64 Notable alumni of
University of Dundee
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The University of Dundee is 1002nd in the world, 346th in Europe, and 69th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 64 notable alumni from the University of Dundee sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gary Lightbody
- Occupations
- songwriterbloggersingerguitarist
- Biography
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Gareth John Lightbody is a Northern Irish musician. He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He has also founded the musical supergroups The Reindeer Section and Tired Pony.
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David Mackenzie
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- screenwriterfilm director
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David Mackenzie is a Scottish film director and co-founder of the Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films. He has made ten feature films including Young Adam (2003), Hallam Foe (2007), Perfect Sense (2011) and Starred Up (2013). In 2016, Mackenzie's film Hell or High Water premiered at Cannes and was theatrically released in the United States in August. The same year he executive produced Damnation, a TV pilot for Universal and USA Network. Mackenzie also directed Outlaw King (2018), a historical film for Netflix. Mackenzie and his films have been described as not fitting neatly into any particular genre or type.
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Eilish McColgan
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
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Eilish McColgan is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres champion with the Games record, and 5000 metres silver medallist. McColgan is a four-time European Championships medallist, winning silver medals for the 5000 m in 2018 and 10,000 m in 2022, bronze in the 5000 m in 2022, and a bronze for the indoor 3000 metres in 2017. She is the European record holder for the 10 km road race, and the British record holder for the 5000 m, 10,000 m, 5 km and half marathon. She also holds the European best in the 10 miles on the roads.
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John Suchet
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
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John Aleck Suchet is an English author, television news journalist and presenter of classical music on Classic FM.
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Robert Watson-Watt
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- Studied in 1912
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistinventor
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Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt was a Scottish pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.
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George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC, FRSA, FRSE, is a British politician of the Labour Party who was the 10th Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2003; he succeeded Javier Solana. He was Secretary of State for Defence from 1997 to 1999, before becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute, on 24 August 1999.
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Craig Murray
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- human rights activistbloggerwhistleblowerdiplomat
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Craig John Murray is a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former diplomat.
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Kate Atkinson
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- Studied English literature
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriterplaywrightjournalistshort story writer
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Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 in the Novels category for Behind the Scenes at the Museum, winning again in 2013 and 2015 under its new name the Costa Book Awards.
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Brian Souter
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- businessperson
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Sir Brian Souter is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Dame Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd, and the Souter Charitable Trust.
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James Black
- Occupations
- university teachercardiologistpharmacologistchemistpharmacist
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Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, lead to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. He went to work for ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958 and, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. Black was also responsible for the development of cimetidine, an H2 receptor antagonist, a drug used to treat stomach ulcers.
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Sonny Pike
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sonny Pike is an English former footballer who became famous at a young age for his talent, which saw him being compared to players regarded as among the greatest of all time, such as Diego Maradona and George Best. Despite his early promise, Pike left the game at the age of 18 without ever having played professionally.
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Alan Gorrie
- Occupations
- singermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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Alan Edward Gorrie is a Scottish bassist, guitarist, keyboardist and singer. He is a founding member of the Average White Band and remains one of two original members in the group's current line-up (Onnie McIntyre being the other).
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Fred MacAulay
- Occupations
- entertainercomedian
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Frederick MacAulay is a Scottish comedian. For 18 years, until March 2015, he presented a daily BBC Scotland radio programme MacAulay and Co. He has appeared on numerous TV shows.
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Keith Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Keith James Brown is a Scottish politician serving as Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2018. He is a former Royal Marines commando and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2007, first representing the Ochil constituency from 2007 to 2011, then the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency since 2011. Brown previously served in the Scottish Cabinet, most recently as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans from 2021 to 2023.
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Naeto C
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Naetochukwu Chikwe, stage name Naeto C, is a Nigerian rapper, Afrobeat artist and record producer.
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Natasha Hadiza Akpoti
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Natasha Hadiza Akpoti is a Nigerian Barrister, Social Entrepreneur and Politician. She ran for the post of Senator for Kogi Central Senatorial District under Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the year 2019. She contested in the 2019 Kogi State Gubernatorial Election which was held on 16 November 2019. She is the founder of Builders Hub Impact Investment Program (BHIIP).
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Karine Polwart
- Occupations
- singermusiciansongwriter
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Karine Polwart is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She writes and performs music with a strong folk and roots feel, her songs dealing with a variety of issues from alcoholism to genocide. She has been most recognised for her solo career, winning three awards at the BBC Folk Awards in 2005, and was previously a member of Malinky and Battlefield Band.
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Mark McClelland
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Mark Peter McClelland is a Northern Irish musician known best as the former bass guitarist of the band Snow Patrol. McClelland is a recipient of the Ivor Novello Award for his work on the album Final Straw. He is now the bassist for alternative act Little Doses.
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Clio Barnard
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- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerteacher
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Clio Barnard is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film The Selfish Giant, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.
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Cornelius Sim
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Cornelius Sim DD was a Bruneian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Vicar Apostolic of Brunei from 2004 until his death. He had previously served as the apostolic prefect of Brunei from 1997 to 2004.
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Chris Clarkson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher Mark Clarkson is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood & Middleton since the 2019 general election. Prior to entering Parliament, Clarkson was a Salford City Councilor for Worsley.
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Tom Simpson
- Occupations
- musiciandisc jockey
- Biography
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Tom Simpson is a Scottish DJ and musician, best known as the former keyboardist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. Having been with Snow Patrol as a touring member since 1996, he became a permanent member in 2005, before leaving in August 2013.
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Paul Masterton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Masterton is a Scottish Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire from 2017 to 2019.
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Mark McDonald
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark McDonald is a Scottish politician who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Aberdeen Donside constituency from 2013 to 2021, having previously represented the North East Scotland region between 5 May 2011 and 14 May 2013. Formerly a Scottish National Party politician and Minister for Childcare and Early Years in the Scottish Government, he was suspended by the SNP in November 2017 following allegations of inappropriate behaviour against several women. Following a party investigation, the claims were substantiated, McDonald issued an apology on 6 March 2018, announcing he had now left the SNP and would sit in the Scottish Parliament as an Independent.
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Claude Moraes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Claude Ajit Moraes is a British Labour Party politician and campaigner, who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He was Chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and Vice-President of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament.
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Alex Neil
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander Neil is a Scottish politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing from 2012 to 2014 and Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners' Rights from 2014 to 2016. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Airdrie and Shotts constituency from 2011 until his retirement in 2021.
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John Stevenson
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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Andrew John Stevenson is a British Conservative Party politician and active solicitor and director for the firms Bendles and Tiffen Estate Agents, who was first elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlisle.
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Frank Doran
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Doran was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 1987 to 1992, when he lost his seat. He was re-elected in 1997 to Aberdeen Central, and most recently represented Aberdeen North. He was the husband of former Labour MP Dame Joan Ruddock.
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William Patey
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sir William Charters Patey, KCMG is a British retired diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012, and previously served as Ambassador to Sudan, to Iraq and to Saudi Arabia.
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Alan Turnbull
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- advocatejudge
- Biography
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Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts. He was one of the lead prosecutors in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial.
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Dave Doogan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Michael Doogan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Angus since the 2019 United Kingdom general election. Doogan has been the SNP's Energy Security and Net Zero Spokesperson since September 2023.
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Maurice Golden
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- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maurice Charles Golden is a Scottish Conservative politician. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region since the May 2021 Scottish Parliament election, after having previously been elected in 2016 for West Scotland. Golden was the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture until May 2021. Golden was also previously Chief Whip and Business Manager.
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Wendy Houvenaghel
- Occupations
- sport cyclisttrack cyclistdentist
- Biography
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Wendy Louise Houvenaghel is a Northern Irish former racing cyclist from Upperlands, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, riding on both the road and track, but specialising in the latter. She has represented Great Britain in various World Cycling Championships and in the 2008 Olympic Games, most notably winning the silver medal at the Beijing Olympic Games, and gold in the team pursuit at the 2008, 2009 and 2011 Track World Championships. She has also won many British national titles and represented England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and Northern Ireland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Houvenaghel is based in Cornwall, England.
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Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Lynda Margaret Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton, known as Lady Clark of Calton, is a Scottish judge. She was formerly the Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands. She was Advocate General for Scotland from the creation of that position in 1999 until 2006, whereupon she became a Judge of the Court of Session in Scotland.
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Simon Rogerson
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- 1969-1972 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Simon Rogerson is lifetime Professor Emeritus in Computer Ethics at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University. He was the founder and editor for 19 volumes of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society. He has had two careers; first as a technical software developer and then in academia as reformer (according to Huff and Barnard). He was the founding Director of CCSR, launching it in 1995 at the first ETHICOMP conference which he conceived and co-directed until 2013. He became Europe's first Professor in Computer Ethics in 1998. His most important research focuses on providing rigorously grounded practical tools and guidance to computing practitioners. For his leadership and research achievements in the computer and information ethics interdisciplinary field he was awarded the fifth IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award in 2000 and the SIGCAS Making a Difference Award in 2005.
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Bruce Millan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bruce Millan was a British Labour politician who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1995.
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Nicholas Lydon
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- biochemistresearcherchemist
- Biography
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Nicholas B. Lydon FRS is a British scientist and entrepreneur. In 2009, he was awarded the Lasker Clinical Award and in 2012 the Japan Prize for the development of Gleevec, also known as Imatinib, a selective BCR-ABL inhibitor for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), which converted a fatal cancer into a manageable chronic condition.
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Medard Kalemani
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Medard Matogolo Kalemani, commonly known as Medard Kalemani, is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician, who served as the Minister of Energy in the Tanzanian cabinet, in 2017-2021. Immediately prior to his appointment to his current cabinet position, he served as Deputy Minister of the combined energy and minerals ministry, which was split into two, with Angellah Kairuki, assuming the mining docket.
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Russ Nicholson
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- Died in 2023
- Occupations
- illustrator
- Biography
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Russ Nicholson was a British illustrator, best known for his black and white fantasy art.
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Luke Fowler
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- film directorcomposernew media artist
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Luke Fowler is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s. His para-documentary films have explored counter cultural figures including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, English composer Cornelius Cardew and Marxist-Historian E. P. Thompson. As well as portraits of musicians and composers he has also made films and installations that deal with the nature of sound itself. Luke Fowler has worked with a number of collaborators including Eric La Casa, George Clark and Peter Hutton, Mark Fell, Lee Patterson, Toshiya Tsunoda, and Richard Youngs. He collaborated with guitarist Keith Rowe and film maker and curator Peter Todd on the live sound and film work The Room.
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Rob Gibson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert McKay Gibson is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 2003 until 2016, first as a Highlands and Islands regional member from 2003 until 2011, then representing the Caithness, Sutherland and Ross constituency from 2011 until 2016.
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Alastair Ross
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- politician
- Biography
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Alastair Ross is a British electoral officer and former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim from 2007 to 2017.
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Gerry Badger
- Occupations
- architectphotographeropinion journalistcritic
- Biography
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Gerald David "Gerry" Badger is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer.
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Grace Quintanilla
- Occupations
- video artistchinovnikcultural managerartist
- Biography
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Grace Quintanilla was an artist, curator and producer working in the field of new media art and digital culture.
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Ricardo Pinto
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ricardo Pinto is a computer game programmer and fantasy novelist.
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Marion Deuchars
- Occupations
- writerillustratorvisual artist
- Biography
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Marion Deuchars is a British illustrator and author.
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Chris Boyle
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- 2005-2009 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherassociation football managerassociation football refereeassociation football playerspecial education teacher
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Christopher Boyle is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and professor of inclusion and educational psychology at the University of Adelaide. He has previously been an association football referee who refereed in the Australian A-League and the Scottish Premier League. Boyle is a qualified psychologist working in the UK and in Australia. He has written extensively on subjects in psychology and inclusive education. He is a respected academic and has authored over 100 publications on these topics.
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Lou Dickenson
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Lou Dickenson is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who last played for the Thetford Assurancia of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey. He was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round (113th overall) of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft.
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David Shayler
- Occupations
- spyjournalist
- Biography
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Delores Kane is a former British MI5 officer and a conspiracy theorist. Kane was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for passing secret documents to The Mail on Sunday in August 1997 that alleged that MI5 was paranoid about socialists, and that it had previously investigated Labour Party ministers Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman.
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James Scott Dunlop
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- authorastrophysicistastronomer
- Biography
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James Scott Dunlop is a Scottish astronomer and academic. He is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the Institute for Astronomy, an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Geoff Holder
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Geoff Holder is a British author. He has written twenty non-fiction books on the paranormal, as well as on unusual and unexplained events and objects. His works include The Jacobites and the Supernatural and 101 Things to Do with a Stone Circle, Scottish Bodysnatchers and nine titles in The Guide to the Mysterious... series, covering subjects throughout Britain.
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Nicole Soranzo
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- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researchergeneticist
- Biography
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Nicole Soranzo is an Italian-British senior group leader in human genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Cambridge. She is an internationally recognised Human Geneticist who has focused on the application of cutting edge genomic technologies to study the spectrum of human genetic variation associated with cardio-metabolic and immune diseases. She has led many large-scale discovery efforts including more than 1,000 novel genetic variants associated with cardio-metabolic diseases and their risk factors as well as establishing the HaemGen consortium, which is a worldwide effort to discover genetic determinants of blood cell formation and also interpretation of the downstream consequences of sequence variation through a host of integrative analyses and functional approaches.
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Jackie Hatfield
- Years
- 1962-2007 (aged 45)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jackie Hatfield was an artist, writer, and academic. According to the influential artist-led no.w.here website: "Jackie Hatfield is an artist and writer who makes expanded and participatory cinematic artworks using digital video, performance, sound and digital print. She has co-edited two critical books around women's use of technology in art practice and has published essays that concentrate on under-explored histories of experimental film and video practices."
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David Foggie
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- 1878-1948 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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David Foggie RSA, was a Scottish painter, born to parents James and Margaret Foggie.
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Kathryn Smith
- Occupations
- curatorartist
- Biography
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Kathryn Smith is a South African artist, curator, and researcher. She works on curatorial projects, scholarly research, and studio practices, while her art deals with uncertainty, risk, and experimentation. She works in Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Her works have been exhibited and collected in South Africa and elsewhere. In 2006, she was appointed senior lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch and head of the Fine Arts Studio Practice program. She took a break in 2012/2013 to read for an MSc at the University of Dundee.
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Jacklet Atuhaire
- Occupations
- expertpolitician
- Biography
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Jacklet Atuhaire Rwabukurukuru Mukwana is a Ugandan oil and gas expert, international development professional and politician. She is the elected Woman MP for Sheema District and is not affiliated to any political party in Uganda. She succeeded NRM's Rosemary Nyakikongoro who in 2015 had defeated her in the party's primary elections in controversial circumstances. Atuhaire is also a former guild president for the University of East London and is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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Tony Stallard
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Tony Stallard is an English artist, best known for his large scale public artworks in the United Kingdom and abroad, which utilise bronze, steel and light sculptures for work in the public realm.
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Nicholas Troop
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Nicholas Troop is a health psychologist and a principal lecturer in health psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. His range of works include the role of life events, coping and crisis support in the aetiology of eating disorders, stress- and trauma-responses, and mobility into the social rank and attachment.
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Mary Scanlon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary Elizabeth Scanlon is a Scottish Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region 1999–2006 and 2007–2016.
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Claire E. Eyers
- Occupations
- researcherbiochemist
- Biography
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Claire Eyers is a British biological mass spectrometrist who is professor of biological mass spectrometry at the University of Liverpool, where she heads up the Centre for Proteome Research. Her research publications list her either as Claire E Haydon (her maiden name) or Claire E Eyers (from 2005).
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Sónia Rocha
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Sónia Maria Campos Soares da Rocha, usually referred to as Professor Sónia Rocha, is a Portuguese cell biologist who holds a personal chair in biochemistry at the University of Liverpool, where she is the head of the Department of Biochemistry. Rocha runs an active multidisciplinary cell signaling research group studying hypoxia, and focused around transcription factors such as Hypoxia-inducible factors and NF-κB. Her laboratory is currently based in the Institute of Integrative Biology.
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James R. Woodgett
- Enrolled in the University of Dundee
- 1981-1984 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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James Woodgett is a British-born biologist and the Principal Investigator of an active research laboratory at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System (formerly Mount Sinai Hospital), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the Koffler Director of Research at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute from November 2005 to January 2021.
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Norah Geddes
- Occupations
- landscape architectmemoiristwatercolorist
- Biography
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Norah Geddes was a Scottish landscape designer.
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John Sturrock
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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John Leng Sturrock was a Scottish newspaper publisher and Liberal politician.
