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William Shakespeare
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Beatles are the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of music, with sales of over one billion units.[1][2][3][4]
Alfred Hitchcock, often regarded the greatest British filmmaker of all time.[5]
Isaac Newton
Leonardo Da Vinci. Among his works are the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.
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  2. ^ Paul At Fifty: Paul McCartney Time Magazine'.' Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  3. ^ Most Successful Group The Guinness Book of Records 1999, p.230. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
  4. ^ 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time: The Beatles (No.1) Rolling Stone'.' Retrieved 19 March 2011.
  5. ^ Avedon, Richard (14 April 2007). "The top 21 British directors of all time". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 8 July 2009. Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from the audience) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else.