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A montage of notable Britons (British people). All were born in the United Kingdom (and Great Britain), post 1707. All are of indigenous British stock (mixture of English, Scottish and Welsh). Kelly Holmes's father was Jamaican. Including:

  • Top row, left to right:
    • Isambard Kingdom Brunel - British engineer (born in England).
    • Gordon Brown - British Prime Minister (born in Scotland).
    • Keira Knightley - British Actress (born in England - of mixed English and Scottish ancestry)
    • Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister (born in England).
  • Bottom row, left to right:
    • David Lloyd George - British Prime Minister (born in England - of Welsh ancestry)
    • Kelly Holmes - British Olympic gold medalist who represents Great Britain (born in England - of mixed English and Jamaican heritage)
    • Adam Smith - British Economist, first Scot on Bank of England notes, ardent Unionist (born in Scotland).
    • Horatio Nelson - British military hero - (born in England).
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Source Montage is self-made from images already existing on WikiCommons. See below.
Author derivative work by Jza84, from a variety of images credited below.

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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: amalgamation of 8 other images (see below).

This montage uses images with a mixture of licensing already on WikiCommons:

Original/derivative work[edit]

Image:IKBrunelChains.jpg = Isambard Kingdom Brunel. This is a public domain image, author credited as "Robert Howlett".

Image:David Lloyd George.jpg = David Lloyd George. This is a public domain image, author credited as "Harris & Ewing".

Image:GordonBrown2004.JPG = Gordon Brown. This is a public domain image, author credited as "IMF".

Image:Churchill portrait NYP 45063.jpg = Winston Churchill. This is a public domain image, author credited as "British Government".

Image:AdamSmith.jpg = Adam Smith. This is a public domain image, author credited as "Unknown".

Image:HoratioNelson1.jpg = Horatio Nelson. This is a public domain image, no author given.

Image:Keira_Knightley_2005.jpg = Keira Knightley/ This image is licenced under the Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution licence, the author is credited as "Tony Shek".

Kelly Holmes taken from Flickr, where the author is given as Russell Garner and the licence is "cc-by-sa-2.0"

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