an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century

an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution"

a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power

a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer

a Danish-French painter who made contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter