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bet you will not beat these three.
1=William SHAKESPEARE
2=Isaac Newton
3=Henry v111
1=William SHAKESPEARE
2=Isaac Newton
3=Henry v111
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Certainly Shakespeare
Possibly Newton Elizabeth I rather than her dad imo. |
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Shakespeare
Churchill John Lennon |
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Kate Bush CBE
Lord Bowie Chris Martin ~ or Matt Bellamy |
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Kate's mother was Irish, but Kate is an English Rose
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julian clary
bobby davro jimmy savile |
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Thinking about it if you have a scientist Darwin rather than Newton. A lot of Newton's science has been superceded.
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 Yeah, apples no longer fall to the ground. |
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At the moment
Mo Farah Sadiq Khan Tom Daley |
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Winston Churchill
Enoch Powell Nigel Farage. Three rarities,honest English patriots. |
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Ian Botham
Bobby Charlton John Lennon |
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A complicated question but it shouldn't be, The three most famous English people of all time as we stand now would have been different 10, 25, 50, 100 years ago, just because someone may be in the list now who may well be still alive or very recently deceased they would not qualify because the question says OF ALL TIME, so people being asked in 1716 1816 & 1916 may well have said Isaac Newton which surely beats the pants off any c r a p answers your gonna get with recent sporting & showbiz people.
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You'd like to think its:
Churchill Shakespeare Isaac Newton It's probably: Rita Ora Wayne Rooney Chris Martin |
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I give some English conversation classes and we used this topic recently. The results were Churchill, Shakespeare and Beckham. Groups are from teenagers to 50ish and Russian.
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Imo
Churchill Shakespeare Elizabeth II |
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It's the longevity of yer Shakespeares and yer Newtons versus the mass market, Internet-age global profile of yer Beckhams.
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Wellington held much the same position as Churchill a century earlier.Cromwell was the only non-royal ruler of England before parliamentary democracy. Both were great generals which Churchill wasn't. As somebody wisely said earlier the answer will be different depending on when you ask it. In 2016 I accept Churchill would be far ahead of the other two but I'm not sure that would be true in 2500. I didn't say ALL Newton's theories have been shown to be wrong. I'm not a scientist but I don't think it works like that. Einstein showed things were a lot more complicated than Newton thought and his theories,although themselves questioned in certain areas,now are the foundation stone of modern physics. Darwin holds the same position in biology as Einstein in physics but of course that will probably no longer be true in 2500.
So I'll go with Shakespeare Darwin Churchill ( replacing Elizabeth I ) I'd be confident Shakespeare will still be anmongst the top 3 in 400 years,but I doubt the other two would. Anybody want to bet ?  Sportspeople do not last. W G Grace was more famous in his day than Beckham or any other English sportsperson you care to mention but nobody now even thinks of him as one of the top 5 or 10 greatest English sportsmen. |
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1) Charles Darwin
2) Horatio Nelson 3) The Duke of Wellington |
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Yeah but, right now, as of this moment, polling everyone in the world, given the dumbed-down nature of life in the 21st Century.....
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1)Robin Hood
2)Sherlock Holmes 3)James Bond |
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I was thinking along the same lines lfc,but Harry Potter is ahead of at least 2 of yours imo.
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Tarzan in 4th place
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Charlie Chaplin possibly more famous than anyone else in history.
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You can't have Tarzan. He was created by an American ffs.
Chaplin is nothing like as well known now as when I was young,which wasn't at the time Chaplin's silent films. |
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people are not famous for very long now.
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in fact there are no famous people now, at this moment in time.
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we are waiting for someone from England to become famous again.
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No women?
Boudica Nancy Mitford Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Elizabeth I
Jane Austen Florence Nightingale Tbf quite a few have mentioned the current Queen. |
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King Arthur, famous all over the planet for his round tables, his swords in stones and ladies in lakes. he's also the one of the oldest in British history.
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British is the giveaway though. Wherever he was based and whether he actually existed,one thing he wasn't was English.
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it would be impossible for King Arthur to be anything other than English,
especially if he was fictional. |
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He was Celtic so we Welsh can claim him imo. Fictional or not,and the chances are he was vaguely based on a real person,he spent his life fighting the English as in Anglo-Saxons.
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If you're looking for famous Anglo-saxons prior to the Norman conquest there is obviously Alfred but arguably even greater the now almost completely forgotten Aethelstan,the first king to rule over the whole of an England with roughly the present boundaries.
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yes i was getting Arthur mixed up with Alfred the Great.
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Alfred's dad Æthelwulf was the main man..
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we are after English heroes g2d, with names like Arthur, Alfred and Robin
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the US wouldn`t put someone on the moon unless he had an American name.
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Robin is kraut..
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