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George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
Roger Waters
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (born 1943)
Jeremy Corbyn
British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020
William Morris
British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)
David Gilmour
English musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)
The Clash
British punk rock band
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.
Vanessa Redgrave
British actress and activist (born 1937)
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)
Martin Freeman
English actor
Gustav Holst
British composer (1874–1934)
Clive Dunn
British actor (1920–2012)
Hilary Mantel
British writer (1952–2022)
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Nicholas Winton
British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39 (1909–2015)
Olaf Stapledon
British novelist and philosopher (1886–1950)
Ken Livingstone
English politician (born 1945); Mayor of London from 2000 until 2008
A. J. P. Taylor
English historian (1906-1990)
Brian Clough
English football player and manager (1935–2004)
Edith Nesbit
English author and poet (1858–1924)
Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
Joe Strummer
British singer, musician and songwriter (1952–2002)
Jack Charlton
English footballer and manager (1935-2020)
Marty Feldman
British author, actor, comedian and director (1934–1982)
Terry Eagleton
British writer, academic and educator
J. B. Priestley
English writer (1894–1984)
Frank P. Ramsey
British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
Alan Sillitoe
British writer
Eleanor Farjeon
English children's writer
Harold Laski
British academic (1893-1950)
Lancelot Hogben
British zoologist, statistician, science writer (1895–1975)
Pete Doherty
English musician, actor and poet (born 1979)
Nigel Kennedy
British-born violinist and violist (born 1956)
Sidney Webb
English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)
Michael Foot
British politician (1913-2010)
John Atkinson Hobson
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism (1858-1940)
Paul Weller
English recording artist; singer-songwriter, musician
Billy Bragg
English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist
Eric Gill
English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker (1882–1940)
Will Self
English writer and journalist (born 1961)
Walter Crane
British artist (1845-1915)
John Thaw
British actor (1942–2002)
George Monbiot
English writer and political activist
Michael Rosen
British children's author and poet (born 1946)
Tony Robinson
British actor
Ernest Belfort Bax
British barrister and journalist (1854–1926)
Richard Doll
British physician and epidemiologist (1912–2005)
Owen Jones
British political pundit (1984–)
Henry Hyndman
English writer and politician (1842–1921)
George Holyoake
British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor (1817-1906)
Roland Orzabal
English musician and singer
Stan Collymore
English footballer
G. D. H. Cole
British historian, economist, writer (1889-1959)