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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".

British actress and politician (1936–2023)

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.

English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)

British actor (1918-2002)

Mexican writer (1935–2018)

British singer and actor (1928–2022)

British MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (born 1953)

British screenwriter, journalist, and author (1920–2013)

Welsh television writer (1930–1997)

Romanian writer and historian (1921–1993)

British literary editor, novelist, memoirist (1917–2019)

Australian video journalist

costume designer

Welsh author, poet and novelist (1919-2020)

English journalist and writer

British actress

English actor and director (1900–1971)

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British writer (born 1960)

British historian, museum director and ex-politician (born 1974)

Israeli author, psychologist and screenwriter

Scottish film director (1972-)

Kenyan writer, poet and a politician

Comedian, actor, television presenter, broadcaster

British screenwriter and filmmaker

Canadian journalist and magazine editor (born 1968)

English composer (1928-2007)

British journalist. broadcaster and non-fiction author

British television director (1935-2017)

British travel writer, conservationist (1951-2014)

English television writer and script editor

British tennis player

British journalist and television presenter

British fighter pilot (1898–1997)

Chinese-Canadian historian (1919–2019)

English writer, actor and comedian (born 1949)

Welsh poet (born 1937)

Pakistani journalist (1954–2021)

British cook, writer and broadcaster

British political adviser

British writer and football player (1932-1986)

British art historian

English historian

Finnish television journalist (1938-2011)

English actor (1907–1991)

British author, television writer, and journalist

British comedian

British writer and journalist

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British journalist

British radio presenter (1963-2010)

Turkish comedian (1928–2012)

Brazilian actor (1927–2009)

British writer

English entertainer, writer, editor, broadcaster and broadcasting executive (1901-1969)

British public relations theorist (1884–1958)

British actor (1911–1992)

British television writers

British television presenter and cancer campaigner