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    Baroness Shirley Williams (pictured), Glynn Lunney, Lyn Macdonald

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a Nasa flight director and a historian.

  2. Doreen Lofthouse OBE, Dr Chris Doake, Barbara Hosking CBE, Bernice Cohen

    Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a glaciologist, a civil servant, an investor.

  3. Bob Davey MBE; George Segal (pictured); Lady Violet Aitken; Tony Hendra

    Matthew Bannister on a church restorer, an actor, a power boat racer, a comedian.

  4. Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion Mihai Pacepa

    Matthew Bannister on a feminist writer, a soldier, a president and a spy.

  5. Murray Walker (pictured), King Goodwill Zwelithini, Mary Asprey, Bunny Wailer

    Julian Worricker on a king, a commentator, a charity founder, a musician.

  6. Nicola Pagett (pictured), Stan Shaw, Prof John Mallard, Rupert Neve

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a “little mester”, a physicist, a recording engineer.

  7. Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (pictured), Sidney Alford, Alison Lurie, Chris Barber

    Matthew Bannister on an oil minister, an explosives expert, an author and a jazz musician.

  8. Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Pattinson

    Matthew Bannister on: a judge, a UN civil servant, a pilot, a comedy writer.

  9. Carlos Menem (pictured), Mary Wilson, Robin Pooley, Larry Flynt

    Matthew Bannister on a president, a singer, a businessman and a pornographer.

  10. George Shultz, Yvonne Conolly, Maureen Colquhoun, Christopher Plummer (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a headteacher, an MP and an actor.

  11. Lewis Wolpert, Cicely Tyson, Prince Khalid Abdullah and Captain Sir Tom Moore (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an actor, a Saudi Prince and a national hero.

  12. Larry King (pictured), Catherine Ennis, Margaret Weston, Gerry Cottle

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, an organist, a curator, a circus owner

  13. Phil Spector (pictured), Grace Robertson, Paul Nihill

    Matthew Bannister on a record producer, a photographer, a race walker.

  14. Michael Apted (pictured), Kay Ullrich, Katharine Whitehorn, Reginald Foster

    Julian Worricker on a film-maker, a politician, a journalist, a translator.

  15. Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsden

    Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a chef, a consumer champion, a singer.

  16. Stella Tennant, George Bizos, Joan Feynman, Rishi Kapoor

    Matthew Bannister on a model, a lawyer, an astrophysicist and an actor.

  17. Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman

    Julian Worricker on Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy and Dame Fanny Waterman

  18. John le Carré (pictured), Patience Thomson, Doug Scott, Dame Barbara Windsor

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an educator, a mountaineer, an actor

  19. Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a curator, a President, a golf commentator.

  20. Hamish MacInnes OBE, José Padilla, Anne Rasa

    Matthew Bannister on a mountaineer, an ethologist, a DJ.

  21. Diego Maradona, Rosalind Grimshaw, Jan Morris CBE

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a glass artist, an author

  22. Des O’Connor CBE, Richard Trim OBE, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, Edith Raymond Locke

    Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a radar engineer, a scholar, an editor.

  23. Lord Sacks, John Sessions, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Jim Radford

    Matthew Bannister on a rabbi, an actor, a podcaster, a singer.

  24. Sir Sean Connery, Eavan Boland, Nobby Stiles MBE, Bobby Ball

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a poet, a footballer, a comedian.

  25. David Toole OBE, Professor Valerie Curtis, Frank Bough, Jill Paton Walsh CBE

    Matthew Bannister on a dancer, a hygiene expert, a TV presenter, an author

  26. Herbert Kretzmer, James Nash, Tom Maschler, Sister Chiara Hatton Hall

    Matthew Bannister on a lyricist, an adventurer, a publisher, a nun.

  27. Derek Mahon, Professor Gerta Vrbová, Ang Rita Sherpa, Helena Shenel

    Matthew Bannister on a poet, a physiologist, a mountaineer, a voice coach.

  28. Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty

    Matthew Bannister on a designer, a soldier, an actor, a socialite

  29. Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel

    Julian Worricker on a singer, an inventor, an ecologist and a film director.

  30. Sir Harold Evans, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Alan Minter, Helen Taylor-Thompson

    Julian Worricker on a journalist, a judge, a charity worker, a boxer.

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