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Ben Barnes, the actor who played Caspian in the most recent movie adaptations of Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

~Wunder

Beatrix Potter (Children's book author, probably best known for "The Tale of Peter Rabbit")

Peter Cook, (deceased), a British comedian of the mid-late 20th century; played the clergyman who spoke the famous lines,"Mawwiage is what bwings us togevah today."

Mawwiage! Dat bwesséd awwangement... dat dweam wiffin a dweam...

(ahem)

Colin Firth, British actor famous for playing Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version of 1995) and King George VI in The King's Speech, among many other roles

Francis Schaeffer

(Reverend) Samuel Marsden, an early minister & magistrate, who lived in what is now Western Sydney, at a place now called Mamre House, near St Marys. Called the "Whipping parson", he did a lot of good work in New Zealand where he was much appreciated.

Captain Matthew Flinders, who completed the first close circumnavigation of "Terra Australis" in 1802-03 and afterwards suggested "Australia" as a better sounding name for it...

Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, who was also known as the Lady with the Lamp.

~Wunder

Nina Simone, absolutely brilliant jazz/blues singer and pianist.

Sarah Brightman

Benjamin Britten, composer

Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese nobleman, & the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488.

Daniel Webster

Wat Tyler, leader of the famous Peasants Revolt

Thomas Paine

Paul McCartney