100 Notable alumni of
University of Manchester
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The University of Manchester is 113th in the world, 42nd in Europe, and 8th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Manchester 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 University of Manchester won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorfilm actorvoice actorstage actor
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and four Golden Globes. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
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- bloggerwriterjournalist
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Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right political commentator, whose speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, and social justice. He is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.
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Jack Whitehall
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- comediantelevision actorscreenwritertelevision presenterstand-up comedian
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Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, actor, writer and television personality. He is known for his roles as JP in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Fresh Meat (2011–2016) and as Alfie Wickers in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education (2012–2014, 2022–2024). He also co-wrote the latter and its film adaptation, The Bad Education Movie (2015).
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Vincent Kompany
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- association football playerassociation football coach
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Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. As a player, he is best known for his eleven seasons at Manchester City, eight of which he served as captain. Kompany also represented the Belgium national team for fifteen years and served as its captain. He has been cited as one of the best defenders in Premier League history.
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Toby Jones
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1989
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actorvoice actor
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Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen. From 1989 to 1991, Jones trained at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2020, he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya.
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Parineeti Chopra
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- actor
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Parineeti Chopra is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Chopra is a recipient of several accolades, including a Filmfare and a National Film Award. Chopra has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2013.
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Brian Cox
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicistkeyboardistfilm producerfilm actormusician
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Brian Edward Cox is an English physicist and musician. He is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, including Why Does E=mc? (2009) and The Quantum Universe (2011).
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J. J. Thomson
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- university teachermathematicianphysicist
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." In 1897, he showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles (now called electrons), which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large charge-to-mass ratio. The electron was the first subatomic particle to be discovered.
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Alex Garland
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1992
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- television writerfilm directortelevision directorwriternovelist
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Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author, screenwriter, film and television director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).
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Michael D. Higgins
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- writerpoetpolitical scientistpolitician
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Michael Daniel Higgins is an Irish politician, poet and broadcaster who served as the president of Ireland from November 2011 to November 2025. Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator from 1973 to 1977 and a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1981 to 1982, returning to the Seanad from 1983 to 1987 and the Dáil from 1987 to 2011. He served as minister for arts, culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997 and as mayor of Galway from 1981 to 1982 and 1990 to 1991.
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Joe Lycett
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- LGBTQ rights activisttelevision presenterwritercomediansculptor
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Joe Harry Lycett is a British comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on many TV shows, including Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI, as the announcer on Saturday BBC One show Epic Win, the narrator for Ibiza Weekender and as the presenter on BBC Two's The Great British Sewing Bee, and Channel 4's Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and Travel Man. He is also recognised as one of Britain's most high-profile queer or pansexual men, and has advocated for the LGBTQ community on many occasions.
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Josh Widdicombe
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- stand-up comediantelevision actorcomedianentertainerradio personality
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Joshua Michael Widdicombe is an English comedian, presenter and actor. He is best known for his appearances on The Last Leg (2012–present), Fighting Talk (2014–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019), Mock the Week (2012–2016) and his BBC Three sitcom Josh (2015–2017).
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James Prescott Joule
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- physicist
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James Prescott Joule was an English physicist. Joule studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI unit of energy, the joule (J), is named after him.
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Roger Allam
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- radio drama actorstage actortelevision actorfilm actorsinger
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Roger William Allam is an English actor who has performed on stage, in film, on television and radio.
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Joe Abercrombie
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- science fiction writerwriterfilm editor
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Joseph Edward Abercrombie is an English author of epic fantasy books and a film editor. He is the author of The First Law and The Age of Madness trilogies, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting, and a trilogy of young adult novels. His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book.
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Norman Foster
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- 1956-1961 graduated with bachelor's degree in architecture
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- designerpoliticianfilm actorarchitect
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Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and operates internationally. He also serves as president of the Norman Foster Foundation, established to promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future. The foundation, which opened in June 2017, is based in Madrid and operates globally. Foster received the Pritzker Prize in 2000.
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David Oakes
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Rowan David Oakes FLS is an English actor, ecologist and conservationist. He is best known for his roles in the series The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, The White Queen, Victoria, Vikings: Valhalla, and for his discursive Natural History podcast, Trees A Crowd. He currently serves as Vice President to The Wildlife Trusts.
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Lorraine Ashbourne
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Lorraine Ashbourne is an English actress.
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Jesse Armstrong
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- showrunnerscreenwriterjournalist
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Jesse David Armstrong is an English screenwriter and producer. Known for writing for a string of critically acclaimed British comedy series as well as satirical dramas, he has received numerous accolades including two BAFTA TV Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three WGA Awards, and eight Emmy Awards in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Film Awards.
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James Chadwick
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1908
- Occupations
- university teachernuclear physicistphysicist
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Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in Britain in 1945 for his achievements in nuclear physics.
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Ben Elton
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- novelisttelevision actorfilm directoractorfilm producer
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Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up comedian and on screen. One of the major figures in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, he used a style of left-wing political satire in his early stand-up comedy.
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Conor Woodman
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- presenterauthoreconomist
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Conor Thomas Patrick Woodman is an Irish author and broadcaster best known as the host of Scam City and Around the World in 80 Trades.
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Carme Chacón
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with licentiate
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carme Maria Chacón Piqueras was a Spanish lawyer, lecturer and politician who was minister of Defence from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
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Terence Lewis
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- dancerchoreographeractor
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Terence Lewis is an Indian dancer and choreographer. He is known for judging the reality dance shows Dance India Dance and Nach Baliye (2012–2017).
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Osman Kavala
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- philanthropistentrepreneurhuman rights defenderpatron of the artsbusinessperson
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Mehmet Osman Kavala is a Turkish economist, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. Kavala is the founder and chair of the board of Anadolu Kültür, an Istanbul-based nonprofit arts and culture organization. In 2019, he received the European Archaeological Heritage Prize from the European Association of Archaeologists for his efforts to protect and preserve significant examples of cultural heritage in danger in Turkey and the Ayşenur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Award by Human Rights Association's Istanbul branch. His arrests in Turkey caused the European Court of Human Rights and ambassadors from ten Western countries to demand his release. These demands were rejected by Turkish courts and president Erdoğan.
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Sophie Raworth
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- broadcasternews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Sophie Jane Raworth is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC. She is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News (mainly BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten). She has been a television presenter for state occasions and has also presented the BBC's Election Night coverage, alongside other presenters.
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Haider Al-Abadi
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- electrical engineerengineerpolitician
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Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed.
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Meera Syal
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- stage actoractorcomedianwriterfilm actor
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Dame Meera Syal is an English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and by portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She has become one of the UK's best-known Asian personalities.
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Abdul Latif Rashid
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- politiciancivil engineer
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Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, also known as Letif Reshid (Kurdish: لەتيف ڕەشید, romanized: Letîf Reşîd), is an Iraqi politician serving as the 9th president of Iraq. He was previously the Minister of Water Resources under the government of Nouri al-Maliki. Before that, he served in the same position under both the Iraqi Transitional Government and the Iraqi Interim Government. Rashid was formerly a spokesperson for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the United Kingdom. Rashid is the fourth non-Arab president of Iraq, succeeding Barham Salih.
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Samia Suluhu Hassan
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- ministereconomistpolitician
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Samia Suluhu Hassan is a Tanzanian politician and the sixth president of Tanzania, serving since 19 March 2021. She is the first woman to serve in the position and previously served as vice-president of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021, from which she ascended to the presidency following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli.
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Doon Mackichan
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- film actorcomedianscreenwriter
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Sarah Doon Mackichan is a British actress, comedian and writer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the double-Emmy-award-winning sketch comedy series Smack the Pony (1999–2003, 2017). Mackichan frequently collaborates with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in the comedy series The Day Today (1994) and Brass Eye (2001). She played the role of Cathy Whyte in the BBC One sitcom Two Doors Down (2013, 2016–2023, 2025).
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James Lovelock
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- university teacherenvironmentalistchemistfuturistmythographer
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James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman
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- actorfilm actor
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Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English actress, playwright and narrator who is best known as Chrissie Watts in EastEnders (2004–2005, 2024-2026) and Valerie Lewis in Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020).
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Chuka Umunna
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- lawyerwriterpolitician
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Chuka Harrison Umunna // is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group, later Change UK, along with six other MPs. Later in 2019, he left Change UK and, after a short time as an independent MP, joined the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 general election, he failed to be re-elected, and did not return to the House of Commons.
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Andre Geim
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- scientistinventorphysicistprofessor
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Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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Javed Jaffrey
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- television producervoice actoractorcomedian
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Syed Jaaved Ahmed Jaffrey is an Indian actor, dancer, producer and comedian who has appeared in Hindi films and television shows. He is the son of the comedian Jagdeep. He joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in March 2014 and contested the 2014 Indian general election from the Lucknow constituency finishing fifth.
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Alasdair MacIntyre
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with Master of Arts
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- university teacherphilosopher
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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a Scottish-American philosopher who contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University.
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Adrian Edmondson
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actorcomedianfilm actor
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Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter, who came to fame as part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s. He and his comedy partner Rik Mayall starred in the television sitcoms The Young Ones (1982–1984), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991–1995), the last of which was written by Edmondson and Mayall, as well as the comedy feature film Guest House Paradiso (1999), which Edmondson directed and co-wrote. Edmondson and Mayall also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this they created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another Edmondson played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.
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Fra Fee
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- singeractorstage actor
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Fra Fee is a Northern Irish actor and singer. He is best known for playing Courfeyrac in Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, and for his role as Kazi in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fee also played the role of Michael Carney in Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, West End, and Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes. For his performance, he won the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play.
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Mark Kermode
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- In 1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- film criticjournalisttelevision presentermusician
- Biography
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Mark Kermode is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter, author and podcaster. He is the co-presenter (with Ellen E. Jones) of the BBC Radio 4 programme Screenshot, and co-presenter (alongside long-time collaborator Simon Mayo) of the film-review podcast Kermode & Mayo's Take. Kermode is a regular contributor to The Observer, for which he was chief film critic between September 2013 and September 2023.
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Tim Booth
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- singersongwritersinger-songwriteractorfilm actor
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Timothy Booth is an English singer-songwriter, actor and dancer. He is the lead singer and co-founder of the indie rock band James, and co-wrote several of their hit singles including "Sit Down", "Come Home", and "Laid". As an actor, Booth is also known for portraying Victor Zsasz in the 2005 film Batman Begins.
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Sujoy Ghosh
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Sujoy Ghosh is an Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He has directed Jhankaar Beats (2003), Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak (2005), Aladin (2009), Kahaani (2012), Kahaani 2 (2016) and Badla (2019). He has also written and directed short films such as Ahalya (2015) and Anukul (2017). He had directed two projects for Netflix, the horror drama series Typewriter (2019) and the mystery thriller film Jaane Jaan (2023).
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Lucy Porter
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- writerpodcasterstand-up comediancomedian
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Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer, presenter, and comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She is also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including The News Quiz, Quote... Unquote and The Personality Test.
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Alexander Nix
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- chief executive officerdirectorbusinessperson
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Alexander James Ashburner Nix is a British businessman who was the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica and a former director of the SCL Group, Nix led SCL Group's elections division (SCL Elections), which was contracted by a variety of governments and political campaigns, including the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The company also ran Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's campaign.
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Abdalla Hamdok
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- economistofficialministerpolitician
- Biography
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Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani is a Sudanese public administrator who served as the 15th prime minister of Sudan from 2019 to October 2021, and again from November 2021 until his resignation in 2022.
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Konstantin Novoselov
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- university teacherinventorphysicist
- Biography
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Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov is a Russian–British physicist. His work on graphene with Andre Geim earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Novoselov is a professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore and is also the Langworthy Professor of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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Lise Mayer
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- screenwriter
- Biography
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Lise Mayer is an American television and film writer. She was creator and co-writer, alongside Rik Mayall and Ben Elton, of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones.
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Liv Boeree
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- television presentermodelpoker player
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Olivia "Liv" Boeree is a British science communicator, philanthropist, host of the Win-Win podcast, and professional poker player. She is a World Series of Poker (WSOP) and European Poker Tour (EPT) champion, and is the only female player in history to win both a WSOP bracelet and an EPT event. Boeree is a 3× winner of the Global Poker Index European Female Player of the year. As of December 2024, having first retired in late 2019, Boeree still ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings, sitting at fourth all-time in the female category, and currently holds the record for the highest pay-out in a poker tournament for a woman at $2,800,000.
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Shobna Gulati
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- actor
- Biography
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Shobna Gulati is an English actor and presenter. Gulati is known for playing Anita in dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013. They also played Mari Hoff in the 2006 UK Tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. From 2013 to 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk show Loose Women. They took over the role of Ray in the West End production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie in 2019 and also reprised the role for the film adaptation. Most recently, they played the role of Nima in Hullraisers and reprised the role of Ray in Everybody's Talking About Jamie for its 2023–2024 UK and Ireland Tour.
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Peter Hammill
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- composerrecord producerguitaristsongwriterpoet
- Biography
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Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano and produces his own recordings and occasionally those of other artists. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Progressive Music Awards.
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Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is an Icelandic politician who was the fifth president of Iceland, serving from 1996 to 2016. He was previously a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the People's Alliance and served as Minister of Finance from 1988 to 1991.
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James Ford
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- composerrecord producerdrummermusician
- Biography
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James Ellis Ford is an English record producer and songwriter, known for being a member of Simian Mobile Disco and the Last Shadow Puppets as well as his production work with Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Haim, Gorillaz, Klaxons, The Last Dinner Party, Jessie Ware, Kylie Minogue, Declan McKenna, the Pet Shop Boys, Pulp and Geese.
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Amitabh Kant
- Biography
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Amitabh Kant is a retired 1980 batch IAS officer who served as India's G20 Sherpa from 8 July 2022 till 16 June 2025 and as the chief executive officer of NITI Aayog, a public policy think tank of the Government of India.
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Richard Dillane
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Richard Dillane is an English actor. He appears in Soldier Soldier, Cold Feet (2000), Space Race (2005), Tristan & Isolde (2006), Spooks (2007), Casualty (2008-2009), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), Doctor Who (2011), Argo (2012), Dead in Tombstone (2013), Wolf Hall (2015), Peaky Blinders, Poldark (2016), Giri/Haji (2019), Young Wallander (2020), The Crown. and Andor (2022-2025).
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Christabel Pankhurst
- Occupations
- women's rights activistfeministeditoractivistarchitect
- Biography
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Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement.
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Duncan Watmore
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Duncan Ian Watmore is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Rotherham United.
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Marcy Kaptur
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1974
- Occupations
- urban plannerpolitician
- Biography
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Marcia Carolyn Kaptur is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 9th congressional district since 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the longest-serving woman in congressional history and has served as the dean of Ohio's congressional delegation since 2009. Her district stretches across northwestern Ohio along the southern shore of Lake Erie and includes parts of Toledo and surrounding communities.
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Armeena Khan
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Armeena Rana Khan is a Pakistani-Canadian film and television actress and model.
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Maggie Philbin
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Margaret Elizabeth Philbin OBE is a British radio and television presenter whose credits include Tomorrow's World, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and latterly Bang Goes the Theory.
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Starry Lee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Starry Lee Wai-king SBS JP is a Hong Kong politician who is the 4th and current President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 2026.
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Noor el-Sheikh
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- actorannouncer
- Biography
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Noor el-Sheikh is a Bahraini broadcaster and actress.
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Shazia Mirza
- Occupations
- comedianstand-up comedianjournalist
- Biography
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Shazia Mirza is a British comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her stand-up comedy, and her articles in British newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.
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Rami Hamdallah
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguistpolitician
- Biography
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Rami Hamdallah is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as Prime Minister of Palestine from 2013 to 2019 and was previously the president of An-Najah National University in Nablus from 1998 to 2013.
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Melvin Calvin
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistchemistengineerbiochemist
- Biography
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Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Tony Hawks
- Occupations
- actorwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Antony Gordon Hawksworth MBE, known professionally as Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author.
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Matt Smith
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mathieu James Patrick Smith is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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Sarfraz Manzoor
- Occupations
- announcerscreenwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Sarfraz Manzoor is a British journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, and screenwriter of Pakistani origin. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, presenter of documentaries on BBC Radio 4, and a cultural commentator who appears on programmes such as Newsnight Review and Saturday Review. His first book, Greetings from Bury Park, was published in 2007.
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Waldemar Januszczak
- Occupations
- television presentertelevision directorfilm directorart criticjournalist
- Biography
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Waldemar Januszczak is a Polish-British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in 1992, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.
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Ian Livingstone
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- entrepreneurfantasy authorvideo game developerscreenwriterrole-playing game designer
- Biography
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Sir Ian Livingstone CBE is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995. Along with Steve Jackson, he is also the co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series.
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Ruth Ware
- Occupations
- waiterteacherwriterbooksellernovelist
- Biography
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Ruth Warburton, known by the pen name Ruth Ware, is a British author.
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Sophia Chan Siu-chee
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sophia Chan Siu Chee GBS JP is a Hong Kong professor and politician. She served as Secretary for Food and Health from 2017 to 2022.
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Giles Martin
- Occupations
- songwriterrecord producer
- Biography
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Giles Martin is an English record producer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. His studio recordings, stage shows, TV and film works have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful around the world. He is the son of Beatles producer George Martin and half-brother of actor Gregory Paul Martin.
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Ralph Gonsalves
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 80)
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- 1974-1974 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ralph Everard Gonsalves is a Vincentian politician who served as prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 2001 to 2025, and as the leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) since 2001. He was the longest continuously serving prime minister since St. Vincent's independence in 1979, with almost 25 years in office. Gonsalves has been Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of North Central Windward since 1994.
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Anna Ford
- Occupations
- presenternews presenterjournalist
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Anna Ford is a British retired journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She first worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, ITN, and the BBC. Ford helped launch the British breakfast television broadcaster TV-am. She retired from broadcast news presenting in April 2006 and was a non-executive director of Sainsbury's until the end of 2012. Ford now lives in her home town of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
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John M. Allegro
- Occupations
- university teacherarchaeologistanthropologistlinguistphotographer
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John Marco Allegro was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. He was a populariser of the Dead Sea Scrolls through his books and radio broadcasts. He was the editor of some of the most famous and controversial scrolls published, the pesharim. A number of Allegro's later books, including The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, brought him both popular fame and notoriety, and also complicated his career. Married with two children, he died of a heart attack on his 65th birthday in 1988.
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Gaston Browne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gaston Alphonso Browne is an Antiguan politician serving as the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda and leader of the Labour Party since 2014. Before entering politics, he was a banker and businessman.
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Sophie Hannah
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- children's writerpoetwriter
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Sophie Hannah is a British poet and novelist.
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Jonathan Reynolds
- Occupations
- politiciantrainee solicitor
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Jonathan Neil Reynolds is a British politician who has served as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since September 2025. He previously served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge and Hyde since 2010.
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Michel Evgenij Chossudovsky
- Occupations
- researcherprofessorwriterconspiracy theoristpeace activist
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Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist and author. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa and the president and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), which runs the website globalresearch.ca, founded in 2001, which publishes falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Chossudovsky has promoted conspiracy theories about 9/11.
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William Wragg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Peter Wragg, is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester from 2015 to 2024. As a member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as a vice-chairman of its 1922 Committee. From April 2024 until parliament was dissolved in May 2024, he sat as an independent.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
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- composerpedagoguepianistopera composerclassical composer
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
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Rhys James
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Rhys James is a British stand-up comedian. James has appeared on Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo.
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Jo Coburn
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Joanne Dawn Coburn is a British journalist who works for Times Radio. She has spent most of her career with BBC News, having been a regular presenter of Politics Live (and at one time also of Sunday Politics along with Andrew Neil). She was previously a political correspondent for BBC Breakfast and is also a former BBC political correspondent for London, who covered the 2000 London Mayoral election.
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Louise Wener
- Occupations
- singerguitaristsongwriterwriternovelist
- Biography
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Louise Jane Wener is an English writer, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Sleeper.
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David Aaronovitch
- Occupations
- writerauthorjournalisttelevision presenter
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David Morris Aaronovitch is an English journalist, television presenter and author. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award in 2003. He previously wrote for The Independent, The Guardian and The Times.
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Tony Brooks
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- In 1950 studied dentistry
- Occupations
- Formula One driverracing driverracing automobile driver
- Biography
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Charles Anthony Standish "Tony" Brooks was a British racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961. Nicknamed "the Racing Dentist", Brooks was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1959 with Ferrari and Vanwall, and won six Grands Prix across six seasons.
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Atul Khatri
- Occupations
- chief executive officeractorstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Atul Naraindas Khatri is an Indian stand-up comedian and YouTube personality. He was rated among the top Indian comedians by CNN-IBN and was the only Indian to perform in the Hong Kong International Comedy Festival. He was also the winner of the CEO's Got Talent Season 1.
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Rane Willerslev
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- anthropologistdirector
- Biography
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Rane Willerslev is a Danish anthropologist. In his academic career, he has travelled extensively and has a particular interest in tribal cultures, both present and prehistoric. On 1 July 2017, he was appointed director of the National Museum of Denmark by Culture Minister Mette Bock.
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Tony Lloyd
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with graduate diploma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years, making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997, Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012, and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017 and served as the interim Mayor of Greater Manchester in his last two years in the role.
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Liam Byrne
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Liam Dominic Byrne is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North, previously Birmingham Hodge Hill, since 2004. He served in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet from 2008 to 2010.
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Mekapati Goutham Reddy
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Mekapati Goutham Reddy was an Indian businessman and politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was the Minister for Industries, Commerce, and Information Technology in the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was elected twice and served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing the Atmakur Assembly constituency on behalf of YSR Congress Party from 2014 until his death in 2022.
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Faiza Shaheen
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- economistactivistwriter
- Biography
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Faiza Shaheen is a British academic and economist in the field of economic inequality.
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Caspar Tsui
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caspar Tsui Ying-wai is a Hong Kong politician, government official and DAB party member. From 2020 to 2022, he has been Secretary for Home Affairs.
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Chi Onwurah
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Dame Chinyelu Susan "Chi" Onwurah is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West since 2024, and previously for Newcastle upon Tyne Central from 2010 to 2024, when the constituency was abolished. She is a member of the Labour Party.
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Nick Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas Hugh Brown is a British former politician and trade unionist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East between 1983 and 2024. He represented the Labour Party until his resignation in 2023. Brown is the longest-serving Chief Whip of the Labour Party, discontinuously holding the position several times between 1997 and 2021 under Blair, Brown, Miliband, Corbyn and Starmer.
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Sally Davies
- Occupations
- hematologistexecutiveuniversity teacherphysician
- Biography
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Dame Sally Claire Davies GCB DBE FRS FMedSci is a British physician. She was the Chief Medical Officer from 2010 to 2019 and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016. She worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She is now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, appointed on 8 February 2019, with effect from 8 October 2019. She is one of the founders of the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
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William Hanson
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- non-fiction writerlecturer
- Biography
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William Richard Henry Hanson FRSA is a British etiquette coach, author and podcast host. He is best known for his podcasts Help I Sexted My Boss, which he co-hosts with Jordan North, and The Luxury Podcast (formerly known as Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast), which he co-hosts with Jonathan Vernon-Smith. Hanson is owner of The English Manner, an etiquette and protocol coaching company.
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Ellen Wilkinson
- Occupations
- writersuffragettepoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her career, as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jarrow, she became a national figure when she played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March of the town's unemployed to London to petition for the right to work. Although unsuccessful at that time, the March provided an iconic image for the 1930s and helped to form post-Second World War attitudes to unemployment and social justice.
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Winnie Byanyima
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurdiplomataircraft pilotengineer
- Biography
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Winifred Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS (2019 to present). She is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist, and diplomat.
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Martin Jacques
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- journalistbroadcaster
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Martin Jacques is a British academic, journalist, political commentator and writer. He first came to prominence as the editor of Marxism Today, which under his leadership from 1977 to 1991 became an influential forum for political debate on the British left. He later co-founded the think tank Demos in 1993 and has written extensively as a columnist for major British newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Observer, The Guardian, and the New Statesman. Jacques is also known internationally for his 2009 book When China Rules the World, in which he argues that China's rise will reshape the global order and end Western hegemony over international affairs.
