It's surprising the number of influential people who were born in Lincolnshire or associated in one way or another. Kings, politicians, churchmen, great writers and inventors, explorers and sportsmen, airmen and artists, entertainers and villains - a rich mixture of people and personalities.
Let's take a little look:
Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV - born at Bolingbroke Castle
John & Charles Wesley, fathers of Methodism - born in Epworth
Isaac Newton, scientist - born at Woolsthorpe Manor
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate - born in Somersby
Sir Joseph Banks, early botanist in Australia - born in Revesby
George Bass, explorer of Australia - born in Aswarby
Matthew Flinders, cartographer and man who named Australia - born in Donington, near Spalding
Sir John Franklin, Arctic explorer - born in Spilsby
Lady Margaret Thatcher, First British woman Prime Minister - born in Grantham
Geoff Capes, Commonwealth Gold Medalist and twice strongest man in the world - born in Holbeach
Bernie Taupin, songwriter - born near Sleaford
James Ward Usher, jeweller, collector and artist - born in Lincoln
Nicolas Parsons, broadcaster - born in Grantham
Peregrine Bertie, (Lord Willoughby de Eresby), soldier & Governor of Berwick - family still live at Grimsthorpe Castle
George Boole, father of modern algebra - born in Lincoln
Michael Foale, astronaut - born in Louth
Charlotte Scott, mathematician - born in Lincoln
Captain John Smith, Governor of Virginia - born in Willoughby
Charlotte Alington Pye, ballad composer - born in Louth
Anne Hutchinson, America's first woman preacher - born in Alford
Henry Winn, prolific writer and recorder of village history - born in Fulletby
