-Powell,
Robert & Olave Baden-Powell
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Baker,
John Baker
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Barnett,
Samuel and Henrietta Barnett
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Barrell,
William Barrell
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Barry,
Charles and John Barry
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Bayne,
William Bayne
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Beaufort,
Margaret Beaufort
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Beaufoy,
Mary Beaufoy
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Behn,
Aphra Behn
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Belasyse,
Sir Henry Belasyse
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Bell,
Andrew Bell
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Bennett,
Louis Bennett
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Benson,
William Benson
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Betterton,
Thomas Betterton
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Bill,
William Bill
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Bingham,
Richard Bingham
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Blair,
William Blair
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Blake,
Robert Blake
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Blake,
William Blake
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Blakeney,
William Blakeney
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Blow,
John Blow
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Bohun,
Eleanor de Bohun
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Bonhoeffer,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Bowes,
Mary Eleanor Bowes
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Bradshaw,
John Bradshaw
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Brandon,
Frances Brandon
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Britten,
Benjamin Britten
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Brocas,
Sir Bernard Brocas
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Bromley,
Sir Thomas Bromley
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Broughton,
John Broughton
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Browning,
Robert Browning
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Brunel,
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Buckland,
William Buckland
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Burdett-Coutts,
Angela Burdett-Coutts
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Burgoyne,
John Burgoyne
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Burland,
Sir John Burland
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Burney,
Frances Burney
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Burns,
Robert Burns
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Busby,
Richard Busby
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Buxton,
Thomas Fowell Buxton
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C,
Combined Services Memorial
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C,
Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939 - 1945
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Camden,
William Camden
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Canning,
Geo, Charles & Stratford Canning
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Carey,
William Carey
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Carey,
Henry Carey
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Carroll,
Lewis Carroll
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Carteret,
Carteret family
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Cavendish,
William & Margaret Cavendish
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Caxton,
William Caxton
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Chaucer,
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Chiffinch,
Thomas Chiffinch
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Churchill,
Sir Winston Churchill
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Clarkson,
Thomas Clarkson
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Clementi,
Muzio Clementi
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Cochrane,
Thomas Cochrane
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Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Comper,
Sir Ninian Comper
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Coote,
Eyre Coote
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Cottington,
Francis Cottington
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Cottrell,
Clement Cottrell
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Courcy,
Almericus de Courcy
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Coxe,
Sir Richard Coxe
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Craggs,
James Craggs
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Cromwell,
Oliver Cromwell
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Darwin,
Charles Darwin
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Daubeney,
Giles Daubeney
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Dickens,
Charles Dickens
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Dirac,
Paul Dirac
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Douglas,
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
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Dowding,
Hugh Dowding
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Dunk,
George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax
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Duppa,
Brian and Thomas Duppa
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Eliot,
George Eliot
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Eliot,
Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Elizabeth,
Grand Duchess Elizabeth
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Fane,
Elizabeth Fane
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Faraday,
Michael Faraday
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Fawcett,
Henry and Millicent Fawcett
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Florey,
Howard Florey
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Folkes,
Martin Folkes
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Follett,
William Webb Follett
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Fowler,
William Fowler
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Fox,
Charles James Fox
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Franklin,
Sir John Franklin
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Freke,
Freke sisters
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Fullerton,
James Fullerton
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Garrick,
David Garrick
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Gay,
John Gay
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Gethin,
Grace Gethin
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Gladstone,
William and Catherine Gladstone
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Goodman,
Gabriel Goodman
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Gordon,
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Graham,
George Graham
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Greatorex,
Thomas Greatorex
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Griffith,
Piers Griffith
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Grote,
George Grote
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Guest,
Joshua Guest
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Hakluyt,
Richard Hakluyt
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Hales,
Stephen Hales
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Handel,
George Frederic Handel
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Hardy,
Thomas Hardy
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Harrison,
John Harrison
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Harvey,
John Harvey
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Herschel,
William & John Herschel
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Hesketh,
Sir Thomas Hesketh
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Hill,
Rowland Hill
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Holles,
Holles family
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Hooke,
Robert Hooke
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Horrocks,
Jeremiah Horrocks
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Howe,
George Howe
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Hunter,
John Hunter
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Hutt,
John Hutt
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Ireland,
John Ireland
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Irving,
Sir Henry Irving
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J,
John of Eltham
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James,
Henry James
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John,
Esther John
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Johnson,
Samuel Johnson
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Jonson,
Ben Jonson
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Joule,
James Prescott Joule
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Julius,
William Julius
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Keats,
John Keats
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Kelvin,
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
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Killigrew,
Thomas and Robert Killigrew
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King,
Martin Luther King
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Kipling,
Rudyard Kipling
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Knipe,
Thomas Knipe
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Knollys,
Katherine Knollys
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Kolbe,
Maximilian Kolbe
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Livingstone,
Thomas Livingstone, Viscount Teviot
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Livingstone,
David Livingstone
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Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Loten,
John Gideon Loten
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Ludlow,
Philip Ludlow
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Luwum,
Janani Luwum
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Lyell,
Charles
Lyell
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Lytton,
Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Macaulay,
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Macaulay,
Zachary Macaulay
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Malcolm,
Sir John Malcolm
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Manners,
Lord Robert Manners
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Mansfield,
William Murray, Lord Mansfield
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Masemola,
Manche Masemola
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Maxwell,
James Clerk Maxwell
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May,
Thomas May
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McIlvaine,
Charles McIlvaine
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Mead,
Richard Mead
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Methuen,
John and Paul Methuen
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Milton,
John Milton
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Monck,
George and Nicholas Monck
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Moray,
Robert Moray
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Neve,
Richard Le Neve
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Newton,
Sir Isaac Newton
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Nightingale,
Lady Elizabeth Nightingale
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Norris,
Henry, Lord Norris
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Ogle,
John Ogle
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Olivier,
Laurence Olivier
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Oswald,
James Oswald
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Outram,
Sir James Outram
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Owen,
Thomas Owen
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O’Keeffe,
Arthur O’Keeffe
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P,
Poets of the First World War
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Paoli,
Pasquale Paoli
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Parr,
Thomas Parr
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Parsons,
Sir Charles Parsons
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Peabody,
George Peabody
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Pecksall,
Richard Pecksall
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Philipps,
Richard Philipps
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Pitt,
William Pitt
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Pollock,
George Pollock
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Pringle,
Sir John Pringle
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Purcell,
Henry Purcell
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Raffles,
Stamford Raffles
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Richardson,
Thomas Richardson
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Robinson,
Sir Lumley Robinson
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Romero,
Oscar Romero
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Rowe,
Nicholas Rowe
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Rupert,
Prince Rupert
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Rutherford,
Ernest Rutherford
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Saunders,
Sir Charles Saunders
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Scott,
George Gilbert Scott
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Shakespeare,
William Shakespeare
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Sharp,
Granville Sharp
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Shelley,
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sheridan,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Shield,
William Shield
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Shovell,
Sir Clowdisley Shovell
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Siddons,
Sarah Siddons
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Sidney,
Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex
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Southey,
Robert Southey
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Spanheim,
Ezekiel Spanheim
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Spelman,
Henry Spelman
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Spenser,
Edmund Spenser
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Spottiswood,
James Spottiswood
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Spottiswood,
John Spottiswood
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Spottiswood,
William Spottiswood
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Spragge,
Edward Spragge
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Sprat,
Thomas Sprat
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Stanley,
Arthur & Augusta Stanley
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Stephenson,
Robert Stephenson
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Stokes,
George Gabriel Stokes
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Stradling,
George and Margaret Stradling
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Street,
George Edmund Street
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Stuart,
Frances Teresa Stuart
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Talbot,
Edward Talbot
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Tapiedi,
Lucian Tapiedi
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Tapper,
Sir Walter Tapper
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Telford,
Thomas Telford
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Temple,
Sir William Temple
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Tennyson,
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Thomas,
Dylan Thomas
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Thomson,
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
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Thorndyke,
John Thorndyke
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Thorndyke,
Herbert Thorndyke
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Thynne,
Thomas Thynne
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Tompion,
Thomas Tompion
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Trench,
Richard Chevenix Trench
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Trenchard,
Hugh Trenchard
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Trevithick,
Richard Trevithick
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Trigge,
Thomas Trigge
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Triplet,
Thomas Triplet
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Tufton,
Richard Tufton
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Tyrrell,
Richard Tyrrell
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U,
Unknown Warrior
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Ussher,
James Ussher
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Valence,
William and Aymer de Valence
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Vere,
Sir Francis Vere and Horace Vere
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Vernon,
Edward Vernon
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Wade,
George Wade
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Wager,
Charles Wager
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Wallace,
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Warren,
Sir Peter Warren
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Watson,
Charles Watson
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Watt,
James Watt
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Webb,
Beatrice and Sidney Webb
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Wesley,
John Wesley, Charles Wesley
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Whittle,
Frank Whittle
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Wilberforce,
William Wilberforce
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Wilcocks,
Joseph Wilcocks
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Wilde,
Oscar Wilde
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Williams,
George Williams
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Wolfe,
James Wolfe
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Woodward,
John Woodward
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Wragg,
William Wragg
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Wright,
James Wright
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Young,
Thomas Young
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Zhiming,
Wang Zhiming
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Zhiming,
Wang Zhiming
