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Gay & Lesbian Humanists

New Statesman: Tatchell beats Queen and Dalai Lama

Peter comes in at no. 6, the Dalai Lama at no. 9, and Desmond Tutu at 32.
But there's no sign of a pope or an Archbishop of Canterbury.

www.newstatesman.com/200605220016

Heroes of our time - the top 50

Cover story / Jason Cowley / Monday 22nd May 2006

1. Aung San Suu Kyi - Pro-democracy campaigner
2. Nelson Mandela - First president of the free South Africa
3. Bob Geldof - Pop star turned poverty campaigner
4. John Pilger - Writer and broadcaster
5 Margaret Thatcher - British Conservative prime minister, 1979-90
6. Peter Tatchell - Gay-rights campaigner
7. Noam Chomsky - Writer
8. Bill Gates - Microsoft founder
9. Dalai Lama - Buddhist spiritual leader
10. David Attenborough - Naturalist and broadcaster

11. Hugo Chávez - President of Venezuela
12. Tony Benn - Veteran anti-war campaigner
13. Mikhail Gorbachev - Last leader of the Soviet Union
14. Daniel Barenboim - Pianist and conductor
15. Hans Blix - Former UN weapons inspector
16. Fidel Castro - President of Cuba
17. Jamie Oliver - Celebrity chef
18. Tony Blair - British Prime Minister
19. George Galloway - Respect MP
20. Mary Robinson - Defender of human rights

21. Moazzam Begg - Guantanamo detainee
22. Muhammad Yunus - Banker to the poor
23. Richard Branson - Billionaire entrepreneur
24. Mordechai Vanunu - Israeli whistle-blower
25. Germaine Greer - Academic and broadcaster
26. Richard Dawkins - Evolutionary theorist
27. Simon Weston - Falklands war veteran
28. Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of the worldwide web
29. Amartya Sen - Nobel laureate
30. Bono - Rock-star activist

31. Brian Haw - Peace campaigner
32. Desmond Tutu - Anti-apartheid cleric
33. Elizabeth II - Queen
34. Lesley Abdela - Champion of women's rights
35. Shami Chakrabarti - Civil liberties campaigner
36. Bill Clinton - US president, 1993-2001
37. Bob Dylan - Singer-songwriter
38. Clive Stafford Smith - Human-rights lawyer
39. Anna Politkovskaya - Russian journalist
40. Helena Kennedy QC - Leading British lawyer

41. Jimmy Carter - US president, 1977-81
42. John Carr - Internet safety expert
43. Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London
44. Lech Walesa - Unionist-turned-president
45. Neil Armstrong - Astronaut
46. Prince Charles - Eldest son of the Queen
47. Rami Elhanan - Israeli peace campaigner
48. Toni Morrison - Novelist
49. Stephen Hawking - Leading theoretical physicist
50. Andrew Flintoff - Cricketer