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    Mary Turner, Chester Bennington, Scharlette Holdman, Orri Vigfusson and George A Romero

    Matthew Bannister on a trade unionist, a singer, a campaigner, an angler, a director.

  2. Chuck Blazer, Maryam Mirzakhani, Bryan Avery, Peter McHugh, Martin Landau

    Matthew Bannister on a FIFA boss, a mathematician, an architect, a journalist, an actor.

  3. Simone Veil, Graham Rose, Tom Isaacs, Liu Xiaobo, Ken Hirst

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a director, a campaigner and a dissident.

  4. Barry Norman, Gordon Wilson, Geri Allen, John Thompson, Jack O'Neill

    Matthew Bannister on a film critic, a politician, a pianist, a radio regulator, a surfer.

  5. Lord Joffe, Michael Bond, Ann Louise Gilligan, Carla Fendi, John Avildsen

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a writer, a campaigner, a businesswoman, a film director.

  6. Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Professor Brian Bellhouse, Naseem Khan, Brian Cant

    Julian Worricker on a politician, an artiste, a scientist, an arts pioneer, a TV presenter

  7. Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore

    Matthew Bannister on an arms dealer, a countess, an actor, an agony aunt, a singer.

  8. Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Peter Sallis, Lady Anne Piper, Jiri Belohlavek

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a vet, an actor, a novelist, a conductor.

  9. John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Pat Stewart, Rex Sanders, Gregg Allman

    Julian Worricker on a broadcaster, a navigator, a musician, a dancer, a dictator.

  10. Brendan Duddy, Nina Lowry, Roger Ailes, Osmund Reynolds, Roger Moore

    Andrea Catherwood on a peace-maker, a surgeon, a TV mogul, film star, and a judge.

  11. Rhodri Morgan, Michael Wearing, Dr Helen Szamuely, Ian Brady, Robert Miles

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a producer, a campaigner and a DJ.

  12. Ueli Steck, Lord Williams of Baglan, Sylvia Moy, Captain James Dickson MBE, Jon Prinz

    Matthew Bannister on a climber, a diplomat, a songwriter, a mariner, a food scientist.

  13. Robert Pirsig, Shobha Nehru, Michael Ballhaus, Leo Baxendale, Bruce Langhorne

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, a cinematographer, a cartoonist, a musician.

  14. Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry

    Matthew Bannister on a director, a computer pioneer, a campaigner, a tax inspector.

  15. Michael Bogdanov, Louis Sarno, Sheila Abdus Salaam, Dick Potts, Don Rickles

    Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian.

  16. Masha Leon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Morahan, Parv Bancil, Marthe Gosteli, Brian Matthew

    Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ

  17. Darcus Howe, Andy Coogan, Dr Sylvia Moody, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Peter Shotton

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman.

  18. David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, an activist, an editor, a drug dealer.

  19. Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.

  20. John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge

    Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.

  21. Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.

  22. Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barber谩, Frank Delaney

    Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.

  23. Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern

    Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.

  24. Al Jarreau, Betty Tebbs, Sir Peter Mansfield, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, Hans Rosling

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a physicist, a chairwoman, a statistician and a singer.

  25. Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta

    Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.

  26. Sir John Hurt, Margaret Pereira CBE, Sir Christopher Bland, Emma Tennant, Mary Tyler Moore

    Matthew Bannister on two actors, a forensic scientist, a chairman, a writer.

  27. Tam Dalyell MP, Victor Lownes, Babette Cole, Zhou Youguang, Gorden Kaye

    Matthew Bannister on an MP, a playboy, a children's author, a linguist, an actor.

  28. Baroness Heyhoe Flint, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Una Kroll, William Peter Blatty, Sir James Mancham

    Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, two presidents, a campaigner, a writer.

  29. Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth

    Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.

  30. John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael

    Julian Worricker on a writer, a linguist, a broadcaster, a musician, a surgeon, two actors

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