Who are your 5 most Greatest Achievers in History?

[Rheghead]

It is a hard choice (warts and all) and in no particular order but

Horatio Nelson
Jose Raoul Capablanca
Sir Edmund Hillary
Winston Churchill
Dimitri Mendeleev

:Razz

[riggerboy]

my wife
my son
my dog
my family
our family
above all else
and the rest dont matter

[Rheghead]

my wife
my son
my dog
my family
our family
above all else
and the rest dont matter

yeah right on, goes without saying but apart from them in history? :D

[Melancholy Man]

Dimitri Mendeleev

Bit like Charlotte Church publishing her biography age 15.

[Welcomefamily]

Horatio Nelson,
Sir Edmund Hillary,
Neil Armstrong,
Louis Pasteur
Henry VIII, achieved something most men only dream.

[dook]

Mr Thomson is the only person I can think of. He was great at the old teaching.
Now if you'd asked about achievers in Geography I could have listed at least three.

[dook]

In fact. Kirsten Baxter. She got an "A"

[hotrod4]

My five would be:

Sir Winston Churchill
Muhammed ali
Margaret Thatcher
Rev Ian Paisley
Alexander graham bell

[teenybash]

Florence Ninghtingale,
Emily Pankhurst,
The Wright Brothers....do they count as two?:confused
Fred Dibnah and his history of the steam engine..............

[Kevin Milkins]

Charles Darwin 1809-1882
Fred Dibnah 1938-2004
Isambard Kindom Brunnell 1806- 1859
Thomas Telford 1757-1834
Abraham Darby 1678-1717

[joxville]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Thomas Telford
Winston Churchill
Apollo 11 crew
Richard Branson

Thanks for starting a good thread Rheghead.

[Tilter]

Only 1 achiever for me:

Charles Darwin

(No one else comes close)

[scotsboy]

Alexander the Great
Ibn Battuta
Sir Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci
Eric Liddell

[scotsboy]

This is a great thread Rheggers, I struggled with my 5, and have at least another 5 who could have made the original list:

Saladin
John Harrison
Albert Einstein
Ernesto Che Guevara
Dr James Murray

[mccaugm]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/)#

Charles Babbage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/babbage_charles.shtml)-Victorian pioneer of computer science
Aneurin Bevan (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bevan_aneurin.shtml)- post-war architect of the National Health Service
Alexander Fleming (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/fleming_alexander.shtml)-20th century physician, discovered penicillin
Martin Luther King (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml)- 20th century US civil rights leader, assassinated
Caroline Norton (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/norton_caroline.shtml)Victorian campaigner for women's rights

I noticed that very few women were mentioned....bar Maggie Thatcher, Florence Nightingale & Emily Pankhurst,

[joxville]

Could you make it 6 people Rheghead? I'd like to add Alan Turing, designer of the 'Bombe', what could be argued as the first 'super-computer'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

[Kenn]

Shakespeare.
Alexander The Great.
Isenbard Kingdom Brunnel
Alexander Solzhenitsin
Mahatma Gandhi

[TBH]

Marie Curie
Edward Jenner
Alexander Fleming
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Watson-Watt
John Logie-Baird

[Rheghead]

Some great answers here, keep 'em coming, some of which have me reaching for the wikipedia shortcut icon as well.:o And if you feel the need to say more then do so!:D

[2little2late]

Chris Hoy
Rebecca Adlington
Ben Ainslie
Bradley Wiggins
Nicole Cooke

[scorrie]

Socrates (Philosopher AND Tanner Ba' footballer)
Leonardo
Jesse Owens
Jesus (I know, I'm atheist but his legacy is enormous)
The man/woman who taught us that "Most Greatest" is bad English ;)

[scotsboy]

Socrates (Philosopher AND Tanner Ba' footballer)
Leonardo
Jesse Owens
Jesus (I know, I'm atheist but his legacy is enormous)
The man/woman who taught us that "Most Greatest" is bad English ;)

I toyed with the idea of including Jesus - he is certainly up there, but to be honest so is the Prophet Mohammed, who had quite an incredble life and also a huge legacy. One of the others bubbling under on my list is Ashoka..........now I know why so many curry houses carry the name.

[hotrod4]

Feel obliged to add another 5!

Florence Nightingale (What can I say?)
Smeato (you better agree or I'll set aboot ye!)
Audie Murphy (33 medals need I say more)
George orwell (got me reading)
Super Ally McCoist (just for being himself!)

[Kevin Milkins]

I toyed with the idea of including Jesus - he is certainly up there, but to be honest so is the Prophet Mohammed, who had quite an incredble life and also a huge legacy. One of the others bubbling under on my list is Ashoka..........now I know why so many curry houses carry the name.

Never seen a curry named Jesus.;)
Used his name in vain a few times though while sat on the toilet the morning after a curry.:roll:

[scorrie]

I toyed with the idea of including Jesus - he is certainly up there, but to be honest so is the Prophet Mohammed, who had quite an incredble life and also a huge legacy. One of the others bubbling under on my list is Ashoka..........now I know why so many curry houses carry the name.

For me, Mohammed tarnished himself and dropped out of the top ten with the Teddy Bear carry on ;)

Ashoka, I don't know much about. However, if Wayne Rooney's parents had been inspired by a particularly good "Ruby Murray" in an Ashoka curry house they might have been tempted to name their son:-

"ASHOKA ROONEY"