Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874–1965) - Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940–1945 and 1951–1955), military man, journalist, writer, honorary member of the British Academy, Nobel Prize laureate in literature. According to a poll conducted in 2002 by the BBC, he was named the greatest Briton in history. “I think,” Churchill said, “history will be kind to me, since I am going to write it with my own hand.”