- Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. She became known after her roles in the Hollywood films "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns", and has since continued appearing in major film roles. - Celia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908-26 April 1982) was an English actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, "Brief Encounter", opposite Trevor Howard, for which she received her only Oscar nomination. She was born in Richmond, London and was educated at St Paul's Girls School in London. She trained in acting at RADA. Her stage début was in "Major Barbara" in 1928. - Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English physical chemist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which formed a basis of Watson and Crick's hypothesis of the double helical structure of DNA in their 1953 publication, and when published constituted critical evidence of the hypothesis. - Natasha Richardson
Natasha Jane Richardson (born May 11, 1963, died March 18, 2009) was a Tony Award-winning English/American actress and member of the Redgrave family, an enduring theatrical dynasty. She was well-known through several leading roles in films, however, she was most famous through her award-winning roles on Broadway. - Susan Kramer
Susan Veronica Kramer (born 22 July 1950) is a London businesswoman and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Richmond Park. Holborn-born, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union, and took her MBA at the University of Illinois. She is a former vice-president of Citibank Chicago. - Imogen Stubbs
Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is a British actress. She was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. When her family moved to a barge in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith and Westminster School, and then gained a First Class Honours Degree in English Literature at Exeter College, Oxford and was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. She subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. - Rachel Johnson
Rachel Johnson (born 1965) is a British journalist and writer based in London. Johnson is the daughter of Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl (nee Fawcett), and the younger sister of Boris Johnson. She was educated at Winsford First School, Primrose Hill Primary, the European School in Brussels, Ashdown House School, Bryanston School and St Paul's Girls' School. In 1984 she went up to New College, Oxford to read Classics. - Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer (born 1 December, 1971) is an English actress. She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including 2000's "Scream 3" and 2005's "Match Point". - Shirley Williams Baroness Williams of Crosby
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, PC (born 27 July 1930), is a British politician. Originally a Labour Member of Parliament (MP), she was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the SDP (Social Democratic Party) in 1981 (The SDP later merged with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats). In 2001 she became Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, until November 2004 when she decided to step down. - Jane Bonham Carter Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarn
Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (born 20 October 1957) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. Bonham Carter was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School, an independent school in Brook Green, London, and at University College, part of the University of London. She worked in television, before she was created a life peer as Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, of Yarnbury in the County of Wiltshire, in 2005. - Sophie Raworth
Sophie Raworth (pronounced) (born 15 May 1968) in Redhill, and also known as Sophie Winter is a newsreader on BBC Television in the UK. In April 2006, she became the main presenter of the BBC One O'Clock News, after the retirement of Anna Ford. - Georgina Rylance
Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born April 20, 1979), English actress, best known for Dinotopia. - Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman QC MP (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour politician. Since 24 June 2007, she has been the Deputy Leader and Party Chair of the Labour Party. On 28 June 2007 she was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality. She has significant political family connections- her aunt, the author Elizabeth Longford was the wife of the Labour cabinet minister, … - Monica Dickens
Monica Enid Dickens (May 10, 1915 London - December 25, 1992 Reading, Berkshire) was a British writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. - Margaret Simey
Margaret Bayne Todd (4 January, 1906 - 27 July, 2004) was born in Glasgow, but is usually more associated with Liverpool; her home from the 1920s. Known to herself and others as a "prickly customer", she had, as a teenager, chosen "Thistle" as her Camp Fire name in acknowledgment of this. She became well-known as a campaigner for the rights of the poor in Liverpool, served as a Liverpool City Councillor from 1963, …
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