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