Yes Fred Hoyle is another good candidate. Wasn't A For Andromeda, where they built Julie Christie from computer code, one of his books?. The establishment didn't like him much either [well he did have a Yorkshire accent after all, plus his alternative cosmology created a big bang of an entirely different kind].
There is a similar "Hawking" attitude towards Brian Cox in some quarters but it all seems a bit churlish to me. I was never quite sure if there was jealousy re Hawkins fame and ability or just the women in his life
Surely you can also be recognised for outstanding communication about science without having to be absolute top dog in Research or meeting somebody's definition
Dave W