12 Notable alumni of
University of Winchester
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The University of Winchester is 2522nd in the world, 799th in Europe, and 125th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from the University of Winchester sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lauren Cohan
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- stage actorfashion modelactortelevision actormodel
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Lauren Cohan is an American actress known for her role as Maggie Rhee in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead (2011–2018; 2020–2022), a role she reprises in The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present). Her other notable TV roles include Bela Talbot in the dark fantasy drama Supernatural (2007–2008), Rose in the supernatural teen drama The Vampire Diaries (2010–2012), Vivian McArthur Volkoff in the action comedy Chuck (2011), Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge in the action comedy-drama Whiskey Cavalier (2019), and War Woman in the adult animated superhero show Invincible (2021-present). Her film appearances include the comedy Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006), the psychological thriller horror The Boy (2016), the biographical drama All Eyez on Me (2017), and the action thriller Mile 22 (2018).
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Martin Bashir
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- film actortelevision actortelevision writerjournalist
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Martin Henry Bashir is a British former journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's Panorama programme, for which he gained an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales under false pretences in 1995. Although the interview was much heralded at the time, it was later determined that he used forgery and deception to gain it.
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Nick Helm
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- stand-up comedianactortelevision actor
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Nicholas Tristan Phillip Helm is an English comedian, actor and rock musician known for his comedic confrontational delivery. His routines have been described as "brash and bullish". Many of his performances begin with him acting calmly and see him gradually getting more and more enraged about what he is talking about. He came to prominence following the success of his 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show Keep Hold of the Gold. In 2014, Helm made his main acting debut as lead character Andy in the BBC Three sitcom Uncle.
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Mike Bushell
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- television presenter
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Mike Bushell is an English sports presenter for the BBC. He presents sport on BBC Breakfast. Bushell has participated in many different sports on his Saturday morning slot on BBC One and on the BBC News Channel.
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Shappi Khorsandi
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- stand-up comedianactorcomedianwriternovelist
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Shaparak Khorsandi, who previously performed as Shappi Khorsandi, is an Iranian-born British comedian and author. She is the daughter of the Iranian political satirist and poet Hadi Khorsandi.
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Stephanie Twell
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- athletics competitor
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Stephanie April "Steph" Twell is a British middle- and long-distance runner who competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She trains at Aldershot, Farnham & District AC. She won the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships, and is a three-time winner of the European Junior Cross Country Championships (2006–2008), as well as being part of four winning Great Britain teams. Representing Scotland, she won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
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Dirk Maggs
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- director of radio dramaradio producerwriter
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David George Dirk Maggs is a British freelance writer and director. During his career as a Senior Producer in BBC Radio he made radio drama adopting a cinematic-sounding approach, combining filmic story construction, layered sound effects, orchestral music and digital recording technology. Maggs introduced productions in Dolby Surround in BBC Radio and termed the result, "Audio Movies".
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Claire Fuller
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- writervisual artistnovelistillustrator
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Claire Fuller is an English author. She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014, and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016. Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. Bitter Orange, her third, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Book Awards Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel is The Memory of Animals.
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Andrew Norriss
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- writerchildren's writerscreenwriter
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Andrew Norriss is a British children's author and a writer for television.
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Stuart Brennan
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- actorscreenwriter
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Stuart Brennan is a BAFTA Cymru-winning British actor, playwright, producer and director. He is an advocate for independent film, helping set up and establish film festivals across the world.
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Anne Snelgrove
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- politician
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Anne Christine Snelgrove is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon South for one term.
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Imruh Bakari
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- filmmaker
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Imruh Bakari is a film maker and writer born in 1950 on St Kitts, who is also referred to as Imruh Bakari Caesar or Imruh Caesar. He currently teaches Film Studies at the University of Winchester. He works in the UK and a number of African countries in the area of culture and the creative industries.
