Pioneers / Misc / Interest
Pioneers / Misc / Interest
In 2002 BBC TV commissioned a poll to find out who the British public voted the 50 Greatest Britains ever. The resulting list made interesting reading and finished in this order ; Winston Churchill / Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Diana Princess of Wales / Charles Darwin / William Shakespeare / Sir Isaac Newton / Elizabeth I / John Lennon / Horatio Nelson / Oliver Cromwell / Sir Ernest Shackleton / Captain James Cook / Robert Baden Powell / Alfred The Great / Duke of Wellington / Margaret Thatcher / Michael Crawford / Queen Victoria / Paul McCartney / Alexander Fleming / Alan Turing / Michael Faraday / Owain Glyndwr / Elizabeth II / Stephen Hawkins / William Tyndale / Emmeline Pankhurst / William Wilberforce / David Bowie / Guy Fawkes / Leonard Cheshire / Eric Morecambe / David Beckham / Thomas Paine / Boudica / Steve Redgrave / Thomas More / William Blake / John Harrin / Henry VIII / Charles Dickens / Frank Whittle / John Peel / John Logie Baird / Aneurin Bevan / Boy George / Douglas Bader / William Wallace / Sir Francis Drake and John Wesley
A A Milne
Aage Thaarup
Adolf Galland
Agatha Christie
Al Capp
Al Hendrix
Al Koran
Alan Shepard
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Taylor
Albert Lamorisse
Albert Payson Terhune
Albert Pierrepoint
Albert Schweitzer
Alec Issigonis
Alf Bicknell
Alfred Gruenther
Alfred Hinds
Alfred Munnings
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Strutt
Alicia Markova
Alistair MacLean
Allan Williams
Amy Johnson
Andrew Mellon
Anne Burns
Anthony Armstrong-Jones
Apollo 11
Archibald Cronin
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Dickson Wright
Arthur Hailey
Arthur Ransome
Arthur T Harris
Augustus John