45 Notable alumni of
Bangor University
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Bangor University is 1276th in the world, 439th in Europe, and 84th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from Bangor University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Danny Boyle
- Occupations
- directorscreenwriterartistic directorfilm producerfilm director
- Biography
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Daniel Francis Boyle is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and its sequel T2 Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Steve Jobs, and Yesterday.
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Roger Whittaker
- Occupations
- writerguitaristsinger-songwriterwhistle artistcomposer
- Biography
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Roger Henry Brough Whittaker was a British singer-songwriter and musician. His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs, the latter variously in a crooning or in a schlager style. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.
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Robert Edwards
- Occupations
- physiologistbiologistresearcherphysician
- Biography
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Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with obstetrician and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and nurse Jean Purdy, Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978. They founded the first IVF programme for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".
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Peter Daszak
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Bangor University
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Science in zoology
- Occupations
- scientistzoologistecologist
- Biography
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Peter Daszak is a British zoologist, consultant and public expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis. He is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention. He is also a member of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He lives in Suffern, New York.
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David Whyte
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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David Whyte is an Anglo-Irish poet. He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.
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Hywel Williams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hywel Williams is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arfon, previously Caernarfon, since 2001.
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Paul Bérenger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Raymond Bérenger is a Mauritian politician who was Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. He has been Leader of the Opposition on several occasions – from 1983 to 1987, 1997 to 2000, 2005 to 2006, 2007 to 2013, October 2013 to 15 September 2014, and again from December 2014 to December 2016 when he was replaced by Xavier-Luc Duval. Following his party's defeat in the 2014 general elections, he became Leader of the Opposition for the sixth time, making him the longest ever to serve in this constitutional position. He was also Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 1997 and again from 2000 to 2003, and he was a cabinet minister in the government of Anerood Jugnauth in 1982 and 1991. Bérenger, a Christian of Franco-Mauritian descent, has been the only non-Hindu Prime Minister of Mauritius, or, more particularly, the only Prime Minister who has not belonged to the Jugnauth or Ramgoolam families.
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Meave Leakey
- Enrolled in Bangor University
- In 1968 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in zoology
- Occupations
- evolutionary biologistpaleoanthropologistpaleontologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Meave G. Leakey is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin. She has Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science degrees.
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Stefan Rahmstorf
- Enrolled in Bangor University
- Studied physical oceanography
- Occupations
- climatologistphysicistclimate activistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stefan Rahmstorf is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He studied physical oceanography at Bangor University and received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington (1990). His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change. He was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
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Robert Holdstock
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction.
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Ann Clwyd
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianbroadcaster
- Biography
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Ann Clwyd Roberts was a Welsh Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cynon Valley for 35 years, from 1984 until 2019. Although she had intended to stand down in 2015, she was re-elected in that year's general election and in 2017 before standing down in 2019. Clwyd is the longest-serving female MP for a Welsh constituency.
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Bill Wiggin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir William David Wiggin is a British Conservative Party politician, and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire, previously Leominster, since the 2001 general election.
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Robert Armstrong-Jones
- Occupations
- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, was a Welsh physician and psychiatrist.
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Sarah Atherton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Elizabeth Atherton is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wrexham since the 2019 general election. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People, Veterans and Service Families from September to October 2022.
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Kate Roberts
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Kate Roberts was one of the foremost Welsh-language authors of the 20th century. Styled Brenhines ein llên (The Queen of our Literature), she is known mainly for her short stories, but also wrote novels. Roberts was a prominent Welsh nationalist.
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Phil Woosnam
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Phillip Abraham Woosnam was a Welsh association football inside-right and manager. A native of Caersws, Powys, Wales, Woosnam played for five clubs in England and one in the United States. He played international football for Wales. He was described as a "gifted inside-forward with a pronounced football intelligence".
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C. E. Wynn-Williams
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams, was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer.
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Caryl Parry Jones
- Occupations
- writersingerpoetactorcomposer
- Biography
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Caryl Parry Jones is a Welsh singer, actress and presenter. She was born in the Flintshire village of Ffynnongroyw and attended Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St. Asaph, but now lives in Cowbridge, in the Vale of Glamorgan.
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Lewis Valentine
- Occupations
- Christian ministerwriter
- Biography
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Lewis Edward Valentine M.A. was a Welsh politician, Baptist pastor, author, editor, and Welsh-language activist. He was the first leader of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru.
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Tom Parry Jones
- Enrolled in Bangor University
- Graduated with chemistry
- Occupations
- inventorbusiness executivechemistlecturer
- Biography
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Thomas Parry Jones OBE was a Welsh scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, who was responsible for developing and marketing the first handheld electronic breathalyser, winning the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in 1980 for the work. Born and raised on Anglesey, he attended Bangor University and went on to study for his doctorate at University of Alberta, Canada. Prior to his work on the breathalyser at Lion Laboratories, he was a lecturer at the Royal Military College of Science and the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology. He established the Dr Tom Parry Jones Endowment Fund at Bangor University in 2002. After selling Lion Laboratories in 2005, he set up PPM Technology and Welsh Dragon Aviation. A trust was set up in his, and his wife's, names. The Tom and Raj Jones Trust promotes work by young entrepreneurs.
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Alun Ffred Jones
- Occupations
- film directorpolitician
- Biography
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Alun Ffred Jones is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru and former television producer, writer and director. Jones was the National Assembly for Wales Member for Caernarfon 2003–07 and for the newly created Arfon constituency from 2007 until he stood down in 2016. He served as Minister for Heritage between 2008 and 2011 as part of the One Wales Government. In 2008 he made history by being the first UK representative to speak in the Welsh language at a meeting of the European Union. He was Chairman of Plaid Cymru from October 2019 until he resigned in July 2022.
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Owen Hurcum
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Owen J. Hurcum is a British politician. They are the former Mayor of the city of Bangor, Wales, and former ward councillor for Glyder ward on Bangor City Council. In May 2021, they became the Mayor of Bangor, the first openly non-binary mayor of any city world-wide and the youngest person in history to hold a mayoral position in Wales. In May 2022 they completed their term as mayor and did not seek re-election to the community council.
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Leighton Andrews
- Occupations
- political adviseruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Leighton Andrews is an academic and former Welsh Labour politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda from 2003 until 2016. He was Minister for Children, Education & Lifelong Learning from 2009 to 2011, then Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government until his resignation on 25 June 2013 after an alleged conflict between his own departmental policy and his active campaigning to save a school in his constituency. In September 2014 he returned to the government as Minister for Public Services.
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Siân James
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- harpistsinger
- Biography
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Siân James is a Welsh traditional folk singer and harpist who has recorded for Sain and BBC Records as well as her own label, Bos.
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Albert Evans-Jones
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Sir Cynan Evans-Jones CBE (14 April 1895 – 26 January 1970), more commonly known within Wales by his bardic name of Cynan, was a Welsh war poet and dramatist.
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Alan Bray
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Alan Bray was a British historian and gay rights activist. He was a Roman Catholic and had a particular interest in Christianity's relationship to homosexuality.
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Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno
- Occupations
- Christian ministerpolitician
- Biography
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John Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, Methodist minister, and life peer. He was for many years President of the Welsh Liberals, and later, the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
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Leo Sachs
- Occupations
- biologistgeneticistuniversity teachermolecular biologist
- Biography
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Leo Sachs was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933, and to Israel in 1952. There he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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Owain Owain
- Occupations
- poeteducatorwriternuclear physicist
- Biography
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Owain Owain was a Welsh novelist, short-story writer and poet. He also founded Tafod y Ddraig (The Dragon's Tongue), which became the Welsh Language Society's main voice from its inception in the 1960s to the present day.
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Peredur Lynch
- Occupations
- professorwriter
- Biography
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Peredur Ionor Lynch, FLSW is a Welsh academic who serves as professor of Welsh & Medieval Literature in the School of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Bangor University.
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Angharad Tomos
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Angharad Tomos is a Welsh author and prominent language activist. She is a recipient of the Tir na n-Og Award.
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Hardyal Dhindsa
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hardyal Dhindsa is a British politician, and the former Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire, representing the Labour Party. He was elected to the post on 5 May 2016, succeeding the previous incumbent, Alan Charles. He was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Angelique Foster in the 2021 election.
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Matthew Collins
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- archaeologistanthropologistprofessor
- Biography
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Matthew Collins, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, formerly as a Niels Bohr professor, and also holds a McDonald Chair in Palaeoproteomics at the University of Cambridge.
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Roger Yates
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Roger Yates is an English lecturer in sociology at University College Dublin and the University of Wales, specialising in animal rights. He is a former executive committee member of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), a former Animal Liberation Front (ALF) press officer, and a co-founder of the Fur Action Group.
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Rosa Lee
- Enrolled in Bangor University
- Studied in 1904
- Occupations
- marine biologiststatisticianacademic
- Biography
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Rosa Mabel Lee was a British statistician, the first woman scientist to be employed by the Marine Biological Association and the first woman to work as a government fishery scientist in the United Kingdom.
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Guto Puw
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Guto Pryderi Puw is a Welsh composer, university lecturer and conductor. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Welsh composers of his generation and a key figure in current Welsh music. Puw's music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and been featured on television programmes for the BBC and S4C. He has twice been awarded the Composer's Medal at the National Eisteddfod.
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Bert Biscoe
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Bert Biscoe DL, also known by the bardic name Viajor Gans Geryow, is a Cornish politician, historian and bard of the Cornish Gorseth. Biscoe represented Cornwall Council's Truro Boscawen District as an independent Cornwall Councillor until 2019, serving as an independent Truro City Council Councillor for the new Boscawen & Redannick Ward.
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Robert Bryan
- Occupations
- composerpoet
- Biography
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Robert Bryan was a Welsh poet, composer and folklorist.
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Phil Hopkins
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Phil Hopkins was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Swansea Rugby Football Club. He won just four caps for Wales but made an important impact to the team's 1909 Triple Crown winning championship.
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Nessa O'Mahony
- Born in
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Ireland - Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Nessa O'Mahony is an Irish poet and a freelance teacher and writer.
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Terwyn Davies
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Terwyn Davies is a Welsh broadcaster, originally from Ceredigion in Wales, who is currently presenting S4C's farming and rural affairs programme, Ffermio. He lives in a mock Tudor Barratt home development in Carmarthen, West Wales.
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David Miall Edwards
- Occupations
- theologianwriterprofessor
- Biography
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David Miall Edwards was a Welsh Non-conformist writer and theologian who wrote in both Welsh and English.
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Carol Coslett
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- presbyter
- Biography
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Carol Ann Coslett is a British Anglican priest. From 2018 until 2023, she served as an archdeacon in the Church of England's Diocese of Derby: as Archdeacon of Chesterfield until 2022, then as Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales.
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Liz Howe
- Occupations
- ecologistherpetologist
- Biography
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Liz Howe was a British ecologist and herpetologist. She is best known as one of the coordinators of a comprehensive field survey of the natural habitats of Wales, published in 2010.
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R. Silyn Roberts
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Robert "Silyn" Roberts was a Welsh clergyman, writer, teacher and pacifist.
