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Celebrities and popular figures choose their heroes from history. Browse these interviews to find out more about the people they chose…

My history hero: Elizabeth I (1533-1603). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroTanni Grey-Thompson chooses Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Angela Burdett-Coutts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Aled Jones chooses Freddie Mercury (1946–91). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Robin Day (1915–2010) and Lucienne Day (1917–2010). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Charlie Chaplin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroBarbara Taylor Bradford chooses Winston Churchill (1874–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: John Updike (1932-2009). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Field Marshal Bill Slim (1891-1970). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Charles Dickens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Gertrude Bell (1868–1926). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Primo Levi (1919–87). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758–1805). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroNick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Carl Jung (1875–1961). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My History Hero: Richard Wagner (1813–83). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History Hero: Arthur Askey (1900–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Clement Attlee (1883–1967). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Woody Guthrie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Charlotte Brontë (1816-55). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Sam Cooke (1931–64). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Maya Angelou (1928–2014). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: David Cameron chooses Douglas Bader (1910–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011)

My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: William Shakespeare (1564–1616). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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