The scheme is run by the English Heritage, whose curatorial director Matt Thompson said: “2025 marks an exciting year for the Blue Plaques Scheme as we honour these outstanding individuals who transformed the cultural fabric of London.
“However, plaques are as much about the buildings in which people lived and worked as about the subjects being commemorated – the intrinsic aim of English Heritage blue plaques is to celebrate the relationship between people and place.
Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan are both set to be honoured with a blue plaque in London this year.
Novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson will also be given a blue plaque.
Bolan will be honored with a plaque at one of his west London addresses, having been behind his band’s success before his death aged 29 in 1977.
