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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Atkyns,
Edward and Robert Atkyns
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Atterbury,
Francis Atterbury
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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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Barrell,
William Barrell
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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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Bill,
William Bill
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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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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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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,
Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939 - 1945
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C,
Combined Services Memorial
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Camden,
William Camden
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Canning,
Geo, Charles & Stratford Canning
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Carey,
Henry Carey
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Carey,
William Carey
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Carroll,
Lewis Carroll
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Cavendish,
William & Margaret Cavendish
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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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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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Elizabeth,
Grand Duchess Elizabeth
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F,
Freke sisters
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Fane,
Elizabeth Fane
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Fawcett,
Henry and Millicent Fawcett
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Folkes,
Martin Folkes
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Follett,
William Webb Follett
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Fox,
Charles James Fox
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Franklin,
Sir John Franklin
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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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Goodman,
Gabriel Goodman
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Gordon,
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Graham,
George Graham
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Griffith,
Piers Griffith
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Grote,
George Grote
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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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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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John,
Esther John
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Johnson,
Samuel Johnson
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Jonson,
Ben Jonson
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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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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,
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,
Zachary Macaulay
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Macaulay,
Thomas Babington 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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May,
Thomas May
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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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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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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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Pecksall,
Richard Pecksall
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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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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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Shovell,
Sir Clowdisley Shovell
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Siddons,
Sarah Siddons
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Spelman,
Henry Spelman
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Spenser,
Edmund Spenser
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Spottiswood,
John Spottiswood
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Spottiswood,
William Spottiswood
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Spottiswood,
James 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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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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Telford,
Thomas Telford
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Tennyson,
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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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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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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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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Watt,
James Watt
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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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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
