The 100 most influential British?

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Sn00py
Not adding Rowling, just another good author.

While I agree with Adams, and don't consider Rowling a good author, she's incredibly widely read and has got many, many children reading. It's quite an achievement.

Originally posted by Sn00py
Not adding Bobby Moore, he may have been a great footballer, but where's the influence?

Well, he's universally revered. I'd say football's important enough for him to be there. The '66 victory is more important to many people than almost anything else.

[Krill]

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
-- Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[TheStinger]

I'm not sure that Doulas Adams should be in the top 100 all I was arguing was that he is really quite influential. Given the history of the UK its quite a feet to be included in the top 100.

Oh and the computer that beat Gary Kasporov was named after Deep Thought

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Drogue

He wasn't British, he was Norman.

After the invasion he was England.

[Dauphin]

HG Wells beats Douglas Adams. Wells was at the forefront of the sci-fi genre (time travel, alien invasion, space travel etc) and his stories are the basis for a lot of today's popular sci-fi stories.

[Cort Haus]

Too bad H.G. Wells was unable to sufficiently influence Spielberg into making a decent film version of the book.

[Cort Haus]

Can someone list me some authors that P.G. Wodehouse has influenced (apart from Douglas Adams)?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Too bad H.G. Wells was unable to sufficiently influence Spielberg into making a decent film version of the book.

[Dr Strangelove]

Thomas Cranmer should be mentioned. Though Henry VIII seperated the English Church from Rome, Cranmer was the ideological founder.

[SpencerH]

Lets add another pirate (along with my personal favorites Drake and Raleigh), Edward Teach!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Lets add another pirate (along with my personal favorites Drake and Raleigh), Edward Teach!

Infamous, si. Influential, no!

[Dauphin]

If we are having pirates, Jack Sparrow.

[Zkribbler]

Re: The 100 most influential British?

Originally posted by Sn00py
...
Benjamin Disraeli

Oh no. I feel an Allan Sherman song coming on ...

Won't you come home, Disraeli?
Won't you come home?
Come home to Queen VictooOOoooria!

Don't leave that House of Commons,
That House of Lords,
Just sitting and pining foOOoor e'ya.

You say official business
Took you away
To Paris and Bombay and RoooOOoome.
Well I ain't so certain,
You're not a 19th Century Richard Burton!
Disraeli, won't you please come . . .
Disraeli, won't you please come . . .
Disraeli, won't you please come home?
(Cummon home!)