Who are your 5 most Greatest Achievers in History?

**Rheghead** · 25-Aug-08, 00:17

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

**riggerboy** · 25-Aug-08, 00:30

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

**Rheghead** · 25-Aug-08, 00:32

Originally Posted by riggerboy

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?

**Melancholy Man** · 25-Aug-08, 00:57

Dimitri Mendeleev

Bit like Charlotte Church publishing her biography age 15.

**Welcomefamily** · 25-Aug-08, 07:58

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

**dook** · 25-Aug-08, 08:56

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** · 25-Aug-08, 08:59

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

**hotrod4** · 25-Aug-08, 10:37

My five would be:

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

**teenybash** · 25-Aug-08, 11:33

Florence Ninghtingale,
Emily Pankhurst,
The Wright Brothers....do they count as two?

Fred Dibnah and his history of the steam engine..............

**Kevin Milkins** · 25-Aug-08, 11:53

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

**joxville** · 25-Aug-08, 12:18

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

Thanks for starting a good thread Rheghead.

**Tilter** · 25-Aug-08, 16:31

Only 1 achiever for me:

Charles Darwin

(No one else comes close)

**scotsboy** · 25-Aug-08, 17:34

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

**scotsboy** · 25-Aug-08, 18:02

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** · 25-Aug-08, 18:17

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,

**joxville** · 25-Aug-08, 20:42

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/