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
Sax Rohmer
Scott Crossfield
Sergey Obraztsov
Sheila Scott
Sidney Greene
Simon Napier-Bell
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Francis Chichester
Sir Robert Peel
Sir William Golding
Soichiro Honda
St. John Greer Ervine
Stan McMurty
Stanford Moore
Stanley Franklin
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Spender
Stuart George
Stuart Roosa
Suzy Parker
Svetozar Gligoric
Sydney Camm
Sylvia Pankhurst