100 Greatest Britons Quiz

Suprised to see Abraham Darby missing in this list. He developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution.

i find it humorous beckham not only made it, but is in the top 50

Odd list... Isn't Michael Crawford Australian?

21/98 This is an...interesting...list. David Beckham and Boy George?? Kicking myself that I forgot Charles Darwin, I grew up in the town he was born in...my brother went to Charles Darwin School! And it's quite funny that all of the Beatles are on this list except for poor old Ringo! @The Chosen, I can guarantee that if this was a BBC poll of the British general public, as they usually are, then probably a good 95% would have no idea who he is.

I did sooo badly at this list. I'm kicking myself. Also, poor Ringo. And wtf Robbie Williams and no Ringo??

What? Boy George?! Really? I completely understand Isaac Newton and Churchill and many others on the list, but not Boy George! Also I don't think Beckham is hardly deserving of this either. But then again I am American and so "Football" is not of much interest to me.

How is Boy George on there but Mic Jagger, Keith Richards and Elton John aren't?

David Beckham, really? And no Watson Crick, John Dalton, or Elton John?

David Beckham at number 33. Seriously? As a Brit, I strongly disagree with several people on this list, and can think of several to replace them quite easily.

Tim Berners-Lee is ninety-nine!? The man invented the web!

Who doesn't know who Isambard Kingdom Brunel is? He designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge! And Bristol Temple Meads! (Also, second best name in England, after Lancelot "Capability" Brown)

JRR Tolkien @ 96... 50 or so under boy george, and 60 or so under beckham. A pop singer and a football player. I mean, it's not like Tolkien wrote a timeless f****ng epic that people will be reading as long as people can still read, or anything. I'm sure in a century, people will still be singing Karma Chameleon and watching Beckham clips, right?

Apparently, JK Rowling is a more important writer than Tolkien, too! haha

I think James Connolly would be turning in his grave to be part of a "100 Greatest Britons Quiz"..

there are David Beckham, Boy George and Robbie Williams!!! what the hell? ...what's with Elton John and Alfred Hitchcock????

Where's Benny Hill?

30/98. Not bad for a yankee.

Hello. John Cleese? Rudyard Kipling? Elton John? Davy Jones? Dermot Morgan? The Bronte Sisters?

I got 32, which I consider okay for a "colonist." But "subjective" hardly covers it. Robbie Williams, Boy George, and David Beckham make the list, but John Milton, William Hogarth, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Disraeli, and Robert Boyle (among many others) are nowhere to be seen. Really? What does "greatest" mean, then?

27% guessed Charles Darwin? Are you kidding me?

cannot believe bono, david beckham and robbie williams are on there but tony hancock, oscar wilde and enid blyton aren't what is wrong with britain haha