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The comedian Sindhu Vee nominates Prince, the musical superstar.
Eleonora Duse, pioneering 19th-century actress, is the choice of Fiona Shaw.
Psychotherapist Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori.
Ramsay Macdonald, Labour's first Prime Minister, chosen by Shaun Ley.
Caroline Quentin nominates the 17th century dramatist and architect Sir John Vanbrugh
Laura Marling on the first female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé.
Ed Balls discusses the influence of 20th-century composer Herbert Howells on his life.
Real-life castaway Lucy Irvine nominates Robinson Crusoe. With Martin Popplewell.
Kamila Shamsie champions the life of the human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir.
Shirley Collins and Billy Bragg on the legendary American song-hunter Alan Lomax.
Turner Prize artist Jeremy Deller chooses The Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
The feminist campaigner and writer Caroline Criado-Perez champions the life of Jane Austen
Kirill Gerstein chooses conductor, composer and virtuoso Ferruccio Busoni
As a young man looking for a literary hero, poet Ian McMillan found writer Malcolm Lowry
Tom Holland chooses Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
Helen Lewis nominates the so-called 'Black Queen' of , Catherine de Medici.
Shappi Khorsandi chooses Emma, Lady Hamilton Lord Nelson’s mistress.
Matt Lucas chooses Freddie Mercury
Matthew Parris profiles the inventor of the car that changed the face of Formula One
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks is Suzanne O'Sullivan's hero, she tells Matthew Parris
The Great Gama, the strongest man in the world, championed by author Nikesh Shukla.
Charlie Chaplin wasn’t funny but a political rebel. Mark Steel nominates him as his hero.
Eden Project founder chooses documentary maker and artist Humphrey Jennings
Comedian Russell Kane nominates novelist Evelyn Waugh, with Ann Pasternak Slater helping
Laura Ingalls Wilder: author Tracy Chevalier s Samira Ahmed
Christina Lamb, author and journalist nominates Benazir Bhutto as her great life.
Douglas Adams the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Cherie Blair chooses her role mode, England's first woman judge, Rose Heilbron
'Horrible Histories' consultant Greg Jenner on his all time favourite - Gene Kelly.
Olympic rower Helen Glover nominates the mountaineer Alison Hargreaves who died on K2.
