1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel – the greatest engineer of the Victorian age. Ahead of his time.
2. Joseph Lister – improved survival rates in medical treatment immensely with the use of antiseptics.
3. Michael Faraday – did important work relating to electro-magnetism. Where would we be without electricity?
4. Alexander Fleming – the discoverer of penicillin.
5. Isaac Newton – awesome contribution to science.
6. Horatio Nelson – a British naval hero.
7. The Duke of Wellington – sorted out Napoleon and stopped him taking over Europe.
8. John Logie Baird – the inventor of television.
9. Alexander Graham Bell – the inventor of the telephone.
10. Winston Churchill – the best prime minister Britain ever had, at a time when we needed one most.
11. George Cayley – The Father of Aeronautics – constructed and demonstrated a man-carrying glider near Scarborough 50 years before the Wright Brothers flew.