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William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616Built the language most of the planet now negotiates in.
United Kingdom·LiteratureFull profile
Thomas Hobbes
1588 – 1679Leviathan founded the modern theory of sovereignty and the social contract.
United Kingdom·Politics · Philosophy
John Locke
1632 – 1704Consent, property and toleration — the template for liberal constitutions.
United Kingdom·Politics · Philosophy
Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727Showed that one law governs the apple and the Moon alike.
United Kingdom·Physics · Mathematics · AstronomyFull profile