1. Thomas Cromwell
   Thomas Wolsey
2. William Tynedale
   Anne Boleyn

The Crown murdered William Tynedale for having the audacity to translate the Bible into English, which was considered controversial at the time. A single copy of his New Testament translation remains. He had the last laugh after his death, of course, as the same people who killed him mostly lived to see Henry VII break with Rome.

1. Malorie Blackman
   Hilary Mantel
2. A.S. Byatt
   Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and is often considered one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Her work has been the subject of multiple TV and movie adaptations, and she is noted for making it possible — but extremely difficult — to figure out "whodunnit"!

1. Helena Rosa Wright
   Flora Murray
2. Elsie Inglis
   Mary Seacole

Jamaican-born Mary Seacole traveled extensively, bringing her nursing skills to many places. At the same time that Florence Nightingale was transforming the profession, Seacole equalled her with similar work, and gained a similarly well-deserved high reputation. After the war, she was very poor, but she was so beloved that thousands donated money to give her a good pension.

1. The children of the New Forest
   The survivors of the Armada
2. The Dunkirk evacuees
   The families of the Kindertransport

The Kindertransport was a tragic event, whereby thousands of German Jewish families were able to save the lives of their children by putting them on ships to England. A number of wealthy British Jews staked their fortunes to sponsor the children, promising they would never be a burden on the public purse and thus persuading the government to accept them. Families took them in upon their arrival. This heroism of the parents, families and sponsors is celebrated by this memorial.

1. Christopher Marlowe
   Alexander Pope
2. John Milton
   William Shakespeare

There are many statues of Shakespeare dotted about. However, the biggest memorial is possibly the Globe Theatre, which was lovingly recreated and opened in 1997, almost exactly as it was in his time. A key difference is that there is plumbing, plus the rows of seats are a little further apart, as people are taller now!

1. William Wallace
   Robert the Bruce
2. Rabbie Burns
   Alexander Graham Bell

William Wallace was a Scottish rebel who came close to throwing off the yoke of the English throne. Unfortunately, he failed and was hanged, drawn and quartered. However, he inspired a rebellion that eventually succeeded. When Scotland next became one kingdom with England, legally speaking (though practice took time to catch up), it was as a union of equals.

1. Emily Bronte
   Mary Shelley
2. George Eliot
   J. K. Rowling

Born Mary Evans, George Eliot is one of the great Victorian novelists. Eliot's novels include "Daniel Deronda" and the perennial bestseller "Middlemarch." Her charming statue stands in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

1. Queen Elizabeth I
   Queen Mary
2. Queen Anne
   Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria is one of the most-commemorated women in the UK if you go by statues. She was very widely loved by her people, which meant it was quite easy to raise funds for images of her! Elizabeth II has now been on the throne for longer, but Victoria retains a special place in the hearts of her people.

1. The Few (Battle of Britain memorial)
   The Ones
2. Those Guys
   The Winners

Winston Churchill said of these men, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." The Few, as they are known, won the Battle of Britain. If they had lost, the Nazis would have invaded Britain and thus been able to conquer all Europe, then turn all their forces on Russia and conquer that too. The Few prevented millions of deaths.

1. Alice Grey
   Anne Redferne
2. Alice Nutter
   Jennet Preston

Alice Nutter was one of the Pendle Witches, who were subjected to a famous trial in the 17th century. Witches were often just female healers or women who had otherwise been deemed to trespass on topics that were not "for" women. Nutter was hanged in 1612.

1. Yvonne Fontaine
   Noor Inayat Khan
2. Muriel Byck
   Odette Sansom

Noor Inayat Khan was a British Muslim war hero who volunteered to join the Special Operations Executive, the spy group who sabotaged Nazis and boosted the resistance behind enemy lines. She was eventually killed by the Nazis aged 30, but not before she had contributed significantly to the French resistance in Paris. Her statue is believed to be the only memorial to a female British Muslim war hero.

1. The Soldiers of Nepal
   The Mountain Men
2. The High-Altitude Heroes
   The Gurkhas

The Gurkhas are a military unit of Nepalese soldiers, who fought for the Allies in World War Two, though they have been part of the military for 200 years. Gurkhas not only helped defeat the Nazis, they then had to fight for their right to residency in the UK, which they won in 2009.

1. Mary Carpenter
   Margaret MacDonald
2. Alice Stone Blackwell
   Sarah Emily Davies

Margaret MacDonald was part of the Women's Industrial Council and helped to transform worker's rights in the Industrial Age, particularly the rights of female workers. She was also a chemistry professor!

1. Joan Littlewood
   Vanessa Redgrave
2. Maggie Smith
   Helen Mirren

Joan Littlewood was born in 1914 and made a successful career as a theater director at a time that women did not do this. She once lived in her theater during a renovation and is known as the mother of modern theatre.

1. Elizabeth Andrews
   Bridget Bevan
2. Lucy Thomas
   Boudica

Boudica fought the Romans heroically at a time that nobody believed Rome could be challenged. She lost her fight, but her heroism kept the flame of hope alive. The Roman Empire did eventually fall, and Britain was liberated.

1. Sarah Bernhardt
   Ann Marshall
2. Sarah Siddons
   Margaret Hughes

Sarah Siddons was born in Wales and is the first performer to enjoy a London monument (unless you count Shakespeare, who is mostly commemorated as a writer). She was a great stage performer in the Victorian age, and her statue was put up in 1897.

1. Benjamin Disraeli
   Robert Peel
2. Hugh Trenchard
   Lord Palmerston

Robert Peel realized that the streets of London were becoming increasingly unsafe and that what was needed was a civilian entity distinct from militias or the army itself. The Metropolitan Police was born, and nicknamed "bobbies" in honor of the original "Bobby" who founded them!

1. Elizabeth Blackwell
   Florence Nightingale
2. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
   Sophia Jex-Blake

Florence Nightingale is responsible for the professionalizing of nursing, and her reforms turned hospitals from places that a person would go to die, into places one would go to heal. All the "wrong" answers in this question are heroic British pioneers in medicine, too, and well worth looking into!

1. Emmeline Pankhurst
   Emily Davison
2. Alice Paul
   Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Emmeline Pankhurst was once in her bed as a girl when her father put his head into her room. Thinking she was sleeping, he said, "What a pity she wasn't born a lad." Later, she founded the militant wing of the suffrage movement, the Women's Social and Political Union. Their struggle took decades, and many were beaten, imprisoned and tortured, but they finally won the right to vote.

1. General Archibald Wavell
   Admiral Douglas MacArthur
2. Field Marshal William Slim
   Admiral Chester Nimitz

Not much is taught in schools in the UK and USA about the war in Burma, but the Japanese and the British faced off in a terrible grinding conflict that lasted years and was fought under horrific conditions. Heroic Indian and Chinese troops also fought back against the Japanese invasion, and without their efforts, much of the Far East may have fallen to the Axis. Bill Slim commanded this force, and the very least he deserves is a statue!

1. Edith Cavel
   Ada Salter
2. Catherine Booth
   Gracie Fields

Salter was the first woman mayor in London, as well as a pacifist and a reformer. She was an important figure in the fight for workers' rights in the UK and enjoyed a statue alongside that of her husband, Dr. Alfred Salter, who did similar work.

1. John Gielgud
   Ned Alleyn
2. Laurence Olivier
   Henry Irving

Born John Brodribb, this actor and theatre manager started his career as a clerk for the East India Company. He was miserable and instead became a stage actor and a huge Victorian celebrity. He set a precedent for great performers who move and inspire enough people to receive knighthoods.

1. Jane Austen
   Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Mary Shelley
   Virginia Woolf

Woolf is a great British writer who tragically died by suicide after a lifelong battle with depression. She pioneered the use of stream-of-consciousness, and wrote several bestsellers including "A Room of One's Own."

1. Millicent Fawcett
   Emmeline Pankhurst
2. Christabel Pankhurst
   Dora Thewlis

All of these four women were great suffragettes. Fawcett's statue was recently placed outside Parliament after a campaign to honor more of Britain's female heroes, led by activist Caroline Criado Perez. Fawcett's statue holds the words of Emmeline Pankhurst, spoken upon the death of suffragette Emily Davison, who died for women's votes: "Courage calls to courage everywhere." A further 59 suffragette heroes are engraved on the plinth.

1. All Britain's spies
   All the animals who fought in wars
2. All Britain's sappers
   All British soldiers killed in action

This monument was put up in 2004 and made by sculptor David Backhouse. It honors all the many camels, dogs, horses, dolphins and other animals who fought Britain's wars, saying prominently the words, "They had no choice."

1. Emmeline Pankhurst
   Sylvia Pankhurst
2. Elizabeth Fry
   Emily Davison

A Quaker who cared deeply about the less fortunate, Elizabeth Fry was disgusted by the squalor and cruelty to which prisoners were subjected in Victorian England. Her reforms created a more humane and rehabilitative system.

1. Charles de Gaulle
   Winston Churchill
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
   Dwight Eisenhower

Churchill was not a good peacetime leader. He let many Indians die in a famine, mostly out of paranoia that Britain might be invaded and run out of food. Also, early in his career, he allowed terrible police brutality against the Irish. However, Churchill also saw the Nazi threat coming a mile away when everyone else thought Hitler was a flash in the pan, and in so doing, led the defeat of the Nazis and ended the worst genocide in human history. Thus, he is beloved but controversial.

1. Horatio Nelson
   Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher
2. Napoleon
   Jozsef Alvinczi

Admiral Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, thus securing British control of the seas during the Napoleonic Wars. Without this victory, it is unlikely that Napoleon could have easily been defeated on land. Nelson was wounded in the battle and later died, but he lived long enough to know that he won!

1. Robert Catesby
   Thomas Percy
2. Guy Fawkes
   Francis Tresham

The Gunpowder Plot was an effort by Catholic revolutionaries to blow up Parliament with the King inside. The act of terror was unsuccessful, and the conspirators were put to death. Fawkes' execution is commemorated annually by the burning of a "Guy," a straw figure, on a bonfire.

1. Oliver Cromwell
   Thomas Cromwell
2. John Milton
   John Donne

Oliver Cromwell is a complex historical figure to many. He defeated the Cavaliers (the royalist side) in the Civil War and assured the sovereignty of the elected Parliament over the monarch, setting the stage for many further revolutions and parts of the Enlightenment. However, he also butchered thousands of people in Ireland, which should not be forgotten no matter what else he did.

1. Albert Einstein
   Sir Isaac Newton
2. Stephen Hawking
   Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Arguably the greatest mathematician who ever lived, Isaac Newton was rather humble about his achievements. He laid down principles on which a considerable amount of modern science rests — and it all started with an apple falling on his head.

1. Robert Trevithick
   George Stephenson
2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
   James Watt

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a giant of the Industrial Age, who built railways, ships and Paddington Station. He was a very skilled engineer but wasn't particularly interested in workers' rights. Indeed, it is believed that some of his ships set sail with several workers' bodies between their inner and outer hulls, where some poor soul fell in and died, at which point getting them out was deemed too much of a hassle!

1. Charles Darwin
   Rosalind Franklin
2. Francis Crick
   James Watson

These four names are all great figures in the history of genetics. Darwin, of course, is the father of evolution, and the first person to postulate the theory of evolution through natural selection. In his native land, his work is not considered controversial these days, though it is seen differently elsewhere.

1. Duke of Rutland
   Duke of Wellington
2. Duke of Westminster
   Duke of York

The Duke of Wellington was the leader who defeated Napoleon twice. He received a title from just about every monarch in Europe to thank him for liberating their nations, and many British streets are named for him.

1. Field Marshal Haig
   General Montgomery
2. Alan Turing
   Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris

All these men were influential military leaders. Bomber Harris is of particular note as he bravely formulated the Royal Air Force's strategy in defending Britain from the Nazis' vastly superior planes. His genius helped save his homeland from invasion.

1. Violette Szabo
   Noor Inayat Khan
2. Hugh Dalton
   Anders Lassen

The Special Operations Executive was a group that was sent behind enemy lines to "set Europe ablaze," as Churchill put it. They blew up railways, sabotaged communications, and generally messed with the Nazis. About 30% of the SOE was female, including notable spies like Noor Inayat Khan. Szabo was caught shortly after D Day and tortured, but went to her death without giving up any colleagues.

1. Cilla Black
   John Lennon
2. Paul McCartney
   Ringo Starr

The Fab Four may hail from Liverpool, but the town has a uniquely rich artistic history. Much of Liverpool's history is due to American influence, as a result of U.S. soldiers coming over during World War Two and bringing their records with them. Cilla Black was a beloved singer and performer, a household name and a self-made millionaire.

1. Olaudah Equiano
   Earl of Mansfield
2. Dido Belle Lindsay
   William Wilberforce

All these possible answers are essential when it comes to the end of slavery in the British Empire. However, Wilberforce gets a statue due to being one of the people who led some very crafty political maneuvering in Parliament to bring it about. He was also an advocate for the rights of free workers.

1. The men and women of the ship Britannia
   The men and women of Paddington Station
2. The men and women of the Great Western Railway
   The men and women who built the sewers of London

The Great Western Railway was designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and it began a global revolution. Indeed, it was the first time that rapid transit ever existed, and it changed the world. However, several workers died in building it, which is why this statue was put up.