100 Notable alumni of
University of Sheffield
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The University of Sheffield is 434th in the world, 149th in Europe, and 34th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Sheffield 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 Sheffield won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Suzy Eddie Izzard
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- politicianstand-up comedianvoice actorimproviseractor
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Suzy Eddie Izzard, is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.
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Lee Child
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- authorscreenwriterwriterfilm actornovelist
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James Dover Grant CBE, primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor (1997), won both the Anthony Award and the 1998 Barry Award for Best First Novel.
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Joseph Marcell
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Joseph Marcell is a Saint Lucian-British actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Geoffrey Butler, the butler on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from September 1990 until the show ended in May 1996.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill
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- athletics competitor
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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill is a British retired athlete, specialising in the heptathlon and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), and the 2010 European champion. She is also the 2010 World Indoor pentathlon champion. A member of the City of Sheffield & Dearne athletic club, she is a former British national record holder for the heptathlon. She is also a former British record holder in the 100 metres hurdles, the high jump and the indoor pentathlon.
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Amy Johnson
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- aircraft pilot
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Amy Johnson CBE was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
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Dan Walker
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- sports journalisttelevision presenter
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Daniel Meirion Walker is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter from Crawley, England. He currently presents 5 News on Channel 5 and the weekday breakfast show on Classic FM.
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Tim Key
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- actorradio personalitypoetscreenwriterstand-up comedian
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Timothy Key is an English poet, comedian, actor and screenwriter. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, both as a solo act and as part of the comedy group Cowards, and plays Alan Partridge's sidekick Simon in film and television. In 2009, he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
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Stephen Daldry
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- theatrical directorfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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Stephen David Daldry CBE is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008).
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Chris Chibnall
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- showrunnerplaywrightmanufacturerscreenwritertelevision producer
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Christopher Antony Chibnall is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV mystery-crime drama Broadchurch (2013-17) and as the third showrunner of the 2005 revival of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2018–22). Chibnall wrote five episodes of the series under previous showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, and he was also the head writer for the first two series of the spinoff Torchwood (2006-08).
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David Blunkett
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- politiciandiarist
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David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, PC is a British Labour Party politician who has been a member of the House of Lords since 2015, and previously served as the member of parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from 1987 to 2015, when he stood down. Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become education and employment secretary, home secretary and work and pensions secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.
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Helen Sharman
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry
- Occupations
- astronautchemist
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Helen Patricia Sharman is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.
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Jim O'Neill
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- politicianwritereconomistbusinessperson
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Terence James O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley is a British economist best known for coining BRIC, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the four once-rapidly developing countries that he predicted would challenge the global economic power of the developed G7 economies. He is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Conservative government minister.
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Paul Mason
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- trade unionistwriterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Paul Mason is a British journalist. He writes a weekly column at The New European and monthly columns for Social Europe and Frankfurter Rundschau. He was Business Correspondent and then Economics Editor of the BBC Two television programme Newsnight from 2001, and Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News from 2013, becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He left Channel 4 in 2016.
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Hans Krebs
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- physiologistbiochemistphysicianWhitley Professor of Biochemistryuniversity teacher
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions that take place in the cells of nearly all organisms, including humans, other than anaerobic microorganisms, namely the citric acid cycle and the urea cycle. The former, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", is the sequence of metabolic reactions that allows cells of oxygen-respiring organisms to obtain far more ATP from the food they consume than anaerobic processes such as glycolysis can supply; and its discovery earned Krebs a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. With Hans Kornberg, he also discovered the glyoxylate cycle, a slight variation of the citric acid cycle found in plants, bacteria, protists, and fungi.
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Herbert Chapman
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Herbert Chapman was an English football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most influential and successful managers in the early 20th century, before his sudden death in 1934. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest innovators.
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Munya Chawawa
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- comedian
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Munyaradzi Oliver Chawawa is a British–Zimbabwean actor, comedy rapper and comedian.
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Hussain Dawood
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Hussain Dawood is a Pakistani-Maltese businessman and philanthropist who is the chairman of Engro, Dawood Hercules, and The Dawood Foundation. He is also the chairman of the Karachi School of Business & Leadership (KSBL), and a director of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute.
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Lucy Prebble
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- writerplaywrightscreenwriter
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Lucy Ashton Prebble is a British playwright and producer. She has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
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Jake Berry
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- politician
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Sir James Jacob Gilchrist Berry is a British Conservative Party politician and former solicitor who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen in Lancashire first elected at the 2010 general election serving until defeat in the 2024 general election. He previously served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio from 6 September to 25 October 2022. Before this, he served as Minister of State for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth from 2017 to 2020 in the governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
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Edmund de Waal
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- ceramicistvisual artistpotternon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
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Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE is an English contemporary artist, potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De Waal's second book, The White Road, tracing his journey to discover the history of porcelain, was released in 2015.
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Nurettin Canikli
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- politician
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Nurettin Canikli is a Turkish politician, the former Minister of National Defense of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Giresun under the ruling Justice and Development Party. He previously also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and the Minister of Customs and Trade of Turkey.
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Anita Chui
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- film actor
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Anita Chui is a Hong Kong-born actress and singer. Chui has acted in both local and international films, and is the author of two books. Her debut single, Get it Right, was released in 2022.
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Jazmin Sawyers
- Occupations
- bobsleddersports commentatorlong jumpersinger
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Jazmin Sawyers is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England. In 2023, she won her first major senior title at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
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Harry Kroto
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- university teacherchemistscientist
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Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
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Bryony Page
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- Studied biology
- Occupations
- trampoline gymnast
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Bryony Kate Frances Page is a British trampoline gymnast. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in individual trampoline. She is the 2021 and 2023 women's individual trampoline world champion, and part of the British team that won team gold at the 2013 world championships, and all-around team gold in 2022.
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Dan Cruickshank
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- art historianarchitecthistoriantelevision presenter
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Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank is a British art historian and BBC television presenter, with a special interest in the history of architecture.
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Nick Timothy
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas James Timothy CBE is a British Conservative Party politician and former political adviser, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2024. He served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, alongside Fiona Hill, to Prime Minister Theresa May, until after the 2017 general election.
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Natalie Rushdie
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United Kingdom - Biography
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Natalie Rushdie is a Scottish jazz singer. Classically trained, she has sung at the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium and the London Coliseum as well as for numerous charities and on television shows as well as being asked to sing at a number of sporting events.
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Brooke Magnanti
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- prostitutebiostatisticianphysician writerautobiographerblogger
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Brooke Magnanti is an American-born naturalised British former research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour. While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl known by the working name Taro.
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Richard Roberts
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- biologistuniversity teacherbiochemist
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Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.
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Tony Miles
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- chess player
- Biography
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Anthony John Miles was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
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Gavin Bryars
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- double-bassistcomposermusicologistjazz musician
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Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music.
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Steve Reed
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- politician
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Steven Mark Ward Reed OBE is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he is the Member of Parliament for Streatham and Croydon North, formerly Croydon North since 2012.
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Bernard Hogan-Howe
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- police officer
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Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe, QPM is an English former police officer and was the head of London's Metropolitan Police as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2011 until 2017.
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Robert Courts
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- politicianbarrister
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Robert Alexander Courts KC is a British Conservative politician and barrister who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2016 to 2024. He served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from December 2023 to 2024. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport in the Johnson government from 2020 to 2022 and served as Chair of the Defence Select Committee from October to December 2023.
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Andy Haldane
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- economist
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Andrew George Haldane is a British economist who worked at the Bank of England between 1989 and 2021 progressing to the role of chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics. He resigned from the Bank of England in June 2021 to become chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts. He sits on the UK's government's Economic Advisory Council.
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Anna Campbell
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- political activistmilitant
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Anna Montgomery Campbell, also known by her Kurdish name Hêlîn Qereçox, was a British feminist, anarchist and prison abolition activist who fought with the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in the Rojava conflict of the Syrian civil war. She was killed in Rojava by a Turkish Armed Forces missile strike.
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Sarah Champion
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- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Deborah Champion is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since 2012.
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Ben Purkiss
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- association football playerfutsal player
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Benjamin John Purkiss is an English former professional footballer and former chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA).
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Tim Hughes
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- composersinger-songwriterAnglican priest
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Timothy David Llewelyn Hughes is a British worship leader, singer, songwriter, and Anglican priest. Formerly the director of worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, a large Anglican church in central London, he has since been ordained as a minister in the Church of England and appointed Vicar of St Luke's, Gas Street Birmingham. He leads Worship Central, an international worship training and resource centre. Hughes has written a number of songs that are sung worldwide, including the Dove Award-winning "Here I Am to Worship", "Happy Day", "Beautiful One", "Jesus Saves", "At Your Name", and "The Way".
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Graham Stringer
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- politiciancouncil member
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Graham Eric Stringer is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Blackley and Middleton South since the 2024 general election. He has served as the area's MP continuously since 1997, having previously represented the analoguous predecessor constituencies of Manchester Blackley (1997–2010), and Blackley and Broughton (2010–2024). He was Leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996 and served as chair of Manchester Airport from 1996 to 1997.
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Olivia Blake
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- politiciancouncil member
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Olivia Frances Blake-Dagnall is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam since 2019.
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Mohd Rashid Hasnon
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- politician
- Biography
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Mohd Rashid bin Hasnon is a Malaysian politician who served as Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat I under former Speakers Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof and Azhar Azizan Harun from July 2018 to December 2022, Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu Pahat from May 2018 to November 2022, Deputy Chief Minister of Penang I, Member of the Penang State Executive Council (EXCO) under former Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pantai Jerejak from May 2013 to May 2018. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition and was a member of People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.
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Abdel Rahman Shokry
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- Studied in 1909-1912
- Occupations
- translatorpoetteacher
- Biography
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Abdel Rahman Shokry was an Egyptian poet from the Diwan school of poets.
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Van Badham
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- In 2001 studied English literature
- Occupations
- columnistwriterplaywrightnovelist
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Vanessa Badham is an Australian writer and activist. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the Guardian Australia website.
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Elise Andrew
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- writerwebmasterblogger
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Elise Andrew is a British blogger and science communicator. She was the CEO and founder of IFLScience, a website and Facebook page on popular science. With regard to the site, Andrew has come under criticism for plagiarism, unlicensed use of intellectual property, reporting false and misleading information, and rarely issuing corrections.
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Urooj Mumtaz
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Urooj Mumtaz Khan is a Pakistani cricket commentator, television host, dentist, and former cricketer. She played as an all-rounder, bowling right-arm leg break and batting right-handed. She appeared in one Test match, 38 One Day Internationals and nine Twenty20 Internationals for Pakistan between 2004 and 2010. She played domestic cricket for Karachi and Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited.
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Luke Graham
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luke Patrick Graham is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2017 to 2019.
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Muhammad Anis
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- 1986-1988 graduated with master's degree
- 1989-1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- metallurgistcivil servantacademic
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Muhammad Anis is an Indonesian engineer and academic administrator who became UI's rector from 2014 until 2019. He was previously the university's academic director from 2003 from 2007 and first deputy rector from 2007 until 2013.
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Anne Main
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anne Margaret Main CBE is a Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the general election of 2005, and was re-elected in 2010, 2015 and 2017. She lost her seat to Daisy Cooper, a Liberal Democrat, at the 2019 general election.
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James Harkin
- Occupations
- television writerscreenwritertelevision presenterradio producerpodcaster
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James Michael Harkin is a British podcaster, television host, and television writer. He is one of the four regular hosts of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, together with Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski. He was also a presenter of the BBC Two television show No Such Thing as the News. He is a researcher for the television show QI, where he has been both the head researcher and the head writer.
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Dorothy Byrne
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Dorothy Byrne, FRTS, serves as President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, since 2021.
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Arifin Zakaria
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Arifin bin Zakaria is a Malaysian lawyer who served as the seventh Chief Justice of Malaysia, serving from 12 September 2011, succeeding Zaki Azmi, until 31 March 2017.
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Justin Madders
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- Biography
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Justin Piers Richard Madders is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, previously Ellesmere Port and Neston, since 2015. He has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets since July 2024.
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Kevin Barron
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Kevin John Barron is a British Labour Party politician and former coal industry worker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rother Valley from 1983 until 2019.
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Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
- Occupations
- anatomistpoliticianphysicianuniversity teacher
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Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, KG, PC, FRCS, was a British medical doctor and politician. A member of the Liberal and Labour parties, he served as Minister of Munitions during the First World War and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under Clement Attlee.
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Mohamed Amersi
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- Studied in 1979-1983
- Occupations
- barristerphilanthropistinvestorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Mohamed Amersi is a British businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Inclusive Ventures Group, and former chairman of QML Group. He is a donor to the Conservative Party, having given nearly £525,000 since 2018.
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Anne Rafferty
- Occupations
- judgebarrister
- Biography
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Dame Anne Judith Rafferty DBE, PC, is an English jurist, who served as a Lady Justice of Appeal of England and Wales from 2011 to 2020.
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David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL is a British Labour Party politician, former cabinet minister and author.
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Nicholas Liverpool
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.
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Meg John Barker
- Occupations
- psychotherapistexistential therapistpsychologist
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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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Holly Bourne
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- writerjournalistchildren's writer
- Biography
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Holly Bourne is a British author of young adult fiction. She is the author of best-selling novel Am I Normal Yet? and several other critically acclaimed books. She also writes online on feminist issues and writes for The Mix, a charity-run advice website for under-25s.
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Donald Bailey
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. Field Marshal Montgomery is recorded as saying that "without the Bailey bridge, we should not have won the war."
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Jonathan Arnott
- Occupations
- chess playerpolitician
- Biography
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Jonathan William Arnott is a British politician and former schoolteacher. After the 2014 European Parliament election, he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East England region. Originally sitting as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) representative, he resigned from the party on 19 January 2018 to sit as an independent until designating as Brexit Party on 17 April 2019.
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Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth
- Occupations
- political scientistconstitutional scholaruniversity teacherpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth, FRSA, FAcSS, FRHistS, is an English author, academic and Conservative peer. He has been described as "the United Kingdom's greatest living expert on Parliament" and "a world authority on constitutional issues."
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Graeme Lowdon
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Graeme Paul Lowdon is a British businessman and entrepreneur. He served as chief executive officer of the Virgin and Marussia Formula One teams.
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Mayumi Pacheco
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mayumi "Maz" Pacheco is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Aston Villa. A former England youth international, she received her first senior call-up for the Philippines in 2024.
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Bob Woffinden
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Robert Woffinden was a British investigative journalist. Formerly a reporter with the New Musical Express, he later specialised in investigating miscarriages of justice. He wrote about a number of high-profile cases in the UK, including James Hanratty, Sion Jenkins, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Ingram, Jonathan King, and Barry George.
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Hans Kornberg
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherbiochemist
- Biography
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Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS was a British-American biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1982 to 1995.
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Mary-Jess Leaverland
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Mary-Jess Leaverland, or simply Mary-Jess, is an English singer and songwriter who won Min Xing Chang Fan Tian (or in English: I Want to Sing to the Stars), the Chinese version of The X Factor, which was televised to 70 million people in December 2009.
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Onkar Sahota
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician and general practitioner who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2022 to 2023. He was Deputy Chair of the London Assembly from 2023 to 2024, and the first Labour member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon, from 2012 until 2024.
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Norman Fenton
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Norman E. Fenton is a British mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Professor of Risk Information Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is known for his work in software metrics and is the author of the textbook Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, as of 2014 in its third edition.
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David Marks
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- 1966-1969 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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David Francis Marks is a psychologist, author and editor of numerous articles and books concerned mainly with five areas of psychological research – judgement, health psychology, consciousness, parapsychology and intelligence. Marks is also the originator of the General Theory of Behaviour and has curated exhibitions and books about artists and their works.
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Samantha Dixon
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- politicianspokesperson
- Biography
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Samantha Kate Dixon MBE is a British politician who serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chester North and Neston. She sat for City of Chester from 2022 until the seat's abolition in 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council from 2015 to 2019.
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Alasdair Cochrane
- Occupations
- university teacherhuman rights activistpolitical theoristethicist
- Biography
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Alasdair Cochrane is a British political theorist and ethicist who is currently Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his work on animal rights from the perspective of political theory, which is the subject of his two books: An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012, Columbia University Press). His third book, Sentientist Politics, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. He is a founding member of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a UK-based think tank focused on furthering the social and political status of nonhuman animals. He joined the Department at Sheffield in 2012, having previously been a faculty member at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics. Cochrane is a sentientist. Sentientism is a naturalistic worldview that grants moral consideration to all sentient beings.
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Bitange Ndemo
- Occupations
- diplomatacademic
- Biography
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Professor Elijah Bitange Ndemo, a global technocrat and currently serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union. Professor Ndemo is also an academic and newspaper columnist with the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation and its sister publication, the Business Daily. He currently serves part-time as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. He teaches and researches entrepreneurship and research methods, with most of his research work being focused on ICT within small and medium enterprises, and their influence on economic development in Kenya. Previously served as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication, from 2005 to 2013 under the former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki. He was awarded the prestigious presidential Chief of the Burning Spear of Kenya (CBS) for his distinguished services in 2006.
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Caroline Voaden
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Jane Voaden is a British politician and international journalist, who has served as Member of Parliament for South Devon since 2024 for the Liberal Democrats, having previously served as the party's leader in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020, and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England and Gibraltar constituency from 2019 to 2020.
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David Leigh
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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David Alan Leigh FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist, Royal Society Research Professor and, since 2014, the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2012) and Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Warwick (1998–2001).
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Andy Hargreaves
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- non-fiction writersociologist
- Biography
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Andrew Hargreaves is visiting professor at the University of Ottawa and research professor at Boston College.
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Tahir Gozal
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Tahir Gözel is an Azerbaijani businessman known for work both in the corporate and in sports worlds. He is the president of Qarabağ Football Club. Gözel is also the founder of the Tahir Gözel Initiative for Development (TGID), an organization focused on sustainable development and socio-economic advancement.
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Fay Hield
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Fay Hield is a traditional English folk singer and a Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield.
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Charles Montgomery
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Sir Charles Percival Ross Montgomery KBE, ADC is a retired Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord from 2010 to 2012. He then served as Director General of the Border Force from 2013 to 2017.
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Adam Hart
- Born in
- United Kingdom
- Occupations
- entomologistwriterscientisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Adam Hart FRSB FRES is an English scientist, author and broadcaster, specialising in ecology, entomology and conservation, especially in southern Africa. He has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects. Hart has written and presented numerous BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service documentaries and written more than 120 scientific papers.
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Prem Sikka
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- chartered accountant
- Biography
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Prem Nath Sikka, Baron Sikka is a British-Indian accountant and academic. He holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex.
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Kevin Dowd
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Kevin Dowd is a British economist, having research interests in private money and free banking, monetary systems and macroeconomics, financial risk measurement and management, political economy and policy analysis, and pensions and mortality modelling. Since 2012, he has been a Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School.
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William Barnsley Allen
- Occupations
- military physician
- Biography
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William Barnsley Allen was a British Army medical officer who was decorated for gallantry four times during the First World War, including an award of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Jean-Paul Adam
- Occupations
- swimmerpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Paul Adam is a Seychellois politician. He served as Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the Cabinet of Seychelles until 30 October 2020. He previously served as Minister of Finance, Trade & The Blue Economy from 2015 to 2016, and, before that, as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2015. He is currently Director Policy, Monitoring and Advocacy in the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to the Secretary-General. Immediately prior to this, over 2020–2023, he was Director for Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
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Shaffaq Mohammed
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- Studied business studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shaffaq Mohammed MBE is a British politician who served as a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020. He stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Sheffield Hallam in the House of Commons at the 2024 general election, coming second to Olivia Blake of Labour.
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Judith Kirton-Darling
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Judith "Jude" Kirton-Darling is a British politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North East England region for the Labour Party between 2014 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
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Nick Beighton
- Occupations
- engineerrowercanoeist
- Biography
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Nicholas Beighton is a British paracanoeist and former British Army officer. Beighton took up rowing as part of the rehabilitation programme after losing his legs during active service. He competed in the mixed scull with partner Samantha Scowen at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. He subsequently switched to the paracanoe discipline and won the bronze medal in the Men's KL2 canoe sprint at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Ken Jones
- Born in
- United Kingdom
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Sir Kenneth Lloyd Jones QPM is a British former police officer. He was a Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia, former President of Association of Chief Police Officers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom and Senior Investigator of Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong. Sir Ken Jones is a former President of Association of Chief Police Officers and presently defence & security advisor at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2000 and was knighted for services to policing in 2009.
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Philip Bourne
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- physical chemistresearcherbioinformaticianacademic administrator
- Biography
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Philip Eric Bourne is an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer, and businessman. He is currently Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and was the first associate director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative, and formerly Associate Vice Chancellor at UCSD. He has contributed to textbooks and is a strong supporter of open-access literature and software. His diverse interests have spanned structural biology, medical informatics, information technology, structural bioinformatics, scholarly communication and pharmaceutical sciences. His papers are highly cited, and he has an h-index above 80.
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Vanessa Lawrence
- Occupations
- geographerofficial
- Biography
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Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence CB HonFREng FRGS FRICS FRSGS CCMI is a British businessperson, geographer and speaker working internationally.
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Becky Wragg Sykes
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- 2004-2010 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writerarchaeologistblogger
- Biography
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Rebecca Wragg Sykes is a British paleolithic archaeologist, broadcaster, popular science writer and author who lives in Wales. She is interested in the Middle Palaeolithic, specifically in the lives of Neanderthals; and she is one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, a website set up to celebrate the lives of women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology. She is a patron of Humanists UK.
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Hollie Webb
- Occupations
- field hockey player
- Biography
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Hollie Pearne-Webb is an English field hockey player who plays as a defender for Wimbledon and the England and Great Britain national teams.
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Noel Kingsbury
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- horticulturistnon-fiction writergardener
- Biography
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Noel Kingsbury is a British garden designer and writer on gardening, plant sciences and related topics. He is best known for his promotion of naturalistic planting design in gardens and designed landscapes, and his collaboration with Dutch garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf on books on planting design. He writes occasionally for The Daily Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated magazine and The Garden - the membership magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. He has worked with Nigel Dunnett of the University of Sheffield on the first book in English on green roof and related 'green architecture' technologies. In collaboration with Tim Richardson Kingsbury has edited Vista, the Culture and Politics of Gardens and co-chairs events at the Garden Museum in London under the title 'Vista'. He has worked with several notable garden photographers, such as Marianne Majerus and Andrea Jones.
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Zara Dampney
- Occupations
- beach volleyball player
- Biography
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Zara Dampney is a British beach volleyball player, and former indoor volleyball player. She was chosen as one of the two players to take the home nation qualification spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with teammate Shauna Mullin.
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Martin Stephen
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Biography
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George Martin Stephen is the former High Master of St Paul's School in London until 1 January 2011. He is an author and has been described as "one of Britain's highest profile heads".
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Riri Fitri Sari
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- 1996-1997 graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- university teachercivil servantacademic
- Biography
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Riri Fitri Sari is a professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia (UI). She was the CIO / Head of Information System Development and Services of the University of Indonesia (2006-2014).
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Maggie Atkinson
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Margaret Elizabeth Atkinson is an English educator and the former Children's Commissioner for England. After a career in teaching, she moved into public service administration, initially in education, but later in Children Services. Her appointment and tenure as Children's Commissioner was notable for a series of controversies.
