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<s>19 [[Jessie J]]</s>
 
<s>19 [[Jessie J]]</s>
  
20 [[Sue Perkins]], comedian and presenter
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<s>20 [[Sue Perkins]]</s>
  
Perkins began her career as half of double-act Mel and Sue on Channel 4's daytime show Light Lunch. She has written for French and Saunders and Ab Fab, as well as countless radio series. In 2008, Perkins conducted the BBC's Concert Orchestra in Hyde Park during the Last Night of the Proms, after winning the BBC's Maestro competition.
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<s>21 [[Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe]]</s>
 
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21 [[Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe]], head of diversity and inclusion, Google EMEA
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One of the most influential and innovative diversity professionals, he conceived Google's Legalise Love campaign, aimed at countries where homosexuality is illegal. He is a trustee of Kaleidoscope Trust and founder and chairman of the Inclusive Foundation.
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22 Elio Di Rupo, PM, Belgium
 
22 Elio Di Rupo, PM, Belgium
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23 Anderson Cooper, US broadcast journalist
 
23 Anderson Cooper, US broadcast journalist
  
24 [[Mary Portas]], retail expert and presenter
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<s>24 [[Mary Portas]]</s>
 
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Portas is best known for her TV shows in which she helps struggling shops transform their fortunes. Her recent show, Mary Queen of the High Street, began last month on Channel 4. She lives with her children and civil partner, Grazia magazine fashion features editor Melanie Rickey.
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25 Jodie Foster, US actor
 
25 Jodie Foster, US actor
  
26 [[Anthony Watson]], MD and CIO, Barclays
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26 <s>[[Anthony Watson]]</s>
 
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Alongside his demanding job in the City, Watson is chair of the European Diversity Awards, a member of the board of DGS plc and a trustee of the Inclusive Foundation, an LGBT youth charity. Watson is a driving force for diversity and inclusion across the UK and abroad.
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27 Sarah Gilbert, US actor
 
27 Sarah Gilbert, US actor
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28 <s>[[Samantha Ronson]]</s>
 
28 <s>[[Samantha Ronson]]</s>
  
29 [[Laura Doughty]], deputy chief exec, Stonewall
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29 <s>[[Laura Doughty]]</s>
 
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Doughty has been instrumental in encouraging more lesbian involvement in Stonewall and was a driving force behind the organisation's hugely successful 2012 London bus marketing campaign, Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!
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30 Tom Ford, US fashion designer and film director
 
30 Tom Ford, US fashion designer and film director
  
31 [[Lee Pearson]], Paralympian equestrian
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31 <s>[[Lee Pearson]]</s>
 
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The openly gay equestrian, who was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita – a rare congenital disorder – is a 10-time Paralympic Games gold medallist and represented Britain in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. Last year, Pearson won gold in the team dressage event, silver in the championship dressage and bronze in the freestyle. He came out to his parents shortly before his 21st birthday.
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32 Dr <s>[[Christian Jessen]]</s>
 
32 Dr <s>[[Christian Jessen]]</s>
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33 Chaz Bono, US writer and musician
 
33 Chaz Bono, US writer and musician
  
34 [[Chris Bryant]], MP
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34 <s>[[Chris Bryant]]</s>
 
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A Labour MP, Bryant is shadow minister for borders and immigration. He and his partner, Jared Cranney, had the first civil partnership ceremony held in the Houses of Parliament.
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35 Anna Grodzka, Polish politician
 
35 Anna Grodzka, Polish politician
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36 Neil Patrick Harris, US actor, director
 
36 Neil Patrick Harris, US actor, director
  
37 [[Angela Eagle]], Labour MP
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37 <s>[[Angela Eagle]]</s>
  
Shadow leader of the House of Commons, this well-respected Labour politician was the first openly gay woman in parliament when she came out in September 1998 and the first lesbian in a ministerial post.
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38 <s>[[Antony Cotton]]</s>
 
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38 [[Antony Cotton]], actor
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Through playing the gay character Sean Tully in Coronation Street and taking a pivotal role in a breakthrough gay-parenting storyline with fellow actor Charlie Condou, Cotton has done much to break down prejudice among the show's massive UK audience.
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39 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark
 
39 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark
  
40 [[Liz Sayce]], CEO, Disability Rights UK
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40 <s>[[Liz Sayce]]</s>
 
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Sayce is one of the UK's foremost authorities on disability issues. She spent eight years as policy director of the mental health charity Mind and has published many books on mental health, disability and social inclusion.
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41 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor
 
41 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor
  
42 [[Val McDermid]], crime writer
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42 <s>[[Val McDermid]]</s>
 
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The Scottish crime writer and broadcaster said this year that she wants Kelly Smith, her partner since 2004, to become her wife when gay marriage laws are passed. She formed a civil partnership with Smith two years ago. McDermid shares custody of her son with her former partner.
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43 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer
 
43 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer
  
44 [[Stella Duffy]], writer and performer
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44 <s>[[Stella Duffy]]</s>
 
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Novelist Duffy said in an interview with the Independent last year: "No one ever says 'He's a straight; she's a heterosexual', but I'm constantly being called 'a lesbian' and it's just not the most interesting thing about me." Duffy has been a vocal crusader for gay marriage and formed a civil partnership with the playwright Shelley Silas in 2004.
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45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner
 
45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner
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47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland
 
47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland
  
48 [[Craig Revel Horwood]], TV personality
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48 <s>[[Craig Revel Horwood]]</s>
  
 
49 <s>[[Russell Tovey]]</s>
 
49 <s>[[Russell Tovey]]</s>
  
Known as werewolf George Sands in the BBC supernatural drama Being Human, Tovey also played Steve in Him & Her and is currently in The Job Lot. As an openly gay actor, he said this year he is waiting for the right gay role to come along.
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50 <s>[[John Browne]]</s>
 
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50 Lord [[John Browne]], former CEO BP
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Browne was outed by the Mail on Sunday in 2007. He has written about his own sexuality and coming out in general.
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51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
 
51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
  
52 [[Russell T Davies]], screenwriter/producer
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52 <s>[[Russell T Davies]]</s>
 
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Davies's groundbreaking, late-1990s drama, Queer as Folk, dramatised his experiences on the Manchester gay scene.
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53 <s>[[Rylan Clark]]</s>
 
53 <s>[[Rylan Clark]]</s>
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54 <s>[[Sue Sanders]]</s>
 
54 <s>[[Sue Sanders]]</s>
  
55 [[Eileen Gallagher]], television producer
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55 <s>[[Eileen Gallagher]]</s>
  
Gallagher co-founded Shed Productions in 1998. The company is famous for making Waterloo Road.
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56 <s>[[Maureen Chadwick]]</s>
  
56 [[Maureen Chadwick]], screenwriter
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57 <s>[[Liz Bingham]]</s>
  
Chadwick is co-founder of Shed Productions. She co-created Bad Girls.
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58 <s>[[Claire Harvey]]</s>
  
57 [[Liz Bingham]], managing partner, Ernst & Young
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59 <s>[[Marguerite McLaughlin]]</s>
  
Bingham started her career straight from school and now she is seeking to put more women and diverse ethnicities in the boardroom. She was recently appointed president of R3 – the industry body for corporate restructuring professionals.
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60 <s>[[Maggi Hambling]]</s>
 
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58 [[Claire Harvey]], Paralympian volleyball player
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Sportswoman and Team GB's Paralympian volleyball star, Harvey is also involved in the management of the Great Britain deaf women's football team.
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59 [[Marguerite McLaughlin]], CEO, Metro Centre
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As CEO of leading equality and diversity charity Metro, Marguerite McLaughlin BEM, provides a range of services for the LGBT community and others across the south-east.
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60 [[Maggi Hambling]], artist
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The creator of the 4m Scallop on Aldeburgh beach, Hambling was the first artist to be given a residency at the National Portrait Gallery.
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61 Adam Lambert, US singer
 
61 Adam Lambert, US singer
  
62 [[Ben Bradshaw]], MP
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62 <s>[[Ben Bradshaw]]</s>
 
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The gay Labour MP, who is a practising Christian, has criticised the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches for refusing to accept gay marriage.
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63 <s>[[Sophie Ward]]</s>
 
63 <s>[[Sophie Ward]]</s>
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64 <s>[[Paul Flowers]]</s>
 
64 <s>[[Paul Flowers]]</s>
  
65 [[Tim Hely Hutchinson]], CEO, Hachette
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65 <s>[[Tim Hely Hutchinson]]</s>
  
Hutchinson is the younger son of the eighth Earl of Donoughmore and the CEO of the UK's largest publisher.
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66 <s>[[Amy Lamé]]</s>
  
66 [[Amy Lamé]], performer and writer
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67 <s>[[Margot James]]</s>
 
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Amy Lamé, the woman behind the cult performance collective and club night Duckie, has turned her obsession with Morrissey and the Smiths into her latest one-woman show.
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67 [[Margot James]], MP
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MP for Stourbridge, James is the first openly lesbian Tory MP in history.
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68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
 
68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
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69 Jason Collins, NBA player
 
69 Jason Collins, NBA player
  
70 [[Louie Spence]], TV personality
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70 <s>[[Louie Spence]]</s>
 
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Artistic director at Pineapple Dance Studios, Spence is a TV personality, choreographer and producer-director of musical theatre. His autobiography, Still Got It, Never Lost It, was published in 2011.
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71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist
 
71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist
  
72 [[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]], MD UK Black Pride
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72 <s>[[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]]</s>
  
Founder and managing director of UK Black Pride, Opoku-Gyimah, or Lady Phyll as she is known, campaigns for equality in the workplace through her seat on the TUC race relations committee.
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73 <s>[[Suran Dickson]]</s>
  
73 [[Suran Dickson]], CEO Diversity Role Models
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74 <s>[[Paul Burston]]</s>
 
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Dickson quit as a London school teacher in 2011 to set up Diversity Role Models, challenging homophobia by taking positive gay role models into schools.
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74 [[Paul Burston]], writer
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Burston is editor of the gay section of London listings magazine Time Out and founder of gay literary event Polari.
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75 <s>[[Paul Reed]]</s>
 
75 <s>[[Paul Reed]]</s>
  
The CEO of integrated supply trading at BP, Reed has criticised the City for old-fashioned attitudes to LGBT staff.
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76 <s>[[Daniel Winterfeldt]]</s>
  
76 [[Daniel Winterfeldt]], Lawyer
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77 <s>[[Cameron Mackintosh]]</s>
  
US securities lawyer Winterfeldt is head of CMS's International Capital Markets group.
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78 <s>[[Ashley Steel]]</s>
  
77 Sir [[Cameron Mackintosh]], producer
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79 <s>[[Alice Arnold]]</s>
 
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Mackintosh is famous for turning musicals such as Les Misérables into global theatrical productions. Openly gay, he is patron of The Food Chain, a London HIV charity.
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78 [[Ashley Steel]], city adviser
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Steel is a board member at management services company KPMG, where she is also a member of the board subgroup for diversity.
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79 [[Alice Arnold]], broadcaster
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Broadcaster, presenter and Radio 4 newsreader, Arnold is civil partner of sports presenter Clare Balding.
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80 <s>[[Marai Larasi]]</s>
 
80 <s>[[Marai Larasi]]</s>
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82 <s>[[Horse McDonald]]</s>
 
82 <s>[[Horse McDonald]]</s>
  
83 [[Julie Bindel]], journalist
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83 <s>[[Julie Bindel]]</s>
 
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Feminist journalist and Guardian contributor Bindel is co-founder of the group Justice for Women, which opposes violence against women.
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84 [[Fiona Shaw (actor)]]
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An actor who has starred in and directed many theatrical productions and screen dramas, Shaw is possibly best known for her role as Mrs Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
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84 <s>[[Fiona Shaw (actor)]]</s>
  
85 [[Andy Woodfield]], partner PwC
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85 <s>[[Andy Woodfield]]</s>
  
 
86 <s>[[Pratibha Parmar]]</s>
 
86 <s>[[Pratibha Parmar]]</s>

Latest revision as of 09:27, 14 August 2013

(struckout names have been added to Category:World Pride Power List 2013)

  1. Ellen De Generes - US actress
  2. Stephen Fry
  3. Jane Lynch - US actress
  4. Clare Balding
  5. Tim Cook - CEO Apple
  6. Sir Elton John
  7. Lord Alli
  8. Tammy Baldwin - US Senator
  9. Gok Wan
  10. Sir Ian McKellen

11 Peter Tatchell

12 Martina Navratilova, Czech American former tennis player

13 Alan Carr

14 Charlie Condou

15 Michael Cashman

16 Graham Norton

17 Jane Hill

18 Heather Peace

19 Jessie J

20 Sue Perkins

21 Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe

22 Elio Di Rupo, PM, Belgium

23 Anderson Cooper, US broadcast journalist

24 Mary Portas

25 Jodie Foster, US actor

26 Anthony Watson

27 Sarah Gilbert, US actor

28 Samantha Ronson

29 Laura Doughty

30 Tom Ford, US fashion designer and film director

31 Lee Pearson

32 Dr Christian Jessen

33 Chaz Bono, US writer and musician

34 Chris Bryant

35 Anna Grodzka, Polish politician

36 Neil Patrick Harris, US actor, director

37 Angela Eagle

38 Antony Cotton

39 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark

40 Liz Sayce

41 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor

42 Val McDermid

43 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer

44 Stella Duffy

45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner

46 Vincent Francois

47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland

48 Craig Revel Horwood

49 Russell Tovey

50 John Browne

51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer

52 Russell T Davies

53 Rylan Clark

54 Sue Sanders

55 Eileen Gallagher

56 Maureen Chadwick

57 Liz Bingham

58 Claire Harvey

59 Marguerite McLaughlin

60 Maggi Hambling

61 Adam Lambert, US singer

62 Ben Bradshaw

63 Sophie Ward

64 Paul Flowers

65 Tim Hely Hutchinson

66 Amy Lamé

67 Margot James

68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris

69 Jason Collins, NBA player

70 Louie Spence

71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist

72 Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

73 Suran Dickson

74 Paul Burston

75 Paul Reed

76 Daniel Winterfeldt

77 Cameron Mackintosh

78 Ashley Steel

79 Alice Arnold

80 Marai Larasi

81 Mark McLane

82 Horse McDonald

83 Julie Bindel

84 Fiona Shaw (actor)

85 Andy Woodfield

86 Pratibha Parmar

87 Barney Frank, US politician

88 Andi Keeling

89 Neil Bentley

90 Omar Sharif Jr, Egyptian actor

91 Harry Derbidge

92 Jeff Holland

93 Jonathan Harvey

94 Lance Price

95 Diana King, Jamaican singer

96 James Wharton

97 Denise Marshall

98 Tim Sigsworth

99 Ceri Goddard

100 Jane Czyzselska