WTF? John Lennon and Princess Diana?

[David Floyd]

Which is why I said 'Generally'.

You gotta admit, though, that I'm one of the more consistent people around

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Isn't verified. I've also heard it was Marlowe that wrote the plays.

There is certainly a strong circumstantial case. At any rate, there is no evidence it was the Stratford grain merchant other than the fact his name was William Shakespeare. Nothing else about his life makes sense.

Marlowe makes more sense, but the plays do not have his authorial "thumbprint." While a few plays attributed to Shakespeare may be of other authors, like Marlowe, the vast majority, and certainly the great tragedies, are clearly the work of one author, and they do not mesh with Marlowe's style.

De Vere makes the most sense of any of the possibilities, IMO. His personal Bible certainly speaks a great deal...

[monkspider]

I'm a bit surprised Queen Victoria wasn't on the list. At least over the bridge building guy, or Princess Di.
At least Elizabeth I was.

[Boris Godunov]

Henry II seems to me to be of great importance as well, but too many monarchs would be a drag.

[Capt Dizle]

No one has written as well as Shakespeare in the English language and the guy in second place is not close.

My quick take on the top ten without looking includes

Cromwell, Elizabeth, Drake, Churchill, Lennon, Henry VIII, King Arthur and Robin Hood. Shakespeare and Dickens.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Consistently bad, yes .

[Boris Godunov]

Fictional Britons don't count, jimmy.

[David Floyd]

Consistently bad, yes

I meant logically consistent, doofus

[Shi Huangdi]

"Oliver Cromwell, a prime mover in the execution of King Charles I and later Lord Protector during the short British republic in the seventeenth century. "

Wow, I had now idea Brits were so fond of theocratic dictators who carried out genocide.

[Promethus]

Boris Godunov is just a "Front" for Mr. Big so the "Homeboys" won't know he appreciates western culture'

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Fictional Britons don't count, jimmy.

Why?

[Capt Dizle]

Besides, proof that any of my nominations are fictional. Otherwise, shut up.

[Al B. Sure!]

Diana's only on there cause she died recently... in twenty years, she would barely make the top 50...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
Besides, proof that any of my nominations are fictional. Otherwise, shut up.

Doesn't work that way, as proof must be provided they DID exist. There is no such evidence for Robin Hood.

[David Floyd]

Prove that I'm not God.

Oh wait, you can't, so I must be God