Fred Astaire – After his first screen test, the director famously wrote of him ‘can’t sing, can’t act, balding’ and concluded by acknowledging, with magnificent understatement, that Astaire ‘can dance a little’. Yet by 1934, Top-Hatted Fred Astaire was established as Hollywood’s first and greatest dancing star. To be accurate, he was already world-famous, following his massive success on Broadway and in London, by the time he began working as a dancer/choreographer in films.
Beyoncé-With a multiplicity of eye-catching cowboy hats completing her look, Beyoncé became an icon with her Cowboy Carter tour and album, relaunching the cowboy hat style for a new generation.
Bruno Mars - inspires millions of potential hat wearers, who don't know what to do with their hair
Audrey Hepburn - from 1953 onwards, she was recognised as a film and style icon.Nobody has ever looked better in a hat.
Pharrell Williams shook the entertainment world when he started wearing Vivienne Westwood's 1982 Mountain Hat, in several colours.
Humphrey Bogart - extraordinary actor and most influential ambassador for the Fedora.
Johnny Depp - eccentric Fedora enthusiast
Michael Jackson - loved to wear hats, such as this white Fedora that he wore for the Smooth Criminal video
President Abraham Lincoln - America's tallest President was fond of the so-called Stovepipe hat, which made him over 2 metres tall and instantly recognisable.
Winston Churchill wore hats of all shapes and sizes. This Cambridge Bowler was one of his favourites.
Prince Albert (centre, later King Edward VII) was a fashion innovator. He is said to have invented turned-up trousers and the Homburg hat.
Sherlock Holmes is the world's most brilliant - though fictional - detective. He is often depicted wearing his trademark Deerstalker while chasing criminals.
Sir Anthony Eden - for many years, his favourite hat, the Homburg, was known as the 'Anthony Eden' in the UK. He was only briefly Prime Minister but always famous for his style.
Marlene Dietrich - cross-dressing superstar of the 1920s-1930s, wore many hats and loved the Top Hat look.