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The actor Robert Hardy, best known for his roles in All Creatures Great and Small and the Harry Potter films and for playing Winston Churchill.

David Jones who wrote the Daedalus column in New Scientist magazine and came up with an endless stream of inventive and challenging experiments.

Jeanne Moreau the iconic French actress who was actually half English.

Mark Wilkinson - the furniture designer once described as 'the Mozart of the kitchen cabinet'

And Sam Shepard, the actor and playwright whose work redefined the landscape of the American West.