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    Sir Archie Lamb (pictured), John Boyden, Ida Nudel, Abolhassan Banisadr

    Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, a record producer, a 'refusenik' and a president.

  2. Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

    Matthew Bannister on a psychiatrist, a film maker, a campaigner, a figure skater

  3. Bernard Haitink (pictured), Victor Gregg, Ruthie Tompson, Paddy Moloney

    Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a soldier, an animator, and a piper.

  4. Colin Powell (pictured), Brendan Kennelly, Myriam Sarachik, John Clunies-Ross

    Kirsty Lang on a General, a poet, a scientist and the ruler of the Cocos Islands

  5. Abdul Qadeer Khan (pictured), R. Allen Gardner, Joyce Jackson, Beresford King-Smith

    Matthew Bannister on a metallurgist, an ethologist, a centenarian, an orchestra manager.

  6. Antony Hewish (pictured), Roger Michell, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Jane Powell

    Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a director, a president and an actor.

  7. Lord Gowrie, Kamla Bhasin (pictured), Shirley Metherell MBE, Roger Hunt MBE

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a feminist, a charity founder, a footballer

  8. Jimmy Greaves (pictured), Sir Clive Sinclair, Olivia Jordan, Carolyn Shoemaker

    Julian Worricker on a footballer, an inventor, a translator and an astrophysicist.

  9. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Jean-Paul Belmondo (pictured), Angela Milner, Inge Ginsberg

    Datshiane Navanayagam on a revolutionary, an actor, a palaeontologist and a singer.

  10. Sergei Kovalev (pictured), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Abebech Gobena, Ed Asner

    Matthew Bannister on a dissident, a reggae pioneer, a humanitarian, an actor

  11. Jill Murphy (pictured), Len Gibson, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Nanci Griffith

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a prisoner of war, an artist, a country singer

  12. Charlie Watts (pictured), Austin Mitchell, Hugh Wood, Sean Lock

    Matthew Bannister on a drummer, a Labour MP, a composer and a comedian.

  13. Una Stubbs (pictured), Gino Strada, Mo Hayder

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a surgeon, a writer

  14. Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs

    Matthew Bannister on a poet, a stockbroker, a Muslim teacher, a military observer

  15. Sir Graham Vick (pictured), Carmel Budiardjo, Piers Plowright, Dusty Hill

    Julian Worricker on an opera director, a campaigner, a radio producer and a musician.

  16. Jackie Mason (pictured), John Woodcock, Dinah Murray, Billy Lacey

    Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a cricket writer, a campaigner, a marshman

  17. Gillian Sheen (pictured), William 'Twink' Allen, Lawrence 'Benny' Goodman, Alan Lewis

    Matthew Bannister on an Olympian, a horse fertility expert, a Squadron Leader, a publisher

  18. Jehan Sadat (pictured), Michael Horovitz, Richard Ernst, Dilip Kumar

    Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a poet, a chemist, an actor

  19. Donald Rumsfeld (pictured), Menelik Shabazz, Elizabeth French

    Matthew Bannister on a US defense secretary, a film-maker and an archaeologist.

  20. John McAfee (pictured), Tr岷 Thi峄噉 Khi锚m, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a general, a singer, a war veteran.

  21. Kenneth Kaunda, Janet Malcolm, Penny Kemp, Bob Swash

    Matthew Bannister on a president, a writer, a campaigner, a producer.

  22. Edward de Bono, Paul Van Doren, Alastair Hanton OBE, Violetta Elvin

    Matthew Bannister on a thinker, a businessman, banker, a ballerina.

  23. Lee Evans (pictured), Yuan Longping, Bill McCall, Alix Dobkin

    Matthew Bannister on a sprinter, a plant scientist, a union leader, a singer.

  24. Eric Carle (pictured), Helen Murray Free, Michael Parsons, Evelyn McNicol

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a chemist, an engineer, a mountaineer.

  25. Sir Paul Cosford, Max Mosley (pictured), Dr Frances Rotblat, Norman Lloyd

    Julian Worricker on a medical director, a motorsport boss, a scientist, an actor.

  26. Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru

    Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a writer, a codebreaker, a teacher.

  27. Olympia Dukakis (pictured), Eric McGraw MBE, Anthony Thwaite

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, an editor and a poet.

  28. Baroness O'Cathain, Michael Collins, Sharon Matola, Jim Steinman (pictured, with Meat Loaf)

    Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an astronaut, a zoo director, a songwriter.

  29. Geoff Crowther, Isamu Akasaki, June Newton, Les McKeown (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a guide book writer, a physicist, a photographer, a pop star.

  30. Helen McCrory (pictured), Hans K眉ng, Eric Gordon, George Reynolds

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a theologian, an editor, a businessman.

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