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Romesh Gunesekera

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Sri Lankan British novelist and short story writer

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Roy Sawh

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Indo-Guyanese anti-racist activist, best known for his speeches at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London

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Rukhmabai

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Medical doctor and women's rights activist

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Sabu

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Film actor who came to fame in the 1930s

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Sadiq Khan

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British Pakistani politician and first Muslim Mayor of London, best known for expanding environmental measures, improving public transport and introducing free school meals for state primary pupils

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Said Amir Shah

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Silk merchant and anti-colonialist who campaigned for workers' rights and for a mosque to serve Muslims in the East End of London

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Saint Nihal Singh

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Journalist who lived in London in the 1910s

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Sajjad Zaheer

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Writer, editor, radical anti-colonialist and socialist campaigner

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Sake Dean Mahomed

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Entrepreneur behind the Hindoostane Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London, and Mahomed’s Baths in Brighton, famous for their shampooing and vapour treatments

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Salman Rushdie

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Advertising copywriter, cultural commentator and novelist, renowned for winning the Booker Prize

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