All episodes
Noddy Holder on Chuck Berry
Olivia Laing on Christopher Lloyd, Gardener and Writer
Olia Hercules on Alla Horska, Ukrainian painter
Bonnie Greer on the Women of the Morant Bay Rebellion
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood nominated by Lesley Garrett
Romy Gill on poet Amrita Pritam
Rosalind Franklin picked by Kate Bingham, former head of the UK government's vaccine taskforce
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Educationalist
Ravi Shankar, India's famous sitar player
Holly Walsh on BS Johnson
Pat Nevin on Johan Cruyff
Judy Garland
Joan Rhodes, strongest woman in the world
Rob Newman on Franklin D Roosevelt
Mr Manchester Tony Wilson nominated by Terry Christian
Gil Scott-Heron
Lolita Chakrabarti on actor Ira Aldridge
Janet Ellis on Puffin editor Kaye Webb
Tom Hopkinson, editor of Picture Post
Brian Cox on Lindsay Anderson
Spike Milligan
Roma Agrawal on Mrinalini Sarabhai
Lady Hale on Lady Rhondda
William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, founder of Unilever
Noor-Un-Nissa Inayat Khan
Jeanne Baret, first woman to sail round the globe
Rory Sutherland on Johnny Ramone
JRR Tolkien, creator of The Hobbit
Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin
Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia
Dorothy Byrne on Catherine of Siena
Peggy Seeger on her husband Ewan MacColl
Josiah Wedgwood
Frantz Fanon
Althea Gibson
Yehudi Menuhin
Hans Christian Andersen
The Surprise Lives
Rosie Millard on Edward III
Ben Miller on William Hazlitt
Arlo Parks on Elliott Smith
Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins
KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler
Black and British pioneer Kenny Lynch
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist
The Talented Mr Ripley author, Patricia Highsmith
Rights activist Cesar Chavez nominated by Cori Crider
Caroline Catz on Delia Derbyshire
David Jonsson on Jean Michel Basquiat
Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford
Diane Morgan on Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding
David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey
The Great Lives of Great Lives
Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII
Xuanzang, Chinese monk and traveller
James Graham on John Maynard Keynes
Sir David Adjaye on Okwui Enwezor
Tom Allen on Kenneth Williams
Ernie Bevin, forgotten political giant
Jessie Ware on Donna Summer
Peter Frankopan on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Frida Kahlo nominated by author Jessie Burton
Mussolini
Dolly Alderton on Doris Day
Sybille Bedford, author of Jigsaw and A Legacy
Billy Bremner of Leeds United
Sally Phillips on Hollywood star Myrna Loy
Victoria Wood
Maya Angelou
EUrsula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables
Frank Cottrell Boyce on Tove Jansson
Rick Stein on Jim Morrison
Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
Kurt Vonnegut
Charlie Parker nominated by Ken Clarke
Bill Bailey on Alfred Russel Wallace
Novelist Enid Blyton
Jeremy Paxman nominates Lord Shaftesbury
Lee Miller, war photographer and model
Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis
Constance Agatha Cummings-John
Comedian Sindhu Vee on Prince
Fiona Shaw nominates the actress Eleonora Duse
Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori
First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh
Laura Marling on Lou Andreas-Salome
Robinson Crusoe
Ed Balls nominates Herbert Howells
Kamila Shamsie chooses Asma Jahangir
Shirley Collins on Alan Lomax
Jeremy Deller on The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein
Caroline Criado-Perez on Jane Austen
Kirill Gerstein on Ferruccio Busoni
Malcolm Lowry, nominated by Ian McMillan
Catherine de Medici nominated by Helen Lewis
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, chosen by Tom Holland
Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton
Matt Lucas on Freddie Mercury
Rohan Silva on Colin Chapman