2002-11-24 <BBC Web-site>
30,000 people nominated their Greatest Britons last year, resulting in the Top Ten featured in the series. The definition of a 'Great Briton' for the purposes of the nominations was: anyone who was born in the British Isles, including Ireland; or anyone who lived in the British Isles, including Ireland, and who has played a significant part in the life of the British Isles.

1.Winston Chuchill
2.Isambard Kingdom Brunel
3.Princess Diana
4.Charles Darwin
5.William Shakespeare
6.Isaac Newton
7.Elizabeth 1
8.John Lennon
9.Horatio Nelson
10.Oliver Cromwell
11 Ernest Shackleton - BBCi History
12 Captain James Cook - BBCi History
13 Lord Baden-Powell - BBC Radio 4
14 King Alfred the Great - BBCi History
15 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - BBCi History
16 Margaret Thatcher (Baroness Thatcher) - BBC News
17 Michael Crawford - BBC News
18 Queen Victoria - BBCi History
19 Sir Paul McCartney - BBC News
20 Sir Alexander Fleming - BBCi History
21 Alan Turing OBE - BBC News
22 Michael Faraday - BBCi History
23 Owain Glyndwr - BBCi History
24 Queen Elizabeth II - BBC News
25 Professor Stephen Hawking - BBCi Science
26 William Tyndale - BBCi Books
27 Emmeline Pankhurst - BBCi History
28 William Wilberforce - BBCi History
29 David Bowie - BBCi Music
30 Guy Fawkes - BBCi History
31 Leonard Cheshire (Baron Cheshire of Woodall) - BBCi H2G2
32 Eric Morecambe OBE - BBCi Cult
33 David Beckham - BBC Sport
34 Thomas Paine - BBCi History
35 Boudicca - BBCi History
36 Sir Steve Redgrave - BBC Sport
37 Sir Thomas More - BBCi History
38 William Blake - BBCi History
39 John Harrison - BBC News
40 King Henry VIII - BBCi History
41 Charles Dickens - BBCi Books
42 Sir Frank Whittle - BBCi History
43 John Peel - BBC Radio 1
44 John Logie Baird - BBCi History
45 Aneurin Bevan - BBCi History
46 Boy George - BBC Music
47 Sir Douglas Bader - BBC Radio 4
48 William Wallace - BBCi History
49 Sir Francis Drake - BBCi History
50 John Wesley - External: John Wesley Online Exhibition
51 King Arthur - BBCi Religion
52 Florence Nightingale - BBCi History
53 TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) - BBC News
54 Captain Robert Falcon Scott - BBCi History
55 Enoch Powell - BBC News
56 Sir Cliff Richard - BBC News
57 Sir Alexander Graham Bell - BBCi History
58 Freddie Mercury - BBC News
59 Dame Julie Andrews - BBCi Films
60 Edward Elgar - BBCi Music
61 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother - BBC News
62 George Harrison - BBC News
63 Sir David Attenborough - BBCi Nature
64 James Connolly - BBCi History
65 George Stephenson - BBCi History
66 Sir Charles (Charlie) Chaplin - BBC News
67 Tony Blair - BBC News
68 William Caxton - BBCi History
69 Bobby Moore OBE - BBC Sport
70 Jane Austen - BBCi Books
71 William Booth - BBC Nottingham
72 King Henry V - BBCi History
73 Aleister Crowley - External: Biography.Com
74 King Robert the Bruce - BBCi History
75 Bob Geldof KBE - BBC News
76 The Unknown Warrior - BBCi History
77 Robbie Williams - BBC Radio 1
78 Edward Jenner - BBCi History
79 David Lloyd George (1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor )- BBCi History
80 Charles Babbage - BBCi History
81 Geoffrey Chaucer - BBCi Books
82 King Richard III - BBCi History
83 JK Rowling OBE - BBC News
84 James Watt - BBCi History
85 Sir Richard Branson - BBC Radio 2
86 Bono - BBC Radio 1
87 John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) - BBCi Music
88 Field Marshal Montgomery - BBC News
89 Donald Campbell - BBC News
90 King Henry II - BBCi History
91 James Clerk Maxwell - BBC News
92 JRR Tolkien - BBCi Books
93 Sir Walter Raleigh - BBCi History
94 King Edward I - BBCi History
95 Sir Barnes Neville Wallis - BBCi History
96 Richard Burton - BBC Wales
97 Tony Benn - BBC News
98 David Livingstone - BBC World Service
99 Professor Tim Berners-Lee - BBC Oxford
100 Marie Stopes - BBCi History