
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine

Claire Denis
Film-maker

Lady Judge
Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority

William J Burns
Director of CIA

Dame Kate Bingham
Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce

John Kerry
Secretary of State and Climate Envoy

Professor Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome
Forensic Anthropologist and President of St John’s College, Oxford

Sir Richard Moore
Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Arata Isozaki
1931-2022
Architect

James Earl Carter
President of the United States
1924-2024
Professor Ian Griffiths
Mathematician

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Leader of the Belarusian people

Joe Biden
President of the United States

Sir Jeremy Fleming
Director of GCHQ

Raymond Blanc
Chef

Claire Denis
Film Director

Katrín Jakobsdottír
Prime Minister of Iceland

Peter Brook CH
Theatre and film director
1925-2022

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Mike Pence
Vice-President of the United States

Bonnie Greer
Playwright

Sir Keir Starmer KC
Prime Minister; Director of Public Prosecutions

Aung San Suu Kyi
President of Burma

Sir Charles Saumarez Smith
Director of the Royal Academy

Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations

Dame Louise Richardson
Political Scientist and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

Edi Rama
Prime Minister of Albania

Sarnath Banerjee
Graphic Novelist

Marco Rubio
Secretary of State

Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam
Senator

Lee Hsien Loong
Prime Minister of Singapore

Jon Holmes
Comedian

Margaret Atwood
Writer

Shirley Botchwey
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

A.N. Wilson
Writer

Professor Sir Peter Horby
Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health at Oxford University

Kengo Kuma
Architect

Mario Vargas Llosa
1936-2025
Writer and Diplomat

Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot
Microbiologist and Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith
Chief of the General Staff

Michael Moorcock
Writer

Jamie Raskin
Member of the United States Congress

Antony Blinken
Secretary of State

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell CH
Astrophysicist

Neil Gaiman
Writer

Milojko Spajić
Prime Minister of Montenegro

Sir Antony Beevor
Historian

Garrison Keillor
Writer

Brian Eno
Musician

Professor Sir Rory Collins
Epidemiologist

Peter Tatchell
Human Rights campaigner

Sir John Sawers
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Sabine Azéma
Actress

Lord Rees
Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and President of the Royal Society

Shimon Peres
President and Prime Minister of Israel

Artur Ekert
Professor of Quantum Physics at Oxford University
© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Frankie Dettori and Stradivarius after winning the Royal Ascot Gold Cup 2019

Jude Law
Actor

Lord Cameron
Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister

Dame Professor Molly Stevens
Scientist and founder of the Stevens Group

Julia Gillard
Prime Minister of Australia

Posy Simmonds
Artist and Writer

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton ‘Tony’ Blair
Prime Minister

Sir Max Hastings
Journalist and military historian

Liz Truss
Prime Minister

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller
Director-General of the Security Service (MI5); Co-President of Chatham House, Chair of the Wellcome Trust

Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand
Sir Alex Younger
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Noam Chomsky
Philosopher

Dame Mary Beard
Classicist

Barham Salih
Prime Minister of Iraq

Joel Rosenthal
President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Antonio Bonchristiano
Businessman and Philanthropist

Sir Alexander McCall Smith
Writer and owner of the Cairns of Coll

Sylvie-Agnès Bermann
Diplomat
Professor Brian Cox
Physicist

Robert Swan Mueller III
Director of the FBI and US Justice Department Special Prosecutor

Philip Hensher
Novelist

Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel

Professor Ros Ballaster
Academic

Steven Pinker
Cognitive psychologist

Tristram Hunt
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

General David Petraeus
Director of CIA

Jon Stallworthy
Poet and academic

Patrice Chéreau
Film and theatre director

Baroness Hale of Richmond
President of the Supreme Court
Barbara Hulanicki
Founder of BIBA

Peter Schmitt
Surveyor of the Fabric of the Royal Academy

William J Burns
Director of CIA

Abdalla Hamdok
Prime Minister of Sudan

David Behrman
Composer

Noam Chomsky
Philosopher

Ela Bhatt
‘Gentle revolutionary’; member of The Elders

Alar Karis
President of Estonia

William, Prince of Wales

Alain Robbe-Grillet
Writer and film-maker

The Duke of Sussex

Amélie Nothomb
Novelist

Robert Crumb
Artist

James, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom
Politician

Andrew Saint
Architectural Historian; General Editor of the Survey of London
Mike Figgis
Film Director

Boris Johnson
Prime Minister

Sir Michael Palin
Python

Gordon Brown CH
Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Jack Lang
Politician

Muhammad Yunus
Founder of Grameen Bank and leader of Bangla Desh

Sir Robert Reid
1934-2025
Chairman of the British Railways Board

Sir Thomas Scholar
Permanent Secretary to the Treasury; Chair, Nomura Europe

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Leader of the people of Belarus

Armando Iannucci
Satirist

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
1939-2025
Architect and President of the Royal Academy
Mike Leigh
Film director

Hélène Tréheux-Duchène
Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom

Margaret MacMillan
Historian

Charles Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Sir Richard Sykes
Microbiologist and Rector of Imperial College

Chris Wilkinson
Architect

Sir Ben Okri
Writer

Magne Magler Wiggen
Architect

Lyndall Gordon
Biographer

Colin, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
Archaeologist
1937-2024

Sara Pantuliano
CEO of the Overseas Development Institute

John Bolton
US Ambassador to the UN, National Security Adviser

General Sir Mike Jackson 1944-2024
Chief of the General Staff

Lord Foster
Architect

Pascal Lamy
Director-General of the WTO

Michel Barnier
Prime Minister of France

Admiral James G. Stavridis
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan

Txai Suriu
Activist fighting Amazonian deforestation; founder of Movement of Indigenous Youth of Rondônia

Sir John Major
Prime Minister

Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson
Secretary of the US Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs

Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud
Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the USA; entrepreneur and philanthropist

Sir John Scarlett
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Sir David Omand
Director of GCHQ

Melina Abdullah
Co-founder of Black Lives Matter

Alan Greenspan
Chairman of the US Federal Reserve

Aleksei German
Film-Maker

Efraim Halevy
Director of Mossad

Raoul Coutard
Cinematographer

Michael Ignatieff
Writer

Lucy Winkett
Vicar of St. James’s, Piccadilly

Tracy Chevalier
Writer

Professor David Starkey
Historian

Francis Fukuyama
Political scientist

Olivier Assayas
Film Director

Piers Gough
Architect

Kgalema Motlanthe
President of South Africa

Dr Bryson Gore
Scientist