14 Notable alumni of
Solent University
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Solent University is 2388th in the world, 774th in Europe, and 123rd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Solent 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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Ricky Whittle
- Occupations
- actortelevision actormodel
- Biography
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Richard George Whittle is a British actor. Whittle first came to prominence as a model for Reebok in the early 2000s. He is known in the United Kingdom for his role as Calvin Valentine in the soap opera Hollyoaks. In 2009, he finished second in the BBC reality competition Strictly Come Dancing. In 2012, Whittle crossed over to American television when he booked a recurring role on VH-1's Single Ladies, followed by a recurring role on ABC's Mistresses in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Whittle appeared in The CW's post-apocalyptic drama The 100 as Lincoln. Whittle starred in the Starz television series American Gods for three seasons.
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Jonathan Ross
- Occupations
- television directorfilm critictelevision actorfilm actortelevision producer
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Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE is an English broadcaster, television personality, film critic, comedian, and writer. He has presented television comedy chat shows, including BBC's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001–2010) and ITV's The Jonathan Ross Show (2011–present). For the BBC show, he won three British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance. Ross hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio 2 from 1999 to 2010. He served as film critic and presenter of the television programme Film… (1999–2010).
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Camille Lepage
- Occupations
- war photographerphotojournalistjournalistphotographer
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Camille Lepage was a French photojournalist who was killed during the conflict in the Central African Republic in 2014. Her death was described as a murder by the French presidency and it marked the first death of a Western journalist in the conflict.
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Santiago Lange
- Enrolled in Solent University
- Studied naval architecture
- Occupations
- skipper
- Biography
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Santiago Raúl Lange Roberti is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval architect.
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Gary Hunt
- Occupations
- swimmercompetitive diver
- Biography
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Gary Hunt, also known as Roger Gary Hunt, is an elite sports diver, specialising in cliff or high diving, and is the 2019 World champion in high diving at World Aquatics Championships event, where he holds the championship record. With a silver in the 2013 edition of the event, Hunt is the most successful male diver in the short history of the FINA recognised event.
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Sean Yazbeck
- Occupations
- film actoractorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Sean Yazbeck is a British-American businessman. He is the founder of multiple enterprise software and technology services companies. He is the winner of the fifth season of Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice.
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Yoann Richomme
- Occupations
- sailor
- Biography
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Yoann Richomme is a French navigator, sailor and yacht skipper. He has won the Solitaire du Figaro in 2016 and 2019 and the Route du Rhum in the Class 40 category in 2018 and 2022. In the Imoca class, he won the Retour à la Base 2023 and The Transat 2024.
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Adam Jones
- Enrolled in Solent University
- 2008-2009 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- human rights defenderpolitical scientistwriter
- Biography
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Adam Jones is a Canadian political scientist, writer, and photojournalist based at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction and other books in genocide studies. He is Executive Director of Gendercide Watch. He was chosen as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide" for the book of that name, which was published in 2010. He is also a published photographer, both in print and online under a Creative Commons license.
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Ivor Archie
- Occupations
- lawyer
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Ivor Archie ORTT is a Trinidadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 2008 to 2025. He was formerly Solicitor general of the Cayman Islands from 1995 until his return to Trinidad in 1998.
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Oli Pettigrew
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Oli Pettigrew is a television presenter and former model.
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Juan Kouyoumdjian
- Occupations
- marine engineerdesignerengineer
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Juan Kouyoumdjian, also known as Juan K a naval architect specializing in designing racing sailboats. His designs have obtained 2 Olympic gold medals, 3 VOR Volvo Ocean Race wins, 7 World Championship titles, 9 offshore speed records, 6 America's Cup involvements, amongst other competitions.
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Marc Van Peteghem
- Occupations
- marine architect
- Biography
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Marc Van Peteghem is a French naval architect, co-founder of VPLP a French based naval architectural firm, since 1983.
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Nick Spalding
- Occupations
- writer
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Nick Spalding is a British comedy novelist.
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John Ford
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Biography
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John Frank Ford is a British former Anglican bishop. From 2013 to 2019 he was the Bishop of The Murray in the Anglican Church of Australia. From 2005 to 2013, he was the Bishop of Plymouth, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England. In November 2025 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
