John AmaechiW
John Amaechi

John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi, OBE is a British-American psychologist, consultant and former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Vanderbilt and Penn State, and professional basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Amaechi also played in France, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Since retiring from basketball, Amaechi has worked as a psychologist and consultant, establishing his company Amaechi Performance Systems.

Carole BamfordW
Carole Bamford

Carole Gray Bamford, Baroness Bamford, OBE, is a British business person who founded the Daylesford Organic Farmshops chain and the Bamford brand of women's products.

Fiona BruceW
Fiona Bruce

Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. She joined the BBC as a researcher for Panorama in 1989, and has since become the first female newsreader on the BBC News at Ten, as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation, including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow, and Fake or Fortune? Since 10 January 2019 she has been the presenter of the BBC One television programme Question Time.

Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-CouttsW
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts. In 1837 she became one of the wealthiest women in England when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million following the death of her stepgrandmother, Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans. She joined the surnames of her father and grandfather, by royal licence, to become Burdett-Coutts. Edward VII is reported to have described her as, "[a]fter my mother, the most remarkable woman in the kingdom."

Stephen ColeridgeW
Stephen Coleridge

Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge was an English author, barrister, opponent of vivisection, and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Joan CollinsW
Joan Collins

Dame Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author, and columnist. Collins is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 1983, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has been recognized for her philanthropy, particularly her advocacy towards causes relating to children, which has earned her many honours. In 2015, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her charitable services.

Leonard CostelloW
Leonard Costello

Sir Leonard Wilfred James Costello was an English barrister, college lecturer, soldier and colonial judge who was also a Liberal Party politician.

Joan CourtW
Joan Court

Joan Court was a British midwife and social worker who set up the Battered Child Research Department at the NSPCC, a prominent figure in the animal rights movement, and an author.

Mitzi DeanW
Mitzi Dean

Mitzi Jayne Dean is a British-Canadian social worker and politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Esquimalt-Metchosin as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus. Mitzi Dean was appointed as the province's Parliamentary Secretary of the newly created Gender Equity Secretariat, in the Ministry or Finance, in February 2018 by Premier John Horgan.

Gavin DeinW
Gavin Dein

Gavin Alexander Dein is a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known for his founding of the Reward Insight business. In November 2020 Verisk, a Nasdaq-listed data analytics company, purchased a strategic minority stake in Reward Insight in a deal worth over £100m

Monica DickensW
Monica Dickens

Monica Enid Dickens, MBE was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.

Frank Edwards (British Army soldier)W
Frank Edwards (British Army soldier)

Frank Edwards, also known as The Footballer of Loos, was a British Army soldier in the First World War who served as a rifleman in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, during the Battle of Loos. He is distinguished for leading the London Irish across no man's land to storm enemy trenches kicking a football ahead of the troops. The successful capture of enemy positions that followed earned the London Irish Rifles their second battle honour, Loos, 1915. The football is still preserved in the regimental museum of the London Irish and to this day the memory of Edwards is commemorated on Loos Sunday.

George Evans (VC)W
George Evans (VC)

George Evans VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Ernest GreavesW
John Ernest Greaves

John Ernest Greaves CBE was a wealthy Welsh slate mine owner and Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire.

Sahar HashemiW
Sahar Hashemi

Sahar Hashemi is best known as the co-founder of the coffee chain Coffee Republic and confectionery brand Skinny Candy. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to the UK economy and to charity. She has been named on various power lists, including the Independent on Sunday.

Edward HenryW
Edward Henry

Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet, was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1903 to 1918.

Nicholas HoultW
Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor. His body of work includes supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in both the American and the British film industries. He has been nominated for awards such as a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Donald Maclean (British politician)W
Donald Maclean (British politician)

Sir Donald Maclean was a British Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Leader of the Opposition between 1918 and 1920 and served in Ramsay MacDonald's National Government as President of the Board of Education from 1931 until his death in June that following year.

Zahida ManzoorW
Zahida Manzoor

Zahida Parveen Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor, is a British businessperson and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Dan NorrisW
Dan Norris

Dan Norris is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Mayor of the West of England since May 2021. He previously served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010.

Phil PackerW
Phil Packer

Philip Packer MBE is a British charity activist who suffered serious injuries while serving with the British military in Iraq in 2008 and has since engaged in numerous publicised physical challenges in support of his charity, the British Inspiration Trust (BRIT), and other causes.

Denise PlattW
Denise Platt

Dame Denise Platt is a British civil servant. She is the Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection. Prior to this appointment in 2004, she was Chief Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate, and Director for Children, Older People and Social Care Services at the Department of Health of the United Kingdom.

Esther RantzenW
Esther Rantzen

Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes, and founded the charities ChildLine, promoting child protection, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012.

Alan ShearerW
Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer CBE DL is an English football pundit and retired football player and manager who played as a striker. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in Premier League history, he is the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he came third in both Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. Shearer was one of the first two players inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame in 2021.

Michael SheenW
Michael Sheen

Michael Christopher Sheen is a Welsh actor, producer, and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s and made notable stage appearances in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool with Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997). His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse.

Joanna Shields, Baroness ShieldsW
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields

Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, OBE is a British-American technology industry veteran and baroness who currently serves as Group CEO for BenevolentAI.

Nick Smith (British politician)W
Nick Smith (British politician)

Nicholas Desmond John Smith is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaenau Gwent since 2010. From 1998 to 2005 he was a councillor in the London Borough of Camden.

Hesba StrettonW
Hesba Stretton

Hesba Stretton was the pseudonym of Sarah Smith, an evangelical English author of religious books for children. These were highly popular. By the late 19th century Jessica's First Prayer had sold a million and a half copies – ten times more than Alice in Wonderland. She concocted "Hesba Stretton" from the initials of herself and four surviving siblings, along with the name of a Shropshire village she visited, All Stretton, where her sister Anne owned a house, Caradoc Lodge.

Margaret ThatcherW
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. The longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, she was the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism.

Emily WatsonW
Emily Watson

Emily Margaret Watson is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, and was nominated for the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter.

Benjamin WaughW
Benjamin Waugh

Benjamin Waugh was a Victorian social reformer and campaigner who founded the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late 19th century, and also wrote various hymns.

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Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster

Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster,, was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton. He was Chairman of the property company Grosvenor Group. In the first ever edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, with a fortune of £3.2 billion, with only The Queen above him.

Nicholas WintertonW
Nicholas Winterton

Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton is a retired British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Macclesfield from 1971 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.

Catherine Zeta-JonesW
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award and three awards from the Screen Actors Guild. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian work.