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Dame Vera Lynn, Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, Larry Kramer, Pierre Nkurunziza
Matthew Bannister on a neurobiologist, a campaigner, a president, a singer

Christo Javacheff, Cathie Sabin OBE, Dorothy Wakely, Jonathan Whitehead
Matthew Bannister on an artist, a tennis administrator, an SOE officer, a musician.

Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté
Julian Worricker on a political campaigner, a gambling tycoon, an educationist, a musician

Margaret Maughan, John Cumming OBE, Jerry Givens, John Langdon, Eric Weissberg
Julian Worricker on an athlete, a jazz promoter, a campaigner, a comedy writer.

Lord Robert May of Oxford, Dr Judith Darmady OBE, Mark Barkan, Saroj Lal
Matthew Bannister on a mathematical ecologist, a paediatrician, a songwriter, a campaigner

Little Richard, Dr Janet Carr OBE, Professor John Horton Conway, Florian Schneider
Matthew Bannister on a rock 'n' roll star, a psychologist, a mathematician, a musician

Catherine Hamlin, Irrfan Khan, Denis Goldberg, Ann Sayer
Matthew Bannister on an obstetrician, an actor, an activist, an athlete

Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an atmospheric physicist, a curator, an atheist

Dame Jocelyn Barrow DBE, Keith Critchlow, Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read, John Prine
Matthew Bannister on an artist and geometrist, a campaigner, a detective, a singer.

Sir Stirling Moss OBE, Professor Margaret Burbidge, Mahmoud Jibril, Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE
Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, an astronomer, a politician, a comedian