Britain has produced a disproportionately high number of world-famous leaders, from the business world to industry and science to creative arts and monarchs. In section, we look at some of those famous Britons.

• Capability Brown
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Oliver Cromwell
• William Shakespeare
• Winston Churchill
• John Constable
• Robert Burns
• William Blake
• Walter Scott
• Van Dyck
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• JMW Turner
• Robert the Bruce
• Robert Adam
• Joshua Reynolds
• Humphry Repton
• Grinling Gibbons
• Gertrude Jekyll
• Thomas Gainsborough
• Sir Charles Barry
• Charles Dickens
• Captain Cook
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• William Wallace
• William Adam
• Thomas Chippendale
• Bess of Hardwick - a Remarkable Woman
• The Best of Sir Christopher Wren
• The Gardens of Capability Brown