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
J B Priestley
J Edgar Hoover
J I M Stewart
J Paul Getty
Jack Cohen
Jack Higgins
Jack Mills
Jack Odell
Jack Stanford
Jacob Epstein
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Susann
James Baldwin
James Carne
James Cassels
James Hadley Chase
James Thain
Jasper Maskelyne
Jean Anouilh
Jean Cocteau
Jean Shrimpton
Jim Beach
Jim Marshall
Jim Mollison
Jim Mollison & Amy Mollison
Jim Sullivan
Jimmy Doolittle
Jo Mielziner
Joan Meakin
Joe Hyman
John Betjeman
John Bodkin Adams
John Braine
John Brophy
John Buchan
John Cassavetes
John Creasey
John Cunningham
John Drinkwater
John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy Jr
John Fairfax
John le Carre
John Le Carre
John Norris Wood
John O'Hara
John Peel
John Piper
John Profumo
John R Stainton
John Riding
John Ryan
John Steinbeck
John Stonehouse
John Tranum
Johnson Clark
Jonas Mekas
Josef Skupa
Joseph Lockwood
Joy Adamson
Juan Trippe