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    Lord Heywood, Pamela Lonsdale, Sangharakshita, Tom Jago, Francis Lai

    Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a producer, a Buddhist, a marketeer and a composer.

  2. Wanda Ferragamo, Wim Kok, Ntozake Shange, Mohamed Sahnoun, Keith Killby

    Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a politician, a writer, a diplomat and a pacifist.

  3. Anthea Bell OBE, Captain Michael Howard, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Cicely Berry CBE, Tony Hiller

    Matthew Bannister on a translator, an army officer, a peer, a voice coach and a songwriter

  4. Paul Allen, Dr Mary Midgley, Leon Lederman, Roger Mainwood

    Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.

  5. Ray Galton, Professor Gerald Russell, Evelyn Anthony, Sir Roger Gibbs, Montserrat Caball茅

    Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a psychiatrist, a novelist, a financier, a singer

  6. Charles Aznavour, Dr Charles Kao, Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, John Cunliffe

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer

  7. Chas Hodges, MJ Long, Arthur Mitchell, Rick Turner, Rachid Taha

    Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.

  8. Denis Norden, Diane Leather, Johnny Kingdom, Fenella Fielding

    Andrea Catherwood on a comedy writer, an athlete, a wildlife expert and an actress.

  9. Lady Coleridge, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacqueline Pearce, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield, Stan Brock

    Matthew Bannister on a nurse, a warlord, an actor, a banker and a cowboy.

  10. Burt Reynolds, Lord Peter Melchett, Rita Borsellino, Ajit Wadekar

    Matthew Bannister on a film star, an environmentalist, a campaigner, a cricketer.

  11. Lindsay Kemp, John Calder, Hilary Lister, John Calcutt, Neil Simon

    Julian Worricker on a dancer, a publisher, a sailor, an academic and a playwright.

  12. Kofi Annan, Janice Tchalenko, Hugh Synge, Helen MacLeod, Hettie Williams

    Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a ceramicist, a botanist, a harpist and a teacher.

  13. Aretha Franklin, VS Naipaul, Winston Ntshona, Nan Joyce

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer.

  14. Tony Bullimore, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Barry Chuckle, June Jacobs, Tommy Peoples

    Matthew Bannister on a yachtsman, a campaigner, a comedian, an activist, a fiddle player.

  15. Mary Ellis, Shinobu Hashimoto, Dr William McBride AO, CBE, Dr Lincoln Brower, Mahendra Kaul

    Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a screenwriter, a doctor, a lepidopterist and a broadcaster.

  16. Charles Gimingham, Felicia Langer, Julian Tudor Hart, Anne Olivier Popham Bell, Adrian Cronauer

    Julian Worricker on an ecologist, a lawyer, a doctor, an editor, and a disc jockey.

  17. Oliver Knussen CBE, Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE, Sam Chisholm, Steve Ditko, Anna S谩ndor de K茅nos

    Julian Worricker on a musician, an anthropologist, a media boss, an artist, an aristocrat.

  18. Lord Carrington, Karen Finch, Claude Lanzmann, Harlan Ellison

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a textile conservator, a film maker and a writer.

  19. Dame Gillian Lynne, Peter Firmin, Reinhard Hardegen, Alan Longmuir

    Matthew Bannister on a choreographer, an animator, a U-boat captain and a pop star.

  20. Joe Jackson, Paul Lamplugh OBE, Myrtle Allen, Daisy Kadibil, Paddy Feeny

    Matthew Bannister on a manager, a campaigner, a chef, an escapee and a broadcaster.

  21. Gennady Rozhdestvensky CBE, Maria Bueno, Gena Turgel, Zhao Kangmin, Leo Sarkisian

    Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a tennis player, a holocaust survivor, an archaeologist.

  22. Peter Mayer, Professor Celia Brackenridge OBE, Anthony Bourdain, Leslie Grantham, Teddy Johnson

    Tina Daheley on a publisher, a sports scientist, a chef, an actor and a singer.

  23. Peter Stringfellow, Graham Corbett, Kate Spade, Lord John Julius Norwich, Eli Avivi

    Tina Daheley on a nightclub owner, a businessman, a fashion designer and a historian.

  24. John Ashdown-Hill, Anne Coates OBE, Dr Davida Coady, Samuel F 'Ted' Dabney, Brendan Ingle

    Matthew Bannister on a film editor, a historian, a doctor, a video game pioneer, a trainer

  25. Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.

    Julian Worricker on a gardener, an author, a judge, a sumo expert, a publisher.

  26. Baroness Jowell, Will Alsop, Tom Wolfe, Dennis Nilsen

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a writer, a murderer and an architect.

  27. Bruce Tulloh, Emma Smith, Professor Peter Waddington, Dowager Countess of Harewood, Ronald Chesney

    Matthew Bannister on a runner, an author, a sociologist, a Countess and a comedy writer.

  28. Lord Martin of Springburn, Gustav Born, Valerie Riches, Caroline Brown, Michael Anderson

    Matthew Bannister on an MP, a musician, a campaigner, a pharmacologist and a film director

  29. Avicii (Tim Bergling), Ruth Nussenzweig, Anita Shreve, Guy Playfair, Bob Bura

    Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a medical researcher, a novelist, a ghost hunter, an animator.

  30. Barbara Bush, Milos Forman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Livia Gollancz, Dale Winton

    Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a director, a conservationist, a publisher, a presenter

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