Your Top Ten

[rareboy]

I look back and and reflect on how incredibly lucky I was to have grown up in a time when the following people lived large on the world stage and in my life. As they have died and I have grown older, I think about how influential they were on my world view and experience. I have excluded parents and grandparents and other elders for fairly obvious reasons because they would take up the whole list on their own. Instead, I am focussing on World Leaders, artists, musicians, writers, actors, etc. In no order of importance, but the ones who sprung to mind immediately:

Elizabet Taylor
Larry Olivier
Gabriel García Márquez
John Lennon
Tina Turner
Queen Liz II
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Walt Disney
Andy Warhol
Julia Child

There are certainly numerous others that had an important role to play in my development, but somehow, these were the figures that were 'definitive'.

What about you?

 

[unloadonme]

Alright, I'll go with:

Margaret Thatcher
Sir David Attenborough (Yes, I know he's alive)
Barry Humphries
Sir John Mortimer
Spike Milligan
Alf Wight (James Herriot)
Auberon Waugh
Gore Vidal
Sir John Betjeman
Alan Bennett

 

[Norri]

Robert Caro
David Halberstam
Nelson Mandela
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ken Burns
Billy Wilder
Norman Lear
Stephen Sondheim
Bob Dylan
I don’t know this guy’s name but most of us will remember him last seen he was standing in front of a tank waiving a flag in Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989.