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    Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies

    A feminist, an engineer, an actress and a sports presenter.

  2. David Vaughan OBE, Burt Bacharach, Janet Anderson, Eileen Sheridan

    Matthew Bannister on a glaciologist, a composer, an MP and a cyclist.

  3. Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a prison governor, a president and a designer.

  4. Ralph Ehrmann, Sylvia Syms, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Jo Sandilands

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an actor, a Rabbi and an editor.

  5. Howard Baderman, David Crosby, Milly Thompson, Brenda Heywood

    Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a musician, an artist and an archaeologist.

  6. Jeff Beck, Alice Mahon, Tom Karen OBE, Gina Lollobrigida

    Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, an MP, a designer and an actress.

  7. Gianluca Vialli, Fay Weldon, Michael Dower, Anita Pointer

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an author, a conservationist and a singer.

  8. Pope Benedict XVI, Dame Vivienne Westwood, James Caan, Georgia Holt

    Matthew Bannister on a pope, a fashion designer, an actor and a singer.

  9. Terry Hall, Dame Beryl Grey, Heather Iandolo, Eric Allison

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, the daughter of Lord Haw Haw, an ex-offender, a ballerina

  10. Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milanés, Ailsa Irving

    Matthew Bannister on a columnist and broadcaster, a designer, a singer, and a campaigner.

  11. Joyce Bryant, George 'Johnny' Johnson MBE, Dame Clare Marx, Joseph Kittinger

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a squadron leader, a surgeon, a skydiver.

  12. Christine McVie, Jiang Zemin, Derek Granger

    Matthew Bannister on a musician, a Chinese leader and a producer.

  13. Doddie Weir, Hebe de Bonafini, Irene Cara, Cornelia Schroeder

    Matthew Bannister on a rugby player, a campaigner, a singer and a virologist.

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

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

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  21. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

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

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

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