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| Rank |
Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Stephen Hawking |
37,322 |
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| 2 |
John Lennon |
31,152 |
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| 3 |
Kate Winslet |
19,167 |
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| 4 |
David Beckham |
17,673 |
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| 5 |
Charlie Chaplin |
17,487 |
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| 6 |
Seal (musician) |
14,009 |
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| 7 |
Christian Bale |
13,921 |
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| 8 |
Christopher Hitchens |
13,723 |
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| 9 |
Phil Collins |
13,707 |
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| 10 |
George Harrison |
13,392 |
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| 11 |
Alexander McQueen |
12,010 |
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| 12 |
Sacha Baron Cohen |
11,876 |
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| 13 |
Christopher Nolan |
11,082 |
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| 14 |
Richard Dawkins |
11,061 |
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| 15 |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
10,595 |
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| 16 |
Jeremy Clarkson |
9,957 |
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| 17 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
9,901 |
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| 18 |
George Orwell |
9,446 |
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| 19 |
Elizabeth Taylor |
8,931 |
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| 20 |
Daniel Craig |
8,319 |
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| 21 |
Sting (musician) |
8,293 |
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| 22 |
Florence Nightingale |
8,192 |
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| 23 |
Tim Berners-Lee |
7,586 |
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| 24 |
Agatha Christie |
7,347 |
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| 25 |
John Maynard Keynes |
6,222 |
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| 26 |
Naomi Campbell |
6,129 |
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| 27 |
Mika (singer) |
5,707 |
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| 28 |
Alan Turing |
5,335 |
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| 29 |
Mischa Barton |
5,115 |
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| 30 |
Aldous Huxley |
5,051 |
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| 31 |
Alexa Chung |
4,474 |
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| 32 |
Neil Gaiman |
4,422 |
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| 33 |
Damon Albarn |
4,419 |
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| 34 |
Maggie Smith |
4,219 |
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| 35 |
Nick Drake |
4,117 |
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| 36 |
Jeremy Irons |
3,973 |
 |
| 37 |
Thomas Hardy |
3,562 |
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| 38 |
Judi Dench |
3,466 |
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| 39 |
Brian Johnson |
3,013 |
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| 40 |
Richard Dawson |
2,954 |
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| 41 |
Eadweard Muybridge |
2,904 |
 |
| 42 |
Rosalind Franklin |
2,715 |
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| 43 |
Michael Palin |
2,611 |
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| 44 |
Beatrix Potter |
2,589 |
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| 45 |
Jenson Button |
2,405 |
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| 46 |
Robbie Fowler |
2,345 |
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| 47 |
P. G. Wodehouse |
2,213 |
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| 48 |
William Golding |
2,185 |
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| 49 |
Stan Laurel |
2,136 |
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| 50 |
Steve Davis |
2,124 |
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| 51 |
Emmeline Pankhurst |
1,740 |
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| 52 |
Simon Fuller |
1,731 |
 |
| 53 |
Francis Galton |
1,676 |
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| 54 |
Jean Simmons |
1,556 |
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| 55 |
Philip Pullman |
1,502 |
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| 56 |
Martin Amis |
1,482 |
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| 57 |
Bobby Moore |
1,440 |
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| 58 |
Sam Allardyce |
1,439 |
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| 59 |
Warren Ellis |
1,411 |
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| 60 |
Peter Hitchens |
1,367 |
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| 61 |
Wendy Richard |
1,139 |
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| 62 |
Tim Rice |
931 |
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| 63 |
Roger Bannister |
929 |
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| 64 |
John Waite |
923 |
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| 65 |
Cilla Black |
835 |
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| 66 |
Cliff Williams |
823 |
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| 67 |
Mark Owen |
805 |
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| 68 |
Michael Foot |
765 |
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| 69 |
Tony Hancock |
715 |
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| 70 |
Robert Newton |
656 |
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| 71 |
Kristian Digby |
613 |
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| 72 |
C. S. Forester |
552 |
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| 73 |
Dick Francis |
484 |
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| 74 |
Joseph Swan |
473 |
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| 75 |
David Starkey |
470 |
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| 76 |
Tim Henman |
469 |
 |
| 77 |
Andrew Castle |
430 |
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| 78 |
Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma |
420 |
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| 79 |
Joe Orton |
418 |
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| 80 |
Helen Fielding |
418 |
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| 81 |
Brian Aldiss |
413 |
 |
| 82 |
Winston Churchill (1940–2010) |
405 |
 |
| 83 |
Alan Ball, Jr. |
386 |
 |
| 84 |
Christopher Cazenove |
377 |
 |
| 85 |
Sue Barker |
297 |
 |
| 86 |
Bob Fitzsimmons |
255 |
 |
| 87 |
Lionel Jeffries |
245 |
 |
| 88 |
Yvonne Fletcher |
225 |
 |
| 89 |
Sam Houser |
219 |
 |
| 90 |
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick |
216 |
 |
| 91 |
Virginia Wade |
212 |
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| 92 |
Hermione Gingold |
211 |
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| 93 |
Dan Houser |
211 |
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| 94 |
Annabel Croft |
133 |
 |
| 95 |
Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon |
133 |
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| 96 |
John Lloyd (tennis) |
128 |
 |
| 97 |
Ann Haydon-Jones |
125 |
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| 98 |
Danny Dichio |
124 |
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| 99 |
Lottie Dod |
113 |
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| 100 |
Cannon and Ball |
112 |
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| 101 |
Buster Mottram |
106 |
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| 102 |
Martin Ryle |
105 |
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| 103 |
Bobby Ball |
97 |
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| 104 |
Reginald Doherty |
90 |
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| 105 |
Lawrence Doherty |
90 |
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| 106 |
John Robert Vane |
88 |
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| 107 |
Charlotte Cooper (tennis) |
82 |
 |
| 108 |
Frances Stevenson |
76 |
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| 109 |
Sally Amis |
75 |
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| 110 |
Vincent Cronin |
73 |
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| 111 |
Robert Geoffrey Edwards |
69 |
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| 112 |
Angela Mortimer |
67 |
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| 113 |
Frank Watson Dyson |
63 |
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| 114 |
Tommy Cannon |
63 |
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| 115 |
Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers |
60 |
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| 116 |
Maurice Bonham Carter |
59 |
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| 117 |
Jeremy Bates (tennis) |
55 |
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| 118 |
Andrew Foster (tennis) |
51 |
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| 119 |
Arnold Wolfendale |
50 |
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| 120 |
Samantha Smith (tennis) |
48 |
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| 121 |
Betty Nuthall |
47 |
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| 122 |
Blanche Bingley |
45 |
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| 123 |
Bunny Austin |
44 |
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| 124 |
Kenneth Dover |
43 |
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| 125 |
Frederic Calland Williams |
39 |
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| 126 |
Anne Hobbs |
39 |
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| 127 |
Randolph Lycett |
38 |
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| 128 |
Mark Petchey |
38 |
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| 129 |
Harry Ingham |
38 |
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| 130 |
Bobby Campbell (English footballer) |
37 |
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| 131 |
Kathleen McKane Godfree |
36 |
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| 132 |
Chris Wilkinson |
36 |
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| 133 |
Oliver Golding |
36 |
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| 134 |
Brian Clark (writer) |
36 |
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| 135 |
Harold Spencer Jones |
35 |
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| 136 |
Jo Durie |
35 |
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| 137 |
Herbert Barrett |
35 |
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| 138 |
Max Woosnam |
34 |
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| 139 |
Philip Langridge |
32 |
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| 140 |
Tom Bourdillon |
32 |
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| 141 |
Charles Dixon (tennis) |
31 |
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| 142 |
Dorothy Holman |
31 |
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| 143 |
Roger Attfield |
30 |
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| 144 |
Danny Sapsford |
28 |
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| 145 |
Walter Kinsella |
28 |
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| 146 |
Glynis Coles |
27 |
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| 147 |
Jonathan Smith (tennis) |
27 |
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| 148 |
Angela Buxton |
26 |
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| 149 |
Graham Stilwell |
26 |
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| 150 |
Josiah Ritchie |
25 |
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| 151 |
Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker |
25 |
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| 152 |
Mark Cox (tennis) |
24 |
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| 153 |
Luke Milligan |
24 |
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| 154 |
Dorothy Round Little |
23 |
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| 155 |
Veronica Burton |
23 |
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| 156 |
Arthur Lowe (tennis) |
23 |
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| 157 |
Alan Mills (tennis) |
22 |
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| 158 |
Barry Cowan (tennis) |
21 |
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| 159 |
Sydney Smith (badminton and tennis) |
21 |
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| 160 |
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne |
21 |
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| 161 |
Sara Gomer |
20 |
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| 162 |
Frank Riseley |
20 |
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| 163 |
Kay Stammers |
20 |
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| 164 |
Alan Merrick |
20 |
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| 165 |
Charles Stourton, 24th Baron Mowbray |
20 |
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| 166 |
Gordon Lowe |
20 |
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| 167 |
John Feaver |
20 |
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| 168 |
Martin Lee (tennis) |
19 |
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| 169 |
Laurie Abrahams |
19 |
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| 170 |
Janet Morgan |
18 |
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| 171 |
Nick Brown (tennis) |
18 |
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| 172 |
Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby |
18 |
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| 173 |
Shirley Brasher |
18 |
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| 174 |
Albert Ariel Bedwin Johnson |
17 |
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| 175 |
Arvind Parmar |
17 |
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| 176 |
Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare |
16 |
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| 177 |
Jim Dear |
16 |
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| 178 |
Robin Drysdale |
16 |
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| 179 |
Dora Boothby |
15 |
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| 180 |
William Stourton, 25th Baron Mowbray |
15 |
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| 181 |
Paul Adam (English novelist) |
15 |
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| 182 |
Clare Wood |
15 |
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| 183 |
John Barrett (tennis) |
15 |
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| 184 |
Jamie Delgado |
14 |
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| 185 |
Muriel Robb |
14 |
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| 186 |
Leslie Godfree |
14 |
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| 187 |
Colin Gregory |
14 |
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| 188 |
Jan Latham Koenig |
14 |
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| 189 |
Peter Foote |
14 |
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| 190 |
Jack Vidler |
14 |
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| 191 |
Terry Adlington |
13 |
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| 192 |
Geoffrey Frank Grant |
13 |
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| 193 |
Ethel Thomson Larcombe |
13 |
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| 194 |
Clement Cazalet |
12 |
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| 195 |
Mike Sangster |
12 |
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| 196 |
Dennis Isherwood (footballer born 1947) |
12 |
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| 197 |
Wendy Toye |
12 |
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| 198 |
George Hillyard |
11 |
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| 199 |
Geraldine Beamish |
11 |
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| 200 |
Geoffrey Paish |
11 |
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| 201 |
Alfred Beamish |
11 |
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| 202 |
David Adam (minister) |
10 |
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| 203 |
Freddie Sore |
10 |
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| 204 |
Jack Moore (sportsman) |
10 |
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| 205 |
Brett Leboff |
10 |
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| 206 |
Margaret Scriven |
9 |
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| 207 |
John Mitchell Nuttall |
9 |
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| 208 |
Enid Scudamore-Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield |
9 |
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| 209 |
Fred Covey |
8 |
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| 210 |
Sidney Allinson |
8 |
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| 211 |
George Simond |
8 |
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| 212 |
Jack Chisholm |
6 |
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| 213 |
Johnny Williams (English footballer) |
6 |
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| 214 |
Richard Landon |
6 |
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| 215 |
Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith |
less than 5 views |
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| 216 |
Andrew Jarrett |
less than 5 views |
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| 217 |
Leigh Cooper |
less than 5 views |
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| 218 |
Chris Harrison (English footballer) |
less than 5 views |
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| 219 |
Agnes Morton |
less than 5 views |
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| 220 |
Mary Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave |
less than 5 views |
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| 221 |
Harold Douglas Ursell |
less than 5 views |
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| 222 |
Kenneth Gandar-Dower |
less than 5 views |
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| 223 |
Brian Gilbert (tennis) |
less than 5 views |
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| 224 |
Peter Leebrook |
less than 5 views |
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| 225 |
Pat Jones (English footballer) |
less than 5 views |
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| 226 |
Maurice Tadman |
less than 5 views |
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| 227 |
Fred Burch |
less than 5 views |
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| 228 |
Neil Langman |
less than 5 views |
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| 229 |
John Uzzell |
less than 5 views |
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