Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He also served to help popularize yoga in the West by arranging for B.K.S. Iyengar to teach throughout Europe in the 1950s.
In 1993, he was made a life peer, as Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey, U.K.