People...

"Britain is full of famous and talented people. Some people think famous American celebrities are more famous for their bodies and famous British celebrities for their 'real' talents." 

Famous Poets

Thomas Hardy, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns.

Famous Writers

Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Jonathan Swift, Brontë Sisters (Anne, Charlotte, and Emily), J. R. R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie, Emily Bronte.
William Shakespeare: apparently the most famous writer in the world.

Famous Composers

William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar, Arthur Sullivan, George Frideric Handel.

In November 2002, over a million people (the British public) voted to find the Greatest Briton of all time. The list has a few non British entrants!

Here they are:

1. Sir Winston Churchill
2. Diana, The Princess of Wales
3. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
4. Queen Elizabeth I
5. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
6. Oliver Cromwell
7. Cbarles Darwin
8. John Lennon
9. Sir Isaac Newton
10. William Shakespeare
11. Captain James Cook
12. Michael Crawford
13. Sir Alexander Fleming
14. Robert Baden-Powell
15. Queen Victoria
16. King Alfred the Great
17. Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher
18. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
19. Sir Paul McCartney
20. Ernest Shackleton
21. Michael Faraday
22.David Bowie
23.Guy Fawkes
24. Alan Turing
25.Leonard Cheshire
26.Emmeline Pankhurst
27.Sir Steve Redgrave
28.William Wilberforce
29.William Tyndale
30.Boudicca
31. Queen Elizabeth II
32.King Henry VIII
33. Professor Stephen Hawking
34.Sir Thomas More
35.John Harrison
36.Eric Morecambe
37.Thomas Paine
38.David Beckham
39.William Blake
40. Owain Glyndwr 
41.Sir William Wallace
42.Boy George
43.John Peel
44.Sir Francis Drake
45.John Wesley
46.Charles Dickens
47.Sir Douglas Bader
48.John Logie Baird
49.Enoch Powell
50.Sir Edward Elgar
51.Aneurin Bevan
52.Dame Julie Andrews
53.Freddie Mercury
54.Sir Frank Whittle
55.Sir Cliff Richard
56.King Arthur
57.Florence Nightingale
58.T. E. Lawrence
59.Sir Robert Falcon Scott
60. Sir Alexander Graham Bell 
61.William Caxton
62.Bobby Moore
63.Sir David Attenborough
64.James Connolly
65.Sir Charlie Chaplin
66.George Harrison
67.Tony Blair
68.George Stephenson
69.Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
70.Jane Austen
71.Aleister Crowley
72.King Robert the Bruce
73.Bob Geldof
74. Robbie Williams
75. King Henry V
76.Edward Jenner
77.David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George
78.William Booth
79.Charles Babbage
80.The Unknown Warrior
81. King Henry II
82.Bono (Born in Ireland)
83.Sir Richard Branson
84.Donald Campbell
85.James Watt
86.King Edward I
87.J.K. Rowling
88.Richard Burton
89.King Richard III
90.J.R.R. Tolkien
91.John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
92.James Clerk Maxwell
93.Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
94.David Livingstone
95.Geoffrey Chaucer
96.Sir Walter Raleigh
97.Sir Tim Berners-Lee
98.Sir Barnes Wallis
99.Marie Stopes
100.Tony Benn