Malcolm Turnbull
Prime Minister of Australia; businessman
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Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia
Gilbert Shelton
Cartoonist
Sir David Attenborough
Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
James Earl Carter
President of the United States
1924-2024
Lady Judge
Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority
Raymond Blanc
Chef
Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot
Microbiologist and Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Robert Swan Mueller III
Director of the FBI
1944-2026
Alexander Stubb
President of Finland
Sir Richard Moore
Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine
William J Burns
Director of CIA
Sir Keir Starmer KC
Prime Minister; Director of Public Prosecutions
Professor Ian Griffiths
Mathematician
Arata Isozaki
1931-2022
Architect
Aung San Suu Kyi
President of Burma
Bonnie Greer
Playwright
Peter Zumthor
Architect
Sarnath Banerjee
Graphic Novelist
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Physicist
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
Antony Blinken
Secretary of State
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Leader of the Belarusian people
Joe Biden
President of the United States
Sir Jeremy Fleming
Director of GCHQ
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
Sir Charles Saumarez Smith
Director of the Royal Academy
Dame Louise Richardson
Political Scientist and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
Edi Rama
Prime Minister of Albania
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
William Klein
Photographer
Melinda Gates
Philanthropist
Martin Dempsey
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Janet Napolitano
Secretary of Homeland Security; President of the University of California
Armistead Maupin
Writer
William Gibson
Writer
David Behrman
Composer
Alan Greenspan
Chair of the US Federal Reserve
Michael Moorcock
Writer
Kengo Kuma
Architect
Tom Fletcher
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936-2025
Writer and Diplomat
General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith
Chief of the General Staff
Ahmed al-Sharaa
President of Syria
Zeinab Badawi
Broadcaster and Director of SOAS
Dr Chris Beetles
Owner of the Chris Beetles Gallery
Mohammad Khatami
President of Iran
Professor Sir Peter Horby
Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health at Oxford University
Peter Mandelson
Politician
Jamie Raskin
Member of the United States Congress
Mohammed Dahlan
Politician
Claire Denis
Film-maker
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
Tori Amos
Singer
Paul Volcker
Chair of the US Federal Reserve
Norma Percy
Documentary Film-Maker
Michael Chertoff
Secretary of Homeland Security
Mark Esper
US Defence Secretary
Loretta Lynch
US Attorney-General
Joseph Stiglitz
Chief Economist, World Bank; Nobel Economics laureate
Jeh Johnson
Secretary of Homeland Security
Admiral James G Stavridis
Supreme Commander Allied Forces in Europe
Howard Dean
Physician, Governor of Vermont and Chair of the DNC
Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson
Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs; US Treasury Secretary
George Mitchell
Senator and US Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
Garrison Keillor
Writer
Philip Zelikow
Chair of the 9/11 Commission
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
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Civil Rights Leader
Sir Alexander McCall Smith
Writer and owner of the Cairns of Coll
Sylvie-Agnès Bermann
Diplomat
Professor Brian Cox
Physicist
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
Admiral Jonathan Greenert
Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy
Mike Leigh
Film director
Hélène Tréheux-Duchène
Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom
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