Famous People Called Christopher - 1

Christopher Columbus

(1451 - 1506), Italian explorer. He discovered the New World (America) in 1492, making landfall in the West Indies and made two more voyages in 1493 and 1498, reaching South America on the third.

Christopher Marlowe

(1564 - 93), English dramatist and poet. He wrote a number of plays including "Tamburlaine" and "Doctor Faustus".

Christopher Sydney Cockerell

[Sir], (1910 - ) English engineer. He invented the hovercraft.

Joseph Mallord William Turner

(1775 - 1851), English painter. He exhibited his first work aged just 15. His famous paintingsinclude "The Battle of Trafalgar", "The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up" and "Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway".