Following
is the list of BBC's online survey on the millennium
series.
Top
10 Inventors
| 1. |
Johannes Gutenberg |
Printing Press |
| 2. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Electrical innovations |
| 3. |
Leonardo Da Vinci |
flight, astronomy, hydrodynamics |
| 4. |
Niccola Tesla |
alternating current induction
motor |
| 5. |
Michael Faraday |
Electric motor, generator and
transformer |
| 6. |
Charles Babbage |
Precursor of calculator and
computer |
| 7. |
Alexander Graham Bell |
Telephone |
| 8. |
John Logie Baird |
Television |
| 9. |
Frank Whittle |
Jet engine |
| 10. |
Sir Isaac Newton |
Discovery of gravity |
Top
10 Writers
| 1. |
William
Shakespeare |
| 2. |
Jane
Austen |
| 3. |
George
Orwell |
| 4. |
Charles
Dickens |
| 5. |
Iain
Banks |
| 6. |
JRR
Tolkien |
| 7. |
James
Joyce |
| 8. |
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky |
| 9. |
Miguel
Cervantes |
| 10. |
Mark
Twain |
Top
10 Artists
| 1. |
Leonardo
da Vinci |
| 2. |
Michelangelo |
| 3. |
Pablo
Picasso |
| 4. |
Vincent
Van Gogh |
| 5. |
Salvador
Dali |
| 6. |
Jan
Vermeer |
| 7. |
Claude
Monet |
| 8. |
Rembrandt
(Harmenszoon) van Rijn |
| 9. |
Raphael
(Rafaello Sanzio) |
| 10. |
Giotto |
Top
10 Composers
| 1. |
Paul
McCartney |
| 2. |
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart |
| 3. |
Johann
Sebastian Bach |
| 4. |
Ludwig
van Beethoven |
| 5. |
John
Lennon |
| 6. |
Frank
Zappa |
| 7. |
Prince |
| 8. |
Richard
Wagner |
| 9. |
Bob
Dylan |
| 10. |
Van
Morrison |
Top
10 World Leaders
| 1. |
Mahatma
Gandhi |
| 2. |
Winston
Churchill |
| 3. |
Elizabeth
I |
| 4. |
George
Washington |
| 5. |
Abraham
Lincoln |
| 6. |
Nelson
Mandela |
| 7. |
Martin
Luther King |
| 8. |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
| 9. |
Ronald
Reagan |
| 10. |
Adolf
Hitler |
Top
10 Greatest Stars of Stage and Screen
| 1. |
Amitabh
Bachchan |
| 2. |
Sir
Lawrence Olivier |
| 3. |
Sir
Alec Guinness |
| 4. |
Charlie
Chaplin |
| 5. |
Homer
Simpson |
| 6. |
Robert
De Niro |
| 7. |
Cary
Grant |
| 8. |
Buster
Keaton |
| 9. |
Marylin
Monroe |
| 10. |
Govinda |
Top
10 Sports People
| 1. |
Muhammad
Ali |
| 2. |
Pele |
| 3. |
Sunil
Gavaskar |
| 4. |
Michael
Jordan |
| 5. |
Sachin
Tendulkar |
| 6. |
Sir
Don Bradman |
| 7. |
Kapil
Dev |
| 8. |
Imran
Khan |
| 9. |
Jesse
Owens |
| 10. |
Ayrton
Senna |
Top
10 Funniest People
| 1. |
Spike
Milligan |
| 2. |
John
Cleese |
| 3. |
Billy
Connolly |
| 4. |
Charlie
Chaplin |
| 5. |
Rowan
Atkinson |
| 6. |
Peter
Cook |
| 7. |
Laurel
and Hardy |
| 8. |
Peter
Sellers |
| 9. |
Lucille
Ball |
| 10. |
Eric
Morecambe |
Top
10 Thinkers
| 1. |
Karl
Marx |
| 2. |
Albert
Einstein |
| 3. |
Sir
Isaac Newton |
| 4. |
Charles
Darwin |
| 5. |
Thomas
Aquinas |
| 6. |
Stephen
Hawking |
| 7. |
Immanuel
Kant |
| 8. |
Rene
Descartes |
| 9. |
James
Clerk Maxwell |
| 10. |
Friedrich
Nietzche |
Top
10 Explorers
| 1. |
Christopher
Columbus |
| 2. |
Captain
James Cook |
| 3. |
Neil
Armstrong |
| 4. |
Marco
Polo |
| 5. |
Sir
Ernest Shackleton |
| 6. |
Ferdinand
Magellan |
| 7. |
Jacques
Cousteau |
| 8. |
Roald
Amundsen |
| 9. |
Sir
Edmund Hillary |
| 10. |
Captain
Robert Scott |
Top
10 Greatest Women
| 1. |
Indira
Gandhi |
| 2. |
Elizabeth
I |
| 3. |
Mother
Teresa |
| 4. |
Marie
Curie |
| 5. |
Margaret
Thatcher |
| 6. |
Joan
of Arc |
| 7. |
Emmeline
Pankhurst |
| 8. |
Everywoman |
| 9. |
Aung
San Suu Kyi |
| 10. |
Eleanor
Roosevelt |
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