East Anglians are among the 930 new names in the 2017 edition of Who’s Who, which will be published on Monday.

Inclusion in the world-famous reference book, which contains potted biographies of 33,000 of the most famous, most influential and most talented people in the world, is by invitation only.

This year’s new entries include:

n The Bishop of Dunwich, the Rt Rev Mike Harrison, 53, who lives at Park Road, Ipswich.

n Robert Rous, 63, farmer and Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk since 2015, from Dennington Hall.

n Canon Kevan McCormack, 66, rector of St Mary the Virgin, Woodbridge, since 2000 and a Chaplain to the Queen since 2014.

n Justin Adams, 51, managing director of Connect Books and former managing director of Greene King.

n Judge Martyn Levett, 62, a Circuit Judge based at the Crown Court in Russell Road, Ipswich.

n Frances Hardinge, 43, award-winning children’s author ,who was educated at Ipswich High School. Her 2015 book, The Lie Tree, won the Costa Book Award.

n Sudbury-born anaesthetist Dr Jeremy Nolan, 57, is consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at the Royal United Hospitals in Bath and is also editor-in-chief of the Resuscitation Journal.

n Judge Edward Bindloss, 49, a Circuit Judge based at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and who was educated at Ipswich School.

n And Jonathan Douglas-Hughes, 72, solicitor and Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Essex,who lives near Halstead.

They join other Who’s Who debutants including Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, 2016 Tour de France winner Chris Froome, and award-winning actor and comedian Tracey Ullman.

Everyone in Who’s Who is invited to compile his or her own entry, so entries can be as long or as short as celebrities wish.

In the 1997 edition of Who’s Who romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland required 222 lines (nearly an entire page) to list her mostly literary achievements.

The entries of the Suffolk and Essex contingent are comparatively brief and modest.

Mr Rous explains his life in just nine lines while the bishop tells his story in just 10 lines,which is four lines fewer than the 14-line entry of US President Barack Obama and 10 lines fewer than the 20-line entry of Pope Benedict XV1.

Mr Rous said his entry was linked to his appointment as a Vice-Lieutenant of Suffolk but he did not see it as a life-defining moment: “If people find it useful, then good, but I don’t really pay a great deal of attention to it.”

Bishop Mike said he accepted inclusion in the book was an inevitable consequence of taking on the new role.

He said: “I don’t really see it’s anything more than that – although there’s been a bit of leg-pulling from my family about my inclusion!”

All the new entries 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 2017 edition of Who’s Who will be published by A&C Black on Monday at £295.