14th Dalai Lama

Discoverer of pulsars, Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, Chancellor of The University of Dundee

Actor, comedian, writer, and TV presenter

Actor

British politician and MP for Rhondda

Professor of Classics, University Cambridge

Sculptor

Journalist and author

Political commentator and author

Journalist and TV presenter

Historian, mythographer, art critic, and author. Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

Philosopher and writer

Emeritus Professor of Old Norse and Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford

Art historian, Director of the British Museum (2002-2015)

37th prime minister of New Zealand (1999-2008)

English designer and founder of the design practice Heatherwick Studio

Emeritus J. R. R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford