100 Notable alumni of
University of Bristol
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The University of Bristol is 169th in the world, 55th in Europe, and 11th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Bristol sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Bristol won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Simon Pegg
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- comedianfilm producerwritervoice actorscreenwriter
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Simon John Pegg is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the films Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), known collectively as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all of which saw Wright directing and Pegg starring alongside Nick Frost. Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the sci-fi comedy film Paul (2011).
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Jason Isaacs
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- television actorstage actorfilm actortelevision producervoice actor
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Jason Isaacs is an English actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011). His other film roles include Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), and Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003).
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Joe Alwyn
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- actorfilm actorsongwriter
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Joseph Matthew Alwyn is an English actor. Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and has since played supporting roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), and Harriet (2019).
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David Walliams
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in spoken drama
- Occupations
- television presenterautobiographerchildren's writercomediantelevision producer
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David Edward Williams, known professionally as David Walliams, is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is best known for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly With Me (2010–2011). From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on the television talent show competition Britain's Got Talent on ITV. He is also a writer of children's books, having sold more than 37 million copies worldwide.
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Emily Watson
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Emily Margaret Watson is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, and was nominated for the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. For her role as Margaret Humphreys in Oranges and Sunshine (2010), she was also nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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James Blunt
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- guitaristcomposervocalistsinger-songwritersinger
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James Blunt is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. A former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army, he served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War.
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Matt Lucas
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- comedianfilm actortelevision presenterscreenwritertelevision producer
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Matthew Richard Lucas is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011).
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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- lawyereconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party.
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Jemima Goldsmith
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- writerscreenwriterfilm producerjournalistactivist
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Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith, known professionally by her former married name Jemima Khan, is an English journalist and screenwriter. She is the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company. As a journalist, she was an associate editor for the British political and cultural magazine The New Statesman and also served as the European editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair.
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Paul Dirac
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Studied in 1918-1923
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- engineerprofessormathematicianphysicistacademic
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with laying the foundations of quantum field theory. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a professor of physics at Florida State University and the University of Miami, and a 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient.
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Klaus Fuchs
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Studied in 1933-1937
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicistatomic spypolitician
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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
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Jeremy Wade
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- biologistwriteractortelevision presenter
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Jeremy John Wade is a British television presenter, an author of books on angling, a freshwater detective, and a biologist. He is known for his television series River Monsters, Mighty Rivers, and Dark Waters. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished fishermen of all time, having traveled the world and caught a multitude of different species of fresh and saltwater fish.
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Susanna Reid
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- television presenterjournalist
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Susanna Reid is an English television presenter and journalist. She was a co-presenter of BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2014 alongside Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt. In 2013, she finished as a runner-up on the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing alongside dance-partner Kevin Clifton. Since 2014, Reid has been the lead presenter of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain alongside Ben Shephard, Kate Garraway and formerly Piers Morgan and now Ed Balls. She also presented Sunday Morning Live on BBC One from 2010 to 2011.
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Caroline Goodall
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- film actorstage actorscreenwriter
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Caroline Cruice Goodall is a British actress and screenwriter. She was nominated for AFI Awards for her roles in the 1989 miniseries Cassidy, and the 1995 film Hotel Sorrento. Her other film appearances include Hook (1991), Cliffhanger (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Disclosure (1994), White Squall (1996), The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Best of Me (2014).
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Derren Brown
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- writeractorhypnotistpaintertelevision presenter
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Derren Brown is an English entertainer, mentalist, illusionist, and writer. Brown began performing in 1992, making his television debut with Mind Control (2000). He has since starred in several more shows for stage and television, including Something Wicked This Way Comes (2006) and Svengali (2012) which won him two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment, as well as The Experiments (2011) which won him a BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme at the 2012 awards. Brown made his Broadway debut with his 2019 stage show Secret. He has also written books for both magicians and the general public.
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Alice Roberts
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- anthropologistwriterarchaeologistbiologistpaleontologist
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Alice May Roberts is an English academic, TV presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was president of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. She is now a vice president of the organisation.
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Chris Morris
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- voice actortelevision directortelevision producercomedianactor
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Christopher J. Morris is an English comedian, radio presenter, actor, and filmmaker. Known for his deadpan, dark humour, surrealism, and controversial subject matter, he has been praised by the British Film Institute for his "uncompromising, moralistic drive".
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
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- university teachernovelistchildren's writerwritertranslator
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French and Mauritian nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
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David Bohm
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- physicistnuclear physicistuniversity teacherphilosopher
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David Joseph Bohm was an American–Brazilian–British scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Among his many contributions to physics is his causal and deterministic interpretation of quantum theory known as De Broglie–Bohm theory.
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Arnold Ridley
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- television actormilitary personnelfilm actoractorplaywright
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William Arnold Ridley, OBE was an English playwright and actor, earlier in his career known for writing the play The Ghost Train and later in life in the British TV sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977) as the elderly bumbling Private Godfrey, as well as in spin-offs including the feature film version and the stage production.
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Tom Tugendhat
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in theology
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Thomas Georg John Tugendhat is a British politician who has served as Minister of State for Security since September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge and Malling since 2015. Tugendhat was the chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee from 2017 to 2022.
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Pearl Mackie
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
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Pearl Mackie is a British actress. She is best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who. Mackie is a graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her first major television role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors.
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Mitch Hewer
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- television actormodelfilm actoractor
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Mitchell Scott Hewer is an English actor, best known for the role of Maxxie Oliver in the E4 teen drama Skins. He has also starred in Britannia High as the all-round talent Danny Miller.
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Julia Donaldson
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- children's writerauthorwriterplaywright
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Julia Catherine Donaldson is an English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree.
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Hugh Cornwell
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- singer-songwriterguitaristsingerautobiographermusician
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Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990. Since leaving the Stranglers, Cornwell has recorded a further ten solo studio albums and continues to record and perform live.
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Joseph Muscat
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- journalistpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Joseph Muscat is a Maltese politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020 and leader of the Labour Party from 2008 to 2020.
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Michael Winterbottom
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- film editordirectortelevision directorscreenwriterfilm producer
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Michael Winterbottom is an English film director. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People—have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He and co-director Mat Whitecross won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival for their work on The Road to Guantanamo.
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
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- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, sometimes referred to by her initials NDZ, is a South African politician, medical doctor and former anti-apartheid activist. A longstanding member of the African National Congress (ANC), she currently serves as Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and is the Chancellor of the University of Limpopo.
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Letsie III of Lesotho
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- sovereign
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Letsie III is King of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Moshoeshoe II, who was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but died in a car crash in early 1996, and Letsie became king again. As a constitutional monarch, most of King Letsie's duties as monarch of Lesotho are ceremonial. In 2000, he declared HIV/AIDS in Lesotho to be a natural disaster, prompting immediate national and international response to the epidemic.
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Penelope Fillon
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- politicianlegislative assistantlawyer
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Penelope Kathryn Fillon is the wife of French former politician François Fillon. She was the Spouse of the Prime Minister of France from 17 May 2007 to 10 May 2012. Born and raised in Wales, Fillon is a graduate of the University College London and the University of Bristol Law School. She worked as an English teacher at a secondary school in France in the late 1970s, where she met her future husband. François and Penelope Fillon married in 1980 and have five children. They are Catholic.
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W. G. Grace
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- cricketerphysician
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William Gilbert Grace was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players. He was nominally amateur as a cricketer, but he is said to have made more money from his cricketing activities than any professional cricketer. He was an extremely competitive player and, although he was one of the most famous men in England, he was also one of the most controversial on account of his gamesmanship and moneymaking.
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Mark Francois
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- politician
- Biography
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Mark Gino Francois is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rayleigh and Wickford, since the 2001 general election.
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Alvin Yeung
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- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu is a Hong Kong barrister and politician. He was formerly the leader of the Civic Party and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing New Territories East after winning the 2016 by-election. On 11 November 2020, Yeung was disqualified from the Legislative Council, along with three other lawmakers of the pan-democratic camp, by the central government in Beijing on request of the Hong Kong government. A mass resignation of pan-democrats the same day left the Legislative Council without a substantial opposition.
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Lembit Öpik
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- politicianwriterprofessional wrestler
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Lembit Öpik is a former British politician. A former member of the Liberal Democrats, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Montgomeryshire in Wales from 1997 until he lost his seat at the 2010 general election. He was the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from 2001 to 2007.
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Chinami Nishimura
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- lecturerpolitician
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Chinami Nishimura is a Japanese politician who currently serves as the Secretary-General of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. She is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet and represents the Niigata 1st district. Her married name is Chinami Honda (本多 智奈美, Honda Chinami).
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Anne McClain
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Master of Science in international relations
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- aerospace engineertest pilotastronauthelicopter pilotrugby union player
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Anne Charlotte McClain is a Colonel in the U.S. Army, engineer and a NASA astronaut. Her call sign, "Annimal", dates back to her bruising rugby days; she also uses the call sign in her Twitter handle, AstroAnnimal. She was a Flight Engineer for Expedition 58/59 to the International Space Station.
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Anastasia Griffith
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Anastasia Griffith is a British actress known for her roles in Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Alfie (2004), Damages (2007–2009), Solitary Man (2009), Trauma (2009–2010), Royal Pains (2010–2011), Once Upon a Time (2011–2014), Copper (2012–2013), Zoo (2015), and Deep State (2018–2019).
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Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- 2007-2010 graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
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- aristocratracing driverbusinessperson
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Henry Miles Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel, styled as Lord Maltravers until 2002 and known professionally as Henry Arundel, is a British aristocrat, businessman and former motor racing driver. He is heir apparent to the dukedom of Norfolk, the most senior peerage in the peerage of England, and the family seat of Arundel Castle.
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Stephen Crabb
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- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Crabb is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Preseli Pembrokeshire since 2005 and Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee since 2020. A member of the Welsh Conservatives, he served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from March to July 2016 under Prime Minister David Cameron. Crabb had previously been appointed a government whip, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (2012–2014) and Secretary of State for Wales (2014–2016) under Cameron.
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Theresa Villiers
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- politician
- Biography
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Theresa Anne Villiers is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet since 2005, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, Villiers was Minister of State for Rail and Aviation from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2020.
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Thangam Debbonaire
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- politician
- Biography
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Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport since 2023. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously Shadow Secretary of State for Housing from 2020 to 2021 and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2021 to 2023. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West at the 2015 general election, when she defeated the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams.
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Alastair Stewart
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- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Alastair James Stewart OBE is an English journalist and newscaster.
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David Nicholls
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- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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David Alan Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter.
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Nigel Marven
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- journalistzoologistornithologisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Nigel Alan Marven is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries Chased by Dinosaurs, its sequel, Sea Monsters, as well as the ITV miniseries Prehistoric Park. He is also known for his unorthodox, spontaneous, and daring style of presenting wildlife documentaries as well as for including factual knowledge in the proceedings.
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Sarah Brown
- Occupations
- international forum participantactivistmemoiristbusinessperson
- Biography
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Sarah Jane Brown, usually known as Sarah Brown, is an English campaigner for global health and education, founder and president of the children's charity Theirworld, the executive chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education and the co-founder of A World at School.
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Kim Medcalf
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Kim Louise Medcalf is an English actress and singer. She is known for portraying the role of Sam Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2002–2005, 2022–2024).
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Ben Elliot
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- film producermodelbusinessperson
- Biography
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Sir Benjamin William Elliot is a British businessman and fund-raiser for the Conservative Party who served as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from July 2019 alongside James Cleverly (2019–2020), Amanda Milling (2020–2021), Oliver Dowden (2021–2022), and Andrew Stephenson (2022) before resigning on 5 September 2022. In 2018, Elliot was appointed by Michael Gove, the secretary of state for the environment, as the UK government's first Food Surplus and Waste Champion. Elliot is the co-founder of the Quintessentially Group, a global luxury concierge service, and the co-founder of Hawthorn Advisors, a communications consultancy based in London. He is a nephew of Queen Camilla.
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Nitin Ganatra
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Nitin Chandra Ganatra is a Kenyan-born British actor. He is known for portraying Masood Ahmed in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders (2007–2019), for which he won a British Soap Award.
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Ben Emmerson
- Occupations
- barrister
- Biography
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Michael Benedict Emmerson CBE KC is a British barrister, specialising in public international law, human rights and humanitarian law, and international criminal law. From 2011 to 2017, he was the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. Emmerson is currently an Appeals Chamber Judge of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals sitting on the Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has previously served as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and Special Adviser to the Appeals Chamber of the ECCC (the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia).
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Anna Maria Anders
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- politician
- Biography
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Anna Maria Anders is the ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Italy and to San Marino.
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Sue Lawley
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Susan Lawley is a retired English television and radio broadcaster. Her main broadcasting background involved television news and current affairs. From 1988–2006, Lawley was the presenter of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.
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Rachel Whetstone
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- politicianinternational forum participantbusiness executive
- Biography
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Rachel Marjorie Joan Whetstone is a British public relations executive. Whetstone was in charge of communications and public policy for Google for nearly 10 years. She was senior vice-president of communications and public policy for Uber until April 2017. She then joined Facebook as VP of communications of its WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger products. Since August 2018, she has been the chief communication officer (CCO) of Netflix.
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Misha Glenny
- Occupations
- historianjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny is a British journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity. He is multilingual. He is also the writer and producer of the BBC Radio 4 series, How to Invent a Country.
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Mabel Cheung
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Mabel Cheung is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema and is considered one of the three women (along with Ann Hui and Clara Law) to achieve acclaim in the New Wave/Second Wave in Hong Kong. Elected "Freshman's Queen" when she was studying undergrad at the University of Hong Kong, she was also an avid sportswoman representing Lady Ho Tung Hall and the University of Hong Kong. Cheung made her first film in 1985 as a student at New York University. Cheung is known for working with the migration issues of Hongkongers and overseas Chinese, especially before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.
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Maddie Moate
- Occupations
- presenterYouTubertelevision producer
- Biography
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Madeleine Moate is a British television presenter, podcaster, YouTuber and children's author best known for presenting the CBeebies series Maddie's Do You Know? for which she was awarded the Best Presenter BAFTA at the Children's BAFTAs 2017. Moate is a science communicator; she studied theatre, film and television at Bristol University.
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Mick Jackson
- Occupations
- television directordirectorproducerfilm producerfilm director
- Biography
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Mick Jackson is an English film director and television producer best known for the 1984 BAFTA Award-winning television film Threads. He is also known for directing projects such as the comedy L.A. Story (1991), the romance drama The Bodyguard (1992), the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010), and the drama Denial (2016).
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Paul Boateng
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianbarrister
- Biography
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Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng, CVO, PC, DL is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first Black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010.
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Michelle Rocca
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestanttelevision presentermodelsocialite
- Biography
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Michelle Mary Teresa Rocca is an Irish-Italian former model, television presenter and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Ireland 1980. The following year, she married footballer John Devine. Two years after their divorce in 1990 she met and later married, Northern Irish singer Van Morrison.
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Jazmin Sawyers
- Occupations
- sports commentatorbobsleddersingerlong jumper
- Biography
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Jazmin Sawyers is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England. In 2023, she won her first major senior title at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
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M. J. Arlidge
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- writerscreenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Matthew Arlidge is an English author of crime novels starring DI Helen Grace. He has also worked in television.
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Gigguk
- Occupations
- YouTuberpodcaster
- Biography
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Garnt Maneetapho, better known as Gigguk, is a Thai-British YouTuber and podcaster who is known for his comedic rants and reviews on anime and otaku culture. He is affiliated with the Kadokawa-backed agency GeeXPlus.
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Sarah Montague
- Occupations
- journaliststockbrokerbroadcastertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sarah Anne Louise Montague, Lady Brooke, is a British journalist and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The World at One. For 18 years, prior to April 2018, she was a regular presenter of another radio programme, Today.
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Iain Morris
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producercomedian
- Biography
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Iain Kevan Morris is an English writer. He is best known for creating The Inbetweeners with his writing partner Damon Beesley and co-hosting a show on London radio station XFM with stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr.
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Deborah Moggach
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- journalistnovelistwriterscreenwriter
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Deborah Moggach is an English novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever (made into the film of the same name), These Foolish Things (made into the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Heartbreak Hotel.
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Nazir Razak
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneur
- Biography
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Tan Sri Mohamed Nazir bin Tun Abdul Razak is a Malaysian banking executive. He was Chairman of CIMB Group, which is one of the largest financial services providers in Malaysia and ASEAN. He served as CEO of the group from 1999 to 2014. Nazir is the youngest son of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdul Razak Hussein and brother of the sixth Prime Minister, Najib Razak.
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Sam Willis
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- podcastermilitary historian
- Biography
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Samuel Bruce Adlam Willis is a British historian, television presenter and writer. He is a visiting Fellow in Maritime and Naval History at the University of Plymouth, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is the editor of Navy Records Online, the online-publishing branch of the Navy Records Society. Willis has published fourteen books and numerous academic articles on maritime and naval history.
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Mary Spender
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitaristtelevision producer
- Biography
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Mary Spender is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and YouTube personality.
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C. F. Powell
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Cecil Frank Powell, FRS was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a subatomic particle.
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Josh Lewsey
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby sevens player
- Biography
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Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE is an English former rugby union player who represented England and the British and Irish Lions. Lewsey is a former British Army Officer.
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Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon also known as M. G. K. Menon, was a physicist and policy maker from India. He had a prominent role in the development of science and technology in India over four decades. One of his most important contributions was nurturing the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, which his mentor Homi J. Bhabha founded in 1945.
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Matthew Warchus
- Occupations
- film directorplaywrighttheatrical directordirector
- Biography
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Matthew Warchus is an English theatre director, filmmaker and dramaturg. He has been the Artistic Director of London's The Old Vic since September 2015.
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Iain Stewart
- Occupations
- television presentergeologist
- Biography
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Iain Simpson Stewart is a Scottish geologist who is currently Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability at the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. He is a UNESCO Chair in Geoscience and Society and formerly a member of the Scientific Board of UNESCO's International Geoscience Programme. Described as geology's "rock star", Stewart is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC, notably the BAFTA nominated Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007).
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Yakir Aharonov
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- In 1960 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California since 2008. He was a distinguished professor in the Perimeter Institute between 2009-2012 and is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and at University of South Carolina. He is president of the IYAR, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.
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Nimco Ali
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Nimko Ali, alternatively spelled Nimco (born c. 1982), is a British social activist of Somali heritage. She is the co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, a global partnership to end female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Kyran Bracken
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Kyran Paul Patrick Bracken MBE is a world-cup winning former rugby union footballer who played at scrum-half for Saracens, Bristol and Waterloo.
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Jonathan Evans
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- intelligence officerpoliticiancivil servant
- Biography
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Jonathan Douglas Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, KCB, DL is a British life peer who formerly served as the Director General of the British Security Service, the United Kingdom's domestic security and counter-intelligence service. He took over the role on the retirement of his predecessor Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller on 21 April 2007. Evans was succeeded by Andrew Parker on 22 April 2013.
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Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Rupert Francis John Carington, 7th Baron Carrington,, is a British banker, hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.
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Ian Shapiro
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- political scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ian Shapiro is an American legal scholar and political scientist who serves as the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventions in debates on democracy and on methods of conducting social science research.
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Nicholas Joicey
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Biography
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Nicholas Beverley Joicey is Director General of the Cabinet Office's Economic and Domestic Secretariat, having previously been Director General for Finance at the Department for Work and Pensions, and before that, Director General for Strategy, International and Finance at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He previously worked as private secretary and speech writer to United Kingdom Chancellor Gordon Brown, as a journalist at The Observer newspaper and as director of the International Department at HM Treasury.
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Bernard Lovell
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.
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Shanta Gokhale
- Occupations
- authorjournalisttranslator
- Biography
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Shanta Gokhale is an Indian writer, translator, journalist and theatre critic. She is best known for her works Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi.
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Mark Ravenhill
- Occupations
- theatrical directorstage actorscreenwriterplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Mark Ravenhill is an English playwright, actor and journalist.
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Andrew Murrison
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary physician
- Biography
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Andrew William Murrison is a British doctor, naval officer and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Wiltshire, previously Westbury, since the 2001 general election. He has been serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and Families since October 2022.
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Will Hutton
- Occupations
- journalisteconomistwriterinternational forum participant
- Biography
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William Nicolas Hutton is a British journalist. As of 2022, he writes a regular column for The Observer, co-chairs the Purposeful Company, and is the president-designate of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the chair of the advisory board of the UK National Youth Corps. He was principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford from 2011 to 2020, and co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative from the Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society), having been chief executive of the Work Foundation from 2000 to 2008. He was formerly editor-in-chief for The Observer.
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Keith Devlin
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- 1968-1971 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- journalistmathematicianscience communicatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Keith James Devlin is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship.
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Miranda Krestovnikoff
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Miranda Krestovnikoff is a British radio and television presenter specialising in natural history and archaeological programmes. She is an accomplished musician, and also a qualified scuba diver which has led to co-presenting opportunities in programmes with an underwater context.
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Dawn Primarolo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo, DBE, PC is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015, when she stood down. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service. She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
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Mia Kang
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Mia Kang is a British-Swiss fashion model, Muay Thai fighter, body confidence advocate, and television host based in New York City. Kang grew up in Hong Kong and was bullied as a young girl for being overweight. She halved her weight at the age of 13 and was soon scouted as a model. Kang modeled across Asia and Europe through her high school and college years. She got a master's degree in finance and financial law in England, and left modeling to work as a commodities trader, before returning to modeling in New York City and winning the 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model search and being named a 2017 Rookie.
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Holly Smale
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English literature and William Shakespeare
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Holly Miranda Smale is a British writer. She wrote the Geek Girl series. The first book in the series won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013. The final book, Forever Geek, was published by HarperCollins in March 2017.
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Kai Whittaker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kai Whittaker is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of the Bundestag since 2013.
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Liz Greene
- Occupations
- astrologerwriterpsychologist
- Biography
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Liz Greene is an American-British astrologer, psychologist and author. Her father was born in London, and her mother in the United States.
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Sheena McDonald
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Sheena Elizabeth McDonald is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.
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Martyn Percy
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- clergyman
- Biography
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Martyn William Percy is a British academic, educator, social scientist and theologian. Ordained as a priest in the Church of England, in 2022 he announced that he was leaving the Church of England, though remains Episcopalian-Anglican. He had been Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, from 2014 to 2022 and principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, from 2004 to 2014.
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Reginald Innes Pocock
- Occupations
- biologistarachnologistmyriapodologistentomologistzoologist
- Biography
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Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.
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Dave Attwood
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Dave Attwood is a rugby union player who plays at Lock for Bath in Premiership Rugby. In 2017 he was described as a "big traditional tight-head lock, a master of the set piece, indeed arguably the best scrummaging second row in the country". He has previously played for Bristol Bears, over two spells, Gloucester and Toulon.
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Giles Milton
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerhistorianwriterchildren's writerjournalist
- Biography
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Giles Milton FRHistS is a British writer and journalist, who specialises in narrative history. He writes non-fiction, historical fiction, and children's history books, and is best known for Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and Nathaniel's Nutmeg.
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Paul J. McAuley
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerwriterbotanist
- Biography
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Paul J. McAuley is a British botanist and science fiction author. A biologist by training, McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction. His novels dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternative history/alternative reality, and space travel.
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Manuel Esquivel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Manuel Amadeo Esquivel KCMG, PC was a Belizean politician. As leader of the United Democratic Party, he served as the second prime minister of Belize from 1984 to 1989, and then again from 1993 to 1998. His party's victory in 1984 was the first time an opposition party had won a general election in Belize.
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Stephen L. Brusatte
- Occupations
- zoologistpaleontologist
- Biography
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Stephen Louis Brusatte is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs. He was educated at the University of Chicago for his Bachelors degree, at the University of Bristol for his Master's of Science on a Marshall Scholarship, and finally at the Columbia University for Master's in Philosophy and Doctorate. He is currently a Reader in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Edinburgh.
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Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns
- Enrolled in the University of Bristol
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns, DBE, PC, FRSA, is a British Conservative Party politician, previously serving as Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry, after the 2017 reshuffle.
