10 Notable alumni of
University of Bolton
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The University of Bolton is 2630th in the world, 829th in Europe, and 131st in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from the University of Bolton sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Amir Khan
- Occupations
- boxer
- Biography
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Amir Iqbal Khan is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2022. He held unified light-welterweight world championships between 2009 and 2012, including the WBA (later Super) and IBF titles. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008. He also held the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2014 to 2016, and once challenged for the WBC and Ring magazine middleweight titles in 2016.
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Sam Allardyce
- Occupations
- autobiographersports commentatorassociation football playerassociation football managerjournalist
- Biography
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Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player who was most recently manager of Leeds United.
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Pete Shelley
- Occupations
- guitaristrecord producersingermusicianmusic arranger
- Biography
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Pete Shelley was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He formed early punk band Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto in 1976, and became the lead singer and guitarist in 1977 when Devoto left. The group released their biggest hit "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" in 1978. The band broke up in 1981 and reformed at the end of the decade. Shelley also had a solo career; his song "Homosapien" charted in North America in 1981 and 1982.
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Chris Eagles
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Christopher Mark Eagles is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
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Howard Devoto
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitaristsingermusiciansongwriter
- Biography
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Howard Devoto is an English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, an early post-punk band. After Magazine, he went solo and later formed indie band Luxuria.
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Stuart Maconie
- Occupations
- music criticjournalist
- Biography
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Stuart John Maconie is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where, alongside Mark Radcliffe, he hosts its weekend breakfast show (Saturday–Sunday, 8 am – 10 am) which broadcasts from the BBC's MediaCityUK in Salford. The pair previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2 and the weekday afternoon show for BBC Radio 6 Music.
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Laurence Robertson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Laurence Anthony Robertson is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury since 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he chaired the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for seven years, from 2010 to 2017.
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Ben Mandelson
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- composerguitaristrecord producer
- Biography
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Ben Mandelson is an English world musician, and also manager and producer.
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Sam Stone
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sam Stone is the horror and fantasy pen name for British multi-award winning Thriller novellist and screenwriter Samantha Lee Howe. She is best known for her USA Today! best selling novel The Stranger In Our Bed published by HarperCollins imprint One More Chapter. This novel has recently been made into a film by production company Buffalo Dragon, The film, directed by Giles Alderson and starring Samantha Bond, Emily Berrington, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Joseph Marcell, Nina Wadia, Bart Edwards and Terri Dwyer, was released on 1 July 2022 on Showtime Networks. Samantha has since sold three more books to HarperCollins One More Chapter and all three were published in 2021 as The House of Killers Trilogy which consists of The House of Killers Book 1, Kill or Die Book 2, and Kill A Spy Book 3.
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Georgia Shiels
- Occupations
- rally driver
- Biography
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Georgia Shiels is an English rally driver. She has won the 2013 Novice Forest Rally Championship, the 2015 Jack Wills Young Brit award and in 2016, Georgia accepted an offer from the University of Bolton to study a degree in Automotive Engineering BEng. Georgia also worked with Abarth as their Abarth 500 Group R R1 development driver in the British Rally Championship 2014 and various other events.
