All-Time Favourites...

(just a beginning; many more people (and links) will be added to the list as they are remembered)

All-Time Also-Rans...

(some of these destined for the Favourite Gallery some day)

(some of these deserving promotion)

Terrible!

(please keep trying)

Artists (General) 1

Auguste Renoir
Beryl Cook
Chesley Bonestell
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Edvard Munch
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
H.R. Giger ARh+
Hieronymus Bosch
Pieter Bruegel
Salvador Dalí
Stanley Spence
Wassily Kandinsky

Artists (General) 2

Dorothea Tanning
Francisco Goya
Max Ernst
Odilon Redon
Paul Cézanne
Paul Gauguin
René Magritte
Vincent Van Gogh
William Morris
Yves Tanguy

Artists (General) 3

David Hockney
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Henri Matisse
James Ensor
James Mylne
Man Ray
Michelangelo
Pablo Picasso
Roy Lichtenstein
Tracey Emin
Vivienne Westwood

Artists (General) - Terrible!

...the 'throw paint at it' school...

Artists (Graphic) 1

Albrecht Dürer
Charles Addams
Charles Schulz
Edward Lear
Gary Larson
Gerald Scarfe
Gerard Hoffnung
Giles
John Glashan
M.C. Escher
Ralph Steadman
William Rushton

Artists (Graphic) 2

Barry Appleby
Bill Tidy
Leonardo Da Vinci
Osbert Lancaster
Quentin Blake

Artists (Graphic) 94

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Artists (Performance) 1

H.M.Q. Elizabeth II
Florence Foster Jenkins
Joan Collins
Karen Standley
Lolo Ferrari
Maria Jose Cristerna

Artists (Performance) 94

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Artists (Sculpture) 1

Barbara Hepworth
Ferdinand Cheval

Artists (Sculpture) 2

Henry Moore
Michelangelo

Artists (Sculpture) 3

...too cruel...

Artists (Sculpture) - Terrible!

...the 'piles of junk' school...

Authors (General) 1

Agatha Christie
Angela Carter
Bertrand Russell
Carlos Castaneda
Doris Lessing
Douglas Adams
Edgar Allan Poe
Franz Kafka
Fred Hoyle
Fyodor Dostoevsky
H.G. Wells
H.P. Lovecraft
Isaac Asimov
J.D. Salinger
John Buchan
John Lennon
John Steinbeck
Leslie Thomas
Mervyn Peake
Mikhail Bulgakov
Salvador Dali
Stephen King
Sylvia Plath
Thomas de Quincy
Tom Sharpe
Ursula K. LeGuin
Vernor Vinge
Virginia Woolf

Authors (General) 2

Aldous Huxley
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel Defoe
Dante Alighieri
E.M. Forster
Evelyn Waugh
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gerald Durrell
Gilbert Harding
Marghanita Laski
Ray Bradbury
Roald Dahl
Ruth Rendell

Authors (General) 3

Dory Previn
Dylan Thomas
Gabriel Brownstein
George Orwell
Gwyn Thomas
James Joyce
John Race
J.T. Sheridan le Fanu
Ken Bruen
Konrad Z. Lorenz
Laurie Lee
Michael Moorcock
Robert Heinlein
Robert Littell
Samuel Pepys
Spike Milligan
Tennessee Williams
Terry Pratchett
Thor Heyerdahl
Umberto Eco
Capt. W.E. Johns
Sir Walter de la Mare
William Gibson
William Hope Hodgson

Authors (General) - Terrible!

...too cruel...

Authors (Playwrights) 1

Alan Ayckbourn
Anton Chekhov
Federico Garcia Lorca
Henrik Ibsen
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare

Authors (Playwrights) 2

George Bernard Shaw
Tom Stoppard

Authors (Playwrights) 94

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Authors (Poetry) 1

Edward Lear
James 'B.V.' Thomson
Omar Khayyam
Robert Frost
William Butler Yeats

Authors (Poetry) 2

Carol Ann Duffy
Dorothy Parker
Dylan Thomas
Piet Hein
Robert Burns
Wendy Cope

Authors (Poetry) 3

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Authors (Poetry) - Terrible!

E.J. Thribb (age 17¾)

Composers (General) 1

Antonio Vivaldi
Arcangelo Corelli
Dieterich Buxtehude
Friedrich Kuhlau
Georg Philipp Telemann
George Frideric Händel
Gioacchino Rossini
Henry Purcell
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
Joseph Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Modest Moussorgsky
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Pyotr Tchaikowsky
Tomaso Albinoni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composers (General) 2

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Edvard Grieg
Erik Satie
Francis Poulenc
Franz Schubert
Frédéric Chopin
Johann Strauss
John Barry
John Blow
Léo Delibes
Joaquín Rodrigo
Scott Joplin

Composers (General) 3

...too cruel...

Composers (General) - Terrible!

...most of the 20th century... please move on to 'Rock Bands' quickly

Film and Television Producers 1

Alfred Hitchcock
Federico Fellini
Luis Buñuel
Michelangelo Antonioni
Ridley Scott
Verity Lambert
Woody Allen

Film and Television Producers 2

Gordon Murray

Film and Television Producers 94

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Films, Shows and Television Series 1

A for Andromeda (TV)
Alien
Aliens
Dr Who, early (TV)
Return to the Forbidden Planet
The Rocky Horror Show
Star Wars
Terminator
2001, A Space Odyssey

Films, Shows and Television Series 2

Blow Up
Jurassic Park
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Outer Limits, early (TV)
Quatermass and the Pit
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Terminator - Judgment Day
The Twilight Zone, early (TV)

Films, Shows and Television Series 3

Aliens 3
Armchair Theatre (TV)
The Avengers, early (TV)
Barbarella
Battlestar Galactica (TV)
Beat Girl
Beavis and Butt-Head (TV)
The Big Knights (TV)
Black Mirror (TV)
Borgen (TV)
Broen/Bron (The Bridge) (TV)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV)
Crapston Villas (TV)
Danger Man (TV)
The Empire Strikes Back
Endeavour (TV)
Eurotrash (TV)
The Fifth Element
Family Guy (TV)
Fireball XL5 (TV)
Forbrydelsen (The Killing) (TV) 
Futurama (TV)
Inspector Montalbano (TV)
King of the Hill (TV)
Lewis (TV)
Max Headroom (TV)
Morse (TV)
Noggin the Nog (TV)
The Prisoner (TV)
Prometheus
Red Dwarf (TV)
Rubovia (TV)
Satyricon
The Simpsons (TV)
Space Patrol (TV)
Spitting Image (TV)
Stargate
Stingray (TV)
Stressed Eric (TV)
Supercar (TV)
Taggart (TV)
Tales of the Unexpected (TV)
Terrahawks (TV)
Thunderbirds (TV)
Trapdoor (TV)
Velvet Goldmine
Videotech (TV) 
Wallace and Gromit (TV)
Wallander (TV)

Films, Shows and Television Series - Terrible!

...where to begin...?

Aitzaz Hasan
Ana Julia Torres
Grace Darling
Gunnar Hliðarendi
Jane Tomlinson
The One who is above all of this
Mother Teresa

Journalists and Commentators 1

John (Ravenscroft) Peel
Lord Gnome's team at Private Eye
Sir Patrick Moore

Journalists and Commentators 2

Adam Fleming
Alex Forsyth
Sir Alistair Cooke
Prof. Angie Hobbs
Ann Leslie
Anthony Howard
Auberon Waugh
Prof. Brian Cox
Bridget Kendall
Carol Vorderman
Caroline Hawley
Chloe Hadjimatheou
Clemency Burton-Hill
Cliff Michelmore
Clive James
Jackie Ashley
James Burke
Janet Daley
Jenni Murray
Jennie Bond
Jilly Goolden
Jo Whiley
Baroness Joan Bakewell
Lord Jonathan Sumption
Kate Adie
Kirsty Wark
Laura Kuenssberg
Lucy Kellaway
Lyse Doucet
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Mariella Frostrup
Michael Moore
Neil Brand
Nick Pope
Nick Robinson
Octavia Bright
Orla Guerin
Baroness Patience Wheatcroft
Peter Ustinov
Polly Toynbee
Sarah Dunant
Stephanie Flanders
Dr Tom Margerison

Journalists and Commentators 3

Alice Baxter
Angela Rippon
Anne Robinson
Clare Balding
Fearne Cotton
Fiona Armstrong (Lady MacGregor)
Fiona Bruce (Sharrocks)
Hannah Fry
Joanna Gosling
Josie Long
Julia Somerville (Lady Dixon)
Kay Burley
Lauren Laverne
Louise Lear
Louise Minchen
Martine Croxall
Natalie Jamieson
Rebecca Morelle
Sarah Montague (Lady Brooke)
Sophie Raworth
Sue Lawley
Valerie Singleton

Journalists and Commentators 94

Lovers (please forgive me)

Whilst any latter-day usurper might still breathe, it's better to hold our peace, my darling. But *you* shall never be forgotten, this is the enduring promise - and "he never loved, who loves not yet". Please God, may we meet again in some future life and remember, and be free to be together.

Public Figures 1

Anthony (Tony) Wedgwood Benn
Ban Ki-moon
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Kofi Annan
Madeleine Allbright
Nelson Mandela

Public Figures 2

Barack Obama
Condoleezza Rice
Mikhail Gorbachev

Public Figures 3

Comment reserved so far...

Public Figures - Terrible!

Oh please - many of the rest, really...

Donald Trump

Publications 1

Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Astrophysical Journal
Blackwood's Magazine
The British Medical Journal
Dracula Magazine (R.I.P.)
The Lancet
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The New England Medical Journal
Physics Today
Practical Wireless (R.I.P.)
Private Eye
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Royal Photographic Society Journal
Television and Electronics, formerly Practical Television (R.I.P.)
Wireless World (R.I.P.)
405 Alive (R.I.P.)

Publications 2

audioXPRESS (formerly Audio Amateur)
The Herald
The International Times (R.I.P.)
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Observatory
The Oldie
Oz Magazine (R.I.P.)
Punch (R.I.P.)
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Radio Constructor (R.I.P.)
Reports on Progress in Physics
The Scotsman
Studio Sound

Publications 3

Amateur Photographer
Bild
The Digger (R.I.P.)
DIGIT
The Illustrated London News (R.I.P.)
Paris Match
Professional Photographer
Stern
The Sunday Times
Viz Magazine

Publications - Terrible!

The Daily Telegraph (demoted from 1, where "despite editorials")
Most U.K. "tabloid" newspapers
The Times (demoted from 1)

Rock Bands 1 (see also Singers / Performers, below)

The Animals
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Dire Straits
Duran Duran
Hawkwind (early)
Iron Butterfly
Judas Priest
The Kinks
Kiss
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
The Moody Blues
Motorhead
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
The Small Faces
Steppenwolf
The Stranglers
UB 40
The Who
The Yardbirds
ZZ Top

Rock Bands 2 (see also Singers / Performers, below)

Bis
Blur (early) 
Camel
The Charlatans (pre-Oasis)
Deep Purple I
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Iron Maiden
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Kula Shaker
No Doubt
Procol Harum
The Shadows
Stone Roses
U2
Veruca Salt

Rock Bands 3 (see also Singers / Performers, below)

Abba
Aerosmith
The Box Tops
The Chicks
Chili Rojo
The Clash
Coldplay
Crash Test Dummies
The Dandy Warhols
Dengue Fever
Dubstar
The Eagles
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
Erasure
The Fall
Family
Fanatic Crisis
Garbage
Inkubus Sukkubus
Inspiral Carpets
The Knife
The Like
London After Midnight
L7
Megadeth
Nirvana
Otoboke Beaver
Penetration
The Police
Portishead
Pulp
Roxy Music
Rudimental
Sleeper
Sons of Champlin
The Sounds
Space
The Spencer Davis Group
Suede
Sykurmolarnir (Sugarcubes)
The Tornadoes
Traffic
Uriah Heep
Van Halen
The Waeve
White Stripes
The Young Knives

Rock Bands - Terrible! (see also Singers / Performers, below)

Velvet Underground (come on, i paid good money to special-order White Light / White Heat and it's just a mass of fuzzy sludge)

Prof. Albert Einstein
Earl Bertrand Russell
Prof. Carl Sagan
Prof. Dame Carole Jordan
Prof. Clabon W. Allen
Prof. Dennis Sciama
Sir Francis Galton
Prof. Sir Fred Hoyle
Prof. Sir Hermann Bondi
Baron John Maynard Keynes
Prof. John von Neumann
Prof. Kurt Gödel
Baron Prof. Martin Rees
Prof. Marvin Minsky
Prof. Sir Muir Gray
Prof. Nicholas Kurti
Prof. Sir Richard Doll
Prof. Richard Feynman
Prof. Sir Richard Peto
Prof. Sir Roger Penrose
Prof. Stephen Hawking
Prof. Sir William McCrea

Alan Blumlein
Alan Turing
Prof. Bernard Pagel
Prof. David Deutsch
Prof. Donald Lynden-Bell
Prof. James Binney
Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Prof. Roger Tayler
Prof. Sir Rory Collins
Dr Sula Wolff

Bruce Berry

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Singers / Performers 1 (see also Rock Bands, above)

Alan Price (The Alan Price Set, The Animals)
Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)
Bob Marley (The Wailers)
Buddy Guy
Buddy Holly
Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
Debbie Harry (Blondie, The Stilettos)
Eric Clapton (Cream, The Yardbirds)
Elvis Costello (The Attractions)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Grace Slick (The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane)
Howlin' Wolf
Janis Joplin (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
Jimi Hendrix (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Jimmy Smith
Kate Pierson (The B52s)
Marianne Faithfull
Martha Davis (The Motels)
Otis Redding (Bar-Kays)
Polly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
Siouxsie Sioux (The Banshees, The Creatures)
Trevor Pinnock (The English Concert)

Special mention:

Jim Marshall
Joe Meek
Sam Phillips

Singers / Performers 2 (see also Rock Bands, above)

Belinda Carlisle (The Go-Gos)
Booker T. Jones (The MGs)
Carlos Santana
Cherry Wainer (Lord Rockingham's XI)
Chuck Berry
Dave Brubeck
David Bowie
Dick Dale (Del-Tones)
Eddie Floyd
Elton John
Jacques Loussier (The Play Bach Trio)
James Brown
Jeff Beck
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
Jools Holland (The Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra)
Lenny Kravitz
Link Wray
Paul Weller
Pauline Black (The Selecter)
Pete Townshend (The Who)
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
Roy Orbison
Slash (Guns N Roses)
Tal Wilkenfeld
Thelonious Monk
Wilson 'Wicked' Pickett  (The Falcons)

Singers / Performers 3 (see also Rock Bands, above)

Al Kooper (Bloomfield and Kooper, The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Alice Cooper
Alison Moyet
Barbara Dixon
Bert Weedon
Bob Dylan (yes, has finally made it!)
Brenda Lee
Candi Staton
Cerys Matthews (Catatonia)
Cherisse Osei (The Faders, Simple Minds)
Cristina Monet Zilkha
Diana Ross (The Supremes)
Dusty Springfield (The Springfields)
Eartha Kitt
Edie Brickell
Elkie Brooks (Dada, Vinegar Joe)
Ferranti and Taecher
Fontella Bass
Hazel O'Connor
High Contrast
Joan Jett (The Blackhearts, The Runaways)
Joe Strummer (The Clash, The Mescaleros)
Joe Tex
John Lee Hooker
Julie Driscoll (Brian Auger and the Trinity)
Lulu (The Luvvers) - sorry about our "little spat" ca. 1972!
Lynrd Skynrd
Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span)
Madonna Ciccione
Meredith Brooks
Patti Smith
Percy Sledge
Roberta Flack
Sam and Dave
Sam Brown
Sharleen Spiteri (Texas)
Shirley Bassey
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Snowy White
Steve Miller (The Steve Miller Band)
Patti LaBelle (The Bluebells)
Tina Turner
Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
Walter Brennan

Singers / Performers - Terrible! (see also Rock Bands, above)

...too cruel...

Thespians and Comedians 1

Sir Alec Guinness
Annette (Mabel) Mills
Arabella Weir
Benny Hill
Sir Billy Connolly
Buster Keaton
Caroline Hook (Aherne)
Celia Imrie
Charlie Chaplin
Clive Dunn
David Niven
Dawn French
Dick Emery
Eric Sykes
Gilbert Harding
Harry Enfield
Harry Secombe
Hattie Hayridge
Hattie Jacques
Jane Asher
Jane Horrocks
Jean Harlow
Jennifer Saunders
Jenny Eclair
Dame Joanna Lumley
John Cleese
John Le Mesurier
Dame Judi Dench
Kathy Burke
Kenny Everett
Mae West
Marilyn Monroe
Millicent Martin
Oliver Hardy
Patrick McGoohan
Paul Whitehouse
Peter Sellers
Peter Ustinov
Richard Hearne (Mr Pastry)
Rowan Atkinson
Ruby Wax
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Steafel
Sid James
Spike Milligan
Stan Laurel
'Prof.' Stanley Unwin
Lady Susan (Hampshire) Kulukundis
Terry-Thomas
Tony Hancock
Victor Borge

Thespians and Comedians 2

Charlotte Rampling
Dereck Guyler
Donald Sutherland
Dora Bryan
Dorothy Tutin
Fenella Fielding
Baroness Floella Benjamin
Frances Barber
Geoff Goldblum
Googie Withers
Honor Blackman
Joan Greenwood
Joan Rivers
Sir John Gielguid
Keeley Hawes
Kelly Reilly
Kika Markham
Lisa Faulkner
Marty Feldman
Mary Morris
Oliver Reed
Pauline Collins
Ruth Madoc
Shirley Anne Field
Sigourney Weaver
Su Pollard
Susan Sarandon
Una Stubbs
Wanda Ventham

Thespians and Comedians 94

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