100 Notable alumni of
University of Leicester
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The University of Leicester is 578th in the world, 218th in Europe, and 46th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Leicester sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bob Mortimer
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision presenterwritercomedianactor
- Biography
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Robert Renwick Mortimer is an English comedian, television presenter, writer and actor. He is one half of the comedy double act Reeves and Mortimer with Vic Reeves, and appears in the Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing series with Paul Whitehouse. He has appeared on TV panel shows such as Would I Lie to You? and Taskmaster.
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Mako Komuro
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- 2014-2016 graduated with Master of Arts in museology
- Occupations
- researcheraristocrat
- Biography
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Mako Komuro, formerly Princess Mako of Akishino (眞子内親王, Mako Naishinnō), is a Japanese art historian and a former member of the Japanese imperial family. She is the eldest child of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, niece of Emperor Naruhito, and granddaughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and his wife, Empress Emerita Michiko. In October 2021, upon her marriage to a commoner, Princess Mako formally lost her title, as required by the Imperial Household Law.
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Storm Thorgerson
- Occupations
- graphic designerfilm directordesignerphotographer
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Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English art director and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other art for 10cc, the Alan Parsons Project, Black Sabbath, Catherine Wheel, the Cranberries, Led Zeppelin, the Mars Volta, Muse, and Phish.
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Atifete Jahjaga
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
- Biography
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Atifete Jahjaga is a Kosovar Albanian politician who served as President of Kosovo. She was the first female President of Kosovo, the first non-partisan candidate to hold the office, and the youngest female head of state to be elected to the position. Prior to her presidency, Jahjaga served as Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police, holding the rank of General Lieutenant Colonel, the highest rank achieved by a female officer in Southeastern Europe.
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Quentin Willson
- Occupations
- television presenterpresenterjournalist
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Quentin Mcdonald Willson was an English television presenter and producer, motoring journalist, author and car dealer. He was best known as a presenter of the popular television motoring programmes Top Gear, Britain's Worst Driver and Fifth Gear.
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Zohar Strauss
- Occupations
- singerstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Zohar Zalman Strauss is an Israeli theater, film, and television actor. Regarded as one of the best performers of his generation in Israel, he is recognized for his versatile work across independent films, television and the stage. He has received numerous accolades, including one Ophir Award and two nominations.
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Nella Rose
- Occupations
- modelYouTubermedia personalityradio personality
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Ornella Rose Hollela, known professionally as Nella Rose, is a Belgian media personality. After setting up a YouTube channel, Rose embarked on a career in the media and has gone on to present Catfish UK, as well as the red carpet event at the Brit Awards. In 2023, she began fronting the Channel 4 digital series Tapped Out and also appeared as a contestant on the twenty-third series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
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Joy Belmonte
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Joy Belmonte-Alimurung is a Filipino politician who has served as the 12th mayor of Quezon City since 2019. A member of the local Serbisyo sa Bayan Party, Belmonte previously served as the vice mayor of Quezon City from 2010 to 2019 under her predecessor, Herbert Bautista.
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Peter Atkins
- Occupations
- writerchemistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
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Peter William Atkins FRSC is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.
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Natalie Bennett
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, is an Australian-British politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.
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Sarah Clarke
- Biography
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Dame Sarah Davina Clarke is a British administrator. From 13 February 2018 to 8 July 2025, she served as Black Rod, the first female Black Rod in the 650-year history of the role. During her tenure, the role was formally styled "The Lady Usher of the Black Rod"; for previous incumbents, "The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod" was used. She was also the first woman to hold the accompanying posts of Serjeant-at-Arms for the House of Lords, Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain and to be appointed an Officer of the Order of the Garter.
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John McVicar
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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John McVicar was a British journalist and convicted one-time armed robber who escaped from prison.
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Justin Chadwick
- Occupations
- television directorfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Justin Chadwick is an English actor and television and film director. He directed episodes of EastEnders, Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks and Red Cap before directing nine of the fifteen episodes of the mini-series Bleak House, which was broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by PBS in the United States as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series.
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Jon Tickle
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Jonathan Parmer Tickle is a British television presenter who initially rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth series of the British television show Big Brother. (He had appeared before this, however, as a contestant on the game show Blockbusters in 1991.) He was also a co-presenter on the Sky One television series Brainiac. He has an identical twin brother, an older brother, and a younger sister.
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Andy Byford
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Andrew Byford is a British transport executive who has held several management-level positions in transport authorities around the world, such as the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Transport for London (TfL), and Sydney's then RailCorp. As of 2023, he has served as executive vice president in charge of high-speed at Amtrak.
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Norman Lamb
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Norman Peter Lamb is a British politician and solicitor. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019, and was the chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2017 to 2019.
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Huang Chih-hsien
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- writertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Huang Chih-hsien, also known as Joyce Huang, is a Taiwanese TV commentator, author and host on CTV and CTi TV between 2014 and 2019.
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Dave Cousins
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- In 1960 studied pure mathematics
- Occupations
- singerpoetguitaristcomposersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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David Joseph Cousins was an English musician. He was the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs, from 1967.
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Gordon Messenger
- Biography
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General Sir Gordon Kenneth Messenger, KCB, DSO & Bar, OBE is a retired senior Royal Marines officer who served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from May 2016 to May 2019. As a colonel he commanded 40 Commando during the Iraq War, and led the Commando in the assault on the Al-Faw Peninsula. He served as British Commander of Task Force Helmand, during the 3 Commando Brigade deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan on Operation Herrick IX from 2008 to 2009. After his retirement, Messenger has held ceremonial positions, including Lord High Steward at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023.
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Derek Schmidt
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- In 1993 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican, Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate, where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011, and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011, after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six.
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Heather Couper
- Occupations
- science communicatorphysicistbroadcasterwriterastronomer
- Biography
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Heather Anita Couper, CBE FInstP FRAS was a British astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser.
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Turi King
- Occupations
- geneticistarchaeologist
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Turi Emma King is a professor and Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. She was previously Professor of Public Engagement and Genetics at the University of Leicester. In 2012, King led the DNA verification during the exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England. In 2025, King led the analysis of Adolf Hitler's DNA, which indicated that he likely suffered from Kallmann syndrome; some scientists have criticised the results as speculative while joining King in cautioning against presuming biological determinism.
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Sarah Cruddas
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- 2002-2005 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- television presentermeteorologistwriterjournalistradio personality
- Biography
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Sarah Jane Cruddas is a Los Angeles based television presenter, space journalist, author and popular science communicator She is an investigator on the television series Contact on Discovery Channel and Science Channel as well as appearing on other shows on the channels. She is also the co-host of UFO Conspiracies with Craig Charles on History Channel in the UK. She has an academic background in astrophysics and is the author of several books about space exploration.
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Christian Levrat
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Christian Levrat is a Swiss politician. He served as the President of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland from 2008 until 2020. He has served as a member of the Council of States from Fribourg since 2012. Prior to the Council of states, He was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2012. He became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss Post in 2021.
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Graham Joyce
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Graham William Joyce was a British writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award, the World Fantasy Award, and six times the British Fantasy Award for both his novels and short stories.
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Farrukh Dhondy
- Occupations
- journalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Farrukh Dhondy is an Indian-born British Parsi writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist, who resides in the United Kingdom, where he first came in the 1960s. He was the Commissioning Editor for Multicultural Programmes at Channel 4 television from 1984 until 1997, during which time he commissioned such programmes as Bandung File and Devil's Advocate.
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Daniel Hardcastle
- Occupations
- writerYouTuber
- Biography
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Daniel John Hardcastle, known online as NerdCubed (stylised as Nerd), is a British YouTuber, author and actor. Created in 2011, his YouTube channel primarily consists of video game-related content. As of December 2024, it has approximately 2.41 million subscribers and 1.35 billion video views. He is the author of The Sunday Times bestseller Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd, and The Paradox Paradox. In 2025 he became a writer for Doctor Who, writing an audio story in partnership with Big Finish Productions.
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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with master's degree in communication studies
- Occupations
- journalistadvertising personmarketerpolitician
- Biography
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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is a Ghanaian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta region since 2013, elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2025 under the government of President John Dramani Mahama. He previously served as Deputy Minister for Information and Deputy Minister for Education during the administrations of Presidents John Atta Mills and Mahama.
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Bosun Tijani
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Olatunbosun Tijani listen is a Nigerian-British entrepreneur who is the current Nigerian minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, since 2023.
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Melvin Yong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Melvin Yong Yik Chye is a Singaporean politician, union leader and former police officer. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Radin Mas Single Member Constituency (SMC) since 2020. He had previously represented the Moulmein–Cairnhill division of Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2015 and 2020.
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Liam Donaldson
- Occupations
- surgeonphysician
- Biography
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Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson is a British physician. He was formerly the Chief Medical Officer for England, being the 15th occupant of the post since it was established in 1855. As such, he was principal advisor to the United Kingdom Government on health matters and one of the most senior officials in the National Health Service (NHS).
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Ama Agbeze
- Occupations
- netballer
- Biography
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Ama Agbeze MBE is a former England netball international. She was captain when England won the gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In 2019 she received an MBE for her services to netball. She was also a member of the England team that won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. As of 2020, Agbeze has played for at least sixteen different club teams in England, Australia and New Zealand.
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Rachel Hopkins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rachel Louise Hopkins is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South and South Bedfordshire, formerly Luton South, since 2019.
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Chris Copping
- Occupations
- musiciancomposersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Chris Copping is a musician and singer-songwriter who was a member of Procol Harum in the 1970s, and has also composed for TV and film. He predominantly plays organ, piano and bass guitar.
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Julian Worricker
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Julian Gordon Worricker is an English journalist, currently working as one of the main presenters of Weekend on the BBC World Service, as stand-in presenter of Any Answers on BBC Radio 4, and as a relief presenter on The Media Show which is also seen on BBC News, the corporation's 24-hour rolling news channel. He also presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 until leaving in October 2013.
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Serajul Islam Choudhury
- Occupations
- intellectualeditorhistoriancolumnistliterary critic
- Biography
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Serajul Islam Choudhury is a Bangladeshi literary critic, public intellectual, social and political analyst, activist, historian, educationist, editor, translator, columnist, and professor emeritus at the University of Dhaka. He is the editor of Natun Diganta. Considered one of the foremost oppositional intellectuals of Bangladesh, he authored nearly a hundred books and countless essays in Bangla and English.
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Hans Klein
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Hans Klein was a German politician (CSU) who served as Vice President of the Bundestag from 1990 until his death in 1996.
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Danielle Brown
- Occupations
- archer
- Biography
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Danielle Brown MBE is a British competitive archer and award winning children's author. She competed in the Paralympic Games, winning gold medals in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, and has also won medals shooting in the able-bodied category, including at the Commonwealth Games.
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Njoki Susanna Ndung'u
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Njoki Susanna Ndung'u is a Kenyan lawyer and a justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from University of Nairobi and a Master of Laws (LLM) in human rights and civil liberties from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. She was born in 1966.
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Ray Gosling
- Occupations
- television presenterauthorjournalist
- Biography
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Raymond Arthur Gosling was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist.
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Mikel Herrán
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with doctorate in archaeology
- Occupations
- writerYouTuberarchaeologistcross-dresser
- Biography
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Mikel Herrán Subiñas, known in social media as PutoMikel, is a Spanish archaeologist, drag artist, writer, popularizer and YouTuber.
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David Ward
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Ward is a British politician who was elected as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford East at the 2010 general election. He lost his seat in 2015 when the Labour Party candidate Imran Hussain defeated him by 7,000 votes. Before his election to parliament, he was a councillor in Bradford for 26 years, and returned to local politics as a councillor from 2016 until his defeat in 2021 and returned again in 2024.
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Roy Bailey
- Occupations
- docentsociologistguitaristsinger-songwritersongwriter
- Biography
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Roy Bailey, MBE was an English sociologist and folk singer. Colin Irwin from the music magazine Mojo said Bailey represented "the very soul of folk's working class ideals... a triumphal homage to the grass roots folk scene as a radical alternative to the mainstream music industry."
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Norman Rosenthal
- Occupations
- art historianexhibition curator
- Biography
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Sir Norman Rosenthal is a British independent curator and art historian. From 1970 to 1974 he was Exhibitions Officer at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. In 1974 he became a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, leaving in 1976. The following year, in 1977, he joined the Royal Academy in London as Exhibitions Secretary where he remained until his resignation in 2008. Rosenthal has been a trustee of numerous different national and international cultural organisations since the 1980s; he is currently on the board of English National Ballet. In 2007, he was awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Rosenthal is well known for his support of contemporary art, and is particularly associated with the German artists Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Julian Schnabel, the Italian painter Francesco Clemente, and the generation of British artists that came to prominence in the early 1990s known as the YBAs (Young British Artists).
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Andy Carter
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew John Carter JP is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington South from 2019 to 2024.
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Tijion Esho
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Professor Dr. Tijion Esho is a British cosmetic doctor aesthetician, and television personality. He is the founder of the CULTSKIN and the resident cosmetic doctor on the E4 reality show Body Fixers. In April 2024, he was removed from the UK medical register following a General Medical Council decision, a matter which he is currently appealing while continuing his career in aesthetics and public education.
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Austin Muluzi
- Occupations
- ministerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Atupele Austin Muluzi is a Malawian politician, businessman and was a Member of Parliament for Machinga North East constituency from 2004 until May 27, 2019. He is also the President of the United Democratic Front and was a presidential candidate during the 2019 election. He was a running mate in the 2020 presidential elections, on a coalition ticket with incumbent President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party. Muluzi was Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining from 2014 to 2015 and the only opposition member to serve in the Mutharika administration. Subsequently, he served as Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security in 2015, and then Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development in 2015. He is the son of the former president Bakili Muluzi.
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Philip Campbell
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- editor
- Biography
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Sir Philip Henry Montgomery Campbell FRS FRAS FInstP is a British astrophysicist. He worked as editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed scientific journal Nature from 1995 to 2018. From 2018 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing company Springer Nature until his retirement in May 2023.
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Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiantelevision presenter
- Biography
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Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott PC is a British politician who has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2001. A member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament for four terms between 1974 and 2001, representing constituencies in Staffordshire and Shropshire.
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Phelan Hill
- Occupations
- coxswain
- Biography
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Phelan Hill is a British rowing coxswain. He is a three-time world champion and an Olympic gold medallist. He competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal. In 2016, he competed in the Men's eight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal.
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Joseph Shapira
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Yosef Haim Shapira is an Israeli attorney and judge who served as the seventh State Comptroller of Israel from July 2012 to July 2019.
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Suzie Imber
- Occupations
- astrophysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Suzanne Mary Imber is a British planetary scientist specialising in space weather at the University of Leicester's School of Physics and Astronomy. She was the winner of the 2017 BBC Two television programme Astronauts, Do You Have What It Takes?.
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Jonathan Caine, Baron Caine
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonathan Michael Caine, Baron Caine is a British Member of the House of Lords and a former political aide (or "SPAD") who served six Secretaries of State.
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Aaron Porter
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Aaron Ross Porter is a board director and trustee and a former president of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom; he was elected with a 65% majority and took office in June 2010 for one year.
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Peter Saville
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Peter Francis Saville was a British chartered occupational psychologist specialising in psychometrics, personality and talent management.
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Michael Jack
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Michael Jack, CBE is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and was Member of Parliament for Fylde between 1987 and 2010, serving at various junior ministerial posts during the John Major administration. He was chair of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS).
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Anubhav Srivastava
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Anubhav Srivastava is an Indian filmmaker, speaker and author who first gained attention as the creator and director of Carve Your Destiny, a documentary film which researched the qualities that make people "successful". Working independently, he interviewed prominent Indian and foreign personalities for his project and his efforts received attention in the Indian and UK media.
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Freda Akosua Prempeh
- Occupations
- marketerpolitician
- Biography
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Freda Akosua Oheneafrewo Prempeh is a Ghanaian politician, and Member of Parliament in the Seventh Parliament and Eighth Parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana representing Tano North Constituency in the Ahafo Region, Ghana. She was the Minister of State, for the Ministry of works and housing, Ghana and previously served as the Deputy Gender Minister and also Assembly member – "Assembly Woman" from 2002 to 2010 for the Lakoo Electoral Area of the La-Dadekotopo Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.
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William Sharman
- Occupations
- bobsledderathletics competitor
- Biography
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William "Will" Sharman is a British/Nigerian former athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. He started his career as a junior high jumper and decathlete, but focused entirely on hurdling after a shoulder injury. He made his international debut for Great Britain at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and went on to compete at the 2007 Summer Universiade. Sharman came to prominence in 2009, after he significantly improved upon his previous personal best and finished fourth in the 110 metres hurdles final at the 2009 World Championships. This would be the first of three consecutive appearances in the World Championship final, he's since finished fifth in both the 2011 and 2013 finals.
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Nigel Henbest
- Occupations
- advisertelevision writerwriterastronomertelevision producer
- Biography
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Stuart Nigel Henbest FRAS is a British astronomer and science communicator. Born in Manchester and educated in Belfast and at Leicester University, Henbest researched in radio astronomy at the University of Cambridge before becoming a freelance author, television producer and astronomy lecturer. Asteroid 3795 Nigel is named after him.
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Mary Susan McIntosh
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Studied in 1963-1968
- Occupations
- criminologistLGBTQ rights activistsociologistuniversity teacherfeminist
- Biography
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Mary Susan McIntosh was a British sociologist, feminist, political activist and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights in the United Kingdom.
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Graham Dury
- Occupations
- comics artistcartoonist
- Biography
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Graham Dury is a British cartoonist. He is known for his work with Viz, having contributed to the magazine from its early years. He co-conceived and personally created The Fat Slags, one of the magazine's most famous strips.
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Brooke Bolander
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Brooke Bolander is an American author of speculative fiction.
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S. Barry Cooper
- Occupations
- computer scientistphilosopheruniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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S. Barry Cooper was an English mathematician and computability theorist. He was a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds.
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Frank Gannon
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- molecular biologist
- Biography
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Frank Gannon (born 1947, Ireland) is a molecular biologist, and was the seventh Director of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia (2011 – 2020). He has held high-profile appointments in scientific management and research in Ireland, England, the United States, France, Germany and Australia.
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Angela Mudge
- Occupations
- skyrunner
- Biography
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Angela Mudge is a Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner. Despite being born with birth defects in both legs, and finding track athletics not to her liking, she discovered her sport while a postgraduate student in Scotland in the mid-1990s, and developed rapidly.
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Elizabeth Stokoe
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Elizabeth Stokoe is a British social scientist and conversation analyst. Since January 2023, she has been Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University in the Discourse and Rhetoric Group, where she remains an Honorary Professor. She has been Professor II at University of South-Eastern Norway since 2016.
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Lauren Henry
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Lauren Henry is an Olympic gold medallist and world champion British rower.
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Kwabena Donkor
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration in strategic management
- Occupations
- ministerconsultantpolitician
- Biography
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Kwabena Donkor is a Ghanaian politician and a former Minister for Power. He is a former Member of Parliament for the Pru East constituency, in the Bono East Region of Ghana. He resigned from his office as minister due to failure to end load shedding popularity known as Dumsor, having promised to resign if he did not solve this before the end of 2015.
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Steven Thiru
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Steven Thiruneelakandan is a Malaysian lawyer with practice areas in Employment law, Administrative law, and General Litigation. He became a partner in 2000.
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Emma Bunce
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- astrophysicistphysicist
- Biography
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Emma J. Bunce OBE is a British space physicist and Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. She holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Her research is on the magnetospheres of Saturn and Jupiter. She is principal investigator (PI) of the MIXS instrument on BepiColombo, was deputy lead on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer proposal, and co-investigator on the Cassini–Huygens mission.
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Khalid AL-Jaber
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Khalid J. Al-Jaber is an assistant professor of political communication at the Gulf Studies Program in Qatar University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Peninsula newspaper published by Dar Al-Sharq Press, and works as principal at Global Media Consultants Organization in Atlanta, Georgia.
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John Ashworth
- Years
- 1938-2025 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- biologistbiochemistexecutiveuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir John Ashworth was a British biochemist and educationalist.
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Andrew Birley
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Andrew Robin Birley is a British archaeologist and the Director of Excavations on the site of Vindolanda.
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Len Garrison
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Lenford Alphonso Garrison (13 June 1943 – 18 February 2003) was an educationalist, community activist and historian whose life's work was to catalogue the development of the black British identity and its history and promote the works of young black writers. To this end, he set up ACER (Afro-Caribbean Education Resource) and co-founded the Black Cultural Archives.
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Neil Mercer
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Neil Mercer is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge.
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Roger A. Sheldon
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Roger Arthur Sheldon is a British chemist who is emeritus professor of Biocatalysis and Organic Chemistry at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
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Adam Simmonds
- Biography
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Adam Simmonds was the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2016. He is the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 November 2012. Simmonds represents the Conservative Party.
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Johannes Paulmann
- Occupations
- historianhistorian of Modern Ageuniversity teacherprincipal
- Biography
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Johannes Paulmann is a German historian.
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Zeinab Camara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zeinab Camara is a Guinean politician. She was the first woman to lead a football club in Guinea.
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Alex Adomako-Mensah
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Alex Adomako-Mensah is a Ghanaian politician and Member of Parliament for Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
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Chris Atton
- Occupations
- academic
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Christopher Frank Atton is a British academic. He is a retired Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University. His work focuses on Alternative Media where his contribution has concentrated on the notion of alternative media not as an essentialised political position but as a set of socio-cultural processes that redraw the boundaries of expert culture and media power. His research interests include popular music, the creative economy, infoshops, and teaching and learning in higher education. Atton has also written on censorship and media ethics.
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Frances Patterson
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Dame Frances Silvia Patterson, DBE, styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Patterson, was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
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Philip C.J. Donoghue
- Occupations
- paleontologist
- Biography
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Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS is a British palaeontologist and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol.
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Yair Galily
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- 1996-1999 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherscientistsociologist
- Biography
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Yair Galily is a behavioral scientist, head of the Sport, Media and Society (SMS) Research Lab at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications and a senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University (IDC). Galily is a Full Professor and a Chartered Member (CPsychol.) of the British Psychological Society and is the Chief Behavioral Officer for the Israel Olympic Football team, which has successfully qualified for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
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Lynne Frostick
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- geographergeologist
- Biography
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Lynne Elizabeth Frostick CBE is a chartered British geographer and geologist. She was a professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull until 2014.
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Alan Soper
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Alan Kenneth Soper FRS is an STFC Senior Fellow at the ISIS neutron source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
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Mohammad Tahir Shah
- Occupations
- geologist
- Biography
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Mohammad Tahir Shah is a Pakistani professor at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology (NCEG) at the University of Peshawar. He has served at the NCEG since 2013. He was previously selected as the vice-chancellor of the Fata University by Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan.
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Ernest Edmonds
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Ernest Edmonds is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the National Archive of Computer-Based Art and Design.
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Alissandra Cummins
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- university teachermuseologisthistorianart historianresearcher
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Alissandra Cummins is a Barbadian art historian, educator, and scholar; she is a leading expert on Caribbean heritage, museum development, and art. Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and she is a lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the West Indies. She is board chair of International Journal of Intangible Heritage. She is on the board of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, and the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. She was the Chairperson of the UNESCO Executive Board, from 2011 to 2013.
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John Bremer
- Years
- 1927-2015 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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John Bremer was an educator and Socratic philosopher. In 2008, he retired as a senior scholar teaching at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was Professor of Humanities and Director of the college's Humanities and Freedom Institute. Bremer founded Cambridge College in 1971 when it was then known as the "Institute of Open Education" at Newton College of the Sacred Heart. After retirement he lived full-time in Vermont, where he continued his research and writing. He died on November 30, 2015.
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Lino Bianco
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Lino Bianco is a Maltese architect, academic and diplomat.
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Steven M. Smith
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- geneticistbiologistscientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Steven M. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Plant Genetics and Biochemistry at the University of Tasmania in Australia and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture.
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Michael W. Bruford
- Years
- 1963-2023 (aged 60)
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- 1986-1990 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Michael William Bruford was a Welsh molecular ecologist, conservation biologist and a professor at Cardiff University's School of Biosciences. His area of research spanned from animal wildlife genetics to the management of captive populations and livestock breeds to animal biobanking. After earning his B.Sc. from the University of Portsmouth and his PhD from the University of Leicester, Bruford worked at the Zoological Society of London where he became Head of Conservation Genetics before joining Cardiff University as reader in 1999 and professor in 2001. In addition to his research activities at Cardiff University, he was also director of the Frozen Ark project, which seeks to preserve threatened animal species by means of cryopreservation.
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William Hare
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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William Hare is a philosopher whose writings deal primarily with problems in philosophy of education. He attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, 1955–62. After receiving his B.A. from the University of London (1965), he gained an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Leicester (1968), and a Ph.D. in educational theory from the University of Toronto (1971). He was Professor of Education and Philosophy at Dalhousie University from 1970 to 1995, and subsequently Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University until his retirement in June 2008. He is now Professor Emeritus. He is known mainly for his work on open-mindedness, and has published several papers dealing with philosophical ideas about education in the work of Bertrand Russell.
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Clive Ballard
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- Studied in 1987
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- university teacherresearcher
- Biography
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Clive Ballard is a British, world-leading expert in dementia. He is currently professor of age-related diseases at the University of Exeter and interim deputy pro-vice-chancellor and dean of the University of Exeter Medical School.
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Martin Barstow
- Enrolled in the University of Leicester
- 1979-1982 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Martin Barstow is a Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester and the former President of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Mark Haysom
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mark Haysom CBE is a British former management executive.
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Karen-Mae Hill
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Karen-Mae Hill, OBE is the High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda to the United Kingdom and member of the Commonwealth's Board of Governors. Hill is also the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Antigua and Barbuda to the Republic of Estonia, Non-resident Ambassador to Ireland, the Federal Republic of Germany and Lithuania.
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Ian Bryant
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Ian Bryant is a British academic. He is primarily involved in promoting Trustworthy Software and Systems, and in Standardisation.
