100 Notable alumni of
University of York
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The University of York is 355th in the world, 122nd 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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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Robert Scott Speedman is a Canadian actor. 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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- actorfilm actortelevision 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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- writernovelistscreenwriterexecutive producerchildren's writer
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Anthony John Horowitz 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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- journalistwriterblogger
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Peter Jonathan Hitchens is an English 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
- politicianlawyersolicitor
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Harriet Ruth Harman is a British politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham, formerly Peckham, since 1982. A member of the Labour Party, she has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions.
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Harry Enfield
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- comedianfilm actorfilm producerscreenwriteractor
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Henry Richard Enfield is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. 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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James Callis
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- stage actorfilm actorfilm producerscreenwriteractor
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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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Phil Lester
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- stage actortelevision presenterradio personalitytelevision producerYouTuber
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Philip Michael Lester is an English YouTuber and radio host. He is best known for his YouTube channels AmazingPhil, which gained over 4 million subscribers, and DanAndPhilGAMES. Together with frequent collaborator Daniel Howell, he 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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- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
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Aníbal António Cavaco Silva 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 28 October 1995.
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Daron Acemoğlu
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- economistwriteruniversity teacherprofessor
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Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-born 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. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.
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Rollo Armstrong
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- singercomposerrecord producer
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Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong, known professionally as both Rollo and R Plus, is an English 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, Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, R. Kelly, U2, Moby, Grace, Tricky and Suede. He is also known for producing 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
- comedian
- Biography
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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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- novelistchildren's writerwriter
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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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- film score composercomposer
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Trevor Alfred Charles Jones is a South African composer of film and television scores. Having spent much of his career in the United Kingdom, Jones has worked on numerous well-known and acclaimed films including Excalibur, Runaway Train, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and In the Name of the Father; collaborating with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, and Michael Mann. He has composed for numerous films and his music has been critically acclaimed for both its depth and emotion, and he has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards for Best Film Music.
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Jung Chang
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- writerbiographerpoetlinguisthistorian
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Jung Chang is a Chinese-British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.
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Michelle Donelan
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- politician
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Michelle Emma May Elizabeth Donelan is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology since July 2023, having previously served in the position from February to April 2023 before being temporarily replaced during her maternity leave. A member of the Conservative Party, Donelan also held three other cabinet positions from 2020 to 2023 under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham in Wiltshire since 2015.
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Hal Cruttenden
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- 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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Chloe Smith
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- politician
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Chloe Rebecca Smith is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North since 2009. A member of the Conservative Party, 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
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- autobiographerjournalist
- 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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Oona King
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
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Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow is a business executive and former British Labour Party politician. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005.
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Graham Swift
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Graham Colin Swift FRSL is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York.
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Silvina Batakis
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- economist
- Biography
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Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician, and the country’s former Minister of Economy. 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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Peter Lord
- Enrolled in the University of York
- In 1976 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteranimatorfilm producer
- Biography
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Peter Lord CBE is an English 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 and 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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Lindiwe Sisulu
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- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a South African politician. She was member of parliament from 1994 until 2023, and is a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress as of 2023. She previously served as Minister of Housing (2004 to 2009), as Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (2009 to 2012), Minister of Public Service and Administration (2012 to 2014), Minister of Human Settlements from (2014 to 2018), Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (2018 to 2019), Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation (2019 to 2021) and Minister of Tourism (2021 to 2023).
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Colville Young
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- novelistcomposerwriterpolitician
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Sir Colville Norbert Young 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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Thea Gill
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- stage actorfilm actoractorjazz musician
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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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Greg Dyke
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- television presenterjournalist
- 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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- rappercomposermusic video directorrecord producersinger
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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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Edmund Ho
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edmund Ho Hau Wah, GOIH, GML, GCM 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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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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Jay Foreman
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- YouTubersinger-songwritertelevision producercomedian
- Biography
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Jay Foreman is an English comedian, YouTuber, cartography enthusiast, educator, and singer-songwriter.
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Sigrid Rausing
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- anthropologistwriterpublisherbusinessperson
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Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing 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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Severin Schwan
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Severin Anton Schwan is the current chairman of the board and previously was CEO of the Roche Group. He was the CEO between 2008 and 2023. He joined in 1993 as a trainee and has stayed with the company ever since.
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Helen Dunmore
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- children's writerwriterpoet
- Biography
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Helen Dunmore FRSL was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.
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Domna Michailidou
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- politicianAssistant Secretaryeconomist
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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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David Goodhart
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- journalistauthorcorrespondenteditor
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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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Adam Hart-Davis
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- television makerhistorianopinion journalistphotographerproducer
- 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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Helen Geake
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- researcherarchaeologistanthropologist
- Biography
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Helen Mary Geake 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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Tom Scott
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- YouTuberscience journalistcomediantelevision presenterprogrammer
- Biography
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Thomas Scott is an English YouTuber and web developer. His self-titled YouTube channel offers educational videos across a range of topics including history, geography, linguistics, science, and technology. As of January 2024, his five YouTube channels have collectively gained over 7.61 million subscribers and 1.82 billion views.
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Anna Meredith
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- musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Anna Howard Meredith 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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Tanya Byron
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- journalistclinical psychologistpsychologisttelevision presenter
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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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Lawrence Freedman
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- international forum participantuniversity teachernon-fiction writerpolitical 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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Louise Ellman
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- council memberpolitician
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Dame Louise Joyce Ellman 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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Victor Lewis-Smith
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- journalistwritertelevision criticcomedian
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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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Charlotte Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 31)
- 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. A Conservative member of the House of Lords, she is the youngest recipient of a life peerage since they were introduced in the Life Peerages Act 1958.
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Jane Ferguson
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jane Ferguson is a journalist from Northern Ireland.
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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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John Hughlings Jackson
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- physiologistphysicianneurologistneuroscientist
- 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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Dominic Fritz
- Occupations
- politicianconductor
- Biography
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Dominic Samuel Fritz is a German-born politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, following the latest Romanian local elections. A member of the Save Romania Union, he is the only mayor in Romania without Romanian citizenship.
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Andrew Percy
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Andrew Theakstone Percy is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brigg and Goole since 2010. He is 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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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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Haleh Afshar
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherprofessorjuristpolitical scientist
- 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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Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
- Occupations
- philosopher
- 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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Marina Lewycka
- Occupations
- novelistwriterteacher
- Biography
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Marina Lewycka is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin.
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Amy Matysio
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Amy Matysio is a Canadian theatre, television and film actress.
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Fabian Hamilton
- Occupations
- politiciangraphic designer
- 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, Latin America and the Caribbean from November 2016 to September 2023.
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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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Mahmoud Mohieldin
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
- 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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Fleur Anderson
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen Fleur Anderson is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney, elected in 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland since September 2023. She previously served as a member of Wandsworth London Borough Council from 2014 to 2021 and Shadow Paymaster General from December 2021 to September 2023.
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Brian Stableford
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticauthorscience fiction writerresearcher
- Biography
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Brian Michael Stableford is a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He has 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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Mark Pack
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- associate director
- Biography
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Mark Anthony Pack is a British politician who has served as the president of the Liberal Democrats since 1 January 2020. After the party's leader, Jo Swinson, lost her seat in the 2019 December election, Pack served as acting leader alongside Ed Davey from 1 January 2020 to 27 August 2020, when Davey was elected as leader.
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Yeung Sum
- Occupations
- politicianjustice of the peace
- 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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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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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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Philip North
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Philip John North 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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Tom Service
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tom Service is a British writer, music journalist and television and radio presenter, who 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 the subject of classical music.
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Molly Meacher
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- politiciansocial worker
- 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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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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Huw Edwards
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huw William Edmund Edwards is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth over two separate terms.
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Paul Mealor
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Paul Mealor CLJ 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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Eugene Pandala
- Occupations
- architectacademic
- Biography
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Eugene Pandala is an Indian architect, known for building with values of environmental sustainability.
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Mohammad Hanif Atmar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammad Haneef Atmar is a 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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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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Mary Bousted
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Mary Winefride Bousted is a British trade unionist who was the former Joint General-Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) alongside Kevin Courtney. Bousted was previously General Secretary of the teachers' union, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) prior to its amalgamation with the National Union of Teachers, forming the NEU.
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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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Nichi Hodgson
- Occupations
- actorjournalist
- 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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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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Steve Beresford
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composerjazz musicianteacher
- 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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Stephen Emmott
- Occupations
- bioinformaticiancomputer scientistwriteruniversity teacher
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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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Justina Robson
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriter
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Justina Robson is a science fiction author from Leeds, England.
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Buster Howes
- Occupations
- military personnel
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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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Edward Acton
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- university teacherhistorian of Modern Age
- Biography
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Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. His title from birth is The Honourable but is never referred as such professionally or on the university website.
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Rafeef Ziadah
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- 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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Meg Munn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margaret Patricia Munn is a British politician and served as a Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015. After leaving Parliament, she has served in a variety of roles across the public sector, academia and international bodies.
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Tom Ransley
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Thomas Matthew Ransley 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
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- researcherpolitician
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Sir Hugh Nigel Edward Bayley is a British Labour 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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Keith Bradley, Baron Bradley
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- politician
- Biography
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Keith John Charles Bradley, Baron Bradley, 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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Verity Sharp
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Verity Sharp is a television and radio presenter from England.
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Nino Ricci
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- 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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Jane Clarke
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- biochemist
- Biography
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Jane Clarke is an English biochemist and academic. Since October 2017, she has served as President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She is also Professor of Molecular Biophysics, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She was previously a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 2023, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Paul Dolan
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- social scientistuniversity teacher
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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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Li Qiaochu
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 33)
- 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".
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Caroline Dean
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Dame Caroline Dean is a British plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre. She is focused on understanding the molecular controls used by plants to seasonally judge when to flower. She is specifically interested in vernalisation — the acceleration of flowering in plants by exposure to periods of prolonged cold. She has also been on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2018.
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Kerry Andrew
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- singercomposer
- Biography
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Kerry Andrew is an English composer, performer and author.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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- historianuniversity teacherliterary critic
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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.
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Michael Dixon
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- zoologist
- Biography
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Sir Michael Dixon is the principal of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford and former director of the Natural History Museum, London.
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John Simpson
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- linguistuniversity teacherlexicographer
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John Simpson is an English lexicographer and was Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1993 to 2013.
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Christopher Page
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- music theoristmusicologistconductormusic journalist
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Christopher Page is an English expert on medieval music, instruments and performance practice, together with the social and musical history of the guitar in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. He has written numerous books regarding medieval music. He is currently a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
