100 Notable alumni of
University of York
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The University of York is 359th in the world, 125th in Europe, and 28th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of York sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Scott Speedman
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Robert Scott Speedman is a Canadian actor and model. He is known for portraying Ben Covington in the coming-of-age drama television series Felicity, Lycan–Vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the gothic horror–action Underworld films, and Barry "Baz" Blackwell in the TNT crime drama series Animal Kingdom. His other film work includes Duets, Dark Blue, XXX: State of the Union, The Strangers, Barney's Version, The Vow, and Crimes of the Future. In 2021, he returned to Grey's Anatomy as a main character following a guest role in season 14 as Dr. Nick Marsh.
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Andrea Barber
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Andrea Laura Barber is an American actress. She is known for playing Kimmy Gibbler in the ABC sitcom Full House and the Netflix sequel series Fuller House.
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Anthony Horowitz
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- children's writerexecutive producerscreenwriternovelistwriter
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Anthony John Horowitz CBE is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the US), and The Diamond Brothers series.
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Peter Hitchens
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- writerjournalistblogger
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Peter Jonathan Hitchens is a British conservative author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and was a foreign correspondent reporting from both Moscow and Washington, D.C. Peter Hitchens has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, and the New Statesman. His books include The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory.
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Harriet Harman
- Enrolled in the University of York
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in politics
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorlawyer
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Harriet Ruth Harman, Baroness Harman, PC, KC, is a British politician and solicitor. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for more than 40 years, from 1982 to 2024, making her the second longest-serving female MP in British history after Baroness Beckett. Harman was MP for Camberwell and Peckham from 1997 to 2024 and MP for Peckham from 1982 to 1997. A member of the Labour Party, she was Deputy Labour Leader and Chair of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015, and also briefly served as Leader of the Opposition in 2010 and 2015, after the resignations of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, respectively. She served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions. She has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024. The same year, Harman succeeded Labour Party MP Jess Phillips as co-host of the Sky News podcast Electoral Dysfunction, alongside political editor Beth Rigby and former Scottish Conservatives Leader Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links.
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James Callis
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- screenwriterfilm producerfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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James Nicholas Callis is an English actor. He is known for playing Dr. Gaius Baltar in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, and Bridget Jones's best friend Tom in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Bridget Jones's Baby. He joined the cast of the TV series Eureka, on Syfy, in 2010, and since 2017, he has voiced the character Alucard in the Netflix series Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne, based on the video game series of the same name. In 2022, he appeared in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard as Jean-Luc's father in childhood flashbacks.
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Harry Enfield
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- screenwriterfilm producerfilm actorcomedianfilm director
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Henry Richard Enfield is an English comedian. He is known in particular for his television work, including Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Harry & Paul, and for the creation and portrayal of comedy characters such as Kevin the Teenager, Loadsamoney, Smashie and Nicey, The Scousers, Tim Nice-But-Dim and Mr "You Don't Want to Do It Like That".
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Daron Acemoğlu
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- university teacherauthoreconomist
- Biography
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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.
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Phil Lester
- Occupations
- television producerradio personalitytelevision presenterstage actorYouTuber
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Philip Michael Lester is an English YouTuber and radio host. He is best known for his YouTube channels AmazingPhil and DanAndPhilGAMES, which as of August 2024, have 3.87 million and 2.89 million subscribers, respectively. He is also known for his frequent collaboration with Daniel Howell as part of the entertainment duo Dan and Phil. Together, they presented the Sunday night entertainment show Dan and Phil on BBC Radio 1 from January 2013 until August 2014, and from September 2014 to April 2016 the duo were monthly hosts on the station's The Internet Takeover slot.
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Aníbal Cavaco Silva
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Aníbal António Cavaco Silva GCC GColTE GColL GColIH is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the 19th president of Portugal, from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 6 November 1985 to 25 October 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar, and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system (dating to 1974). He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union.
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Rollo Armstrong
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- composersingerrecord producer
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Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong, known professionally as both Rollo and R Plus, is an English DJ and music producer. He is one half of the remix/production duo Rollo & Sister Bliss and is a founding, non-touring, member of the electronic music group Faithless. He has produced and remixed many tracks for Dido, Rob Dougan, Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, R. Kelly, U2, Moby, Grace, Tricky and Suede. He is also known for producing the UEFA Euro 2008 theme, which is also used as UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Women's Championship, and youth tournaments theme since 2017.
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Zoe Lyons
- Enrolled in the University of York
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- comedianfilm director
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Zoe Ann Lyons is a British comedian and TV presenter.
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Gavin Wood
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum, and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.
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Jonathan Stroud
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- writerchildren's writernovelist
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Jonathan Anthony Stroud is a British writer of fantasy fiction, best known for the Bartimaeus young adult sequence and Lockwood & Co. children's series. His books are typically set in an alternative history London with fantasy elements, and have received note for his satire, and use of magic to reflect themes of class struggle. The Bartimaeus sequence is the recipient of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Stroud's works have also been featured on ALA Notable lists of books for children and young adults. In 2020, Netflix announced a TV series based on Lockwood & Co., with filming initiated in July 2021.
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Trevor Jones
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- composerfilm score composer
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Trevor Alfred Charles Jones is a South African composer of film and television scores, who has worked primarily in the United Kingdom.
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Michelle Donelan
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- politician
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Michelle Emma May Elizabeth Donelan is a British politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology from July 2023 to July 2024, having previously served in the position from February to April 2023 before being temporarily replaced during her maternity leave.
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Jung Chang
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- autobiographerhistorianlinguistpoetbiographer
- Biography
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Jung Chang CBE is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005.
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Hal Cruttenden
- Occupations
- stand-up comedian
- Biography
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Hal Dominic Bart Cruttenden is an English stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, and writer.
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Oona King
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow, is a British business executive and former British Labour Party politician. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005; and a member of the House of Lords from 2011 to 2024.
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Chloe Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chloe Rebecca Smith is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North from 2009 to 2024. She previously served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from September to October 2022 and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology from April to July 2023.
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Christine Hamilton
- Occupations
- journalistautobiographer
- Biography
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Mary Christine Hamilton is an English media personality and author. She is married to Neil Hamilton, the former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton.
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Peter Lord
- Enrolled in the University of York
- In 1976 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- animatorscreenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE is a British animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit. He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.
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Graham Swift
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Graham Colin Swift FRSL is a British writer. Born in London, UK, he was educated at Dulwich College, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York.
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Silvina Batakis
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician. She currently works as the Minister of Habitat and Urban Development of Buenos Aires Province. She was the President of the Banco de la Nación Argentina from 2022 to 2023, she also served as the Minister of Economy for a brief period in 2022. Previously, she served as Secretary of Provinces in the Ministry of the Interior and as economy minister of Buenos Aires Province under Governor Daniel Scioli from 2011 to 2015.
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Tom Scott
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- television presentercomedianscience journalistYouTubertelevision producer
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Thomas Scott is an English YouTuber and web developer. On his self-titled YouTube channel, Scott creates educational videos across a range of topics including history, geography, linguistics, science, and technology. As of February 2025, his five YouTube channels have collectively gained over 7.88 million subscribers and 1.93 billion views.
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Lindiwe Sisulu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a South African politician. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly of South Africa between April 1994 and March 2023. During that time, from 2001 to 2023, she served continuously in the cabinet as a minister under four consecutive presidents. President Cyril Ramaphosa sacked her from his cabinet in March 2023, precipitating her resignation from the National Assembly.
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Thea Gill
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- film actorstage actorjazz musicianactor
- Biography
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Thea Louise Gill is a Canadian actress best known for her starring role as Lindsay Peterson in the Showtime television series Queer as Folk.
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Edmund Ho
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edmund Ho Hau Wah, GML, GCM, GOIH is a Macau politician who served as the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region from 1999 to 2009. He currently serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Greg Dyke
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- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Gregory Dyke is a British media executive, football administrator, journalist and broadcaster. Since the 1960s, Dyke has had a long career in the UK in print and then broadcast journalism. He is credited with introducing "tabloid" television to British broadcasting, and reviving the ratings of TV-am. In the 1990s, he held chief executive positions at LWT Group, Pearson Television, and Channel 5.
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k-os
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- singerrecord producermusic video directorcomposerrapper
- Biography
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Kevin Brereton, better known by his stage name k-os, is a Canadian alternative rapper, singer, songwriter and producer. His given name may also be cited as Kheaven, a spelling he later adopted.
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Ho Hsin-chun
- Enrolled in the University of York
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ho Hsin-chun is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, she has served on the Legislative Yuan since 2012.
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Colville Young
- Occupations
- politicianwritercomposernovelist
- Biography
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Sir Colville Norbert Young GCMG MBE is a Belizean politician who served as the second governor-general of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General in 1993, taking office on 17 November of that year, and was knighted in 1994.
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Sigrid Rausing
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- publisherwriteranthropologistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing FRSL is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations, and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books.
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Jay Foreman
- Occupations
- television producersinger-songwriterYouTubercomedian
- Biography
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Jay Benjamin Foreman is an English comedian, YouTuber, educator, and singer-songwriter.
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Charlotte Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- special adviser
- Biography
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Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge is a British life peer and former special adviser. She has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2023, and was the youngest recipient of a life peerage at the time of her appointment.
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Domna Michailidou
- Occupations
- Assistant Secretarypoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Domna Maria Michailidou is a Greek economist and politician who currently serves as Minister for Labour and Social Security in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
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Severin Schwan
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Severin Anton Schwan is an Austrian business executive. He is the current chairman of the board and former CEO (2008–2023) of the Roche Group.
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Helen Dunmore
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- writerchildren's writerpoet
- Biography
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Helen Dunmore FRSL was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.
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Adam Hart-Davis
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- scientisttelevision presenterproducerphotographeropinion journalist
- Biography
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Adam John Hart-Davis is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster. He presented the BBC television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Ancients. He was also a co-presenter of Tomorrow's World, and presented Science Shack.
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David Goodhart
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- editorcorrespondentauthorjournalist
- Biography
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David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine.
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Jane Ferguson
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jane Ferguson is an Irish journalist.
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Helen Geake
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- anthropologistarchaeologistresearcher
- Biography
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Helen Mary Geake FSA is a British archaeologist and small finds specialist. She was one of the key members of Channel 4's long-running archaeology series Time Team.
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Anna Meredith
- Occupations
- composermusician
- Biography
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Anna Howard Meredith MBE is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA.
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Simon Stephens
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- translatorplaywrightscreenwriter
- Biography
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Simon Stephens is a British-Irish playwright, musician and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith. He is the inaugural Associate Playwright of Steep Theatre Company, Chicago, where five of his plays, Harper Regan, Motortown, Wastwater, Birdland, and Light Falls had their U.S. premieres. His writing is widely performed throughout Europe and, along with Dennis Kelly and Martin Crimp, he is one of the most performed English-language writers in Germany.
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Lawrence Freedman
- Occupations
- non-fiction writeruniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Sir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA is a British academic, historian and author specialising in foreign policy, international relations and strategy. He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" and was a member of the Iraq Inquiry. He is an Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London.
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Tanya Byron
- Occupations
- psychologistclinical psychologistjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Tanya Byron is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality, best known for her work as a child therapist on television shows Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways. She also co-created the BBC Two sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders, and still contributes articles to various newspapers.
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Will Gregory
- Occupations
- singerrecord producersongwriter
- Biography
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William Owen Gregory is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp.
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Victor Lewis-Smith
- Occupations
- television criticwriterjournalistcomedian
- Biography
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Victor Lewis-Smith was a British film, television and radio producer, a television and restaurant critic, a satirist and newspaper columnist. He was executive producer of the ITV1 Annual National Food & Drink Awards. He was an alumnus of the University of York and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster in November 2008.
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Louise Ellman
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Dame Louise Joyce Ellman DBE is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Riverside from 1997 to 2019. She is a member of the Labour Party.
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Dominic Fritz
- Occupations
- conductorpolitician
- Biography
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Dominic Samuel Fritz is a German-born politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, winning reelection in 2024. A member of the Save Romania Union, he is the only mayor in Romania without Romanian citizenship.
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Nicholas Watt
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Nicholas Watt is a journalist. In 2016, he became political editor of the BBC's Newsnight.
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Nick Payne
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- playwrightscreenwriter
- Biography
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Nick Payne is a British playwright and screenwriter. Known for his work on the West End and Broadway stage as well as for his film and television work, he has received nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award.
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John Hughlings Jackson
- Occupations
- neurologistphysicianphysiologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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John Hughlings Jackson, FRS was an English neurologist. He is best known for his research on epilepsy.
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Hector Janse van Rensburg
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Hector Richard Janse van Rensburg, better known by his pseudonym Shitty Watercolour, is a British painter and cartoonist who started posting watercolour paintings on the social media website Reddit in February 2012, and later expanded to publishing his work on his own website, on Tumblr and on Twitter. He graduated from the University of York with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
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Leroy Cronin
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Leroy "Lee" Cronin FRSE FRSC is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013. He was previously the Gardiner Chair, appointed April 2009.
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Andrew Percy
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew Theakstone Percy is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brigg and Goole from 2010 to 2024. He was an active member of many groups in Parliament, including All Party Parliamentary Groups on Financial Education for Young People, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire as well as being a member of the anti-European Union Better Off Out Group.
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Mahmoud Mohieldin
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Mahmoud Mohieldin, is an economist with more than 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He is the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt. He is an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. He has been the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020. He was the Minister of Investment of Egypt from 2004-2010, and most recently, served as the World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations and Partnerships. His roles at the World Bank also included Managing Director, responsible for Human Development, Sustainable Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, and the World Bank Institute; World Bank President's Special Envoy on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Post-2015 Development Agenda (later, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), and Financing for Development; and Corporate Secretary and Executive Secretary to the Development Committee of the World Bank Group's Board of Governors. Dr Mohieldin also served on several Boards of Directors in the Central Bank of Egypt and the corporate sector. He was a member of the Commission on Growth and Development and was selected for the Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2005. His professional experience extends into the academic arena as a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University and as a visiting professor at several renowned Universities in Egypt, Korea, the UAE, the UK and the USA. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Durham University Business School. He also holds leading positions in national, regional and international research centres and associations. He has authored numerous publications and articles in leading journals in the fields of economics, finance and development.
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Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, UnHerd, Tablet and Spiked. He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.
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Haleh Afshar
- Occupations
- professoruniversity teacherpoliticianpolitical scientistjurist
- Biography
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Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, OBE, FAcSS was a British life peer in the House of Lords. She had a life-long interest in women's rights and Islamic law. She was a professor at the University of York and she wrote over a dozen scholarly books.
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Fleur Anderson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen Fleur Anderson is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2024.
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John Witherow
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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John Witherow is a former editor of British newspaper The Times. A former journalist with Reuters, he joined News International (now News UK) in 1980 and was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1994 and editor of The Times in 2013.
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Marina Lewycka
- Occupations
- writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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Marina Lewycka is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin.
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Fabian Hamilton
- Occupations
- graphic designerpolitician
- Biography
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Fabian Uziell-Hamilton is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North East since 1997. He served as Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament from November 2016 to September 2023.
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Amy Matysio
- Occupations
- actorfilm director
- Biography
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Amy Matysio is a Canadian theatre, television and film actress.
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Brian Stableford
- Enrolled in the University of York
- In 1979 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcherscience fiction writerauthorliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Brian Michael Stableford was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published a hundred novels and over a hundred volumes of translations. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but later ones dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for some of his very early and late works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work.
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Tom Service
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tom Service is a Scottish writer, music journalist, and television and radio presenter. He has written regularly for The Guardian since 1999 and presented on BBC Radio 3 since 2001. He is a regular presenter of the Proms for Radio 3 and has presented several documentaries on classical music.
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Philip North
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Philip John North CMP is a bishop in the Church of England. Since April 2023, he has served as Bishop of Blackburn, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Blackburn. He was previously Bishop of Burnley, a suffragan bishop in the same diocese, since 2015; and team rector of the parish of Old St Pancras.
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Yeung Sum
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Yeung Sum is a Hong Kong politician and academic. He served several terms as a Legislative Councillor and was the second chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong. He is a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.
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Richard Burden
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Haines Burden is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1992 to 2019. He served as a Shadow Transport Minister from 2013 to 2016 and again from 2016 to 2017. After the 2017 general election, he returned to the backbenches and served as a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee.
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Greg Mulholland
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gregory Thomas Mulholland is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the MP for Leeds North West.
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Rebecca Stott
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Rebecca Stott is a British writer and broadcaster and, until her retirement from teaching in 2021, was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.
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Molly Meacher
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Molly Christine Meacher, Baroness Meacher, known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard, is a British life peer and former social worker.
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Huw Edwards
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huw William Edmund Edwards MBE is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth over two separate terms.
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Rose Simpson
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Rose Simpson is an English former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin and percussion among other instruments. She later became Lady Mayoress of the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.
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Paul Mealor
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Paul Mealor LVO CStJ FRSA FRSE CLJ FLSW is a Welsh composer. A large proportion of his output is for chorus, both a cappella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011. He later composed the song "Wherever You Are", which became the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart. He has also composed two operas, four symphonies, concerti and chamber music.
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Mohammad Hanif Atmar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammad Haneef Atmar is an Afghan politician and former KhAD agent. He served as the Minister of interior until he was removed from the Ministry by Hamid Karzai in the wake of attacks on the June 2010 Afghan Peace Jirga. Before that he worked with several international humanitarian organisations and served as Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and Minister of Education. In 2011, he was part of the Right and Justice party. During his time in office, he has visited several countries to get funding to stabilise Afghanistan.
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Eugene Pandala
- Occupations
- academicarchitect
- Biography
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Eugene Pandala is an Indian architect, known for building with values of environmental sustainability.
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Carol Leader
- Occupations
- actortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Carol Elizabeth Leader is a Jungian psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a former English theatrical and television actor.
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Nichi Hodgson
- Occupations
- journalistactor
- Biography
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Nichi Hodgson is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. She was one of the first British journalists to court-report via Twitter, covering the 2012 obscenity trial, R v Peacock.
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Li Qiaochu
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Li Qiaochu is a Chinese labor and women's rights activist and researcher on labour issues. She was detained by authorities for four months in the first half of 2020 and again in February 2021, in both cases on national security charges. These were due to her connection with activists, including her partner Xu Zhiyong, who had secretly met in the southeastern city of Xiamen in December 2019 to discuss "democratic transition in China". In February 2024, Li was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for "inciting subversion of state power". She was released in August 2024 after having completed her sentence.
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Juraj Draxler
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Juraj Draxler is a Slovak Political Scientist and Politician. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sports of Slovakia as a nominee, but not a member, of the Direction – Slovak Social Democracy party.
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Ben Macpherson
- Years
- 1980s
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ben Macpherson is a Scottish politician who served as Minister for Social Security and Local Government in the Scottish Government from May 2021 to March 2023, having previously served as Minister for Europe, Migration and International Development, Minister for Public Finance and Migration (February 2020-December 2020) and Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment (December 2020-May 2021). A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Northern and Leith constituency since 2016.
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Steve Beresford
- Occupations
- trumpeterfilm score composercomposerjazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Steve Beresford is a British musician who graduated from the University of York He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.
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Albert Owen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Albert Owen is a Welsh Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from 2001 to 2019. He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and retained the seat at the four subsequent general elections. During his time in Parliament, he was a member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, Welsh Affairs Select Committee and the International Development Committee. He was also a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairs and vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on cancer.
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Edward Acton
- Occupations
- historian of Modern Ageuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton FRHistS is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. His title from birth is The Honourable but he is never referred to as such professionally or on the university website.
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Justina Robson
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Justina Robson is a science fiction author from Leeds, England.
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Stephen Emmott
- Occupations
- university teacherwritercomputer scientistbioinformatician
- Biography
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Stephen Emmott is a British scientist, entrepreneur and chief scientist of Scientific. Emmott was named one of London's most influential scientists, and one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard in 2012.
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Rafeef Ziadah
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian-Canadian poet and human rights activist who currently lives in London. She released the spoken word album, Hadeel.
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Buster Howes
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Francis Hedley Roberton "Buster" Howes, CB, OBE is a former Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from February 2010 to December 2011.
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Jørgen Watne Frydnes
- Enrolled in the University of York
- Studied in 2011-2012
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Jørgen Watne Frydnes is a Norwegian administrator and politician.
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Paul Dolan
- Occupations
- university teachersocial scientist
- Biography
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Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department in Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Director of the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science which began in September 2014. Dolan conducts research on the measurement of happiness, its causes and consequences, and the implications for public policy, publishing in both scholarly and popular outlets. He has previously held academic posts at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and Imperial College London and he has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of two popular press books: Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After and the creator and presenter of the Duck-Rabbit podcast.
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Meg Munn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margaret Patricia Munn served as a Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015. After leaving Parliament, she has served in a variety of roles across the public sector, academia and international bodies.
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Mark Burton
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorsongwriter
- Biography
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Mark Burton is a British television writer, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and film director.
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Keith Bradley, Baron Bradley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Keith John Charles Bradley, Baron Bradley, PC is a British Labour Party politician and life peer. He was formerly the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Withington from 1987 until 2005.
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Tom Ransley
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Thomas Matthew Ransley MBE is a retired British rower. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he was part of the British crew that won the gold medal in the eight, was twice a World Champion and in 2015 was the European Champion in the men's coxless four.
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Hugh Bayley
- Occupations
- politicianresearcher
- Biography
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Sir Hugh Nigel Edward Bayley is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for York Central, previously York and City of York, from 1992 to 2015.
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Christopher Hood
- Years
- 1947-2025 (aged 78)
- Enrolled in the University of York
- Studied in 1968
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicpublic administration scholarsocial scientist
- Biography
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Christopher Cropper Hood CBE FBA was a visiting professor of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Hood was Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2014, and director of the ESRC Research Programme Public Services: Quality, Performance and Delivery from 2004 to 2010. His books include The Limits of Administration (1976), The Tools of Government (1983) (updated as The Tools of Government in the Digital Age (2007) with Helen Margetts), The Art of the State (1998 and 2000) and A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? (2015, with Ruth Dixon). He chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Working Party on medical profiling and online medicine from 2008 to 2010.
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Verity Sharp
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Verity Sharp is an English television and radio presenter.
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Nino Ricci
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Nino Pio Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise.
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Farah Mendlesohn
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianresearcherliterary critic
- Biography
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Farah Jane Mendlesohn is a British academic historian, writer on speculative fiction, and active member of science fiction fandom. Mendlesohn is best-known for their 2008 book Rhetorics of Fantasy, which classifies fantasy literature into four modes based on how the fantastic enters the story. Their work as editor includes the Cambridge Companions to science fiction and fantasy, collaborations with Edward James. The science fiction volume won a Hugo Award. Mendlesohn is also known for books on the history of fantasy, including Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, co-written with Michael Levy. It was the first work to trace the genre's 500-year history and won the World Fantasy Award.
