While British scientists, philosophers and artists have made some of the most important breakthroughs in the history of mankind, it turns out a lot of us don’t really know who they are.
A new survey has revealed that a quarter of Britons do not know what Charles Darwin (above) or Isaac Newton are famous for while 44 per cent didn’t know that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
Here are the 11 famous Britons we know are famous, but not why