Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)—Poet, wrote “How do I love thee?”
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976)—Detective novelist and playwright
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)—Poet and philosopher
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)—Writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)—Novelist, wrote “Heart of Darkness”
Captain James Cook (1728-1779)—Circumnavigator and explorer
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)—Naturalist
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)—Novelist, wrote “Oliver Twist”
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)—Poet, wrote “The Wasteland”
Ian Fleming (1908-1964)—Creator of James Bond
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)—Philosopher and teacher, studied law in London
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)—Guitarist and songwriter, wrote “Purple Haze”
Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)—Film Director, directed “The Birds”
Henry James (1843-1916)—Writer, wrote “Portrait of a Lady”
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)—Writer and critic
James Joyce (1882-1941)—Writer, wrote “Ulysses”
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)—Actress in “Gone with the Wind”
John Keats (1795-1821)—Poet
Karl Marx (1818-1883)—Philosopher and revolutionary, founder of communism
Piet Cornelis Mondrian (1872-1944)—Painter
Napoleon III (1808-1873)—Emperor of France
George Orwell (1903-1950)—Novelist and political essayist, wrote “Animal Farm”
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)—Poet, wrote “The Bell Jar”
Sir Ernest Henry Shakleton (1874-1922)—Antartic Explorer
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)—Playwright, wrote “Pygmallion”
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)—Author of “Frankenstein”
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)—Novelist and critic, wrote “To the Lighthouse”
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)—Author of “Dracula”
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)—Poet
Mark Twain (1835-1910)—American writer, wrote “Tom Sawyer”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)—Painter
Christopher Wren (1632-1723)—Architect
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)—Writer
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)—Wit and Dramatist, wrote “Picture of Dorian Gray”
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)—Irish Poet and dramatist
Emile Zola (1840-1902)—French Novelist
