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