The New Elizabethans: the full list

The 60 people who BBC Radio 4 claims have had the greatest impact on Britain during the second Elizabethan period will be profiled over the next few months. Here is the list of who they selected:

Goldie was named among the 60 most influential people of the last 60 years
Goldie was named among the 60 most influential people of the last 60 years

1. Edmund Hillary

b.1919 –2008. New Zealand born mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist.

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hilary (left) and Sherpa Tenzing

Norgay (right)

2. Elizabeth David

b.1913 – 1992. Cookery writer.

3. Graham Greene

b.1904 – 1991. Author, playwright and literary critic.

4. Michael Young

b.1915-2002. Social innovator

5. Vladimir Raitz

b.1922 – 2010. Co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group and pioneer of the first mass package holidays abroad via charter flights.

6. Doris Lessing

b.1919. Zimbabwean-British writer awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Doris Lessing - Doris Lessing rejected top honour for being 'in the name of a non-existent Empire'

Doris Lessing refused to be made a dame claiming it was 'in the name of a non-existent Empire'

7. Alan Sainsbury

b.1902 –1 998. Business executive and a leading member of the supermarket Sainsbury family.

8. Alfred Hitchcock

b.1899-1980. Film director and producer.

9. Laurence Olivier

b.1907-1989. Actor and former Artistic Director of the National Theatre.

Dame Judi's cameo role worth the work, says Marilyn director

Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and

The Showgirl

10. Benjamin Britten

Attention to detail: Benjamin Britten (left) inspects a model of the set for his opera Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten (left) inspects a model of the set for his

opera Peter Grimes

11. Dorothy Hodgkin

b.1910 – 1994. Chemist

12. Harold Pinter

b.1930-2008. Nobel Prize winning playwright and actor.

13. Richard Doll

b.1912 – 2005. Physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century.

14. Tony Hancock

b.1924-1968. Comedian and actor

15. Philip Larkin

b.1922 – 1985. Poet

Philip Larkin

16. Barbara Windsor

b.1937. Actress

17. Alfred Denning

b.1899-1999. Soldier, mathematician, lawyer and judge.

Lord Denning

18. Paul Foot

b.1937- 2004. Investigative journalist.

19. Francis Bacon

b.1909 – 1992. Artist

Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon at the Tate Gallery in

1985

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20/21. John Lennon/ Paul McCartney

Musicians – The Beatles

22. Margot Fonteyn

b.1919-1991. Ballerina

23. Peter Hall

b.1930. Theatre and film director, founder of RSC.

24. Terence Conran

b.1931. Designer, restaurateur, retailer.

25. Enoch Powell

b.1912 – 1998. Conservative politician.

Enoch Powell gave priority to his streams of eloquence

Enoch Powell became notorious after his Rivers

of

Blood speech on immigration

26. Cicely Saunders

b.1918-2005. Nurse, physician and writer – prominent role in birth of hospice movement.

27. Basil D'Oliveira

b.1931 – 2011. South African-born English cricketer.

Thieves steal Basil D'Oliveira cricketing medals

Basil D'Oliveira

28. George Best

b.1946 -2005. Northern Irish footballer who played for Manchester United.

29. Germaine Greer

b.1939. Australian writer, academic, journalist, scholar of early modern English literature and feminist voice of the later 20th century.

Germain Greer

30. Robert G Edwards

b.1925. Physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular.

31. Jack Jones

b.1913–2009. Trade union leader and General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Jack Jones

Jones greets pensioners and trade unionists in

Trafalgar Square, 25th February

32. Roald Dahl

b.1916 – 1990. Novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

33. David Bowie

b.1947. Musician

David Bowie was 65 on 8 January 2012. His song Life On Mars? topped a poll this month of his best songs.

David Bowie

34. Talaisai Labalaba

Fijian-born SAS member (one of nine SAS who, with men of the Omani forces, defended the fort at Mirbat in Oman in July 1972 from an attack by 250 communist guerrillas which continued for many hours and cost the lives of three SAS.)

35. Jocelyn Bell Burnell

b.1943. Astrophysicist

Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

36. Roy Jenkins

b.1920-2003. Politician

37. Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Westwood: 'Contemporary artists can’t draw’

Dame Vivienne Westwood

38. Jayaben Desai

b.1933 – 2010. Indian born prominent leader of the strikers in the Grunwick dispute in London in 1976.

39. Stuart Hall

b.1932. Cultural theorist and sociologist.

40. David Attenborough

My Perfect Christmas: David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough

41. Margaret Thatcher

b.1925. Politician and longest serving PM (1979-1990) of 20th century

42. David Hockney

b.1937. Artist

David Hockney

43. Billy Connolly

b.1942. Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor.

44. Ralph Robins

Industrialist, former CEO of Rolls Royce.

45. Amartya Sen

b.1933. Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

46. Salman Rushdie

b.1947. British Indian novelist and essayist.

Salman Rushdie to return to India after death threats
Salman Rushdie to return to India after death threats Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

Salman Rushdie

47. Anita Roddick

b.1942 – 2007. Businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner.

48. Norman Foster

b.1935. Architect

Sky's the limit: Norman Foster, architect of 30 St Mary Axe, also known as The Gherkin.

Norman Foster

49. Charles Saatchi

b.1943. Co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi

50. Goldie

b.1965. Musician, DJ and artist.

51/52. John Hume/ David Trimble

Joint winners of the 1998 Nobel Peace prize.

53. Doreen Lawrence

b.1953, mother of Stephen Lawrence, teenager murdered in 1998 – campaigner for victims of race crime.

54. Tim Berners Lee

b.1955. Computer scientist, MIT professor and the brains behind the internet.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners Lee

55. Diana Princess of Wales

b.1961-1997.

56. Alex Salmond

b.1954. Scottish politician currently First Minister for Scotland.

57. Tony Blair

b.1953 Labour Prime Minister from 1997- 2007, the only person to lead Labour to three consecutive victories.

58. Fred Goodwin

b.1958. Scottish chartered accountant and former banker who was chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) between 2001-09.

Sir Fred Goodwin rose from one of the most deprived council estates in the country to become one of Britain's leading bankers, with a formidable reputation to match.
Sir Fred Goodwin rose from one of the most deprived council estates in the country to become one of Britain's leading bankers, with a formidable reputation to match. Credit: PA

Fred Goodwin

59. Rupert Murdoch

b.1931. (Australian born) American media mogul, founder and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation.

60. Simon Cowell

b.1959. TV executive, television producer, entrepreneur and television personality.

HM Queen Elizabeth II