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
Eddie Chapman
Edmund Blunden
Edmund Hillary
Edna Ferber
Edward Dunlop
Edward Evans
Edward Lewis
Edward Tennyson Reed
Edward Victor
Edwin Lutyens
Egon Ronay
Elizabeth Arden
Ely Culbertson
Enid Blyton
Eric Ambler
Eric Shipton
Eric Williams
Erle Gardner
Ernest A Simpson
Ernest H Shepard
Ernest Shackleton
Erskine Caldwell
Ethel Snowden
Ethel Tweedie
Eugene Ionesco
Evel Knievel
Everest
Everest
Eyvind Johnson