100 Notable alumni of
Newcastle University
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Newcastle University is 430th in the world, 148th in Europe, and 34th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Newcastle 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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Rowan Atkinson
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- screenwritermanufacturerfilm actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an English actor, comedian and writer. He played the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–2018). Atkinson first came to prominence on the BBC sketch comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), receiving the 1981 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance.
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Princess Eugenie of York
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- 2009-2012 graduated with undergraduate degree in English literature and art history
- Occupations
- patron of the artsart directordirector
- Biography
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Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank is a member of the British royal family. She is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is a niece of King Charles III. At birth, she was 6th in the line of succession to the British throne and is now 11th. She is the younger sister of Princess Beatrice.
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Bryan Ferry
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterpianistmusicianguitaristactor
- Biography
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Bryan Ferry is an English singer and songwriter who achieved fame as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and as a solo artist. His distinctive voice has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon". He also established a distinctive image and sartorial style: according to The Independent, Ferry and his contemporary David Bowie influenced a generation with both their music and their appearances. Peter York described Ferry as "an art object" who "should hang in the Tate".
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Perrie Louise Edwards
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Perrie Louise Edwards known mononymously as Perrie, is an English singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix, that were formed and won the eighth series of The X Factor UK. As part of the group she has won three Brit Awards, and achieved nineteen top-ten singles and five number-ones on the UK Singles Chart, before going on hiatus in 2022. Her vocals, head voice and use of vibrato and falsetto has garnered critical acclaim.
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Esha Gupta
- Occupations
- actormodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Esha Gupta is an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She works in Hindi films. She was crowned Femina Miss India International 2007 and represented India at Miss International 2007. She made her acting debut with the crime thriller Jannat 2 (2012) receiving a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination.
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Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- 2010-2013 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- aristocratbusinesspersonlarge estate owner
- Biography
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Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster,, is a British aristocrat and businessman. He inherited his title and control of the Grosvenor Estate, then worth an estimated £9 billion, from his father in 2016. As such, Grosvenor is one of the wealthiest men in Britain. In 2023, Bloomberg estimated that he had a net worth of approximately £9.42 billion. He ranked eleventh on the 2023 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £9.878 billion.
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Jade Thirlwall
- Occupations
- dancersingersongwriter
- Biography
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Jade Amelia Thirlwall is an English singer-songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix, who won the eighth series of The X Factor UK in 2011. As part of the group she has won three Brit Awards, achieved nineteen top-ten singles and five number-ones on the UK Singles Chart, before going on hiatus in 2022. In 2022, she signed a record contract with RCA Records and is set to release her debut studio album in 2024.
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Chris Vance
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Chris Vance is an English actor. He is known for his starring roles in television, such as Jack Gallagher in the Fox series Mental, as James Whistler in Fox's series Prison Break (2007–2008), and for playing Frank Martin in TNT's Transporter: The Series. Vance has recurred on the television series Burn Notice, Dexter, Rizzoli & Isles, and Supergirl. He played Commander Harry Langford on Hawaii Five-0, and Dalton Walsh in the fifth season of Amazon Prime Video's police drama series Bosch.
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Lisa Nandy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lisa Eva Nandy is a British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development in 2023. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010. Nandy previously served as Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary and Shadow Energy Secretary.
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George Clarke
- Occupations
- television presenterarchitect
- Biography
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George Clarke is an English architect, television presenter, lecturer and writer, best known for his work on the Channel 4 programmes The Home Show, The Restoration Man, George Clarke's Old House New Home, and George Clarke's Amazing Spaces.
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Wilko Johnson
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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John Andrew Wilkinson, better known by the stage name Wilko Johnson, was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter and occasional actor. He was a member of the pub rock/rhythm and blues band Dr. Feelgood in the 1970s. Johnson was known for his distinctive guitar playing style which he achieved by not using a guitar pick but playing fingerstyle. This enabled him to play rhythm guitar and riffs or solos at the same time creating a highly percussive guitar sound.
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Claire Williams
- Occupations
- businesspersonsporting director
- Biography
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Claire Victoria Williams is a British former motorsport executive who was the deputy team principal of the Williams Formula One racing team from 2013 to 2020. She is one of only two women to have ever managed teams in Formula One. In 2023, she became a brand ambassador for WAE Technologies, an R&D off-shoot of the racing team.
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Tim Farron
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy James Farron is a British politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2017. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland and Lonsdale in 2005 and is the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Before entering politics, he worked in higher education.
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Alastair Reynolds
- Occupations
- science fiction writerastrophysicistwriter
- Biography
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Alastair Preston Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera.
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Kate Adie
- Occupations
- journalistauthorwritertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Kathryn Adie is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.
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Duncan Watmore
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Duncan Ian Watmore is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Millwall. Watmore previously played for Altrincham, Clitheroe, Curzon Ashton, Sunderland, Hibernian, and Middlesbrough.
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Rory Best
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Rory David Best is an Irish former rugby union player who was the captain of the Ireland national team from 2016 to 2019. He played hooker for Ulster and was registered for Banbridge RFC. Best earned 124 caps for Ireland, making his debut in 2005 and retiring at the end of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, his fourth World Cup. Best is one of the most capped rugby players of all time, as well as the most-capped forward to represent Ireland.
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Charlie Webster
- Occupations
- journalistmodelpodcastertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Charlie Webster is a British broadcaster and campaigner. She was born in Sheffield, England, and has a degree in Language and Linguistics from Newcastle University. She started her career as a TV presenter for Real Madrid TV and then worked for various sports channels such as ESPN, Sky Sports, ITV4, and BoxNation. She has covered a wide range of sports events, including football, motorsport, boxing, triathlon, and the Olympics. She has launched several campaigns to raise awareness and funds for causes such as domestic violence, mental health, and malaria prevention.
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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerentrepreneurcivil engineerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery.
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Kit Malthouse
- Occupations
- financierchartered accountantpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Christopher Laurie "Kit" Malthouse is a British politician and businessman who served as Secretary of State for Education from 6 September to 25 October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from July to September 2022. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Hampshire since 2015.
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Alexander Downer
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Civil Law
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianpolitical advisereconomistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018.
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Sean Scully
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainteruniversity teacherillustrator
- Biography
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Sean Scully is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving from London to New York in 1975, Scully helped lead the transition from Minimalism to Emotional abstraction in painting, abandoning the reduced vocabulary of Minimalism in favor of a return to metaphor and spirituality in art.
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Carina Bergfeldt
- Occupations
- writercolumnistreportervoice actorjournalist
- Biography
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Barbro Carina Bergfeldt is a Swedish journalist, reporter, columnist and author. Since March 2016 she is SVT's correspondent to Washington, D.C.
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Yasmin Ahmad
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Yasmin binti Ahmad was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia for being humorous and touching. Her work crossed cross-cultural barriers, particularly her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally. In Malaysia, her films were highly controversial due to their depiction of events and relationships, which have been considered 'forbidden' by social conservatives, especially hard-line interpretations of Islam. She was a central figure of the "first" New Wave of Malaysian cinema.
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Pascal Canfin
- Occupations
- journalistinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pascal Canfin is a French politician of La République en marche (LREM) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (EUP) since 2019. In the 2019 elections for the UE Parliament, he was elected in the list of Renew Europe group and serves as chair of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee; following his initiative, the European Parliament declares in December 2019 a "climate state of emergency"
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Anke Domscheit-Berg
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with master's degree in European Business Administration
- Occupations
- business consultantpolitician
- Biography
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Anke Domscheit-Berg is a German politician and activist. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017, when she was elected on the party list of The Left, without being a party member. She joined the party in 2021 following her nomination to the top female position on the party election list in the state of Brandenburg. Previously, she was a member of the Pirate Party Germany and the Greens. She is married to Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In 2010 she received the Berliner Frauenpreis.
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Paul Kennedy
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teachergeopolitical analyst
- Biography
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Paul Michael Kennedy is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. His monthly column on current global issues is distributed worldwide by the Tribune Content Agency.
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Bruce Babbitt
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Bruce Edward Babbitt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 47th United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 Democratic primaries.
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David Tibet
- Occupations
- songwriterpublishermusiciansinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
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David Tibet is an English poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member.
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Mary Midgley
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Civil Law
- Occupations
- ethicistwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. She wrote her first book, Beast and Man (1978), when she was in her late fifties, and went on to write over 15 more, including Animals and Why They Matter (1983), Wickedness (1984), The Ethical Primate (1994), Evolution as a Religion (1985), and Science as Salvation (1992). She was awarded honorary doctorates by Durham and Newcastle universities. Her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva, was published in 2005.
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Phil Jones
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Studied in 1973-1977
- Occupations
- climatologistuniversity teacherhydrologistscientist
- Biography
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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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Lewis Fry Richardson
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Studied in 1898-1900
- Occupations
- mathematicianmeteorologistphysicistpeace and conflict researchercartographer
- Biography
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Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist, and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them. He is also noted for his pioneering work concerning fractals and a method for solving a system of linear equations known as modified Richardson iteration.
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Giles Fraser
- Occupations
- priestcolumnist
- Biography
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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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Ali Mohamed Shein
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ali Mohamed Shein was the 7th President of Zanzibar, from 2010 to 2020. He was previously Vice President of Tanzania from 2001 to 2010. Shein is originally from the island of Pemba, and he is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. He is a medical doctor by profession.
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Riton
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Henry Smithson, best known by his stage name Riton, is an English electronic music DJ and producer from Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Charles Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- aristocrat
- Biography
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Captain Charles Robert George Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe, also known as Charles Innes or Charlie Roxburghe, is a British aristocrat and military officer.
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Wash Westmoreland
- Occupations
- film editorfilm directorfilm producerscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Paul Westmoreland, known professionally as Wash Westmoreland and previously known as Wash West, is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He frequently collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer. Together, they wrote and directed the 2014 film Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling book and starred Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, and Alec Baldwin. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julianne Moore and Humanitas Prize for feature film for the duo. Their 2006 coming-of-age feature film, Quinceañera, won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
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Lim Boon Heng
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Lim Boon Heng is a Singaporean former politician. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was a Member of Parliament (MP) between 1980 and 2011, and had served in the Cabinet between 2001 and 2011. He also served as Chairman of the People's Action Party between 2004 and 2011.
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Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Caroline Anne Cox, Baroness Cox, is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005, as well as being a minister in government. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University, Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006 to 2013, and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.
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Geoff Parling
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Geoff Parling is an English rugby union coach and former player. His usual playing position was lock.
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Milton Augustus Strieby Margai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor and politician who served as the country's head of government from 1954 until his death in 1964. He was titled chief minister from 1954 to 1960, and then prime minister from 1961 onwards. Margai studied medicine in England, and upon returning to his homeland became a prominent public health campaigner. He entered politics as the founder and inaugural leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party. Margai oversaw Sierra Leone's transition to independence, which occurred in 1961. He died in office aged 68, and was succeeded as prime minister by his brother Albert. Margai enjoyed the support of Sierra Leoneans across classes, who respected his moderate style, friendly demeanor, and political savvy.
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Terry Farrell
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Sir Terence Farrell, known as Terry Farrell, is a British architect and urban designer. In 1980, after working for 15 years in partnership with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Farrell founded his own firm, Farrells. He established his reputation with three completed projects in London in the late 1980s: Embankment Place, 125 London Wall aka Alban Gate and SIS Building aka Vauxhall Cross.
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John Yorke
- Occupations
- television producerexecutive producer
- Biography
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John Roland Clifford Yorke is a British television producer and script editor, who was head of Channel 4 Drama 2003–2005, controller of BBC drama production 2006-2012 and MD of Company Pictures (2013-2015).
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Liz Sugg, Baroness Sugg
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elizabeth Grace Sugg, Baroness Sugg is a British politician, life peer and political adviser. She currently serves as an advisor to Foreign Secretary David Cameron. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development between February and November 2020.
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Robert Goodwill
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Sir Robert Goodwill is a British Conservative Party politician and farmer serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby since 2005. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Goodwill served in Theresa May's government as Minister of State at the Home Office, the Department for Education and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Rupert Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rupert Bertram Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale, Baron Mitford, is a British hereditary peer, Liberal Democrat politician and member of the prominent Mitford family.
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Caroline Johnson
- Occupations
- politicianpediatrician
- Biography
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Caroline Elizabeth Johnson is a British Conservative Party politician and consultant paediatrician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Public Health from September to October 2022. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sleaford and North Hykeham since the 2016 by-election.
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Chris Williamson
- Occupations
- television personalitypodcasterYouTuber
- Biography
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Chris Williamson is an English podcaster, YouTuber and former television personality. He appeared on the first series of Love Island in 2015. Since 2018 he has hosted the Modern Wisdom podcast, a show which has been downloaded more than 5 million times.
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Theo Clarke
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- 2003-2007 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianart historian
- Biography
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Theodora Roosevelt Clarke is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford since the 2019 general election. Prior to her political career, she worked in the arts industry and founded the campaign group Coalition for Global Prosperity.
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Paul Williams
- Occupations
- politiciangeneral practitioner
- Biography
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Paul Daniel Williams is a British general practitioner (GP) and former Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South from 2017 to 2019, when he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Matt Vickers in the 2019 general election. In May 2021, Williams stood as the Labour Party candidate in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election but lost to the Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer.
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Alan Plater
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Alan Frederick Plater was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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Stuart Hatton
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Stuart Hatton is an English pageant winner, model, and dancer. He was a former Mr. Gay World and for two consecutive years and Mr. Gay UK in 2013 and 2014. He was the first North East man to win the title of Mr. Gay UK.
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Danny Dorling
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Danny Dorling is a British social geographer. Since 2013, he has been Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.
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Nigel Shadbolt
- Occupations
- principalcomputer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Tim Berners-Lee. He is also a visiting professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert and commentator. His research focuses on understanding how intelligent behaviour is embodied and emerges in humans, machines and, most recently, on the Web, and has made contributions to the fields of Psychology, Cognitive science, Computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer science and the emerging field of Web science.
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Robert Rowland
- Occupations
- politicianfund manager
- Biography
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Robert Andrew Rowland was a British politician who served as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and was a substitute on the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy.
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Andy Morrell
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Andrew Jonathan Morrell is an English former professional footballer. A striker, Morrell played 359 games in the Football League for Wrexham, Coventry City, Blackpool and Bury, scoring 96 goals.
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Paul Ashworth
- Occupations
- association football manager
- Biography
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Paul Anthony Ashworth is an English football manager and former player.
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Damien O'Kane
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Damien O'Kane is an Irish musician, born in Coleraine, County Londonderry. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, the folk musician Kate Rusby, and their two daughters.
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Michael J. Benton
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- In 1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- paleontologistuniversity teachernon-fiction writerherpetologist
- Biography
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Michael James Benton is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record.
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Ruth Gates
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- marine biologistbiologist
- Biography
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Ruth Deborah Gates was the Director of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology and the first woman to be President of the International Society for Reef Studies. Her research was dedicated to understanding coral reef ecosystems, specifically coral-algal symbiosis and the capacity for corals to acclimatize under future climate change conditions. Doctor Gates is most accredited with looking at coral biology and human-assisted coral evolution, known as super corals, as notably seen in the documentary Chasing Coral, available on Netflix.
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Peter Gibson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter Alexander Gibson is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington since the 2019 general election. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
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Alexander Burnett
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander James Amherst Burnett of Leys is a Scottish Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Aberdeenshire West constituency since 2016.
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Nigel Mills
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nigel John Mills is a British politician and former chartered accountant who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Amber Valley in Derbyshire since the 2010 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, he has campaigned for the pro-Brexit, Eurosceptic Leave Means Leave group following the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
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Stephen Hepburn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Hepburn is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Jarrow from 1997 to 2019. Hepburn was a member of the Labour Party until 7 October 2019, when he was suspended from the party following an accusation of sexual harassment. He then sat as an independent and was barred by the party from standing as a Labour candidate.
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Ben Pimlott
- Occupations
- writerhistorian
- Biography
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Benjamin John Pimlott FBA was an historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography.
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Rich Johnston
- Occupations
- comics critic
- Biography
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Richard "Rich" Johnston is a British comics creator, columnist, and founder of the comics news site Bleeding Cool.
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Bella Hardy
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterfiddlersongwritersinger
- Biography
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Bella Hardy is an English contemporary folk musician, singer and songwriter from Edale, Derbyshire, England, who performs a combination of traditional and self-penned material. She was named Folk Singer of the Year at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, having previously won the award for Best Original Song in 2012 for "The Herring Girl".
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Lisa Harvey-Smith
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with Master of Physics
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Lisa Harvey-Smith is a British-Australian astrophysicist, Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador and a Professor of Practice in Science Communication at the University of NSW. Her research interests include the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism, supernova remnants, the interstellar medium, massive star formation and astrophysical masers. For almost a decade Harvey-Smith was a research scientist at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), including several years as the Project Scientist for the Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and later Project Scientist for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Telescope.
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Alex Tait
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Alex Tait is a retired English rugby union player, who played for Newcastle Falcons in the Premiership.
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Ashraf Choudhary
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiancivil engineerscientist
- Biography
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Ashraf Choudhary is a Pakistani-New Zealand scientist in agricultural engineering and formerly a member of the Parliament in New Zealand. He is a member of the Labour Party, and was New Zealand's first MP from South Asia and Pakistan.
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Gordon Lyons
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon Lyons is a Northern Irish unionist politician, who has served as Minister for Communities since 2024. He is currently serving as Director of Elections for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). He was Minister for the Economy in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2021 to 2022, and has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim since August 2015. He is the DUP's Spokesperson for Finance, Public Service Reform and the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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Mark Burgess
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- physicistcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Mark Burgess is an independent researcher and writer, formerly professor at Oslo University College in Norway and creator of the CFEngine software and company, who is known for work in computer science in the field of policy-based configuration management.
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William David Butler-Adams
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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William David Butler-Adams OBE FRGS is the managing director of Brompton Bicycle Limited a manufacturer based in the United Kingdom and Brompton Bike Hire Limited a provider of bicycle-sharing systems.
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Julie Ward
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julie Carolyn Ward is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region for the Labour Party from 2014 to 2020.
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Fay Hield
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Fay Hield is a traditional English folk singer and a Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield.
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John Burn
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Professor Sir John Burn is a British professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University and senior leader in England's National Health Service.
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James Edward Barker
- Occupations
- film producercomposerrecord producer
- Biography
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James Edward Barker is a British composer, music producer and film producer. Many of his music works include an ethereal mixture of live sonic experimentation with grandiose classical motifs and alternative percussion.
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David Trubridge
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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David Geoffrey Trubridge is a furniture designer based in Whakatu, New Zealand.
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Jim Causley
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Jim Causley is an English folk singer, songwriter, and musician from Devon who specializes in the traditional songs and music of the West Country. Journalist Colin Irwin has called him "the finest singer of his generation".
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Tamara Taylor
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Graduated with laurea in biomedicine
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby union coach
- Biography
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Tamara Taylor is an English female rugby union player, who captained England in the 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship. She was the 2017 RPA Player of the Year when she was one of only three women who had made more than 100 appearances for her country. She is currently the 4th most capped England womens rugby union player of all time.
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Norma Redfearn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Norma Redfearn is a Labour politician currently serving as the directly-elected Mayor of North Tyneside.
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Phil Bennion
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Phillip Bennion is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 2012 to 2014, and then from 2019 to 2020.
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Eric Parry
- Occupations
- designeruniversity teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Eric Owen Parry is a British architect, designer, writer and educator. Parry is the founder and principal of Eric Parry Architects established in London in 1983. His built work includes the restoration and renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Holburne Museum in Bath, 50 New Bond Street, 23 Savile Row, One Eagle Place in Piccadilly, Aldermanbury Square by London Wall, 30 Finsbury Square in London, and the London Stock Exchange. His projects also include a number of residential developments. Eric Parry's architectural work and design has been shown internationally on major exhibitions, including the Royal Academy of Arts, the British School at Rome, and the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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Helen Scales
- Occupations
- biologistdiveruniversity teachernaturalistmarine biologist
- Biography
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Helen Scales is a British marine biologist, broadcaster, and writer.
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Alexander Halliday
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Sir Alexander Norman Halliday is a British geochemist and academic who is the Founding Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Climate School, and Former Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He joined the Earth Institute in April 2018, after spending more than a decade at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, during which time he was dean of science and engineering. He is also a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.
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Michael Kamau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Kamau is a Kenyan civil servant who was nominated by President Uhuru Kenyatta as Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure on 25 April 2013. He was suspended from the Cabinet on 28 March 2015 on allegations of corruption and charged in court with abuse of office on 4 June 2015. He was replaced by James Macharia in an acting capacity.
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Iain Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Iain Smith is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Fife constituency from 1999 until his defeat at 2011 election by the SNP's Rod Campbell.
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Stephen Chapman
- Occupations
- chemistteacher
- Biography
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Steven Kenneth Chapman is Vice-Chancellor of Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Previously he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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Ross D. King
- Occupations
- researchercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Ross Donald King is a Professor of Machine Intelligence at Chalmers University of Technology.
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Mark Isherwood
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark Allan Isherwood is a Welsh Conservative Party politician, who has served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for the North Wales region since 2003. He is the son of Liberal Democrat politician Rodney Isherwood.
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Henry Hemming
- Occupations
- non-fiction writer
- Biography
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Henry Hemming is an English non-fiction author. In 2017 it was announced that his book, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster, based on the life of Maxwell Knight, would be adapted for television by Mammoth Screen with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Matt Charman attached as lead writer.
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Ben Murphy
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotathlete
- Biography
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Ben Murphy is a British pilot. He is a pilot of The Blades aerobatic team, and master class of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. He is a former Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force display team The Red Arrows
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Alex Bateman
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Enrolled in Newcastle University
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- bioinformaticianresearcher
- Biography
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Alexander George Bateman is a computational biologist and Head of Protein Sequence Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute, part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Cambridge, UK. He has led the development of the Pfam biological database and introduced the Rfam database of RNA families. He has also been involved in the use of Wikipedia for community-based annotation of biological databases.
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Stephen C. West
- Occupations
- researcherbiochemist
- Biography
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Stephen Craig West FRS is a British biochemist and molecular biologist specialising in research on DNA recombination and repair. He is known for pioneering studies on genome instability diseases including cancer. West obtained his BSc in 1974, and his PhD in 1977, both from Newcastle University. He is currently a Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London. He is an honorary Professor at University College London, and at Imperial College London. In recognition of his work he was awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2007, is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, an International Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the 2022 Royal Medal for 'discovering and determining the functions of key enzymes that are essential for DNA recombination, repair and the maintenance of genomes'.
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Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, is a British Labour Party politician. She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gateshead East and Washington West and for its predecessor Gateshead East from 1987 to 2005.
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Gavin Brown
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Gavin Brown AO FAA CorrFRSE was a Scottish-born mathematician and long-serving Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney between 1996 and 2008.
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Eric Thomas
- Occupations
- gynaecologist
- Biography
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Sir Eric Jackson Thomas FMedSci was an English academic who was vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol from 2001 to 2015. From 2003 to 2007, he was chair of the Worldwide Universities Network and was the president of Universities UK from 2011 to 2013.
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Paul Smith
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Paul Smith is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of indie rock band Maxïmo Park.
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Ken Hodcroft
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Ken Hodcroft is a British businessman, and the managing director of Increased Oil Recovery (IOR). IOR owned Hartlepool United for 18 years and Hodcroft was the chairman, before selling the football club to JPNG in 2015.
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Imants Viesturs Lieģis
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Imants Viesturs Lieģis is a prominent Latvian diplomat and politician. Since 2016 he serves as Latvia's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France, as well as non-resident ambassador to Algeria, Morocco and Monaco.
