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Bing-ing it up (no Google in this company) it looks like she'd have the 10£ in fact.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm voting for Justin Bieber. Only one thing we have to do first...
Surely, Piers Morgan would fit into that category as well??? 
But seriously, if Shakespeare isn't on one of them, I would be really disappointed... 
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Johnny J. wrote: if Shakespeare isn't on one of them, I would be really disappointed..
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Prepare to be disappointed - He was on the £20 ages ago and IIRC another provision for choosing people is that they haven't already been used on a previous note.
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So that leaves Piers Morgan, you say, huh? 
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That's going to be interesting some time inthe future when we run out of 'noble' people and start having to resort to putting Cheryl Cole and Jade Goody on them.
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Johnny J. wrote: But seriously, if Shakespeare isn't on one of them, I would be really disappointed..
I don't think they can use fictitious people 
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OriginalGriff wrote: they are polymer rather than paper
I would have preferred Liquid Nitrogen. 
Anyways, how about Rudyard Kipling and/or Ian Fleming?
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They've already chosen Jane Austen to my utter dismay. I tried reading Sense and Sensibility once and just thought this is just useless. If you are going to write satire, just go for the jugular, don't hide it behind a veneer of respectability. Still, it panders to the UK populace's desire top live in the 18th century. Of course they are all fantasising about living above stairs, but in truth most of us were on the other side of the green baize door working in appalling conditions to keep the aristos in the lap of luxury, or increasingly laboring in factories with few actual rights. If they wanted a female novelist then Emily Bronte would have been a better choice.
My Left-field answer would be John Snow[^] - not the Stark on the wall (too fictional) or the Channel 4 TV presenter (too alive).
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John Maynard Keynes is the only rational person - especially if they print loads and load s of them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: The only criteria is that they must be famous, and dead.
Um, I think you might have forgotten one minor detail.
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No, no - I think I'm good...
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Why not Bob? 
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Don't you dare question my religion!
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OriginalGriff wrote: who to show on the back of them all yet
If I am correctly informed, Dalek Dave candidates.
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This is easy - Jeremy Clarkson and Jim Clark...
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+1 on Jim Clark - There is a sequence of bends named after him at my local track[^]. Before my time, but my dad used to watch him race.
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I go along with the dead sentiment, but would you really want to be reminded of his smug mug every time someone handed you a fiver?
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I can't believe that nobody has suggested John Lennon.
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Now, I loved Keith Moon and the Who, but I really don't think he's as big a cultural icon as Lennon or similarly The Who, The Beatles.
I'm not even saying that I was a huge Lennon fan, but his influence on popular music was just incredible. There are others who have had a major impact (e.g., Buddy Holly, Elvis, Hendrix to name but a few), but it's hard to think of anyone who has had more (and he was British!) Moon, I'm sure, influenced many drummers with his energetic style, and he entertained many of us.
I don't see him on a British bank note!
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I agree with all of that, but seeing Moon the Loon looking back at you from a bank note would make me smile every single day I saw one.
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