Guy Fawkes
English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
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Updated 2026-05-29
Guy Fawkes became the face of a failed 1605 plot to blow up Parliament—so infamous that his name still lights bonfires in Britain four centuries later. The York-born Catholic's arrest and execution made him history's most recognizable would-be terrorist.
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Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
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