The top 100 list in full
13 April 2012
- 1 Mary Seacole, Crimean War nurse
- 2 Wilfred Wood, first black bishop/ OA Lyseight, founder of the New Testament Church of God
- 3 Mary Prince, first black woman author published in England
- 4 Olaudah Equiano, political activist
- 5 Queen Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III
- 6 Courtney Pine, jazz musician
- 7 Sir Bill Morris, trade unionist/ Sir Trevor McDonald, newsreader
- 8 Shirley Bassey, singer
- 9 Bernie Grant, MP
- 10 Professor Stuart Hall, academic and broadcaster
- 11 Ellery Hanley, rugby player
- 12 Sade, singer
- 13 Stephen Lawrence, murdered teenager
- 14 Miss Dynamite, singer
- 15 Queen Charlotte, consort of George Ill and Queen Victoria's grandmother
- 16 Henry Sylvester Williams, politician
- 17 Daley Thompson, athlete
- 18 Lenny Henry, comedian
- 19 Joan Armatrading, singer
- 20 Benjamin Zephaniah, poet
- 21 Arthur Wharton, England's first professional black footballer/Andrew Watson, first black footballer to play for Scotland
- 22 Linton Kwesi Johnson, poet and activist
- 23 Nana Bonsu, /Len Garrison, community leaders
- 24 George of Lydda, saint
- 25 Septimus Severus, Roman emperor
- 26 Baroness (Rosalind) Howells, community activist
- 27 Harold Moody, athlete and entrepreneur
- 28 Lennox Lewis, the most successful British sportsman of all time
- 29 Diane Abbott, first black woman MP
- 30 William Cuffay, politician
- 31 Francis Barber, assistant to Dr Samuel Johnson and writer of the first dictionary
- 32 Ignatius Sancho, writer, musician and businessman
- 33 Phil Lynott, singer
- 34 Moira Stuart, newsreader
- 35 Frank Bruno, boxer
- 36 Niger Val Dub, Pict king
- 37 Leary Constantine, England's first black peer
- 38 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
- 39 Robert Wedderburn, anti slavery campaigner
- 40 Claudia Jones, founder of the Notting Hill Carnival
- 41 Herman Ouseley, first black head of the Commission for Racial Equality
- 42 Craig David, singer
- 43 John Barnes, footballer/broadcaster
- 44 Martin Offiah, rugby player
- 45 Des'ree, singer
- 46 Randolph Turpin, boxer
- 47 Paul Boateng, MP
- 48 Cleo Laine, singer
- 49 Lord Taylor of Warwick, Conservative peer
- 50 Ottobah Cugoano, 18th-century abolitionist
- 51 Trevor Phillips, politician
- 52 lan Wright, footballer
- 53 Linford Christie, athlete
- 54 Bruce Oldfield, designer
- 55 Peter Herbert, chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers
- 56 Mike Fuller, police chief
- 57 Lee Jasper, activist
- 58 Beverley Knight, singer
- 59 Ozwald Boateng, designer
- 60 Viv Anderson, footballer
- 61 Desmond Douglas, table tennis player
- 62 Patrick Berry, managing director of Choice FM
- 63 Brendan Batson, Secretary of the Professional Footballers Association
- 64 Floella Benjamin, broadcaster
- 65 Lord Pitt of Hampstead, Labour peer
- 66 John Edmonstone, taught Charles Darwin taxidermy
- 67 Kanya King, founder of MOBO Awards
- 68 Val McCalla, publisher
- 69 Dame Jocelyn Barrows, educationist and BBC governor
- 70 David Lammy, MP
- 71 Oona King, MP
- 72 John Archer, UK's first black mayor
- 73 Baroness Scotland, first black woman peer along with ...
- 74 Baroness Amos
- 75 George Bridgetower, violinist
- 76 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer
- 77 Zadie Smith, writer
- 78 Jazzie B, musician
- 79 Ira Aldridge, 19th century actor
- 80 Colin Jackson, athlete
- 81 Yvonne Brewster, founder of The Talawa Theatre Company
- 82 Duonne Alexander, entrepreneur
- 83 David Case, RAF commander
- 84 Tessa Sanderson, athlete
- 85 Seal, singer
- 86 Errol Brown, singer
- 87 Rudolph Walker, actor
- 88 Gabrielle, singer/ Naomi Campbell, supermodel
- 89 Goldie, musician
- 90 Mica Paris, singer
- 91 Angie Le Mar, comedian
- 92 Ben Okri, writer
- 93 Denise Lewis, athlete
- 94 Jeremy Guscott, rugby union player
- 95 Paul Ince, footballer
- 96 Nigel Benn/Chris Eubank, boxers
- 97 John Conteh, boxer
- 98 Janet Kay, musician
- 99 Carroll Thompson, musician
- 100 Jenette McDonald, politician
