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

Gertrude Shilling

Gilbert Frankau

Giles Guthrie

Ginger Lacey

Giorgio Belladonna

Gladys Mitchell

Graham Sutherland

Great Train Robbery

Greville Wynne

Guy Gibson