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Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television personality, record executive, and entrepreneur. He has judged on the British television talent competition shows Pop Idol (2001–2003), The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent (2007–present), as well as the American television talent competition shows American Idol (2002–2010), The X Factor (2011–2013), and America's Got Talent (2016–present). Cowell founded the British entertainment company Syco Entertainment in 2005, as well as its defunct predecessor, Syco Music in 2002.
Leonard Woolf
English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant (1880-1969)
Ephraim Chambers
English writer and encyclopaedist
Emily Faithfull
English women's rights activist, and publisher (1835-1895)
Evgeny Lebedev
Russian-British businessman (born 1980)
John Playford
London bookseller and publisher (1623-1686)
Lovell Augustus Reeve
British biologist and publisher (1814–1865)
William Henry Ireland
English forger of Shakespearean documents and plays (1775 or 1777-1835)
Joseph Johnson
London bookseller and publisher (1738-1809)
Charles Ricketts
British artist and publisher (1866-1931)
John Boydell
British engraver, publisher, and Lord Mayor of London in 1790 (1719 or 1720-1804)
John Senex
British publisher and cartographer (1678–1740)
Henry George Bohn
British publisher (1796-1884)
Arthur Henry Bullen
British publisher and Elizabethian literature scholar (1857-1920)
Sigrid Rausing
Swedish philanthropist
Richard Bentley
English publisher (1794–1871)
Robert Dodsley
British writer and bookseller (1704-1764)
Wynkyn de Worde
English printer and publisher
Gail Rebuck
Chair, Penguin Random House UK
Nicholas Trübner
German-English publisher and linguist, founder of Trübner & Co.
William Barley
English bookseller and publisher (1565?–1614)
Richard Desmond
English publisher and businessman
John Wisden
Founder of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack (1826-1884)
Charles Edward Mudie
British publisher (1818–1890)
Richard Phillips
English schoolteacher, author, and publisher (1767-1840)
Edmund Curll
British publisher and bookseller
Thomas Thorpe
English publisher
John Tallis
British cartographer
Edward Lloyd
British publisher (1815–1890)
Alfred Nutt
Publisher, folklorist, celticist
Henry Colburn
British publisher (1784–1855)
John Taylor
English publisher, essayist, and writer (1781-1864)
Edward Stanford
English businessman and cartographer (1827–1904)
William Jaggard
16th/17th-century English printer and publisher
William Lazenby
British publisher
David and Frederick Barclay
British businessmen; twin brothers
Gerald Duckworth
British publisher
Alexander George Findlay
English geographer and hydrographer (1812–1875)