oliver cromwell or maybe margaret thatcher?

newton,darwin,shakespeare,dirac….

me

Winston Churchill. After years of warning the country about the Nazis and being ignored and ridiculed, he then absolutely refused to let the nation back down and give in to Hitler. Inspired the nation and Colonies.

Should also mention his greatest quote 'I, my dear, maybe drunk, but you are ugly…and i will be sober in the morning'. Genius.

Brunel

Thomas Paine.
The guy was massively ahead of his time in his thinking, and is pretty much responsible for shaping the Western world into what it is today.

Edward Blackadder 😆

Alfred the Great or Brunel

One of them anyway….

Queen Elizabeth I

falkirk-mark:

me

+1.

I just like the cut of his jib.

ozzy ozbourne

Tony Blair.

Wilfred Thesiger

Owain Glynd?r.

Fern.

St Patrick

votchy – Member

Edward Blackadder

any relation to Edmund Blackadder?

Damn you Retro…I was gonna say that

David Lloyd George

John Peel

🙂

manwells

Jade Goody (was the question "who was the greatest fookwit who ever lived?")

Alfred the Great

Maybe not greatest but my fave is Peaty, just seems like sound guy.

Jade Goody (was the question "who was the greatest fookwit who ever lived?")

So in all of history the biggest **** you can come up with is Jade Goody?

Good job.

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria – why?!

+1 for Chuchill, without him there wouldn't be a Britain.

Another priceless retort from him:

Female acquaintance: "Winston, if I were your wife I would put poison in your tea"
WC: "Madam, if I were your husband I should drink it"

Alan Turing

Victoria because she lead the nation during a dramatic period of growth and as a result I believe (happy to be put right on this one) that is one of the key reasons why English is the primary language round most of the globe. Also, look at how many places round the globe pay tribute to Victoria in one way or another.

Depends what greatest means really – I like some of the above but Henry VIII must be one of the most significant if somewhat flawed.

It's got to be between Wellington or Nelson. Without either of them the UK would have ended up an insignificant pimple on Europe's bottom in the 19th century.

That it now is an insignificant pimple can be laid at the door of us going to war against the Germans in 1914. It financially ruined the country and was further exacerbated by 1939-45, so that rules out Churchill.

Trying to choose one is pointless. Top ten maybe?

Attlee or Brunel.

Gerry Adams.

Simon Cowell

Surely Darwin

Horatio Nelson
Ranulph Fiennes
Francis Drake
Ernest Shackleton
Walter Raleigh
James Cook

In no particular order………

Nelson does seem a worthy choice.

Although Churchill can be seen as obvious I see him as a necessary evil and not 'great'.

Tom Jones