The most significant face of each English county and London borough

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Each county and borough displays the face of the most significant person born there. Some of the counties and boroughs had multiple significant people, or had no really significant ones at all, so some of them are subjective and you may disagree. I’d be interested to see how many people can guess based purely on the faces, but the people included are as follows:

• Bedfordshire – CHARLES WELLS
• Berkshire – RANULPH FIENNES
• Bristol – PAUL DIRAC
• Buckinghamshire – TERRY PRATCHETT
• Cambridgeshire – OLIVER CROMWELL
• Cheshire – LEWIS CAROLL
• Cornwall – RICHARD TREVITHICK
• County Durham – ROWAN ATKINSON
• Cumbria – WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
• Derbyshire – THOMAS COOK
• Devon – FRANCIS DRAKE
• Dorset – THOMAS HARDY
• East Riding of Yorkshire – WILLIAM WILBERFORCE
• East Sussex – SIMON COWELL
• Essex – JAMIE OLIVER
• Gloucestershire – J. K. ROWLING
• Greater Manchester – EMMELINE PANKHURST
• Hampshire – JANE AUSTEN
• Herefordshire – NELL GWYNN
• Hertfordshire – CECIL RHODES
• Isle of Wight – VIVIAN FUCHS
• Kent – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
• Lancashire – RICHARD ARKWRIGHT
• Leicestershire – GARY LINEKER
• Lincolnshire – ISAAC NEWTON
• Merseyside – JOHN LENNON
• Norfolk – PRINCESS DIANA
• North Yorkshire – JAMES COOK
• Northamptonshire – ALAN MOORE
• Northumberland – CHARLES GREY
• Nottinghamshire – WILLIAM BOOTH
• Oxfordshire – WINSTON CHURCHILL
• Shropshire – CHARLES DARWIN
• Somerset – JOHN CLEESE
• South Yorkshire – SEAN BEAN
• Staffordshire – LEMMY
• Suffolk – THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
• Surrey – JULIE ANDREWS
• Tyne and Wear – JOSEPH SWAN
• Warwickshire – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• West Midlands – JOHN CADBURY
• West Sussex – JOHN PELL
• West Yorkshire – JOHN HARRISON
• Wiltshire – CHRISTOPHER WREN
• Worcestershire – STANLEY BALDWIN
• Rutland – ELIZABETH QUEEN OF BOHEMIA
• Barking and Dagenham – MARTIN GORE
• Barnet – GEORGE MICHAEL
• Bexley – JACK WALL
• Brent – MUTYA BUENA
• Bromley – H. G. WELLS
• Camden – STEPHEN FRY
• Croydon – KATE MOSS
• Ealing – JOURDAN DUNN
• Enfield – AMY WINEHOUSE
• Greenwich – QUEEN ELIZABETH I
• Hackney – ALAN SUGAR
• Hammersmith and Fulham – DANIEL RADCLIFFE
• Haringey – ADELE ADKINS
• Harrow – LORD BYRON
• Havering – FRANKIE BRIDGE
• Hillingdon – JAMES CORDEN
• Hounslow – DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
• Islington – HELENA BONHAM CARTER
• Kensington and Chelsea – QUEEN VICTORIA
• Kingston upon Thames – DONALD CAMPBELL
• Lambeth – DAVID BOWIE
• Lewisham – RICHARD BRANSON
• Merton – MICHAEL MCINTYRE
• Newham – JADE EWEN
• Redbridge – BERNARD ASHMOLE
• Richmond upon Thames – KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
• Southwark – CHARLIE CHAPLIN
• Sutton – JAMES HUNT
• Tower Hamlets – DAMON ALBARN
• Waltham Forest – ALFRED HITCHCOCK
• Wandsworth – TONY BLAIR (This is wrong – I was lied to by the Wandsworth tourism website. Scoundrels)
• Westminster – ALAN TURING
• City of London – JOHN KEATS

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