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Revision as of 21:32, 13 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, writer and performer

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.

45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner

46 Vincent Francois

47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland

48 Craig Revel Horwood, TV personality

49 Russell Tovey

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.

50 Lord John Browne, former CEO BP

Browne was outed by the Mail on Sunday in 2007. He has written about his own sexuality and coming out in general.

51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer

52 Russell T Davies, screenwriter/producer

Davies's groundbreaking, late-1990s drama, Queer as Folk, dramatised his experiences on the Manchester gay scene.

53 Rylan Clark

54 Sue Sanders

55 Eileen Gallagher, television producer

Gallagher co-founded Shed Productions in 1998. The company is famous for making Waterloo Road.

56 Maureen Chadwick, screenwriter

Chadwick is co-founder of Shed Productions. She co-created Bad Girls.

57 Liz Bingham, managing partner, Ernst & Young

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.

58 Claire Harvey, Paralympian volleyball player

Sportswoman and Team GB's Paralympian volleyball star, Harvey is also involved in the management of the Great Britain deaf women's football team.

59 Marguerite McLaughlin, CEO, Metro Centre

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.

60 Maggi Hambling, artist

The creator of the 4m Scallop on Aldeburgh beach, Hambling was the first artist to be given a residency at the National Portrait Gallery.

61 Adam Lambert, US singer

62 Ben Bradshaw, MP

The gay Labour MP, who is a practising Christian, has criticised the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches for refusing to accept gay marriage.

63 Sophie Ward

64 Paul Flowers

65 Tim Hely Hutchinson, CEO, Hachette

Hutchinson is the younger son of the eighth Earl of Donoughmore and the CEO of the UK's largest publisher.

66 Amy Lamé, performer and writer

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.

67 Margot James, MP

MP for Stourbridge, James is the first openly lesbian Tory MP in history.

68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris

69 Jason Collins, NBA player

70 Louie Spence, TV personality

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.

71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist

72 Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, MD UK Black Pride

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.

73 Suran Dickson, CEO Diversity Role Models

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.

74 Paul Burston, writer

Burston is editor of the gay section of London listings magazine Time Out and founder of gay literary event Polari.

75 Paul Reed

The CEO of integrated supply trading at BP, Reed has criticised the City for old-fashioned attitudes to LGBT staff.

76 Daniel Winterfeldt, Lawyer

US securities lawyer Winterfeldt is head of CMS's International Capital Markets group.

77 Sir Cameron Mackintosh, producer

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.

78 Ashley Steel, city adviser

Steel is a board member at management services company KPMG, where she is also a member of the board subgroup for diversity.

79 Alice Arnold, broadcaster

Broadcaster, presenter and Radio 4 newsreader, Arnold is civil partner of sports presenter Clare Balding.

80 Marai Larasi

81 Mark McLane

82 Horse McDonald

83 Julie Bindel, journalist

Feminist journalist and Guardian contributor Bindel is co-founder of the group Justice for Women, which opposes violence against women.

84 Fiona Shaw (actor)

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.

85 Andy Woodfield, partner PwC

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