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100 Greatest Britons is a television series that was broadcast by the BBC in 2002. It was based on a television poll conducted to determine who the British people at that time considered the greatest Britons in history. [1][2] The series included individual programmes featuring the top ten, with viewers having further opportunity to vote after ...
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800–1888), Commander of cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava. William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865–1951), general, First World War. Robert Blake (1599–1657), reforming Royal Navy Admiral. William Bligh (1754–1817), best known for the mutiny of the Bounty.
New Zealander. Fijian. v. t. e. Lists of British people cover people from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The list are organized by region, by religion, by country of origin and by occupation.
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, [ 22 ] are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. 23 24 25 British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.
This category has the following 28 subcategories, out of 28 total. 20th-century English people (7 C, 426 P) 20th-century Gibraltarian people (1 C, 12 P) 20th-century Manx people (1 C, 5 P) 20th-century people from Northern Ireland (4 C, 11 P) 20th-century Scottish people (6 C, 70 P) 20th-century Welsh people (4 C, 27 P)
Celtic Britons. The Britons (* Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons[1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]
Andrew Garfield (born 1983) (dual British and American citizenship; born in Los Angeles, California, United States) Chris Geere (born 1981) Samia Ghadie (born 1982) Mandip Gill (born 1988) Karen Gillan (born 1987) Henry Golding (born 1987) (born in Betong, Malaysia) Holliday Grainger (born 1988) Kelly Greenwood (born 1982) Lucy Griffiths (born ...
Many people have been created honorary knights or dames by the British crown.There are also those that have been appointed to two comparable orders, the Order of Merit and the Order of the Companions of Honour, and those that have had conferred on them the decoration of the Royal Victorian Chain; none of these carries pre-nominal styles.