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Executed English people

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Thomas Cranmer
leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury
John Rackham
English pirate (1682-1720)
Stede Bonnet
early 18th-century Barbadian pirate
John Byng
Royal Navy officer, shot for failure in combat (1704-1757)
Thomas Wyatt
English rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I (1521-1554)
Anne Askew
English Protestant martyr
Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset
Duke of Somerset
John Felton
English assassin
Eadric Streona
Anglo-Saxon noble
John Houghton
English Carthusian hermit and Catholic martyr
Mark Smeaton
executed for alleged treason and adultery with Anne Boleyn
Roderigo López
16th century physician
Francis Dereham
English courtier
John Oldcastle
English politician (1378-1417)
Thomas Abel
English priest and Catholic martyr
Breaker Morant
Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier
John Rogers
English Bible editor and martyr (c. 1505 – 1555)
John Stone
(d. 1539) English Augustinian, Catholic saint and martyr
Robert Lawrence
English Carthusian martyr
Augustine Webster
English martyr
Richard Grey
English knight (1457-1483); younger son of Elizabeth Woodville and Sir John Grey
Luke Kirby
English Catholic priest and martyr
William Fly
English pirate
Edmund Dudley
English politician (1462-1510)
John Forest
English Franciscan friar and martyr (1471–1538)
Everard Digby
(1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Robert Keyes
English criminal
Thomas Neville
English soldier and sailor, born 1429
Thomas Stafford
English rebel (c.1533-1557)
Robert and Thomas Wintour
Members of the Gunpowder plot
Simon de Burley
English knight
John Frith
English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr
Thomas Armstrong
Army officer and Member of Parliament executed for treason (1633-1684)
James Tyrrell
English knight
Ambrose Rookwood
English conspirator
John Story
English politician and Roman Catholic martyr
Nicholas Carew
English politician (1496-1539)
John Grant
member of the failed Gunpowder Plot
Oxford Martyrs
Tried for heresy and subsequently burnt at the stake
Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet
English Jacobite conspirator (1645-1697)
Francis Weston
Gentleman of the court of King Henry VIII
John Bradford
English church Reformer and martyr (1510–1555)
Thomas Bilney
English martyr
Francis Throckmorton
English Roman Catholic conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I (1554-1584)
Oaten Hill Martyrs
English martyrs
Ralph Ashley
English Jesuit lay-brother involved with Gunpowder Plot/Catholic martyr
Catherine Hayes
English murderer
John Badby
English martyr
Israel Lipski
British murderer (1865–1887)
Sebastian Newdigate
Carthusian monk and martyr
Joan Waste
English martyr
Elizabeth Gaunt
English woman convicted of treason
Adrian Scrope
English army officer and politician
John Greenwood
English Puritan divine and separatist
Richard Empson
English politician (1450-1510)
William de Braose
English noble
John Tawell
British murderer