
Politics / Royalty
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
Ahmed Sekou Toure
Anthony Eden
Antoine Pinay
Clement Attlee
Desmond Tutu
Diana Princess of Wales
Donald Sangster
Edward Heath
Ernest Bevin
Ferdinand Marcos
Francois Tombalbaye
General Suharto
Georges Pompidou
Gerald Ford
Haile Selassie
Harold Macmillan
Harold Wilson
Hussein of Jordan
Indira Gandhi
Jim Callaghan
John Diefenbaker
Kim Jong Pil
Lech Walesa
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Manley
Moise Tshombe
Olof Palme
Park Chung-Hee
Philip Noel-Baker
Rab Butler
Ralph Bunche
Samuel Hoare
Souvanna Phouma
Stanley Baldwin
V V Giri
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto