Top Greatest 100 English People

Based on the 'Greatest Britons' - majority of whom are English.

Top 10 Englishmen / Women

  1. Winston Churchill   
  2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  3. Princess Diana
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. William Shakespeare
  6.  Sir Isaac Newton
  7. Queen Elizabeth I
  8. John Lennon
  9. Horatio Nelson
  10. Oliver Cromwell
  1. Alfred the Great
  2. Julie Andrews
  3. David Attenborough
  4. Jane Austen
  5. Charles Babbage
  6. Lord Baden Powell
  7. Douglas Bader
  8. David Beckham
  9. Tony Benn
  10. Tim Berners Lee
  11. John M Keynes
  12. William Blake
  13. William Booth
  14. Boudicca
  15. Richard Branson
  16. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  17. Donald Campbell
  18. William Caxton
  19. Charlie Chaplin
  20. Geoffrey Chaucer
  21. Leonard Cheshire
  22. Winston Churchill
  23. Captain James Cook
  24. Michael Crawford
  25. Aleister Crowley
  26. Charles Darwin
  27. Diana, Princess of Wales
  28. Charles Dickens
  29. Benjamin Disraeli
  30. Francis Drake
  31. King Edward I
  32. Edward Elgar
  33. Queen Elizabeth I
  34. Queen Elizabeth II
  35. the Queen Mother
  36. Michael Faraday
  37. Guy Fawkes
  38. Bob Geldof
  39. William Tyndale
  40. Lewis Hamilton
  41. George Harrison
  42. John Harrison
  43. Stephen Hawking
  44. King Henry II
  45. King Henry V
  46. King Henry VIII
  47. Paul Hewson (Bono)
  48. Edward Jenner
  49. Samuel Johnson
  50. D H Lawrence
  51. T E Lawrence
  52. John Lennon
  53. James Clerk Maxwell
  54. Paul McCartney
  55. Freddie Mercury
  56. Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
  57. Bobby Moore
  58. Thomas More
  59. Eric Morecambe
  60. Isaac Newton
  61. Florence Nightingale
  62. Clement Attlee
  63. Richard Attenborough
  64. Sir Roger Bannister
  65. Thomas A Beckett
  66. Betty Boothroyd
  67. Gordon Brown
  68. Michael Caine
  69. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  70. Frederick Delius
  71. Thomas Paine
  72. Emmeline Pankhurst
  73. Enoch Powell
  74. Walter Raleigh
  75. Steve Redgrave
  76. J K Rowling
  77. King Richard III
  78. Cliff Richard
  79. Robert Falcon Scott
  80. Ernest Shackleton
  81. Boris Johnson
  82. George Stephenson
  83. Marie Stopes
  84. Margaret Thatcher
  85. William Tyndale
  86. J R R Tolkien
  87. Queen Victoria
  88. Duke of Wellington
  89. John Wesley
  90. William Wilberforce

 

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