The 100 most influential British?

[FrostyBoy]

Top 10
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1. Isaac Newton
2. Charles Darwin
3. James Watt
4. Adam Smith
5. Winston Churchill
6. Elizabeth I
7. Alexander Graham Bell
8. John Stuart Mill
9. William Shakespeare
10. Oliver Cromwell
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Entire list (In no particular order)
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Queen Elizabeth I
Adam Smith
George III
Logi Baird
Alan Turing
William Shakespeare
Charles Darwin
Winston Churchill
Captain Cook
Stamford Raffles
Henry VIII
Margaret Thatcher
Horatio Nelson
Bernard Law Montgomery
Arthur Conan Doyle
Alfred Hitchcock
Rudyard Kipling
Isaac Newton
Alexander Fleming
William Gladstone
Agatha Christie
Cecil Rhodes
Francis Bacon
Laurence Olivier
John Stuart Mill
Charlie Chaplin
Robert Baden-Powell
Elizabeth II
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Thomas Hobbes
Louis Mountbatten
Graham Greene
Arthur Wellsley
James Watt
Alexander Graham Bell
Baron Robert Fitzwalter
Chaucer
Milton
Pope
Charles Dickens
Walter Raleigh
Alan Turing
Isembard Brunel
John Lennon
David Hume
Adam Smith
John Locke
Alfred the Great
Christopher Newport
Ernest Rutherford
Robert Clive
Cecil Rhodes
John Maynard Keynes
Oliver Cromwell
Francis Drake
James Watson & Francis Crick
Edward I
Edward II
John Churchill
Charles Spencer
Sarah Young
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Edward III
Henry V
Thomas Beckett
Various Rothschilds
Arthur Balfour
Chaim Weizman
Lloyd George
David Ricardo
Benjamin Disraeli
Lord Keynes
John Constable
J W Turner
LS Lowry
P.G. Wodehouse
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Tyndale
Chamberlain
John Dunstable
William Byrd
Edward Elgar
Henry Purcell
Bertrand Russell
George Bernard Shaw
Edward Gibbon
Edward Jenner
Dr. John Snow
Samuel Johnson
John Wesley
Henry Hudson
Earl of Sandwich
Lord Nelson
Charles Babbage
Arthur C. Clarke
Michael Faraday
Thomas Malthus
(List complete)

[Spiffor]

Edward III - Murderous bastard

Elizabeth I - Murderous bastard

Victoria - Murderous bastard

Winston Churchill - Murderous cool guy

That's about it, really.

[SlowwHand]

Queen Elizabeth I

[Cort Haus]

Darwin is good, but Freddie Mercury?

Leaving aside for a moment the subjective aspects, I'm not sure if his music has been influential. If we're talking music, then Lennon & McCartney would a far more realistic place to start. Or even Mick Jagger.

Which bands (or even singers) have been influenced by FM?

Adam Smith

[Zkribbler]

Duke William Bastard a.k.a. King William I

[Cort Haus]

George III - a major influence on the history of the USA.

[FrostyBoy]

Wouldn't George Washington technically be British?

Someone enlighten me

[Cort Haus]

Logi Baird

[Cort Haus]

Alan Turing

[Cort Haus]

William Shakespeare

and the far better writer Douglas Adams

[Zkribbler]

I love Douglas Adams...but he's about as influential as a spitwad in a hurricane.

[FrostyBoy]

I added Captain Cook to the list (in first post). Found Australia, New Zealand and Polynesian islands (among others iirc).

I suppose I should add Sir Stamford Raffles for building Singapore?

Do we include British that weren't in England but under British soverienty? I guess we should.

[Zkribbler]

Arthur Wellsley. (Beat ya, Imran )

James Watt (steam engine)

Oh, and Alexander Graham Bell

--Wasn't the guy who discovered that blood circulates British?? What was his name? D'oh!

Baron Robert Fitzwalter (led the army that forced King John to sign the Magna Carta).

Henry VIII (broke from the Catholic Church)

[Barnabas]

if henry VIII and newton are not in the top 5 of most influential englishmen, then the list is wrong and useless

[Zkribbler]

George Orwell