100 Notable alumni of
University of Sheffield
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The University of Sheffield is 440th in the world, 155th 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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Lee Child
- Occupations
- 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 78)
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Joseph Marcell is a Saint Lucian-born 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 an English retired athlete who specialised 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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Tim Key
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- screenwriterstand-up comedianactorradio personalitypoet
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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 Sidekick Simon in various Alan Partridge film and television projects. In 2009, he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
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Dan Walker
- Occupations
- 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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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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- executive producershowrunnerwritertelevision producerprose writer
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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
- Occupations
- politiciandiarist
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David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, PC is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (formerly Sheffield Brightside) from 1987 to 2015 and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2015.
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Helen Sharman
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry
- Occupations
- chemistastronautResearch Cosmonaut
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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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Munya Chawawa
- Occupations
- comedian
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Munyaradzi Oliver Chawawa is a British–Zimbabwean actor, comedian and comedy rapper.
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Jim O'Neill
- Occupations
- writereconomistbusinesspersonpolitician
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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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Hans Krebs
- Occupations
- Whitley Professor of Biochemistryuniversity teacherphysiologistbiochemistphysician
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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 coach
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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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Hussain Dawood
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Hussain Dawood is a Pakistani businessman and philanthropist who is the chairman of Engro Holdings and The Dawood Foundation. He is also the chairman of the Karachi School of Business & Leadership (KSBL).
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Paul Mason
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- writerjournalisttelevision presentertrade unionist
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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. He is the author of several books.
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Lucy Prebble
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- playwrightscreenwriterwriter
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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
- Biography
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Sir James Jacob Gilchrist Berry is a British politician and solicitor who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen from 2010 to 2024. He was 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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- potternon-fiction writeruniversity teacherwriterprintmaker
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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
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Anita Chui was born in Hong Kong, a British Chinese actress, singer, and film producer. Her family moved to the UK and she later returned to Hong Kong to pursue acting career in film since 2012 and gained attention in Hong Kong with her leading role in Special Female Force (2016). She later rose to prominence in Asia with her other leading roles in Robbery, OCTB, and King of Hawkers etc. Plus, Chui is the author of a keto diet book that was widely distributed in Asia (2019). She began her singing career with debut Cantonese single Get It Right (2022). Chui also started acting career in France and she produced her debut film, the French feature Follia, which premiered at the 45th Moscow International Film Festival and was released in cinemas over 10 countries (2023). Chui’s company, Golden Shadow Entertainment Limited, partnering with the Hong Kong listed company Culturecom to host the first edition of the Golden Shadow International Micro Film Festival in Monaco in June 2026 and repeat it every June thereafter.
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Jazmin Sawyers
- Occupations
- bobsleddersports commentatorlong jumpersinger
- Biography
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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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Bryony Page
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- Studied biology
- Occupations
- trampoline gymnast
- Biography
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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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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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Dan Cruickshank
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- historiantelevision presenterart historianarchitect
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Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank OBE is a British art historian and BBC television presenter with a special interest in the history of architecture.
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Natalie Rushdie
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- opera singer
- 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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Steve Reed
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Steven Mark Ward Reed is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since September 2025, having previously served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham and Croydon North, formerly Croydon North since 2012.
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Nick Timothy
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas James Timothy CBE is a British politician and former special adviser serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor from January 2026. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, alongside Fiona Hill, under Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2017. He is a vice-chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
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Brooke Magnanti
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- biostatisticianphysician writerautobiographerbloggerprostitute
- Biography
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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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- university teacherbiochemistbiologist
- Biography
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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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Gavin Bryars
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- composermusicologistjazz musiciandouble-bassist
- Biography
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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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Tony Miles
- Occupations
- 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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Sarah Champion
- Occupations
- 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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Robert Courts
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- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Andrew George Haldane CBE FRS FAcSS FRSA 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 moved from the Bank of England in June 2021 to serve as chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, which he resigned from in February 2025, making his tenure the shortest in the institution's history. He sits on the UK's government's Economic Advisory Council, and is currently the Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.
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Ben Purkiss
- Occupations
- association football playerfutsal player
- Biography
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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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Bernard Hogan-Howe
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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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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Graham Stringer
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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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, representing the predecessor constituencies of Manchester Blackley (1997–2010), and Blackley and Broughton (2010–2024). Between 1999 and 2002, he served minor roles in the Labour Government of Tony Blair.
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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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Tim Hughes
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- Anglican priestcomposersinger-songwriter
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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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Graeme Lowdon
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- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Graeme Paul Lowdon is a British businessman and entrepreneur serving as team principal for the Cadillac Formula 1 Team. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of the Virgin and Marussia Formula One teams.
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Mohd Rashid Hasnon
- Occupations
- 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
- poetteachertranslator
- Biography
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Abdel Rahman Shokry was an Egyptian poet from the Diwan school of poets.
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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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Van Badham
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- In 2001 studied English-language literature
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightnovelistcolumnist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- webmasterbloggerwriter
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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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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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James Harkin
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision presenterradio producerpodcastertelevision writer
- Biography
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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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Justin Madders
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- 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 served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets from July 2024 to September 2025.
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Dorothy Byrne
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Dorothy Byrne is a British television news editor. Dorothy was Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 Television for 15 years, during which time her programmes won numerous Royal Television Society, BAFTA and Emmy awards, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for her outstanding contribution to television and has won several major television awards including the RTS Journalism Award. In 2019, Byrne delivered the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival in which she criticised politicians for lying and failing to be held to account. She served as President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, between 2021 and 2025.
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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
- university teachercivil servantmetallurgist
- Biography
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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 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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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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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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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 Everton. A former England youth international, she received her first senior call-up for the Philippines in 2024.
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Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
- Occupations
- physicianuniversity teacheranatomistpolitician
- Biography
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Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, 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
- barristerphilanthropistentrepreneurinvestoradviser
- 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 is an English jurist, who served as a Lady Justice of Appeal of England and Wales from 2011 to 2020.
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Meg-John Barker
- Occupations
- writerexistential therapistpsychotherapistpsychologist
- Biography
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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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David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL MP is a British Labour Party politician, former cabinet minister and author.
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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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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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Holly Bourne
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Holly Bourne is a British author of young adult fiction who is the author of novel Am I Normal Yet? and several other 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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Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth
- Occupations
- constitutional scholaruniversity teacherpoliticianwriterpolitical scientist
- 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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Samantha Dixon
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- spokespersonwhippolitician
- 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 the predecessor seat of City of Chester from a 2022 by-election until the seat's abolition at the 2024 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she was Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council from 2015 to 2019. She has served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government since 2025.
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Jonathan Arnott
- Occupations
- chess playerpolitician
- Biography
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Jonathan William Arnott is a British politician and former schoolteacher. Following 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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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
- university teacherbiochemistbiologist
- 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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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 Elliott 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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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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David Marks
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 81)
- 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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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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Dave Renton
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- historianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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David Renton is a British barrister, historian, and socialist. Renton has represented clients in a number of high-profile cases, especially concerning trade union rights and the protection of free speech.
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Bitange Ndemo
- Occupations
- diplomatacademic
- Biography
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Elijah Bitange Ndemo is a global technocrat and professor 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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Alasdair Cochrane
- Occupations
- human rights defenderpolitical theoristethicistuniversity teacher
- 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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Prem Sikka
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- 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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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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Fay Hield
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- 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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Andy Hargreaves
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- 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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Adam Hart
- Born in
- United Kingdom
- Occupations
- television presenteruniversity teacherzoologistentomologistscientist
- 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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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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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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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. Between 2020 and 2023, he was Director for Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Since then he has been Director for Policy, Monitoring and Advocacy in the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to the Secretary-General.
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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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Ken Jones
- 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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Hollie Webb
- Occupations
- field hockey player
- Biography
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Hollie Pearne-Webb is an English former field hockey player who played as a defender for Wimbledon and the England and Great Britain national teams.
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Becky Wragg Sykes
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- 2004-2010 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- archaeologistbloggerwriter
- 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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Nick Beighton
- Occupations
- rowercanoeistengineer
- 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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Philip Bourne
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- researcherbioinformaticianacademic administratorphysical chemist
- 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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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.
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Noel Kingsbury
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- gardenerhorticulturistnon-fiction writer
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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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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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Riri Fitri Sari
- Enrolled in the University of Sheffield
- 1996-1997 graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- civil servantuniversity teacher
- 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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Jan McFarlane
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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Janet Elizabeth "Jan" McFarlane is a British Church of England bishop and former speech and language therapist. She has been Dean of Lichfield, the primus inter pares (first among equals) of the clergy at Lichfield Cathedral — the mother church of the Diocese of Lichfield — since 2024; she has also been an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese since 2020. She has previously served as a Canon of Lichfield; as Bishop of Repton (the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Derby); and as Acting Bishop of Derby.
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Martin Stephen
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- 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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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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Hatoon Kadi
- Occupations
- television producerYouTuberjournalistcomedian
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Hatoon Kadi is a Saudi Arabian comedian and activist who hosts the Noon Al Niswa comedy show on YouTube, which has 292,912 subscribers (as of 8 December 2016). She presents social phenomena from a woman's perspective, using sarcasm, avoiding judgment and without trying to find solutions. She is known for her satiric videos about women's and family issues, often highlighting everyday life in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hatoon Kadi started with comedy when she realized that there were plenty of Saudi Arabian internet comedians, but a lack women in the field. In 2014, she was named one of the BBC's 100 Women.
