100 Notable alumni of
University of Kent
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The University of Kent is 460th in the world, 158th in Europe, and 36th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Kent sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ellie Goulding
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- singer-songwritercomposersingeractorrecording artist
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Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when she met record producers Starsmith and Frankmusik, and she was later spotted by Jamie Lillywhite, who became her manager and A&R. After signing to Polydor Records in July 2009, Goulding released her debut extended play, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding, later that year.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
- Enrolled in the University of Kent
- 1974-1979 graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English studies and philosophy
- Occupations
- authorwriterscience fiction writersongwriterlyricist
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
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Tom Wilkinson
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
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E. L. James
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- novelistwriter
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Erika Mitchell, known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades series of erotic romance novels, which spawned a multimedia franchise including a film trilogy of the same name. Prior to this, she wrote the Twilight fan fiction "Master of the Universe" that served as the basis for the Fifty Shades series under the web name Snowqueens Icedragon. In 2019 she published her first book unconnected with the fictional world of Fifty Shades, The Mister, to negative critical reaction.
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Alan Davies
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- comedianfilm actortelevision presenterwriterscreenwriter
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Alan Roger Davies is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He is best known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek (1997–2016) and as the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since its premiere in 2003, outlasting its original host Stephen Fry.
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Marietta Slomka
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- economistnews presenternon-fiction writertelevision presenterpolitical scientist
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Marietta Slomka is a German journalist who has been the anchor of TV news show heute-journal since 2001.
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David Mitchell
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- linguistnovelisttext writerfilm screenwriterteacher
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David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter.
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Tiwa Savage
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- actorsinger-songwritermusician
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Tiwatope Omolara Savage, known professionally as Tiwa Savage (listen), is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and actress who has been called the Queen of Afrobeats. Savage sings in English and Yoruba; her music is a blend of afrobeats, R&B, afropop, pop and hip-hop. Savage's contributions to the Nigerian music industry have earned her several achievements.
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Emily Thornberry
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- barristerpolitician
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Emily Anne Thornberry is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales since 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2014. She has also served in a number of other senior positions on Labour's front bench, namely as Shadow Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2020, Shadow First Secretary of State from 2017 to 2020 and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2020 to 2021.
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Matt Preston
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- television presenterjournalistfood critic
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Matt Preston is an English-Australian food critic, writer, food journalist, television and radio presenter. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's MasterChef Australia between 2009 and 2019, and Seven Network's My Kitchen Rules in 2022. He also has a weekly national food column that appears in NewsCorp's metro newspapers. Preston is also a senior editor for Delicious. and Taste magazines, and the author of at least four best-selling cookbooks. Since 2022 Preston hosts Saturday Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Enrolled in the University of Kent
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writerprose writeruniversity teacherediting staffnovelist
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Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
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Sarah Waters
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- novelistwriter
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Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
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Olga Karlatos
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- actorfilm actorlawyer
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Olga Karlatos is a retired Greek actress and Bermudian lawyer, known primarily for performing in Italian horror cinema.
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Steve Hillage
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- composerrecord producersingerguitarist
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Stephen Simpson Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s. Besides his solo recordings he has been a member of Khan, Gong and System 7.
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Gavin Esler
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- television presenterjournalistwriter
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Gavin William James Esler is a Scottish journalist, television presenter and author. He was a main presenter on BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme, Newsnight, from January 2003 until January 2014, and presenter of BBC News at Five on the BBC News Channel. Since 2014 he has served as the Chancellor of the University of Kent. On 11 March 2017, Esler confirmed via his Twitter profile that he would be leaving the BBC at the end of the month to concentrate on his writing activities. He returned to the BBC later that year as host of Talking Books.
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Fi Glover
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- journalist
- Biography
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Fiona Susannah Grace "Fi" Glover is a British journalist and presenter who currently hosts a two hour show for Times Radio and the Off Air podcast, for The Times. Before joining The Times in October 2022, Glover worked for the BBC for almost thirty years, most recently presenting the Fortunately podcast, with Jane Garvey, The Listening Project for BBC Radio 4 and My Perfect Country for the BBC World Service.
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Seyed Abbas Araghchi
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- politiciandiplomat
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Seyed Abbas Araghchi is an Iranian diplomat who is the former political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran from 2017 to 2021. He previously held office as the Deputy for Asia–Pacific and the Commonwealth Affairs and Legal and International Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran. He served as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in talks with the P5+1, in Hassan Rouhani's government.
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Elizabeth Kucinich
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- journalist
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Elizabeth Jane Kucinich is a British organic food and vegan advocate. She has produced two documentaries and is married to the retired eight-term US Congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
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Fu Ying
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- interpretertranslatorpoliticiandiplomat
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Fu Ying is a Chinese politician and diplomat, best known for her terms as the ambassador to the Philippines, Australia, and the United Kingdom, as well as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. She currently serves as the chairperson of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Carolyn McCall
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Dame Carolyn Julia McCall is a British businesswoman. She has been the chief executive of ITV since 2018. She previously served as the chief executive of EasyJet from 2010 to 2017.
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Natalie Elphicke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Natalie Cecilia Elphicke is a British Conservative Party politician and finance lawyer. At the 2019 general election, she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover, succeeding her then husband Charlie Elphicke following charges for sexual harassment.
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Ariel Vromen
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Ariel Vromen is an Israeli film director and screenwriter, best known for directing the 2012 American film The Iceman.
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Dan Tehan
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- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election, representing the Victorian seat of Wannon. He held ministerial office in the Coalition governments under Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, serving as Minister for Defence Materiel (2016), Defence Personnel (2016–2017), Veterans' Affairs (2016–2017), Social Services (2017–2018), Education (2018–2020), and Trade, Tourism and Investment. He was a public servant and political adviser before entering parliament.
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Kostis Chatzidakis
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- politicianlawyereconomist
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Konstantinos Hatzidakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος (Κωστής) Χατζηδάκης; born 20 April 1965 in Rethymno) is a Greek politician of New Democracy who has been serving as Minister for Νational Economy and Finance in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Within his party, he serves as vice president under Mitsotakis' leadership.
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Peter Whittle
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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Peter Robin Whittle is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who served as a Member of the London Assembly from 2016 to 2021 and as Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to Paul Nuttall from 2016 to 2017. He is the founder and director of the New Culture Forum think tank and host of So What You're Saying Is..., a weekly cultural and political interview show on YouTube.
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Zainab Balogun
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- actortelevision presentermodel
- Biography
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Zainab Balogun-NwachukwuListen is a Nigerian actress, model and television presenter. She began modelling at an early age after being scouted at 16. She has been featured in several international campaigns for different brands. She co-founded The J-ist TV, an online entertainment web-series that highlights African culture and a range of topical issues; the series features interviews involving some of Africa's top personalities.
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Hossein Mousavian
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Seyed Hossein Mousavian is an Iranian policymaker and scholar who served on Iran's nuclear diplomacy team in negotiations with the EU and International Atomic Energy Agency. He resides in the United States and is a visiting research scholar at Princeton University.
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Nikki Sinclaire
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- politician
- Biography
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Nicole Sinclaire is a British former politician who was leader of the We Demand a Referendum Party, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2009 to 2014.
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Stuart Hazeldine
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- film directordirectorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm producer
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Stuart Hazeldine is a British screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for his 2009 psychological thriller Exam, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. He also directed the 2017 film adaptation of William P. Young's novel The Shack. He currently resides in London.
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Annita Demetriou
- Enrolled in the University of Kent
- Graduated with MA in International Relations and European Studies in European studies and international relations
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Annita Demetriou is a Cypriot politician, who serves as President of the Cypriot House of Representatives since June 2021, and as the President of the Democratic Rally (DISY) since March 2023. The latter role effectively designates her as the Leader of Opposition to the incumbent Christodoulides government.
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Ivo Daalder
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- political scientistdiplomat
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Ivo H. Daalder, is President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and has served since July, 2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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Peter Wittig
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- juristdiplomat
- Biography
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Peter Wittig is a former German diplomat and has been Germany's Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the United Kingdom from July 2018, to April 2020, after having served as Ambassador to the United States from 30 April 2014, to 20 June 2018 and Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2014.
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Matthew Crosby
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- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- stand-up comediancomedian
- Biography
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Matthew Crosby is an English comedian and writer.
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Attila the Stockbroker
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- singer-songwritermandolinistpoet
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John Baine, better known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker, is an English punk poet, multi instrumentalist musician and songwriter. He performs solo and as the leader of the band Barnstormer 1649, who combine early music and punk. He has performed over 3,800 concerts, published eight books of poems, an autobiography (which itself has 38 poems in it) and in 2021 his Collected Works spanning 40 years. He has released over forty recordings (albums and singles).
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Stephen Gethins
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- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Patrick Gethins is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and academic. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from the 2015 general election, until he lost his seat at the 2019 general election to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats. Subsequently, he was appointed Professor of Practice in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
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Said S. Bedair
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- scientistengineer
- Biography
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Said Sayed Bedair was an Egyptian scientist in electrical, electronic and microwave engineering and a colonel in the Egyptian army. He received his Bachelor's and master's degrees from the Egyptian Military Technical College in Cairo. He obtained a PhD from the University of Kent in UK. He worked as a researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany under the supervision of Prof. Ingo Wolff. He died on July 14, 1989, in Alexandria, Egypt in unclear circumstances.
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Jonathan Yeo
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- painter
- Biography
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Jonathan Yeo is a British artist who rose to international prominence in his early 20s as a contemporary portraitist, having painted Kevin Spacey, Dennis Hopper, Cara Delevingne, Damien Hirst, Prince Philip, Erin O'Connor, Tony Blair, and David Cameron among others. GQ has called him 'one of the world's most in-demand portraitists'. He was educated at Westminster School.
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Gareth Bacon
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- politician
- Biography
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Gareth Andrew Bacon is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington since 2019. He has been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sentencing since November 2023.
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Raychelle Omamo
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Raychelle Awour Omamo is a Kenyan lawyer and politician and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. From 2020 to 2022, she was the Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister.
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Robin Tilbrook
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- politiciansolicitor
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Robin Charles William Tilbrook is a solicitor and English nationalist politician who has been chairman of the English Democrats since its foundation in 2002. The party is a right-wing to far-right, English nationalist political party, that advocates a devolved English Parliament, having previously advocated English independence from the United Kingdom.
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Maria Mezentseva
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- volunteerpoliticianentrepreneur
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Maria Mezentseva is a Ukrainian politician. Mezentseva was elected to Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in 2019. She holds several positions related to European integration, including deputy chairperson of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union (as of 2020) and chairperson of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (as of 2021).
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Taiwo Owatemi
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Taiwo Owatemi is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North West since 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities from September 2021 to September 2022.
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Jamie Rix
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- radio producerchildren's writerwritertelevision producer
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Jamie Rix is an English children's author, television comedy writer, and media producer. He is best known for the book series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and The War Diaries of Alistair Fury; both were adapted into award-winning children's television programmes.
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Asef Bayat
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Asef Bayat is an Iranian-American scholar. He is currently the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Sociology, and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was previously a Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies and held the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He served as Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and ISIM Chair of Islam and the Modern World at Leiden University (2003- 2009).
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Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine
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- politician
- Biography
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Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine is a British politician and life peer who is a non-aligned member of the House of Lords. She was the Chairman of the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee in the House of Lords from 2015 to 2019.
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Hurşit Güneş
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Hursit Gunes is a Turkish politician and professor of economics, who had served as deputy chairman of Republican People's Party (CHP); and he has been deputy of Kocaeli Province since 2011.
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Abena Oppong-Asare
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abena Oppong-Asare is a British Labour Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead in the 2019 general election. She and Bell Ribeiro-Addy, both elected in the 2019 general election, are the first female British Ghanaian MPs.
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Carolyn Quinn
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- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Carolyn Quinn is a British journalist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a political correspondent and for presenting the Today programme and PM.
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Susannah Townsend
- Occupations
- field hockey player
- Biography
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Susannah Townsend, is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Canterbury.
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Ana Free
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- YouTubersinger-songwritertelevision producersinger
- Biography
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Ana Gomes Ferreira, known professionally as Ana Free, is a singer, musician, songwriter and performer who has had a series of top-five hit singles, including 4 number one hits, in Portugal. She has a growing musical presence on the popular video sharing website YouTube, gaining over 40.1 million views to date. Ana Free's single "Electrical Storm" from her debut album "Together" occupied the number 1 spot on the MTV Portugal Top 50 National Music Chart.
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Kennedy Wong
- Occupations
- politicianjustice of the peacesolicitor
- Biography
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Kennedy Wong Ying-ho BBS, JP is a Hong Kong solicitor. He is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. He was also the member of the Provisional Legislative Council which existed from 1996 to 98 and councillor of the Hong Kong Baptist University. He was the part-time member of the government's Central Policy Unit from 2002 to 2004 and the member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee.
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Rosie Boycott
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- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- women's rights activistjournalist
- Biography
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Rosel Marie "Rosie" Boycott, Baroness Boycott is a British journalist and feminist.
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Andrew Ross
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- sociologist
- Biography
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Andrew Ross, a Scottish-born social activist and analyst, is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU). He has authored and edited numerous books, and written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Newsweek, and Al Jazeera. Much of his writing focuses on labor, the urban environment, and the organisation of work, from the Western world of business and high-technology to conditions of offshore labour in the Global South. Making use of social theory as well as ethnography, his writing questions the human and environmental cost of economic growth.
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Silvio Meira
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Sílvio Romero de Lemos Meira is a Brazilian computer scientist, professor and entrepreneur in the area of software engineering and innovation. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at the Centre of Informatics of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Additionally, he also is the chairman of the Porto Digital - the biggest Brazilian tech park - and is member of the board of directors in several companies. Meira is also founder and chief scientist at tds.company.
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Homa Katouzian
- Occupations
- historianwriterliterary criticeconomistprofessor
- Biography
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Homa Katouzian is an economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian's formal academic training was in economics and the social sciences but he concurrently continued his studies of Persian history and literature at a professional academic level. He began studying the life and works of the modern Persian writer, Sadeq Hedayat, and that of the Prime Minister of Iran in the early 1950s, Mohammad Mosaddeq, while still a faculty member in the department of economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Having taught economics at universities in Britain and other countries for eighteen years, he took voluntary retirement in 1986 to devote his entire time to Iranian studies. In recent years, he has been teaching and writing on classical Persian literature, in particular the 13th-century poet and writer, Sa‘di. Currently based at the University of Oxford, Katouzian is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Roshan Institute Academic Visitor in Iranian Studies at St. Antony's College, where for thirteen years he edited the bimonthly Iranian Studies, the journal of the Association for Iranian Studies. He is editor of the International Journal of Persian Literature, and co-editor of Routledge's Iranian studies book series. He is also a former member of the editorial board of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Comparative Economic Studies.
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Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Steven Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and a member of the House of Lords.
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Alex Yam
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alex Yam Ziming is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Mayor of North West District since 2020. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Yew Tee division of Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC since 2011.
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Hugh Orde
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde, OBE, QPM is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), representing the 44 police forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009, he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
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Janusz Bugajski
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Janusz Bugajski is a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington, D.C. He also serves as the host of the "Bugajski Hour" television shows broadcast in the Balkans. Previously, he held the position of senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, D.C., and served as the director of the New European Democracy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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Anne Faber
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- cookbook writertelevision celebrity chefbloggerwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Anne Faber is a Luxembourg writer and television presenter.
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Kameel Ahmady
- Born in
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Iran - Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Kameel Ahmady is a British-Iranian scholar working in the field of social anthropology, with a particular focus on gender, children, ethnic minorities, and child labour. Kameel Ahmady, born in 1972 in Naghadeh, West Azerbaijan Province, is an Iranian-British researcher and social anthropologist known for his research and activities in the fields of social anthropology and harmful traditional practices. He is the coordinator and developer of more than 11 research study books and 20 scientific articles in Persian, English, Turkish, and Kurdish on subjects such as child marriage, temporary marriage, White marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting, Male circumcision, child labour and children's scavenging, LGBTQ+ issues and identity and ethnicity.
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Kunio Mikuriya
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- international forum participantdiplomat
- Biography
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Kunio Mikuriya was the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) from 2009 to 2023.
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Zameer Choudrey
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Zameer Mohammed Choudrey, Baron Choudrey is a British-Pakistani businessman who is the chief executive of the multinational conglomerate Bestway.
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Earl Okin
- Occupations
- comediansinger-songwriterguitarist
- Biography
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Earl Okin is an English singer-songwriter, musician and comedian.
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Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Ray Edward Harry Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury is a British politician and trade unionist serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2011. A member of the Labour Party, he served as General Secretary of the Party from 2008 to 2011. Collins has been Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords since 2021.
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Jane Hutt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane Elizabeth Hutt is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Welsh Government Chief Whip since 2023 and Minister for Social Justice since 2021. She has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for the Vale of Glamorgan since 1999.
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Chris Davies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher Graham Davies is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for Littleborough and Saddleworth from 1995 to 1997. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for North West England from 1999 to 2014 and from 2019 to 2020.
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John Harris
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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John Morley Harris, FMedSci, FRSA, FRSB, is a British bioethicist and philosopher. He is the Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.
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Zoe Rapti
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Zoe Rapti is a Greek lawyer and politician, who has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for the New Democracy party for Athens B1 since 2019. She served as Deputy Minister for Mental Health in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis from 2020 to 2023.
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Glenys Stacey
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- solicitor
- Biography
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Dame Glenys Jean Stacey DBE is a solicitor and civil servant serving as chair of the Office for Environmental Protection from February 2021. She was Chief Executive and Chief Regulator of Ofqual, acting in the post from August to December 2020, and previously from 2012 to 2016. Stacey also served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation and led HM Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales from 2016 and 2019.
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Scott MacKenzie
- Occupations
- darts player
- Biography
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Scott MacKenzie is a retired Brazilian-born British professional darts player based in Hong Kong. He has represented Hong Kong on numerous occasions (in both steel tip and soft tip darts), including captaining the Hong Kong team at the 2008 Asia Pacific Cup in New Zealand and 2012 team to Australia. He was also a member of the 2010 and 2016 Asia Pacific Cup teams. He has played in a total of 3 PDC World Championships and 3 PDC World Cups currently more than any other Hong Kong darts player.
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Martin Hyun
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Martin Jong-bum Hyun is a German writer and retired professional ice hockey player who played in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He was appointed technical coordinator and manager for the 2018 Winter Olympics by the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (POCOG) in the field of ice hockey and ice sledge hockey.
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Diana Wallis
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Diana Paulette Wallis, is a British former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009. She resigned her seat in January 2012 and went on to pursue an extensive array of academic, legal and mediation-related activities.
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Roys Poyiadjis
- Biography
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Roys Poyiadjis is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur and financier. He is most notable for his role in the largest Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settlement with an individual, $200 million, after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit security fraud.
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Richard Barbrook
- Biography
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Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.
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Debjani Chatterjee
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Debjani Chatterjee MBE is an Indian-born British poet and writer. She lives in Sheffield, England.
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Tamsin Dunwoody
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Moyra Tamsin Dunwoody, sometimes known as Tamsin Dunwoody-Kneafsey, is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 2003 to 2007. She served in the Welsh Government from 2005 to 2007 as the Deputy Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside and Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Transport.
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Bernd Engler
- Occupations
- university teacherAmericanistliterary critic
- Biography
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Bernd Engler is a German Anglicist and literary scholar. Since October 2006 he is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Elizabeth Buchan
- Occupations
- novelistcritic
- Biography
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Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985. In 1994, her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she was elected its eighteenth Chairman (1995–1997). Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman (2001), has been made into a television film for CBS.
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Chris Mole
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher David Mole is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Ipswich from a by-election in 2001, after the death of Jamie Cann, and was re-elected in 2005. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer of the Conservative Party.
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Shan Morgan
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Dame Shan Elizabeth Morgan is a former British civil servant. Formerly the Deputy Permanent Representative, UK Representation to the European Union, she was the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government until October 2021.
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Dave Kellett
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- cartoonistfilm director
- Biography
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Dave Kellett is the creator and cartoonist of two webcomic titles, Sheldon and Drive, and the co-author of How To Make Webcomics.
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Wayne Otto
- Occupations
- national team coachkarateka
- Biography
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Wayne Otto OBE he is a British karateka. He has a 5th Dan black belt in karate and is the winner of nine World Karate Championships and is in the Guinness World Records for winning the most Karate medals. In 2012 Wayne became the head coach of the Norwegian Karate Federation.
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Kim Ismay
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Kim Ismay is a British actress and singer and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is perhaps best known for playing the role of Tanya in the London production of the stage musical Mamma Mia!, Madame Morrible in the international and UK & Ireland tours of Wicked and as the Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Abdullah Md Zin
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Abdullah bin Md Zin is a former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Besut constituency in Terengganu serving for two terms from 2004 to 2013 and is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a member party of the Barisan Nasional coalition.
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Ursula Brennan
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Dame Ursula Brennan is a retired British civil servant and a former Permanent Secretary at the United Kingdom's Ministry of Justice where she was also the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
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Choman Hardi
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Choman Hardi,(born 1974) is a Kurdish poet, translator and painter.
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Geevarghese Mor Coorilose
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Geevarghese Mor Coorilos, formerly George Mathew Nalunnakkal, is the Metropolitan of Niranam Diocese of Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church.
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Rebecca Taylor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rebecca Elizabeth Taylor is a British health researcher and Liberal Democrat politician, who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2012 to 2014.
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Steve Rayner
- Years
- 1953-2020 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- social scientistengineerclimatologist
- Biography
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Steve Rayner was James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at Oxford University and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, a member of the Oxford Martin School. He described himself as an "undisciplined social scientist" having been trained in philosophy, comparative religion (BA University of Kent) and political anthropology (PhD University College London).
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Ann Hercus
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Dame Margaret Ann Hercus, best known as Ann Hercus, is a New Zealand diplomat, politician and member of the Labour Party. She represented the Lyttelton electorate from 1978 to 1987.
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Sarah Pink
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Enrolled in the University of Kent
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- social scientist
- Biography
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Sarah Pink is a British-born social scientist, ethnographer and social anthropologist, now based in Australia, known for her work using visual research methods such as photography, images, video and other media for ethnographic research in digital media and new technologies. She has an international reputation for her work in visual ethnography and her book Doing Visual Ethnography, first published in 2001 and now in its 4th edition, is used in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, photographic studies and media studies. She has designed or undertaken ethnographic research in UK, Spain, Australia, Sweden, Brazil and Indonesia.
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Carol Gould
- Occupations
- screenwriterpundit
- Biography
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Carol Gould was an American writer and broadcaster who lived in England.
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Mathilda Twomey
- Born in
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Seychelles - Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Mathilda Twomey is a Seychellois lawyer and academic. She is the first female judge in the history of Seychelles and also the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles.
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Henry Lytton-Cobbold
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Henry Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold, is a British screenwriter. He is the current occupant of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.
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Belinda Jack
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- literary criticliterary historian
- Biography
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Belinda Jack is Fellow and Tutor in French literature and Language at Christ Church, Oxford at the University of Oxford, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College and the author of books such as The Woman Reader and George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large.
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Christopher Webber
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- playwrightactormusic criticstage actoropinion journalist
- Biography
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Christopher Webber is an English musicologist, dramatist, actor, theatre director and writer.
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Fauziah Mohd Taib
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Dato' Dr. Fauziah binti Mohamad Taib is a Malaysian diplomat and published author. She was previously the Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a post she held from 13 August 2008 until her retirement in 2015. She also served as the Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is based in The Hague.
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Alice Mogwe
- Enrolled in the University of Kent
- Graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- human rights activistlawyer
- Biography
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Alice Bahumi Mogwe is a Motswana activist and lawyer. She is the founder and director of the human rights organization Ditshwanelo.
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Stuart Gill
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Stuart William Gill is a British diplomat who is High Commissioner to the Republic of Malta.
