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BBC nominates 100 greatest Britons
Wed Aug 21,10:08 AM ET
LONDON - Princess Diana is in, Prince Charles is out.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are on the list of the 100
greatest Britons of all time released Wednesday, but Ringo is not.
Richard Burton made it, but Elizabeth Taylor didn't.
The British Broadcasting Corp. polled more than 30,000 people to come up with the
list, in which John Lydon (better known as Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten) and Boy George
mingle with Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton and Tim Berners Lee, the father of the
Internet.
Stretching eligibility to all of the British Isles, the list also includes two Irish rockers,
Bono of U2 and Bob Geldof.
The BBC2 television channel plans a series of programs later in the year to choose
a top 10.
"I'm sure this series will arouse enthusiastic debate in offices and homes all around
the country. Just from talking to people I've got a real sense of how passionately they
feel about the subject and who they feel is worthy of the title of Great Briton," said
Jane Root, comptroller of BBC2.
The top 100, in alphabetical order:
Alfred the Great
Julie Andrews
King Arthur.
David Attenborough
Jane Austen
Charles Babbage
Lord Baden Powell
Douglas Bader
David Beckham
Alexander Graham Bell
Tony Benn
Tim Berners Lee
Aneurin Bevan
Tony Blair ( news - web sites)
William Blake
William Booth
Boudicca
David Bowie
Richard Branson
Robert the Bruce
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Richard Burton
Donald Campbell
William Caxton
Charlie Chaplin
Geoffrey Chaucer
Leonard Cheshire
Winston Churchill
James Connolly
Captain James Cook
Michael Crawford
Oliver Cromwell
Aleister Crowley
Charles Darwin
Diana, Princess of Wales
Charles Dickens
Francis Drake
King Edward I
Edward Elgar
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth II ( news - web sites)
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Michael Faraday
Guy Fawkes
Alexander Fleming
Bob Geldof
Owain Glyndwr
George Harrison
John Harrison
Stephen Hawking
King Henry II
King Henry V
King Henry VIII
Paul Hewson (Bono)
Edward Jenner
T.E. Lawrence
John Lennon
David Livingstone
David Lloyd George
John Logie Baird
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
James Clerk Maxwell
Paul McCartney
Freddie Mercury
Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
Bobby Moore
Thomas More
Eric Morecambe
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Isaac Newton
Florence Nightingale
George O'Dowd (Boy George)
Thomas Paine
Emmeline Pankhurst
John Peel
Enoch Powell
Walter Raleigh
Steve Redgrave
King Richard III
Cliff Richard
J.K. Rowling ( news - web sites)
Robert Falcon Scott
Ernest Shackleton
William Shakespeare
George Stephenson
Marie Stopes
Margaret Thatcher
William Tindale
J.R.R. Tolkien
Alan Turing
Queen Victoria
William Wallace
Barnes Wallis
James Watt
Unknown soldier
Duke of Wellington
John Wesley
Frank Whittle
William Wilberforce
Robbie Williams
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