Countless historical and contemporary figures have lived, worked, or been born in the City of Westminster.
* **Queen Elizabeth II:** The UK's longest-reigning monarch, whose primary residence was Buckingham Palace. * **Winston Churchill:** British Prime Minister who led the country through WWII from his underground war rooms in Westminster. * **Alexander Fleming:** Scientist and Nobel laureate who discovered penicillin at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. * **Ada Lovelace:** Pioneer of computing mathematics, born in Piccadilly. * **Jimi Hendrix:** Legendary musician who lived in Mayfair (his former flat is now a museum next door to the former home of composer George Frideric Handel). * **Charles Dickens:** Iconic Victorian author who lived and wrote extensively in Marylebone.