20 Notable alumni of
Coventry University
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Coventry University is 1613th in the world, 546th in Europe, and 100th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Coventry 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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Andrea McLean
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Andrea Jean McLean is a Scottish journalist and television presenter who worked on ITV Daytime.
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Jerry Dammers
- Occupations
- musiciansongwriterdisc jockey
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Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers GCOT is a British musician who was a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry-based ska band the Specials (also known as the Special A.K.A.) and later the Spatial AKA Orchestra. Through his foundation of the record label Two Tone, his work blending political lyrics and punk with Jamaican music, and his incorporation of 1960s retro clothing, Dammers is a pivotal figure of the ska revival. He has also been acknowledged in his work for racial unity.
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Hannah Cockroft
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Hannah Lucy Cockroft is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the world records for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres and 1500 metres in her classification and the Paralympic records at 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres and 800 metres. Competing for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals. She won three further gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Pauline Black
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actorsingertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Belinda Magnus, better known as Pauline Black (Listen), is an English singer, actress and author.
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TBJZL
- Occupations
- YouTuber
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Tobit John "Tobi" Brown, better known as TBJZL, is an English YouTuber, streamer and Internet personality. He is also a member and co-founder of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen.
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Ian Callum
- Occupations
- car designerengineer
- Biography
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Ian Stuart Callum is a British car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, and Aston Martin. In 1999 he became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars, later Jaguar Land Rover, a position he held until mid 2019.
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Matthew Macklin
- Occupations
- boxer
- Biography
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Matthew Macklin is a British-Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2016, and has since worked as a boxing manager and commentator. He challenged three times for middleweight world titles between 2011 and 2013, and held multiple regional championships at that weight: the Irish title from 2005 to 2006, the British title in 2009, and the European title from 2009 to 2011.
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Steve Mattin
- Occupations
- car designerengineer
- Biography
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Stephen Mattin is a British automobile designer. He is known as the chief designer of AvtoVAZ Lada, as well as the designer of Mercedes ML-Class and GL-Class E vehicles.
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Horace Panter
- Occupations
- painterwriterautobiographerguitarist
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Horace Panter also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the British 2 Tone ska band The Specials.
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Gideon Coe
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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Gideon Jon Quantrill Coe is a radio DJ, presenter, sportscaster, voiceover artist and journalist.
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Louise Cook
- Occupations
- rally driverco-driver
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Louise Cook is a British rally driver. In 2012, she became the first woman to win the FIA Production Car Cup for Drivers of 2WD. In a career which has seen her struggle to obtain sufficient sponsorship to allow her to participate in rallying events, Cook has also won the British Rally Championship Ladies' title in 2010 and 2011.
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Ralph Debbas
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Ralph R. Debbas is a Lebanese automotive entrepreneur, designer, and businessman. He is best known as the chief executive officer of W Motors, which he founded in 2012, and the designer of the Lykan HyperSport.
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Abdulaziz Bin Turki Bin Talal Al-Saud
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- businessperson
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Abdulaziz bin Turki Abdulaziz Al Saud is a Saudi prince, businessman, entrepreneur and investor. He was born in Los Angeles, raised in Riyadh and educated in Saudi Arabia, United States and the United Kingdom. He is a grandson of late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and a nephew of the international business leader Al-Waleed bin Talal.
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Nira Chamberlain
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Nira Cyril Chamberlain is a British mathematician based in Birmingham, UK. He is a Principal Consultant at SNC-Lavalin.
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Alex T. Smith
- Occupations
- writerillustrator
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Alex T. Smith is a British author and illustrator of children's books, including Primrose, Egg, Ella, and the Claude book series. He was the illustrator for World Book Day 2014 in September 2013. His books have been published in several languages including Welsh, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Hungarian and Chinese.
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Lev Pidlisetskyi
- Occupations
- politician
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Lev Teofilovych Pidlisetskyi was a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. He was a Member of Ukrainian Parliament of the 8th convocation, member of parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Pidlisetskyi did not return to parliament following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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David Bramwell
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- singer-songwriter
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David Bramwell is a British writer, musician, performer and broadcaster. For BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, he has made programmes on diverse subjects, including Ivor Cutler, clapping, time travel, and the murmurations of starlings. He is the founder and host of Brighton's spoken word night, the Catalyst Club. Bramwell is also a singer-songwriter with his band Oddfellow's Casino. Describing Bramwell's writing, Matthew Clayton declares that 'The tradition that he taps into is one best exemplified by the work of Ken Campbell — or from another perspective he is one part Eric Morecombe, one part Alan Moore.’
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Angus Silver
- Occupations
- researcherneuroscientist
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Robin Angus Silver is Professor of Neuroscience and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at University College London. His laboratory studies neurotransmission and artificial neural networks by combining in vitro and in vivo experimental approaches with quantitative analysis and computational models developed in silico.
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Simon Stevens
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- blogger
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Simon Stevens, also known as Simon Walsh in Secondlife, born 1974, is an English activist, Huffington Post blogger, and disability consultant known for his discussions on disability issues in the UK and on social media. Stevens formed Wheelies, a disability-friendly virtual nightclub within the 3D online community of Second Life. He is known as Simon Walsh and for his avatar's use of a wheelchair and helmet. Stevens was a prankster in the disability-themed hidden camera/prank show I'm Spazticus on UK's Channel 4 in 2012–2013. Stevens has received numerous awards and recognitions for his disability advocacy. He was the founder and chief executive of the disability consultancy firm Enable Enterprises from 1998–-2008. Stevens lives and works from Coventry, UK.
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Fanny Quenot
- Enrolled in Coventry University
- Studied in 2015-2015
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
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Fanny Quenot is a French athlete. She competed in the women's 100 metres hurdles event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships.
