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The Hospital Club 100 list 2013

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The results are in for this year's h.Club100, a search for the most innovative and influential people in the creative industries

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The Guardian Culture Professionals Network has teamed up with the Hospital Club on this year's h.Club100 – an annual campaign to identify the 100 most influential and innovative people working across arts, culture and the creative industries in the UK.

A total of 300 individuals made it to the shortlist for this year's list, and over the past four weeks you, the public, have been voting to determine who makes the final cut. Find the final 100 below.

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Theatre and performance
Publishing and writing
Art and design
Creative entrepreneurship
Gaming and tech
Music
Broadcast
Film
Fashion
Advertising, marketing and PR

Theatre and performance

Rupert Thompson
Rupert Thompson Photograph: Peter Dibdin/Summerhall

Rupert Thompson, artistic director, Summerhall

Since opening for the Edinburgh Festival in 2011, Summerhall's hugely varied creative programmes have garnered 27 major awards – hit shows include Hotel Medea (2011) and Songs of Lear (2012).


Helen Mirren, actor

Jessica Swale, writer and director

Tania Harrison, head of arts and comedy, Festival Republic

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, actress, director and producer

Ivan Blackstock, artistic director, Birdgang Dance Company

Jonathan Church, artistic director, Chichester Theatre

Paul Roseby, artistic director and CEO, National Youth Theatre

Mimi Poskett, founder and artistic director, Look Left, Look Right

Robert Pacitti, artistic director and CEO, SPILL Festival

Publishing and writing

Rosalind Jana
Rosalind Jana Photograph: Press

Rosalind Jana, fashion blogger,
Clothes, Cameras and Coffee

Jana is a fashion blogger, sourcing most of her wardrobe from charity shops, sustainable labels and vintage fairs – she won 'Well Dressed' at the Observer Ethical Awards and is a contributor to Guardian online, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk and Vogue.

Seb Emina, blogger and author, London Review of Breakfasts

John Holt, founder, LAW

Anna Davis, director, Curtis Brown Creative

Alex Spiro & Sam Arthur, founders, NoBrow Press

John Bond & Annabel Wright, founders, Whitefox

Joanna Penn, author

Anne Perry & Jared Shurin, founders, The Kitschies

Zoom Rockman, illustrator and writer, The Zoom

Laura Dockrill, poet, author and illustrator

Creative entrepreneurship

Jay Miller
Jay Miller Photograph: Press

Jay Miller, founder, The Yard theatre

Miller's vision was to transform a Hackney Wick warehouse into a classic style amphitheatre with artist-led programming – now two-years-old, the venue employs 14 staff, offers mentoring and coaching, and has developed award-winning new writing talent.


George Wu & Sara Melin, founders, The Poundshop

Guy Armitage, founder, Zealous

Jennifer Griffiths, Snap Fashion

Joanna Ellis & Sophie Rochester, The Literary Platform

Peter Gerard, founder, Distrify

Samuel Jewell, founder, Matopy

Shain Shapiro, Sound Diplomacy

Teddy Leifer, founder, RISE Films

Toby L, founder, Lovelive

Art and design

Honor Harger
Honor Harger Photograph: unknown/Press

Honor Harger, artistic director, Lighthouse Arts

As director of Lighthouse, Harger has produced a series of ground-breaking and vital exhibitions and public programmes that explore the relationships between art and technology, featuring and appreciated by many key practitioners of both.


Penelope Curtis, director, Tate Britain

Jeremy Deller, artist

Thomas Gottelier, Bobby Petersen & Edward Thomas,
designers, Paper Pulp Helmets

Marcus Fairs, founder, Dezeen

Benjamin Boyce, furniture designer

Samir Ceric, founder and CEO, Debut Contemporary

Caroline Walker, artist

Josef O'Connor, artist

Alex & Chris White, designers and illustrators, We Three Club

Gaming and tech

Sarah Ellis
Sarah Ellis Photograph: Press

Sarah Ellis, digital producer,
Royal Shakespeare Company

Ellis is the digital producer behind RSC's partnership with Google's Creative Lab, Midsummer Night's Dreaming – she has earned a reputation for identifying opportunities and working hard to deliver them.


Omar Tayeb, co-founder and CTO, Blippar

Rytis Vitkauskas & Viktoras Jucikas, co-founders, Yplan

Emily Brooke, founder, Blaze

Christian Miccio, CEO, MpMe

Edward Saperia, founder and CEO, Original Content London

Matt Wieteska, game designer and producer, Six to Start

Oliver Madgett, founder, We R Interactive

Jon Reynolds & Ben Medlock, co-founders, SwiftKey

Music

Harriet Jordan-Wrench
Harriet Jordan-Wrench Photograph: Public

Harriet Jordan-Wrench, creative director, Secret Sessions

Jordan-Wrench is founder and creative director for the online music channel Secret Sessions, which features over 150 sessions and interviews with artists ranging from Ben Howard and Rizzle Kicks to Stereophonics and Frank Turner – this year it reached 3.5 million hits.

Paul Epworth, artist

The Rolling Stones, artists

Charlie Huggall, producer and engineer, Gotham Producers

Laura Mvula, artist

Benji Rogers & Malcolm Dunbar, co-founders, PledgeMusic

Michael Volpe, general manager, Opera Holland Park

Stars Redmond, founder, Sweet!

David Bowie, artist

Susan Stone, creative director, Tonic

Broadcast

Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie Photograph: Press

Bridget Christie, comedian

An avant garde comic exposing the absurdity of misogyny, Christie won Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show 2013 – she is currently working on the second series of Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (Radio 4) and A Book for Her (due 2015).


Damian Lewis, actor

Lucy Lumsden, head of comedy, Sky

Sir Patrick Moore, presenter (posthumously)

Richard Attenborough, director and producer

Clare Balding, presenter and journalist

Olivia Colman, actress

Anna Doble, head of online, Channel 4 News

Ebony Rhiney-James, head of digital marketing, Sony Music UK

Sam Jackson, managing editor, Classic FM

Film

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen Photograph: Press

Steve McQueen, film director

McQueen followed the acclaimed Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011) with the shocking 12 Years a Slave, based on the factual story of a 19th-century freeman kidnapped and sold into slavery. He is a winner of the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a Turner Prize and a BAFTA.

Steve Coogan, actor

Eddie Redmayne, actor

Tessa Ross, controller of film and drama, Channel 4

Chris O'Dowd, actor

Idris Elba, actor

Richard Ayoade, director

Benedict Cumberbatch, actor

Amanda Berry, CEO, Bafta

Emily Corcoran, actress, producer and screenwriter, Cork Films

Fashion

Natalie Massenet
Natalie Massenet Photograph: Press

Natalie Massenet, founder, Net-a-Porter

Named BFC chairman in 2012, Massenet has immediately impacted the London Fashion Week showpiece with increased sponsorship revenue, banner hangs on Oxford Street, debut shows from Manolo Blahnik, and a new designer shop at Somerset House.


Cara Delavigne, model

Anna Trevelyan, fashion stylist

Quentin Jones, illustrator and filmmaker

Aaliyah Ansari, founder, Tag Mag

Clarice Price Thomas, jewellery designer

Debra Bourne, Erin O'Connor & Caryn Franklin, founders,
All Walks Beyond The Catwalk

Phoebe English, fashion designer

Lucy Norris, founder and creative director, Pret-A-Rever.com

Brooke Roberts, owner and designer

Advertising, marketing and PR

Luke Shires
Luke Shires Photograph: Press

Luke Shires, managing director,
Joe Public Marketing

Shires began his career with the National Theatre and then Act Productions – he founded Joe Public Marketing with Michael McCabe and is currently marketing director for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wicked.


Simon Labbett, co-founder and creative director, Hometown

Declan Reddington, co-founder, AdConnection; Fetch

Barnaby Cook & Nick Francis, co-founders, Casual Films

Guy Chapman, managing director, Target Live

Rob Potts & Andy Jex, copywriter and art director,
Saatchi & Saatchi London

Warren Johnson, founder and managing Director, W Communications

Darren Bailes, executive creative director, VCCP

Robin Grant & Nathan McDonald, co-founders, We Are Social

Rick Brim & Dan Fisher, creative directors, Adam&EveDDB

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