100 Notable alumni of
University of Manchester
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The University of Manchester is 111th in the world, 41st 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
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- stage actorfilm produceractortelevision actorfilm actor
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, 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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- writerjournalistblogger
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Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right political commentator. His speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness. Yiannopoulos 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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- television presenterstand-up comedianactorcomediantelevision actor
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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) also co-writing 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 manager
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Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. A centre-back during his playing career, Kompany spent eleven seasons at Manchester City, eight of which he served as captain. Kompany also represented the Belgium national team for fifteen years, and seven as captain.
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Toby Jones
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1989
- Occupations
- stage actoractortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm 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 and singer 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
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- astronomeruniversity teacherphysicistkeyboardistfilm producer
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Brian Edward Cox is an English physicist and musician who is 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? and The Quantum Universe.
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J. J. Thomson
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- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
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Alex Garland
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1992
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- screenwritertelevision writerfilm directortelevision directorwriter
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Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author, screenwriter, and 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 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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- political scientistpoliticianwriterpoet
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Michael Daniel Higgins is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster, and sociologist who has been serving as the ninth president of Ireland since 2011.
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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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- film actorarchitectdesignerpolitician
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Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank is an English architect and designer. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His architectural practice Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and maintains offices internationally. He is the president of the Norman Foster Foundation, created to 'promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future'. The foundation, which opened in June 2017, is based in Madrid and operates globally. Foster was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1999.
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Joe Lycett
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- LGBTQ rights activisttelevision presenterwritercomediansculptor
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Joe Harry Lycett, also known by the self-given moniker Mummy, and formerly as Hugo Boss, is a British comedian, television presenter and painter. Known for his sardonically camp demeanour, public stunts and elaborate set designs, Lycett has been described as one of Britain's most popular comedians.
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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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Josh Widdicombe
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- radio personalitystand-up comediantelevision actorcomedianentertainer
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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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Roger Allam
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- film actorsingerradio drama actorstage actortelevision actor
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Roger William Allam is a British actor who has performed on stage, in film, on television and radio.
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Joe Abercrombie
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- writerfilm editorscience fiction writer
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Joseph Edward Abercrombie is a British author. He is the author of The First Law trilogy, 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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Yasmin Finney
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- actorTikToker
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Yasmin Finney is an English actress and internet personality. She is known for her role as Elle Argent in the Netflix series Heartstopper (2022–present), for which she was nominated for a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance. She also plays Rose Noble in the BBC series Doctor Who (2023–present).
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David Oakes
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Rowan David Oakes is an English actor and environmentalist. 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.
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James Chadwick
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Studied in 1908
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- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Sir James Chadwick was an English 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 atom 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 physics.
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Lorraine Ashbourne
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Lorraine Ashbourne is an English actress.
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Jesse Armstrong
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- screenwriterjournalistshowrunner
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Jesse David Armstrong is a British screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing for a string of several critically acclaimed British comedy series as well as satirical dramas. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Ben Elton
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- film actorsongwriterwriternovelisttelevision actor
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Benjamin Charles Elton AM is a British comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on the sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. He has published many novels in dystopian, comedy, and crime genres, as well as written the musicals The Beautiful Game, We Will Rock You (2002), Tonight's the Night (2003), and Love Never Dies (2010).
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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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Terence Lewis
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- actordancerchoreographer
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Terence Lewis is an Indian dancer, singer and choreographer. He is known for judging the reality dance shows Dance India Dance (2009–2012) and Nach Baliye (2012–2017). He runs his "Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company" in Mumbai (Bombay) & holds dance workshops both in India and abroad.
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Carme Chacón
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with licentiate
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
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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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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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Osman Kavala
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- businesspersonphilanthropistentrepreneurhuman rights activistpatron of the arts
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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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Haider Al-Abadi
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- engineerpoliticianelectrical engineer
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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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James Lovelock
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- autobiographerindependent scientistscience fiction writeruniversity teacherenvironmentalist
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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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Doon Mackichan
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- screenwriterfilm actorcomedian
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Sarah Doon Mackichan is a British actress, comedian and writer. She co-created, wrote and performed in the double-Emmy-award-winning Smack the Pony. She frequently collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in The Day Today, Brass Eye and Alan Partridge, and has also appeared in Toast of London and Two Doors Down. Mackichan was nominated for Best Female Comedy Performance at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards for her performance in Plebs and won critical praise for her performance alongside John Malkovich in Bitter Wheat in 2019.
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Meera Syal
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- screenwriternoveliststage actoractorcomedian
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Meera Syal CBE FRSL 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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Chuka Umunna
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- writerpoliticianlawyer
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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 Dutch–British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
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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. She is known for roles including Chrissie Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2004–2005, 2024) and Valerie Lewis or "Auntie Val" in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020).
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Samia Hassan Suluhu
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- politicianeconomist
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Samia Suluhu Hassan is a Tanzanian politician who has been serving as president of the United Republic of Tanzania since 19 March 2021. She is the first woman to serve in the position. She 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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Alasdair MacIntyre
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- university teacherphilosopher
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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish-American philosopher who has 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 is 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 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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Mark Kermode
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- In 1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- musicianfilm criticjournalisttelevision presenter
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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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Javed Jaffrey
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- television producervoice actoractorcomedian
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Syed Jaaved Ahmed Jaffrey is an Indian actor, dancer, 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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Abdul Latif Rashid
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- politiciancivil engineer
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Abdul Latif Rashid, also known as Latif Rashid (Kurdish: لەتيف ڕەشید, romanized: Letîf Reşîd), is an Iraqi politician and the ninth president of Iraq, following the 2022 Iraqi presidential election. 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.
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Tim Booth
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- actorfilm actorsingersongwritersinger-songwriter
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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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Fra Fee
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- stage actorsingeractor
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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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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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Alexander Nix
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- businesspersonchief executive officerdirector
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Alexander James Ashburner Nix is a British businessman, the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica and a former director of the Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group, a behavioural research and strategic communications consultancy, leading its elections division (SCL Elections). Cambridge Analytica and its parent SCL were involved in psychological warfare operations for the British military and involved in influencing hundreds of elections globally; Cambridge Analytica helped Leave.EU with its Brexit campaign, according to both Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica staff. The company was also engaged by the Ted Cruz and Donald Trump campaigns during the 2016 US presidential election. The company also ran Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's campaign.
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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 Quote... Unquote and The Personality Test.
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Ade Edmondson
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- film actorscreenwriterfilm directortelevision actorcomedian
- Biography
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Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series The Young Ones (1982–1984) and Bottom (1991–1995), which he wrote together with his collaborator Rik Mayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this he created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another he played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.
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Konstantin Novoselov
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- inventorphysicistuniversity teacher
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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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Abdalla Hamdok
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- politicianofficialeconomist
- 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 to 2 January 2022. Prior to his appointment, Hamdok served in numerous national and international administrative positions. From November 2011 to October 2018, he was deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). UNECA staff described Hamdok as " diplomat, a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind". In 2020, Hamdok was named among Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential figures of the year.
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Liv Boeree
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- modelpoker playertelevision presenter
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Olivia "Liv" Boeree is a British science communicator, television presenter, host of the Win-Win Podcast, and professional poker player. Dubbed "The Poker Queen", Boeree 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 payout in a poker tournament for a woman at $2,800,000.
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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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Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
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- 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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Peter Hammill
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- singer-songwritercomposerrecord producerguitaristsongwriter
- 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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Shobna Gulati
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Shobna Gulati is a British actress and presenter. Gulati is known for her roles as Anita in dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013. From 2013 to 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk show Loose Women. She took over the role of Ray in the West End production of Everybody's Taking About Jamie in 2019 and also reprised the role for the movie adaptation. Most recently, she played the role of Nima in Hullraisers, Mari Hoff in the 2022 UK Tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and is reprising the role of Ray in Everybody's Talking About Jamie for the 2023-2024 UK and Ireland Tour.
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James Ford
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- drummermusiciancomposerrecord producer
- 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, Jessie Ware, Kylie Minogue, Declan McKenna and the Pet Shop Boys.
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Amitabh Kant
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Amitabh Kant is presently India's G20 Sherpa. He is an Indian bureaucrat and the former chief executive officer of NITI Aayog, a public policy think tank of the Government of India. He is a retired member of the 1980 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) batch, the central civil service of the Government of India.
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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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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 EFL Championship club Millwall. Watmore previously played for Altrincham, Clitheroe, Curzon Ashton, Sunderland, Hibernian, and Middlesbrough.
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Christabel Pankhurst
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- suffragistsuffragettewomen's rights activistfeministeditor
- Biography
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Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE was a British suffragette 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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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 from Ohio's 9th congressional district. Now elected into her 22nd term, she has been a member of Congress since 1983.
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Starry Lee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Starry Lee Wai-king, SBS, JP is a Hong Kong politician and former chairperson of the largest pro-establishment Beijing-loyalist party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). She is a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC), Legislative Councillor for the Kowloon Central geographical constituency, and a former Kowloon City District Councillor. From 2012 to 2016, she was a member of the Executive Council.
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Maggie Philbin
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Margaret Elizabeth Philbin OBE is an English radio and television presenter whose credits include Tomorrow's World, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and latterly Bang Goes the Theory.
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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 (1995), 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 and Poldark (2016), Giri/Haji (2019), Young Wallander (2020),The Crown and Andor (2022).
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Melvin Calvin
- Occupations
- engineerbiochemistuniversity teacherbiologistchemist
- 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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Noor el-Sheikh
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- actorannouncer
- Biography
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Noor el-Sheikh is a Bahraini broadcaster and actress.
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Rami Hamdallah
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianfaculty memberlinguist
- Biography
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Rami Hamdallah is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as Prime Minister of the State 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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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
- screenwriterjournalistannouncer
- 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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Shazia Mirza
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianjournalistcomedian
- 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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Tony Hawks
- Occupations
- writerfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Antony Gordon Hawksworth MBE, known professionally as Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author.
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Waldemar Januszczak
- Occupations
- television producerart historiantelevision presentertelevision directorfilm director
- 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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Sophia Chan Siu-chee
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- 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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Ian Livingstone
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- screenwriterrole-playing game designerwritergame book authorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Sir Ian Livingstone CBE is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995.
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Michel Evgenij Chossudovsky
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- economistresearcherprofessorwriterconspiracy theorist
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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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John M. Allegro
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- photographeruniversity teacherarchaeologistanthropologistlinguist
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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.
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Anna Ford
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- journalistpresenternews presenter
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Anna Ford is an English 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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Giles Martin
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- songwriterrecord producer
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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 79)
- 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 has served as prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) since 2001.
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William Wragg
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- 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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Sophie Hannah
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- writerchildren's writerpoet
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Sophie Hannah is a British poet and novelist.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
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- music educatorfilm score composercomposerpedagoguepianist
- Biography
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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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Gaston Browne
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- 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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David Aaronovitch
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- writerauthorjournalisttelevision presenter
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David Morris Aaronovitch is an English journalist, television presenter and author. He was a regular columnist for The Times and 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 and The Guardian.
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Louise Wener
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- novelistsingerguitaristsongwriterwriter
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Louise Jane Wener is an English writer, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Sleeper.
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Ruth Ware
- Occupations
- novelistwaiterteacherwriterbookseller
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Ruth Warburton, known by the alias Ruth Ware, is a British psychological thriller author. Her novels include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs Westaway (2018), The Turn of the Key (2019), One By One (2020), The It Girl (2022) and Zero Days (2023). Both In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 were on the UK's Sunday Times and The New York Times top ten bestseller lists. She is represented by Eve White of the Eve White Literary Agency. She switched to the pen name Ruth Ware to distinguish her crime novels from the young-adult fantasy novels published under her birth name.
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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 with BBC News, a regular presenter of Politics Live (and formerly also Sunday Politics along with Andrew Neil) and previously had special responsibility for BBC Breakfast. She is a former BBC political correspondent for London, who covered the 2000 London Mayoral election.
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Atul Khatri
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianchief executive officeractor
- 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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Tony Brooks
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- In 1950 studied dentistry
- Occupations
- racing driverracing automobile driverFormula One driver
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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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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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Mekapati Goutham Reddy
- Occupations
- 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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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 primitive 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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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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Liam Byrne
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- 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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Jonathan Reynolds
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- politician
- Biography
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Jonathan Neil Reynolds is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade since July 2024. 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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Chi Onwurah
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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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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Sally Davies
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- hematologistphysician
- 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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Nick Brown
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- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas Hugh Brown, known as Nick 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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Chrissie Wellington
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- triathlete
- Biography
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Christine Ann Wellington OBE is an English former professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She held all three world and championship records relating to ironman-distance triathlon races: firstly, the overall world record, secondly, the Ironman World Championship course record (from 2009 until Mirinda Carfrae lowered it in 2013), and thirdly, the official world record for all Ironman-branded triathlon races over the full Ironman distance.
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Faiza Shaheen
- Enrolled in the University of Manchester
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- writereconomistactivist
- Biography
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Faiza Shaheen is a British academic and economist in the field of economic inequality.
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Martin Jacques
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- journalistbroadcaster
- Biography
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Martin Jacques is a British journalist, editor, academic, political commentator and author.
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Ellen Wilkinson
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- politiciantrade unionistwritersuffragette
- 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.
