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Ade Adepitan is an accomplished wheelchair basketball player. He was a member of Great Britain team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and the gold medal at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. He is now a TV presenter and activist. Adepitan does a lot of charity work, particularly supporting many charities to help other people with physical disabilities.

Sir David Attenborough is an English broadcaster and naturalist. He is best known for writing and presenting, nature documentaries and films. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K. He is a campaigner against climate change and global warming.

Rosalind Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely recognised posthumously.

Shirley Thompson is an English composer, conductor and violinist. Her output as a composer encompasses symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and other works for ensembles, as well as music for TV, film, and theatre. Thompson became the first woman in Europe to have composed and conducted a symphony within the past 40 years. Also an academic, she is currently Reader and Head of Composition and Performance at the University of Westminster.