41 Notable alumni of
Northumbria University
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Northumbria University is 1021st in the world, 357th in Europe, and 71st in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from Northumbria 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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Sting
- Occupations
- bassistlutenistsingerrecord producercomposer
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.
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Jony Ive
- Occupations
- creative directorindustrial designerproduct designerdesignergraphic designer
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Sir Jonathan Paul Ive is a British and American designer. Ive is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he served as senior vice president of industrial design and chief design officer. He has been serving as chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London since 2017.
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Kevin Whately
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- stage actoractortelevision actor
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Kevin Whately OBE is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Neville "Nev" Hope in the comedy drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the British crime drama Inspector Morse (1987–2000) and Lewis (2006–2015); and Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice (1993–1995), although he has appeared in numerous other roles.
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Alexei Mordashov
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the main shareholder and chairman of Severstal, Russia's largest steel and mining company.
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Sophie Gradon
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- model
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Sophie Hannah Gradon was an English model. In 2008, she won Miss Newcastle. In 2009, Gradon won the title Miss Great Britain. In 2016, she was a contestant on the second series of ITV2's Love Island.
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Chris Whitty
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- epidemiologistphysician
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Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty KCB FRS is a British epidemiologist, serving as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019.
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Neil Marshall
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- executive producerscreenwritertelevision directorfilm directorfilm editor
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Neil Marshall is an English film and television director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. He directed the horror films Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), the science fiction action film Doomsday (2008), the historical war film Centurion (2010), the superhero action film Hellboy (2019), and the adventure horror film The Reckoning (2020).
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Victoria Pendleton
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- track cyclistautobiographerjockeysport cyclist
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Victoria Louise Pendleton is a British former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines. She is a former Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth champion. With two Olympic gold medals and one silver, Pendleton is one of Great Britain's most successful female Olympians.
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Steve Cram
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- middle-distance runnermarathon runnertrack and field coachathletics competitor
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Stephen Cram, CBE is a British retired track and field athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", after his home town, Cram set world records in the 1,500 m, 2,000 m, and the mile during a 19-day period in the summer of 1985. He was the first man to run 1,500 m under 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He won the 1,500 m gold medal at the 1983 World Championships and the 1,500 m silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
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Paul Copley
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- stage actoractortelevision actorfilm actordub actor
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Paul Mackriell Copley is an English actor and voice over artist. From 2011 to 2015 he appeared as Mr. Mason, father of William Mason, in 16 episodes of Downton Abbey, and from 2020 to 2021, he appeared in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Arthur Medwin.
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Laura Pidcock
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- politician
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Laura Pidcock is a British former Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham from 2017 until 2019, when she lost her seat. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet. In the 2019 parliamentary election, she lost her seat to the Conservative Richard Holden, who won the constituency with a majority of 1,144.
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Tunde Baiyewu
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- singer
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Emmanuel Babatunde Baiyewu, better known as Tunde Baiyewu, is a British singer and songwriter of Nigerian descent, best known as the vocalist of Lighthouse Family. When the group went on hiatus in 2003, Baiyewu embarked on a solo career, releasing the albums Tunde (2004) and Diamond in a Rock (2013).
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Toby Flood
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Tobias Gerald Albert Cecil Lieven Flood is an English rugby union coach and former player. He is currently kicking and skills coach at Newcastle Falcons in Premiership Rugby. During his playing career his position was fly half or inside centre. He played over 300 games in his club career across his three professional clubs, Newcastle Falcons, Toulouse and Leicester Tigers. He played 60 international matches for England between 2006 and 2014.
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Anke Domscheit-Berg
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- politicianbusiness consultant
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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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Bibiana Aído
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- United Nations officialpoliticiancivil servanteconomist
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Bibiana Aído Almagro is a Spanish politician who served as minister of equality. She became the first person to hold the post on 14 April 2008, at the beginning of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's second term as Prime Minister of Spain.
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Ben Houchen
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- politician
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Ben Houchen, Baron Houchen of High Leven, is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He has been Tees Valley Mayor since 2017, winning the inaugural mayoral election in the combined authority. Houchen was re-elected in 2021 and won a third term in 2024.
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Alan Campbell
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- politician
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Sir Alan Campbell is a British politician who has served as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth since 1997.
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Emma Lewell-Buck
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
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Emma Louise Lewell-Buck is a Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since 2013.
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Martin Corry
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Martin Edward Corry MBE is a retired English rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester Tigers in a career spanning 14 seasons. Corry played 64 times for England between 1997 and 2007, played 7 tests for the British & Irish Lions on tours in 2001 & 2005, and played 290 times for Leicester between 1997 and 2009. Earlier in his career he played top division rugby for Newcastle Gosforth and Bristol. A versatile player his principal positions were number eight and blindside flanker, he also played lock more as his career progressed.
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Vera Baird
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- politicianbarrister
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Dame Vera Baird DBE KC is a British barrister and politician who has held roles as a government minister, police and crime commissioner, and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
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Kevan Jones
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- trade unionistpolitician
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Kevan David Jones, Baron Beamish, PC, is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Durham from 2001 to 2024. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.
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Robbie Elliott
- Occupations
- association football player
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Robert James Elliott is an English football coach and former professional player, who is the strength coach for the United States U20 men's football team.
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Kathryn Williams
- Occupations
- musiciansinger-songwriterguitarist
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Kathryn Williams is an English singer-songwriter who to date has released 14 studio albums, written and arranged for a multitude of artists, and was nominated for the 2000 Mercury Music Prize.
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Julie Elliott
- Occupations
- politician
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Julie Elliott, Baroness Elliott of Whitburn Bay, is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunderland Central from 2010 to 2024. Elliott served as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change from October 2013 to September 2015, with specific responsibility for renewable energy, the Green Investment Bank, and skills and supply chain issues. She has also served as chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Rugby Union and vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on State Pension Inequality for Women. Elliott was re-elected for the Labour Party in Sunderland Central at the 2019 general election with a majority of 2,964.
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Nigel Cabourn
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- fashion designer
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Nigel Cabourn is a British fashion designer known for his outerwear and vintage inspired clothing. He studied fashion design at Northumbria University between 1967 and 1971 and his studio and business is still based in the North East of England.
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Monirul Islam
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- police officer
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Md. Monirul Islam is former additional inspector general of the Bangladesh Police who served as head of the Special Branch.
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Mary Glindon
- Occupations
- politician
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Mary Theresa Glindon is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend since 2024, and previously for North Tyneside from 2010 until the abolition of the constituency in 2024.
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Jamie Noon
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Jamie Darren Noon is a retired rugby union footballer who played at centre.
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Martin Callanan
- Occupations
- politician
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Martin John Callanan, Baron Callanan is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North East England from 1999 to 2014 and Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group from 2011 to 2014. Callanan failed his bid to win re-election in the 2014 European Parliament elections, becoming the first sitting chairman of a European parliamentary group to lose his seat. On 8 August 2014, it was announced that he would be made a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
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Duncan Lloyd
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitarist
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Duncan Lloyd is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Susan Gray
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- engineer
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Air Marshal Dame Susan Catherine Gray, DBE, CB, FREng, FIET is a former senior Royal Air Force officer. She served as Director of Combat Air at Defence Equipment and Support in the Ministry of Defence (2014–16), as Air Officer Commanding No. 38 Group (2016–18), and as Director-General of the Defence Safety Authority (2019–22). She is the most senior female officer ever to serve in the Royal Air Force.
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Steven Appleby
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- comics artistcartoonist
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Steven Appleby RDI is an absurdist cartoonist, illustrator and artist living in Britain. She is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. Her publisher describes her humour as "observational or absurd, with a keen sense of the turmoil of fear and obsession that teems beneath the respectable exterior of most of us."
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Micky Young
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- rugby union player
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Michael Young is an English Scrum half Rugby Union player for Gloucester in the Premiership Rugby. He is a product of West Hartlepool Rugby Club junior academy.
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Guy Mankowski
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- psychologist
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Guy Mankowski FHEA is an English writer. He is the great grandson of the author and broadcaster Harry Mortimer Batten. He was educated at St John's College, Portsmouth and Ampleforth College. On The Neo Historian podcast Mankowski discussed the complexities of his Catholic education. Asked for the historical moment he would have liked to have been at he said ‘definitely the era where Jesus was teaching,’ asserting his Christian beliefs before adding, 'This person was voicing these ideas that were so resonant…that fascinates me.’ He read Applied Psychology at Durham University and gained a Masters in Psychology at Newcastle University. He then trained as a psychologist at The Royal Hospital in London. Mankowski was the lead singer of the band Alba Nova.
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Rob Miller
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Robert Miller is an English former rugby union player who most recently played for Wasps. He plays at fullback. Miller was brought up in Bothel, Cumbria.
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Gerry Steinberg
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- politician
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Gerald Neil Steinberg was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for the City of Durham from 1987 until his retirement at the 2005 general election.
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Bridget Galloway
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- association football player
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Bridget Galloway is an English football player, playing as a forward for Nottingham Forest in the FA Women's National League North. She has represented England at under-19 level.
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Fiona François
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- diplomat
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Fiona Jane François is a British diplomat who is the Chairman and former President of the British American Business Council, Los Angeles Chapter. She was formerly HM Consul and Director for the Western Region of UK Trade & Investment's US Network.
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Jason Michael Holland
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- designer
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Jason Michael Holland is an English designer, university lecturer, writer and awards judge who created the 1997 website Head-Space, which is included in Management Today's Ten Websites That Changed the World, and is an acknowledged blueprint for intranets and a precursor to YouTube. Holland is also credited with a number of other interactive firsts.
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Eni Gesinde
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Eniola 'Eni' Gesinde is a rugby union footballer and current Newcastle Falcons senior academy member.
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Amanda Sonia Berry
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- businessperson
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Amanda Sonia Berry, CBE is the chief executive officer of the Royal Foundation. She was CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) from December 2000 to October 2022.
