100 Greatest Britains
The 100 greatest britains as decided by a poll and vote conducted by the BBC in two rounds, first they had a poll to decide the 100 greatest, a tv series was made with one episode for each of the top 10, where a different presenter outlined why each should be voted the greatest.
The BBC has also conducted an international vote, which rated Newton as the greatest. Link to BBC story.
My personal choice for the greatest britain from the top 100 would be John Peel. I believe he is better in his field of endeaver than any of the other 100 in their respective fields. Probably the only DJ to ever play a record at 33rpm and then 45rpm. Shakespeare, Newton, and Darwin would be close contenders, and I did vote for Darwin on the BBC site. I was so releaved the 'princess of hearts' didn't top the vote! Churchill only wins because he was paired in History against Hitler, lets forget about Ghandi.
Top 10
- Churchill 456,498 (28.1%)
- Brunel 398,526 (24.6%)
- Diana 225,584 (13.9%)
- Darwin 112,496 (6.9%)
- Shakespeare 109,919 (6.8%)
- Newton 84,628 (5.2%)
- Elizabeth I 71,928 (4.4%)
- Lennon 68,445 (4.2%)
- Nelson 49,171 (3%)
- Cromwell 45,053 (2.8%)
Top 100 (alphabetical)
- Alfred the Great
- Julie Andrews
- King Arthur
- David Attenborough
- Jane Austen
- Charles Babbage
- Lord Baden Powell
- Douglas Bader
- David Beckham
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Tony Benn
- Tim Berners Lee
- Aneurin Bevan
- Tony Blair
- William Blake
- William Booth
- Boudicca
- David Bowie
- Richard Branson
- Robert the Bruce
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Richard Burton
- Donald Campbell
- William Caxton
- Charlie Chaplin
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Leonard Cheshire
- Winston Churchill
- James Connolly
- Captain James Cook
- Michael Crawford
- Oliver Cromwell
- Aleister Crowley
- Charles Darwin
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Charles Dickens
- Francis Drake
- King Edward I
- Edward Elgar
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Queen Elizabeth
- the Queen Mother
- Michael Faraday
- Guy Fawkes
- Alexander Fleming
- Bob Geldof
- Owain Glyndwr
- George Harrison
- John Harrison
- Stephen Hawking
- King Henry II
- King Henry V
- King Henry VIII
- Paul Hewson (Bono)
- Edward Jenner
- T E Lawrence
- John Lennon
- David Livingstone
- David Lloyd George
- John Logie Baird
- John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Paul McCartney
- Freddie Mercury
- Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
- Bobby Moore
- Thomas More
- Eric Morecambe
- Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Isaac Newton
- Florence Nightingale
- George O'Dowd (Boy George)
- Thomas Paine
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- John Peel
- Enoch Powell
- Walter Raleigh
- Steve Redgrave
- King Richard III
- Cliff Richard
- J K Rowling
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Ernest Shackleton
- William Shakespeare
- George Stephenson
- Marie Stopes
- Margaret Thatcher
- William Tindale
- J R R Tolkien
- Alan Turing
- Unknown soldier
- Queen Victoria
- William Wallace
- Barnes Wallis
- James Watt
- Duke of Wellington
- John Wesley
- Frank Whittle
- William Wilberforce
- Robbie Williams