During World War II, Germany prepared a list of 2,820 people to be arrested in a Nazi invasion of Britain. It included:

• Robert Baden-Powell
• Violet Bonham Carter
• Neville Chamberlain
• Winston Churchill
• Noël Coward
• E.M. Forster
• J.B.S. Haldane
• Aldous Huxley
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski
• J.B. Priestley
• Paul Robeson
• Bertrand Russell
• C.P. Snow
• Stephen Spender
• H.G. Wells
• Rebecca West
• Virginia Woolf

When the list was published, Rebecca West cabled Noël Coward: MY DEAR, THE PEOPLE WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN DEAD WITH.