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Sir Jack Brabham, the Australian Formula One driver who built and raced his own car.

Louise Wilson, Professor of Fashion at Central Saint Martins School of Art, who launched the careers of many leading designers.

Dick Douglas, the abrasive Glasgow-born Labour MP, who defected to the Scottish Nationalists.

Harry Stopes-Roe, a philosopher and leading humanist whose mother was the controversial birth control pioneer Marie Stopes.

And the best-selling novelist Mary Stewart, who invented the romantic suspense genre of fiction. Show less