44 Notable alumni of
Staffordshire University
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Staffordshire University is 1128th in the world, 401st in Europe, and 80th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from Staffordshire 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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Lemmy
- Occupations
- singerrock musicianrecord producerguitaristcomposer
- Biography
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Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975.
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Fabrice Muamba
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Fabrice Ndala Muamba is a Congolese-born English former professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder. Born in Zaire, Muamba moved to England at the age of 11 and subsequently played for England up to under-21 level.
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Kevin Kilbane
- Occupations
- association football playersports commentator
- Biography
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Kevin Daniel Kilbane is a former professional footballer who played as a left winger or full back. born in England, Kilbane won 110 caps for the Republic of Ireland national team, fourth behind only Robbie Keane, Shay Given and John O'Shea as the most capped Irish player of all time.
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Jared O'Mara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jared Cain O'Mara is a British convicted fraudster and former Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019.
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Clarke Carlisle
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Clarke James Carlisle is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender and was chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association.
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Shafie Apdal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohd Shafie bin Apdal is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Semporna since April 1995, State Leader of the Opposition of Sabah since September 2020 and Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Senallang since May 2018. He served as the 15th Chief Minister and the State Minister of Finance of Sabah from May 2018 to September 2020, Minister of Rural and Regional Development from April 2009 to July 2015 and Vice-President of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He has served as the 1st and founding President of Heritage Party (WARISAN) since October 2016. He lost the power as Chief Minister of Sabah following the defeat of his coalition WARISAN + in the 2020 state election.
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Chris Iwelumo
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Christopher Robert Iwelumo is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played as a striker.
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Boris Malagurski
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterpolitical analystfilm directordocumentarian
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Boris Malagurski is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, political commentator, television host, and activist. His films include the documentary series The Weight of Chains.
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Tom Smith
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- songwritermusiciansingerguitaristpianist
- Biography
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Tom Smith is an English musician, best known as the lead singer, songwriter, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Editors.
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Avdullah Hoti
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Avdullah Hoti is a Kosovan politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Kosovo from 3 June 2020 until 22 March 2021. He previously served as the minister of Finance of Kosovo between 2014 and 2017 in the PDK/LDK coalition government.
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Chris Birchall
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Christopher Birchall CM is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He scored 21 goals in 322 league and cup appearances in a 16-year professional career and scored four goals in 44 international matches for Trinidad and Tobago.
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Kevin Betsy
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kevin Eddie Lewis Betsy is a football coach and former professional footballer. He is currently first team development coach at championship club Queens Park Rangers.
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Matt Bloomfield
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Matthew James Bloomfield is an English professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship club Luton Town.
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Ian McMillan
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightpoetjournalist
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Ian McMillan FRSL is an English poet, journalist, playwright, and broadcaster. He is known for his strong and distinctive Yorkshire accent and his incisive, friendly interview style on programmes such as BBC Radio 3's The Verb. He lives in Darfield, the village of his birth.
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Paul Hall
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Paul Anthony Hall is a football coach and former professional footballer who is the head coach of EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers B team.
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Jim Davies
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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James Donald Davies is the former live and studio guitarist for English band the Prodigy. He is also a former member of Pitchshifter.
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Andrew Triggs Hodge
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Andrew Triggs Hodge OBE is a British former rower - a three time Olympic champion and four time world champion. In the British coxless four in 2012 he set a world's best time which still stood as of 2023.
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Angellah Kairuki
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Angellah Jasmine Mbelwa Kairuki is a Tanzanian CCM politician and cabinet Minister. On 1 September 2023, she began her post as the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism of Tanzania.
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Russell Leetch
- Occupations
- musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Russell Jonathan Leetch is an English bass guitarist who plays with Birmingham-based indie rock band Editors. He studied music technology at University of Staffordshire where he met his fellow Editors band members. He went to secondary school at Arden School, Knowle.
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Craig Lindfield
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Craig Anthony Lindfield is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a winger for Airbus UK Broughton who compete in the Cymru North.
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Carol Shanahan
- Occupations
- businesspersonassociation football player
- Biography
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Carol Ann Shanahan OBE is an English businesswoman and club chairperson of Port Vale Football Club.
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John Mullins
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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John Christopher Mullins is an English former professional footballer who primarily played as a centre-back.
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Fatmir Besimi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fatmir Besimi is a Macedonian politician and economist of Albanian ethnicity. He served as Minister of Finance in North Macedonia from 2020 to 2024. He also served twice as Minister of Economy (December 2004 – June 2006 and August 2008 – July 2011) then Minister of Defence (August 2011 – February 2013) and after that he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs (March 2013 – March 2016). In 2010 he was selected as one of the top European Ministers in the group of Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum.
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Chris Beardsley
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Christopher Kellan Beardsley is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently a Caribbean based talent scout for FIFA.
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Michelle Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michelle Margaret Freda Brown is a British lawyer and former politician who was a Member of the Senedd (MS) for North Wales from 2016 to 2021. In March 2019 she resigned from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to become an independent.
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Paul Harvey
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- musicianuniversity teacherpainter
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Paul Arthur Harvey is a British musician and Stuckist artist, whose work was used to promote the Stuckists' 2004 show at the Liverpool Biennial. His paintings draw on pop art and the work of Alphonse Mucha, and often depict celebrities, including Madonna.
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Adam Yates
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Adam Paul Yates is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He made 520 league and cup appearances in a 16-year career as a professional and also won three caps as a semi-pro international with England.
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Charlie MacDonald
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Charles Lea MacDonald is an English footballer who last played for Barking.
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Luke Coulson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Luke Coulson is an English footballer who plays as a winger for National League South club Weston-super-Mare.
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David Morgan
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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David Barry Morgan is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for National League North club Southport.
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Mike O'Brien
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael O'Brien KC is a British lawyer and former Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 1992 to 2010, serving in a number of ministerial posts.
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Gareth Owen
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Gareth David Owen is an English-born Welsh former footballer, now working as academy director with Stoke City.
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Justin Richards
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Justin Donovan Richards is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He has a tally of around one goal every four games and has played mostly in the Conference and lower reaches of the English Football League. Something of a journeyman player, he has tended to play for teams in his local area around the Midlands and Southern England.
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Sam Stockley
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Samuel Joshua Stockley is an English football coach and former professional player who is the sporting director at USL League One club Lexington SC.
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Adie Moses
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Adrian Paul "Adie" Moses is an English former footballer. He made over 300 appearances in the Premier League and the Football League between 1993 and 2008, he notably played for Barnsley having also featured for Huddersfield Town, Crewe Alexandra, Lincoln City, Mansfield Town and Gainsborough Trinity. He also represented England at Under-21 level.
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Hykmete Bajrami
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hykmete Bajrami is a politician from Kosovo. She has been the Minister of Finance of Kosovo from June 2020. She was the Minister of Trade and Industry in the Government of Isa Mustafa of the Republic of Kosovo.
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Christopher Stringer
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- industrial designer
- Biography
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Christopher Stringer is an industrial designer, formerly of Apple. During his 22 years at Apple (1995-2017), he contributed to the design of the PowerBook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, HomePod, USB-C. He currently holds over 1,400 patents, and was the key industrial design witness for Apple during the Apple vs. Samsung trial in 2012. In 2018 he founded audio brand Syng, where he is the Founder and Chief Design Officer.
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Olly Grender
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosalind Mary Grender, Baroness Grender MBE, known as Olly Grender, is a former Head of Communications for the Liberal Democrats and a party life peer.
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Mohamed Zairi
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mohamed Zairi is a British academic and researcher in the field of total quality management and excellence management. Over a period of 35 years, he has been influencing Quality Management Thinking. He is also recognized as a luminary in the Global Quality Horizon. In addition to TQM and Excellence Management, Zairi has immense expertise in areas such as Performance Measurement, Business Process Management, Change Management, Innovation Management, Governance, and Service Improvement.
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Allison McGourty
- Occupations
- photographerfilm producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Allison McGourty is a British film producer and screenwriter.
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Marcus Dillistone
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Marcus Dillistone is a British film director.
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Mathias Meinrad Chikawe
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mathias Meinrad Chikawe is a Tanzanian CCM politician and diplomat.
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Lisa Marie Thalhammer
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Lisa Marie Thalhammer is an artist living in Washington D.C.
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Gary Lock
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Enrolled in Staffordshire University
- 1979-1984 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- archaeologist
- Biography
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Gary R. Lock is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He is noted for his contributions to computational archaeology.
