45 Notable alumni of
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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The Memorial University of Newfoundland is 1113th in the world, 403rd in North America, and 27th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from the Memorial University of Newfoundland sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robert Joy
- Occupations
- film actorcomposertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Robert Joy is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as medical examiner Sid Hammerback on the police procedural series CSI: NY, and his appearances in the films Atlantic City (1980), Ragtime (1981), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), and The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor; for Atlantic City and Whole New Thing.
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Jonny Harris
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jonathan Harris is a Canadian actor and comedian from Newfoundland and Labrador. Harris is best known for his roles in the television series Murdoch Mysteries, Still Standing and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, as well as the films Young Triffie, Moving Day, and Grown Up Movie Star.
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Alan Doyle
- Occupations
- singeractorsongwriter
- Biography
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Alan Thomas Doyle CM ONL is a Canadian musician and founding member of the Canadian folk rock band Great Big Sea.
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Brett Gallant
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Brett Philip Gallant is a Canadian curler from Chestermere, Alberta. He is a former World Champion and Olympic bronze medallist. He currently plays second on Team Brad Jacobs.
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Bruce Aylward
- Enrolled in the Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- epidemiologistphysician
- Biography
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Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist. Since September 2017 he has been Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization. He is part of the implementation of the WHO's COVAX Facility. He has past experience in the areas of polio eradication, Zika virus, and Ebola.
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Rick Hillier
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Rick J. Hillier OC CMM ONL MSC CD is a retired Canadian Forces general, who served as the chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) from 4 February 2005 to 1 July 2008. He previously served as the chief of the Land Staff from 30 May 2003 until his promotion to CDS.
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Dwight Ball
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dwight Ball is a Canadian politician who was the 13th premier of Newfoundland and Labrador from 14 December 2015, to 19 August 2020, and an MHA. He represented the electoral district of Humber Valley in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, and was the leader of the Liberal Party from 17 November 2013 to 3 August 2020.
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Scott Oake
- Occupations
- sports journalist
- Biography
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Scott Oake CM OM is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian sportscaster for CBC Sports, Sportsnet, and Hockey Night in Canada.
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Gwynne Dyer
- Occupations
- screenwriterjournalisthistorian
- Biography
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Michael Gwynne Dyer OC is a British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer. Dyer rose to prominence in the 1980s with the release of his television series War in 1983 and the publication of an accompanying book in 1985. Since the 1960s he has lived in London, England, where he works as a syndicated columnist. Dyer is a noted expert in Middle Eastern affairs, having completed his graduate work in this area and written several books on the subject. More recently he has focused on climate change and its geopolitical consequences.
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Judy Foote
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Judy May Foote PC ONL is a former Canadian politician who served as the 14th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2018 to 2023. She was the first woman to hold the position.
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Heather Bambrick
- Occupations
- broadcastervoice actorteachersinger
- Biography
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Heather Bambrick is a Canadian jazz singer, voice over artist, radio broadcaster and teacher based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Brian Tobin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian Vincent Tobin PC OC is a Canadian businessman and former politician. Tobin served as the sixth premier of Newfoundland from 1996 to 2000. Tobin was also a prominent Member of Parliament and served as a cabinet minister in Jean Chrétien's Liberal government.
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George Furey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George J. Furey PC KC is a Canadian politician who served as the speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2015 to 2023. Furey was appointed as a senator from Newfoundland and Labrador in 1999 and was the longest-serving member of the Senate at the time of his retirement.
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Michael Crummey
- Occupations
- poetnovelist
- Biography
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Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Kellie Loder
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterpianistnurse
- Biography
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Kellie Loder is an independent singer-songwriter from Newfoundland who plays drums, guitar and piano. They have released three albums: The Way in 2009, Imperfections & Directions in 2010 and Benefit of the Doubt in 2018. With a voice that St. John's-based newspaper The Telegram has described as "powerful yet serene and soulful", they received critical recognition from Canada, including a nomination at the Juno Awards.
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Danny Williams
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel E. Williams KC is a Canadian politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the ninth premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010.
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Kathy Dunderdale
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen Mary Margaret "Kathy" Dunderdale is a politician and former MHA who served as the tenth premier of Newfoundland and Labrador from December 3, 2010, to January 24, 2014. Dunderdale was born and raised in Burin; before entering politics she worked in the fields of community development, communications, fisheries and social work. Her first foray into politics was as a member of the Burin town council, where she served as deputy mayor. She was also a Progressive Conservative Party (PC) candidate in the 1993 general election and served as President of the PC Party.
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Darrell Power
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Darrell Power is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, music producer, and former member of Canadian folk rock band Great Big Sea (1993–2003). He is a guest host of VOCM Nightline and Open Line. Power currently works as a substitute teacher. He lives in downtown St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Scott Andrews
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott Andrews is a Canadian politician. He represented the Newfoundland and Labrador electoral district of Avalon from his election in the 2008 Canadian federal election until his defeat in the 2015 federal election. Originally a member of the Liberal Party, he most recently sat as an independent.
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Wayne Johnston
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
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Richard Cannings
- Occupations
- naturalistpoliticianuniversity teacherbiologistwriter
- Biography
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Richard J. "Dick" Cannings MP is a Canadian biologist, author and politician. He was elected as the South Okanagan—West Kootenay Member of Parliament in the 2015 Canadian federal election for the New Democratic Party, and re-elected in 2019. As a member of the 42nd Canadian Parliament he sponsored three private member's bills: one to promote the use of wood in federal public works projects, one to add various lakes and rivers to Navigable Waters Protection Act, and another to a Minister of Environment to respond to a Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada report. Cannings was appointed the NDP Critic for Post-Secondary Education as well as the Deputy Critic for Natural Resources in the 42nd Canadian Parliament. He became the NDP Critic for Natural Resources in 2016 and served in that position until 2021. In October 2021, he became the NDP Critic for Emergency Preparedness (Climate Adaptation) and Critic for Small Business and Tourism, as well as Deputy Critic for Natural Resources and Deputy Critic for Innovation, Science and Industry. In December 2021, he was named an inaugural member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research.
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Siobhán Coady
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Siobhán Coady is a Canadian businesswoman and politician who represents the riding of St. John's West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a Liberal. Coady previously served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of St. John's South–Mount Pearl from 2008 to 2011. She served as Minister of Natural Resources in the Ball government. She is currently Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier in the Furey government.
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Lorraine Michael
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lorraine Michael is a social-democratic Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. From May 2006 until March 2015, Michael was the leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party (NDP). She is a former nun, teacher, and social activist.
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Gulzar Singh Cheema
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gulzar Singh Cheema is an Indian-born Canadian physician and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2004, making him one of only a few Canadian politicians to have sat in two provincial legislatures since Confederation. He is the first Indian-born provincial legislator in Canada. He was also a cabinet minister in the government of Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell from 2001 to 2004, and was a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada in the federal election of 2004.
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Alison Coffin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alison Coffin MHA is a Canadian politician, who was formerly the leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party (NL NDP). She is a former member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. In her professional life, she has developed policy and strategic plans for the provincial government, taught at Memorial University, and consulted on public policy, pension plans, and the provincial budget. For several years, she also ran a successful consulting company.
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Frank Fagan
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Frank Frederick Fagan, CM ONL is a Canadian businessman and dignitary, who served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from 2013 to 2018, thus serving as the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He was appointed by Governor General of Canada David Lloyd Johnston on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on 2 February 2013. Fagan was sworn in on 19 March 2013, succeeding John Crosbie.
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Tom Osborne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tom Osborne is a former politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of Waterford Valley in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1996 to 2024. He was a member of the Liberal Party, a former member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and a former Minister in Danny Williams' first cabinet. He served as Minister of Health and Community Services, and Minister of Education in the Furey government. He was Speaker of the House of Assembly from 2015 to 2017.
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Margaret Bennett
- Occupations
- ethnologistmusicologistsongwriter
- Biography
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Margaret Bennett is a Scottish writer, folklorist, ethnologist, broadcaster, and singer. Her main interests lies in the field of traditional Scottish folk culture and cultural identity of the Scots in Scotland and abroad. The late Hamish Henderson, internationally distinguished poet and folklorist, said about her: Margaret embodies the spirit of Scotland.
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Steve Kent
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Kent, MHA, is a former Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador. Kent served as the deputy premier, Minister of Health and Community Services, Minister Responsible for the Office of Public Engagement in the cabinet of Paul Davis. Previously he served as the Minister of Municipal and Intergovernmental Affairs, the Minister Responsible for Fire and Emergency Services – Newfoundland and Labrador, and Registrar General in the cabinets of Kathy Dunderdale and Tom Marshall. He served as the Member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for the District of Mount Pearl North from 2007 until 2017.
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Tom Harrington
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tom Harrington is a Canadian radio and television journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is currently the anchor of CBC Radio One's afternoon news program The World This Hour.
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Fergus O'Byrne
- Occupations
- musicianguitaristteachersinger
- Biography
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Fergus O'Byrne is a Canadian folk musician, best known as a member of the popular Irish-Newfoundland band trio Ryan's Fancy, and as a banjo, concertina and bodhrán player.
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Alison Pick
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoet
- Biography
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Alison Pick is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Far to Go, and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35.
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Dennis O'Keefe
- Biography
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Dennis "Doc" O'Keefe is a Canadian politician who served as the 14th mayor of St. John's from 2008 to 2017 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Todd Russell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Todd Norman Dwayne Russell is a Canadian politician and was the Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador from 2005 to 2011.
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Jim Payne
- Occupations
- actorsingerrecord producercomposerteacher
- Biography
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Jim Payne is a Newfoundland folk singer, best known for performing and recording many of the traditional sea shanties of Newfoundland culture. He also composed the song "Wave Over Wave" with Janis Spence and founded the record label SingSong Inc.
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Paris Marx
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- non-fiction writertechnology journalistpodcaster
- Biography
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Paris Marx is a Canadian technology journalist, author, podcaster, and critic. Marx is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation and hosts the Tech Industry-critical podcast Tech Won't Save Us.
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Eddy Campbell
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Eddy Campbell is a Canadian mathematician, university professor, and university administrator. He served as the president of the University of New Brunswick from 2009 - 2019.
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Greg Power
- Years
- 1909-1997 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gregory J. Power was a politician, office holder, farmer, poet and athlete, who was born in Dunville, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Power represented Placentia and St. Mary's from 1951 to 1956 and Placentia East from 1956 to 1959 in the Newfoundland House of Assembly.
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Loyola Sullivan
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Loyola Sullivan served as Canada's Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation from 2007 until 2011 and is a former Member of the House of Assembly in Newfoundland and Labrador. Sullivan represented the district of Ferryland from 1992 till 2006.
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Bill Gillespie
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Bill Gillespie, is a Canadian journalist and author. He was security correspondent for CBC News and a former bureau chief of CBC Radio's Moscow bureau. As a foreign correspondent, Gillespie reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and the Russian Caucuses, relaying information on the fall of the Taliban, the dismantling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad's central square, and the deadly siege of Beslan School Number One.
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Jonathan Monro
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- music directorcomposerwriterpianist
- Biography
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Jonathan Luke Weiser Monro is a multi award-winning Canadian-American actor, pianist, musical director, singer, composer, and lyricist. His first major appearance was as a pianist at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City in 1991.
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Dominique Clément
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Dominique Clément is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. He is a Canadian historical sociologist who specializes in human rights, the nonprofit sector, and social movements including the use of digital tools for research in the humanities and social sciences. He is an adjunct professor in the Departments of History, Classics & Religion as well as Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology] at Dalhousie University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney in Australia, Beijing Normal University in China, KU-Leuven University in Belgium, and NUI Galway in Ireland.
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Stephen Rowe
- Occupations
- bloggerpoet
- Biography
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Stephen Rowe is a Canadian poet.
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Gerald Mars
- Years
- 1933-.. (age 92)
- Occupations
- anthropologistcriminologist
- Biography
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Gerald Mars is a British social anthropologist who works across disciplines to understand the nature and problems of modern industrial society. His work draws on the grid-group theory of Mary Douglas, on his fieldwork in Canada, Britain, Israel, and the former Soviet republics, and on his own experience. His work has often centred on workplace crime, and his best-known book, still often discussed, is Cheats at Work (1982).
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Alexander L. Bond
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Alexander L. Bond is a Canadian conservation biologist, ecologist, and curator. He holds the position of Principal Curator and Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Bond is actively involved with the marine plastics pollution research group Adrift Lab. Additionally, he serves as the Ornithologist in Residence at St Nicholas Church, Leicester, a church known for its LGBTQ+-inclusive stance.
