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 100 Greatest Britons was a 2002 BBC TV series to elect the 100 greatest Britons of all time. The poll gave viewers the opportunity to vote their candidates to the top.Naturally the election was not without controversy. A few people on the list were not even British, in that they had been born elsewhere (ie. Ireland) and were not British citizens. With other names there was the discussion whether they could really be considered "great", seeing that they were either just popular entertainers, well-known celebrities at the time of the survey or people whose lives weren't exactly beneficial to all of their fellow men. The 100 Greatest Britons Winston Churchill — Prime Minister during the Second World War. Isambard Kingdom Brunel — civil engineer and architect. Invented the first modern steamship. Diana, Princess of Wales — royal consort. Charles Darwin — biologist. Came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection. William Shakespeare — poet and playwright. Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, etc, etc. Isaac Newton — physicist and astronomer. Theorized gravity as a force between bodies with mass. Elizabeth I — Queen of England (1558-1603). Easily one of the most famous and significant monarchs England has ever had. John Lennon — rock singer. One of The Beatles. Horatio Nelson — sailor whose naval victories in the Napoleonic Wars saved Britain from the threat of a French invasion. Oliver Cromwell — soldier and politician. Parliamentarian leader in the Civil War and ruler of Britain during the subsequent Commonwealth period. Ernest Shackleton — explorer. Made important contributions to the exploration of Antarctica. James Cook — sailor and explorer. Achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Robert Baden-Powell — soldier and founder of the Scouts. Alfred the Great — King of Wessex (871-899); began the unification of England. The Duke of Wellington — soldier who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; later became Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher — Prime Minister (1979-1990). Michael Crawford — actor. Best known for Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera. Victoria — Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901). Paul McCartney — rock singer. One of The Beatles. Alexander Fleming — physician and chemist. Discovered penicillin. Alan Turing — computer scientist and mathematician. Devised cryptanalytical techniques, including those that cracked the ENIGMA machine. Also invented the Turing Test. Michael Faraday — physicist. Discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Owain Glyndŵr — Welsh rebel leader who fought against the English. Elizabeth II — The reigning Queen of England from 1952 - 2022. For more than one generation, the Queen. Stephen Hawking — astrophysicist. Provided ground-breaking work on black holes, theoretical cosmology, and quantum gravity. William Tyndale — scholar. Translated The Bible into English. Emmeline Pankhurst — political activist. Campaigned for women's right to vote and achieved it. William Wilberforce — politician. Lead the anti-slavery movement. David Bowie — rock singer, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Guy Fawkes — criminal and (by modern standards) would-be terrorist. Tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but failed. Is now burned in effigy annually. Leonard Cheshire VC — RAF pilot and philanthropist. Eric Morecambe — comedian. One half of Morecambe and Wise. David Beckham — football player. Thomas Paine — philosopher, pamphleteer and polemicist. Writer of Common Sense and The Age of Reason. Boudica, a.k.a. Boadicea — Queen of the Iceni, led the Britons in rebellion against the Romans. Steve Redgrave — rower. Five-times Olympic gold medallist. Thomas More — politician, lawyer, and philosopher. Wrote Utopia. Martyred by King Henry VIII. William Blake — poet and painter. Writer of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. John Harrison — inventor of the marine chronometer. Henry VIII — King of England (1509-1547). Probably the most well-known historical English monarch. Charles Dickens — author. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, etc. Frank Whittle — inventor of the turbojet engine. John Peel — radio presenter. John Logie Baird — inventor of the television.note There are actually several other claimants to this title. Baird's mechanical TV system was dropped by The BBC following tests. Nevertheless, he did help to popularize the idea of television, especially in the UK. Aneurin Bevan — politician. Boy George — pop singer. Culture Club. Douglas Bader — RAF pilot. William Wallace — Scottish rebel leader who fought against the English. Life story inspired Braveheart. Sir Francis Drake — sailor and explorer. Saved England from invasion by defeating the Spanish Armada. John Wesley — religious activist, founder of Methodism. King Arthur — mythical Once and Future King of the Britons. Florence Nightingale — nurse. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia — soldier. Robert Falcon Scott — sailor and explorer. Failed to reach the South Pole before Roald Amundsen. Enoch Powell — politician. Cliff Richard — pop singer. Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone. Freddie Mercury — rock singer, Queen. Julie Andrews — actress. Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music. Edward Elgar — composer. "Pomp & Circumstance". Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother — consort of George VI. George Harrison— rock singer, The Beatles. David Attenborough — biologist and TV presenter. James Connolly — politician. George Stephenson — civil engineer. Built first practical steam locomotive. Charlie Chaplin — actor and comedian. The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, etc. Tony Blair — Prime Minister (1997-2007). William Caxton — printer. First to introduce printing in England. Bobby Moore — football player. Jane Austen — novelist. Pride and Prejudice. William Booth — humanitarian activist. Founder of the Salvation Army. Henry V — King of England (1413-1422). Aleister Crowley — poet and occultist. Robert the Bruce — King of Scotland (1306-1329). Bob Geldof — pop singer and humanitarian activist. Boomtown Rats, the Live-Aid concerts. The Unknown Warrior — soldier. Robbie Williams — pop singer. Edward Jenner — physician. Invented the smallpox vaccine. David Lloyd George — Prime Minister during the First World War. Charles Babbage — inventor of the first programmable computer. Geoffrey Chaucer— poet. The Canterbury Tales. Richard III — King of England (1483-1485). J. K. Rowling — novelist. Harry Potter. James Watt — inventor of the first practical steam machine. Richard Branson — businessman. Paul Hewson, a.k.a. Bono — rock singer. U2. note The only person on the list with no actual connection to Britain John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten — rock singer, Sex Pistols. Bernard Law Montgomery — soldier. Donald Campbell — racing driver and speed record holder. Henry the Second — King of England (1154-1189). James Clerk Maxwell — physicist. Developed theory of electromagnetic radiation. J. R. R. Tolkien — novelist. The Lord of the Rings. Walter Raleigh — sailor and explorer. Edward I — King of England (1272-1307). Barnes Wallis — engineer and inventor. Richard Burton — could be either the actor or the explorer, writer, soldier, spy, etc. Tony Benn — politician. David Livingstone — explorer. Tim Berners-Lee — computer scientist. Inventor of the world wide web. Marie Stopes — author and eugenicist. Pioneer in the field of birth control. "One Hundred Greatest Britons" provides examples of:
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