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
G K Chesterton
Gaston Palmer
Gavin Maxwell
Gene Detroy Marquis Chimps
Geoffrey Clarke
Geoffrey de Havilland
George Bernard Shaw
George Curzon
George Gallup
George Smith (Gus)
George Soros
Georges Simenon
Gerald Ratner
Gerald Scarfe
Gerard Hoffnung
Gilbert Frankau
Giles Guthrie
Ginger Lacey
Giorgio Belladonna
Gladys Mitchell
Graham Sutherland
Great Train Robbery
Greville Wynne
Guy Gibson