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    Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy

    Matthew Bannister on a theatre director, a radical feminist, an MP, a writer.

  2. Sir David Tang, Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Walter Becker

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a doctor, a cardinal, a musician.

  3. Dick Gregory, Jeannie Rousseau, Wayne Lotter, Sean O'Callaghan, John Abercrombie

    Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a spy, a conservationist, an informer, a guitarist.

  4. Abu Kifah, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Brian Aldiss, Blanche Blackwell, Jerry Lewis

    Kate Silverton on an author, an entertainer, a rescue worker, a muse and a comedian.

  5. Barbara Cook, Sister Ruth Pfau, Richard Gordon, Prof UR Rao

    Kate Silverton on a singer, a muse, a health campaigner and a rocket scientist.

  6. Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal

    Matthew Bannister on a musician, a businesswoman, a writer, a childbirth campaigner.

  7. Robert Hardy, David Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Mark Wilkinson, Sam Shepard

    Matthew Bannister on two actors, a playwright, a scientist, a furniture designer.

  8. Mary Turner, Chester Bennington, Scharlette Holdman, Orri Vigfusson and George A Romero

    Matthew Bannister on a trade unionist, a singer, a campaigner, an angler, a director.

  9. Chuck Blazer, Maryam Mirzakhani, Bryan Avery, Peter McHugh, Martin Landau

    Matthew Bannister on a FIFA boss, a mathematician, an architect, a journalist, an actor.

  10. Simone Veil, Graham Rose, Tom Isaacs, Liu Xiaobo, Ken Hirst

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a director, a campaigner and a dissident.

  11. Barry Norman, Gordon Wilson, Geri Allen, John Thompson, Jack O'Neill

    Matthew Bannister on a film critic, a politician, a pianist, a radio regulator, a surfer.

  12. Lord Joffe, Michael Bond, Ann Louise Gilligan, Carla Fendi, John Avildsen

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a writer, a campaigner, a businesswoman, a film director.

  13. Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Professor Brian Bellhouse, Naseem Khan, Brian Cant

    Julian Worricker on a politician, an artiste, a scientist, an arts pioneer, a TV presenter

  14. Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore

    Matthew Bannister on an arms dealer, a countess, an actor, an agony aunt, a singer.

  15. Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Peter Sallis, Lady Anne Piper, Jiri Belohlavek

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a vet, an actor, a novelist, a conductor.

  16. John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Pat Stewart, Rex Sanders, Gregg Allman

    Julian Worricker on a broadcaster, a navigator, a musician, a dancer, a dictator.

  17. Brendan Duddy, Nina Lowry, Roger Ailes, Osmund Reynolds, Roger Moore

    Andrea Catherwood on a peace-maker, a surgeon, a TV mogul, film star, and a judge.

  18. Rhodri Morgan, Michael Wearing, Dr Helen Szamuely, Ian Brady, Robert Miles

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a producer, a campaigner and a DJ.

  19. Ueli Steck, Lord Williams of Baglan, Sylvia Moy, Captain James Dickson MBE, Jon Prinz

    Matthew Bannister on a climber, a diplomat, a songwriter, a mariner, a food scientist.

  20. Robert Pirsig, Shobha Nehru, Michael Ballhaus, Leo Baxendale, Bruce Langhorne

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, a cinematographer, a cartoonist, a musician.

  21. Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry

    Matthew Bannister on a director, a computer pioneer, a campaigner, a tax inspector.

  22. Michael Bogdanov, Louis Sarno, Sheila Abdus Salaam, Dick Potts, Don Rickles

    Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian.

  23. Masha Leon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Morahan, Parv Bancil, Marthe Gosteli, Brian Matthew

    Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ

  24. Darcus Howe, Andy Coogan, Dr Sylvia Moody, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Peter Shotton

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman.

  25. David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, an activist, an editor, a drug dealer.

  26. Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.

  27. John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge

    Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.

  28. Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.

  29. Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barber谩, Frank Delaney

    Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.

  30. Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern

    Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.

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