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The list 20th-century English women writers includes Joan Collins, Paula Yates, Julie Andrews, Jane Asher and Judi Dench. The list consists of 1,011 members.

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  • 1.

    Joan Collins
    English actress and writer (born 1933)
    Joan Collins
    Overview: Dame Joan Henrietta Collins, DBE (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author, and columnist. She made her stage debut at the age of nine, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London ...
    Date of birth: 23 May 1933
    Age: 91
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
    Partner: Percy Gibson (Married)
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    British women television producers 159T
    21st-century English women writers 453T
    English women non-fiction writers 429T
  • 2.

    Geri Horner
    English singer (born 1972)
    Geri Horner
    Overview: Geraldine Estelle Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972), is an English singer, songwriter, author, actress, and philanthropist. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the ...
    Date of birth: 6 August 1972
    Age: 52
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
    Partner: Christian Horner (Married)
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    Innocent Records artists 11T
    Actors from Watford 4T
    Musicians from Watford 6T
  • 3.

    Paula Yates
    Welsh television personality and writer (1959–2000)
    Paula Yates
    Overview: Paula Elizabeth Yates (24 April 1959 – 17 September 2000) was a British television presenter and writer. Yates is best known for her work on two television programmes, The Tube and The Big Breakfast. She ...
    Date of birth: 24 April 1959
    Date of death: 17 September 2000
    Age: 41 (age at death)
    Nationality: Welsh
    Occupation: TV Personality
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    20th-century British women writers 1,364T
    20th-century English writers 1,030T
    Michael Hutchence 11T
  • 4.

    Jane Asher
    English actress and author
    Jane Asher
    Overview: Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author and entrepreneur. She achieved early fame as a child actress and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.
    Date of birth: 5 April 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
    Partner: Gerald Scarfe (Married)
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    21st-century English women 856T
    20th-century English women 1,267T
    Muse 97T
  • 5.

    Marianne Faithfull
    British singer
    Marianne Faithfull
    Overview: Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female ...
    Date of birth: 29 December 1946
    Age: 77
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    LGBT people from London 1T
    Writers from Hampstead 40T
    Musicians from Hampstead 30T
  • 6.

    Julie Andrews
    British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
    Julie Andrews
    Overview: Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, in ...
    Date of birth: 1 October 1935
    Age: 89
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients 95T
    21st-century English memoirists 135T
    British women memoirists 181T
  • 7.

    Kate O'Mara
    English actress (1939–2014)
    Kate O'Mara
    Overview: Kate O'Mara (born Francesca Meredith Carroll; 10 August 1939 – 30 March 2014) was an English film, stage and television actress, and writer. O'Mara made her stage debut in a 1963 production of The Merchant ...
    Date of birth: 10 August 1939
    Date of death: 30 March 2014
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    British women memoirists 151T
    English women non-fiction writers 440T
    20th-century British women writers 1,400T
  • 8.

    Shirley Eaton
    British actress (born 1937)
    Shirley Eaton
    Overview: Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress, author and model. Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and gained her highest profile for her iconic ap ...
    Date of birth: 12 January 1937
    Age: 87
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Alumni of the Aida Foster Theatre School 8T
    Bond girls 48T
    Actresses from London 1,359T
  • 9.

    Fiona Lewis
    British actor
    Fiona Lewis
    Overview: Fiona Lewis (born 28 September 1946) is a British actress and writer from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
    Date of birth: 28 September 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    Writers from Essex 24T
    British film actresses 655T
    Date of birth missing (living people) 2,589T
  • 10.

    Sarah Ferguson
    Former wife of Prince Andrew (born 1959)
    Sarah Ferguson
    Overview: Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, television personality, and member of the British royal family. She is the ...
    Date of birth: 15 October 1959
    Age: 64
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    21st-century English memoirists 154T
    British royal memoirists 9T
    Prince Andrew, Duke of York 15T
  • 11.

    Joan Fontaine
    Actress
    Joan Fontaine
    Overview: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during ...
    Date of birth: 22 October 1917
    Date of death: 15 December 2013
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    20th-century English memoirists 185T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
    2021 deaths 13,357T
  • 12.

    Judi Dench
    English actress (born 1934)
    Judi Dench
    Overview: Dame Judith Olivia Dench CH DBE FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Regarded as one of Britain's best actresses, she is noted for her versatile work in various films and television programmes ...
    Date of birth: 9 December 1934
    Age: 89
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    Best Entertainment Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners 32T
    21st-century English women writers 469T
    Actresses of Irish descent 598T
  • 13.

    Ida Lupino
    British actress and filmmaker (1918–1995)
    Ida Lupino
    Overview: Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress, singer, director, and producer. She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent female filmmakers working during the 1950s ...
    Date of birth: 4 February 1918
    Date of death: 3 August 1995
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    20th-century memoirists 804T
    Actresses of Irish descent 597T
    American women memoirists 620T
  • 14.

    Virginia Woolf
    English modernist writer (1882–1941)
    Virginia Woolf
    Overview: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use ...
    Date of birth: 25 January 1882
    Date of death: 28 March 1941
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Pipe smokers 77T
    Lost Generation writers 38T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,252T
  • 15.

    Margaret Thatcher
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
    Margaret Thatcher
    Overview: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister ...
    Date of birth: 13 October 1925
    Date of death: 8 April 2013
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Government
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    20th-century women prime ministers 25T
    20th-century English women lawyers 4T
    20th-century British women lawyers 86T
  • 16.

    J.K. Rowling
    English author of the Harry Potter series
    J.K. Rowling
    Overview: Joanne Rowling CH, OBE, HonFRSE, FRCPE, FRSL ( ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist ...
    Date of birth: 31 July 1965
    Age: 59
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
    Partner: Neil Murray (Married)
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    21st-century English women writers 392T
    People from Yate 8T
    People from Tidenham 10T
  • 17.

    Agatha Christie
    English author
    Agatha Christie
    Overview: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly ...
    Date of birth: 15 September 1890
    Date of death: 12 January 1976
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    British women historical novelists 1T
    British women mystery writers 116T
    British ghost story writers 73T
  • 18.

    Tessa Dahl
    British writer
    Tessa Dahl
    Overview: Chantal Sophia "Tessa" Dahl (born 11 April 1957) is an English author and former actress. She is the daughter of British author Roald Dahl and American actress Patricia Neal.
    Date of birth: 11 April 1957
    Age: 67
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
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    Dahl family 9T
    20th-century British women writers 1,321T
    20th-century English novelists 1,317T
  • 19.

    Caroline Aherne
    English actress, comedian and writer (1963–2016)
    Caroline Aherne
    Overview: Caroline Mary Aherne (24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016) was an English comedian, writer and actress, best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, in various roles in The Fast Show ...
    Date of birth: 24 December 1963
    Date of death: 2 July 2016
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Comic
    Gender: Female
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    Best Comedy Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners 14T
    British women television producers 149T
    Actresses of Irish descent 597T
  • 20.

    Anne Robinson
    English television presenter and journalist
    Anne Robinson
    Overview: Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) is an English television presenter and journalist. She was the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link (2000–2017). She presented the Channel 4 game show ...
    Date of birth: 26 September 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: TV Personality
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    20th-century English non-fiction writers 198T
    21st-century English women writers 472T
    English women non-fiction writers 437T
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