74 Notable alumni of
Lancaster University
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Lancaster University is 650th in the world, 234th in Europe, and 50th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 74 notable alumni from Lancaster 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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Andy Serkis
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- directormanufacturerfilm actoractorproducer
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Andrew Clement Serkis is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion-capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy (2011–2017), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Baloo in his self-directed film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), also portraying Kino Loy in the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor (2022).
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James May
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- writertelevision presentermusicianbroadcasterjournalist
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James Daniel May is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme Top Gear from 2003 until 2015 and the television series The Grand Tour for Amazon Prime Video from 2016 to 2024. He also served as a director of the production company W. Chump & Sons, which has since ceased operating.
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Ralph Ineson
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Ralph Michael Ineson is an English actor and narrator. Known for his deep and rough Yorkshire accented voice, he rose to fame as Chris Finch in the BBC sitcom The Office (2001).
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Audrey Azoulay
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- politicianministerofficialinternational forum participantmanager
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Audrey Azoulay is a French civil servant and politician who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since 2017, becoming the second female leader of the organization. She previously served as France's Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2016 to 2017.
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Ranvir Singh
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- television presenterjournalistnews presenter
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Ranvir Singh is a British journalist and television presenter. She is the newsreader/deputy presenter for Good Morning Britain and also the relief presenter on Lorraine (alongside Christine Lampard), which she normally presents during school or bank holidays.
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Robert Fisk
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- journalisthistorianwriterwar correspondent
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Robert Fisk was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
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Sarah Waters
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- novelistwriter
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Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
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Hanif Kureishi
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- writerfilm directornovelistscreenwriterplaywright
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Hanif Kureishi is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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Roger Ashton-Griffiths
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- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoropera singerstage actor
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Roger Ashton-Griffiths is an English character actor, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his role as Mace Tyrell in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
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Joseph Delaney
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- science fiction writerchildren's writerwriter
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Joseph Henry Delaney was an English author best known for his children's dark fantasy series, Spook's, inspired by the folklore, history and geography of Lancashire. The series has been published in 30 countries, achieving sales of over 4.5 million copies.
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Rami Hamdallah
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- politicianuniversity teacherfaculty memberinternational forum participantlinguist
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Rami Hamdallah is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority from 2014 to 2019 and president of An-Najah National University in Nablus.
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David Bentley Hart
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- university teacherchurch historianOrthodox theologiantheologiannon-fiction writer
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David Bentley Hart is an American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian. Reviewers have commented on Hart's baroque prose and provocative rhetoric in over one thousand essays, reviews, and papers as well as nineteen books (including translations). From a predominantly Anglican family background, Hart became Eastern Orthodox when he was twenty-one. His academic works focus on Christian metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Indian and East Asian religion, Asian languages, classics, and literature as well as a New Testament translation. Books with wider audiences include The Doors of the Sea, Atheist Delusions, and That All Shall Be Saved.
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Simon Danczuk
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- politicianwriter
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Simon Christopher Danczuk is a British author and former Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the constituency of Rochdale between 2010 and 2017. Elected as a member of the Labour Party, he was suspended from the party in 2015 after it emerged he had exchanged explicit messages with a 17-year-old girl. He has co-written two books, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith and Scandal at Dolphin Square. He is the Reform UK candidate in the upcoming Rochdale by-election.
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Ursula Martinez
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- performance artistwriteractorillusionistcabaret performer
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Ursula Martinez is a British theatre maker, performer and director. She grew up in South London, the daughter of an English father and Spanish mother, both teachers.
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Cat Smith
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- politician
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Catherine Jane Smith is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was a member of the shadow cabinets led by Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer from 2016 to 2021 as Shadow Secretary of State, previously Shadow Minister, for Young People and Democracy.
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Suzanne Evans
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- politicianjournalist
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Suzanne Elizabeth Evans is an English journalist and politician, formerly associated with the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
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Phil Jones
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- climatologistuniversity teacherhydrologistscientist
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Philip Douglas Jones is a former director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 1998, having begun his career at the unit in 1976. He retired from these positions at the end of 2016, and was replaced as CRU director by Tim Osborn. Jones then took up a position as a Professorial Fellow at the UEA from January 2017.
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Christian Wakeford
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- politician
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Christian Wakeford is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South since the 2019 United Kingdom general election. Elected as a Conservative, he crossed the floor to Labour in 2022.
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Giles Fraser
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- priestcolumnist
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Giles Anthony Fraser is an English Anglican priest, journalist and broadcaster who has served as Vicar of St Anne's Church, Kew, since 2022. He is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day and The Guardian and a panellist on The Moral Maze, as well as an assistant editor of UnHerd.
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Alan Milburn
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Studied history
- Occupations
- researcheradministratorpolitician
- Biography
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Alan Milburn is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 1992 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he served for five years in the Cabinet, first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003, when he resigned. He briefly rejoined the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's 2005 re-election campaign. He did not seek re-election in the 2010 election. Milburn was chair of the Social Mobility Commission from 2012 to 2017. Since 2015, he has been Chancellor of Lancaster University.
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Thomas Buberl
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- international forum participantbusinessperson
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Thomas Buberl is a German businessman who has been the CEO of Axa since 2016.
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Rick Priestley
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Rick Priestley is a British game designer and author mainly known as the creator of Warhammer miniature wargame.
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Mike Hill
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- politician
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Michael Robert Hill is a former British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 2017 until his resignation in 2021.
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Toni Tones
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- singeractorphotographer
- Biography
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Gbemi Anthonia Adefuye Listen, known professionally as Toni Tones Listen, is a Nigerian media personality, actress, and photographer. In 2020, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.
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Ahdaf Soueif
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- novelisttranslatorwriter
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Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.
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Paul Stewart
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Studied in 1974-1977
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriterteacher
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Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for three series written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels, and the Far Flung Adventures series.
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Dave Snowden
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- consultant
- Biography
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David John Snowden is a Welsh management consultant and researcher in the field of knowledge management and the application of complexity science. Known for the development of the Cynefin framework, Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of The Cynefin Company, a Singapore-based management-consulting firm specializing in complexity and sensemaking.
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Elisa Aaltola
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
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Elisa Aaltola is a Finnish philosopher, specialised in animal philosophy, moral psychology and environmental philosophy.
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Andrew Miller
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- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL is an English novelist.
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Rainer Hersch
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- conductor
- Biography
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Rainer Hersch is a British conductor, actor, writer and comedian known for his comical take on classical music. He has toured in more than 30 countries and has broadcast extensively, principally for the BBC. His radio series include All Classical Music Explained (BBC Radio 4, 1997); Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective (BBC Radio 3, 1999) and All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right Order (BBC Radio 4, 2003 and 2006).
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Holly Lynch
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- politician
- Biography
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Holly Lynch, also known as Holly Walker-Lynch, is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax since 2015. She has served as Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons with responsibility for legislation since 2023.
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W. Brian Arthur
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- economistuniversity teacher
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William Brian Arthur is a Belfast-born economist credited with developing the modern approach to increasing returns. He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets. He has been on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC. He is credited with the invention of the El Farol Bar problem.
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Alan Campbell
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- politician
- Biography
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Sir Alan Campbell is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth since 1997. He was appointed as Chief Whip of the Labour Party in May 2021.
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Peter Dowd
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- council memberpolitician
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Peter Christopher Dowd is a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bootle in May 2015. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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Louise Bours
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- politicianactor
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Louise Bours, also known as Louise van de Bours, is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region. She was elected in 2014 as a UK Independence Party candidate but resigned from the party 2018, and sat as an independent until she stood down at the 2019 election.
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Ben Crystal
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- stage actortelevision actorwriterfilm actor
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Ben Crystal is an English actor, author, and producer, best known for his work on performing and promoting William Shakespeare and adapting original practices.
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Karen Dawisha
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- political scientist
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Karen Dawisha was an American political scientist and writer. She was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.
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Mark Price
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- businessperson
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Mark Ian Price, Baron Price is a British businessman, Founder of WorkL for Business and WorkL, Chairman of Fair Trade UK, writer, President of the Chartered Management Institute and member of the House of Lords. He was a former Managing Director of Waitrose, and Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. He joined the Conservative government as the Minister of State for Trade and Investment in April 2016.
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Damian Barr
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- journalist
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Damian Leighton Barr is a Scottish writer and broadcaster. He is the creator and host of the Literary Salon, which started at Shoreditch House in 2008, and he hosts live literary events worldwide. In 2014 and 2015, he presented several editions of the BBC Radio 4 cultural programme Front Row. He has hosted several television series including Shelf Isolation and most recently The Big Scottish Book Club for BBC Scotland. He is the author of the 2013 memoir Maggie & Me, about his 1980s childhood in the west of Scotland, and the 2019 novel You Will Be Safe Here, set in South Africa in 1901 and now. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
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Simon Emmerson
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- composerguitaristrecord producer
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Simon Emmerson was an English musician and record producer. He founded the bands Working Week, Weekend, and Afro Celt Sound System.
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Rachel Mann
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- 1970-.. (age 54)
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- Anglican priestpoet
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Rachel Mann is a British Anglican priest, poet and feminist theologian. She is a trans woman who writes, speaks and broadcasts on a wide range of topics including gender, sexuality and religion. She has served as Archdeacon of Bolton and of Salford (in the Diocese of Manchester) since 2023.
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Gillian Merron
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- politiciantrade unionist
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Gillian Joanna Merron, Baroness Merron is a British politician and life peer serving as Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews since 2014. A member of the Labour Party, she has been a shadow spokesperson for Health and Social Care since 2021. She was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010 and held several ministerial offices in the Blair and Brown governments.
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Jennifer Makumbi
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- writerpoet
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan-British novelist and short story writer. Her doctoral novel, The Kintu Saga, was shortlisted and won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013. It was published by Kwani Trust in 2014 under the title Kintu. Her short story collection, Manchester Happened, was published in 2019. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story "Let's Tell This Story Properly", and emerged Regional Winner, Africa region. She was the Overall Winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She was longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. In 2018, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in the fiction category. In 2021, her novel The First Woman won the Jhalak Prize.
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Allan Chapman
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- television presenterhistorian
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Allan Chapman FRAS is a British historian of science.
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Antony Burgmans
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- In 1971 graduated with Master of Arts in marketing
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneur
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Antony Burgmans is a Dutch businessman. Formerly non-executive chairman of Unilever, he is currently chairman of paint company AkzoNobel.
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Lori S. Glaze
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- 1990-1994 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Lori Glaze is an American scientist and the director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division. She was a member of the Inner Planets Panel during the most recent Planetary Science Decadal Survey, and has had a role on the Executive Committee of NASA's Venus Exploration Analysis Group for several years, serving as the group's Chair since 2013.
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Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig
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- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
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Ruth Beatrice Henig, Baroness Henig CBE, DL is a British academic historian and Labour Party politician.
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Debjani Chatterjee
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- writerpoet
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Debjani Chatterjee MBE is an Indian-born British poet and writer. She lives in Sheffield, England.
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Theresa Griffin
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- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Theresa Griffin is a British politician who served as a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2014 to 2020. In the European Parliament, Griffin was aligned with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
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Graham James
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- politicianpriest
- Biography
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Graham Richard James is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Norwich in the Church of England from 1999 to 2019.
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Kunal Sarangi
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kunal Sarangi is an Indian politician from the state of Jharkhand. He is the state spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party for the Indian state of Jharkhand. He was a former member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Baharagora from 2014 to 2019, whip and was also the former central spokesperson of the ruling party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and member of the Public Accounts Committee of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party in September 2019.
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Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Lindsay Redvers Mark Seymour Croisdale-Appleby is a British diplomat and Head of the UK Mission to the European Union. Appointed in January 2021, he formally presented his credentials to the President of the European Commission on 29 July 2021. He was Ambassador to Colombia from 2012 to 2015.
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
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- poettranslatorwriterwoman of letters
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is a Vietnamese poet and novelist. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese and English. She started her writing career with poetry in Vietnamese and has been honored with some of the top literary awards in Vietnam including the Poetry of the Year 2010 Award from the Hanoi Writers Association, First Prize, the Poetry about 1,000 Years Hanoi, as well as the Capital's Arts & Literature Award. Her debut novel, and first book written in English, The Mountains Sing, was released in 2020. The novel is a fictional family saga that gives voice to rarely documented historical events. The book has become an international bestseller, and was runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Best Debut Award, the 2021 International Book Awards, the 2021 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2020 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Fiction. Quế Mai's writing has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in major publications including the New York Times. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She was named by Forbes Vietnam as one of 20 inspiring women of 2021. Her second novel written in English, Dust Child, was released in March 2023.
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Branko Gradišnik
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- writereditoropinion journalistscreenwritertranslator
- Biography
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Branko Gradišnik is a Slovene writer and translator. He writes short stories and is a well-known columnist that writes for the newspaper Delo and other Slovene publications. In 2004 he was a candidate for mayor of Ljubljana.
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Paul Boyle
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- geographer
- Biography
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Paul Joseph Boyle, CBE, FRSE, FBA, FRSGS, FLSW is a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019. He had been Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2014, and Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014. He took over as Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year.
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Gian M. Fulgoni
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- entrepreneurinternational forum participantconsultant
- Biography
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Gian Mark Fulgoni is a British businessman, entrepreneur and market research consultant.
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Mary M. Talbot
- Occupations
- writercomics writer
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Mary Talbot is a British academic and author. She has written several well received academic works in critical discourse analysis and since 2009 has turned her hand to freelance writing. Her first graphic novel Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, published by Jonathan Cape in 2012 and illustrated by her husband Bryan Talbot won the 2012 Costa biography prize.
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Robert Poole
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Robert Poole is a UK-based historian, currently professor of history at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. He gained his PhD from the University of Lancaster in 1986, where he was associated with Prof Harold Perkin's Centre for Social History, organising the 1996 conference of the Social History Society on 'Time and the Construction of the Past'. He has also held positions at the universities of Keele, Edge Hill and Cumbria. He has also been Leverhulme Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Manchester (2000-1), an associate of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester (2010–17), an associate of 'The Future in the Stars' research programme, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, Freie Universität Berlin (2012–16), and visiting senior research fellow to the History Group, University of Hertfordshire (2013–15).
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Hatoon Kadi
- Occupations
- journalistYouTubertelevision producercomedian
- Biography
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Hatoon Kadi is a Saudi Arabian comedian and activist who hosts the Noon Al Niswa comedy show on YouTube, which has 292,912 subscribers (as of 8 December 2016). She presents social phenomena from a woman's perspective, using sarcasm, avoiding judgment and without trying to find solutions. She is known for her satiric videos about women's and family issues, often highlighting everyday life in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hatoon Kadi started with comedy when she realized that there were plenty of Saudi Arabian internet comedians, but a lack women in the field. In 2014, she was named one of the BBC's 100 Women.
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Stewart Binns
- Occupations
- documentary filmmaker
- Biography
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Stewart Binns is a British author and filmmaker who has produced many BAFTA, Grierson and Peabody award-winning documentaries.
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Antigoni Papadopoulou
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in chemistry
- Occupations
- chemistpolitician
- Biography
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Antigoni Papadopoulou is a Greek Cypriot politician and chemist. She was one of the first two Cypriot women to be elected as Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) among six Cypriot MEPs (2009). She is a former Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus and the First Woman to serve as Chair of the House’s Committee of Economic Affairs and Budgeting (2006–2009). She was an Assembly Member of the Council of Europe from 2001 to 2009 and has also served as Vice Chairperson of the Committee of Economic Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2003–2009).
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Giles Scott-Smith
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Giles Scott-Smith is a Dutch-British academic. He is a professor of transnational relations and new diplomatic history at Leiden University and serves as the dean of Leiden University College The Hague.
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Lucy Rogers
- Occupations
- inventor
- Biography
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Lucy Elizabeth Rogers is a British author, inventor, and engineer. She is a visiting professor of engineering, creativity and communication at Brunel University London and has served as a judge on the BBC Two show Robot Wars from 2016 to 2018.
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Kadri Liik
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Studied international relations
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kadri Liik is an Estonian journalist and political analyst. Her research is mainly focused on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region.
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Xiaolan Fu
- Occupations
- economistacademic
- Biography
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Professor Xiaolan Fu is a British-based Chinese economist, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD). She is a Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.
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Celia de Fréine
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoet
- Biography
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Celia de Fréine is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and librettist who writes in Irish and English.
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Attiya Waris
- Occupations
- professorwriter
- Biography
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Attiya Waris is a Kenyan professor at the University of Nairobi and a writer about financing development from diverse perspectives including illicit financial flows and corporate tax reform. She is the current UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights; the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Capabuild Foundation and a Commissioner on the Lancet-O’Neil Commission on Racism and Structural Discrimination in Health.
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Ng Cho-nam
- Occupations
- environmentalistgeographerprofessor
- Biography
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Ng Cho-nam, SBS, JP, was a Hong Kong environmental studies scholar and conservationist who taught as an associate professor within the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. He served as a top advisor on numerous Hong Kong government committees in areas of conservation, sustainable development, environmental protection, urban planning, and was an active member in various environmental NGOs. He was the director of the Conservancy Association from 2000 to 2019.
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Fran Bagenal
- Occupations
- university teacheracademic
- Biography
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Frances "Fran" Bagenal is a Professor Emerita of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in the fields of space plasmas and planetary magnetospheres.
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Akanimo Odon
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Dr. Akanimo Odon is an international business and strategy development expert from Nigeria. He specializes in education and training, energy and environment, oil and gas, media, charities and government. He is the African Advisor for Lancaster University and University of London. He lives in England and he is the CEO of Envirofly Consulting Limited, co-founder of Xn Foundation and also the founder of Flexy-Learn and Academia for Green Africa Initiative.
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Stephen Priest
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Biography
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Stephen Martin Priest is a British philosopher. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Blackfriars, Oxford and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford. He is also a member of Wolfson College, Oxford and Hughes Hall, Cambridge. Priest has held visiting professorships in the United States, Europe and Asia, and is best known for bringing the methods of analytic philosophy to Continental thinkers including Hegel, Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.
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Maria Adebowale-Schwarte
- Biography
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Maria Adebowale-Schwarte is the Founding Director of Living Space Project. She is a commissioner for the London Sustainable Development Commission and for the English Heritage.
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Kaleigh Grainger
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Kaleigh Michelle Grainger is a British unicyclist. She won a gold medal at Unicon X, in China, in 2000 when only 14 years old in the pairs freestyle category.
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Rosie Bradshaw
- Enrolled in Lancaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- mycologistacademicgeneticist
- Biography
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Rosemary E. Bradshaw is a New Zealand mycologist, as of 2019 full professor of genetics at the Massey University.
