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Laurence Olivier
English actor and director (1907–1989)
Norman Foster
British architect (born 1935)
George Porter
British chemist (1920–2002)
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist (1907-1997)
Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)
Ralf Dahrendorf
German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009)
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
Clementine Churchill
Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)
Rowan Williams
Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Welsh photographer and filmmaker (1930-2017); ex-husband of Princess Margaret (1930–2017)
Alan Bullock
British historian (1914-2004)
Jonathan Sacks
British rabbi (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (1991-2013) and Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal (2009-2020)
David Owen
British politician (born 1938)
Betty Boothroyd
British politician (1929–2023)
Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt
British Army officer
Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
British economist and academic (born 1946)
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1936-2020)
Michael Martin
British politician (1945–2018)
Susan Greenfield
British scientist
Tanni Grey-Thompson
Welsh wheelchair racer and parliamentarian (born 1969)
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt
New Zealand viceroy, physician, athlete (1900-1994)
Ian Botham
former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator (born 1955)
Selwyn Lloyd
politician (1904-1978)
Katherine Grainger
British rower
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai
British economist and politician (born 1940)
John Sentamu
Archbishop of York; Bishop of Birmingham; Bishop of Stepney; Ugandan-born British Anglican bishop (born 1949)
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
Philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism (1924-2019)
Hugh Thomas
British historian (1931-2017)
George Carey
Anglican bishop (1935-)
Haleh Afshar
British baroness
Robert Skidelsky
British economist and author (1939–2026)
Mervyn King
British economist (born 1948)
Minouche Shafik
economist
Evgeny Lebedev
Russian-British businessman (born 1980)
Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza
British academic, life peer (born 1944)
Robert Runcie
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-1991
Immanuel Jakobovits
British rabbi, styled Baron Jakobovits (1921-1999)
David Wilson
administrator and diplomat from England (born 1935)
Kim Darroch
British diplomat (born 1954)
Helene Hayman
British politician and peer (born 1949)
Onora O'Neill
British philosopher and college principal (born 1941)
Eliza Manningham-Buller
former Director General of MI5 (born 1948)
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach
Royal Air Force officer (born 1956)
Leonard Cheshire
Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1917-1992)
Hartley Shawcross
British politician (1902-2003)
David Julian Richards, Baron Richards of Herstmonceux
British Army field marshal
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Welsh politician (1946–2025)
Murray MacLehose
British politician (1917–2000)
Peter Inge, Baron Inge
Chief of the General Staff and Defence Staff; head of the British Army (1935–2022)
Beeban Kidron
English film director
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead
British media and art executive (born 1951)
Learie Constantine
West Indian cricketer, lawyer, politician and diplomat (1901-1971)
David Chilton Phillips
Biophysicist and structural biologist (1924-1999)
Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes
British courtier (1941–2024)
Michael Ramsey
Archbishop of Canterbury (1904-1988)
Bernard Miles
English actor, writer, and director (1907–1991)
Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox
British politician (born 1937)
Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce
Royal Navy officer (born 1943)
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss
English judge (born 1933)
Richard Chartres
Bishop of London (1995–2017)