Eh up! 50 of t'greatest Yorkshirefolk

Sir Bernard Ingham, latterly of Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street, has just published a book on famous Yorkshire people - Yorkshire Greats RRP £19.99 £13.99 at Amazon (click here)

You'll be surprised just how many famous Yorkshirefolk there are dotted through history.

The top 3:
James Cook 1728-79, explorer
William Wilberforce 1759-1833, campaigner and abolitionist
John Harrison 1693-1776, clockmaker

Notable others in the list: Guy Fawkes, Joseph Priestley, Emily Brontë, Ted Hughes and David Hockney. Not in the top-50: the other Brontë sisters, Geoff Boycott and Parkie.

Link: Guardian Unlimited Books | News | The 50 greatest Yorkshire people?.

The full list:

James Cook 1728-79, explorer

William Wilberforce 1759-1833, campaigner and abolitionist

John Harrison 1693-1776, clockmaker

Edwin 585-633, saint and king

Alcuin 732-804, scholar

John Wycliffe 1330-84, theologian

William Bradford 1590-1657, pilgrim father

John Smeaton 1724-92, engineer

William Bateson 1861-1926, geneticist

Joseph Bramah 1748-1814, inventor

Augustus Pitt-Rivers 1827-1900, anthropologist

Joseph Priestley 1733-1804, scientist

Henry Briggs 1561-1630, mathematician

George Cayley 1897-1967, air pioneer

John Cockroft 1897-1967, scientist

Fred Hoyle 1915-2001, astronomer

Almroth Wright 1861-1947, doctor

Amy Johnson 1903-41, aviator

Lady Boothroyd 1929 -, politician

Prime ministers Rockingham 1730-82, Asquith 1852-1928 and Wilson 1916-95

Titus Salt 1803-76, industrialist

Michael Sadler 1861-1943, educationalist

John Curwen 1816-80, musician

Thomas Fairfax 1612-71, soldier

St John Fisher 1469-1535, martyr

Guy Fawkes 1570-1606, traitor

Thomas Chippendale 1718-79, furniture maker

Percy Shaw 1890-1976, inventor

Harry Brearley 1871-1948, inventor

J Arthur Rank 188-1972, film maker

Emily Brontë 1818-48, writer

William Congreve 1870-1729, playwright

JB Priestley 1894-1984, writer

Alan Bennett 1934-, writer

Charles Laughton 1899-1962, actor

Andrew Marvell 1621-78, poet

Ted Hughes 1930-98, poet

David Hockney 1937-, artist

Henry Moore 1898-1986, sculptor

Frederick Delius 1862-1934, composer

John Barry 1933-, film music composer

Janet Baker 1933- singer

Leonard Hutton 1916-90, cricketer

Fred Truman 1931-, cricketer

Brian Clough 1935-2004, footballer and manager

Alan Hinkes 1954-, mountaineer

Barbara Harrison 1945-68, air stewardess

Stanley Hollis VC 1912-72, soldier