UK
23 leaders
Winston Churchill
The iconic British leader who led his country through World War II. Churchills speeches in 1940, including We ...
Margaret Thatcher
The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the longest serving of the 20th century. Thatcher tr...
Tony Blair
The Labour Prime Minister who won three consecutive elections. Blair modernized the Labour Party, moving it to...
Clement Attlee
The Labour Prime Minister who defeated Churchill in 1945 and created the modern British welfare state. Attlees...
Neville Chamberlain
The Prime Minister remembered for appeasing Hitler at Munich in 1938. Chamberlain returned from Munich declari...
Harold Wilson
The Labour Prime Minister who served two split terms from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. Wilson was a brillian...
Edward Heath
The Conservative Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Heaths greatest achievement was taking Britain into the Eur...
Theresa May
The second female Prime Minister, who took office after the Brexit referendum. Mays premiership was consumed b...
Boris Johnson
The flamboyant Prime Minister who delivered Brexit. Johnson, a former journalist and London mayor, was known f...
Charles I
The English king whose conflict with Parliament led to the English Civil War and his execution. Charles believ...
Queen Victoria
The queen whose name defined an era. Victoria reigned for 63 years, the longest until Elizabeth II. During her...
Queen Elizabeth II
The longest reigning British monarch, serving for over 70 years from 1952 to 2022. Elizabeth oversaw the trans...
Oliver Cromwell
The military leader who overthrew the monarchy and ruled Britain as a republic. Cromwell led the Parliamentary...
Liz Truss
The Prime Minister with the shortest tenure in British history, lasting just 49 days in office. Truss replaced...
Rishi Sunak
The first British Asian and Hindu Prime Minister. Sunak, a former hedge fund manager and Chancellor of the Exc...
Gordon Brown
The Labour Prime Minister who succeeded Tony Blair in 2007. Brown, a former Chancellor, was a brilliant econom...
David Cameron
The Conservative Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016. Cameron modernized the Conservative Party and formed a coal...
John Major
The Conservative Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997. Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher after being unexpectedly ...
Harold Macmillan
The Conservative Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963, known as Supermac. Macmillan famously told the British peop...
Clement Attlee Detail
See Attlee main entry. Attlee was so quiet that Churchill remarked that an empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing St...
Keir Starmer
The Labour Prime Minister who ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer, a former Director of Public Prosec...
Tony Blair Detail
See Blair main entry. Blair won three consecutive elections, the only Labour leader to do so. His New Labour p...
Margaret Thatcher Detail
See Thatcher main entry. She was a grocers daughter from Grantham who became the most dominant peacetime prime...