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Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.
Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a British cultural icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Her accolades include 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
Simon Pegg
English actor (born 1970)
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond in the films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of several accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Mirren was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Benedict Cumberbatch
English actor (born 1976)
Sadiq Khan
British politician, Mayor of London (born 1970)
Harry Styles
Harry Edward Styles is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. An influential figure in popular culture, he is known for his showmanship, artistry, and flamboyant fashion. Styles's musical career began in 2010 as part of One Direction, a boy band formed on the British music competition series The X Factor after each member of the band had been eliminated from the solo contest. They became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Styles released his eponymous debut solo album through Erskine and Columbia Records in 2017, which was led by the UK number-one single "Sign of the Times".
Spice Girls
British girl group
Tom Hiddleston
Thomas William Hiddleston is a British actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).
Rita Ora
English-Albanian singer and actress
Jeremy Corbyn
British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020
Charli XCX
Charlotte Emma Aitchison, known professionally as Charli XCX, is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She began posting songs on Myspace in 2008 before entering the London rave scene. Signing a recording contract with Asylum Records in 2010, Charli XCX released a series of singles and mixtapes in the early 2010s. In 2012, she was featured on "I Love It" by Swedish duo Icona Pop, which became her first number-one song in the UK and received global success, but her debut studio album, True Romance (2013), failed to meet commercial expectations.
Sam Smith
British singer-songwriter
Jessie J
English singer (born 1988)
Felicity Jones
English actress
Emma Bunton
British singer
Little Mix
English girl group
Melanie Brown
British singer, actress and television personality
Jodie Whittaker
English actress (born 1982)
Annabelle Wallis
British actress
Christabel Pankhurst
suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958)
Josephine Butler
British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution (1828–1906)
Sarah Mullally
Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally is an Anglican bishop and England's former chief nursing officer who has served as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury since 28 January 2026, the first woman to hold the office. As archbishop, she is the senior bishop of the Church of England and the ceremonial head of the Anglican Communion. By virtue of her position, she is also a lord spiritual, one of the 26 Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords.
Jameela Jamil
British actress
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
English physician and feminist (1836-1917)
Tracey Emin
English sculptor, painter, and installation artist (born 1963)
Kate Nash
British musician
George MacKay
British and Australian actor (born 1992)
Douglas Booth
British actor
Romola Garai
British actress
Barbara Bodichon
British educationalist, artist, feminist and activist for women's rights (1827-1891)
Jacqui Smith
British politician (born 1962)
Bill Bailey
British comedian, musician and actor
Anita Roddick
British business woman, founder of The Body Shop (1942-2007)
Mae Muller
British singer
Caroline Criado-Perez
British journalist and author
Harriet Walter
British actress (born 1950)
Sophia Jex-Blake
British physician and suffragist (1840–1912)
Anna Kingsford
English physician, activist and feminist (1846–1888)
Will Young
British singer
Emily Davies
British suffragist & educator (1830–1921)
Perrie Edwards
British singer
Jade Thirlwall
British singer
Poly Styrene
British punk musician (1957–2011)
Mary Darby Robinson
English poet, novelist, dramatist, actress (1758–1800)
May Sinclair
British novelist 1863-1946
Leigh Anne Pinnock
British singer
Adwoa Aboah
British model
Nesta Helen Webster
British far-right author (1876–1960)
Damaris Cudworth Masham
British philosopher (1659-1708)
Mark Kermode
English film critic
Louisa Garrett Anderson
British physician and feminist
Gail Dines
anti-pornography campaigner
Annie Swynnerton
English painter (1844-1933)
Doreen Valiente
English writer (1922–1999)
Melanie Blatt
British singer
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
English suffragist
Rose Macaulay
English novelist and writer (1881–1958)