Jean McFarlane, Phillip Tobias, Warda Al Jazairia, Barry Unsworth and Lee Rich

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Lady Jean McFarlane who transformed the way nurses are trained in the UK;

Philip Tobias, the South African paleoanthropologist who carried out pioneering research into the evolution of human beings - and fought apartheid;

The North African diva Warda Al-Jazairia

The Booker prize winning historical novelist Barry Unsworth

And the influential American TV producer Lee Rich. His Lorimar Company brought us the Waltons and Dallas.