Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (; 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

E. H. Shepherd

Ernest Howard Shepard (December 10 1879 – March 24 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.

George Humphreys

Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones (July 15, 1573 – June 21, 1652) is regarded as the first significant English architect, and the first to bring Renaissance architecture to England. He also made valuable contributions to stage design.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) , was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first with a propeller, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern day engineering.

Jerome K Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859 - June 14, 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

John Wolfe-Barry

Sir John Wolfe-Barry (December 7, 1836 - January 22, 1918) was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 - July 6, 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney movie.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) (30 August 1797 ? 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.

Matthew Pinsent

Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE (born 10 October, 1970) is an English rowing champion, four-time Olympic gold medallist and broadcaster. He is married to Demetra, Lady Pinsent, and together they have twin boys, Jonah and Lucas, born in summer 2006, and a daughter, Eve, born in March 2008.

Maurice Fitzmaurice

Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG (11 May 1861–17 November 1924) was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both a member of the Ottoman Order of the Mejidiye and a companion of the British Order of St Michael and St George. Following this Fitzmaurice was Chief Engineer to the London County Council and was responsible for the Blackwall, Rotherhithe and Woolwich tunnels. In later life his consultancy advised on docks and harbours across the British Commonwealth as well as the Sennar Dam in Sudan and he was recognised with the prestigious honour of the presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the 1916-17 session.

Reginald Blomfield

Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856 ? 27 December 1942) was a British architect, garden designer and author.

Robert Gibbings

Robert Gibbings (1889 – 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a word carver and engraver and for his books on travel and natural history.

Sir Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and one of the greatest English architects of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Pauls Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note. He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680?82), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal.

Sir Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS (16 April, 1660 – 11 January, 1753) was an Ulster-Scot physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the British nation which became the foundation of the British Museum. He also invented milk chocolate and gave his name to Sloane Square in London.

Sir Stanley Spencer

Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.

Steve Redgrave

Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave CBE (born on 23 March, 1962, in Marlow) is a British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals.