Greatest Britons?
Submitted by kenji on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 04:51
Tags:
- David Attenborough
- Jane Austen
- Aneurin Bevan
- William Blake
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- William Caxton
- William Cecil
- Charlie Chaplin
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Winston Churchill
- John Constable
- James Cook
- Oliver Cromwell
- John Dalton
- Charles Darwin
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Charles Dickens
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Francis Drake
- George Eliot
- Elizabeth I
- Michael Faraday
- William Gladstone
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Henry V
- Henry VII
- Hywel Dda
- Elton John
- John Keats
- John Lennon
- David Lloyd George
- Paul Macartney
- John Stuart Mill
- John Milton
- Horatio Nelson
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Owen
- Thomas Paine
- Pitt the Elder
- Pitt the Younger
- Bertrand Russell
- William Shakespeare
- Alfred Tennyson
- Margaret Thatcher
- J.M.W.Turner
- Queen Victoria
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- The Duke of Wellington
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Author Comments:
I've included Maggie though i'm certainly no fan. Nominations please.
Do you know the song "Miss Maggie" by Renaud?
I don't think so. I do know Maggie, Maggie May, and Maggie's Farm.
Renaud is a (great) French singer, very critical, very provocative. He wrote Miss Maggie in the mid-80s. In it, he describes for example that if he was re-born as a dog, he would use the "Iron Lady" as a lamppost...
As for this list, what about Sir Alec Guinness or Sir Laurence Olivier?
They were both in a list of about 200 i did then mislaid.
Ah, i was in France in the early 80's then came back last year, so missed that. But agree with his general idea.
Nominations:
Henry VIII?
Maybe some political philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and/or John Stuart Mill
Also, maybe some more writers, such as William Blake, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, etc.