THE WHO's who of the world’s best and brightest people includes 23 people from Oxfordshire.

Professors, artists, business leaders and writers from the county appear in Who’s Who 2018 - a reference book offering an insight into more than 33,000 of the most influential people on the planet.

This year’s new additions - who will be added to the list along with the likes of French president Emmanuel Macron - include the Oxfordshire sculptor Martin Jennings, who has a studio in Combe near Witney.

Mr Jennings makes portrait sculptures and public statues, often incorporating carved inscriptions into the work.

In 2016, he was commissioned to create a bronze bust of Sir John Betjeman to stand outside the Vale and Downland Museum in Wantage, near the poet's former home in the town.

It is an exact replica of the head and shoulders of the scultpor's statue which was installed at St Pancras Station in London in 2007.

He told the Oxford Mail at the time: "I’m glad the people of Wantage have another link with former resident Sir John Betjeman.”

Other additions to the volume include writer Alex Bellos and Oxford-born member of Scottish Parliament Jamie Halcro Johnston.

Mr Bellos, who was born in Oxford and studied at Oxford University, is the author of books about Brazil and mathematics, as well as having an online column in The Guardian.

He has won a number of awards for his writing, including the Blue Peter Book Award and the Peano Prize.

Neil Record, who was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College and Balliol College, is a businessman and chairman of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

He was a short listed entrant for the 2012 Wolfson Economics Prize for his work on the Eurozone crisis.

Other entrants include Nicholas Rogers, the Wallingford-born executive director of product engineering at Jaguar Land Rover, and Professor Judith Rousseau, French-born professor of statistics at Oxford University.

The Oxfordshire entrants will now remain in Who’s Who until they die, when they will be automatically transferred to Who’s Who’s sister publication Who Was Who.

The 2018 edition of Who’s Who was published this month by A & C Black at £310.

For the full list of Oxfordshire additions to Who's Who, visit see oxfordmail.co.uk