Sally Mann, photographer and writer
07 Dec 2025
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Sally Mann is a photographer and a New York Times bestselling writer. She is best known for making l...
Lorraine Kelly, broadcaster
30 Nov 2025
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Lorraine Kelly is a journalist and broadcaster who has been a mainstay of daytime television for ove...
Lennie James, actor
23 Nov 2025
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Lennie James is a British actor and writer. In 2025, he received the BAFTA for Leading Actor for his...
Mary Greenwell, makeup artist
16 Nov 2025
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Mary Greenwell is a makeup artist who has worked with some of the most famous faces in the world inc...
Ronnie Wood, musician
09 Nov 2025
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Ronnie Wood is a musician and artist who has been a major player on the UK music scene for over 60 y...
Angela Harding, artist
02 Nov 2025
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Angela Harding is an artist, printmaker and illustrator. Based in Rutland, Angela’s work is inspi...
Michael Sheen, actor
26 Oct 2025
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Michael Sheen is an award-winning actor.After finding his love for the stage with the West Glamorgan...
Maggie Alphonsi, broadcaster and former rugby player
14 Sep 2025
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Maggie Alphonsi is a broadcaster and former rugby player. She was part of the England team which to...
Professor Dame Carol Robinson, scientist
07 Sep 2025
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Professor Dame Carol Robinson is a scientist who was the first female professor of Chemistry at both...
Harry Hill, comedian
31 Aug 2025
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Harry Hill is a comedian, writer and broadcaster best known for presenting popular television shows ...
Monica Dolan, actor
23 Aug 2025
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Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier award winning actor. She is equally at home playing a wrongfull...
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
16 Aug 2025
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Gustavo Dudamel is a Venezuelan conductor, violinist and composer. He is known for bringing humour ...
Ash Atalla, producer
10 Aug 2025
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Ash Atalla is a television producer whose first hit was the BBC sitcom The Office, starring Ricky Ge...
Carol Klein, gardener
02 Aug 2025
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Carol Klein is a gardener, broadcaster and longtime contributor to BBC Gardeners’ World. She is ...
Sir Gregory Doran, director
26 Jul 2025
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Sir Gregory Doran is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He spent a tot...
Norma Percy, film-maker
20 Jul 2025
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Norma Percy is a documentary film-maker. She has been making programmes for over three decades and ...
Lord Alf Dubs, politician and campaigner
13 Jul 2025
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Lord Alf Dubs is a Labour peer and former MP. He came to the UK from Prague in 1939 on one of the K...
Professor Lucy Easthope, emergency planner
05 Jul 2025
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Professor Lucy Easthope is an adviser on disaster recovery and planning. She’s an expert in plann...
Romesh Ranganathan, comedian and broadcaster
29 Jun 2025
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Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian and BAFTA-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on British tel...
Abdulrazak Gurnah, writer
22 Jun 2025
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Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus Professor of Post-Colonial Literatures at the University of Kent and t...
Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, scientist
15 Jun 2025
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Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at University College Londo...
Danny Dyer, actor
08 Jun 2025
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Actor Danny Dyer became a household name when he joined the cast of EastEnders as Mick Carter, landl...
Lindsey Hilsum, journalist
27 Apr 2025
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Lindsey Hilsum is a multi-award-winning journalist who has been a foreign correspondent for the past...
Donna Ockenden, midwife
20 Apr 2025
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Donna Ockenden is a former clinical midwife who led the Ockenden Review which revealed, at the time,...
Professor Carl Jones, conservation biologist
13 Apr 2025
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Professor Carl Jones is a conservation biologist who is best known for saving the Mauritius kestrel ...
Cyndi Lauper, singer-songwriter
06 Apr 2025
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Cyndi Lauper is a multi-award winning singer and songwriter. She has sold more than fifty million re...
William Boyd, writer
30 Mar 2025
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William Boyd is the author of eighteen novels, five short story collections and numerous screenplays...
Sir Jony Ive, designer
23 Mar 2025
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Sir Jony Ive is a designer who is best known for his pioneering work at Apple alongside his friend a...
Mina Smallman, activist
16 Mar 2025
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Wilhelmina – Mina – Smallman is an activist who campaigns for the safety of women and girls and ...
Stephen Mangan
09 Mar 2025
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Actor Stephen Mangan is castaway by Lauren Laverne in an extended edition. Stephen is an award-winn...
Nemone Lethbridge, lawyer and writer
02 Mar 2025
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Nemone Lethbridge is a barrister who was called to the bar in 1956. One of very few female barriste...
Nick Cave, singer and writer
23 Feb 2025
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Nick Cave is a singer and writer who, with his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has released emotio...
Harriet Wistrich, lawyer
16 Feb 2025
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Harriet Wistrich is one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers. In 2016 she founded...
Laurie Anderson, artist
09 Feb 2025
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Laurie Anderson is an artist and performer who came to fame in the UK with her 1981 hit O Superman. ...
Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer
02 Feb 2025
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Mark-Anthony Turnage is a composer of contemporary classical music. Once called “Britain’s hippe...
Marianela Núñez, ballerina
26 Jan 2025
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Marianela Núñez is a Principal dancer of the Royal Ballet and Opera. Born in Argentina in 1982, Ma...
Gareth Southgate OBE, football manager
19 Jan 2025
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Gareth Southgate OBE is the most successful England men’s football manger in the modern game. He...
Cher, singer and actor
12 Jan 2025
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Cher has been a global star for over six decades. Her career has spanned music, television and film ...
Ebony Rainford-Brent, former England cricketer
05 Jan 2025
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Former cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent is the first Black woman to play for England and she was part ...
Mark Steel, comedian
29 Dec 2024
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Mark Steel is a writer, comedian and radio presenter. His performing career began as a poet in the...
Steven Knight, writer
07 Sep 2024
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Steven Knight CBE is a screenwriter, producer, and director for film and television. He is best kn...
Mark Knopfler, musician
31 Aug 2024
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Mark Knopfler OBE is one of the UK’s most successful rock musicians and composers. He co-founde...
Sarah Raven, gardener and writer
25 Aug 2024
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Sarah Raven is one of Britain’s best known gardeners. Since her debut book, The Cutting Garden in ...
David Nicholls, writer
17 Aug 2024
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The writer David Nicholls is best known for his 2009 novel One Day which has sold 6 million copies, ...
Errollyn Wallen, composer
11 Aug 2024
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Errollyn Wallen is one of the world’s most performed living composers. Her work, which includes 2...
Rob Delaney, actor and comedian
04 Aug 2024
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Rob Delaney is a comedian, writer and actor who is best known for the television series Catastrophe,...
Professor Patricia Wiltshire, forensic scientist
28 Jul 2024
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Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist who specialises in palynology – the study of ...
Anthony Joshua, boxer
20 Jul 2024
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Anthony Joshua MBE is a British heavyweight boxer, Olympic gold medallist and two-time former unifie...
Clive Myrie, journalist
14 Jul 2024
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Clive Myrie is an award-winning journalist and news presenter who is one of the BBC’s most experie...
Shirine Khoury-Haq, businesswoman
07 Jul 2024
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Shirine Khoury-Haq is the chief executive officer of the Co-op Group – the first female chief exec...
Rebel Wilson, actor
30 Jun 2024
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The Australian actor Rebel Wilson became an international star with a breakthrough part in the 2011 ...
John Boyne, writer
22 Jun 2024
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The Irish writer John Boyne is best known for his 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which b...
Dame Sarah Storey, athlete
15 Jun 2024
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Dame Sarah Storey is Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian, winning 17 gold, eight silver an...
Greg Davies, comedian
09 Jun 2024
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Greg Davies is a familiar face on television as the host of Taskmaster, the BAFTA-winning game show,...
Professor Tim Spector, scientist
27 Apr 2024
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Tim Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Head of the Department of Twin Research at King...
Professor Alice Roberts, scientist and broadcaster
21 Apr 2024
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Professor Alice Roberts is one of the most popular science communicators in Britain today. As the pr...
Jenny Sealey, theatre director
13 Apr 2024
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Jenny Sealey has been the artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company since 1997: Graeae is a deaf a...
James Graham, playwright
07 Apr 2024
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James Graham is an award-winning dramatist whose plays include This House, Ink and Dear England star...
Rita Rae, Lady Rae, lawyer and judge
31 Mar 2024
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The Honourable Lady Rita Rae is a lawyer and judge, and the current Rector of the University of Glas...
Sandy Powell, costume designer
24 Mar 2024
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Sandy Powell won her first Academy Award for dressing Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespe...
Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist
17 Mar 2024
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Clive Oppenheimer is a volcanologist, filmmaker and Professor of Volcanology at the University of Ca...
Cillian Murphy, actor
10 Mar 2024
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Cillian Murphy has received global acclaim for his performance in the title role of Christopher Nola...
Val Wilmer, writer and photographer
03 Mar 2024
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Val Wilmer has photographed and interviewed many of the most significant musicians of the post-war y...
Jamie Dornan, actor
25 Feb 2024
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Jamie Dornan is an actor who first came to the attention of television audiences in 2013 when he pla...
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist
18 Feb 2024
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a cellist who came to international attention when he performed at the wedding...
Guli Francis-Dehqani, Church of England Bishop
11 Feb 2024
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The Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani is the Bishop of Chelmsford. She also sits in Parliament as a L...
Graham Nash, musician
04 Feb 2024
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Graham William Nash is a musician, singer, songwriter and photographer. He had his first musical ...
Delia Smith, CH, CBE, cookery writer and broadcaster
21 Jan 2024
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Delia Smith CH CBE is one of Britain’s most popular and successful cookery writers and broadcaster...
Greta Gerwig, writer and director
14 Jan 2024
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Greta Gerwig is the director of the feature film Barbie - the first woman in cinematic history to ha...
Shirley Ballas, dance judge
07 Jan 2024
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Shirley Ballas is the head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC’s Saturday night entertainment ...
Marina Abramović, performance artist
31 Dec 2023
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Marina Abramović is an artist renowned for performances and feats of endurance, in which her body i...
Dr Nicola Fox, head of science at Nasa
24 Dec 2023
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Dr Nicky Fox is only the second woman to hold the post of Head of Science at NASA since the agency w...
Pia Sinha, Director Prison Reform Trust
17 Dec 2023
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Pia Sinha is the Director of the Prison Reform Trust and a former prison governor. She was awarded ...
Peter White, broadcaster
10 Dec 2023
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Peter White is an award-winning broadcaster. In 2024 he will celebrate 50 years presenting Radio 4’...
Lea Salonga, singer and actor
03 Dec 2023
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Lea Salonga was just 18 when she became an international theatre star, taking a leading role in the ...
Professor Dame Lesley Regan, obstetrician and gynaecologist
26 Nov 2023
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Professor Dame Lesley Regan is the Government’s first Women’s Health Ambassador for England. Sh...
Patrick Grant, designer and broadcaster
19 Nov 2023
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Patrick Grant is a designer, clothing entrepreneur and a judge on the BBC TV programme The Great Bri...
Dame Donna Langley, film studio executive
12 Nov 2023
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Dame Donna Langley is chairman and chief content officer for the NBC Universal Studio Group, the fir...
Greg Jackson, entrepreneur
05 Nov 2023
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Greg Jackson is the founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. The company is the UK’s second largest dom...
Katherine Ryan, comedian
29 Oct 2023
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Katherine Ryan is a Canadian comedian and writer. Her edgy and provocative routines have led to sel...
Lucinda Russell, horse trainer
22 Oct 2023
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Lucinda Russell is a Scottish racehorse trainer. Her stables in Kinross have sent out almost 900 win...
Adrian Edmondson, actor, writer
14 Oct 2023
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Adrian Edmondson first shot to national fame in 1982, playing the studded punk Vyvyan in the TV sitc...
Shirley Collins, folk singer
02 Sep 2023
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Shirley Collins first enjoyed success as one of the leading figures in the British folk revival of t...
Toto Wolff, Formula 1 executive
27 Aug 2023
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Toto Wolff is CEO and Team Principal of the Mercedes Formula 1 motor racing team. He has led the tea...
Simon Woolley, crossbench peer
20 Aug 2023
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Simon Woolley, Lord Woolley of Woodford, is principal of Homerton College at Cambridge University. H...
Jill Scott, footballer
12 Aug 2023
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Jill Scott is the second most capped England footballer ever, playing for her country 161 times. Bef...
Peter Doig, artist
05 Aug 2023
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Peter Doig is one of Britain’s most successful living artists. His paintings have been exhibited a...
Stanley Tucci, actor
30 Jul 2023
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Stanley Tucci is an actor, director and writer who is known for his roles in a broad range of featur...
Kate Mosse, writer
22 Jul 2023
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Kate Mosse OBE is a British novelist and broadcaster. She is the author of ten novels and short stor...
Adam Kay, writer
16 Jul 2023
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Adam Kay is a writer whose memoir This is Going to Hurt; Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor won the B...
Claudia Rankine, poet
09 Jul 2023
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Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright. She is best known for her book Citizen: An Amer...
Jeremy Bowen, journalist
02 Jul 2023
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Jeremy Bowen is the BBC’s award-winning international editor. He has been reporting from the worl...
Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker player
24 Jun 2023
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Ronnie O’Sullivan OBE is currently ranked the number one snooker player in the world, and is widel...
Professor Sharon Peacock, scientist
18 Jun 2023
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Professor Sharon Peacock is professor of public health and microbiology at Cambridge University. In...
Simon Pegg, actor
11 Jun 2023
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Simon Pegg is an actor and screenwriter who became a household name after appearing in two of Hollyw...
Professor Peter Hennessy, historian
04 Jun 2023
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Professor Peter Hennessy is one of the UK’s leading contemporary historians. He has written accla...
Dara Ó Briain, comedian and television presenter
23 Apr 2023
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Dara Ó Briain has toured the world as a stand-up comedian, and hosted the BBC’s satirical series ...
Liz Carr, actor and activist
19 Apr 2023
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Liz Carr is most widely known for her role as the forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery in the long-run...
Amanda Blanc, businesswoman
09 Apr 2023
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Amanda Blanc is the group CEO of the insurance company Aviva. She is one of a handful of women at th...
Robert Webb, comedian
01 Apr 2023
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Robert Webb first reached a wide audience as the co-star of Channel 4’s longest running sitcom, th...