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(2024) Scottish writer best known for his novel “Trainspotting”
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Roberto Vezzoli
(2019) Team Beretta – IPSC 2015 Shotgun World Champion
Alberto Masotti
(2024) President of the luxury lingerie brand ‘La Perla’ from 1981 to 2007
Barack Obama
(2017) 44th President of the United States
Bruce Pascoe
(2018) Australian Indigenous writer
Michael Redhill
(2018) Canadian poet, playwright and novelist
Sir Philip Pullman
(2018) English novelist and author of His Dark Materials
Aki Onda
(2014) Japanese composer and curator
Malachi O’Doherty
(2018) Northern Irish journalist, author and broadcaster
Marco Bolognesi
(2024) Italian film director and multidisciplinary visual artist
Maimouna Jallow
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Gunter Demnig
(2020) German artist, known for his Stolperstein (‘stumbling blocks’)
Aryz
(2022) Street artist
Louise Minchin
(2018) British journalist and former BBC news presenter
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
(2018) Ugandan novelist and short story writer
Gianluca Pagliuca
(2022) former professional goalkeeper
Irving Finkel
(2018) British philologist and Assyriologist, curator at the British Museum
Ben Okri
(2018) Nigerian poet and novelist, winner of the Booker Prize
Romano Prodi
(2020) Romano Prodi
Muhammad Yunus
(2015) economist and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
