Eggbert Nobacon
4:18 Sun Jan 8
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Mr blobby
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Far East Hammer
4:04 Sun Jan 8
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Agree with Northern Sold - DAVID ATTENBOROUGH for me
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Takashi Miike
2:24 Sun Jan 8
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Jerry Gilmore (now retired surgeon, and famous for his work on hernia/groin injuries, who sorted out my in growing toenails)
:.)
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Infidel
2:08 Sun Jan 8
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Fifth
Mo Farah is not English.
But if there's an award for Somalis who spent a few years in England before setting up home permanently in the US then he'd be at the top of the list.
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Northern Sold
2:01 Sun Jan 8
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David ATTENBOROUGH
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FHB
1:54 Sun Jan 8
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Brian Blessed
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G-IRONS
1:43 Sun Jan 8
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Nigel Farage.
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joe royal
1:43 Sun Jan 8
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Tony Fielding.
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Coffee
1:40 Sun Jan 8
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Depends what you mean by great. If it's an exceptional personal achievement, there are any number to choose from. If it's for what he's done to uplift others, there are also many to choose from - writers, musicians, heart surgeons, etc. My vote would go for Jack Preger.
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Fifth Column
1:34 Sun Jan 8
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Mo Farah
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geoffpikey
1:27 Sun Jan 8
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Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess Of Bath
Michael Eavis
Peter Gabriel
Julian Cope
I love a Wessex-dwelling Utopian-idealist crackpot druid, me. Hahahha!
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Lertie Button
1:16 Sun Jan 8
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Always thought Stephen Hawking was over rated.
Just was in that one movie and then was never heard of again.
And while he may be technically still alive, I would argue he's not really alive enough to count.
As for David Attenborough, if it was the most boring English man he would win, and that is no mean feat, given that's where English men excell
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Coffee
1:09 Sun Jan 8
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Hasnat Khan
Good memory!
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Sven Roeder
1:08 Sun Jan 8
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Wasn't there a heart surgeon that was poking Princess Diana?
There might have been more than one I don't think she was particularly fussy.
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gph
1:03 Sun Jan 8
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No, it's not.
If I was willing to do the research, I could come up with someone (and break this alleged circuit).
I'm not willing to do the research.
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Far Cough
1:02 Sun Jan 8
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Christian Barnard
Albeit dead and not English
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Coffee
1:01 Sun Jan 8
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True, but rather circuitous.
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gph
1:00 Sun Jan 8
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Precisely.
It's why I haven't made a nomination of my own - people working in the background don't have high visibility, but they shouldn't be ignored.
Not ignoring them requires research.
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Coffee
12:53 Sun Jan 8
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How many heart surgeons do you know?
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gph
12:49 Sun Jan 8
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People tend to concentrate on celebrities, which is understandable, but really - is anyone in show business "greater" than a decent heart surgeon, say?
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claret on my shirt
12:46 Sun Jan 8
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Me, now fuck off
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