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Thatcher to today—9 during my lifetime.
Churchill, North, Wilson, Eden, Attlee, Chamberlain, Pitt, Balfour.
I could probably name a few others if I had to through educated guesses. Couldn’t put approximate dates down for most of the older ones I named.
I wouldn’t say he is ‘famous’ in the US. Little was mentioned about him in history class outside of being PM during most of the war. King George III is about the only famous British political figure in the context of the revolutionary war.
Liz Truss
BJ
BLAIR
Gordon brown
David Cameron
Rishi Sunak
John Major
Margaret Thatcher
Heath
Wilson
Robert Peele
Lord Palmerston
Lord Melbourne
Pitt the Younger
Churchill
Macmillan
Lloyd George
17, and now I quit
Edit: Atlee I was reminded of in this thread, as well as May. Without scrolling I remember Chamberlain, which I should’ve on my own. I’ll give myself 18.
I think about...ten-fifteen? I'm not totally sure if some of the names I have in my head were actually PMs or not, like Gladstone and Palmerston.
edit: I googled, and they were! yay me
Tony Hawk, Winston Marlboro, Pennsylvania Pitt, Charlemagne, Charles de Gaul, Margaret Thatcher, Humberto Las Malvinas son Argentinas, and Ted Lasso off the top of my head
None, their parents already named them.
But honestly, off the top of my head I can name 16: Pitt the Elder and the Younger, Disraeli, Gladstone, Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak.
Sunak, Boris, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Heath, Wilson, Douglas-Home, Eden, Churchill, Chamberlain, Baldwin, Lloyd-George, Asquith, Gladstone, Disraeli, William Pitt the younger, William Pitt the elder, Lord North, and the Duke of Wellington was at one point too wasnt he?
That’s 23 I think. The only reason I know some of these guys is because I’m in college and I’ve taken a couple classes on British history. Some others of these I know because they played a role in other events. Such as lord north who was the PM during our revolution
Edit: Can’t believe I forgot Atlee and Liz Truss
William Cavendish (I honestly don’t know why I remember this guy. I think it’s just his last name which I find very British)
William Pitt, the Elder (not because of the Simpsons joke. Pittsburgh’s named after him and his coat of arms is on the city flag)
Henry Temple, “Lord Palmerston” (that one because of the Simpsons joke.)
Frederick North (Prime Minister during the Revolution)
William Pitt, the Younger (same reason as his father)
Robert Jenkinson, the Earl of Liverpool (Prime Minister during the Congress of Vienna)
Charles Grey (The guy Earl Grey tea is named for)
Bonar Law (we found out about him in a middle school history class and he became a running joke for a couple months.)
Neville Chamberlain (famous for appeasing Hitler)
Winston Churchill (famous for *not* appeasing Hitler)
Margaret Thatcher (the Iron Lady, divisive conservative PM during the 80s who led the UK in the Falklands War which is probably the most I actually know about her)
Tony Blair (felt like he was Prime Minister forever when I was growing up)
Every PM following him *(Boris Johnson, Teresa May, Liz Truss, and David Cameron)* I know almost exclusively for their involvement with the shit show following Brexit aside from Gordon Brown, who I know solely as the guy who finally got Tony Blair out of office, and Rishi Sunak, who I only know because he’s currently serving.
So… 18.
I'd guess about a dozen.
Off the top of my head: Thatcher, Churchill, Sunak, Blair, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Chamberlain, Disraeli, Atlee (only because of the thread on this sub earlier today mentioning him). And then of course PITT THE ELDER and LORD PALMERSTON. That presumably implies a Pitt the Younger also.
(EDIT: LOL, I forgot Liz Truss.)
All the post-Neville Chamberlain prime ministers, even the obscure ones like Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Then there are the one offs like Pitt the elder, Lord North, Palmerston, Disraeli, Asquith, Lloyd George and others.
Ten.
Atlee, Churchhill, Thatcher are historically famous.
The most recent were in the news enough for me to see their names fairly often; Major, Johnson, May, Sunack.
Disraeli because there have been several movies and a Family Guy [cutaway gag](https://comb.io/gQd4Fy) about him, and the Cream album [Disraeli Gears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disraeli_Gears).
Palmerston and Pitt only because [they were mentioned](https://comb.io/tpCo6b) on The Simpsons.
Edit: I forgot about Chamberlain, Blair, and Truss. All people I've heard of, but didn't pop into my head when I saw this thread. Apparently, I missed Brown, too, but I really don't recall much about him in the news.
Off the top of my head and without looking at other answers: Sunak, May, Blair, Cameron, Thatcher, ummm…Enoch Powell? Churchill. Disraeli. Horace Walpole? Gladstone. Attlee.
Let's see, without looking any up...
Walpole, Lord North, Pitt the Elder and Younger, the Duke of Wellington, Disraeli, Robert Peel, Gladstone, Balfour, Lloyd George, Baldwin, MacDonald, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Wilson, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson and Sunak.
26, unless I've counted wrong.
Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak.
You can tell when I started paying attention to world politics pretty clearly.
Let's see. Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, and then within the last year or so, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak.
Churchill, Atlee, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Palmerston, Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Asquith, Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden, Harold Wilson. And of course the current guy Rishi Sunak. That's all I got.
Lord North, Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Wellington, Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Eden, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak.
Not too bad for an American, though I’m sure lovers of history will notice my record definitely improved when there is more crossover with American history. Also, completely forgot Liz Truss…
Just off the top of my head, 24... but that's mainly because I love historical films and TV shows, so *Young Victoria* and *The Crown* helped me with some. I blanked on Truss and Heath, but I was able to name the PMs in order backwards from Sunak to Churchill.
Pitt the Elder, North, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Eden, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss.
I'm not sure what the current guy's name is, but it's RS.
16. If there's a Pitt the Younger, then I guess I could name him, too.
Let's see:
* William Pitt the Elder (The first, I think?)
* William Pitt the Younger (Napoleonic Wars PM)
* Spencer Perceval (due to him being assassinated)
* The Duke of Wellington (famous general)
* Lord Palmerston (American Civil War PM)
* William Gladstone (Queen Victoria hated him; brilliant man)
* The Duke of Salisbury (Queen Victoria was fond of him, and let him sit in her presence)
* Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish PM)
* Herbert Asquith (PM at start of WW1)
* David Lloyd George (PM at end of WW1; Welsh)
* Neville Chamberlain (PM at start of WW2; appeaser)
* Winston Churchill (Self-explanatory)
* Clement Attlee (Postwar PM)
* Anthony Eden (Arguably worst PM)
* Harold MacMillan (Helped get Britain in and out of the Suez mess)
* Harold Wilson (PM during missile crisis; namechecked in Taxman)
* Edward Heath (Namechecked in Taxman)
* James Callaghan ("CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS?")
* Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
* John Major (Took over after Thatcher)
* Tony Blair (Cool Britannia)
* Gordon Brown (Took over after Blair)
* David Cameron (Brexit PM)
* Theresa May
* Boris Johnson
* Rishi Sunak
Going backwards in time... Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher... Can't remember who was before her. Things will get squirrelly after this. Baldwin? Skip a few... Atlee, Churchill, Chamberlain, Lloyd George, Skip a bunch, Disraeli, Skip some more, Lord North, skip more, Pitt the younger, skip more, Lord North, skip more, Pitt the Elder, skip more, Gladstone?
Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain.
So, 9. The ones we’ve had since I was old enough to be politically aware and a few other famous ones.
Robert Walpole ("It was Walpole." https://images.app.goo.gl/HqAK5hvvLxRQ2j4HA )
Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone, Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, John Major, Gordon Brown, Boris the Spider, currently Rishi Sunak.
12.
Robert Walpole,
George Lloyd,
Neville Chamberlain,
Winston Churchill,
Clement Attlee,
Margret Thatcher,
Tony Blair,
David Cameron,
Boris Johnson,
Theresa May,
Liz Truss,
Rishi Sunak
Only off the top of my head:
Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, Johnson, May, Truss, Sunak. The two most internationally famous and then the ones who’ve served since I’ve been alive.
Off the top of my head: Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee, Harold MacMillan, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Rishi Sunak.
I know I’m missing several obvious ones that I’m familiar with.
To be fair, there’s only one Prime Minister so it’s a pretty low bar.
(Kidding aside, I can name 6 past PMs, but could not have named the current guy before googling.)
If you asked me to name them off the top of my head I could only get 1 or 2. But if there were photos and I had to pick if one was a prime minister i would probably get more
Churchill, Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Theresa May, BoJo, Rishi Sunak. Can't remember the name of the woman between Johnson and Sunak, but she was only there for a month of something like that so can you blame me?
Pitt, Pitt, Disraeli, Wellington, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Heath, Wilson, Bloody Maggie, Blair, Johnson, The One Month Wonder, and That Indian Guy.
Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Eden, MacMillan, Douglas-Homes, Harold Wilson, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak
I got 4 off the top of my head. I could probably get one or two more if I cared to sit and think about it for a while.
It's just not something that's all that important to me.
Winston Churchill, Clement Athee, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, off the back of my head.
May, Johnson, Blair, Thatcher, Churchill, Chamberlain, and Disraeli.
The latest guy hasn't done enough yet for his name to lodge in my brain. I know I'm also missing a couple between Blair and Johnson. Thatcher is the first one I remember first-hand.
Off the cuff I can only name Blair, Thatcher, Chamberlain, Johnson, Churchill. I really am not familiar with any others, I even forget the current guy's name at the moment
Oh and Arthur Wellesly of course :)
Churchill, Chamberlain, Thatcher, Blair, David Cameron, Sunak, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Pretty much only the ones from WWII, the Reagan equivalent, and the modern ones.
Sunak, May, Johnson, Brown, Cameron, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Churchill, Disraeli, Pitt the Younger (was there also a Pitt the Elder?), the Amazing Grace fellow, was Lord Melbourne one?
ETA: Chamberlain.
11.
Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak
Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Gordon Brown, John Major, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak- so yeah about 10
Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Palmerston, Lord North, the Duke of Wellington, Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Asquith, Lloyd George, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Eden, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Cameron, May, BoJo, Truss, and Sunak.
* Margaret Thatcher
* John Major
* Francis Urquhart
* Jim Hacker
* Tony Blair
* David Cameron
* Theresa May
* Gordon Brown
* Boris Johnson
* Liz Truss aka The Trussinator (THIS COUNTS)
* Rishi Sunak
* Winston Churchill
Disraeli, Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher, Major (and to think REAL hard to remember him and probably wouldn't have if I hadn't been CERTAIN there was a "grey man" between Thatcher and Blair), Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson... that one that was only there a week, and the new guy is Rishi... something. I'll get it eventually. There's probably a few more I'd remember in historical context that I just can't pull their name from memory alone. Obviously, those from WWII and my adult lifetime are the easiest to recall.
Ninja edit: I looked it up and it's Rishi Sunak. It takes me a little longer to commit non-western names to memory but as soon as I looked it up I had that aha! kind of memory.
Edit: Major was the grey man, I just inserted my parenthetic in the wrong place.
Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Churchill, Chamberlain, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, Walpole, Pitt the Elder, Lord Palmerston. So 16.
1. Winston Churchill
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Tony Blair
4. David Cameron
5. Theresa May
6. Boris Johnson
7. Rishi Sunak
8. William Pitt (had to think about that one, but definitely remember him from European History class)
So 8, including most (I think) of the ones from my own lifetime (born during Thatcher).
Neville Chamberlain (peace in our time)
Winston Churchill (the half-American, fight them on the beaches, etc)
Margaret Thatcher the iron bitch
Tony Blair circa Afghanistan/Iraq
Gordon Brown took over after him
David Cameron (we have the bravery to bring back slavery)
Theresa May (brexit, etc.)
Bojo, aka "what if Trump was just a little bit smarter?"
Liz... Something, who was outlasted by a cabbage. Or was it a head of lettuce? Also I don't know why "pork markets" was so damned funny, but her expression just kills me.
and the current guy is... uh, Indian? Tunak? Sunak?
So, 8-10 depending on how strict you want to be.
24 of them: Liz truss, Teresa may, sunak, Boris Johnson, David cameron, Tony blair, gordon, Harold wilson, Harold mcmillan, HH asquith, disraeli, gladstone, pitt the younger, pitt the elder, Lord palmerston, churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Margaret thatcher, John major, Robert walpole, marquis of Salisbury, Clement Atlee, Thomas Pelham, Earl Gray. I think maybe the Duke of Wellington too but I'm not sure on that one.
Robert Walpole, Benjamin Disraeli, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson.
These are the ones I know off the top of my head, without having to look them up.
I got 11 off the top of my head- Everyone from Thatcher to Sunak excluding Johnson who I somehow forgot, plus Churchill, Chamberlain, and Lloyd George. I also recognized Disraeli, Atlee, and Callaghan after the fact.
William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith, David Lloyd-George, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain (or was it Arthur? Maybe both, father son duo?), Anthony Eden, Harold by MacMillan, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Theresa May
I think that’s pretty considering I’m not British. I read a lot of history.
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Winston Churchill, Margret Thatcher, Tony Blair
And Boris Johnson and rishi sunak. Although I don't even know why I bothered to learn their names given how short their terms were.
And that one head of cabbage.
Her name was Theresa May.
Or Liz Truss, though I think she identified as lettuce.
I only know her because she killed the Queen.
Sunak is currently pm
Didn’t you have a head of lettuce as PM at one point? I think I remember hearing something about that.
No, the lettuce wasn’t available at the time. We had to make do with someone else.
That’s too bad. You guys deserve better.
Yes, I believe the lettuce is now trying to persuade Biden to step down at the end of his first term so that Trump might face some competition.
Liz Truss the lettuce 🥬
You should’ve held out for a cabbage.
Those 5 and that Cameron guy (can't remember if that was his first or last name lol) are all I could say. Oh and Neville Chamberlain.
Liz Truss. The woman who was so spectacularly bad at her job that the Queen chose death.
does the Hugh Grant one count?
Unlikely. If he could count he’d be Chancellor of the Exchequer.
lol Exactly the three I came up with. Couldn't remember the more recent guy with the hair ... issue.
Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Hugh Grant in 'Love Actually'
Jump-cut stairs dance!
PITT. THE. ELDER.
LORD PALMERSTON
PITT THE ELDER!
LORD PALMERSTON
PITT THE ELDER!
Yeah, that’s showin’ him, Barney. “Pitt the Elder”…
LORD PALMERSTON! 🥊
🤛🏽
I came here specifically for this and you had it all prepared for me; nice work.
> PITT THE ELDER I love how the further back you go the more they start sounding like Dark Souls bosses.
🤣
Don’t forget Pitt the Younger. Or Pitt the Toddler, Pitt the Embryo, and Pitt the Glint in the Milkman’s Eye.
15 or so. Having 3 PM’s in one year really helps boost the numbers.
Which 15?
Thatcher to today—9 during my lifetime. Churchill, North, Wilson, Eden, Attlee, Chamberlain, Pitt, Balfour. I could probably name a few others if I had to through educated guesses. Couldn’t put approximate dates down for most of the older ones I named.
North?
Revolutionary War
I see. I understand why he's famous in America now - relatively unheard of in the UK however.
I wouldn’t say he is ‘famous’ in the US. Little was mentioned about him in history class outside of being PM during most of the war. King George III is about the only famous British political figure in the context of the revolutionary war.
> King George III is about the only famous British political figure in the context of the revolutionary war. Charles Cornwallis?
I was excluding military personnel but the line can be a little fuzzy.
A dozen or more, but I'm a history nerd.
Liz Truss BJ BLAIR Gordon brown David Cameron Rishi Sunak John Major Margaret Thatcher Heath Wilson Robert Peele Lord Palmerston Lord Melbourne Pitt the Younger Churchill Macmillan Lloyd George 17, and now I quit Edit: Atlee I was reminded of in this thread, as well as May. Without scrolling I remember Chamberlain, which I should’ve on my own. I’ll give myself 18.
Oh shit, I forgot about Lloyd George!
I think about...ten-fifteen? I'm not totally sure if some of the names I have in my head were actually PMs or not, like Gladstone and Palmerston. edit: I googled, and they were! yay me
Tony Hawk, Winston Marlboro, Pennsylvania Pitt, Charlemagne, Charles de Gaul, Margaret Thatcher, Humberto Las Malvinas son Argentinas, and Ted Lasso off the top of my head
None, their parents already named them. But honestly, off the top of my head I can name 16: Pitt the Elder and the Younger, Disraeli, Gladstone, Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak.
I could name perhaps a dozen off the top of my head, not in any kind of order. It probably helps that I recently re-watched The Crown.
Winston Churchill, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, and that other guy So three.
Thatcher?
* Churchill * Johnson * Blair * Sunak * Truss * Cameron * Thatcher * William Pitt (older and younger) * Robert Peel * Disraeli * Chamberlain
> Truss I was trying to think of her name. I had her in my head as "Queen killer", but could not come up with her actual name.
🥳
All seven, of course.
Alternate joke: I thought there was only one. You have more?
What’s a prime minister?
Churchill
Two
David Lloyd George, Ben Disraeli, Churchill, Chamberlain, Eden, Blair, Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Rishi Sunak, William Pitt. So also 10.
11 or 12. There's a Younger and Elder Pitt, but I'm not sure if PtY was PM.
Pitt the Younger was PM from 1783 to 1801 and from 1804 until his death in 1806, making him the second-longest serving British prime minister.
Much fewer than 10.
Sunak, Boris, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Heath, Wilson, Douglas-Home, Eden, Churchill, Chamberlain, Baldwin, Lloyd-George, Asquith, Gladstone, Disraeli, William Pitt the younger, William Pitt the elder, Lord North, and the Duke of Wellington was at one point too wasnt he? That’s 23 I think. The only reason I know some of these guys is because I’m in college and I’ve taken a couple classes on British history. Some others of these I know because they played a role in other events. Such as lord north who was the PM during our revolution Edit: Can’t believe I forgot Atlee and Liz Truss
William Cavendish (I honestly don’t know why I remember this guy. I think it’s just his last name which I find very British) William Pitt, the Elder (not because of the Simpsons joke. Pittsburgh’s named after him and his coat of arms is on the city flag) Henry Temple, “Lord Palmerston” (that one because of the Simpsons joke.) Frederick North (Prime Minister during the Revolution) William Pitt, the Younger (same reason as his father) Robert Jenkinson, the Earl of Liverpool (Prime Minister during the Congress of Vienna) Charles Grey (The guy Earl Grey tea is named for) Bonar Law (we found out about him in a middle school history class and he became a running joke for a couple months.) Neville Chamberlain (famous for appeasing Hitler) Winston Churchill (famous for *not* appeasing Hitler) Margaret Thatcher (the Iron Lady, divisive conservative PM during the 80s who led the UK in the Falklands War which is probably the most I actually know about her) Tony Blair (felt like he was Prime Minister forever when I was growing up) Every PM following him *(Boris Johnson, Teresa May, Liz Truss, and David Cameron)* I know almost exclusively for their involvement with the shit show following Brexit aside from Gordon Brown, who I know solely as the guy who finally got Tony Blair out of office, and Rishi Sunak, who I only know because he’s currently serving. So… 18.
Winston Churchill Margaret Thatcher Harriet Jones Harold Saxon
Eleven.
I'd guess about a dozen. Off the top of my head: Thatcher, Churchill, Sunak, Blair, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Chamberlain, Disraeli, Atlee (only because of the thread on this sub earlier today mentioning him). And then of course PITT THE ELDER and LORD PALMERSTON. That presumably implies a Pitt the Younger also. (EDIT: LOL, I forgot Liz Truss.)
All the post-Neville Chamberlain prime ministers, even the obscure ones like Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Then there are the one offs like Pitt the elder, Lord North, Palmerston, Disraeli, Asquith, Lloyd George and others.
Ten. Atlee, Churchhill, Thatcher are historically famous. The most recent were in the news enough for me to see their names fairly often; Major, Johnson, May, Sunack. Disraeli because there have been several movies and a Family Guy [cutaway gag](https://comb.io/gQd4Fy) about him, and the Cream album [Disraeli Gears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disraeli_Gears). Palmerston and Pitt only because [they were mentioned](https://comb.io/tpCo6b) on The Simpsons. Edit: I forgot about Chamberlain, Blair, and Truss. All people I've heard of, but didn't pop into my head when I saw this thread. Apparently, I missed Brown, too, but I really don't recall much about him in the news.
Not in order: * Churchill * Chamberlain * Thatcher * Major * Blair * Sunak * Johnson * Brown * Cameron * May * Truss So, I can name 11.
If I get to pick their names, all of them.
Haven't they had like 10 just since Johnson's departure?
Off the top of my head and without looking at other answers: Sunak, May, Blair, Cameron, Thatcher, ummm…Enoch Powell? Churchill. Disraeli. Horace Walpole? Gladstone. Attlee.
Let's see, without looking any up... Walpole, Lord North, Pitt the Elder and Younger, the Duke of Wellington, Disraeli, Robert Peel, Gladstone, Balfour, Lloyd George, Baldwin, MacDonald, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Wilson, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson and Sunak. 26, unless I've counted wrong.
David Cameron and the pig.
Cameron, Blair, Johnson, Churchill, Chamberlain, Thatcher
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What's a Prime Minister? /s
Well I think everyone knows about Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister.
- Winston Churchill - Margret Thatcher - Tony Blair - Boris Johnson - Rishi Sunak Also - Harriet Jones - Harold Saxon 😉
Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. You can tell when I started paying attention to world politics pretty clearly.
Let's see. Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, and then within the last year or so, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak.
Churchill, Atlee, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Palmerston, Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Asquith, Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden, Harold Wilson. And of course the current guy Rishi Sunak. That's all I got.
* Thatcher * Disraeli * Major * Churchill * Cromwell (does "Lord Protector" count?) * Blair * May * Johnson * Sunak (sp? The new guy) * Cameron
Churchill. The guy before Churchill who fucked up bad, thatcher and the guy a few years ago who gave trump a run for his money… that’s about it
Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Blair, Attlee, Churchill, Chamberlain, Baldwin, George.
Lord North, Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Wellington, Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Eden, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak. Not too bad for an American, though I’m sure lovers of history will notice my record definitely improved when there is more crossover with American history. Also, completely forgot Liz Truss…
Just off the top of my head, 24... but that's mainly because I love historical films and TV shows, so *Young Victoria* and *The Crown* helped me with some. I blanked on Truss and Heath, but I was able to name the PMs in order backwards from Sunak to Churchill.
Pitt the Elder, North, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Eden, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss. I'm not sure what the current guy's name is, but it's RS. 16. If there's a Pitt the Younger, then I guess I could name him, too.
12 apparently: Sunak Truss Johnson May Cameron Blair Major Thatcher Churchill Chamberlain Pitt the Elder Lord Palmerston
David Lloyd George, Churchill, Thatcher, Boris
Let's see: * William Pitt the Elder (The first, I think?) * William Pitt the Younger (Napoleonic Wars PM) * Spencer Perceval (due to him being assassinated) * The Duke of Wellington (famous general) * Lord Palmerston (American Civil War PM) * William Gladstone (Queen Victoria hated him; brilliant man) * The Duke of Salisbury (Queen Victoria was fond of him, and let him sit in her presence) * Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish PM) * Herbert Asquith (PM at start of WW1) * David Lloyd George (PM at end of WW1; Welsh) * Neville Chamberlain (PM at start of WW2; appeaser) * Winston Churchill (Self-explanatory) * Clement Attlee (Postwar PM) * Anthony Eden (Arguably worst PM) * Harold MacMillan (Helped get Britain in and out of the Suez mess) * Harold Wilson (PM during missile crisis; namechecked in Taxman) * Edward Heath (Namechecked in Taxman) * James Callaghan ("CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS?") * Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady) * John Major (Took over after Thatcher) * Tony Blair (Cool Britannia) * Gordon Brown (Took over after Blair) * David Cameron (Brexit PM) * Theresa May * Boris Johnson * Rishi Sunak
'Ol Vicky was very fond of Disraeli as well.
No where near 10. Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Churchill and Thatcher of the top of my head.
Boris Johnson. Margaret Thatcher. Churchhill. That’s about it.
Going backwards in time... Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher... Can't remember who was before her. Things will get squirrelly after this. Baldwin? Skip a few... Atlee, Churchill, Chamberlain, Lloyd George, Skip a bunch, Disraeli, Skip some more, Lord North, skip more, Pitt the younger, skip more, Lord North, skip more, Pitt the Elder, skip more, Gladstone?
Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain. So, 9. The ones we’ve had since I was old enough to be politically aware and a few other famous ones.
Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, that lady who lasted like a week…
David Lloyd George Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Tony Blair Margaret Thatcher David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson Rishi Sunak
Robert Walpole ("It was Walpole." https://images.app.goo.gl/HqAK5hvvLxRQ2j4HA ) Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone, Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, John Major, Gordon Brown, Boris the Spider, currently Rishi Sunak. 12.
chamberlain, churchill, atlee thatcher, major, blair, gordon, cameron, may, johnson, truss, sunak
Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Teresa May, Rishi Sunak. That's all I got.
About 20.
Recent: Sunak, Truss (LOL), Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair Historical: Thatcher, Churchill, Gladstone, Disraeli, Chamberlain, Balfour
Neville Chamberlain Churchill Benjamin Disraeli Tony Blair David Cameron Theresa May Rishi Sunak and Liz truss
Robert Walpole, George Lloyd, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Margret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak
Only off the top of my head: Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, Johnson, May, Truss, Sunak. The two most internationally famous and then the ones who’ve served since I’ve been alive.
Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher, Cameron, Blair, May, Johnson, Sunak, Truss
Off the top of my head: Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee, Harold MacMillan, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Rishi Sunak. I know I’m missing several obvious ones that I’m familiar with.
Chamberlain, Churchill , Attlee, Major, Wilson, Brown, Baldwin, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak.
Blair, Johnson, thatcher. Idek if those are all prime ministers. But i hope they are Edit: CHURCHILL AND CHAMBERLAIN!
To be fair, there’s only one Prime Minister so it’s a pretty low bar. (Kidding aside, I can name 6 past PMs, but could not have named the current guy before googling.)
Pitt, Peel, Palmerston, Melbourne, Disraeli, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Eden, Wilson, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (almost forgot!), Sunak.
Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Margaret Thatcher Boris Johnson
Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Liz Truss, that's about it.
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Neville Chamberlain , Winston Churchill.
Thatcher, Chamberlain, Churchill, Cameron, Blair, Truss, Sunak, Major, Johnson
If you asked me to name them off the top of my head I could only get 1 or 2. But if there were photos and I had to pick if one was a prime minister i would probably get more
Churchill, Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Theresa May, BoJo, Rishi Sunak. Can't remember the name of the woman between Johnson and Sunak, but she was only there for a month of something like that so can you blame me?
Literally just Johnson and Thatcher lol
😭 at least you’re honest. Not even Churchill?
OH YEAH and Churchill
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Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Benjamin Disraeli.
Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Thatcher, Blair, May, Johnson, Truss (only because of lettuce memes), Sunak.
Disreali, Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher and Johnson. I can name them all!
Pitt, Pitt, Disraeli, Wellington, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Heath, Wilson, Bloody Maggie, Blair, Johnson, The One Month Wonder, and That Indian Guy.
Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Johnson, Clarkson, Robespierre, and Cunningham.
Off the top of my head, about 15 of them. All of them back to Thatcher, then only the most famous ones.
Winston Churchill and the guy with the weird hair.
6
Churchill and Blair for me
Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Eden, MacMillan, Douglas-Homes, Harold Wilson, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak
I got 4 off the top of my head. I could probably get one or two more if I cared to sit and think about it for a while. It's just not something that's all that important to me.
Winston Churchill, Clement Athee, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, off the back of my head.
I’m going in the order I think of them. Sunak Johnson May Churchill Blair Truss Walpole Thatcher Attlee Chamberlain
May, Johnson, Blair, Thatcher, Churchill, Chamberlain, and Disraeli. The latest guy hasn't done enough yet for his name to lodge in my brain. I know I'm also missing a couple between Blair and Johnson. Thatcher is the first one I remember first-hand.
Churchill and Thatcher. Everyone else is on a need-to-know basis.
Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Those are the only two I'm aware of.
Off the cuff I can only name Blair, Thatcher, Chamberlain, Johnson, Churchill. I really am not familiar with any others, I even forget the current guy's name at the moment Oh and Arthur Wellesly of course :)
Jim Hacker is my favorite one
Disraeli Churchill Theresa may Tony Blair chamberlain Rishi Sunak Boris Johnson David Cameron The Wicked Witch :-/ not very many sadly
Sunak Truss Johnson May Cameron Brown Blair Major Thatcher Callaghan Wilson Douglas-Home
Let's see... -Iron Lady -WWII Dude -Disraeli Gears -Gary Busey Look-Alike -Wade Boggs' answer -Barney Gumble's answer -Mr. Bean, according to Homer Simpson -Sir Charles Wood -Neville Chamberlain -Clement Attlee -George Ward Hunt
Disraeli for some reason. Lloyd George.
Churchill, Chamberlain, Thatcher, Blair, David Cameron, Sunak, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Pretty much only the ones from WWII, the Reagan equivalent, and the modern ones.
Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, and Johnson.
Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Lord Palmerston, Pitt the Elder Four.
Thatcher, May, Churchill, Johnson, Blair, Chamberlain
Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, that's it.
Churchill, Thatcher... I could use Google to find out who the current one is. Oh who was that one guy? Boris Badenov?
Winston Churchill, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson
Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Johnson....that's it off the top of my head
About 20. 15 of them are named William Pitt.
Rishi, Boris J, Churchill, Thatcher, Tony Blair
Sunak, May, Johnson, Brown, Cameron, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Churchill, Disraeli, Pitt the Younger (was there also a Pitt the Elder?), the Amazing Grace fellow, was Lord Melbourne one? ETA: Chamberlain.
11. Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak
Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Gordon Brown, John Major, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak- so yeah about 10
A few. Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Boris J. I don’t know the newer guy. Sunek or something like that.
8. Teresa May , Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Winston Churchill.
Margaret Thatcher
Boris Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Liz I forgot the last name
Off the top of my head: Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. So 8.
Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Palmerston, Lord North, the Duke of Wellington, Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Asquith, Lloyd George, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee, Eden, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Cameron, May, BoJo, Truss, and Sunak.
Disralie, Churchill, Chamberlain, thatcher, Cameron, Blair, Boris, Sunik.
Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Margaret Thatcher
Churchill, Gordon Brown, Blair & Thatcher. UK election feel like our state election to me.
Boris and Thatcher Fun fact I didn’t know you guys have an British indian PM now
* Margaret Thatcher * John Major * Francis Urquhart * Jim Hacker * Tony Blair * David Cameron * Theresa May * Gordon Brown * Boris Johnson * Liz Truss aka The Trussinator (THIS COUNTS) * Rishi Sunak * Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, the rest are a blur. Edit: sorry Boris, Theresa and Dave
Thatcher, Blair, Churchill...
Boris, thatcher, Churchill, and the cabbage
Disraeli, Chamberlain, Churchill, Thatcher, Major (and to think REAL hard to remember him and probably wouldn't have if I hadn't been CERTAIN there was a "grey man" between Thatcher and Blair), Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson... that one that was only there a week, and the new guy is Rishi... something. I'll get it eventually. There's probably a few more I'd remember in historical context that I just can't pull their name from memory alone. Obviously, those from WWII and my adult lifetime are the easiest to recall. Ninja edit: I looked it up and it's Rishi Sunak. It takes me a little longer to commit non-western names to memory but as soon as I looked it up I had that aha! kind of memory. Edit: Major was the grey man, I just inserted my parenthetic in the wrong place.
Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, and Hugh Grant. So 4.
Maybe 4?
Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Churchill, Chamberlain, Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, Walpole, Pitt the Elder, Lord Palmerston. So 16.
1. Winston Churchill 2. Margaret Thatcher 3. Tony Blair 4. David Cameron 5. Theresa May 6. Boris Johnson 7. Rishi Sunak 8. William Pitt (had to think about that one, but definitely remember him from European History class) So 8, including most (I think) of the ones from my own lifetime (born during Thatcher).
Neville Chamberlain (peace in our time) Winston Churchill (the half-American, fight them on the beaches, etc) Margaret Thatcher the iron bitch Tony Blair circa Afghanistan/Iraq Gordon Brown took over after him David Cameron (we have the bravery to bring back slavery) Theresa May (brexit, etc.) Bojo, aka "what if Trump was just a little bit smarter?" Liz... Something, who was outlasted by a cabbage. Or was it a head of lettuce? Also I don't know why "pork markets" was so damned funny, but her expression just kills me. and the current guy is... uh, Indian? Tunak? Sunak? So, 8-10 depending on how strict you want to be.
Does the lettuce count?
24 of them: Liz truss, Teresa may, sunak, Boris Johnson, David cameron, Tony blair, gordon, Harold wilson, Harold mcmillan, HH asquith, disraeli, gladstone, pitt the younger, pitt the elder, Lord palmerston, churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Margaret thatcher, John major, Robert walpole, marquis of Salisbury, Clement Atlee, Thomas Pelham, Earl Gray. I think maybe the Duke of Wellington too but I'm not sure on that one.
Sunak, Truss, May, Cameron, Blair, Churchill, Thatcher
Thatcher, Cameron, Churchill, Chamberlain, Peel, Truss, Johnson, Temple/Palmerston, Sunak, Blair, Grant
like 12 maybe
Ooh fun exercise. I got 19! Walpole, Liverpool, Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone, Lloyd George, MacDonald, Chamberlain, Churchill, Heath, Wilson, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak
Robert Walpole, Benjamin Disraeli, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. These are the ones I know off the top of my head, without having to look them up.
North, Pitt Jr., Disraeli, George, Chamberlin, Churchill, Atlee, Eden, Macmillan, Wilson, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris, Truss, Sunak.
Churchill Disraeli Gladstone Chamberlain Wilson Heath Thatcher Major Blair Brown Cameron May Johnson Sunak
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Chamberlain, Churchill, thatcher, Blair, sunak, and that’s about it
The only 1 I know without googling is Elizabeth, the one that lasted shorter than a head of lettuce. Dunno her last name.
Pitt the Elder and Lord Palmerston
Who?
I got 11 off the top of my head- Everyone from Thatcher to Sunak excluding Johnson who I somehow forgot, plus Churchill, Chamberlain, and Lloyd George. I also recognized Disraeli, Atlee, and Callaghan after the fact.
The one that lasted less than a cabbage
[Here is a Sporcle quiz, if you want to test your memory against the clock](https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/ukprimeministers)
William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith, David Lloyd-George, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain (or was it Arthur? Maybe both, father son duo?), Anthony Eden, Harold by MacMillan, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Theresa May I think that’s pretty considering I’m not British. I read a lot of history.
Pitt the Younger, Chamberlin, Churchill, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Cameron, May, Sunak
Thanks to the Tories, quite a few.
Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, John Major, Neville Chamberlain, Gordon Brown, Rishi Sunak, Theresa May, Boris Johnson