82 Notable alumni of
Queen Mary University of London
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The Queen Mary University of London is 625th in the world, 231st in Europe, and 49th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 82 notable alumni from the Queen Mary University of London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bruce Dickinson
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- entrepreneurbrewmastertelevision presenterfencercomposer
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Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day. He is known for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence.
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Pete Doherty
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- writerguitaristactivistsongwriterpainter
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Peter Doherty is an English musician. He is best known for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997. His other musical projects are indie bands Babyshambles and Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres.
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Graham Chapman
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- screenwriterphysiciancomposeractorcomedian
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Graham Chapman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surrealist comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979).
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Bill O'Reilly
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- writertelevision presenterbaseball playerradio personalityteacher
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William James O'Reilly Jr. is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host.
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Graham McTavish
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- actorfilm actorstage actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Graham McTavish is a Scottish actor and author. He is known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, The Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher, Dougal MacKenzie and William Buccleigh MacKenzie in the Starz series Outlander, and Harrold Westerling in the HBO series House of the Dragon. He is also known for his roles in the video game franchise Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
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Peaches Geldof
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- journalisttelevision presentercolumnistscreenwriterwriter
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Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof was an English columnist, television personality, and model.
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Romola Garai
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- actorfilm actorscreenwriterstage actorfilm director
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Romola Sadie Garai is a Hong Kong-born British actress and film director. Known for her extensive work on stage and screen, she often acts in period films. Her early film roles include Nicholas Nickleby (2002), I Capture the Castle (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004), and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004). She has gained prominence for her performances in the critically acclaimed costume dramas such as Vanity Fair (2004), As You Like It (2006), Amazing Grace (2007), Atonement (2007), Glorious 39 (2009), and Suffragette (2015).
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Fleur East
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- recording artistentertainersingerfitness modeldancer
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Fleur East is an English singer, songwriter, rapper and presenter. East competed on the second series of The X Factor in 2005 as part of the girl group Addictiv Ladies but was unsuccessful. In 2012, she signed with Strictly Rhythm. In collaboration with Drumsound & Bassline Smith, she released "One in a Million" (2013), which peaked at number 53 on the UK Singles Chart.
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Esther McVey
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- politicianexecutive producertelevision presenterbusinessperson
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Esther Louise, Lady Davies, styled as Esther McVey, is a British Conservative Party politician and television presenter who has been serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2017, and served as the MP for Wirral West from 2010 to 2015. She previously served in cabinet as Minister of State for Employment from 2013 to 2015, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2018, Minister of State for Housing and Planning from 2019 to 2020 and Minister of State without Portfolio from 2023 to 2024.
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Guðni Jóhannesson
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- university teachertranslatorhistorianpolitician
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Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson is an Icelandic historian and politician who served as the sixth president of Iceland from 2016 to 2024.
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Eva Carneiro
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- sports physician
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Eva Carneiro is a Gibraltarian sports medicine specialist who is best known for serving as the first-team doctor of Chelsea, which she joined in 2009. Educated at the University of Nottingham, the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in Melbourne and Queen Mary University of London, she worked variously for West Ham United, the Public Health Department, the Olympic Medical Institute, and the England women's football team. Carneiro was employed by Chelsea in 2009, leaving her position under controversial circumstances in September 2015.
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Prannoy Roy
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- journalist
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Prannoy Lal Roy is an Indian economist, chartered accountant, psephologist, journalist and author. He is the former executive co-chairperson of NDTV and one of its co-founders, along with his wife Radhika Roy.
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Piers Corbyn
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- businesspersonpolitical activistconspiracy theoristphysicistmeteorologist
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Piers Richard Corbyn is a British weather forecaster, anti-vaccine activist, conspiracy theorist, and former politician. Corbyn was born in Wiltshire and raised in Shropshire wherein he attended Adams' Grammar School. He was awarded a first class BSc degree in physics from Imperial College London in 1968 and a postgraduate MSc in astrophysics from Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1981. Corbyn was a member of the Labour Party and served as a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 1986 to 1990. He is the elder brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, leaving Labour in 2003 due to his opposition to the Iraq War.
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Alasdair MacIntyre
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- university teacherphilosopher
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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He is senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University.
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Sarah Waters
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- writernovelist
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Sarah Ann Waters OBE is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
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Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
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- writerjournalistaristocrat
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Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands is married to Prince Constantijn and is the sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.
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Jane Hill
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- journalisttelevision presenternews presenter
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Jane Amanda Hill is an English newsreader working for the BBC. She is one of the main presenters for BBC News, and is the main presenter on the BBC News at One, as well as regularly presenting the BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Ten and BBC News at Six. She also occasionally presents The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.
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Kate Williams
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- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriterhistoriantelevision presenter
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Kate Williams is a British historian, author, and television presenter. She is a professor of public engagement with history at the University of Reading.
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Bernard Butler
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- guitaristsinger-songwriterrecord producer
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Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation; BBC journalist Mark Savage called him "one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists". He was voted the 24th greatest guitarist of the last 30 years in a national 2010 BBC poll and is often seen performing with a 1961 cherry red Gibson ES-355 TD SV (Stereo Varitone) with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.
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Kia Joorabchian
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- sports agent
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Kiavash Joorabchian is an Iranian-born British-educated businessman largely involved in association football.
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Sarah Harrison
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- journalisteditor
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Sarah Harrison is a British former WikiLeaks section editor. She worked with the WikiLeaks' legal defence and has been described as Julian Assange's closest adviser. Harrison accompanied National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden on a high-profile flight from Hong Kong to Moscow while he was sought by the United States government.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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- writernovelistscreenwriter
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
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Peter Hain
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- politician
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Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PC, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015.
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Peter Mansfield
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- university teacherbiophysicistinventorphysicist
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Sir Peter Mansfield FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Kamran Daneshjoo
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- politician
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Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
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Apsana Begum
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- politician
- Biography
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Apsana Begum is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Poplar and Limehouse since 2019. Elected as a member of the Labour Party, Begum had the party whip withdrawn for six months on 23 July 2024 after she voted for an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
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Stephen Hammond
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- politicianeconomist
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Stephen William Hammond is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon from 2005 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
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Tom Pursglove
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- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Christopher John Pursglove is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border from December 2023 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby from May 2015 until 2024 when he was defeated.
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Tomás Bulat
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- columnisteconomistjournalistuniversity teacher
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Tomás Ariel Bulat was an Argentine economist, journalist, writer, and professor. He was known for his report on channel A24. He wrote some books about the economy. Some of those books are La economía de tu vida, "Estamos Como Somos" and la Economía descubierta. Bulat was born in Buenos Aires.
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Caroline Spelman
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- politician
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Dame Caroline Alice Spelman DBE is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019. From May 2010 to September 2012 she was the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
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Julie Gardner
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- television producerexecutive producermanufacturer
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Julie Ann Gardner MBE is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of Doctor Who and its spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. She worked on Doctor Who from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide. In 2015, Gardner co-founded the production company Bad Wolf, best known for the BBC TV series His Dark Materials, on which Gardner also serves as an executive producer.
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Roy Strong
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- television presenterart historianautobiographer
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Sir Roy Colin Strong, CH, FRSL, FSA is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Strong was knighted in 1982.
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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- politician
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Bellavia Janet Ribeiro-Addy is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clapham and Brixton Hill, previously Streatham, since 2019. In 2020, she was briefly Shadow Minister for Immigration. She chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations. On the political left, she is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.
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Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah
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Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, MVO is a Ghanaian-born officer in the British Army. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II as her equerry, he was the first black man to hold this position. Twumasi-Ankrah is an officer of the Household Cavalry and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Helen Pluckrose
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- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- literary historianwriternon-fiction writerliterary theoristopinion journalist
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Helen Pluckrose is a British author and cultural writer known for critiques of critical theory and social justice and promotion of liberal ethics, most notably in the grievance studies affair.
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Diana Johnson
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- politician
- Biography
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Dame Diana Ruth Johnson DBE is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Minister of State for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention since July 2024.
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Tigran Avinyan
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- politician
- Biography
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Tigran Avinyan is an Armenian politician and businessman currently serving as the Mayor of Yerevan. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia from 2018 to 2021 in Nikol Pashinyan's government. He is a founding member of the ruling Civil Contract Party. He was the Civil Contract Party's mayoral candidate for the Yerevan City Council election which took place on 17 September 2023. Avinyan was elected as Mayor of Yerevan on 10 October 2023.
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Peter Caruana
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- politicianbarrister
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Sir Peter Richard Caruana, KCMG KC is a Gibraltarian former politician who served as Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1996 to 2011 and Leader of the Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD) from 1991 to 2013. He is the longest serving Chief Minister to date.
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Arthur Wint
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- middle-distance runnerdiplomatsprinter
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Arthur Stanley Wint OD MBE was a Jamaican Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War, sprinter, physician, and later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Competing at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, whilst a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he won two gold and two silver medals, becoming the first Jamaican Olympic gold medalist.
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Virginia Crosbie
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- politician
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Virginia Ann Crosbie is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from the 2019 general election until 2024. Prior to her political career, she worked as a director at UBS and HSBC before retraining as a mathematics teacher.
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Gerard Lyons
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- writereconomist
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Gerard Patrick Lyons is a British economist.
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Rudranath Capildeo
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- mathematicianpolitician
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The Hon. Rudranath Capildeo TC was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, mathematician and barrister. He was a member of the prominent Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family. Capildeo was the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 1960 to 1969 and the first Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of the independent Trinidad and Tobago from 1962 to 1967. He was also a faculty member at the University of London, eventually holding the position of Reader of Mathematics. He was awarded the Trinity Cross, the nation's highest award, in 1969.
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Kia Abdullah
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- journalistnovelist
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Kia Abdullah is a British novelist and travel writer. She is the best-selling author of courtroom dramas Take It Back (HarperCollins, 2019), Truth Be Told (HarperCollins, 2020), Next of Kin (HarperCollins, 2021) and Those People Next Door (HarperCollins, 2023). She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Telegraph and the BBC, among other publications.
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Stephanie Peacock
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- trade unionistpolitician
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Stephanie Louise Peacock is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley South, previously Barnsley East, since 2017. She has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth since July 2024.
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Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, PC, FRGS is a retired British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Wallasey from 1974 to 1992. She served as Minister of State for Overseas Development and Africa at the Foreign Office, in the Conservative government from 1989 to 1997.
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Derek Marlowe
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- writerplaywrightscreenwriter
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Derek William Mario Marlowe was an English playwright, novelist, screenwriter and painter.
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John Meurig Thomas
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- university teacherchemistacademic
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Sir John Meurig Thomas, also known as JMT, was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.
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Elf Lyons
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 34)
- Enrolled in the Queen Mary University of London
- Graduated with Master of Arts in theatre
- Occupations
- comedianstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Emily-Anne "Elf" Lyons is a British stand-up comedian, writer and actress.
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Nathalie Handal
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- non-fiction writerplaywrightpoet
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Nathalie Handal is a Palestinian-American poet, writer and professor, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker and a quintessential global citizen, she has published 10 prize-winning books, including Life in a Country Album. She is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.”
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Michael Duff
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- physicist
- Biography
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Michael James Duff FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
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Philip Campbell
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- editor
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Sir Philip Henry Montgomery Campbell FRS FRAS FInstP is a British astrophysicist. He served as editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed scientific journal Nature from 1995 to 2018. From 2018 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing company Springer Nature until his retirement in May 2023.
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Samson Abramsky
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
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Samson Abramsky is a British computer scientist who is a Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2021.
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Halima Begum
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Biography
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Halima Begum is chief executive of Oxfam UK. She has worked the Department for International Development, the British Council and the Runnymede Trust.
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Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel
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- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- land ownerpolitician
- Biography
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Francis Michael Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel, styled Viscount Ennismore until 1997, is an Irish and British peer. He first sat in the House of Lords by right of his United Kingdom peerage of Baron Hare and was later one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, where he sat as a crossbencher. He retired from the House on 21 July 2022.
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Tejinder Virdee
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS, is a Kenyan-born British experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) with a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project. CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3500 participants from 50 countries.
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Nick Jennings
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- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
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Nicholas Robert Jennings is a British computer scientist who was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University in 2021. He was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London, the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science, and the inaugural Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. His research covers the areas of AI, autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cybersecurity.
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Raed Fahmy Jahid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Raid Jahid Fahmi is an Iraqi politician and economist who served as Iraq's Minister of Science and Technology in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, from 2006 to 2010.
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Suzana Ansar
- Occupations
- film actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Suzana Ansar is an English singer, actress and television presenter of Bangladeshi descent.
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Jerry Brotton
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterhistoriancartographer
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Jerry Brotton is a British historian. He is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a television and radio presenter and a curator.
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Geraint F. Lewis
- Occupations
- university teacherastrophysicistastronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Geraint Francis Lewis, FLSW is a Welsh astrophysicist, best known for his work on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic cannibalism. Lewis is a professor of astrophysics (teaching and research) at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, part of the University of Sydney's School of Physics. He is head of the Gravitational Astrophysics Group. He was previously the associate head for research at the School of Physics, and held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship between 2011 and 2015.
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Sara Torres
- Occupations
- novelistresearcherpoet
- Biography
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Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro is a Spanish poet and novelist. In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry. For her first novel, Lo que hay, she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL (Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros) (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022.
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John Whittaker
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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John Whittaker is a former UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region from 2004 to 2009.
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David Newman
- Occupations
- geographerpolitical scientist
- Biography
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David Newman OBE is a British-Israeli scholar in political geography and geopolitics. He is a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Department of Politics and Government and was this department's first chairperson. Newman also served for many years as chief editor of the academic journal Geopolitics and as dean of BGU's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Naila Kiani
- Born in
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Pakistan - Occupations
- mountaineer
- Biography
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Naila Kiani; is the leading Pakistani female high altitude mountaineer. Kiani is the first Pakistani woman & overall third Pakistani to climb 11 of the 14 highest peaks above 8,000-metres. She is one of the ten mountaineers worldwide and the only Pakistani who climbed multiple (7 peaks) above 8000m in less than six months. Kiani is also the fastest Pakistani (male or female) to climb all eleven 8,000-metre peaks in less than three years.
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Christopher Pitchford
- Years
- 1947-2017 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- judgebarrister
- Biography
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Sir Christopher John Pitchford was a senior British judge, who was a Lord Justice of Appeal in England and Wales from 2010 until he retired because of ill-health in 2017.
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Mārtiņš Kazāks
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Mārtiņš Kazāks is a Latvian economist and the current governor of the central Bank of Latvia since December 2019.
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Andrew Pocock
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sir Andrew John Pocock KCMG is a British former diplomat who was High Commissioner to Nigeria and Permanent Representative to ECOWAS 2012–15.
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Lisa Downing
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- university teacherphilologist
- Biography
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Lisa Downing is an author and academic. She is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham.
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Lee Harwood
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Lee Harwood was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.
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Samata
- Occupations
- journalistfashion designer
- Biography
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Samata Pattinson is a British-Ghanaian sustainability advocate, writer, producer and entrepreneur working in design and entertainment industries. Samata has contributed on sustainability to The Guardian, EuroNews, Vogue and Huffington Post and others. She delivered TEDxTalk in 2023, has been recognised by various magazines, podcasts, TV and radio programmes, and has spoken at United Nations HQ, and the 2021 and 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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Verla De Peiza
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Verla A. De Peiza is a Barbadian politician and lawyer. She was the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 12 August 2018 to 21 January 2022, and was the first woman to hold this position. She also previously served as a Senator for the DLP from 2010 to 2018.
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Bekeme Masade
- Occupations
- entrepreneurwriter
- Biography
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Bekeme Masade-Olowola is a Nigerian social entrepreneur, a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative – the world's leading sustainability impact measurement and reporting standards body – and the Chief Executive of CSR-in-Action, a group made of a consulting firm, a think tank and a training institute dedicated to corporate social responsibility, policy development, advocacy, empowerment and sustainable development in the region.
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Martin Paul Eve
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 39)
- Enrolled in the Queen Mary University of London
- 2005-2008 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- 2008-2009 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterprogrammerlecturer
- Biography
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Martin Paul Eve is a British academic, writer, computer programmer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, Principal R&D Developer at Crossref, and was Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University until 2022. He is known for his work on contemporary literary metafiction, computational approaches to the study of literature, and open-access policy. Together with Caroline Edwards, he is co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH).
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Malcolm Chisholm
- Enrolled in the Queen Mary University of London
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Malcolm Harold Chisholm was a British inorganic chemist who worked mainly in North America, a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University who contributed to the synthesis and structural chemistry of transition metal complexes.
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Kenneth Allen
- Years
- 1923-1997 (aged 74)
- Enrolled in the Queen Mary University of London
- In 1943 studied physics
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Kenneth William Allen was an English nuclear physicist. He was a Professor of Nuclear Physics at the University of Oxford, England. The Independent stated that "Allen will be best remembered for his outstanding contributions to nuclear structure physics and for his advocacy of the use of electrostatic nuclear accelerators in other areas of science. Accelerators – otherwise known as "atom smashers" – are machines used for studying nuclear reactions by creating beams of high-energy particles."
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Edward J. Russell
- Occupations
- agronomistauthoruniversity teacherpedologistresearcher
- Biography
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Sir Edward John Russell OBE FRS was a British soil chemist, agriculture scientist, and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943. He was responsible for hiring R. A. Fisher for statistical research at Rothamsted and driven by concerns over a lack of international information exchange about agriculture, he initiated the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, which later became the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux.
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Angela Speck
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Angela Karen Speck is a Professor of Astrophysics and the Chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She works on infrared astronomy and the study of space dust. She is a popular science communicator, and was co-chair of the National Total Solar Eclipse Task Force.
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Kate Pyne
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Kate Pyne was an English historian working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston. Her work there included the writing of technical history on various aspects of the British nuclear weapons programme from its earliest days to the present time. Prior to taking a degree in Modern History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, she worked for many years in the aircraft industry.
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Adam Tinworth
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Adam Matthew J. Tinworth is a journalist and writer who co-authored two major role-playing games, Demon: The Fallen and Werewolf: The Forsaken from White Wolf Publishing. He was also an extensive contributor to Hunter: The Reckoning, a game line that was subsequently ported to video games.
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Zara Stone
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
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Zara Stone is a San Francisco-based author and journalist. In 2020, her first book, The Future of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, was published by Mango Publishing. Local News Matters says it "will STEM the tide of male domination in science." KALW described it as "about projects that women in STEM are working on." It was listed in Women's History Month New Nonfiction for Teens March 2021 by the Seattle Public Library.
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Jeffrey Jon Shaw
- Occupations
- parasitologist
- Biography
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Jeffrey Jon Shaw OBE, FLS, FASTMH is a British parasitologist who began working in Latin America in 1962. Although officially retired, he is presently a Senior Professor at São Paulo University's Biomedical Sciences Institute where he continues his research in its Parasitology Department.
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Ian Lewis
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Ian Lewis is an American computer scientist who is the director of infrastructure investment for the University of Cambridge and previously the director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service from 2005 to 2014
