Newspaper announces 'Good List'

Bob Geldof is amongst those named on a list of 'good' people

A panel of experts has picked out 50 individuals - including some double acts - who they believed were motivated by an "ethical" dimension.

This list has been compiled by the Independent newspaper, whose associate editor Paul Vallely was involved in the selection process.

The chart does not rank the individuals in order of their "goodness" as the panel members were unable to agree a definitive order of merit.

Instead it is presented in alphabetical order:

Muhammad Abdul Bari, Muslim leader

Andrew Linzey, animal rights moralist

Anne Owers, HM Inspector of Prisons

Benjamin Zephaniah, poet

Bob Geldof, poverty campaigner

Bob Holman, community worker

Bruce Kent, peace activist

Camilla Batmanghelidjh, founder of Kids Company

Chris Patten, politician

Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer

David Attenborough, television naturalist

Donald Findlater, pioneer in paedophile treatment

Gareth Peirce, solicitor

Gee Walker, mother

Gordon Conway, ecologist

Indarjit Singh, Sikh leader

Jean Vanier, disabled campaigner

Jill Pitkeathley, careers' campaigner

John Bell, peace activist and hymn-writer

John Harris, bio-ethicist

John Houghton, meteorologist

John Sulston, scientist

Jon Snow, broadcaster

Jonathon Porritt, environmentalist

Justin Forsyth, poverty strategist

Ken Loach, filmmaker

Ken Newell and Gerry Reynolds, Northern Ireland peace activists

Kevin Watkins, anti-poverty researcher

Laurie Pycroft, animal testing campaigner

Lionel Blue, rabbi

Mark Malloch Brown, UN official

Martin Dent and Bill Peters, debt campaigners

Mohammed Mamdani, founder of the Muslim Youth Helpline

Niall Fitzgerald, businessman

Nick Hargreaves, refugees campaigner

Ann Pettifor, debt campaigner

Peter Tatchell, gay rights campaigner

Phil Sumner, community worker

Philip Pullman, children's writer

Richard Adams, fair trade pioneer

Richard Curtis, comedy scriptwriter and global campaigner

Richard Harries, moralist

Robert Chambers, anti-poverty thinker

Shami Chakrabarti, civil rights campaigner, director of Liberty

Sheila Cassidy, palliative care pioneer

Shirley Williams, politician

Sister Frances Dominica, founder of the Helen House hospice

Tariq Ramadan, Islamic reformer

Timothy Radcliffe, Dominican friar

Tom Shakespeare, disability activist