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Rachel Weisz
Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $3.5 billion worldwide.
Anna Wintour
Dame Anna Wintour is a British and American media executive who served as editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1988 to 2025. Currently, Wintour serves as global chief content officer and artist director at Condé Nast. Known for her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour is regarded as the most powerful woman in publishing, and has become an important figure in the fashion world, serving as the lead chairperson of the annual haute couture Met Gala global fashion spectacle in Manhattan since the 1990s. Wintour is praised for her skill in identifying emerging fashion trends, but has been criticised for her reportedly aloof and demanding personality.
Anna Popplewell
English actress
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
Agnes Arber
British botanist (1879-1960)
Stella Gibbons
British writer (1902–1989)
Stevie Smith
British poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902–1971)
Eleanor Bron
British stage, film and television actress and author
Judith Weir
British composer
Fenella Fielding
English actress (1927–2018)
Anna Madeley
British actress
Noreena Hertz
British economist and author
Susie Orbach
English psychologist
Roma Agrawal
British structural engineer
Edith Humphrey
British chemist (1875-1978)
Jo Dunkley
British astrophysicist (1979-)
Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn
Dutch scholar (1881–1962)

Edith How-Martyn
British suffragette (1875-1954)

Myfanwy Piper
librettist and art critic (1911-1997)
Esther Rantzen
English television presenter

Gillian Tett
British journalist
Ruth Padel
British poet and author
Frederick Walker
English painter (1840-1875)

Barbara Amiel
British journalist, writer, and socialite
Natasha Walter
British feminist writer
Tanya Byron
Psychologist, television and radio presenter
Helen Gardner
English literary critic and academic (1908–1986)
Kate O'Toole
British actress, daughter of actors Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips

Gillian Cross
British children's author
Marcus Hartog
British scientist (1851-1924)
Weedon Grossmith
British painter, writer and actor (1854–1919)
Lilian Lindsay
British dentist (1871-1960), first qualified woman dentist in the UK
Clara Collet
British academic
Louie Ramsay
British actress (1929-2011)
Chioma Okereke
Nigerian novelist

Xelia Mendes-Jones
Xelia Mendes-Jones is a British actor. He is best known for his main role as Dane in the Prime Video series Fallout (2024).
Jessie Pope
British poet, writer and journalist (1868-1941)

Victoria Sharp
British judge
Margaret Fingerhut
British classical pianist
Dorothy Evans
activist and organizer

Grace Chappelow
British suffragette

Lauren Henderson
Fiction author
Gemma Godfrey
Board director, broadcaster