Curious of an outsiders perspective, who are the 3 most famous British Prime Ministers?

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1. Boris Johnson, Thatcher, and Churchill.

2. Winston Churchill

   Margaret Thatcher

   Tony Blair

3. Thatcher, Churchill, and Disraeli.

4. Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Bloody Maddie Thatcher.

5. Churchhill

   Thatcher

   [Third Entry]

   There’s a few options for number 3, but none that really stand out.

6. Winston Chuchill

   Tony Blair

   Uh…that one guy who was pro-Brexit and kind of Trump-ish?

7. Churchill, Thatcher, Johnson

   The first three to come to mind, Blair was 4th.

8. Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher come to mind. I know of most of the others that have been PM in my lifetime (Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair) but I don’t think I would consider them as big as Churchill and Thatcher.

9. Tony Blair

   Margaret Thatcher

   Winston Churchill

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   (Answering this without reading the comments but I’m going to assume this is what everyone will say 😂)

10. I would think 50 year old + such as I am would say Thatcher because she was close to Reagan. Blair as he was close to Bush and Bozo er Boris as he was close to Trump.

    Chamberlain and Churchill for the history buffs.

    I wanna say there was John Major in there somewhere

11. More recently: Blair, Thatcher, Johnson. All time though? Churchill has to be in the list.

12. Among Americans of my generation: Churchill, Thatcher and Blair. Many would also be familiar with Neville Chamberlain for Munich.

    Other ones that stick out in my mind, but most people not into history wouldn’t know much about: Lloyd George and Clement Atlee.

13. Leaving aside the fellow who just left, probably Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Benjamin Disraeli, in that order.

14. I know Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair.

15. Lord Palmerston

    Pitt the Elder

    Churchill

16. Churchill, Thatcher, Chamberlain

17. Churchill, Lloyd George, Disraeli. Honorable mention to Gladstone just for the number of times he held the job.

18. Tony the Tiger

    Churchill

    Thatcher

19. Churchill

    Thatcher

    Blair

    Now answer me this. Why has no one ever seen James May and Theresa May at the same time?

20. Churchhill

    Thatcher

    [Insert the current one here]

    Those three are the ones that Americans are most likely to be aware of.

21. Since all the other answers have probably answered your question already, I’ll spice it up a bit.

    Here are my 3 favorite PMs as a student of history:

    Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston)

    Benjamin Disraeli

    Arthur Balfour

22. Churchill

    Thatcher

    One of Blair/Chamberlin/Johnson

23. Churchill, Thatcher and of course, Gordon Brown. Nah, I’m just kidding, it’s Tony Blair.

24. Thatcher, Churchill, and Blair are gut answers

25. Churchill and Thatcher. The others are all moderately well-known or forgettable.

26. Gladstone D’Israeli, Churchill

27. Thatcher, Churchill, and Blair.

    Chamberlain as a runner up.

28. Churchill

    Thatcher

    Lloyd George

29. Churchhill

    Thacher

    Boris Johnson with the amount of smear comics made against him.

30. Margaret Thatcher, Regan’s mirror across the pond.

    Winston Churchill because…duh.

    Tony Blair, he was the first prime minister I knew of outside the former two because he was around for so long.

31. Winston Churchill

    Margaret Thatcher

    Tony Blair

32. Churchill… I can’t think of anymore.

33. Churchill, Thatcher, and Blair most likely. Other contenders for the third slot would be the recent PMs (Cameron, Johnson, May, Truss) just due to recency bias, Chamberlain, and Disraeli.

34. Churchill, Thatcher…..

    Does Cromwell count?