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50 people making London awesome. Andy Parsons. 1. Idris Elba. Actor, DJ and Hackney hero. This East End boy-turned-acting god recently paid homage to his London roots with his directorial debut...
29 de sept. de 2012 · Top 10 Famous Londoners - Listverse. Travel | September 29, 2012. Top 10 Famous Londoners. by super_clive. fact checked by Alex Hanton. This year has celebrated the great old city of London more than any other. The major criterion to earn a place on this list was to be born within a Borough of London.
- James Boswell
- Clement Attlee
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Pearson
- Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone
- Ada Lovelace
- Robert Peel
- David Bowie
- Ronnie and Reggie Kray
- Samuel Pepys
A great essayist, biographer, and journal author, James Boswell may have been born in Edinburgh, but he earned his fame while a resident of London, first with the biography The Life of Samuel Johnson, in 1791. Another work, Boswell’s London Journal, chronicling his life in the city between 1762 and 1763 was discovered long after his death in the 19...
Prime Minister from 1945 – 1951, Clement Attlee was born is Putnam into a well-to-do family and spent much of his early life with conservative leanings. However, his time spent volunteering as the manager of a charitable club in Stepney, surrounded by poor and working class East Londoners, changed his opinions significantly, leading him to join the...
One of the greatest British novelists, Dickens’ family moved to London when he was a boy, but his father’s debts eventually landed him (along with his family) in Marshallsea Prison in Southwark. Charles boarded with a family friend and avoided living in the prison himself, but his father’s time there left a distinct impression on the boy and would ...
Most of Charles Pearson’s life as the Solicitor for the City of London and a MP for Lambeth was dedicated to judicial reform, but that is perhaps not the most enduring legacy he left the city. For years, Pearson was the chief campaigner for a London railway system that would become the London Underground. Pearson recognised that the city was becomi...
When King Richard I was having trouble with the residents of the City of London, he achieved an agreement with the people that, in exchange for higher taxes and loans from London merchants to pay for his wars, he would grant the merchants and alderman some autonomy in the running of the city. This ultimately led to the creation of the Mayor (later,...
Daughter of the famed poet, Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace would achieve her own notoriety by working with Charles Babbage. Whereas her father was mostly known for his literarycontributions, Lovelace’s mother encouraged her daughter’s interest in mathematics. Through her education, she met Babbage, with whom she would eventually collaborate on the Analyt...
The Metropolitan Police is what it is today because of Robert Peel. Creating the force with the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829, he instituted the long-standing notion that the police were meant to be members of the citizenry and so be unarmed as to foster trust with the people they were meant to be policing. His involvement with the Met was such t...
Born in Brixton, perhaps no other musician was as chameleon-like as Bowie, changing styles with each decade just as London did. At the age of fifteen, he knew he wanted to be a pop star and left schoolto pursue his dream. He adopted the stage surname “Bowie” to distinguish himself from Monkees member Davey Jones and went through a series of looks a...
Two of the most notorious gangsters in London’s history, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the kingpins of crime in East London during the 1950s and 1960s. Like some of their Americancounterparts, they grew so rich, famous, and powerful that they bordered on being outright celebrities. Born in Hoxton, the twins did their national service before turning t...
Perhaps one of the most famous chronicler’s of the London’s history, Samuel Pepys kept his famous diary that recorded many famous moments from 1660 to 1669, such as the Great Fire of London, the Great Plague, and the Second Dutch War. Pepys’ Diary is one of the best first-hand accounts of these historical events as well as giving us insight into hi...
16 de feb. de 2022 · Below is a list of the 10 famous people from London; 1. Queen Elizabeth II in March 2015 – Wikipedia. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on 21 April 1926 in Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. She is Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
17 de mar. de 2016 · Top 50 Greatest Londoners of All Time 1. David Attenborough 2. David Bowie 3. Elizabeth II 4. Queen Victoria 5. Michael Caine 6. Elizabeth I 7. Samuel Pepys 8. David Beckham 9. Geoffrey Chaucer 10. Charlie Chaplin 11. Alfred Hitchcock 12. Stephen Fry 13. Bobby Moore 14. Beatrix Potter 15. Michael Faraday 16. Tim Berners-Lee 17. Enid ...
17 de mar. de 2016 · Top 50 Greatest Londoners of All Time. 1. David Attenborough. 2. David Bowie. 3. Elizabeth II. 4. Queen Victoria. 5. Michael Caine.
18 de dic. de 2018 · 1. The entertainer who fulfilled her dream of becoming a professional mermaid. Things to do. City Life. Equipped with a tail she bought online, professional mermaid Samantha Smallwood has worked...
