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1 George Stephenson - Father of the railways/builder of the first steam locomotive

2 Emily Wilding Davison - suffragette/women's rights activist

3 David Attenborough - naturalist

4 Isambard Kingdom Brunel - engineer

5 Emily Bronte - author

Saint

I don't know about other banks, but you have to be dead to appear on a Bank of England note. David Attenborough and Chris Hoy therefore don't qualify (yet... ).

Alan Turing is going to be on the new BoE £50 note.

George Stephenson has already been on the BoE £5:



I don't know if I could name five, but when the BoE were asking for nominations for a science/technology subject I said right from the start that although I deeply admire Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace, there are (IMO) two who should be considered before anyone-else, They are:

James Clerk Maxwell: Arguably one of the three greatest scientists of all time - right up there with Newton and Einstein.

Francis Bacon: Developed the scientific method, without which we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place...

Eugene's Lair
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Capability Brown was one of those people the public nominated to appear on the £20 note. In the end it was J M W Turner chosen by the Bank of England.
Here's a link to the list of "visual artists" who were nominated by the public:
https://www.bankofengland.co.u...7F949C691E56CF6CBDDA
That list also includes the film directors/writers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger who made films such as "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter of Life and Death". They were nominated by me though I don't know if anyone else did.

El Loro

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