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    Nik Powell OBE, James Le Mesurier OBE, Frank Dobson, Hazel Vincent Wallace OBE

    Matthew Bannister on a rescue worker, a businessman, an M.P., an impresario

  2. Gay Byrne, Sadako Ogata, Robert Evans

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a UN High Commissioner, a film producer

  3. Charles Jencks, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Irene Shubik, Raymond Leppard

    Matthew Bannister on an architecural historian, an ISIS leader, a TV producer, a conductor

  4. Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant

    Matthew Bannister on a ballerina, a journalist, a crossword setter, a trumpeter

  5. Alexei Leonov, Sally Soames, Kary Mullis, Reg Watson

    Matthew Bannister on a cosmonaut, a photographer, a biochemist and a producer

  6. Ginger Baker, Su Beng, John Haylett, Diahann Carroll

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a drummer, an editor and an actress.

  7. Jessye Norman, Peter Sissons, Al Alvarez, Marita Lorenz

    Julian Worricker on a singer, a journalist, an author, a spy.

  8. Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O鈥橬eill

    Julian Worricker on a politician, a business leader, a TV journalist, a racehorse trainer.

  9. Chester Williams, Sheikh Yusuf Motala, Jan Ruff O鈥橦erne, Ric Ocasek

    Matthew Bannister on an Islamic scholar, a rugby player, a campaigner and a rock star.

  10. Hans Rausing, Sir Dawda Jawara, Sue Crockford, Terrance Dicks

    Matthew Bannister on an industrialist, a president, a feminist and a writer.

  11. Robert Mugabe, Alla Verber, Ciaran McKeown, Bill Anderson MBE

    Matthew Bannister on a president, a fashion buyer, a peace campaigner and a sportsman.

  12. Lord Bell, Paule Marshall, David Koch, Richard Booth

    Matthew Bannister on a PR executive, a writer, a billionaire and a bookseller.

  13. Peter Fonda, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Geoffrey Paul OBE, Jim Bouton

    Matthew Bannister on a film star, a princess, an editor and a baseball player.

  14. Julia Farron OBE, Nuon Chea, June Fraser, Marcel Berlins

    Julian Worricker on a politician, a dancer, a designer and a lawyer.

  15. Toni Morrison, Hal Prince, Dr Elizabeth Killick, Li Peng, Barrington Pheloung

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a director, an engineer, a premier and a composer.

  16. Russi Taylor, Beji Caid Essebsi, Jane Hubert, Iv谩n Er艖d

    Matthew Bannister on a President, a voice artist, an anthropologist and a composer.

  17. Andrea Camilleri, Johnny Clegg OBE, OIS, Christopher Kraft, Paul Krassner, Professor Rolf Gehlhaar

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, a singer, a space mission director, a satirist, a composer.

  18. Audrey Eyton, Arthur Ryan, Jack Bond, Rip Torn

    Matthew Bannister on a retailer, a diet creator, a cricketer and an actor

  19. Eva Kor, Christopher Booker, Jo茫o Gilberto, John McCririck

    Matthew Bannister on a holocaust survivor, a journalist, a musician and a racing pundit.

  20. Brenda Maddox, Ivan Cooper, Min Hogg, John Gunther Dean, Dave Bartholomew

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, an editor, a diplomat, a writer and a musician

  21. Dr Henry Lynch, Judith Krantz, Lord Patel of Blackburn, Anthony Hedges

    Matthew Bannister on a doctor, an author, a businessman and a composer.

  22. Franco Zeffirelli, Gloria Vanderbilt, Mohamed Morsi, Philomena Lynott

    Matthew Bannister on a director, a designer, a president and a hotelier.

  23. John Tidmarsh OBE, Sylvia Denman, Paul Darrow, Sheila Turner, Leon Redbone

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a lawyer, an actor, a campaigner and a singer.

  24. Edward Seaga, Binyavanga Wainaina, Mary Stopes-Roe, Gloria Schiff, Dr John

    Julian Worricker on a politician, a writer, an archivist, a fashion editor, a singer.

  25. Professor Murray Gell-Mann, Nan Winton, James McCord, Gregory Gray

    Matthew Bannister on a physicist, a newsreader, a spy and a singer.

  26. Niki Lauda, Judith Kerr, IM Pei, Herman Wouk

    Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a children's author, an architect, a novelist.

  27. Doris Day, Brian Walden, Dorothy Rowe, Lorraine Warren

    Julian Worricker on an actress, a broadcaster, a psychologist, a paranormal investigator.

  28. Winnie Jordan, Richard Green, Karol Modzelewski, Liz Howe, John Singleton

    Andrea Catherwood on a runner, a psychiatrist, an activist, an ecologist, a film director

  29. Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Terry Rawlings, Neus Catal脿, Heather Harper CBE, Peter Mayhew

    Matthew Bannister on a Grand Duke, a film editor, a campaigner, a soprano, an actor

  30. Lyra McKee, Una-Mary Parker, Mira Markovic, Doreen Spooner, Edward Kelsey

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a writer, a politician, a photographer, an actor

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