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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both accolade and controversy.
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Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
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G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
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John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality - Non-Daily.
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Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
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The Clash
British punk rock band
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Martin Amis
British novelist
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Anthony Trollope
English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
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Hilaire Belloc
French-English writer (1870–1953)
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
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David Harvey
British geographer and anthropologist
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Mark Fisher
British cultural theorist (1968-2017)
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John Atkinson Hobson
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism (1858-1940)
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Matt Ridley
British author and journalist
Charlotte Despard
British suffragist (1844-1939)
Thomas Hodgskin
British writer (1787-1869)
John McDonnell
British Labour politician (born 1951)
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Abigail Thorn
British actress and YouTuber (born 1993)
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
British politician (1864–1937)
Chris Harman
British journalist and political activist (1942-2009)
Milly Witkop
Ukrainian-born Jewish anarcho-syndicalist and feminist writer and activist
Charles Hall
British physician, social critic and Ricardian socialist (1740~-1820~)
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Paul Gilroy
Scholar of the Black diaspora and culture
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
English essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist (1862–1893)
Lewis Gompertz
English philosopher, writer, inventor, and social reformer (1783/4–1861)
John Gray
19th century socialist (1799-1883)
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Grace Blakeley
British economic & political pundit (1993-)
Saul Newman
Australian political theorist (1972-)
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
General secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild