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Alice Roberts chooses the wife of two kings - Aethelred and Canute.
James Dyson chooses the inventor of the jet engine, Frank Whittle.
Writer Katherine Rundell nominates fellow children's author E Nesbit.
Antoni Gaudi, nominated by Baroness Ros Altmann.
Sir Bruce Forsyth, nominated by the political writer and broadcaster Steve Richards
Comedian Harry Enfield chooses the cartoonist, musician and raconteur Gerard Hoffnung.
Simon Mayo picks his broadcasting hero, Pick of the Pops's Alan 'Fluff' Freeman.
Actor Niamh Cusack chooses the American poet Mary Oliver.
Mr Motivator chooses the King of Calypso, whose hits include Day-O and Jump in the Line.
The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, picks the third president of the United States.
Faye Tozer from Steps nominates a singer and dancer with a trademark growl.
Philosopher John Gray chooses the iconic futuristic writer JG Ballard.
Iszi Lawrence chooses record-breaking aviator Diana Barnato Walker
Mohammad Mossadegh was toppled in a coup in Iran in 1953.
Broadcaster Gerry Anderson chooses Hollywood legend, Burt Lancaster.
Ken Loach on Gerrard Winstanley.
Chi-chi Nwanoku picks the American singer Jessye Norman who became a global star of opera.
Lady Eve Balfour was a pioneering organic farmer and founder of the Soil Association.
‘The Godmother of English ballet’, Dame Ninette De Valois
Chris Watson on Ludwig Koch
Economist Kate Raworth chooses the Environmental Scientist Donella 'Dana' Meadows
Neuroscientist Sophie Scott chooses comedy legend, Hattie Jacques
The head of ZSL, Matthew Gould, picks the founder of London Zoo
Susie Dent chooses the German writer Thomas Mann who wrote 'Death in Venice'.
Ellie Gibson picks the Labour politician Tony Benn
The satirist and writer of The Beggar's Opera nominated by Jake Arnott. With Ian Hislop.
Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials and Fun Boy Three - includes Lynval Golding
Jesse Norman picks Sir Edward Coke, lawyer and Parliamentarian.
Gillian Burke chooses the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations.
John Robins is obsessed by Frank Zappa - here's why
