60 Notable alumni of
Brunel University London
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Brunel University London is 763rd in the world, 271st in Europe, and 54th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from Brunel University London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Greg Davies
- Occupations
- stand-up comediantelevision presenteractortelevision actorscreenwriter
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Gregory Daniel Davies is a Welsh comedian, actor, presenter, and writer. He is best known for his roles as Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), Ken Thompson in Cuckoo (2012–2019), Dan Davies in Man Down (2013–2017) and Paul "Wicky" Wickstead in The Cleaner (from 2021). Since 2015, he has hosted the comedy panel game show Taskmaster and he has also appeared on Mock the Week, Fast and Loose, Live at the Apollo and Would I Lie to You?
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Archie Panjabi
- Enrolled in Brunel University London
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Archana Panjabi is an English actress. She has had various roles in both UK and US television including as Maya Roy in Life on Mars (2006–07), Nas Kamal in Blindspot (2016–17, 2020), Kendra Malley in Departure (2019–present), and Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife (2009–15). Her work in the latter earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 and an NAACP Image Award in 2012, as well as two further Emmy nominations, one Golden Globe nomination, and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations shared with the cast. Panjabi is the first Asian actor to win a Primetime Emmy for acting. Other notable roles include Meenah Khan in East Is East (1999), Pinky Bhamra in Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Yasmin Husseini in Yasmin (2004), and Asra Nomani in A Mighty Heart (2007).
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Damson Idris
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- actortelevision actor
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Damson Alade-Bo Idris is an English actor. He is best known for starring on John Singleton's crime drama Snowfall, which debuted 5 July 2017 on FX and ended in 2023 after six seasons. He played the co-lead in Netflix's 2021 sci-fi action film Outside the Wire.
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Lee Mack
- Occupations
- film actortelevision presenterstand-up comediantelevision actorautobiographer
- Biography
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Lee Gordon McKillop, known by his stage name Lee Mack, is an English comedian and actor.
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Tony Adams
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
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Tony Alexander Adams MBE is an English former football manager and player. Adams played for Arsenal and England, captaining both teams. Known as Mr. Arsenal, he spent his entire playing career of 19 years as a centre-back there, making 672 total appearances and winning four English league titles. He is considered one of Arsenal's greatest ever players, and is also included in the Football League 100 Legends.
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Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
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Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, is the heir apparent to the Luxembourg throne since October 2000 and regent of the country since October 2024, as the son of Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa. He is set to become Grand Duke on 3 October 2025 upon the abdication of his father.
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Sophie McShera
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Sophie McShera is an English actress known for her roles as Ros McCain in the fifth series of the BBC television series Waterloo Road, as Daisy Mason in the ITV television series Downton Abbey, and as Drizella Tremaine in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella.
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James Cracknell
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- ocean rowerrower
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James Edward Cracknell, OBE is a British rowing and endurance athlete, double Olympic gold medalist and winner of six world championship titles. Cracknell was appointed OBE for "services to sport" in the 2005 New Year Honours List.
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John McDonnell
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- politician
- Biography
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John Martin McDonnell is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997, representing the Labour Party until the whip was withdrawn and his suspension on 23 July 2024 as a result of voting to scrap the two child benefit cap. On the political left, McDonnell is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.
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Eniola Aluko
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Eniola Aluko MBE is a British football executive, football broadcaster and former professional player who played as a winger and striker. Aluko has been a regular broadcaster for live football on ITV, BT Sport, Amazon Prime and Fox Sports in the USA, including men's Premier League matches and Women's Super League since 2014. She was the first Sporting Director for Angel City FC of the American National women's soccer league and formerly held the position of Sporting Director at Aston Villa W.F.C. from January 2020 to June 2021.
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Carl Barât
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- poetsingerguitaristsongwriterdisc jockey
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Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is a British musician best known for being the co-frontman with Pete Doherty of the indie rock band the Libertines. He was the frontman and guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and in 2010 debuted a solo studio album. In 2014 he announced the creation of his new band, the Jackals.
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Audley Harrison
- Occupations
- boxer
- Biography
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Audley Hugh Harrison, MBE is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2013. As an amateur, he represented Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division and becoming the first ever British boxer to win Olympic gold in that division. Harrison turned professional the following year after signing a contract with BBC Sport, and went on to have seventeen fights on the network before their cancellation of all boxing broadcasts.
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Layla Moran
- Enrolled in Brunel University London
- 2005-2007 graduated with postgraduate certificate
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Layla Michelle Moran is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She has served as the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee since September 2024, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017.
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Tina Daheley
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenternews presenter
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Tina Daheley is an English journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC, both on television and radio. She currently reads the news on The Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Scott Mills,often contributing to discussions during the show. She is also a relief presenter on the BBC News at Ten and BBC News at Six. In 2018, she became the narrator (and later the regular presenter) of Points of View.
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Adwoa Aboah
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Adwoa Caitlin Maria Aboah is a British fashion model and actress. In December 2017 she appeared on the cover of British Vogue. She has also been on the cover of American Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Poland, and i-D. In 2017, the fashion industry voted her as Model of the Year for models.com. She is the founder of Gurls Talk, a platform that provides resources and a safe space for young women and girls to discuss Mental Health.
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Rosena Allin-Khan
- Enrolled in Brunel University London
- Studied clinical chemistry
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan is a British politician and medical doctor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2016. A member of the Labour Party, she attended shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Mental Health from 2020 to 2023.
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Laurence Rickard
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorscreenwriter
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Laurence Rickard is an English actor, writer, and comedian best known as a member of the Them There collective, with whom he both wrote and starred in productions including Horrible Histories, Yonderland, and Ghosts. In 2022, along with fellow Them There member Ben Willbond, he co-wrote the feature length television comedy We Are Not Alone.
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Kate Richardson-Walsh
- Occupations
- field hockey player
- Biography
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Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years.
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Charlie Winston
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- singer-songwriterrecording artist
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Charlie Winston Gleave, better known as Charlie Winston, is a British singer-songwriter based in the South of France. Winston has so far had his most significant commercial success in France.
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Tony James
- Occupations
- guitaristbassistsongwriter
- Biography
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Anthony Eric James is an English musician who was the bassist for the 1970s–1980s bands Generation X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and the Sisters of Mercy.
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Perri Shakes-Drayton
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Peirresha Alexandra Shakes-Drayton is a British retired track and field athlete. After specialising in the 400 metres hurdles in the early part of her career, a knee injury at the 2013 World Championships forced Shakes-Drayton to concentrate on the 400 metres on her return to athletics. She is the 2013 European Indoor Champion in the 400 metres and won a 2012 World Indoor Championship gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay. She has also won silver and bronze medals in the 4 × 400 m relay at the World Championships.
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Jenny Chapman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington is a British politician and life peer who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 2010 to 2019.
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Kelly Sotherton
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Kelly Jade Sotherton MBE is a British former heptathlete, long jumper and relay runner. In the heptathlon she was the bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and, following the disqualification of two other athletes, also at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as being part of the bronze medal-winning team in the Women's 4x400m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics (again, initially finishing 5th but upgraded after various subsequent doping disqualifications). As such she is one of only five women to win multiple medals in Olympic heptathlon. She also won a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Representing England, Sotherton is a one-time Commonwealth Games champion, as the heptathlon gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Hope Powell
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football playerautobiographer
- Biography
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Hope Patricia Powell CBE is an English football coach and former player who is the Women's Technical Director at Birmingham City.
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Shailesh Vara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shailesh Lakhman Vara is a Ugandan-British Conservative former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire from 2005 until 2024. He also served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July to September 2022.
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Beverly Naya
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Beverly Naya is a British-born Nigerian actress. She won Most Promising Talent at the 2010 Best of Nollywood Awards. She also won the award for Fast Rising Actress at the 2011 City People Entertainment Awards.
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Mark Bagley
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Mark Bagley is an American comics artist. He has worked for Marvel Comics on such titles as The Amazing Spider-Man, Thunderbolts, New Warriors, Venom and Ultimate Spider-Man and for DC Comics on Justice League of America, Batman, and Trinity.
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Shini Somara
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Shini Somara is a British mechanical engineer, media broadcaster, producer and author. She has presented TechKnow on Al Jazeera America and reporting for various BBC shows including The Health Show. She has also hosted two educational series of physics and engineering videos on the Crash Course YouTube channel for PBS Digital Studios. She has been a presenter on BBC America, Sky Atlantic, BBC1, BBC2, and PBS.
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Abang Johari
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari bin Abang Openg, popularly known as Abang Johari or Abang Jo, is a Malaysian politician who has been the sixth and current premier of Sarawak since 2017. A member of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu, he has been the president of the party since 2017.
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Hamdullah Mohib
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Hamdullah Mohib is a Pashtun Afghan politician and former diplomat.
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Phillips Idowu
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, MBE is a British athlete who specialised in the triple jump and was active at elite level between 2000 and 2014. He is a former World Outdoor and Indoor, European Outdoor and Indoor, and Commonwealth triple jump champion. He was also a silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Idowu is a member of the London-based Belgrave Harriers athletics club and has been for much of his career.
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Anita Asante
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Anita Amma Ankyewah Asante is an English football coach and former player who is the first-team coach at Bristol City. A defender or midfielder, she won 71 caps for the English national team and was selected in the Great Britain squad for the 2012 London Olympics. At club level, Asante has played for English clubs Arsenal, Chelsea and Aston Villa, whilst also having played for Saint Louis Athletica, Chicago Red Stars, Washington Freedom and Sky Blue FC of the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). She also spent six seasons playing in Sweden, two with Göteborg and then four with FC Rosengård.
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Alec Shelbrooke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Alec Edward Shelbrooke KBE is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Wetherby and Easingwold since 2024 and for Elmet and Rothwell between 2010 and 2024. He previously served as Minister of State for Defence Procurement in the Truss ministry from September to October 2022.
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Abo Eisa
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Abobaker Mamoun Eisa is a Sudanese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Thai League 1 club Nongbua Pitchaya. He represents Sudan national team at international level.
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Reza Moridi
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Reza Moridi is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne. He was the first Iranian-Canadian elected to legislature and appointed as a Cabinet minister in Canada.
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Pekka Sauri
- Enrolled in Brunel University London
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- psychologistpoliticiancivil servantjournalist
- Biography
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Pekka Markus Sauri is a Finnish psychologist and a Green League politician. He is formerly the deputy mayor of Finland's capital city, Helsinki and chair of the Procura Campaign for sustainable procurement. Sauri became well known in Finland during the late 1990s for hosting a popular radio show Yölinja ("Nightline") in which he tried to help callers with their various personal problems.
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Ville Skinnari
- Occupations
- politicianice hockey playeradvocate
- Biography
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Ville Skinnari is a Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade in the cabinet of Prime Minister Antti Rinne and then in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sanna Marin from 2019 to 2023.
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Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns
- Enrolled in Brunel University London
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns, DBE, PC, FRSA, is a British Conservative Party politician, previously serving as Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry, after the 2017 reshuffle.
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John Leech
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- politician
- Biography
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John Sampson Macfarlane Leech is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington from 2005 to 2015. Since 2016, he has represented Didsbury West on Manchester City Council.
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Sarah Dines
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Sarah Elizabeth Dines is a British Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Derbyshire Dales from 2019 to 2024. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from October 2022 to November 2023. She served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September to October 2022.
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Iyiola Omisore
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Iyiola Ajani Omisore is a Nigerian businessman, engineer, and politician who served as deputy governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003. Subsequently, he served as a member of the Nigerian Senate for Osun East from 2003 to 2011. He is a former national secretary of the All Progressives Congress.
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Stephanie Coker
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- presentertelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Stephanie CokerListen, is a Nigerian on-air personality and a television presenter for MTV Base Africa and EbonyLife TV She also featured as 'Feke' in the popular Nigerian TV series Tinsel. and a popular sitcom program Hustle as "Cindy".
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Afrikan Boy
- Occupations
- rapper
- Biography
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Olushola Oluwaseun Ajose, better known by his stage name Afrikan Boy, is a Nigerian-born grime artist from the Woolwich district of London. He went viral with a track entitled "One day I went to Lidl", recorded at That SP Studios.
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Roger Hammond
- Occupations
- cyclo-cross cyclistsport cyclist
- Biography
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Roger Hammond is a male English retired bicycle racer, specialising in cyclo-cross and road cycling.
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Ben Gollings
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Ben Gollings is an English former rugby union player who most recently worked as a rugby coach for Fiji sevens team. Gollings is best known for his time with the England national rugby sevens team. He is the career leader in points scored on the World Rugby Sevens Series with 2,652 points.
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Tiziana Terranova
- Occupations
- lecturerwriterresearchersociologist
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Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published the monograph Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches, and appeared as a keynote speaker in several conferences. She lectures on the digital media cultures and politics in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, at the University of Naples, 'L'Orientale'.
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Aliyah Saleem
- Occupations
- women's rights activistactivistwriterhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Aaliyah Saleem, is a British secular education campaigner, writer and market researcher. She is an ex-Muslim atheist, feminist and humanist activist, and co-founder of advocacy group Faith to Faithless. She has also written under the pseudonym of Laylah Hussain.
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Hannah Critchlow
- Occupations
- science communicatorbiologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Hannah Marion Critchlow is a British scientist, writer and broadcaster. Her academic research has focused on cellular and molecular neuroscience. In 2014 the Science Council named her as one of the ten leading "communicator scientists" in the UK. In 2019 Nature listed her as one of Cambridge Universities "Rising Stars in Biological Sciences". In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Brunel University for her work in neuroscience and communication.
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Robin Lester Carhart-Harris
- Enrolled in Brunel University London
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Robin Lester Carhart-Harris is a British psychopharmacologist who is Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. Previously, he founded and was Head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London.
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Melissa Courtney-Bryant
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Melissa Courtney-Bryant is a British middle- and long-distance runner. She won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and bronze for the 3000 metres at the 2019 and 2023 European Indoor Championships.
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Chad Gould
- Occupations
- musicianassociation football player
- Biography
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Chad Edward Alesna Gould is a Filipino former footballer who played as a central defender or striker for the Loyola Meralco Sparks and the Philippines national team. He is currently a FIFA Licensed Football agent. He previously was also a music artist signed by Warner Music Philippines. In December 2021, his song "Daisy" was played on BBC Music Introducing Show.
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Abba Gumel
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Abba Gumel is a Professor & The Michael and Eugenia Brin Endowed E-Nnovate Chair in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park. His research, which spans three main areas of applied mathematics, is focused on the use of mathematical modeling and rigorous approaches, together with statistical analysis, to gain insight into the dynamics of real-life phenomena arising in the natural and engineering sciences. The main emphasis of Gumel's work is on the mathematical theory of epidemics – specifically, he uses mathematical theories and methodologies to gain insights into the qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems arising from the mathematical modelling of phenomena in the natural and engineering sciences, with emphasis on the transmission dynamics and control of emerging and re-emerging human (and other animal) infectious diseases of public health and socio-economic interest.
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Marina Yannakoudakis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marina Yannakoudakis is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee and a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament for London. She was elected at the 2009 European Parliament election. She lost her seat at the 2014 election.
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Emma Ania
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Emma Iwebunor Ania is a former track and field sprint athlete who competed internationally for Great Britain.
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Brian Reffin Smith
- Occupations
- painterfaculty member
- Biography
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Brian Reffin Smith is an artist, writer, teacher and musician born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom, who won the first-ever Prix Ars Electronica, the Golden Nica, in Linz, Austria, 1987. He lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Stuart Etherington
- Occupations
- social workerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Sir Stuart James Etherington FRSA is a British charity executive and former social worker. From 1994 to 2020, he was chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, with the membership base increasing from 400 to over 14,000. He was previously the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. He received a knighthood in 2010 in recognition of his work for the voluntary and community sectors.
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Abiodun Oyepitan
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Abiodun Adesola "Abi" Oyepitan is a British sprint athlete, who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won the 100 m at the 2001 Summer Universiade and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games she took a bronze medal with the 4 × 100 m team. She became one of Britain's best female sprinters, becoming the first British female to reach an Olympic final in a sprint event since Kathy Cook. However, following her performance in the 2004 Athens Olympics, she suffered an injury, which all but brought her career to a halt. She made a winning comeback in 2010, competing in the Diamond League and winning a silver medal for England at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in the 200 m and a gold medal when she anchored the 4 × 100 m relay team to a win.
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Gavriel Salvendy
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Gavriel Salvendy is a pioneer in the field of human factors and ergonomics. In 1990, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for fundamental contributions to and professional leadership in human, physical and cognitive aspects of engineering systems.
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Beth Rodford
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Beth Rodford is a British rower. Rodford participated in two Olympic games, 2008 Summer in Beijing and 2012 Summer in London. At Beijing, she finished in fifth place in the Women's Eight. In 2012 at London, she finished in sixth position in the quadruple sculls. She announced her retirement from international rowing on 16 December 2015.
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Ommo Clark
- Occupations
- software design
- Biography
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Ommo Clark is a Nigerian software designer, techpreneur, public speaker, CEO and founding director of iBez Nigeria. iBez Nigeria is an indigenous technology company that caters for the needs of businesses in emerging and underserved markets by developing software applications and online platforms and also trains software developers on software development processes. IBez is the producer of Handy-jack, the platform that connects artisans and professional service provider with their seekers.
