100 Notable alumni of
University of Nottingham
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The University of Nottingham is 326th in the world, 113th in Europe, and 25th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Nottingham sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Nottingham won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Theo James
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- stage actoractorexecutive producerguitaristsinger
- Biography
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Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis is an English actor and producer. He gained recognition for playing Tobias Eaton in The Divergent Series (2014–2016). He has starred in the horror films Underworld: Awakening (2012) and Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), the science fiction film Archive (2020), and the dark comedy The Monkey (2025) in a dual role as a pair of twin brothers.
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Ruth Wilson
- Occupations
- film actoractorstage actor
- Biography
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Ruth Wilson is an English actress. She has played the title character in Jane Eyre (2006), Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama Luther (2010–2013, 2019), Alison Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2018), and the title character in Mrs Wilson (2018). From 2019 to 2022, she portrayed Marisa Coulter in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials, and for this role she won the 2020 BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), and Dark River (2017).
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D. H. Lawrence
- Occupations
- playwrightliterary criticwritertranslatorpainter
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David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality and use of explicit language.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in community health
- Occupations
- ministermicrobiologistmalariologistpolitician
- Biography
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, diplomat, and the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2017. He is the first African to become WHO Director-General, receiving an endorsement for the role by the African Union. Tedros played a role in the response to the Ebola virus epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak.
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DanTDM
- Occupations
- Minecraft YouTuber
- Biography
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Daniel Robert Middleton, better known as DanTDM (formerly TheDiamondMinecart), is an English YouTuber, gamer, and author. He is primarily known for his Let's Play videos, particularly those featuring Minecraft, Roblox, Pokémon and Five Nights at Freddy's. Middleton's YouTube channel, which he started in 2012, has amassed over 29 million subscribers and 20 billion views as of 2025, making him one of the most popular content creators on the platform.
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Don Airey
- Occupations
- conductorpianistsession musiciancomposerkeyboardist
- Biography
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Donald Smith Airey is an English musician. He came to prominence as the keyboardist of the rock band Rainbow during 1979–1982. He has been the keyboardist of Deep Purple since 2002, after the retirement of Jon Lord. As well as Rainbow and Deep Purple, he has had a long and productive career playing with many other rock and metal acts, including Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Saxon, Wishbone Ash, Colosseum II, Ten, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Empire, Brian May, Divlje jagode and Living Loud. He has also worked with classical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as the leader of the Future Forward Party from 2018 to 2020. From 2002 to 2018, he was the vice president of the Thai Summit Group, Thailand's largest auto parts manufacturer.
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Jolyon Palmer
- Occupations
- Formula One driversports commentatorracing automobile driver
- Biography
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Jolyon Carlyle Palmer is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and journalist, who competed in Formula One from 2016 to 2017. Since retiring from racing, Palmer has been a pundit for the BBC, Channel 4 and F1TV.
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Nicholas Farrell
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Nicholas C. Frost, known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film and television actor.
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Haydn Gwynne
- Occupations
- singertelevision actorfilm actorstage actorlecturer
- Biography
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Haydn Gwynne was an English actress. She was nominated for the 1992 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance for the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1991), and won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical. She was also a five-time Laurence Olivier Award nominee, winning posthumously in 2024. Her other television roles included Peak Practice (1999–2000), Merseybeat (2001–2002), and playing Camilla in The Windsors from 2016 until her death in 2023.
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Eva Carneiro
- Occupations
- sports physician
- Biography
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Eva Carneiro is a Gibraltarian sports medicine specialist who is best known for serving as the first-team doctor of Chelsea, which she joined in 2009. Educated at the University of Nottingham, the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in Melbourne and Queen Mary University of London, she worked variously for West Ham United, the Public Health Department, the Olympic Medical Institute, and the England women's football team. Carneiro was employed by Chelsea in 2009, leaving her position under controversial circumstances in September 2015.
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Enzo Cilenti
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Vincenzo Leonardo "Enzo" Cilenti is a British actor. His film credits include Wonderland (1999), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Millions (2004), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Theory of Everything (2014), The Martian (2015), High-Rise (2015), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Greed (2019), Heart of Stone (2023), The Beekeeper (2024).
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Theresa Tam
- Occupations
- chief medical officer
- Biography
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Theresa Tam is a Canadian physician and public servant who served as the chief public health officer of Canada (CPHO), the second-in-command of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Tam initially took the role as acting CPHO following the retirement of her predecessor, Gregory Taylor, on December 16, 2016. She was formally appointed on June 26, 2017. She stepped down as CPHO on June 20, 2025.
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Emma Barnett
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Emma Barnett is a British broadcaster and journalist who presented Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 from 2021 until March 2024, when she joined the presenting team on BBC Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme Today.
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Sara Danius
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- 1987-1989 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherliterary criticphilosopher
- Biography
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Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
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Saira Khan
- Occupations
- journalistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Saira Khan is a British television personality. She was a contestant on the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up. In 2012, Khan competed in the first series of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. From 2012 to 2017, Khan co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show, and in 2015, she presented the ITV series Guess This House.
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Natalie Pinkham
- Occupations
- television presenterpresenter
- Biography
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Natalie Jane Pinkham is a British television presenter and Formula One pit lane reporter for Sky Sports F1, having held the same post for BBC Radio 5 Live in 2011. She is also known for hosting Police Interceptors Special Edition on 5*. She appeared on Live from Studio Five as a guest presenter and was a regular panellist on The Wright Stuff.
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Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Studied in 1917-1920
- Occupations
- physicistmathematician
- Biography
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Ali Moustafa Attia Mosharrafa was an Egyptian theoretical physicist. He was a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cairo University and also served as the University's first dean. He contributed to the development of Quantum theory as well as the Theory of relativity.
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Andrew Witty
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusiness executive
- Biography
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Sir Andrew Philip Witty is an English businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of American health insurance company UnitedHealth Group from February 2021 to May 2025. He was also the CEO of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline from 2008 to 2017, and chancellor of the University of Nottingham from 2013 to 2017. He also assisted the World Health Organization in developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
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Andrew Bridgen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew James Bridgen is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 2010 until 2024. He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023, having had the whip suspended in January after criticising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and claiming that a cardiologist told him it constitutes "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust". He joined the Reclaim Party in May 2023 but resigned from the party in December 2023.
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Mikhail Svetov
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Studied in 2007-2009
- Occupations
- screenwriterpoliticianbloggerpolitical scientisttelevision producer
- Biography
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Mikhail Vladimirovich Svetov is a Russian politician, public figure, political scientist, and blogger. He serves as the chairman of the civil society movement "Civil Society". Svetov is one of the main ideologists and popularizers of libertarianism in Russia. He has organized major rallies on various political and public topics. Svetov runs a YouTube channel and an online newspaper, both entitled "SVTV".
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Louise Haigh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Louise Margaret Haigh is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Transport from July to November 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley since 2015. She held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2015 and 2024.
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Caucher Birkar
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Caucher Birkar FRS is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician (born in Iran) and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Ahmad Tavakkoli
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ahmad Tavakkoli was an Iranian conservative and principlist politician and journalist. He was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Also he was the managing-director of Alef news website and founder of the corruption watchdog, non-governmental organization Justice and Transparency Watch.
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Matthew P. Walker
- Occupations
- university teacherneuroscientistpsychologist
- Biography
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Matthew Walker is a British author, scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Azlan Shah I of Perak
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-lah was Sultan of Perak from 1984 until his death in 2014, the ninth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), from 1989 to 1994, and the 5th Lord President of the Supreme Court, from 1982 to 1984.
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Meena Alexander
- Occupations
- writerpoetnovelistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Meena Alexander was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Daisy Cooper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daisy Cooper is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans since 2019. She has served as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2020, as well as the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson since 2024.
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Deng Yaping
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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Michael Coren
- Occupations
- writerjournalisttelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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Michael Coren is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television personality, Coren hosted The Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 before moving to the Sun News Network to host The Arena with Michael Coren, from 2011 until the channel's demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on Toronto talk radio station CFRB. Coren is currently a columnist for the Toronto Star and iPolitics.
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Anil Kakodkar
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistmechanical engineer
- Biography
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Anil Kakodkar is an Indian nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay (or Turbhe) from 1996 to 2000. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, on 26 January 2009.
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Johnnie Johnson
- Occupations
- flying ace
- Biography
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Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL, nicknamed "Johnnie", was an English Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and flying ace who flew and fought during the Second World War.
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Tuanku Zara Salim
- Occupations
- swimmerengineer
- Biography
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Tuanku Zara Salim is the Raja Permaisuri (Queen consort) of Perak as the wife of Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, the current Sultan of the Malaysian state of Perak.
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Peter Mansfield
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Years
- 1933-2017 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- inventorphysicistuniversity teacherbiophysicist
- Biography
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Sir Peter Mansfield FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Tony Lloyd
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- 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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Agatha Sangma
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Agatha Kongkal Sangma is an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya. At the age of 29, she is the youngest member of parliament ever in India to be appointed Union Minister in Government of India till date. Sangma is the second woman from Northeast India to be appointed a union minister in the Government of India after Renuka Devi Barkataki from Assam. She is a member of National People's Party.
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John Hayes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir John Henry Hayes CBE is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for South Holland and The Deepings since 1997. He has held five ministerial positions and six shadow ministerial positions. Hayes was appointed as a Privy Councillor in April 2013 and a Knight Bachelor in November 2018.
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Divya Maderna
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Divya Maderna is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. She is a member of the Indian National Congress and was elected as MLA of the Osian constituency in the 2018 elections.
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Lauri Love
- Occupations
- security hacker
- Biography
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Lauri Love is a British activist who was previously charged by the United States for his alleged activities with the hacker collective Anonymous. Love's case has been cited as precedent in the Julian Assange extradition proceedings.
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Michael Berry
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- 1995-1996 graduated with Master of Laws in international law
- Occupations
- radio personalityrestaurateurtalk show hostoperations managerlawyer
- Biography
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Michael Christian Berry is an American conservative radio talk show host based in Houston, Texas. A former member of the Houston City Council, Berry has worked as an attorney, a real estate developer, and a restaurateur.
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Ja’afar I of Negeri Sembilan
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman GCB was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan from 1967 until his death in 2008, and the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), from 1994 to 1999.
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Antoinette Sandbach
- Occupations
- barristersolicitorpolitician
- Biography
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Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach, known as Antoinette Sandbach, is a British barrister, farm manager and politician who was elected as a North Wales region Member of the Welsh Assembly at the May 2011 election, and subsequently elected Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire at the 2015 general election.
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Andrew Griffith
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew John Griffith is a British Conservative Party politician and former senior media executive who has been Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade since November 2024 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and South Downs since 2019.
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Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein was the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claimed to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.
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Clive Granger
- Occupations
- econometricianeconomiststatisticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the University of California, San Diego. Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 in recognition of the contributions that he and his co-winner, Robert F. Engle, had made to the analysis of time series data. This work fundamentally changed the way in which economists analyse financial and macroeconomic data.
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Olav Bjortomt
- Occupations
- journalistquizzer
- Biography
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Stein Olav Bjortomt is a British international quiz player, four-time world champion (2003, 2015, 2018, 2019) and three-time individual European champion (2010, 2014, 2015). He is a player in one of the world's most successful quizzing teams, Broken Hearts, with which he has won several European championships.
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Ian Dickson
- Occupations
- music critictalent managerjournalist
- Biography
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Ian Ross Perrygrove better known as Ian "Dicko" Dickson or simply "Dicko" is an English Australian television and radio presenter, television producer, music journalist and former record company executive and talent scout. He has been a talent judge on Australian Idol, The Next Great American Band, the 2012 reboot of Young Talent Time and Australia's Got Talent. He previously spent over twenty years working in the record industry in both the U.K. and Australia, for labels including Creation Records, Sony, A&M and BMG and for music acts including Celine Dion, Ozzy Osbourne, Primal Scream and Pearl Jam.
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Richard Scudamore
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Richard Craig Scudamore CBE is an English sports executive.
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John Timpson
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Sir William John Anthony Timpson CBE is a British businessman who is chairman and owner of retailer Timpson.
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Femi Oluwole
- Biography
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Femi Oluwolelisten is a British political activist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocacy group Our Future Our Choice. He has appeared as a commentator and activist on British television. He has written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Metro.
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Kelvin Hopkins
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Kelvin Peter Hopkins is a British politician. He was first elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Luton North in 1997. Hopkins was suspended by the Labour Party in 2017 after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him in the 2017 Westminster sexual misconduct allegations. Hopkins did not stand for re-election in the 2019 general election.
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Gail Carriger
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writerchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Gail Carriger is an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology (with a focus on archaeology) at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards.
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Scot McKnight
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Scot McKnight is an American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, theologian, and author who has written widely on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and Christian living. He served as the Julius R. Mantey Chair of New Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lisle, Illinois, but announced in January 2024 that he would leave the faculty by the end of the academic year, due to allegations of mismanagement among the leadership at Northern and the way the board handled those allegations.
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Chris Hawkins
- Occupations
- journalistpresenter
- Biography
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Christopher Charles Hawkins is a British radio presenter, DJ, and music pundit.
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Max Cooper
- Occupations
- musicianDJ producer
- Biography
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Max Cooper is a London-based electronic and techno music producer who has been releasing music since 2007. He has received positive reviews from magazines such as Clash and critical acclaim for his debut album Human.
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Peter Rice
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Peter Rice is a British American producer and media executive. He is the former chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content for The Walt Disney Company and former president of 21st Century Fox, where he worked from 1989 to 2019.
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Angela Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Angela Christine Smith is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 to 2019 and MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously an MP for Labour, later for Change UK, later still as a member of The Independents, then joined the Liberal Democrats before leaving Parliament in 2019. She rejoined Labour in 2022.
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Peter von Matt
- Occupations
- literary scholarliterary criticlinguistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Peter von Matt was a Swiss philologist, specialist in German studies, and author. He was an authority in literary education.
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Chris Mosdell
- Occupations
- singersongwriterlyricistcomposerpoet
- Biography
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Christopher John Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, United States.
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Chris Wyles
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Chris Wyles is a former American-English rugby union player. Until his retirement in January 2016, Wyles represented the United States men's national rugby sevens team in three World Cups in 2007, 2011, and 2015. He was captain of the U.S. men's national rugby union team in the 2015 Rugby World Cup and for USA Sevens, a Rugby League World Sevens team, in both the 2007–2008 and 2008–2009 seasons. In 2015, he was selected for the USA Olympic team, where he competed for USA Sevens in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Paul Butler
- Occupations
- politicianAnglican priest
- Biography
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Paul Roger Butler is a retired British Anglican bishop and a former Lord Spiritual of the House of Lords. He was installed and enthroned in Durham Cathedral on 22 February 2014 and was the Bishop of Durham, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Durham, from 20 January 2014 to 29 February 2024. On 12 September 2013 it was announced that he had been appointed as bishop-designate of Durham (succeeding Justin Welby.) He was previously bishop of Southwell and Nottingham. He was installed at Southwell Minster on 27 February 2010. He served as the suffragan bishop of Southampton in the Diocese of Winchester from 2004 until 2010.
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Matthew Bannister
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Richard Matthew Bannister is a British media executive and broadcaster.
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Roger Tomlinson
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Roger Frank Tomlinson OC FRCGS was an English-Canadian geographer and the primary originator of modern geographic information systems (GIS), and has been acknowledged as the "father of GIS."
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Blake Morrison
- Occupations
- writerauthorpoetnovelist
- Biography
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Philip Blake Morrison is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and was made into a drama film of the same title. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If (1997).
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Anna Firth
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Annalissa Firth is a British former politician and former barrister who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend West from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she was also a councillor on Sevenoaks District Council between 2011 and 2022.
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Darius Brubeck
- Occupations
- composerpianistjazz musicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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David Darius Brubeck is an American jazz pianist, author, and educator. He is the son of jazz pianist Dave Brubeck with whom he worked professionally in the 1970s, while also performing in his own bands, the Darius Brubeck Ensemble and Gathering Forces.
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Michael Pound
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- 2003-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- 2006-2010 graduated with PhD in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
- Biography
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Michael P. Pound is a researcher at the University of Nottingham. He is known for his work in the areas of bioimage analysis, computer vision, image recognition, computer security, and for his appearances on the video series Computerphile.
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David Drew
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Elliott Drew is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from 1997 to 2010 and 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he was Shadow Minister for Farming and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019.
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Katherine Fletcher
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Katherine Fletcher is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire, from 2019 to 2024. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and Minister for Women between September and October 2022.
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Judith Gough
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- diplomatconsultant
- Biography
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Judith Mary Gough CMG is a British diplomat and has formerly served as the British ambassador to Sweden (2019–2024), Ukraine (2015–19) and Georgia (2010–2013).
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Sharon Laws
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Sharon Laws was a British professional cyclist and environmental consultant.
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Zoltán Dörnyei
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- In 2010 studied theology
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguistpsycholinguist
- Biography
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Zoltán Dörnyei was a Hungarian linguist. He was a professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He was known for his work on second language acquisition and the psychology of the language learner, in particular on motivation in second language learning, having published numerous books and papers on these topics.
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Parmjit Dhanda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Parmjit Singh Dhanda is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester from 2001 until the 2010 general election, succeeding Tess Kingham as the Labour MP for the seat.
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Prince Imran ibni Ja’afar of Negeri Sembilan
- Occupations
- squash playerpolitician
- Biography
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Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni Almarhum Tuanku Ja’afar is a member of Negeri Sembilan royal family who is the Tunku Muda Serting. He is the grandson of the first King of Malaysia, Tuanku Abdul Rahman. His father Tuanku Ja'afar, was also the 10th King of Malaysia. He was born as the second son of Tuanku Ja’afar, the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Besar (Grand Ruler) of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. He is often unofficially known in English as Prince Tunku Imran.
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Robert Brustein
- Occupations
- theatrical directorjournalistplaywrighttheatre critictheatrical producer
- Biography
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Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theater critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic.
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Jeremy Browne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeremy Richard Browne is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton Deane from 2005 to 2015. He served as both Minister of State for Europe and the Americas and Minister of State for Crime Prevention.
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Meg-John Barker
- Occupations
- writerexistential therapistpsychotherapistpsychologist
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Meg-John Barker is a writer, writing mentor, creative consultant, speaker, and independent scholar. They have written a number of anti self-help books on the topics of relationships, sex, and gender, as well as the graphic non-fiction books, Queer: A Graphic History and Gender: A Graphic Guide, and the book The Psychology of Sex. They are the writer of the relationships book and blog Rewriting the Rules, and they have a podcast with sex educator Justin Hancock.
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Zainab Hawa Bangura
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- diplomatministerpolitician
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Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) since 2018, appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. She served as the second United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2012 to 2017, in succession to the first holder of the post, Margot Wallström. In 2017 she was succeeded by Pramila Patten.
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Tim Aker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timür Mark "Tim" Aker is a British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region. He was elected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate in 2014. He was head of UKIP's Policy Unit from August 2013 to January 2015, and was UKIP's candidate for the Thurrock constituency in the 2015 general election, coming third in a close 3-way election. Aker left UKIP and joined the Thurrock Independents where he also successfully sought election a councillor in 2018, before later joining the Brexit Party.
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Gay Mitchell
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- politician
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Gabriel Mitchell is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 1994 to 1997 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1992 to 1993. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2014 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 1981 to 2007.
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Richard Best, Baron Best
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- politician
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Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, OBE, DL, FAcSS is an independent Crossbench Member of the House of Lords with a special interest in housing issues.
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Hassan Hassan
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- journalistwriter
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Hassan Hassan is an American author and journalist of Syrian origin. He co-wrote the 2015 New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Michael Weiss. He has written on Islamist groups in the Middle East. He frequently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Amanpour and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, and has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and The Daily Beast, among others. Hassan is the founder and editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine, a global affairs magazine.
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Alice Bentinck
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in management studies
- Occupations
- company founderbusiness analyst
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Alice Yvonne Bentinck MBE is a British entrepreneur. Along with Matt Clifford she is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs First (EF), a London-based company builder and startup accelerator founded in 2011. EF finds exceptional talent from around the world, and funds them to build exceptional companies. In 2017, it was announced that Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock, was leading a $12.4million investment into Entrepreneurs First.
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David Matthews
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- composer
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David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.
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David Florence
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- canoeist
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David Florence is a retired British slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2021. He is the 2013 and 2015 world champion in individual single canoe (C1) and 2013 champion in double canoe (C2), the latter with Richard Hounslow. Florence was the first canoeist since Charles Dussuet, sixty years earlier, to achieve the C1, C2 double at the same World Championships.
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Katie Rowley Jones
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Katie Rowley Jones is a British musical theatre actress, best known for originating the role of Nessarose in the West End production of Wicked.
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Molly Stevens
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- Studied in 1997-2001
- Occupations
- engineerresearcher
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Dame Molly Morag Stevens is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. She is Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery and a member of the Department for Engineering Science and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.
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Mike Dilger
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- television presenterecologist
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Mike Dilger is an English ecologist, television presenter and the wildlife reporter on the BBC television programme The One Show. He attended the University of Nottingham and UCNW Bangor in north Wales.
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Rajesh Talwar
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- In 1996 graduated with Master of Laws in human rights
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyerwriter
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Rajesh Talwar is an Indian lawyer and author. He has written several books on the topics of law and human rights and also some children's books and plays.
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Jonathan Neale
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- businesspersonengineer
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Jonathan Neale is a British businessman and the chief operating officer of McLaren Group. Neale's responsibilities as part of the executive management team include infrastructure development, information technology, facilities management as well as holding a number of statutory directorships.
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Etienne Stott
- Occupations
- kayakercanoeist
- Biography
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Etienne Stott MBE is an English slalom canoeist who started competing at the international level in 2002, initially in the K1 category, but switching to C2 in 2005. He retired from the sport in 2016. He is the Olympic Champion in the C2 event from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Andrew John
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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The Rt. Rev. Andrew Thomas Griffith John is a retired Welsh Anglican bishop. He has served as Bishop of Bangor from 2008 to 2025, and was additionally Archbishop of Wales, the head of the Church in Wales, from 2021 until he announced his immediate retirement from the post on 27 June 2025.
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Dave Hutchinson
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Dave Hutchinson is a science fiction writer who was born in Sheffield in England in 1960 and read American Studies at the University of Nottingham. He subsequently moved into journalism, writing for The Weekly News and The Courier for almost 25 years.
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Frank Halford
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- military flight engineerengineeraircraft pilot
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Major Frank Bernard Halford CBE FRAeS was an English aircraft engine designer. He is best known for the series of de Havilland Gipsy engines, widely used by light aircraft in the 1920s and 30s.
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Akierra Missick
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- politician
- Biography
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Akierra Mary Deanne Missick is a Turks and Caicos Islands lawyer and politician. She served as Deputy Premier and Minister of Education from 2012 to 2016 and Leader of Government Business and Minister of Infrastructure from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Progressive National Party, Missick has served as the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Leeward & Long Bay ED5 since 2012.
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Ed Hawkins
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
- Enrolled in the University of Nottingham
- In 2003 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- data scientistclimatologist
- Biography
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Edward Hawkins MBE is a British climate scientist who is Professor of climate science at the University of Reading, principal research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), editor of Climate Lab Book blog and lead scientist for the Weather Rescue citizen science project. He is known for his data visualizations of climate change for the general public such as warming stripes and climate spirals.
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Suraya Marshall
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- air navigatorair force officer
- Biography
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Air Marshal Suraya Antonia Marshall, CBE is a senior Royal Air Force officer. She served as Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group RAF from October 2021 to March 2024, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff from June 2024 to November 2025, and was appointed Deputy Commander Cyber & Specialist Operations Command in November 2025.
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Meg Munn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margaret Patricia Munn is a former politician who served as a Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015. After leaving Parliament, she has served in a variety of roles across the public sector, academia and international bodies.
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Tom Copley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tom Phillip Copley is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, serving as the Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development. He served as a London wide member of the London Assembly from 2012 to 2020 and is a former councillor on Lewisham Council.
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John Tse
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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John Tse Wing-ling is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.
