People Pathway Year 1
Captain Scott
Robert Falcon Scott CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913.
Born: 6 June 1868, Plymouth Died: 29 March 1912, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Mary Anning
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.
Born: 21 May 1799, Lyme Regis Died: 9 March 1847, Lyme Regis
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers.
Born: 12 May 1820, Florence, Italy Died: 13 August 1910, Mayfair, London
Mary Seacole
Mary Jane Seacole was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
Born: 23 November 1805, Kingston, Jamaica
Died: 14 May 1881, Paddington, London
Mo Willems
Mo Willems is an American writer, animator, voice actor, and creator of children's books. His television work includes creating the animated television series Sheep in the Big City for Cartoon Network as well as working on Sesame Street, The Muppets, and The Off-Beats.
Born: 11 February 1968, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States
Fiona French
Fiona French attended art college in Croydon, concentrating on painting but she also studied photography, theatre design and sculpture. In addition to Snow White in New York, her other books include Cinderella and Maid of the Wood. She lives in Norton, Norfolk, England. Google Books
Born: 27 June 1944, Bath
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai, also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
Born: 12 July 1997 (age 22 years), Mingora, Pakistan Residence: United Kingdom Education: Edgbaston High School for Girls (2013–2017), Khushal Public School
(2012), Lady Margaret Hall
People Pathway Year 2
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Born: 4 February 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States Died: 24 October 2005, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
Born: 13 April 1570, York Died: 31 January 1606, Westminster, London
Charles Macintosh
Charles Macintosh FRS was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric. The Mackintosh raincoat is named after him.
Born: 29 December 1766, Glasgow Died: 25 July 1843, Glasgow
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
Born: 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands Died: 29 July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers – Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) – were two American aviation pioneers generally credited[1][2][3] with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Born: 24 July 1897, Atchison, Kansas, United States Disappeared: July 2, 1937 (aged 39); Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, Papua New Guinea
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Born: 5 August 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States Died: 25 August 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Tim Peake
Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station crew member.
Born: 7 April 1972, Chichester
People Pathway Year 3
Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's novelist, poet, and the author of 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He has been a TV presenter and a political columnist.
Born: 7 May 1946, Harrow
Anthony Browne
Anthony Edward Tudor Browne is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, primarily picture books, with fifty titles to his name.
Born: 11 September 1946, Sheffield
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL, FKC is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse.
Born: 5 October 1943, St Albans
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.
Born: 21 May 1844, Laval, France Died: 2 September 1910, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
Kerry Andrew
Kerry Andrew is an English composer, performer and author. She has a PhD in Composition from the University of York and is the winner of four British Composer Awards. Her debut novel, Swansong, was published by Jonathan Cape in January 2018. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018.
Born: 5 April 1978, High Wycombe
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak, also referred to as Baba Nanak, was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November.
Born: 1469, Nankana Sahib, Pakistan Died: 22 September 1539, Kartarpur, Pakistan
Bedrich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music.
Born: 2 March 1824, Litomysl, Czechia
Died: 12 May 1884, Prague, Czechia
People Pathway Year 4
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.
Born: 3 March 1847, Edinburgh Died: 2 August 1922, Beinn Bhreagh
Thomas Barnardo
Thomas John Barnardo was an Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in.
Born: 4 July 1845, Dublin, Ireland Died: 19 September 1905, London
Pliny the younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo, better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.
Born: 61 AD, Como, Italy Died: Bithynia, Turkey
Queen Victoria
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors.
Born: 24 May 1819, Kensington Palace, London Died: 22 January 1901, Osborne, East Cowes
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar, better known by his nomen gentilicium and cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman statesman and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He was also a historian and author of Latin prose.
Born: Rome, Italy Assassinated: 15 March 44 BC, Rome
Boudicca
Boudica or Boudicca, also known as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She died shortly after its failure and was said to have poisoned herself.
Born: 30 AD, Britannia Died: 61 AD, Britannia
King Montezuma
Moctezuma II, variant spellings include Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlán, reigning from 1502 to 1520.
Born: 1466, Tenochtitlan Died: 29 June 1520, Tenochtitlan
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.
Born: 2 June 1857, Broadheath Died: 23 February 1934, Worcester
Greta Thunberg
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS is a Swedish environmental activist who has gained international recognition for promoting the view that humanity is facing an existential crisis arising from climate change
Born: 3 January 2003, Stockholm, Sweden
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Born: 10 July 1856, Smiljan, Croatia Died: 7 January 1943, The New Yorker, A Wyndham Hotel, New York, New York, United States
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday FRS was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
Born: 22 September 1791, Newington Butts, London Died: 25 August 1867, Hampton Court Palace, Molesey
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Born: 27 June 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States Died: 1 June 1968, Easton, Connecticut, United States
Berlie Doherty
Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre and radio, television series and libretti for children's opera.
Born: 6 November 1943, Knotty Ash, Liverpool
Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
Born: 19 October 1946, Norwich
People Pathway Year 5
Billy Butlin
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin MBE was a South African-born British entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British holiday camp.
Born: 29 September 1899, Cape Town, South Africa Died: 12 June 1980, Jersey
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy".
Born: 384 BC, Stagira, Greece Died: 322 BC, Chalcis, Greece
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. Elizabeth was born in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and she was educated privately at home.
Children: Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Trending Born: 21 April 1926 (age 93 years), Mayfair, London
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era polymath whose theory of the universe placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe, in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had articulated similar ideas some eighteen centuries earlier.
Born: 19 February 1473, Torun, Poland
Died: 24 May 1543, Frombork, Poland
Mae C Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Born: 17 October 1956, Decatur, Alabama, United States
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Born: 7 November 1867, Warsaw, Poland Died: 4 July 1934, Sancellemoz
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.
Born: 4 January 1643, Woolsthorpe Manor House Died: 31 March 1727, Kensington
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.
Born: 25 July 1920, Notting Hill, London Died: 16 April 1958, Chelsea, London
King Offa
Offa was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in July 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æthelbald. Offa defeated the other claimant, Beornred.
Born: Mercia Died: 29 July 796 AD
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl was born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Born: 13 September 1916, Llandaff, Cardiff Died: 23 November 1990, Oxford
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL, FKC is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse.
Born: 5 October 1943, St Albans
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".
Born: 15 February 1564, Pisa, Italy Died: 8 January 1642, Arcetri, Italy
People Pathway Year 6
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".
Born: 23 May 1707, Råshult, Älmhult Municipality, Sweden Died: 10 January 1778, The Linnaeus Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Born: April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon Died: 23 April 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
Born: 7 September 1533, Palace of Placentia Died: 24 March 1603, Richmond Palace
Henry VIII
Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, in particular his efforts to have his first marriage annulled.
Born: 28 June 1491, Palace of Placentia Died: 28 January 1547, Palace of Whitehall, London
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Born: 30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace Died: 24 January 1965, Kensington
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then as Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939.
Born: 20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria Died: 30 April 1945, Berlin, Germany
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary.
Born: 12 June 1929, Frankfurt, Germany Died: February 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science.
Born: 12 February 1809, The Mount House, Shrewsbury Died: 19 April 1882, Home of Charles Darwin - Down House, Downe
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Born: 6 August 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died: 22 February 1987, Hospital, New York, United States
Patricia Bath
Patricia Era Bath was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She was an early pioneer of laser cataract surgery.
Born: 4 November 1942, New York, New York, United States Died: 30 May 2019, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States
Watson and Crick
Watson and Crick worked together on studying the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecule that contains the hereditary information for cells. ... This set the stage for the rapid advances in molecular biology that continue to this day. Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in
Medicine in 1962.