13 Notable alumni of
Arts University Bournemouth
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Arts University Bournemouth is 1641st in the world, 562nd in Europe, and 102nd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Arts University Bournemouth sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Edgar Wright
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actormanufacturertelevision director
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Edgar Howard Wright is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He first made independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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Freya Allan
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- actor
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Freya Allan is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Princess Cirilla of Cintra in the Netflix series The Witcher, for which she was nominated for two Saturn Awards. She also appears as young Sam in the 2021 film Gunpowder Milkshake, as the younger version of The Widow in the AMC series Into the Badlands, and as Mae in the film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024).
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Nick Knight
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- photographerfashion photographerfilm directordirector
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Nicholas David Gordon Knight CBE is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
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Joe Cornish
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- film directorjournalisttelevision presenterexecutive producerfilm critic
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Joseph Murray Cornish is an English comedian and filmmaker. With Adam Buxton, he forms the comedy duo Adam and Joe. In 2011, Cornish released his directorial debut Attack the Block. He also co-wrote The Adventures of Tintin with Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright, and Ant-Man, with Wright, Adam McKay, and Paul Rudd.
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Wolfgang Tillmans
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- photographerprintmakerartist
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Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations.
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Harry Reid
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- actortelevision actor
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Harry Reid is an English actor. He is known for his role as Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, from 2014 until 2018.
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Sinéad Harnett
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- singer
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Sinéad Monica Harnett is an English singer and songwriter of Irish and Thai descent.
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Peter Cook
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- university teacherarchitectwriterteacher
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Sir Peter Cook RA is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to architecture and teaching. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. His achievements with Archigram were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when the group was awarded the Royal Gold Medal.
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Adelle Tracey
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- athletics competitormiddle-distance runner
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Adelle Tracey is a middle-distance runner. Born in the United States, she competes for Jamaica since 2022, having previously represented Great Britain, where she grew up. Tracey competes primarily in the 800 metres. She placed fourth in the event at the 2018 European Athletics Championships, but claimed a bronze in the North American equivalent, the 2022 NACAC Championships representing her new country, Jamaica. The following day, Tracey won silver for Jamaica in the 1500 metres event in the same championships.
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Giles Duley
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- 1971-.. (age 54)
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- photographerphotojournalist
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Giles Duley MBE is an English portrait and documentary photographer, chef, writer, CEO and presenter. Duley also cooks, and writes about food and food politics, under the moniker The One Armed Chef. He is best known for his work documenting the long term impact of war. He is the founder and CEO of the NGO Legacy of War Foundation, and in 2022 was announced as the first United Nations Global Advocate for Persons with Disabilities in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings.
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Peter Wilson
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- sport shooter
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Peter Robert Russell Wilson MBE, is a retired English sport shooter who specialises in the double trap. He is the current world record holder for the event, having scored 198 out of 200 at a World Cup event in Arizona during 2012. A member of the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was the youngest competitor in the men's double trap event, where he won the gold medal.
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Máret Ánne Sara
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- writervisual artistpainterjournalist
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Máret Ánne Sara is a Sami artist and author born in Norway. She lives and works in Kautokeino Municipality.
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Julian Richards
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Julian Richards is a Welsh film director. He is associated with the Cool Cymru era of culture and arts in Wales.
