Famous Persons On Bank Notes.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23424289

Ignoring the rather silly row regarding the lack of a female monarch for a number of years, and now the lack of a female, (apart from the Queen), on our banknotes, so as to equal things up a little, who would you wish to see on our bank notes?

A famous male and a famous female on each of these bank notes, £5, £10, £20, £50, these famous people have to have lived in the 20th and 21st century.

[sp1814]

Agatha Christie
Elizabeth Taylor
Jane Austen
Alan Turing

[tiggerblue10]

Oh dear, I didn't realise that :o(

[tiggerblue10]

I am really pleased that Jane Austin has been chosen :o)))

[jake-the-peg]

Too much of a risk - put someone living on a bank note and you've no idea how they'll turn out.

Can you imagine some in the 70's saying - hey let's put Jimmy Saville on the new fiver!

[emmie]

the Queen is on the banknote, and she is very much alive.

[jno]

Emmeline Pankhurst ran as a Tory candidate in elections. Christabel promoted Seventh Day Adventism. I'd much sooner see Sylvia on the money.

[joeluke]

Who gives a t0ss whose mugs are on our banknotes?

For all I care Jack the Ripper, Myra Hindley, Fred West and Harold Shipman could all be staring at me from my wallet as long as the notes are legal tender

[sp1814]

John Lennon - hmmm..I think that in a few decades time we could see The Beatles in a group shot on the back of a note...

[weecalf]

Id put Harry Worth on the fiver at least in a few years it would not be worthless .

[tonyav]

Sir Alf Ramsey.

[frugalfred]

£5 - excelsior
£10 - mrs overall
£20 - desktop
£50 - Psybbo

[joko]

Christopher Lillicrap, Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin - for their outstanding service in the teaching of an entire generation of children - for they are our future.

(as long as Floella can wear her polo mint earrings on it)

[Nibble]

Prof Brian Cox - please....

[boxtops]

^ that was me, not him :-)

[Baldric]

Margaret Thatcher should be so honoured,
for her powers of persuasion.

[nungate]

Tommy Flowers (yes I do know who he is/was and what he did - btw I didn't have to google him!)
Sylvia Pankhurst
Clement Attlee

[emmie]

nungate perhaps you are the only one, he deserves as much credit if not more than Alan Turing.

[Sharingan]

Ladies = Marie Stopes, Nancy Astor, Angela Berners-Wilson, Margor Fonteyne,Helen Bamber
Gents= Alan Turing, Ted Hughes, Ernest Shackelton, Alexander Fleming, Stephen Hawking