100 Greatest Britons
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 :
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Charles Darwin
- William Shakespeare
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Queen Elizabeth I.
- John Lennon
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Oliver Cromwell
- Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Captain James Cook
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Alfred the Great
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Margaret Thatcher
- Michael Crawford
- Queen Victoria
- Sir Paul McCartney
- Sir Alexander Fleming
- Alan Turing
- Michael Faraday
- Owain Glyndŵr
- Queen Elizabeth II.
- Stephen Hawking
- William Tyndale
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- William Wilberforce
- David Bowie
- Guy Fawkes
- Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire of Woodall
- Eric Morecambe
- David Beckham
- Thomas Paine
- Boudicca
- Sir Steve Redgrave
- Sir Thomas More
- William Blake
- John Harrison
- King Henry VIII
- Charles Dickens
- Sir Frank Whittle
- John Peel
- John Logie Baird
- Aneurin Bevan
- Boy George
- Sir Douglas Bader
- Sir William Wallace
- Sir Francis Drake
- John Wesley
- King Arthur
- Florence Nightingale
- TE Lawrence
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Enoch Powell
- Sir Cliff Richard
- Sir Alexander Graham Bell
- Freddie Mercury
- Lady Julie Andrews
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
- George Harrison
- Sir David Attenborough
- James Connolly
- George Stephenson
- Sir Charlie Chaplin
- Tony Blair
- William Caxton
- Bobby Moore
- Jane Austen
- William Booth
- King Henry V
- Aleister Crowley
- Robert the Bruce
- Bob Geldof
- The Unknown Warrior
- Robbie Williams
- Edward Jenner
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor
- Charles Babbage
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- King Richard III
- Joanne K. Rowling
- James Watt
- Sir Richard Branson
- Bono
- John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- Donald Campbell
- King Henry II
- James Clerk Maxwell
- JRR Tolkien
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- King Edward I.
- Sir Barnes Wallis
- Richard Burton
- Tony Benn
- David Livingstone
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Marie Stopes
There was later an international Greatest Briton election , won by Sir Isaac Newton.
See also
- The Greatest American (USA)
- The Greatest Canadian (Canada)
- De Grootste Nederlander (Netherlands)
- Suuret Suomalaiset (Finland)
- Our best (Germany)
- Belg der Belgen (Belgium)
- Megali Ellines (Greece)
- Ranking show
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 100 Greatest Britons. Retrieved August 27, 2012 .
- ^ Newton voted greatest Briton. Retrieved April 9, 2014 .