London
England
Capital of the largest empire in history. The city of Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, and Churchill. From the Globe Theatre to the Houses of Parliament, a crucible of ideas that reshaped the world.
The atlas connects 36 figures with London. The earliest born is Alfred the Great (849); the last to die is Coco Chanel (1971).
By era
- Medieval Europe (~500-1400 CE): 5 figures
- The Renaissance (~1350-1600): 4 figures
- Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment (~1600-1800): 7 figures
- Age of Revolution (~1750-1850): 5 figures
- Industrial & Victorian Age (~1800-1910): 5 figures
- The Modern Era (~1880-1965): 10 figures
Associated figures, by birth year
- Alfred the Great (849-899), The Scholar-King of England
- William the Conqueror (1028-1087), The Norman Who Remade England
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204), Queen of France, Queen of England
- Richard the Lionheart (1157-1199), The Crusader King
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), The Father of English Literature
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Prince of the Humanists
- Henry VIII (1491-1547), Founder of the Church of England
- Elizabeth I (1533-1603), The Virgin Queen
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Father of the Scientific Method
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Bard of Avon
- John Locke (1632-1704), Father of Liberalism
- Isaac Newton (1643-1727), Architect of the Laws of Nature
- Voltaire (1694-1778), Champion of Reason and Civil Liberties
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Founding Father, Inventor, and Sage of the Enlightenment
- Adam Smith (1723-1790), Father of Modern Economics
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), The Divine Prodigy
- Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), Britain's Greatest Naval Commander
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Pioneer of Women's Rights
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), The Iron Duke
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), Master of the English Novel
- Lord Byron (1788-1824), The Romantic Rebel
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882), The Father of Evolution
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870), The Novelist of the People
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), The Architect of Revolution
- Queen Victoria (1819-1901), The Grandmother of Europe
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), The Lady with the Lamp
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), The Father of Psychoanalysis
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965), The British Bulldog
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), The Architect of Relativity
- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), The Discoverer of Penicillin
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), The New Deal President
- Coco Chanel (1883-1971), The Architect of Modern Fashion
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), The Supreme Commander
- Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), The First Lady of the Sky
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), The Master of Modern Prose
- Alan Turing (1912-1954), The Father of Computer Science
Cities that share figures with London
Other cities in the atlas tied to at least one of the same people, most shared first.
- Paris (13 shared figures: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Desiderius Erasmus, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin and 9 more)
- Washington, D.C. (5 shared figures: Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and 1 more)
- Berlin (4 shared figures: Voltaire, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- New York City (4 shared figures: Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway)
- Geneva (3 shared figures: Voltaire, Adam Smith, Lord Byron)
- Vienna (3 shared figures: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lord Byron, Sigmund Freud)
- Edinburgh (2 shared figures: Adam Smith, Charles Darwin)
- Rome (2 shared figures: Desiderius Erasmus, Lord Byron)
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