The Observer Book of Profiles  8734

  • Foreword   Donald Trelford
  • Introduction

The Second World War

  • Adolf Hitler, 1943
  • Joseph Goebbels, 1943
  • Aircraftman Smith, 1943
  • Albert Speer, 1943

Royals

  • HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, 1953
  • HRH Princess Michael of Kent, 1985
  • HRH The Duchess of York, 1988
  • HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1990

Divines

  • The Reverend Michael Scott, 1949
  • Dr Martin Luther King, 1961
  • Cardinal Basil Hume, 1982
  • Dr Robert Runcie, 1982
  • Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1983
  • Terry Waite, 1985
  • Pope John Paul. 1986

Academics and Intellectuals

  • Professor A. J. Ayer, 1957
  • Bertrand Russell, 1961
  • Milton Friedman, 1976
  • Malcolm Muggeridge, 1982
  • Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1989

International

  • Fidel Castro, 1959
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961
  • Nelson Mandela, 1962
  • Mao Tse-Tung, 1963
  • Jimmy Carter, 1976
  • Lech Walesa, 1982
  • George Bush, 1983
  • François Mitterrand, 1984
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, 1984
  • Yasser Arafat, 1988
  • Helmut Kohl, 1990

Writers, Artists and Musicians

  • T. S. Eliot, 1948
  • Graham Greene, 1949
  • Sir Malcolm Sargenbt, 1950
  • Henry Moore, 1961
  • Evelyn Waugh, 1955
  • Maria Callas, 1958
  • John Betjeman, 1959
  • Kingsley Amis, 1962
  • Francis Bacon, 1962
  • Harold Pinter, 1975
  • Tom Stoppard, 1982
  • Jonathan Miller, 1982
  • Sir Richard Attenborough, 1983
  • Michael Frayn, 1984
  • Alan Bennett, 1984
  • Ted Hughes, 1984
  • Iris Murdoch, 1986
  • Margaret Drabble, 1987
  • Mark Boxer, 1988

British Politicians

  • Sir James Grigg, 1942
  • Aneurin Bevan, 1951
  • Winston Churchill, 1951
  • Harold Macmillan, 1958
  • Enoch Powell, 1961
  • Jeremy Thorpe, 1970
  • David Owen, 1982
  • Roy Jenkins, 1982
  • David Steel, 1982
  • Neil Kinnock, 1982
  • Michael Heseltine, 1982
  • Shirely Williams, 1982
  • Norman Tebbit, 1984
  • John Smith, 1986
  • Denis Healey, 1987
  • Edwina Currie, 1988

Sports Stars

  • Don Bradman, 1946
  • Denis Compton, 1948
  • Stanley Matthews, 1957
  • Lester Piggott, 1957
  • George Best, 1972
  • Virginia Wade, 1977
  • Ian Botham, 1982
  • Diego Maradona, 1986

Miscellaneous

  • Evan Edwards, 1960
  • Sir Timothy Cargill, 1962
  • Robin Day, 1972
  • Sir William Rees-Mogg, 1982
  • Elizabeth David, 1986
  • Denis Thatcher, 1989

Showbusiness

  • Mae West, 1947
  • Coco the Clown, 1949
  • Charlie Chaplin, 1952
  • Marlon Brando, 1954
  • Marilyn Monroe, 1956
  • The Goons, 1956
  • Tommy Steele, 1958
  • Brigitte Bardot, 1959
  • Tony Hancock, 1960
  • Peter Sellers, 1960
  • Albert Finney, 1961
  • Sir John Gielgud, 1974
  • Max Wall, 1975
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1984
  • Ian McKellen, 1984
  • Bob Geldof, 1985
  • Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 1987
  • Barry Humphries, 1987
  • Lenny Henry, 1989
  • Madonna, 1990
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