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
Radio London
Ragnar Frisch
Ras Prince Monolulu
Rastelli Clowns
Raymond Jackson
Reg Smythe
Reita Faria
Rene Cassin
Richard Adrian
Richard Beeching
Richard Eurich
Richard Guyatt
Richard McCreery
Richard Williams
Richmal Crompton
Roald Dahl
Robert Baden Powell
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Graves
Robert Manry
Robert Maxwell
Robert Peary
Robert Sherriff
Robert Stanford Tuck
Robert Watson-Watt
Roger Furse
Roland Beamont
Ron Goodwin
Ronald Searle
Roy Ullyett
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev & Margot Fonteyn
Rudyard Kipling
Russel Crouse
Russell Flint
Russell Thorndike