Which Brit do you most admire?

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I was going to say if you are British but it doesn't matter if people from other countries say what their favourite British person is. I seem to think a lot of people would say Churchill is their favourite or greatest Brit yet even though I admire his leadership in world war two, he is a rather controversial character with parts of his character I don't like.

I personally would choose the writer JRR Tolkien, he is not really my favourite of all time but just because I've read his works since reading them beginning at 18 and was fascinated after seeing the films that I started reading them and I remember at one stage wanting to write something like he had done but it was frustratingly hard to think about and it's not something I could write and publish quickly whereas it took him years to write his works.

Rosalind Franklin who discovered the molecular structure of DNA.

Gordon Ramsay
I don't admire his blunt attitude, but he does know his cooking. Since following his YouTube channel, I've learnt how to make mouth watering burgers and succulent scrambled eggs.

Come to think of it, a lot of culinary icons come from that side of the pond, but Gordon Ramsay sticks out to me.

Piers Morgan, most definitely.

Nigel Farage is hot but that doesn't mean I'm going to vote for him.

John Loggie Baird. He's the one who invented Television. I watch that great British invention each night before bed.

Ringo Starr
He is a drummer, and a conductor, and an all around night person.

If not Mr. Starr, then Lando Norris.

Aw Chris Rea died aged 74
That's no age

He's a Brit I was always fond of

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0q5g3v02qjt

Alan Turing paved the way for computers. He headed the team that cracked Germany's Enigma machine.
He thought beyond pure math. His team realized that cracking the code wasn't enough. There were ethical issues to be dealt with so that they German's didn't know they cracked the code.

He is on the fifty pound note.

My favorite British subject of all time was Alexander Campbell and my favorite British people are Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.

Alan Turin and William Shakespeare are two people on the top of my list.

Barry Evans he was an actor in Doctor in the house and Mind your Language.
Gordon Ramsay he came out here to Australia to be on Masterchef and treated the contestants very well.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the 2 a real Lady.

I kind of admire Oliver Cromwell for putting the Monarchy in its place.