Презентация Известные люди Великобритании

Famous people of Great Britain  James Cook  (1728 -1779) a British explorer, navigator and captain in the Royal Navy.   Isaak  Newton  (1643- 1727) an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.   William  Shakespeare  (1564-1616 ) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the dramatist. Works: Romeo and Juliet,Hamlet, Othello,Shakespeare's sonnets, King Lear  Queen  Victoria  (1819- 1901) The monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India. Her reign of 63 years and seven months, which is longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history, is known as the Victorian era.  Winston Churchill (1874- 1965) a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature Queen  Elizabeth II The constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states. She came to throne in 1952. Elizabeth was crowned in Westminster Abbey on the 2 of June 1953. The Queen has got four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.  Margaret Thatcher  (b.1925) the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool, in 1960. With John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Charles Chaplin an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.