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Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".
Glenda Jackson
British actress and politician (1936–2023)

Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her accolades include a Brit Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

Ken Loach
English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)

Spike Milligan
British actor (1918-2002)

Fernando del Paso
Mexican writer (1935–2018)

Bernard Cribbins
British singer and actor (1928–2022)
Diane Abbott
British MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (born 1953)
Elaine Morgan
British screenwriter, journalist, and author (1920–2013)
Terry Nation
Welsh television writer (1930–1997)
Ion Negoițescu
Romanian writer and historian (1921–1993)
Diana Athill
British literary editor, novelist, memoirist (1917–2019)
Brady Haran
Australian video journalist
James Acheson
costume designer
Emyr Humphreys
Welsh author, poet and novelist (1919-2020)
Polly Toynbee
English journalist and writer
Souad Faress
British actress

Tyrone Guthrie
English actor and director (1900–1971)
BBC Trust
organization
Claire Fox
British writer (born 1960)
Tristram Hunt
British historian, museum director and ex-politician (born 1974)
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Israeli author, psychologist and screenwriter
Jon S. Baird
Scottish film director (1972-)
Abdilatif Abdalla
Kenyan writer, poet and a politician
Michael Barrymore
Comedian, actor, television presenter, broadcaster
Mark Burton
British screenwriter and filmmaker
Tyler Brûlé
Canadian journalist and magazine editor (born 1968)
Ronnie Hazlehurst
English composer (1928-2007)
Gaia Vince
British journalist. broadcaster and non-fiction author
Rodney Bennett
British television director (1935-2017)
Mark Shand
British travel writer, conservationist (1951-2014)
David Whitaker
English television writer and script editor
Samantha Smith
British tennis player
Rory Reid
British journalist and television presenter
Cecil Arthur Lewis
British fighter pilot (1898–1997)
Jerome Ch'en
Chinese-Canadian historian (1919–2019)
Chris Langham
English writer, actor and comedian (born 1949)
Gillian Clarke
Welsh poet (born 1937)
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Pakistani journalist (1954–2021)
Rachel Khoo
British cook, writer and broadcaster

Jonathan Powell
British political adviser
Dennis Spooner
British writer and football player (1932-1986)

Winifred Lamb
British art historian
Helen Castor
English historian
Erkki Toivanen
Finnish television journalist (1938-2011)
Alan Wheatley
English actor (1907–1991)
Bolu Babalola
British author, television writer, and journalist
Angela Barnes
British comedian
Mike Phillips
British writer and journalist
Director-General of the BBC
position
Steve Rosenberg
British journalist
Alison Booker
British radio presenter (1963-2010)

Orhan Boran
Turkish comedian (1928–2012)

Sérgio Viotti
Brazilian actor (1927–2009)
Christopher H. Bidmead
British writer
Eric Maschwitz
English entertainer, writer, editor, broadcaster and broadcasting executive (1901-1969)

Stephen Tallents
British public relations theorist (1884–1958)
Milo Sperber
British actor (1911–1992)
Pip and Jane Baker
British television writers

Lynn Faulds Wood
British television presenter and cancer campaigner