100 Notable alumni of
London School of Economics and Political Science
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The London School of Economics and Political Science is 28th in the world, 8th in Europe, and 4th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the London School of Economics and Political Science sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science won Nobel Prizes in Economics.
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George Soros
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- In 1954 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- writerentrepreneurbusiness magnatephilosopherinvestor
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George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.
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Mick Jagger
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- composersinger-songwriteractorguitaristfilm producer
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Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English musician, songwriter, and film producer. He is the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones. Jagger has co-written most of the band's songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; their songwriting partnership is one of the most successful in rock music history. His career has spanned more than six decades, and he has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential front men in the history of rock music. His distinctive voice and energetic live performances, along with Richards's guitar style, have been the Rolling Stones' trademark throughout the band's career. Early in his career, Jagger gained notoriety for his romantic involvements and illicit drug use, and has often been portrayed as a countercultural figure.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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- anti-vaccine activistuniversity teacherbiographerjuristradio personality
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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of U.S. president John F. Kennedy.
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B. R. Ambedkar
- Years
- 1891-1956 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- professorscholarjuristfreedom fighternewspaper editor
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, inspiring the Dalit Buddhist movement.
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Monica Lewinsky
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with social psychology
- Occupations
- social psychologistbusinesspersonentrepreneurdesignerpsychologist
- Biography
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Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.
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Ursula von der Leyen
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- physicianequestrianpolitician
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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024.
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Annalena Baerbock
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 2004-2005
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock is a German diplomat and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She served as Germany's minister for foreign affairs from 2021 to 2025. She has served as President of the United Nations General Assembly during its 80th session since 9 September 2025.
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David Rockefeller
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- entrepreneurart collectorbankerwritercommissioned armed forces officers
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David Rockefeller was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
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Tsai Ing-wen
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- 1980-1984 graduated with Doctor of Laws
- Occupations
- juristlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the seventh president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she intermittently served as chair of the DPP from 2008 to 2012, 2014 to 2018, and 2020 to 2022. She was the first woman to hold the presidency in Taiwan's history.
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Pierre Trudeau
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterjuristlaw professorteacher
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Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984. Between his non-consecutive terms as prime minister, he served as the leader of the Official Opposition from 1979 to 1980.
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Lee Kuan Yew
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- politicianlawyerautobiographerstatespersonphilosopher
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Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK, often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and barrister who was the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. A founding father of the modern Singaporean state, his authoritarian political leadership transformed post-independence Singapore into a highly developed country and one of the four Asian Tigers.
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Tarō Asō
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- economistentrepreneurdiplomatpolitician
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Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2021. He was the longest-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Japanese history, having previously served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from 2003 to 2005. He leads the Shikōkai faction within the LDP.
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Margrethe II of Denmark
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- monarchpaintertextile artistscreenwriter
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Margrethe II is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she is the second-longest-reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV.
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Feroze Gandhi
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian independence activist, politician and journalist. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower house of Indian parliament. He published The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers. His wife, Indira Gandhi (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India), and their elder son Rajiv Gandhi were both prime ministers of India. He was a member of Indian National Congress.
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Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
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- politicianmerchantbusinesspersonjockeypoet
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Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati royal and politician who has been the Crown Prince of Dubai since 2008. He is the Minister of Defence of the UAE since 14 July 2024. He served as deputy ruler of Dubai from 2006 to 2008. He is popularly known as Fazza (Arabic: فزاع), the name under which he publishes his poetry, which means "the one who helps" in Arabic. As an equestrian, Maktoum is a multiple world champion at the World Equestrian Games.
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Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 2003
- Occupations
- heir apparent
- Biography
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Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja.
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Jon Ossoff
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- In 2013 graduated with Master of Science in political science
- Occupations
- investigative journalistfilm producerchief executive officerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Jonathan Ossoff is an American politician who has served as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the youngest incumbent U.S. senator. Before his election to Congress, he was a documentary and investigative filmmaker.
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Zygmunt Bauman
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- opinion journalistuniversity teacherwriterphilosophersociologist
- Biography
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Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later, he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, consumerism in postmodernity, and liquid modernity.
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Kwame Nkrumah
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherwriterdiplomatlecturer
- Biography
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Francis Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.
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Anthony Kennedy
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerjudgejurist
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Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and sworn in on February 18, 1988. After the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor in 2006, he was considered the swing vote on many of the Roberts Court's 5–4 decisions.
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Juan Manuel Santos
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- economistlawyerjournalistpolitician
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Juan Manuel Santos Calderón GColIH GCB GColL ODB is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Soha Ali Khan
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Soha Ali Khan Pataudi Khemu is an Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali, and English films. She is the younger daughter of veteran actress Sharmila Tagore and former India cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan, of Bhopal, and the younger sister of actor Saif Ali Khan. She started her acting career with the romantic comedy film Dil Maange More (2004), and is best known for her role in the drama film Rang De Basanti (2006) and the romance film Ahista Ahista (2006). In 2017, she authored a book The Perils of Being Moderately Famous that won the Crossword Book Award in 2018.
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Thomas Piketty
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 1991-1993
- Occupations
- economistresearch fellowwriter
- Biography
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Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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Michael Lewis
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with master's degree in economics
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
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Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- engineermilitary personnelpoliticianarchitect
- Biography
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Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan political figure. He was the second son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his second wife Safia Farkash. He was a part of his father's inner circle, performing public relations and diplomatic roles on his behalf.
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Todd Boehly
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- business executivephilanthropistinvestorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Todd Boehly is an American businessman and head of Eldridge Industries, a holding company headquartered in Miami, Florida. He is the company's co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer and controlling member, as well as chairman of asset manager Eldridge. He is also the co-controlling owner and chairman of Premier League football club Chelsea, and co-owner of Ligue 1 football club Strasbourg under BlueCo. As of December 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$9.3 billion.
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Ed Miliband
- Occupations
- podcasterpolitician
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Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Alongside his brother, David Miliband, he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Rachel Reeves
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Rachel Jane Reeves is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West and Pudsey, formerly Leeds West, since 2010. She held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2010 and 2015 and from 2020 to 2024.
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Alexander Stubb
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- writerdiplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is the president of Finland, having taken office in 2024. He previously served as prime minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
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Christiana Figueres
- Occupations
- climate activistpoliticiandiplomatpodcastereconomist
- Biography
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Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen. During the next six years she worked to rebuild the global climate change negotiating process, leading to the 2015 Paris Agreement, widely recognized as a historic achievement.
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Anne Applebaum
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with master's degree in international relations
- Occupations
- writercolumnisthistoriannon-fiction writerjournalist
- Biography
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013.
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Naomi Klein
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- economistdocumentary filmmakerclimate activistsociologistjournalist
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Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice since it was launched in 2021.
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Talcott Parsons
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 1924-1925
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistbiologist
- Biography
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Talcott Parsons was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1973. In 1930, he was among the first professors in its new sociology department. Later, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard.
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Romano Prodi
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- economistbusinesspersonuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Romano Prodi OMRI is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again from 2006 to 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent figures of the Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore ("The Professor") due to his academic career.
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Eric Garcetti
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- climate activistprofessornaval officertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Eric Michael Garcetti is an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to India from 2023 to 2025. He was the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 election, and re-elected in 2017. A former member of the Los Angeles City Council, Garcetti served as City Council president from 2006 to 2012. He was the city's first elected Jewish mayor, and its second consecutive Mexican-American mayor. He was elected as the youngest mayor in over 100 years, having been 42 at the time of his inauguration. Upon nomination by President Joe Biden after a previously failed nomination the year before, Garcetti was eventually confirmed as Ambassador to India by the Senate on a 52–42 vote on March 15, 2023.
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Valerie Plame
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- spywriter
- Biography
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Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy, novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post. She described this period and the media firestorm that ensued as "mortifying, and I think I was in shock for a couple years".
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Jomo Kenyatta
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Jomo Kenyatta CGH was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and a conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death.
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Varun Gandhi
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Feroze Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician who has been a three time Member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from the Pilibhit constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into Rajnath Singh's team in March 2012 as General Secretary. He belongs to the Nehru–Gandhi family, which has occupied a prominent place in the politics of India since a time before the country's independence in 1947.
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Ruth Porat
- Occupations
- financier
- Biography
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Ruth Porat is a British-American business executive who is the president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google LLC and prior to that was the chief financial officer of the same companies from 2015 to 2024. Prior to joining Google, Porat was the executive vice president & chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to May 2015.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- business magnateentrepreneurchief executive officeraccountant
- Biography
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerates in India. He is the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and former chairman of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. In 2023, Birla received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour in India.
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam
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- politician
- Biography
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam PPA is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been the current and ninth President of Singapore since 2023.
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Nate Silver
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- statisticianpoker playerjournalist
- Biography
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Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball, football, and elections. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and held the position of editor-in-chief there, along with being a special correspondent for ABC News until May 2023. Since departing FiveThirtyEight, Silver has been publishing in his online newsletter Silver Bulletin and serves as an advisor to Polymarket.
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Bronisław Malinowski
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied ethnology
- Occupations
- photographeranthropologistethnographeruniversity teacherethnologist
- Biography
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
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Jo Swinson
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- politician
- Biography
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Joanne Kate Swinson CBE FRSA is a Scottish former politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from July to December 2019. Swinson was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire from 2005 to 2015 and 2017 to 2019. In September 2020, Swinson became Director of Partners for a New Economy (P4NE).
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Kim Campbell
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- consul generalautobiographerdiplomatlawyerpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a Canadian politician who was the 19th prime minister of Canada from June to November 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.
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K. R. Narayanan
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Kocheril Raman Narayanan was an Indian diplomat, academician, and statesman who served as the president of India from 1997 to 2002 and vice president of India from 1992 to 1997.
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Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens
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- university teacherpoliticianwriteradvisersociologist
- Biography
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Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens MAE is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. In 2007, Giddens was listed as the fifth most cited author of books in the humanities. He has academic appointments in approximately twenty different universities throughout the world and has received numerous honorary degrees.
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Mikie Sherrill
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- In 2003 graduated with Master of Science in economic history
- Occupations
- naval officerhelicopter pilotpoliticianprosecutor
- Biography
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Rebecca Michelle Sherrill is an American politician, former naval officer, and former federal prosecutor serving since 2026 as the 57th governor of New Jersey. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected governor in 2025, defeating Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli. Sherrill is New Jersey's second female governor (after Christine Todd Whitman) and first female Democratic governor, as well as the first female military veteran to be elected governor of any U.S. state.
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Charles Saatchi
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- art collectorentrepreneurart dealergallerist
- Biography
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Charles Saatchi is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The brothers led the business, the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s, until they left the agency in 1995. In the same year, the brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi.
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Paul Volcker
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- bankereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979.
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John Stonehouse
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- spynovelistpolitician
- Biography
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John Thomson Stonehouse was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, businessman and minister who was a member of the Cabinet under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. He is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. It is alleged that Stonehouse had been an agent for Czechoslovak military intelligence.
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Yvette Cooper
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with master's degree in economics
- Occupations
- researchereconomistwriterpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Yvette Cooper is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since September 2025, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.
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Tony Fernandes
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Tan Sri Dato' Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., which took over the first Malaysian budget airline, AirAsia. Fernandes turned AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies. Until 2021, he was the owner of Caterham Group, the parent company of British car manufacturer Caterham Cars. Until July 2023, he was the majority shareholder of Queens Park Rangers F.C.
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China Miéville
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- academicfantasy authorwriteranthropologistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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China Tom Miéville FRSL is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.
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Daron Acemoğlu
- Occupations
- university teacherauthoreconomist
- Biography
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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.
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Cherie Blair
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- historianbarristerpolitician
- Biography
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Cherie, Lady Blair, also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is an English barrister and writer. She is the spouse of former British prime minister Tony Blair.
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Maajid Nawaz
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- essayistpoliticianwriterhuman rights defenderpolitical activist
- Biography
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Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist and former radio presenter. He was the founding chairman of the think tank Quilliam. Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. His membership led to his December 2001 arrest in Egypt, where he remained imprisoned until 2006. While there, he read books about human rights and made contact with Amnesty International who adopted him as a prisoner of conscience. He left Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounced his Islamist past, and called for a secular Islam. Later, Nawaz co-founded Quilliam with former Islamists, including Ed Husain.
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Parakala Prabhakar
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- politician
- Biography
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Parakala Prabhakar is an Indian economist and political commentator. He served as communication advisor in the Government of Andhra Pradesh from July 2014 to June 2018. For several years, he presented current affairs discussion programme on Telugu television channels, such as Pratidhwani on ETV2 and Namaste Andhra Pradesh on NTV.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 1950-1951
- Occupations
- writersociologistmilitary personnelteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician, diplomat and social scientist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and as the United States' ambassador to India and to the United Nations.
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Celina Jade
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- singermodeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Celina Jade is a Hong Kong and American actress, singer, songwriter, model, and martial artist. She is nominated as one of four of the greatest beauties in Hong Kong besides Carol Cheng, Lydia Shum and Amy Yip. She is the first Hong Konger of European descent to win this title.
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Nick Bostrom
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Nick Bostrom is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. He was the founding director of the later defunct Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and has become Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative.
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Heinrich Brüning
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teachertrade unionist
- Biography
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Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932.
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Seiji Kihara
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- politician
- Biography
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Seiji Kihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. A former Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and former State Minister for Foreign Affairs (Third Abe Cabinet) and former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, he currently serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Yang Jiechi
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Yang Jiechi is a Chinese senior diplomat and retired politician. He served as director of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission from 2013 and 2022, State Councilor from 2013 to 2018, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China from 2007 to 2013.
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Martin Lewis
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- television presenteractorjournalist
- Biography
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Martin Steven Lewis CBE is an English campaigning journalist, broadcaster, author and charity founder. Lewis founded the website MoneySavingExpert.com. He sold the website in 2012 to the Moneysupermarket.com group for up to £87 million. Lewis is currently a presenter for ITV, on the morning shows Good Morning Britain and This Morning since 2007. He also presents The Martin Lewis Money Show.
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Karthika Nair
- Occupations
- modelauthoractorcreator
- Biography
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Karthika Nair is a former Indian actress who primarily worked down South in all language films. She made her debut in the 2009 Telugu film Josh, opposite Naga Chaitanya. She rose to fame starring in her second and her first successful Tamil film Ko, opposite Jiiva and Piaa Bajpai. She found further success in the Malayalam film Proprietors: Kammath & Kammath, opposite Dileep.
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Janet Napolitano
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Janet Ann Napolitano is an American politician and lawyer. She is on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley since 2015.
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Carlo Cottarelli
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Carlo Cottarelli is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund.
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Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Elettra-Ingrid Rossellini Wiedemann is an American food editor, writer, fashion model, and socialite. She is the daughter of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini and Jonathan Wiedemann, an American. Her maternal grandparents were Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini.
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Rosa DeLauro
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 1962-1963
- Occupations
- campaign managercongressional staffchief executive officerpolitician
- Biography
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Rosa Luisa DeLauro is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes most of its suburbs. DeLauro has been the dean of Connecticut's congressional delegation since 2013 upon the retirement of Senator Joe Lieberman.
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Bret Stephens
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- punditcolumnistjournalist
- Biography
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Bret Louis Stephens is an American conservative columnist. He has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a senior contributor to NBC News since 2017. Since 2021, he has been the inaugural editor-in-chief of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations.
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Steffen Seibert
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- publicistnews presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Steffen Rüdiger Seibert is a German journalist and former television host who serves as German Ambassador to Israel. He previously served as head of the German Federal Government's Press and Information Office and as the German government's spokesperson from 2010 to 2021. During his tenure, Seibert was officially ranked as a Secretary of State.
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Arnon Milchan
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- entrepreneurfilm producerspyart collectorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Arnon Milchan is an Israeli billionaire businessman, film producer and former spy. He has been involved in over 130 full-length motion pictures and is the founder of production company Regency Enterprises. Regency's film credits include 12 Years a Slave, JFK, Heat, Fight Club, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Milchan has earned two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture, for L.A. Confidential and The Revenant; he also produced Best Picture nominees The Big Short, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman, with the latter two winning the award in consecutive years.
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Ron Moody
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- composerfilm actorstage actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Ron Moody was an English actor, composer, singer and writer. He was best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! (1968) and its 1983 Broadway revival. Moody earned a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film, as well as a Tony Award nomination for the stage production. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Mel Brooks's The Twelve Chairs (1970) and Flight of the Doves (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with Oliver! co-star Jack Wild.
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Moshe Sharett
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- translatordiplomatpoliticianzionist
- Biography
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Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in the cease-fire agreements that concluded the Israeli War of Independence. Beginning in 1933, he headed the political department of the Jewish Agency. He also founded the Jewish Brigade, which fought with the British Army during World War II.
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Giorgos Papandreou
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- 1975-1977 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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George Andreas Papandreou is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for PASOK-Kinima Allagis.
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Brune Poirson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brune Poirson is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Secretary of State to the Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 until 2020.
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Maria Pevchikh
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- authorYouTuberactivistexecutive producerinvestigative journalist
- Biography
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Maria Konstantinovna Pevchikh is a Russian investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist who has served as the chairwoman of the board of directors of the Anti-Corruption Foundation since March 2023. Pevchikh is known for exposing high-level corruption in Russia.
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Minouche Shafik
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, commonly known as Minouche Shafik, is a British-American academic and economist. She served as the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics from 2017 to 2023, and then as the 20th president of Columbia University from July 2023 to August 2024. She was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor to the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, on 1 September 2025.
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Érik Orsenna
- Occupations
- writeracademiceconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member (currently on leave) of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
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Park Won-soon
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied international law
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Park Won-soon was a South Korean politician, activist, and lawyer. He was the longest-serving mayor of Seoul, from 2011 until his death in July 2020. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea, he was first elected in 2011 and won re-election in 2014 and 2018. He died by suicide in July 2020 following allegations of sexual harassment.
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Mwai Kibaki
- Occupations
- ministereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki CGH was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. He served in various leadership positions in Kenya's government including being the longest serving Member of Parliament (MP) in Kenya from 1963 to 2013. He was the fourth Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to 1988 under President Daniel arap Moi. He also held cabinet ministerial positions in the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi governments, including as minister for Finance (1969–1981) under Kenyatta, and Minister for Home Affairs (1982–1988) and Minister for Health (1988–1991) under Moi. Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1992 to 2002. He unsuccessfully vied for the presidency in 1992 and 1997. He served as the Leader of the Official Opposition in Parliament from 1998 to 2002. Following the 2002 presidential election, he was elected as the President of Kenya.
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Arthur Lewis
- Years
- 1915-1991 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- university teacherresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Maurice Bishop
- Years
- 1944-1983 (aged 39)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian revolutionary, politician and the leader of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), a party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and true black liberation. The NJM came to power on 13 March 1979 and ushered in the Grenada revolution and installed the People's Revolutionary Government which removed Prime Minister Eric Gairy from office. Bishop headed the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada (PRG) from 1979 to 1983. In October 1983, he was deposed as Prime Minister and executed during a coup engineered internally by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard. This quickly led to the demise of the PRG.
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Mark Kirk
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- In 1982 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- congressional stafflawyermilitary officerpolitician
- Biography
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Mark Steven Kirk is an American retired politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Illinois from 2010 to 2017, and as the United States representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district from 2001 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, Kirk describes himself as socially liberal and fiscally conservative. As of 2025, he is the last Republican to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate.
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James O'Brien
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- writerjournalisttelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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James O'Brien is a British journalist, writer, and presenter on radio and television. Since 2004, he has hosted a weekday morning phone-in discussion for talk station LBC. He has also presented podcasts, been an occasional presenter for BBC's Newsnight, and published several non-fiction books, including the bestselling How They Broke Britain in 2023.
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Lucie Castets
- Enrolled in the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Studied in 2009-2010
- Occupations
- politicianspokespersonactivistofficialresearch associate professor in France
- Biography
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Lucie Castets is a French civil servant and economist. Associated with the Socialist Party, Castets was nominated by the New Popular Front (NFP) to serve as Prime Minister of France in the aftermath of the 2024 legislative election, but her candidacy was rejected by president Emmanuel Macron.
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Mat Osman
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- guitaristsongwriter
- Biography
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Mathew David Osman is an English musician and author, best known as the bassist in the rock band Suede. Osman and singer Brett Anderson are the only remaining founding members left in Suede, and perform along with drummer Simon Gilbert, who has appeared on many Suede albums. Osman is also a writer; he has written two novels and contributed to various publications. He is the brother of presenter and author Richard Osman.
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Alfonso López Pumarejo
- Years
- 1886-1959 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- politicianPalace janitordiplomatjournalisteconomist
- Biography
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Alfonso López Pumarejo was a Colombian journalist, economist, politician, and diplomat who served as the 16th and 18th president of Colombia, serving from 1934 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1945. He is the second Colombian president to serve two non-consecutive terms and the second Colombian president to resign from office after Rafael Núñez in 1888.
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Kitty Carlisle
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- musicianfilm actorstage actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Kitty Carlisle Hart was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts. She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera (1935) and was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell The Truth (1956–1978). She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts.
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Mia Mottley
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- politician
- Biography
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Mia Amor Mottley is a Barbadian politician and lawyer who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold both positions. Having overseen the abolition of the Barbadian monarchy, she is the first prime minister of the Barbadian republic.
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Ronald Coase
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- historianeconomistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Ronald Harry Coase was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991.
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Edwina Currie
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- writernovelistdiaristpolitician
- Biography
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Edwina Currie is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy.
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Ralph Brown
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- stage actoractortelevision actorwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Ralph William John Brown is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, President Lyndon Johnson in Godfather of Harlem and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies. He won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.
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Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's foreign relations. He was among the major architects of Indian foreign policy, was India's first High Commissioner to United Kingdom and later India's Defence Minister.
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Jim McGreevey
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- lobbyistpolitician
- Biography
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James Edward McGreevey is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004 amidst a sex scandal. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first openly gay person to serve as a state governor in the nation's history.
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Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost airline easyJet and the Stelmar shipping line with start-up funds provided by his father, Loucas. EasyJet's foundation in 1995 marked the beginning of a series of ventures marketed under the "easy" brand, managed by easyGroup and chaired by Haji-Ioannou.
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Shami Chakrabarti
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- human rights defenderbarristerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC is a British politician, barrister, and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the director of Liberty, a major advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights, from 2003 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020, she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales.
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Roland Lescure
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- corporate administrative and commercial executiveeconomistpoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
- Biography
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Roland Lescure is a French and Canadian banker and politician who served as Minister Delegate for Industry in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2022 to 2024.
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Ramón Tamames
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Ramón Tamames Gómez is a Spanish economist and former politician.
