49 Notable alumni of
Liverpool John Moores University
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Liverpool John Moores University is 1107th in the world, 392nd in Europe, and 78th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from Liverpool John Moores 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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Claire Foy
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- film actormodelstage actoractor
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Claire Elizabeth Foy is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2023), for which she received various accolades such as a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Vicky Pattison
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- television presentermodelfilm actor
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Victoria Pattison-Ramadan is a British television and media personality. She is best known for appearing in the MTV shows Geordie Shore from 2011 until 2014, Ex on the Beach in 2014 and 2015 and her own show, Judge Geordie, in 2015.
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Black
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- singer-songwritersinger
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Colin Vearncombe, known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year.
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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- athletics competitor
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Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson, MBE is an English athlete. A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games champion and an Olympic and European silver medallist. In indoor pentathlon, she is a world and double European champion.
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Juan Carlos Osorio
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Juan Carlos Osorio Arbeláez is a Colombian football manager and former footballer who is the current head coach of Liga MX club Tijuana.
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Alex Brooker
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Alexander James Brooker is an English journalist and presenter best known for his television work with Channel 4.
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Esther McVey
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- politicianexecutive producertelevision presenterbusinessperson
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Esther Louise, Lady Davies, styled as Esther McVey, is a British Conservative Party politician and television presenter who has been serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2017, and served as the MP for Wirral West from 2010 to 2015. She previously served in cabinet as Minister of State for Employment from 2013 to 2015, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2018, Minister of State for Housing and Planning from 2019 to 2020 and Minister of State without Portfolio from 2023 to 2024.
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Roxanne Pallett
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- film actorsingeractor
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Roxanne Carrion is an English actress, television personality, and broadcaster. She played Jo Stiles in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (2005–2008), and has appeared in the horror films Lake Placid 3 (2010), Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014) and Devil's Tower (2014).
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Beth Tweddle
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- artistic gymnast
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Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle is a retired English artistic gymnast. Renowned for her uneven bar and floor routines, she was the first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Championships, and Olympic Games. Tweddle, known for her consistency and longevity as an elite gymnast, is regarded as a pioneer of the renaissance of British gymnastics at the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw the country's gymnastics programme progress from 'also ran' to consistent global competitiveness, and along with peers such as Vanessa Ferrari of Italy and Isabelle Severino of France, helped begin a period of significant success for western European gymnasts globally.
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Julian Cope
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- recording artistsingersongwritersinger-songwriterwriter
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Julian David Cope is an English musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep.
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Philip Selway
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- drummermusiciansongwriter
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Philip James Selway is an English musician and the drummer of the rock band Radiohead. He combines rock drumming with electronic percussion. Selway was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019.
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Gillian Keegan
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- politician
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Gillian Keegan is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education from 2022 to 2024. She previously served as Minister of State for Care and Mental Health from 2021 to 2022, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa from September to October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, Keegan served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester from 2017 to 2024.
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Sian Williams
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- journalisttelevision presenteractor
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Sian Mary Williams is a Welsh journalist, current affairs presenter, and psychologist.
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Mohamed Nasheed
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- journalistpolitician
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Mohamed Nasheed GCSK, also known as Anni (Dhivehi: އަންނި), is a Maldivian politician and activist who served as president of the Maldives from 2008 until his resignation in 2012. A founding member of the Maldivian Democratic Party, he subsequently served as the 19th speaker of the People's Majlis from May 2019 until his resignation in November 2023. He is the first democratically elected president of the Maldives and the only president to resign from office. He is currently a member of The Democrats.
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Louise Pentland
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- beauty YouTubertelevision producervloggerYouTuberblogger
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Louise Alexandra Pentland is an English beauty, motherhood and lifestyle vlogger, blogger, YouTube personality and author. She is also known by her online pseudonym SprinkleofGlitter or SprinkleofChatter, although she publicly disavowed these usernames in favour of using her own name in 2016.
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Martin Offiah
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- rugby league playerrugby union playerrugby sevens player
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Martin Nwokocha Offiah MBE; born 29 December 1965) is an English former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Offiah was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame in 2013. He scored over 500 tries during his rugby league career, making him the third-highest try scorer (and top try-scoring English player) of all time, and now features in a statue of great rugby league players outside Wembley Stadium.
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Zack Gibson
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- professional wrestler
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Jack Rea, better known by the ring name Zack Gibson, is an English professional wrestler and promoter. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and also competes on the independent circuit. He has also wrestled in WWE's NXT brand, where he performed under the ring name Rip Fowler as a member of The Dyad. He formed the tag team Grizzled Young Veterans with James Drake in 2017, becoming the inaugural NXT UK Tag Team Champions and three-time Progress Tag Team Champions. He and Drake run a wrestling promotion called Burning Heart Pro Wrestling.
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Bambos Charalambous
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- solicitorpolitician
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Charalambos "Bambos" Charalambous is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southgate and Wood Green, previously Enfield Southgate, since 2017. While in opposition he held a series of shadow ministry posts. He was suspended from the Labour Party during an investigation into a complaint against him between June 2023 and April 2024, but the complaint was not upheld.
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Joe Anderson
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- social workerpolitician
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Joseph Anderson, OBE is a British politician who served as the first directly elected Mayor of Liverpool from 2012 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party until his suspension in November 2020, he also served as Leader of Liverpool City Council from 2010 to 2012.
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Tony Ross
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- writerchildren's writerillustrator
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Anthony Lee Ross is a British author and illustrator of children's picture books. In Britain, he is best known for writing and illustrating his Little Princess books and for illustrating the Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon, both of which have become TV series for Milkshake! and CITV respectively based on his artwork. He also illustrates the works of David Walliams. He has also illustrated the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger, the Dr. Xargle series by Jeanne Willis, and the Harry The Poisonous Centipede series by Lynne Reid Banks.
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Steve Rotheram
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- politician
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Steven Philip Rotheram is a British politician serving as Mayor of the Liverpool City Region since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton from 2010 to 2017.
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George Howarth
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- politician
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Sir George Edward Howarth is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Knowsley until 2024. He also served the seat's predecessors since being elected in a by-election in 1986, firstly as the MP for Knowsley North (until 1997) and then Knowsley North and Sefton East (1997–2010).
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Stephen Byers
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- politician
- Biography
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Stephen John Byers is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallsend between 1992 and 1997, and North Tyneside from 1997 to 2010. He served in the Cabinet from 1998 to 2002, and was implicated in the MP expenses scandal and retired from politics in 2010.
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Mark Hendrick
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- computer scientistpolitician
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Sir Mark Phillip Hendrick is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston since 2000. Hendrick was previously elected to the Lancashire Central constituency as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 1999.
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Ieuan Wyn Jones
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ieuan Wyn Jones is a Welsh politician who was the Deputy First Minister in the Welsh Government from 2007 to 2011. He was the Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Ynys Môn constituency from 1999 to 2013, and he was also leader of Plaid Cymru from 2000 to 2012. Jones served as Member of Parliament for Ynys Môn constituency from 1987 to 2001, when he retired to focus on his work in the Welsh Assembly. In 2007, Jones was named Wales' "Politician of the Year" by the BBC Wales am.pm programme. He resigned from the Welsh Assembly on 20 June 2013. In 2017 he unsuccessfully sought to return to the House of Commons for his former constituency.
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Stephen Ladyman
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- politician
- Biography
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Stephen John Ladyman is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet from 1997 until 2010. He served as a minister in the government of Tony Blair between 2003 and 2007, latterly as Minister of State for Transport.
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Andrew Stunell
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- politician
- Biography
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Robert Andrew Stunell, Baron Stunell, OBE, PC was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove from 1997 until he stood down in 2015, and then as a member of the House of Lords from 2015.
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Mehmet Harmancı
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- politician
- Biography
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Mehmet Harmancı, is the current mayor of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality, the local government of the Turkish Cypriot capital North Nicosia. He was born in Nicosia.
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Neena Gill
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- politician
- Biography
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Neena Gill, CBE is a British Labour Party politician. She served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands first from 1999 to 2009, and then from 2014 to 2020.
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Hannah Whelan
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- artistic gymnast
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Hannah Kate Whelan is a retired British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Whelan won three European Championships medals and four British senior national titles, and was the bronze medallist in the all-around at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Malik Al Nasir
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- composerrecord producer
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Malik Al Nasir in 1966, Liverpool, England is a British author and performance poet. He was born to a Welsh mother and a Guyanese father. He is the leader of the band Malik & the O.G's. Spurred by an interest in the early black footballer Andrew Watson, he began to research his family ancestry, claiming he was related to Watson.
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Tony Strudwick
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- coach
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Tony Strudwick is an English football coach who currently works as Director of Medical for West Bromwich Albion and as head of performance for the Wales national team.
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David Greenaway
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- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- economist
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Sir David Greenaway DL is a British economist. He is professor of economics and was previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, having succeeded Sir Colin Campbell on 1 October 2008. In September 2016, he announced his decision to retire, and stepped down at the end of September 2017 with Shearer West succeeding Greenaway.
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Dave White
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- painter
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Dave White is a contemporary British artist, and has exhibited his work internationally whilst working with various with clients for Nike, AOL, and Air Jordan.
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Daniel McCrossan
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- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Christopher McCrossan is a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician, who has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for West Tyrone since 2016.
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Steve Taylor
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- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- psychologist
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Steve Taylor is an English author, lecturer and researcher in psychology, who has written many books on psychology and spirituality, as well as books of poetry. He is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and has been the chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.
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Gemma Tumelty
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- trade unionist
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Gemma Tumelty is known for being a British Labour Party and Trades Union activist, who was President of the National Union of Students (NUS) from 2006 to 2008. She was the NUS National Secretary from 2005 to 2006, and a member of its National Executive Committee for two years before that.
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Turki Faisal Al Rasheed
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- entrepreneur
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Dr. Turki Faisal Al-Rasheed is a Saudi businessman. He is the chair and the Founder of Golden Grass Incorporated in Riyadh.
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Sally Walton
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- field hockey playerassociation football player
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Sally Ellen Walton is a former British field hockey player, a personal trainer and currently coaching Hockey at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, moving there from Solihull school.
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Jody Handley
- Occupations
- association football player
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Jody Handley is an English former footballer from Stafford, who most recently played for FA WSL 2 club Doncaster Rovers Belles. A pacy and intelligent attacking player, she featured as both a wide midfielder and striker for England as well as clubs including Wolves Women, Liverpool Ladies and Everton Ladies. She has featured in four FA Women's Cup finals with three clubs, losing the first three but captaining Everton Ladies to their win in 2010.
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Margaret Murphy
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- 1959-.. (age 66)
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- writer
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Margaret Murphy is a British crime writer.
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Catherine Kelly
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- politician
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Catherine Kelly MLA is a Sinn Féin politician from Loughmacrory, County Tyrone, who served as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the West Tyrone constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly June 2017 until her resignation in October 2020.
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Andreja Gomboc
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- astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
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Andreja Gomboc, is a Slovenian astrophysicist.
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Martyn Bernard
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- athletics competitor
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Martyn John Bernard is a British athlete, competing in high jump.
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Duncan Aldred
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- businessperson
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Duncan Aldred is the Global Vice President of Buick, GMC and GMC Hummer EV at General Motors and former Opel/Vauxhall Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Aftersales.
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Haje Jan Kamps
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- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- photographerjournalistphotojournalist
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Haje Jan Kamps is a Dutch photographer, author, awards photo judge, freelance writer, businessman, journalist, inventor, and editor. Jan Kamps was the director of portfolio at Bolt VC, a hardware-focused pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm interested on hardware startups and enabling technologies. According to William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White of the Harvard Business School, experts on Entrepreneurial Management, Bolt VC resembled a new concept of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software. Kamps has also been a staff writer for TechCrunch and is still a frequent contributor to the news site. His work on TechCrunch has been featured on Forbes. From 2011 to 2017, Kamps acted as the Founder CEO of Triggertrap. He is currently the CEO of Konf, a platform for small and medium-sized virtual conferences and events. On the blog of the company registered at Medium, an online publishing platform, Kamps himself stated that a permanent behavior change was expected because of the COVID-19 pandemic and that people were likely to rely more on virtual conferencing, which may have some positive effects on the environment. As an expert, he has been part of the panel of judges for the E! People's Choice Awards and the Oslo Innovation Award.
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Laurence Williams
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- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- nuclear engineer
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Laurence Glynn Williams, OBE, FREng, FIMechE, FNucl, FLSW is a British nuclear engineer, health and safety expert, and academic. He specialises in nuclear safety and security. From 1998 to 2005, he was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations. From 2010 to 2014, he was Professor of Nuclear Safety and Regulation at the University of Central Lancashire. He has served as Chairman of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in the Department of Energy and Climate Change since 2012, and Chairman of the Defence Nuclear Safety Committee in the Ministry of Defence since 2013. He has been described as "one of the world's leading experts in nuclear safety regulation".
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Tom Middlehurst
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- politician
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Thomas Middlehurst is a British retired politician who served as Leader of Flintshire County Council from 1996 to 1999 and Assembly Secretary for Education and Training in the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party, he was Assembly Member (AM) for Alyn and Deeside from 1999 until his retirement in 2003.
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Joan Howson
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- glass artist
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Joan Howson was a British stained glass artist of the Arts and Crafts movement. She trained at the Liverpool School of Art before becoming a student and apprentice to Caroline Townshend. They later developed a lifelong partnership creating stained glass works under the name of their company, Townshend and Howson.
