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BBC Great Britons
Great Britons: The top ten
Welcome to the National Portrait Gallery, home to the largest
collection of portraiture in the world featuring famous British
men and women who have created history from the Middle Ages until
the present day.
Great Britons The top ten is
the climax of last year's unprecedented public search for the
greatest Briton of all time. Written by John Cooper, author,
historian and previous Head of Education at the National Portrait
Gallery, this guide weaves a magical journey through the Gallery's
amazing collection. As well as discovering more about the top
ten nominees, you will pass hundreds of other worthy contenders,
both historical and modern, who did not make the final ten.
So, take your time and consider
your choice carefully. When you have decided, please nominate
your greatest Briton by voting.
The top 10
1. Winston Churchill
2. Isambard
Kingdom Brunel
3. Diana,
Princess of Wales
4. Charles
Darwin
5. William
Shakespeare
6. Horatio
Nelson
7. Elizabeth
I
8. Isaac
Newton
9. John
Lennon
10. Oliver
Cromwell
11 to 100
11. Ernest
Shackleton
12. James Cook
13. Robert Baden Powell
14. Alfred the Great
15. Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington
16. Margaret Thatcher
17. Michael Crawford
18. Queen Victoria
19. Paul McCartney
20. Alexander Fleming
21. Alan Turing
22. Michael Faraday
23. Owain Glyndwr
24. HM Queen Elizabeth
II
25. Stephen Hawking
26. William Tyndale
27. Emmeline Pankhurst
28. William Wilberforce
29. David Bowie
30. Guy Fawkes
31. Leonard Cheshire
32. Eric Morecambe
33. David Beckham
34. Thomas Paine
35. Boudicca
36. Steve Redgrave
37. Thomas More
38. William Blake
39. John Harrison
40. Henry VIII
41. Charles Dickens
42. Frank Whittle
43. John Peel
44. John Logie Baird
45. Aneurin Bevan
46. Boy George
47. Douglas Bader
48. William Wallace
49. Francis Drake
50. John Wesley
51. King Arthur
52. Florence Nightingale
53. T.E. Lawrence
54. Robert Falcon
Scott
55. Enoch Powell
56. Cliff Richard
57. Alexander Graham Bell
58. Freddie Mercury
59. Julie Andrews
60. Edward Elgar
61. Queen Elizabeth,
the Queen Mother
62. George Harrison
63. David Attenborough
64. James Connolly
65. George Stephenson
66. Charlie Chaplin
67. Tony Blair
68. William Caxton
69. Bobby Moore
70. Jane Austen
71. William Booth
72. Henry V
73. Aleister Crowley
74. Robert I ('The
Bruce')
75. Bob Geldof
76. The Unknown soldier
77. Robbie Williams
78. Edward Jenner
79. David Lloyd George
80. Charles Babbage
81. Geoffrey Chaucer
82. Richard III
83. J.K. Rowling
84. James Watt
85. Richard Branson
86. Bono
87. John Lydon
88. Montgomery of
Alamein
89. Donald Campbell
90. Henry II
91. James Clerk Maxwell
92. J.R.R. Tolkein
93. Walter Ralegh
94. Edward I
95. Barnes Wallis
96. Richard Burton
97. Tony Benn
98. David Livingstone
99. Tim Berners Lee
100. Marie Stopes
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