Famous politicians, writers, composers and other significant figures in the world were not always born in the country in which they reached the top. England in this respect has a significantly longer list of influential people than the United States, whose year of formation is only 1776.
It is necessary
- - "All Famous Britons" - section of the English Encyclopedia;
- - “Great Americans. 100 outstanding stories and destinies "Gusarov A.
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One of the most famous Englishmen is Winston Churchill. He was a British politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955. In addition, Winston Churchill was a brilliant military man, a talented journalist and writer with a sharp pen. In 1952, Churchill became an honorary member of the British Academy, and in 1953 - a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a celebrated British engineer and an important figure in the Industrial Revolution. Brunel began his career building a tunnel under the Thames. Basically, Izambard used his engineering craft to create apparatuses and machines for steamers and in the construction of railways. In 1833, Isambard Brunel became the chief engineer of the Great Western Railway.
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The greatest English naturalist and traveler was Charles Robert Darwin. Darwin was one of the very first to express the idea of evolution and natural selection of all living things; he described his theory in detail in his book "The Origin of Species". Darwin's discoveries and ideas are still the basis of modern biology and synthetic theory of evolution.
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Volumes of biographies have been written about famous Englishmen. The list alone, where William Shakespeare, Guy Fawkes, John Lennon, Cromwell, James Cook and Aleister Crowley are in the same row, takes up a whole volume.
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But Bill Gates is one of the most famous Americans. This ingenious entrepreneur is the creator and major shareholder of Microsoft. In addition, Bill Gates is famous for his charitable activities, in particular, he is the co-chairman of the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". In 2005, the entrepreneur received the title of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for the fight against poverty in the world.
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During his lifetime, Martin Luther King King was an outstanding American. Martin was a prominent Baptist preacher, speaker, and leader of the US Black Civil Rights Movement. King became the first fighter against racism, discrimination and segregation. Martin opposed US colonial aggression, including in Vietnam. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the democratization of the US society. In 2004, Martin Luther King was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
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The great American writer, poet, literary critic, and editor was Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing career began under the pseudonym Boston. It was under this pseudonym that the collection of poems "Tamerlane and Other Poems" was published, which never came out. Due to lack of money, Edgar was forced to join the army, where he received the rank of sergeant major in a year of service. The famous writer died in poverty, never recognized by his contemporaries.
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Despite its youth, the United States has its own rather impressive list of celebrities, including John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway, Walt Disney and Franklin Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Edwin Hubble.
