44 Notable alumni of
Staffordshire University
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Staffordshire University is 1105th in the world, 388th in Europe, and 79th 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 Kilmister
- Occupations
- composerguitaristrecord producersingerrock musician
- Biography
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Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was a British 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 an 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
- sports commentatorassociation football player
- Biography
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Kevin Daniel Kilbane is a former professional footballer who played as a left winger or full back. 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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Tom Smith
- Occupations
- pianistguitaristsingermusiciansongwriter
- 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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Jared O'Mara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jared Cain O'Mara is a British convicted fraudster and former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019.
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Shafie Apdal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Datuk Seri Panglima 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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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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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 directorpolitical analystscreenwriterfilm producerdocumentarian
- Biography
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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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Avdullah Hoti
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- 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.
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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 assistant head coach at Cambridge United.
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Matt Bloomfield
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Matthew James Bloomfield is an English professional football manager and former footballer who is the current manager of EFL League One club Wycombe Wanderers. He played as a midfielder and spent the entirety of his playing career with Wycombe Wanderers, having started with Ipswich Town, graduating from the club's academy without making a first team league appearance. He made his senior debut in 2003, after joining Wycombe on a free transfer in the same year.
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Ian McMillan
- Occupations
- journalistpoetplaywrightwriter
- Biography
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Ian McMillan 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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Andrew Triggs Hodge
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Andrew Triggs Hodge 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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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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Angellah Kairuki
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- 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
- guitaristmusician
- 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 Staffordshire University 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
- association football playerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Carol Ann Shanahan 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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Chris Beardsley
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- 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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Fatmir Besimi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fatmir Besimi is a Macedonian politician and economist of Albanian ethnicity. He currently served for Minister of Finance in North Macedonia, 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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Paul Harvey
- Occupations
- painteruniversity teachermusician
- Biography
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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 plays 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. He is currently a player at Dartford
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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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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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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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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 first-team manager and sporting director at USL League One club Lexington SC.
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Adie Moses
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- 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 49)
- 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 59)
- 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 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosalind Mary Grender, Baroness Grender, 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
- film producerphotographerscreenwriter
- 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 73)
- 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 76)
- 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.
