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    Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson

    Matthew Bannister on a migrant, a journalist, an archivist and a musician.

  2. Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar

    Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a war hero, a campaigner and a Holocaust survivor.

  3. Leslie Phillips CBE, Dame Valerie Beral, Avtar Singh Jouhl, Atarah Ben-Tovim MBE

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, an epidemiologist, an activist and a musician.

  4. Baroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree Nelson

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a musician, a journalist and a ski mountaineer.

  5. Dame Carmen Callil, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kathleen Booth, Dietrich Mateschitz

    Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a songwriter, a computer pioneer and a billionaire.

  6. Ian Hamilton KC, Audrey Evans, Parvatiben Solanki, Robbie Coltrane OBE

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a paediatric oncologist, a publisher and an actor.

  7. Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special adviser, a campaigner, a businesswoman

  8. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 'Ma' Smith MBE, Mike Burrows, Loretta Lynn

    Matthew Bannister on a Muslim scholar, a voluntary worker, a cycle designer and a singer.

  9. Dame Hilary Mantel, John McVicar, Joyce Reynolds, Paul Sartin

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an ex-offender, a classicist and a musician.

  10. Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

    Kirsty Lang on a film-maker, a writer, a war poet and a broadcaster.

  11. Bill Turnbull, Anne Sutton, Norah Vincent, Drummie Zeb

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a historian, a writer, a drummer

  12. Mikhail Gorbachev, Stella 'Jaye' Edwards, Jerry Allison

    Matthew Bannister on a president, a pilot and a drummer.

  13. Margaret Keane, Keith Smith, Mario Fiorentini, Brenda Fisher

    Matthew Bannister on an artist, an entrepreneur, a partisan and a swimmer.

  14. Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella

    John Wilson on a songwriter, a children's author, a fashion designer, a researcher

  15. James Lovelock, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Roy Hackett MBE, Dame Olivia Newton-John

    Kirsty Lang on a scientist, a terrorist, an activist and a film star.

  16. Bernard Cribbins OBE (pictured), Diana Kennedy MBE, Sir Colin Blakemore, Nichelle Nichols

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a food writer, a neuroscientist, and an actor.

  17. Lord David Trimble (pictured), Susie Steiner, Uwe Seeler

    John Wilson on a peacemaker, an author and a football legend.

  18. Tony Sirico (pictured), Jos茅 Eduardo dos Santos, Ann Shulgin, Ivana Trump

    John Wilson on an actor, a president, a therapist and a businesswoman.

  19. Shinzo Abe (pictured), Mona Hammond OBE, Lorna de Smidt, Monty Norman

    Kirsty Lang on a prime minister, an actor, an activist and a composer.

  20. Baroness Greengross OBE (pictured), Sonny Barger, Technoblade, Qin Yi

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a Hell鈥檚 Angel, a YouTuber and an actor.

  21. Dame Deborah James (pictured), Yves Coppens, Revel Guest OBE, Samuel Bhima

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a palaeontologist, a film producer and a doctor.

  22. Dom Phillips (pictured), Stephen S. Thompson, Caroline Drummond, Maureen Hiron

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a writer, a farming campaigner and a games inventor.

  23. Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

    Matthew Bannister on an artist, a campaigner and an entrepreneur.

  24. Amanda Claridge, Sidhu Moose Wala (pictured), Mark Sykes, Paul Vance

    Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, a rapper, a gambler and a songwriter.

  25. Dervla Murphy, Lester Piggott (pictured), Anne Howells

    Matthew Bannister on a travel writer, a jockey, a singer

  26. Baroness Haleh Afshar, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Kay Mellor, Vangelis (Pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a president, a writer and a composer.

  27. Shireen Abu Akleh, Robert Gillmor, Leonid Kravchuk (pictured), Carrie White

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an artist, a president and a hairdresser.

  28. Kathy Boudin, Dennis Waterman (pictured), Sidney Altman, R茅gine Zylberberg

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, an actor, a biologist, a night club owner.

  29. Colonel Alan Jenkins, Mary Monson, Elspeth Barker, Art Rupe (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a soldier, a lawyer, an author and a music producer.

  30. Yvonne Blenkinsop (pictured), Dr Margaret Carswell, Mikhail Vasenkov, Denise Coffey

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an ornithologist, a spy, an actor

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