3. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21
April 1926) is the queen regnant of 16
independent sovereign states known as the
Commonwealth realms, listed here in order of
length of possession by the Crown: the United
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada,
Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu,
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and
Nevis. She holds each crown separately and
equally in a shared monarchy, as well as acting as
Head of the Commonwealth, and Supreme
Governor of the Church of England. As a
constitutional monarch, she is politically neutral
and by convention her role is largely ceremonial
5. Pink Floyd were an English rock band who earned
recognition for their psychedelic music in the late
1960s, and as they evolved in the 1970s, for their
progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by
the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation,
innovative album cover art, and elaborate live shows.
One of rock music's most critically acclaimed and
commercially successful acts, the group have sold over
200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million
certified units in the United States, making them one of
the best-selling music artists of all time.
7. Margaret Hilda Thatcher (born 13 October 1925)
served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979
to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to
1990. She is the only woman to have held either post.[2]
Born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, she
read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford and later
trained as a barrister. She won a seat in the 1959 general
election, becoming the MP for Finchley as a Conservative.
When Edward Heath formed a government in 1970, he
appointed Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and
Science. Four years later, she backed Keith Joseph in his bid
to become Conservative Party leader but he was forced to
drop out of the election. In 1975 Thatcher entered the
contest herself and became leader of the Conservative
Party. At the 1979 general election she became Britain's
first female Prime Minister.
9. Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12
February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an
English naturalist who showed that all
species of life have descended over time
from common ancestors, and proposed
the scientific theory that this branching
pattern of evolution resulted from a
process that he called natural selection.
He published his theory with compelling
evidence for evolution in his 1859 book
On the Origin of Species. The scientific
community and much of the general
public came to accept evolution as a fact
in his lifetime, but it was not until the
emergence of the modern evolutionary
synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s
that a broad consensus developed that
natural selection was the basic
mechanism of evolution. In modified
form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the
unifying theory of the life sciences,
explaining the diversity of life.
10. Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
(21 April 1816 – 31
March 1855) was an
English novelist, the
eldest of the three
Brontë sisters whose
novels are English
literature standards.
Under the pen name
Currer Bell, she wrote
Jane Eyre.
