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
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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
my wife
my son
my dog
my family
our family
above all else
and the rest dont matter
Bit like Charlotte Church publishing her biography age 15.Quote:
Dimitri Mendeleev
Horatio Nelson,
Sir Edmund Hillary,
Neil Armstrong,
Louis Pasteur
Henry VIII, achieved something most men only dream.
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.
In fact. Kirsten Baxter. She got an "A"
My five would be:
Sir Winston Churchill
Muhammed ali
Margaret Thatcher
Rev Ian Paisley
Alexander graham bell
Florence Ninghtingale,
Emily Pankhurst,
The Wright Brothers....do they count as two?:confused
Fred Dibnah and his history of the steam engine..............
Charles Darwin 1809-1882
Fred Dibnah 1938-2004
Isambard Kindom Brunnell 1806- 1859
Thomas Telford 1757-1834
Abraham Darby 1678-1717
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Thomas Telford
Winston Churchill
Apollo 11 crew
Richard Branson
Thanks for starting a good thread Rheghead.
Only 1 achiever for me:
Charles Darwin
(No one else comes close)
Alexander the Great
Ibn Battuta
Sir Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci
Eric Liddell
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
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/#
Charles Babbage -Victorian pioneer of computer science
Aneurin Bevan - post-war architect of the National Health Service
Alexander Fleming -20th century physician, discovered penicillin
Martin Luther King - 20th century US civil rights leader, assassinated
Caroline Norton Victorian campaigner for women's rights
I noticed that very few women were mentioned....bar Maggie Thatcher, Florence Nightingale & Emily Pankhurst,
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/
Shakespeare.
Alexander The Great.
Isenbard Kingdom Brunnel
Alexander Solzhenitsin
Mahatma Gandhi
Marie Curie
Edward Jenner
Alexander Fleming
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Watson-Watt
John Logie-Baird
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
Chris Hoy
Rebecca Adlington
Ben Ainslie
Bradley Wiggins
Nicole Cooke