100 Greatest Britons

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Winston Churchill, who won the Greatest Briton vote .

100 Greatest Britons was a British television program broadcast by the BBC in 2002. The audience from Great Britain and Northern Ireland were asked to choose their 100 most important compatriots.

A similar concept was later pursued by the German program Our Best . The Greatest Canadian broadcast in Canada, De Grootste Nederlander in the Netherlands , Great South Africans in South Africa and Suuret Suomalaiset in Finland . In the USA , the format ran in 2005 under the title The Greatest American .

Result

The list of the National Election 100 Greatest Britons :

  1. Sir Winston Churchill
  2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  3. Diana, Princess of Wales
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. William Shakespeare
  6. Sir Isaac Newton
  7. Queen Elizabeth I.
  8. John Lennon
  9. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  10. Oliver Cromwell
  11. Sir Ernest Shackleton
  12. Captain James Cook
  13. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  14. Alfred the Great
  15. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  16. Margaret Thatcher
  17. Michael Crawford
  18. Queen Victoria
  19. Sir Paul McCartney
  20. Sir Alexander Fleming
  21. Alan Turing
  22. Michael Faraday
  23. Owain Glyndŵr
  24. Queen Elizabeth II.
  25. Stephen Hawking
  26. William Tyndale
  27. Emmeline Pankhurst
  28. William Wilberforce
  29. David Bowie
  30. Guy Fawkes
  31. Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire of Woodall
  32. Eric Morecambe
  33. David Beckham
  34. Thomas Paine
  35. Boudicca
  36. Sir Steve Redgrave
  37. Sir Thomas More
  38. William Blake
  39. John Harrison
  40. King Henry VIII
  41. Charles Dickens
  42. Sir Frank Whittle
  43. John Peel
  44. John Logie Baird
  45. Aneurin Bevan
  46. Boy George
  47. Sir Douglas Bader
  48. Sir William Wallace
  49. Sir Francis Drake
  50. John Wesley
  51. King Arthur
  52. Florence Nightingale
  53. TE Lawrence
  54. Robert Falcon Scott
  55. Enoch Powell
  56. Sir Cliff Richard
  57. Sir Alexander Graham Bell
  58. Freddie Mercury
  59. Lady Julie Andrews
  60. Sir Edward Elgar
  61. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
  62. George Harrison
  63. Sir David Attenborough
  64. James Connolly
  65. George Stephenson
  66. Sir Charlie Chaplin
  67. Tony Blair
  68. William Caxton
  69. Bobby Moore
  70. Jane Austen
  71. William Booth
  72. King Henry V
  73. Aleister Crowley
  74. Robert the Bruce
  75. Bob Geldof
  76. The Unknown Warrior
  77. Robbie Williams
  78. Edward Jenner
  79. David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor
  80. Charles Babbage
  81. Geoffrey Chaucer
  82. King Richard III
  83. Joanne K. Rowling
  84. James Watt
  85. Sir Richard Branson
  86. Bono
  87. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
  88. Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
  89. Donald Campbell
  90. King Henry II
  91. James Clerk Maxwell
  92. JRR Tolkien
  93. Sir Walter Raleigh
  94. King Edward I.
  95. Sir Barnes Wallis
  96. Richard Burton
  97. Tony Benn
  98. David Livingstone
  99. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  100. Marie Stopes

There was later an international Greatest Briton election , won by Sir Isaac Newton.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 100 Greatest Britons. Retrieved August 27, 2012 .
  2. ^ Newton voted greatest Briton. Retrieved April 9, 2014 .