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A teacher who mixed dignity with humour inspired a love of Classics in the author, former Conservative MEP and I’m a Celebrity contestant

The Paralympic equestrian recalls the upbeat teacher with a steely resolve who helped put her horse-mad pupil on a path to multiple gold-winning glory

The TV presenter and reality show survivor remembers a PE teacher who provided him with ‘the perfect mix of sympathy and reality’ at boarding school

A patient drama teacher and a media studies tutor who broke the rules both encouraged the writer and star of Kidulthood to pursue a career in film

This gifted former footballing prodigy arrived at a north London grammar from Jamaica with the world at his feet. But his Welsh PE teacher only taught rugby...

Life at school wasn’t always easy for this former winner of The X Factor, but one of her ‘warm and welcoming’ teachers taught her that she was someone special