The most influential Elizabethans

Sir Tim Berners Lee (The World Wide Web)

Sir David Attenborough

Tim Peake

Jack Monroe - telling it how it really is.....

The Beatles. (Well I would say that ).)

Watson and Crick.

Rosalind Franklin

Dame Sarah Gilbert.

Professor Ian Donald Glasgow Obstetrician creator of Ultrasound scans in pregnancy ,one I have reason to be grateful to

Johnny Rotten (only joking)!

What about Elvis?

Sorry, Elvis is American so probably doesn't count. We should be looking at Brits.

The Labour Party after the war.

Margaret Thatcher, very influential whether you like her or despise her.

Magdi Yakoub for heart transplants

The in vitro fertilisation team

Mary Quant
Terence Conran

If it doesn’t need to be a Brit then I’d go with Germaine Greer otherwise, Marie Stopes.

Both had a huge influence during the last century.

Elizabethans do most definitely need to be British, I would have thought.

Greer being born in Australia has lived and worked in Britain for a very long time, so I’m not sure.
She certainly feels very British!

I will second Lady Thatcher.
As a life long Labour supporter and more recently a member of the party, I still firmly believe that she was an exceptional woman in her achievements; and that she was very much of our time.

Pantglas2

If it doesn’t need to be a Brit then I’d go with Germaine Greer otherwise, Marie Stopes.

Both had a huge influence during the last century.

I was going to include both in my list.

Robert Winston I think he's a Lord now. Made it possible for many people to become parents.

FannyCornforth

Elizabethans do most definitely need to be British, I would have thought.

Greer being born in Australia has lived and worked in Britain for a very long time, so I’m not sure.
She certainly feels very British!

I will second Lady Thatcher.
As a life long Labour supporter and more recently a member of the party, I still firmly believe that she was an exceptional woman in her achievements; and that she was very much of our time.

I was thinking of Thatcher, though I see her as a malign, rather than a good influence. She destroyed the post war consensus, destroyed manufacturing and destroyed 'society'. Not to mention engraining a totally false understanding of how a national economy works which is virtually impossible to shift.

Regrettably, because I know this is so negative, I can't immediately think of any truly 'stand out' positive female influencers.

Another vote for Margaret Thatcher.
I would have thought Barbara Castle. It was the Labour party who devalued her influence.

Late in their career, but Tippett, Vaughan Williams and Britten must count.
Ken Loach, Nicholas Roeg, Mike Leigh.

In the art world.

Tracy Emin

My vote for the art world goes to
Dame Laura Knight

Delia Smith - she certainly influenced the way people cooked.