34 Notable alumni of
Sheffield Hallam University
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Sheffield Hallam University is 1025th in the world, 359th in Europe, and 72nd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from Sheffield Hallam University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Andy Whitfield
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- film actormodeltelevision actoractor
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Andrew Whitfield was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his leading role in the Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
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Kelly Holmes
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- middle-distance runner
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Dame Kelly Holmes is a retired British middle distance athlete and television personality.
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Nick Park
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- directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm directorcinematographer
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Nicholas Wulstan Park CBE RDI is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
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David Slade
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- screenwriterfilm directormanufacturer
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David Aldrin Slade is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.
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Andrea Hirata
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- writernovelist
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Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian author best known for the 2005 novel Laskar Pelangi ("The Rainbow Troops") and its sequels.
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Miriam Cates
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- politician
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Miriam Joy Cates is a British politician who was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2019 to 2024.
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Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed
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- politician
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Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, is a British former politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he was appointed a life peer in 1998.
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Mr. Scruff
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- club DJdisc jockeycomposerrecord producer
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Andrew Carthy, known professionally as Mr. Scruff, is an English record producer and DJ. He lives in Stretford, Greater Manchester and studied fine art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University. Before he could make a living from his music alone, he worked as a shelf stocker in the Hazel Grove branch of Kwik Save.
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Leon Taylor
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- competitive diver
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Leon Taylor is a former British competitive diver. During his diving career he won medals at all major international events including a silver at the Athens Olympics. Following his retirement from competition, Taylor transitioned to a portfolio of projects. He now speaks about mental wellness, supports the SportsAid charity, teaches yoga and mental wellness, works for an executive performance business and commentates for the BBC.
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David Artell
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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David John Artell is a football manager and former professional player who is head coach of EFL League Two club Grimsby Town.
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Kevin Hollinrake
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- estate agentpolitician
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Kevin Paul Hollinrake is a British Conservative Party politician and businessman who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Thirsk and Malton since 2015. He has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities since November 2024. He served as Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade from July to November 2024. He previously served as Minister of State for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business from 2022 to 2024.
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Steve Peat
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- sport cyclist
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Steve Peat, nicknamed "Sheffield Steel" or more commonly just "Peaty", is a British professional downhill mountain biker who was born and lives in Chapeltown, Sheffield, England. Prior to his career as a professional mountain biker Peat was employed as a plumber by James Lamb. He is married to Adele Croxon and has two sons, Jake and George Peat.
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Bruce Oldfield
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- dressmakerfashion designer
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Bruce Oldfield, OBE is a British fashion designer, best known for his couture occasionwear. Notable clients have included Sienna Miller, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diana Ross, Charlotte Rampling, Jerry Hall, Joan Collins, Diana, Princess of Wales, Queen Noor of Jordan, Queen Camilla, the Duchess of Edinburgh and Queen Rania of Jordan.
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Mike Berners-Lee
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- 1964-.. (age 61)
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- physicistclimatologistwriteruniversity teacherscientist
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Mike Berners-Lee is an English researcher and writer on carbon footprinting. He is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the university. His books include How Bad are Bananas?, The Burning Question and There Is No Planet B and he is a contributing author to The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg. He is considered an expert on carbon footprints.
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David Strettle
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- rugby union player
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David Strettle is a former English rugby union wing.
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Stephanie Hill
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- modelactor
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Stephanie Hill is an English academic, singer, actress, model, dancer and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss England 2017. She represented England at Miss World 2017 held in Sanya, China on 18 November 2017 and was 2nd runner-up. She also competed at Miss Universe Great Britain 2020.
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Sean Lamont
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- rugby union player
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Sean Lamont is a Scottish former international rugby union player and now Strength and Conditioning Coach. He played at centre and on the wing. He gained 105 caps for Scotland before retiring from international rugby in 2017.
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Marc Allera
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- 1972-.. (age 53)
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- businessperson
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Marc David Allera is the CEO of BT Consumer and head of three of the UK’s communications brands, BT, EE and Plusnet, who previously was the CEO and Chief Commercial Officer of EE.
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Gervase Phinn
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- teacherwriter
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Gervase Phinn is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside. He graduated from Leeds Trinity University in 1970 with a degree in Education.
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Karmenu Vella
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- architectpolitician
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Karmenu Vella KOM is a Maltese politician and former member of the European Commission, in charge of Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries between 2014 and 2019. He has been one of the longest serving Maltese Parliamentarian with the Maltese Labour Party. He was appointed Companion of the National Order of Merit of Malta in 2019.
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Reuben Wu
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- 1975-.. (age 50)
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- photographermusician
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Reuben Wu is a British artist, photographer, and musician. He is also known as a founding member of the electronic band Ladytron.
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Steven Hall
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- writernovelistscience fiction writer
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Steven Hall is a British writer. He is the author of The Raw Shark Texts, lead writer of the video game Battlefield 1, and writer on Nike's World Cup short film The Last Game.
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David Mellor
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- lighting designer
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David Rogerson Mellor CBE FCSD RDI was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.
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Zuzana Roithová
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- politicianphysician
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Zuzana Roithová is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a substitute on the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
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Charles Sargeant Jagger
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- paintersculptor
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Charles Sargeant Jagger MC ARA was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war. He is best known for his war memorials, especially the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner and the Great Western Railway War Memorial in Paddington Railway Station. He also designed several other monuments around Britain and other parts of the world.
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Richard O'Dwyer
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Richard O'Dwyer is a British entrepreneur & computer programmer who created the TVShack.net search engine while a student at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Richard Caborn
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- politician
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Richard George Caborn is a British politician who served as Minister of Sport from 2001 to 2007 and later as the prime minister's ambassador for England's 2018 FIFA World Cup bid. He previously served as a junior minister in the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Department of Trade and Industry. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Central from 1983 to 2010.
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Ben Jones-Bishop
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- rugby league player
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Ben Jones-Bishop is a Jamaica international rugby league footballer who plays as a winger or fullback for the Sheffield Eagles in the RFL Championship.
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Ged Doherty
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Ged Doherty is a British film and music industry executive. Formerly the chairman of the British Phonographic Industry and BRIT Awards Limited and the chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK, he is the CEO and co-founder of Raindog Films.
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Debjani Chatterjee
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- poetwriter
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Debjani Chatterjee MBE is an Indian-born British poet and writer. She lives in Sheffield, England.
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Dean Downing
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- sport cyclistsporting director
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Dean "Deano" Downing is an English retired bicycle racer, specialising in road cycling who last rode for NFTO Pro Cycling. Downing was educated at Wales High School and Sheffield Hallam University, where he graduated in 1998 with a degree in Construction Management. He rode for the DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed team in 2006 and is the older brother of former British champion Russell Downing. In 2004, he represented Great Britain at the World Track Championships.
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Gerry Steinberg
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- politician
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Gerald Neil Steinberg was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for the City of Durham from 1987 until his retirement at the 2005 general election.
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Rosalind Canter
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- event rider
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Rosalind Canter is a British equestrian who competes in eventing. She is the 2018 World Champion. On Monday, 8 May 2023 she won the Badminton Horse Trials riding Lordships Graffalo. She won a gold medal in Team eventing at 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Roma Babuniak
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- artist
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Roma Babuniak is an artist whose work is associated with bone china and unglazed biscuit porcelain. She lives and works in Germany and France She has won many prizes and awards, in 1986, the 1st International Ceramics Contest Mino, Japan, (Award with Honorable Mention for outstanding achievement) and the 1999 Premio Diputacio da Valencia; International BiennalManises, Museu de ceramic de Manises, Spain among others.
