They were some of 9/11’s biggest names – Where are they now?

In 2001 Secretary of state Colin Powell speaks at the State Department in Washington (Hillery Smith Garrison/AP)

Rudolph Giuliani was a hero before he was a punchline. Lisa Beamer was a wife and mother before she became a symbol of September  11 – and although though her celebrity passed, her widowhood cannot.

In the aftermath of the attacks, the US and the world were introduced to an array of personalities.