BBC Nominates 100 Greatest Britons Alfred the Great, Julie Andrews, King Arthur, David Attenborought, Jane Austen, Charles Babbage, Lord Baden Powell, Douglas Bader, David Beckham, Alexander Graham Bell, Tony Benn, Tim Berners Lee, Aneurin Bevan, Tony Blair, William Blake, Wiliam 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 Connelly, Captian 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, 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 Faine, Emmeline Pankhurst, John Peel, Enoch Powell, Walter Raleigh, Steve Redgrave, King Richard III, Cliff Richard, J.K. Rowling, 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 Wellinton, John Wesley, Frank Whittle, William Wilberforce, and Robbie Williams.
And Now the Ten Greatest Britons! It was reported that BBC2 Television planned a series of programmes in late 2002 to choose the 10 top Britons but the names leaked ahead of time and they are as follows.
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