Actors •
Rory Bremner – British satirist •
Aaron Eckhart – Actor •
Will Ferrell – Comedian and actor •
Neil Flynn – Actor •
Martin Freeman – Actor •
Tom Felton – Actor and musician •
Barry Humphries – Actor and comedian •
Eddie Izzard – Comedian •
Shappi Khorsandi – Comedian •
Sam Lloyd – Actor •
Michael Palin – Comedian, member of the
Monty Python comedy group •
Alan Rickman – Actor •
Robert Sheehan – Actor •
Michael Sheen – Actor •
Erik Per Sullivan – Actor •
Kristian Nairn – Actor •
Jane Lynch – Actress •
Patrick J. Adams – Actor •
Brenda Fricker - Actress
Musicians •
Alt-J – English indie rock band •
Roger Daltrey – Lead singer of British rock band The Who •
George Martin – Producer of
The Beatles •
Emeli Sandé – Scottish recording artist and songwriter •
Jack White – American recording artist and songwriter, and member of
The White Stripes,
The Raconteurs and
The Dead Weather •
Picture This – Irish pop rock band •
Imogen Heap – British electropop musician
Political figures •
Hans Blix – Former Chief UN Weapons inspector •
Robin Cook – British politician •
F.W. de Klerk – Former South African President •
Jesse Jackson – US Civil Rights Advocate •
Alaa Murabit – UN High-Level Commissioner and Sustainable Development Goals Advocate •
David Norris – Former Senator and gay rights advocate •
Rory O'Neill – Drag queen and gay rights activist •
John Bercow – Former
Speaker of the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom •
Brian Schweitzer – Former Governor of
Montana •
Desmond Tutu – Human rights activist •
Nancy Pelosi – Former
Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives •
Al Sharpton – Minister and civil rights activist •
Martin Dempsey – Former U.S. Army General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff •
Eamon Ryan – Former leader of The Green Party and Government Minister
Scientists and academics •
Noam Chomsky – Linguist and activist •
Robert Gallo – Biomedical researcher •
Paul Krugman – Economist •
John Nash – Nobel Laureate and mathematician •
Johan Norberg – Swedish historian and writer •
Richard Swinburne – British philosopher •
Kip Thorne – Theoretical physicist •
Gabriele Veneziano – Physicist •
Steven Weinberg – Physicist
Sportspeople •
Paul O'Connell – Ireland rugby player •
Gary Lineker – Television host and former England soccer captain •
Niall Quinn – Irish international football player and
Sunderland FC Chairman •
Tony Hawk – Skateboarder •
Alex Ferguson – Manchester United manager •
Lawrie Sanchez – Northern Ireland manager •
Pádraig Harrington – Irish golfer •
Daniel Wiffen – Irish Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer •
Eddie Jordan - Irish
racing driver,
motorsport executive, founder and team principal of
Jordan Grand Prix in
Formula One,
broadcaster, and businessman. •
Judit Polgár - Hungarian
chess grandmaster Writers •
Bill Bryson – Writer •
J.K. Rowling – Writer of the
Harry Potter series •
DBC Pierre – Writer and
Booker Prize winner •
Salman Rushdie – Writer and
Booker Prize winner •
Sue Townsend – Writer •
Yu Hua – Writer •
Seamus Heaney – Poet and Nobel Laureate •
Liz Nugent – Writer •
Michael Lewis – Author and financial journalist
Other •
Jenna Mourey – YouTube celebrity •
Brandon Stanton – Street photographer,
Humans of New York •
Laura Ricciardi – Filmmaker •
Steve Schapiro – Photographer •
Moira Demos – Filmmaker ==References==