Famous Names

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Mick Jagger, a very old rocker

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Janet Campbell Hale

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Henry Tudor, founder of the Tudor dynasty

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Tilda Swinton, amazing actor who made "cameo" appearances in the second and third Walden Narnia film.

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Susan B. Anthony, a leading figure in the (American) women’s suffrage movement.

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Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Laurence, Princess Royal, whose second husband is Timothy Laurence

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Lewis Carroll, author (pseudonym of Oxford teacher Charles L Dodgson)

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Charles Ingalls, father of the famous pioneer authoress Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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Isaac Watts, the writer of a lot of hymns (750, according to a quick online search!)

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William Wilberforce, a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

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William Lawson, an early Australian explorer, who with Gregory Blaxland & William Wentworth, were the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains in 1813. There is a monument to all three of these men, near where the Great Western Highway, in Penrith, crosses the Nepean River.

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Laurence Olivier, prominent Shakespearean

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Owen Tudor, who married Henry V's widow, Katherine of Valois, who bore him two sons, half-brothers of Henry's son, Henry VI, in the Wars of the Roses. Thus he became the grandfather of Henry VII, the first Tudor King of England.

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Theodore Roosevelt, a former USA president

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Ronald Reagan, another former American president.

~Wunder

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(Sir) Robert James Lee Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, who died just two days before the last election, on 18 May 2018.