100 Notable alumni of
Royal Holloway, University of London
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The Royal Holloway, University of London is 462nd in the world, 160th in Europe, and 37th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Royal Holloway, 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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Mark Strong
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- film actortelevision actorvoice actorstage actor
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Mark Strong is a British actor best known for his film roles such as Prince Septimus in Stardust (2007), Archibald in RocknRolla (2008), Lord Henry Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes (2009), Frank D'Amico in Kick-Ass (2010), Jim Prideaux in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Sinestro in Green Lantern (2011), George in Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Major General Stewart Menzies in The Imitation Game (2014), Merlin in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), Dr. Thaddeus Sivana in Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), and John in Cruella (2021).
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George Eliot
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- editorjournalistphilosopherwritertranslator
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Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). As with Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
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Lenny Henry
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- screenwriterstand-up comediansingerstage actorcomedian
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Sir Lenworth George Henry is an English comedian, actor and writer. He gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in The Lenny Henry Show in 1984. He was the most prominent black British comedian of the time and much of his material served to celebrate and parody his African-Caribbean roots.
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Jojo Moyes
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- screenwriterwriternovelistjournalist
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Pauline Sara Jo Moyes, known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, #1 New York Times best selling author and screenwriter. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide.
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Jeremy Northam
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- film actortelevision actorstage actorsinger
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Jeremy Philip Northam is an English actor. His film credits include Emma (1996), An Ideal Husband (1999), Amistad (1997), The Winslow Boy (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Enigma (2001). In television, he also played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors (2007–2008) and appeared as Anthony Eden in the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2017).
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Emily Davison
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- women's rights activistsuffragistteachersuffragette
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Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.
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Georgina Campbell
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- actor
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Georgina Alice Campbell is an English actress. She won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014), making her the first non-white actress to win that award. Her other television credits include Flowers (2016), Broadchurch (2017), the Black Mirror episode "Hang the DJ" (2017), and Krypton (2018). She starred in the films Barbarian (2022), Bird Box Barcelona (2023), T.I.M. (2023), Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) and The Watchers (2024).
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KT Tunstall
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- recording artistsinger-songwritercomposerguitaristfilm director
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Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained attention with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland. She has released eight studio albums internationally: Eye to the Telescope (2004), Drastic Fantastic (2007), Tiger Suit (2010), Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (2013), Kin (2016), Wax (2018), Nut (2022), and a collaboration album with American musician Suzi Quatro, Face to Face (2023). She has also appeared in two episodes of the comedy series This is Jinsy on Sky Atlantic.
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Roxanne McKee
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- modelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Roxanne McKee is a Canadian-born British actress. She is best known for playing Louise Summers in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2005–2008), Lou Foster in the BBC Three drama series Lip Service (2010), Doreah in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2012) and Lady Claire Riesen in the Syfy apocalyptic supernatural series Dominion (2014–2015). She has also starred in films including Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012), Vendetta (2013) and The Legend of Hercules (2014).
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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- physicianmedical writerhuman rights activistwriterwomen's rights activist
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Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social reformer, and was a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine. Her contributions remain celebrated with the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, awarded annually to a woman who has made a significant contribution to the promotion of women in medicine.
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Example
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- rappersinger-songwritersinger
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Elliot John Gleave, better known by his stage name Example, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He released his debut studio album, What We Made, in 2007, followed by the mixtape What We Almost Made in 2008. Example first found success in 2010 with the release of his second studio album, Won't Go Quietly, which peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart. The album had two top 10 singles, "Won't Go Quietly" and "Kickstarts".
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Aria Mia Loberti
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- actoractivist
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Aria Mia Loberti is an American actress. She stars as Marie-Laure Leblanc in the Netflix miniseries All the Light We Cannot See. She won her inaugural role from a global search of thousands of actresses.
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Emma Freud
- Occupations
- broadcastertelevision presenterdisc jockey
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Emma Vallencey Freud OBE is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.
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Catherine Ashton
- Enrolled in the Royal Holloway, University of London
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Science in sociology
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, LG, GCMG, PC is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
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David Bellamy
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- botanistwriterenvironmentalisttelevision presenter
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David James Bellamy OBE was an English academic, botanist, television presenter, author and prominent environmental campaigner in the UK and globally. His distinctive, energetic style of presenting became well known to UK television audiences in the 1970s and 1980s. Later in life, he made some sceptical statements about climate science.
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
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- freedom fighterpolitical activist
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer. She has worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She is the first woman in India to contest in elections from Madras Constituency, but lost.
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Kate Williams
- Years
- 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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Nicolae de Roumanie
- Enrolled in the Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2009-2012 studied business management
- Occupations
- businesspersonteam leadermountain guideinstructorWater Safety Instructor
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Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills, formerly known as Prince Nicholas of Romania, is the eldest child and only son of Princess Elena of Romania and Robin Medforth-Mills. As a grandson of King Michael of Romania, he was third in line to the defunct throne of Romania according to a new family statute enacted in 2007, that also conferred the title of a "prince of Romania" on him which was removed in 2015. The statute and the titles it confers have no standing in the law of the republic.
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Abbas Ahmad Akhondi
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- engineerpoliticianeconomist
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Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi is an Iranian politician and academic and former Minister of Roads and Urban Development, from 2013 to 2018. In 1993, Akhoundi became the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, making him one of the youngest ministers in Iran's modern history until Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi's appointment in 2017.
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Leilani Dowding
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- film actoractivistmodelbeauty pageant contestant
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Leilani Dowding is an English former beauty pageant titleholder, former glamour model, media personality and conservative commentator. After winning Miss Great Britain 1998 and representing the United Kingdom at Miss Universe 1998, she dropped out of college to pursue a career in glamour modelling, appearing as a Page 3 girl in The Sun and featuring in men's magazines such as Maxim and FHM. She later appeared on US and British reality television programmes including Tough Love Miami and The Real Housewives of Cheshire. She has become known as a conservative commentator and anti-MRNA campaigner. She also contributes to media associated with Mark Steyn.
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Freya Madeline Stark
- Occupations
- travel writeressayistphotographermountaineerexplorer
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.
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Bobby Seagull
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- science communicatortelevision presenterteacher
- Biography
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Jay Bobby Seagull is an English mathematics teacher, broadcaster and writer. He appeared on the television programme University Challenge in 2017, and in 2018 on Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain. His second book, The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers, was published in 2018.
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Amir El-Masry
- Enrolled in the Royal Holloway, University of London
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in sociology and criminology
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Amir El-Masry is an Egyptian-British actor. He won a Scottish BAFTA for his performance in the film Limbo (2020) and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. He was named a 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.
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Kate Perugini
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- painter
- Biography
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Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens.
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Valerie Vaz
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- lawyerpolitician
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Valerie Carol Marian Vaz is a British Labour politician and former solicitor who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall and Bloxwich, previously Walsall South, since 2010. She served as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2016 to 2021 in the Shadow Cabinets of Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.
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Ben Key
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- naval officer
- Biography
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Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key, KCB, CBE, ADC is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord since November 2021. He has commanded HM Ships Sandown, Iron Duke and Lancaster, and deployed on operations to Kosovo and Iraq. He was appointed Fleet Commander in 2016, and the Chief of Joint Operations in 2019.
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Robin Ince
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- radio personalityscreenwritertelevision actoractorpresenter
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Robin Ince is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox, creating Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, co-creating The Cosmic Shambles Network, and his stand-up comedy career.
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Nick Kent
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- guitaristjournalistmusic critic
- Biography
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Nick Kent is a British rock critic and musician, best known for his writing for the NME in the 1970s, and his books The Dark Stuff (1994) and Apathy for the Devil (2010).
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Victoria Prentis
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- politician
- Biography
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Victoria Mary Prentis, KC is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, Prentis served as the Member of Parliament for Banbury from 2015 until her defeat in 2024.
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Aaron Bastani
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- columnistwriter
- Biography
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Aaron John Bastani is a British political commentator, journalist and author. He co-founded the left-wing media organisation Novara Media in 2011 and regularly hosts and contributes to its Novara Live live news show on YouTube. Bastani popularised the term "Fully Automated Luxury Communism", which describes a post-capitalist society in which automation greatly reduces the amount of labour humans need to do. He authored the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism on the subject in 2019. He ideologically identifies as a socialist.
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Joby Talbot
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
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Joby Talbot is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes, with a broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is known, to sometimes disparate audiences, for quite different works.
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Lucy Owen
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- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Lucy Owen is a Welsh television news reader.
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Sarah Perry
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- writerjournalistnovelist
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Sarah Grace Perry FRSL is an English author. She has had four novels published: After Me Comes the Flood (2014), The Essex Serpent (2016), Melmoth (2018) and Enlightenment (2024). Her work has been translated into 22 languages. She was appointed Chancellor of the University of Essex in July 2023, officially starting in this role on 1 August 2023.
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Miriam Rothschild
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- botanistzoologistbiologistentomologist
- Biography
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Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild DBE FRS was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany.
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Clare Mackintosh
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- writerpolice officernovelistjournalist
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Clare Mackintosh is a British author and former police officer.
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Tahmima Anam
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.
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Ahmad Fuadi
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ahmad Fuadi is an Indonesian writer, novelist and social entrepreneur. His debut novel Negeri 5 Menara (The Land of 5 Towers) broke the publisher's sales record (Gramedia Pustaka Utama) for the last 37 years. Negeri 5 Menara is the first part of the Negeri 5 Menara trilogy, followed by Ranah 3 Warna (The Earth of 3 Colors), and Rantau 1 Muara" "Negeri 5 Menara" was brought into wide-screen version and listed as one of the most watched Indonesian movies in the year of 2012. He's also well known for achieving 9 overseas scholarships.
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Margaret Busby
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- writerjournalistauthor
- Biography
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Margaret Yvonne Busby, CBE, Hon. FRSL, also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s. She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992), and its 2019 follow-up New Daughters of Africa. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2020 she was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons". In 2021, she was honoured with the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023, Busby was named as president of English PEN.
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Norman Baker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Norman John Baker is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes in East Sussex from the 1997 general election until his defeat in 2015.
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Andrew Stephenson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew George Stephenson CBE FRSA is a former British politician who most recently served as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care from November 2023 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire from 2010 until 2024.
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Kathleen Lonsdale
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- engineerpeace activistcrystallographerchemist
- Biography
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Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS was an Irish crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945 (along with Marjory Stephenson), first female professor at University College London, first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography, and first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Moussa Ibrahim
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Moussa Ibrahim is a Libyan political figure who rose to international attention in 2011 as Muammar Gaddafi's Information Minister and official spokesman, serving in this role until the government was toppled the same year in the Libyan Civil War. Ibrahim held frequent press conferences in the course of the war, denouncing rebel forces and the NATO-led military intervention, often in defiant and impassioned tones. His status and whereabouts remained unknown following the Battle of Tripoli in which the Gaddafi government was overthrown, although there were several claims and subsequent refutations of his capture. Eventually, in late 2014, it was discovered he was in Egypt before he was deported and fled to Serbia. On 12 January 2015 Moussa Ibrahim spoke publicly by video link at a political event hosted at the Committee Rooms Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London from an undisclosed location, also the Director of Private Security Company.
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Hamidreza Jalaeipour
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistsociologist
- Biography
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Hamidreza Jalaeipour is an Iranian sociologist and journalist, member of the Central Council of the Iran participation front, assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Tehran and one of the main members of the Iranian Sociological Association. He was the manager of Jame'ee and Nosazi newspapers and as well as the Chairman of the policy-making Council at Neshat newspaper.
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Edith Durham
- Occupations
- war correspondentethnographerexplorertravelerwriter
- Biography
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Mary Edith Durham, FRAI was a British artist, anthropologist and writer who is best known for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Her advocacy on behalf of the Albanian cause and her Albanophilia gained her the devotion of many Albanians who consider her a national heroine.
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Shahidul Alam
- Occupations
- activistphotographerteacherunit still photographerblogger
- Biography
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Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, a photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist.
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Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann
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- gynecologistphysician
- Biography
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Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was the first female general practitioner and gynecologist in Munich, Germany.
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Gregory Barker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gregory Leonard George Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, PC is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer, whose career has been overshadowed by controversies, including his links to Russian oligarchs, involvement in the MPs' expenses scandal, and calls from fellow MPs for him to be stripped of his peerage. Appointed as Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change in May 2010, he served in this capacity until 2014. He did not seek re-election in the 2015 general election and subsequently was appointed to the House of Lords.
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Athene Seyler
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Athene Seyler was an English actress.
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Luisa Porritt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luisa Manon Porritt is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
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Stewart Jackson
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Stewart James Jackson, Baron Jackson of Peterborough is a British politician and adviser. Jackson served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough from 2005 to 2017. After being ousted by Labour's Fiona Onasanya at the 2017 general election, he served as Chief of Staff, and Special Adviser to David Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, until July 2018 when Davis resigned his position. He was made a member of the House of Lords as a life peer in November 2022.
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John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble is a British politician. He is a life peer, and has served as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since May 2021.
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Caroline Ansell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Julie Porte Ansell is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 2019 to 2024. She was first elected at the 2015 general election, but was defeated at the snap 2017 general election.
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Saied Reza Ameli
- Occupations
- translatorsociologist
- Biography
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Saied Reza Ameli is a (full) professor of communication at the University of Tehran. He is currently a member of Department of Communications and the director of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture, and Cyberspace Policy Research Center, Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. Over the past decade, Ameli has been working on issues of Muslim minority identity in the West, and Muslim minority rights in UK, France and the U.S. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Cyberspace Studies. He was also Secretary of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. He is the member of Supreme Council of Cyberspace and Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.
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Bradley Garrett
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- photographergeographeracademic
- Biography
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Bradley Garrett is an American researcher of social geography and cultural geography, writer, and photographer. Garrett lives in Morongo Valley, California, on a 5-acre ranch once owned by western movie star Rory Calhoun. He also has a "bug out" cabin in Big Bear Lake, California that was featured in an episode of 60 Minutes.
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Dinah Craik
- Occupations
- children's writerpoetessayistnovelistwriter
- Biography
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Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel, John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.
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Sophie Christiansen
- Enrolled in the Royal Holloway, University of London
- Graduated with Master of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- software engineerdressage rider
- Biography
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Sophie Margaret Christiansen is an English former equestrian who competed in four successive Paralympic Games. In 2012 and 2016 she gained three gold medals at the Paralympics. In 2008 she won two gold medals and a silver at the Beijing Paralympics whilst studying for a master's degree in mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She works as a software developer at investment bank Goldman Sachs and as a disability campaigner. She qualified for the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics but had to drop out due to her horse not being fit.
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Candace Chong Mui Ngam
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Candace Chong Mui Ngam is a Chinese playwright from Hong Kong who has written scripts for play such as The French Kiss (2005), Murder in San José (2009) and The Wild Boar (2012). She has won the Hong Kong Drama Award seven times in the category of Best Script and in 2010 was given the title best drama artist by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
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Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George
- Occupations
- diarist
- Biography
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Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, CBE was the mistress, personal secretary, confidante and second wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
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Andrew Parmley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Andrew Charles Parmley, KStJ is Principal of the Harrodian School in Barnes, London, and served as Lord Mayor of London for 2016–17.
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Davis Chirchir
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Davis Chirchir is a Kenyan politician who is currently serving as Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport. He previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum in the Uhuru Kenyatta Administration from 2017 to 2022 and in the William Ruto Government from 2022 to 2024.
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Jayne-Anne Gadhia
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, DBE, CVO, FRSE is a British businesswoman. She is the Founder and Executive Chair of the fintech Snoop. She was the CEO of Virgin Money from 2007 to 2018.
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Sarah Parker Remond
- Occupations
- abolitionistphysicianautobiographersuffragist
- Biography
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Sarah Parker Remond was an American lecturer, activist and abolitionist campaigner.
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Ajahn Amaro
- Occupations
- bhikkhu
- Biography
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Ajahn Amaro is a Theravāda Buddhist monk and teacher, and abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. The centre, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah. Its chief priorities are the practice and teaching of Buddhist ethics, together with traditional concentration and insight meditation techniques, as an effective way of dissolving suffering.
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Daljit Nagra
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Daljit Nagra MBE FRSL is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! was published by Faber in 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed "Punglish". He was the first poet in residence at the BBC and has served as chair of the council of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University London.
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Benedict Rogers
- Occupations
- journalistcriminal defense lawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Benedict Richard Victor Rogers is a British human rights activist and journalist based in London. His work focuses on Asia, particularly Burma, North Korea, Indonesia, the Maldives, East Timor, Pakistan and Hong Kong. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Huffington Post and has appeared on BBC, CNN, Sky, Al Jazeera and other television and radio stations.
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Robert Garside
- Occupations
- explorerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Robert Garside, calling himself The Runningman, is a British runner who is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world. Garside began his record-setting run following two aborted attempts from Cape Town, South Africa and London, England. Garside set off from New Delhi, India on 20 October 1997, completing his run back at the same point on 13 June 2003.
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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
- Occupations
- writeressayistpoet
- Biography
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Marjorie Phyllis Oludhe Macgoye was born in Southampton, England, but immigrated to Kenya soon after Kenya became independent. She was a poet, novelist, and a missionary bookseller. She studied at the University of London for both her bachelor and master's degree. In 1954, she moved to Kenya to sell books and, while there, she met Daniel Oludhe Macgoye, a medical doctor, and they were married in 1960. She became a Kenyan citizen in 1964.
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Vanessa Kingori
- Occupations
- editorjournalistpublisher
- Biography
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Vanessa Kingori OBE is a multi-award-winning businesswoman with over 20 years of experience in the media and creative industries. She now serves as Google's Managing Director of Technology, Media, and Telecoms, bringing a fresh perspective to the company's business and cultural shifts for the AI era.
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Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig
- Enrolled in the Royal Holloway, University of London
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Ruth Beatrice Henig, Baroness Henig, CBE, JP, DL was a British academic historian and Labour politician.
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Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
- Occupations
- botanistbiologistmycologisttaxonomistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE was a prominent English botanist and mycologist. During the First World War, she served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and then as Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) from 1918 to 1919. During the Second World War, from 1939 to 1941, she served as Chief Controller of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS).
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Caroline Haslett
- Occupations
- justice of the peaceeditorengineer
- Biography
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Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett DBE, JP was an English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of women's rights.
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Jonathan Goodall
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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Jonathan Michael Goodall is a British Roman Catholic priest and a former Church of England bishop. From 2013 to 2021, he was Bishop of Ebbsfleet, a suffragan bishop who is the provincial episcopal visitor in the western half of the Province of Canterbury for those "within the spectrum of Anglican teaching and tradition" who are "unable to receive the ministry of women as bishops or priests". He was ordained a Catholic priest on 12 March 2022.
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Joe Saward
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jonathan Mark Christopher Saward is a British Formula One journalist.
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Alex Lewington
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Alexander "Alex" Lewington is a retired rugby union winger.
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Janet Fookes, Baroness Fookes
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 89)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janet Evelyn Fookes, Baroness Fookes, DBE, DL is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she is a life peer in the House of Lords. She was previously a member of the House of Commons from 1970 to 1997, representing the constituencies of Merton and Morden (1970–74) and Plymouth Drake (1974–97). She was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, and presently is a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords.
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Jessica Lee
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Jessica Katherine Lee, Lady Harrington of Watford is a British former Conservative Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Erewash in Derbyshire in 2010. She served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, before stepping down for the 2015 general election.
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Susan Bullock
- Occupations
- opera singermusician
- Biography
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Susan Margaret Bullock CBE is a British soprano. She has performed dramatic soprano parts at major opera houses, and also sung in concert and recital.
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Angela Mason
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- politicianLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Angela Margaret Mason CBE is a British civil servant and activist, and a former director of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobbying organisation Stonewall. She is a former Chair of the Fawcett Society, a UK women's rights campaigning organisation and a Labour Party councillor in Camden.
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Ewan Pearson
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerdisc jockey
- Biography
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Ewan Pearson is an English electronic music producer/remixer who works under various aliases including Maas, Sulky Pup, Villa America, World of Apples, and Dirtbox. He is also in Partial Arts with Al Usher. He has remixed for artists such as Cortney Tidwell, Seelenluft, Ladytron, Depeche Mode, The Rapture, Goldfrapp, and The Chemical Brothers. In 2001, Soma Quality Recordings released Small Change, an album whose content was exclusively remix work from Pearson under his guises World of Apples and Maas. His production credits include "Pieces of the People We Love" from The Rapture, as well as Ladytron, Chikinki, Envoy and Jeb Loy Nichols and he programmed two tracks for Gwen Stefani's solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. He plays on M83's album Saturdays = Youth. He recently completed production on Tracey Thorn's fourth solo album, Record, which was released in March 2018.
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Javier Bello
- Occupations
- beach volleyball player
- Biography
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Javier Bello is a British beach volleyball player.
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Harriette Chick
- Occupations
- physiologistbiochemistnutritionist
- Biography
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Dame Harriette Chick DBE was a British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist. She is best remembered for demonstrating the roles of sunlight and cod liver oil in preventing rickets.
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Sophie Bryant
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Sophie Willock Bryant was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist. She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England; one of the first to serve on a Royal Commission and on the Senate of the University of London.
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Margaret Wintringham
- Occupations
- politiciansuffragistteacher
- Biography
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Margaret Wintringham JP was a British Liberal Party politician. She was the second woman, and the first British-born woman, to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
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Mary Chamberlain
- Occupations
- historianwriter
- Biography
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Mary Chamberlain is a British novelist and historian. She has been largely collected by libraries worldwide.
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Alec Wilkie
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alex James Wilkie FRS is a British mathematician known for his contributions to model theory and logic. Previously Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, he was appointed to the Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester in 2007.
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Roger Wright
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Sir Roger William Wright CBE is an English arts administrator. Roger Wright was CEO of Britten Pears Arts until the end of July 2024 when he left the role after 10 years.
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Anna Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anna Mary Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.
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Katharine Stephen
- Occupations
- college headlibrarian
- Biography
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Katharine Stephen was a British librarian and later principal of Newnham College at Cambridge University.
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Duncan McCargo
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Duncan McCargo is President's Chair in Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where is also a professor of English. McCargo retains an affiliation with the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, where he taught for many years. Prior to joining NTU he served for four years as director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Between 2015 and 2019 McCargo held a shared professorial appointment at Columbia University, where he remains a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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Frederick Shava
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in the Royal Holloway, University of London
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in parasitology
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava is a Zimbabwean politician who was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in February 2021 and sworn in on 2 March 2021. He also serves as a member of the Senate representing Midlands Province, having been sworn in on 17 March 2021. He replaced the late Sibusiso Moyo in both the Senate and as foreign minister.
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Jenny Randerson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson, Baroness Randerson was a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She was a junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government.
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Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Delyth Jane Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin is a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, having formerly sat as a Labour peer. She was raised to the peerage in 2004 and appointed Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign, now Breast Cancer Now, in 2011. She was educated at Bedford College, London, BSc Physiology & Biochemistry, 1983, now part of Royal Holloway, University of London, and also University College London. She was president of the London University Union (1985–86).
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Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe is a British politician and Labour member of the House of Lords.
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Jüri Nael
- Occupations
- choreographerdancertelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Jüri Nael is an Estonian choreographer, movement director, professor of contemporary performance and theatre pedagogue.
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Martin Pickford
- Occupations
- paleoanthropologistpaleontologistanthropologistprofesseur des universités
- Biography
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Martin Pickford is a lecturer in the Chair of Paleoanthropology and Prehistory at the Collège de France and honourary affiliate at the Département Histoire de la Terre in the Muséum national d'Histoire. In 2001, Martin Pickford together with Brigitte Senut and their team discovered Orrorin tugenensis, a hominid primate species dated between 5.8 and 6.2 million years ago and a potential ancestor of the genus Australopithecus.
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Louisa Martindale
- Occupations
- surgeonphysician
- Biography
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Louisa Martindale CBE FRCOG was an English physician, surgeon and writer. She also served as magistrate on the Brighton bench, was a prison commissioner and a member of the National Council of Women. She served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals at Royaumont Abbey in France in World War I, and as a surgeon in London in World War II. Through her writings she promoted medicine as a career for women.
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Antony John Williams
- Occupations
- proprietorchemist
- Biography
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Antony John Williams is a British chemist and expert in the fields of both nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and cheminformatics at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He is the founder of the ChemSpider website that was purchased by the Royal Society of Chemistry in May 2009. He is a science blogger and an author.
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Janet Finch
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Dame Janet Valerie Finch DBE, DL, FAcSS is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University, and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK. She currently holds an honorary position at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, based in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. She is also part of Flooved advisory board.
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Diriye Osman
- Occupations
- writerpainter
- Biography
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Diriye Osman is a British-Somali author, visual artist, critic and essayist. His books include the award-winning collection of stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, and the collection of interlinked stories, The Butterfly Jungle, which Osman wrote and designed on his phone. Dubbed "a master of the surreal" and one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK, his writing and art have appeared in The Guardian, Granta, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post, Vice Magazine, Poetry Review, Prospect Magazine, Time Out London, Attitude Magazine, Afropunk, and many other publications.
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Helen Porter
- Occupations
- biochemistbotanistuniversity teacherscience writerbiologist
- Biography
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Helen Kemp Porter was a British botanist from Imperial College London. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first female professor at Imperial College London. Her studies of polysaccharide metabolism in tobacco plants were groundbreaking; she was one of the first British scientists to use the innovative technologies of chromatography and radioactive tracers.
