Great Britons

A lot of famous people made the history of Great Britain. What do you know about them?
Charles Dickens - was the most popular English poet-novelist.
Oliver Cromwell - was an military and political leader of England.
John Milton - was a poet, author, polemicist and civil servant of England.
Florence Nightingale - as known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a nurse, writer and noted statistician.
Some interesting facts from their lifetime and lives on this site.

In 2002 BBC was broadcast top 100 greatest britons, the list 10th first of them:

1. Winston Churchill
2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
3. Diana - Princess of Wales
4. Charles Darwin
5. William Shakespeare
6. Isaac Newton
7. Queen Elizabeth I of England
8. John Lennon
9. Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson
10. Oliver Cromwell

As you see on the 10th place was Oliver Cromwell.
Charles Dickens was on the 41st place, Florence Nightingale on the 52nd place, John Milton was out of list.