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

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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

Rosemary Andree

Roy Ullyett

Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Nureyev & Margot Fonteyn

Rudyard Kipling

Russel Crouse

Russell Flint

Russell Thorndike