Okay I was bored and stumbled across this on Wikipedia. I don't think it's been discussed on the OT board before, but if it is a Fata I'm sorry.
"The Greatest Canadian" that the CBC aired this past year is, like Canadian Idol, a spin-off of a British version, "The Greatest Briton". And like the Idol series, we were the only one to buy into the idea.
The following countries have all had their own edition. Try to think of who the greatest person from each of the countries is or was before you look at the results in my next post (or check out the links
here).
Great Britain
Canada
USA
Finland
France
Germany
Netherlands
South Africa
Belgium
Czech Republic
Apparently India, Australia, and the Arab World have also had such polls but I Wikipedia doesn't provide a link to the results.