51.5071° N, 0.1297° W

LONDON

Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom

Notable people
15,663
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1919
Most distinctive
Novelist 2.6×

Nine centuries of the British public eye. London's notables fan out across a longer continuous span than almost any other anglophone city, from medieval peers and antiquarians through Georgian solicitors and impresarios to a postwar wave of actors, footballers, and singers. The court and the stage have always been within walking distance of each other here, and the dataset shows it.

Standouts

What London Is Known For

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Actor is London's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (2,038).

London over-indexes on novelist 2.6× the global rate.

London under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Actor 2,038 2.5×
  2. Politician 1,102 0.6×
  3. Painter 769 1.9×
  4. Writer 646 1.3×
  5. Football 600 0.3×
  6. Singer 424 1.3×
  7. Film 350 1.8×
  8. Music 340 1.5×
  1. Novelist 163 2.6×
  2. Actor 2,038 2.5×
  3. Painter 769 1.9×
  4. Film 350 1.8×
  5. Composer 318 1.5×
  6. Music 340 1.5×
  1. Football 600 0.3×
  2. Politician 1,102 0.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of London's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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9553 POLITICIAN

Adolfo Canepa

Born 1940

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9568 REFEREE

Martin Fitzmaurice

1940 - 2016

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9590 GENEALOGIST

Charles Mosley (genealogist)

1948 - 2013

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9591 WRITER

Hazel Rosenstrauch

Born 1945

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9604 ACTOR

Nicholas Young (actor)

Born 1949

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9619 PHOTOGRAPHER

Peter Turner (writer and photographer)

1947 - 2005

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9638 ARTIST

Noel Harding

1945 - 2016

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9681 BIOGRAPHER

Angela D'Audney

1944 - 2002

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9696 PLAYER

Nicola Smith

Born 1949

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9698 DRIVER

John Button (racing driver)

1941 - 2014

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9700 SONGWRITER

Charles Blackwell (music producer)

Born 1940

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9701 TELEVISION

Matthew Robinson (producer)

Born 1944

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9723 ARCHITECT

Roy Fleetwood

Born 1946

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9725 ACTOR

Linda Regan

Born 1949

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9739 SCREENWRITER

Christopher Wicking

1943 - 2008

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9744 FILM

Simon Hartog

1940 - 1992

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9753 ACTOR

Harry Fielder

Born 1940

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9766 ACTOR

Hayward Morse

Born 1947

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9816 PHOTOGRAPHER

John Swannell (photographer)

Born 1946

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9852 ACTOR

Jenny Lee-Wright

Born 1947

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9891 FILM

Terence Ryan

Born 1948

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9892 PRESENTER

Lesley Judd

Born 1946

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9899 DOCTOR

Stephen Christmas

1947 - 1993

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9902 PRIEST

John MacWilliam

Born 1948

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9924 POLITICIAN

Sandra Kabir

Born 1949

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9940 SOCIOLOGIST

Simon Clarke (sociologist)

Born 1946

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9943 THEOLOGIAN

Allan Anderson (theologian)

Born 1949

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9945 MUSIC

Mark Kidel

Born 1947

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9952 PROFESSOR

Angela Stent

Born 1947

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9956 WRITER

Ron Burnett

Born 1947

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9963 ACTOR

Christopher Mitchell (actor)

1947 - 2001

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10025 INSTRUMENTALIST

Chris Dennis

Born 1946

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10043 MUSIC

Davey Payne

Born 1944

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10080 WRITER

Susanne McCarthy

Born 1949

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10088 ACTOR

Patricia Franklin

Born 1942

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10095 PLAYER

Ian Robertson (rugby commentator)

Born 1945

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10114 ECONOMIST

Michael Allingham (economist)

Born 1943

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10122 PRODUCER

Geoff Westley

Born 1949

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10138 PSYCHOLOGIST

David Lester (psychologist)

Born 1942

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10145 WRITER

Robert Letham

Born 1947

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10181 COACH

Al Saunders

Born 1947

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10182 FILM

Anthony Aikman

1942 - 2011

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10191 ACTOR

Roger Newman

1940 - 2010

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10192 MUSIC

Brian Smith (Canadian musician)

Born 1949

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10199 SPORT

Bob Halstead

1944 - 2018

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10211 ECONOMIST

Peter J. N. Sinclair

1946 - 2020

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10228 WRITER

Jim Eldridge

Born 1944

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10234 ACTOR

David Munro (documentary filmmaker)

1944 - 1999

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10270 ACTOR

Martin Wimbush

Born 1949

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10339 SINGER

Dinah Christie

Born 1942

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10348 ACTOR

Amanda Boxer

Born 1948

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10370 SINGER

John Elwes (tenor)

Born 1946

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10388 BUSINESS

Paul Judge

1949 - 2017

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10439 CONSERVATIVE

Robin Squire

Born 1944

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10498 WRITER

Alastair Hamilton

Born 1941

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10510 HISTORIAN

Peter Linehan

1943 - 2020

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10542 MARINE

David Brewer (broker)

Born 1940

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10548 IMPRESARIO

Raymond Gubbay

Born 1946

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10549 ACTOR

Peter Craze

Born 1946

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10594 CONSERVATIVE

Gale Benson

1944 - 1972

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10604 FILM

Andrew Alexander (producer)

Born 1944

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10613 PRIEST

Wesley Carr

1941 - 2017

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10635 SPORT

Tony Gowland

Born 1945

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10639 FATHER

Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet

Born 1946

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10656 PHILOLOGIST

Brian Mott

Born 1946

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10662 CRICKET

Paul Dunkels

Born 1947

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10675 ART CRITIC

Sue Hubbard

Born 1948

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10712 PAINTER

Avis Newman

Born 1946

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10750 ACTOR

Viviane Ventura

Born 1947

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10762 BUSINESS

Michael Tabor

Born 1941

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10786 ECONOMIST

Alan Storkey

Born 1943

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10787 WISSENSCHAFTLER

Irving Wohlfarth

Born 1940

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10843 DEVELOPER

Charles Delevingne

Born 1949

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10882 PSYCHOLOGIST

Peter Saville (psychologist)

Born 1946

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10883 ACTOR

Keith Buckley (actor)

Born 1941

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10930 SPORT

Bob Addy (cyclist)

Born 1941

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10946 POLITICIAN

David Collenette

Born 1946

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11002 DIPLOMAT

Alan Collins (diplomat)

Born 1948

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11028 JUMPER

Maureen Chitty

Born 1947

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11055 PUPPETEER

Toby Philpott

Born 1946

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11158 ECONOMIST

Andrew Hughes Hallett

1947 - 2019

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11168 WRITER

Rory Barnes

Born 1946

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11190 JOURNALIST

Dickie Arbiter

Born 1940

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11191 THEOLOGIAN

Kathleen Deignan

Born 1947

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11194 MUSIC

Ray Williams (producer)

Born 1947

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11206 PHYSICIAN

Andrew McMichael

Born 1943

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11209 PAINTER

Gerard Hemsworth

Born 1945

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11216 POLITICIAN

Chris Puplick

Born 1948

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11230 JOURNALIST

David Quinlan (film critic)

Born 1941

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11261 PRESENTER

Jeni Barnett

Born 1949

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11275 EXECUTIVE

Adrian Shooter

Born 1948

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11316 WRITER

David Pollard (author)

Born 1942

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11348 SINGER

Steve Ashley

Born 1946

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11357 SPORT

Reg Barnett

Born 1945

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11358 BICYCLE

Geoff Apps

Born 1949

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11403 FOOTBALL

Paul Went

1949 - 2017

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11406 BIOGRAPHER

Ion Trewin

1943 - 2015

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11423 COMEDIAN

Howard Lew Lewis

1941 - 2018

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11445 PRODUCER

Paul Jackson (producer)

Born 1947

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11522 LAWYER

Robert Prichard

Born 1949

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11527 JOURNALIST

Barrie Penrose

1942 - 2020

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11578 ARTIST

Tina Keane

Born 1948

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11624 WRITER

Christopher Adey

Born 1943

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11669 POLITICIAN

Keith Darvill

Born 1948

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11687 EDITOR

Justin Wintle

Born 1949

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11734 PHYSICIST

Francesco Paresce

1940 - 2019

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11744 DIPLOMAT

Howard Pearce

Born 1949

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11788 BUSINESS

John Berry (speedway promoter)

1944 - 2012

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11793 MUSIC

Graham Dee

Born 1943

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11815 DIPLOMAT

John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

1947 - 2014

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11837 DRIVER

Richard Piper

Born 1947

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11850 ACTOR

Mike Furber

1948 - 1973

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11852 ACTOR

Vivian MacKerrell

1944 - 1995

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11856 BIOLOGIST

James Neuberger

Born 1949

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11857 WRITER

Peter Robbins (author)

Born 1946

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11868 THEATRE

Buzz Goodbody

1947 - 1975

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11895 RACEWALKER

Peter Marlow (athlete)

Born 1941

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11906 WRITER

Lesley Downer

Born 1949

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11926 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

John Rushby

Born 1949

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12003 FENCER

Ralph Johnson (fencer)

Born 1948

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12024 ATHLETIC

Madeleine Cobb

Born 1940

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12061 ACTOR

Carmel Cryan

Born 1949

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12070 MUSIC

Richard Pine

Born 1949

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12091 PHILATELIST

Michael Sefi

Born 1943

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12093 FOOTBALL

Brian Dear

Born 1943

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12098 SONGWRITER

Geoff Morrow

Born 1942

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12103 CONDUCTOR

Peter Moss

Born 1948

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12107 ACTOR

Adrian McLoughlin

Born 1947

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12110 DRIVER

Dudley Wood

Born 1946

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12119 ORGANIST

John Barnard (composer)

Born 1948

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12122 COMMUNIST

Anita Halpin

Born 1944

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12129 LITERARY

Deborah Vietor-Engländer

Born 1946

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12150 HIGH JUMP

Gwenda Matthews

Born 1944

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12154 ARCHITECT

Alasdair Liddell

1949 - 2012

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12155 SPORT

David Rowe (cyclist)

Born 1944

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12162 RUNNER

Bob Finlay

Born 1943

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12191 JOURNALIST

Tilia Herold

Born 1948

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12194 DESIGNER

John Sorrell (designer)

Born 1945

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12264 FOOTBALL

Ray Bloomfield

Born 1944

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12275 ACTOR

Pat Thomson

1940 - 1992

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12282 ACTIVIST

Roy W. Brown

Born 1947

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12306 FILM

Tony Lawson

Born 1944

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12316 ACADEMIC

Eric J. Stanbridge

Born 1942

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12358 MODEL

Vicki Hodge

Born 1946

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12379 ORATOR

John McIntosh (educator)

Born 1946

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12387 STAGE

Ashlyn Martin

Born 1946

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12422 SULTAN

Ghalib II al-Qu'aiti

Born 1948

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12432 ACTOR

Douglas Fielding

1946 - 2019

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12475 BARRISTER

David Calvert-Smith

Born 1945

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12494 SKATER

Patricia Pauley

Born 1941

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12495 SCULPTOR

Carole Hodgson

Born 1940

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12502 COMEDIAN

Roger De Courcey

Born 1944

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12511 WRITER

Anne Marsden Thomas

Born 1948

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12515 PRESENTER

Monica Rose

1948 - 1994

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12536 PAINTER

James Faure-Walker

Born 1948

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12540 ROWER

Kenny Dwan

Born 1948

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12545 AUTHOR

Hugh Osgood

Born 1947

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12576 POLITICIAN

B. Daniel Riley

1946 - 2016

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12613 SECRÉTAIRE

Thierry Le Roy

Born 1947

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12630 PUBLISHER

Frances Lincoln

1945 - 2001

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12714 ARCHITECT

Layla Dawson

1949 - 2015

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12716 PHYSICIAN

David Nabarro

Born 1949

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12727 ARTIST

Archie Granot

Born 1946

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12746 KEYBOARDIST

John Povey

Born 1944

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12751 MUSIC

Bryan Spring

Born 1945

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12770 COMPOSER

Malcolm Dedman

Born 1948

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12802 ANTHROPOLOGIST

George Palao

1940 - 2009

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12810 SINGER

Gavin du Porter

Born 1949

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12813 ACTOR

Michael Redfern

Born 1943

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12831 POLITICIAN

Bob Woods

Born 1947

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12832 PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Terry Ackland-Snow

Born 1943

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12885 BUSINESS

Tina Green

Born 1940

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12902 ACTIVIST

Geoffrey Nice

Born 1945

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12907 PHILOSOPHER

John Foster (philosopher)

1941 - 2009

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12920 ACADEMIC

Clive Williams (professor)

Born 1945

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12921 FOOTBALL

Barry Mealand

1943 - 2013

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12923 PRODUCER

Frank Cox (director)

Born 1940

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12930 ACADEMIC

Trevor Mudge

Born 1947

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12940 ENFANT

Francien Giraudi

Born 1949

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12951 THEATRE

Stephen Waley-Cohen

Born 1946

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12954 COMEDIAN

Danny Blue (comedian)

Born 1949

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12971 FORSCHER

David Collingridge

1945 - 2005

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12979 BOXER

Michael Abrams

Born 1949

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13017 JOURNALIST

David Brewerton

Born 1943

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13033 POLICE

Barry Mannakee

1947 - 1987

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13092 WRITER

Tim Griggs

1948 - 2013

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13094 CHEMIST

John Buckingham (chemist)

1943 - 2015

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13112 ENTREPRENEUR

Patrick Nally

Born 1947

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13116 SWIMMER

Diana Harris

Born 1948

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13125 ACTOR

Michael Osborne (actor)

Born 1947

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13133 FOOTBALL

Roy Sleap

1940 - 2005

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13149 GEOLOGIST

Celia Nyamweru

Born 1942

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13209 PAINTER

James Horton

Born 1948

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13222 ACADEMIC

Jennifer Britnell

1943 - 2011

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13236 FOOTBALL

Rick Sharp

Born 1948

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13243 ACTOR

Gregory de Polnay

Born 1943

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13250 BOTANIST

Andrés P. Vovides

Born 1944

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13256 ROWER

Hugh Stevenson (rower)

Born 1948

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13281 PHOTOGRAPHER

Robin Collyer

Born 1949

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13295 ACTOR

Roger Hume

1940 - 1996

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13299 KARATE

Brian Fitkin

Born 1946

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13314 AUTHOR

Brian Lecomber

1945 - 2015

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13345 BUSINESS

John Ridsdel

1947 - 2016

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13425 BOTANIST

Simon Joseph Mayo

Born 1949

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13437 LOYALIST

Davy Fogel

Born 1945

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13440 CASTING DIRECTOR

Liz Mullinar

Born 1945

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13447 ENGINEER

Michael T. Wright

Born 1948

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13469 PAINTER

Noel Myles

Born 1947

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13482 AUDIO

Andy Scott (ingénieur du son)

Born 1949

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13498 SINGER

Anne Lloyd

1942 - 1999

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13507 ENTREPRENEUR

Mark Featherstone-Witty

Born 1946

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13539 DARTS PLAYER

Doug McCarthy

Born 1943

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13549 POLITICIAN

Vassos Shiarly

Born 1948

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13564 BUSINESS

David Reiss (fashion retailer)

Born 1943

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13581 SCHOLAR

David Kerr (religion scholar)

1945 - 2008

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13582 WRITER

John Bintliff

Born 1949

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13601 HISTORIAN

John Ashdown-Hill

1949 - 2018

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13605 MUSIC

Nigel Morris

Born 1948

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13629 MUSIC

John Kpiaye

Born 1948

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13634 PIANIST

Geoff Castle

1949 - 2020

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13663 ALTPHILOLOGE

Nicholas Horsfall

1946 - 2019

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13667 ACADEMIC

Anthony Sutcliffe

1942 - 2011

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13692 BILLIONAIRE

John Angelicoussis

Born 1948

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13716 GRAPHIC DESIGNER

David Costa

Born 1947

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13720 BASSIST

Dill Katz

Born 1946

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13736 ACTOR

John J. Carney

1940 - 1995

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13743 POLITICIAN

Terry Metherell

Born 1947

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13750 DESIGNER

Terry de Havilland

1942 - 2019

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13760 COACH

Andrew Jack (dialect coach)

1944 - 2020

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13764 DARTS PLAYER

Maureen Flowers

Born 1945

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13780 REAL ESTATE

Laurence S. Geller

Born 1947

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13826 ARTIST

Trevor Goring

Born 1949

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13828 PHYSICIST

John Steeds

Born 1940

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13862 SINGER

Mike Pointon

Born 1941

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13875 AUDIO

Robin Houston

Born 1947

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13882 ACTOR

Nayef Rashed

Born 1949

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13897 ART DEALER

Nicholas Logsdail

Born 1945

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13911 FOOTBALL

Jerry Kurz

Born 1949

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13917 CHURCH

Nicholas Frayling

Born 1944

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13930 ROWER

Peter Knapp

Born 1949

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13931 JOURNALIST

Chris Rann

Born 1946

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13933 WRITER

Ivan Tyrrell

Born 1943

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13966 POLITICIAN

Michael Peart (politician)

Born 1948

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13969 BYZANTINIST

Graham Speake

Born 1946

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13976 POLITICIAN

Chrissy Sharp

Born 1947

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13980 SPORT

Peter Dowdeswell

Born 1940

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13987 POLITICIAN

Rob Johnson (Australian politician)

Born 1943

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14039 ARCHITECT

Olufemi Majekodunmi

Born 1940

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14147 ACTIVIST

Sue Sanders

Born 1947

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14198 CINEMA

Harvey Harrison

Born 1944

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14203 JOURNALIST

Jonathan Charles

Born 1948

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14224 MISSING

Adam Wise

1943 - 2008

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14287 CHEMIST

Philip D. Magnus

Born 1943

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14291 CRICKET

David Allison (cricketer)

Born 1948

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14297 ACTOR

Andria Lawrence

Born 1941

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14311 PHILOLOGIST

James E. G. Zetzel

Born 1947

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14380 SPORT

Gord Arrowsmith

Born 1944

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14404 MISSING

David Michels

Born 1946

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14405 SCHOLAR

Richard Slaughter

Born 1940

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14423 ARTIST

Jeffery Edwards

Born 1945

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14451 RADIO

Paul Catty

Born 1945

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14457 POLITICIAN

Jackie Watkins

Born 1949

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14473 BASSIST

Arvid Andersen

1945 - 2012

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14534 POLITICIAN

Maureen Lyster

Born 1943

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14539 HURLER

Seán Foley

Born 1949

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14560 ROWER

Alan Inns

Born 1945

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14597 FOOTBALL

Willie Smith (footballer, born 1948)

Born 1948

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14605 PHYSICIST

Alan Dennis Clark

Born 1945

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14661 BOTANIST

Raymond Cotton

Born 1948

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14666 POLITICIAN

Angus MacIsaac

Born 1943

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14715 ECONOMIST

Peter Koenig

Born 1947

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14736 ANNOUNCER

Colin Weston

Born 1948

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14753 ILLUSTRATOR

Mike Trim

Born 1945

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14757 CIVIL SERVICE

Jeremy Colman

Born 1948

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14771 POLITICIAN

Peter Dornberger

Born 1945

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14799 POLITICIAN

Deepa Kaul

Born 1944

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14861 POLITICIAN

John Edmund Parry

Born 1946

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14862 FOOTBALL

Alan Hamlyn

Born 1947

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14868 BROADCAST

Geoff Robinson (broadcaster)

Born 1943

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14881 ARTIST

Mary Webb (artist)

Born 1942

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14895 FOOTBALL

Len Renery

Born 1949

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14923 RACER

Ron Grant (motorcyclist)

1940 - 1995

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14951 FOOTBALL

Ray Ilott

Born 1948

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14952 SWIMMER

John Thurley

Born 1947

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14992 BUSINESS

George Chubb, 4th Baron Hayter

Born 1943

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14997 ROWER

Terrence Rosslyn-Smith

Born 1940

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15013 PAINTER

Pen Dalton

Born 1944

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15063 POLITICIAN

Colin Gabelmann

Born 1944

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15080 CINEMA

John Palmer (Kameramann)

Born 1942

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15092 POLITICIAN

Ray Hollis

Born 1940

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15141 ACTIVIST

Sally Burch

Born 1949

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15154 SWIMMER

Beryl Noakes

Born 1942

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15175 SWIMMER

Jill Norfolk

Born 1947

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15183 COLLECTOR

Randy Cozens

1945 - 2003

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15187 FOOTBALL

Paul Fuschillo

Born 1948

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15199 PHYSICIST

Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace

Born 1943

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15202 WRITER

Barry Dufour

Born 1942

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15204 JAZZ

Harvey Weston

Born 1940

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15234 POLITICIAN

Tim Olive

Born 1946

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15281 ENTOMOLOGIST

Roger L. Blackman

Born 1941

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