100 Notable alumni of
University of Liverpool
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The University of Liverpool is 295th in the world, 104th in Europe, and 24th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Liverpool sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the University of Liverpool won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Physiology or Medicine.
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Edward Snowden
- Occupations
- system administratorintelligence officerwhistleblowerdissidentsecurity guard
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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American and naturalized Russian citizen who was a computer intelligence consultant and whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was an employee and subcontractor. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
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Clive Barker
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterfilm produceractorfilm director
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Clive Barker is an English novelist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works. His fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series, the first installment of which he also wrote and directed, and the Candyman series. He was also an executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Patricia Routledge
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actorsinger
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Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge is an English stage, television and film actress, and singer. She is best known for her comedy role as Hyacinth Bucket in the popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995).
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Har Gobind Khorana
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- university teacherbiologistgeneticist
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Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
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Anna Maxwell Martin
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Anna Maxwell Martin, sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin, is a British actress. She won two British Academy Television Awards, for her portrayals of Esther Summerson in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House (2005) and N in the Channel 4 adaptation of Poppy Shakespeare (2008). She is also known for her roles as DCS Patricia Carmichael in BBC One crime drama Line of Duty (2019–2021) and Kelly Major in Code 404 (2020–present). From 2016-2022, Martin starred in the BBC comedy Motherland, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance.
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Wade Barrett
- Occupations
- actormarine biologistprofessional wrestler
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Stuart Alexander Bennett is an English professional wrestling commentator, actor, and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Wade Barrett as a color commentator on the SmackDown brand.
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Nick Grimshaw
- Occupations
- television presenter
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Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw, also known as Grimmy, is an English television and former radio presenter, podcaster and author. He became known for having hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1. He is also known as a television presenter for his Channel 4 roles in T4 and The Album Chart Show. In 2015, he was a judge on the twelfth series of The X Factor.
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James Chadwick
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- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atom bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in Britain in 1945 for his achievements in physics.
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Anton Lesser
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Thomas More in Wolf Hall, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Partagaz in Star Wars: Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.
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Chris Lowe
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- songwritersingermusiciankeyboardistcomposer
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Christopher Sean Lowe is an English musician, singer and songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981.
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Michael Rosen
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- authorwriterchildren's writernovelisttelevision producer
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Michael Wayne Rosen is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 25 March 2007 to 23 July 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.
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Barham Salih
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Barham Salih is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the eighth president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022.
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David Gray
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- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristfilm score composersinger
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David Peter Gray is a British singer-songwriter. He released his first album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder five years later. White Ladder was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray; it became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK and ranked as the tenth best-selling album of the 21st century in the United Kingdom in October 2019. Gray is also known for the hit single "Babylon" from the White Ladder album. He has received four Brit Award nominations, including two nominations for Best British Male.
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Jon Snow
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- television presenterjournalistbroadcaster
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Jonathan George Snow HonFRIBA is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he presented from 1989 to 2021. On 29 April 2021, Snow announced his retirement from the role; his final programme aired on 23 December 2021. Although Channel 4's news programming is produced by ITN, Snow was employed directly by the broadcaster.
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Victoria Derbyshire
- Occupations
- journalist
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Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire is a British journalist, newsreader and broadcaster. Her eponymous current affairs and debate programme was broadcast on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel from 2015 until March 2020. She has also presented Newsnight and BBC Panorama. She was one of eight women to appear in ITV's The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night – an entertainment documentary to raise awareness of breast cancer. She previously presented the morning news, current affairs and interview programme on BBC Radio 5 Live between 10 am and 12 noon each weekday. She left at the same time as fellow 5 Live broadcasters Richard Bacon and Shelagh Fogarty.
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Tung Chee Hwa
- Years
- 1937-.. (age 87)
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- ship-ownerpolitician
- Biography
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Tung Chee-hwa is a Hong Kong businessman and retired politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He served as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) between 2005 and 2023.
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Amha Selassie
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- sovereign
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Amha Selassie was Emperor-in-exile of Ethiopia. As son of Haile Selassie, he was Crown Prince and was proclaimed monarch three times. He was first proclaimed Emperor during an unsuccessful coup attempt against his father in December 1960, during which he alleged that he was detained and compelled to accept the title. After his father was deposed in a later coup, he was proclaimed King (not Emperor) in absentia by the Derg on 12 September 1974 in an act which he never accepted as legitimate and that ended in the abolition of the Ethiopian monarchy on 21 March 1975. He was again proclaimed Emperor in exile on 8 April 1989. This time he sanctioned the proclamation and accepted its legitimacy. After his accession, his full reign name was His Imperial Majesty Emperor Amha Selassie I, Elect of God, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings of Ethiopia.
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Carol Ann Duffy
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterprofessorpoetauthor
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.
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Ian Kershaw
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- historianwriteruniversity teacheropinion journalistcontemporary historian
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Sir Ian Kershaw is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's foremost experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is particularly noted for his biographies of Hitler.
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Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait
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- patron of the artsphysicianphilanthropist
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Dr. Abd Al-Rahman bin Hamood Al-Sumait was an Islamic scholar, medical practitioner and humanitarian from Kuwait. He was known for his philanthropic works in more than 29 African countries.
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David Olusoga
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- historianwriterscreenwritertelevision presenter
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David Adetayo Olusoga is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and filmmaker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian.
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Ronald Ross
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- poetmicrobiologistmalariologistbotanistzoologist
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Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease.
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Gareth Ainsworth
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Gareth Ainsworth is an English professional football manager and former player who last managed EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers.
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, sometimes referred to by her initials NDZ, is a South African politician, medical doctor and former anti-apartheid activist. A longstanding member of the African National Congress (ANC), she currently serves as Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and is the Chancellor of the University of Limpopo.
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Emma Hayes
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Emma Carol Hayes is an English professional football manager who is the manager of FA WSL club Chelsea Women. She previously served as the head coach and director of football operations for Chicago Red Stars of Women's Professional Soccer in the United States from 2008 until 24 May 2010. She will depart Chelsea at the end of the 2023–24 Women's Super League season as she is set to become the new manager of the United States women's national team after the WSL season is over.
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Aamer Anwar
- Occupations
- lawyer
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Aamer Anwar is a British political activist and lawyer of Pakistani origin. He was an active participant in the Stop the War Coalition, and campaigned against the 31st G8 summit at Gleneagles. He has been a longstanding critic of the Dungavel Detention Centre for failed asylum seekers, and is a trustee of the Time for Inclusive Education charity for LGBT-inclusive education in Scottish schools.
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Steve Coppell
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Stephen James Coppell is an English professional football manager and former player.
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James Quincey
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- chief executive officerbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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James Robert B. Quincey is a British businessman based in the United States. After starting his career at Bain & Co, he joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1996 and was later named chief operating officer (COO). He is now the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) at the company.
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Joseph Rotblat
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- In 1950 graduated with doctorate in physics
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Sir Joseph Rotblat was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became clear to him in 1944 that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb.
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Lytton Strachey
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- writerpainterliterary criticpoetbiographer
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Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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Ted Robbins
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- presenteractor
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Edward Michael Robbins is an English comic, actor, television presenter and radio broadcaster. He has performed as a warm-up artist for numerous pre-recorded comedy shows that have been filmed before live studio audiences including Granada Television's Wood and Walters and Birds of a Feather, provided the voiceover in series 10 of Catchphrase from 1994 to 1995 and returned in Roy Walker's penultimate series (series 12) in 1997-98, and the BBC's Little Britain. He also starred in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights (2001–02) for both series as Den Perry, the main "villain", and also the Governor in The Slammer. His most recent roles were in Benidorm in 2012 as Victor St. James as well as Hank Zipzer in episode 8 playing Bob Bing The Sausage King and Diddy TV playing Larry Weinsteinberger/Bingbongberger. In 2004 he played Don Dibley in series 13 episode 11 of Heartbeat. Mountains and Molehills.
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Ong Teng Cheong
- Years
- 1936-2002 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Ong Teng Cheong was a Singaporean statesman, architect and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore from 1993 to 1999. He was the first president to be directly elected in a popular vote in Singapore's history after winning the 1993 presidential election.
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Frederick Griffith
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- biologistpathologistphysicianmicrobiologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Frederick Griffith was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia. In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith's Experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrations of bacterial transformation, whereby a bacterium distinctly changes its form and function.
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Abdul Latif Rashid
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- politiciancivil engineerinternational forum participant
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Abdul Latif Rashid, also known as Latif Rashid (Kurdish: لەتيف ڕەشید, romanized: Letîf Reşîd), is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and the ninth president of Iraq, following the 2022 Iraqi presidential election. He was previously the Minister of Water Resources under the government of Nouri al-Maliki. Prior to that, he served in the same position under both the Iraqi Transitional Government and the Iraqi Interim Government. Rashid was formerly a spokesperson for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the United Kingdom.
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Sid Watkins
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- physiciansurgeonneurologistneurosurgeon
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Eric Sidney Watkins, commonly known within the Formula One fraternity as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon. Born in Liverpool, Watkins enrolled at the University of Liverpool where he graduated in 1952. He later served four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before specialising in neurosurgery in Oxford and later, in London. Watkins also acted as a race track doctor at weekends which he continued at Watkins Glen International when he was appointed a Professor of Neurosurgery at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
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Dave Brailsford
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- coachsport cyclist
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Sir David John Brailsford is a British cycling coach and performance director. He was formerly performance director of British Cycling and is currently team principal of UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He is currently working with French football club Nice and British football club Manchester United as part of his role as Director of Sport at Ineos.
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Dawda Kairaba Jawara
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- politician
- Biography
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Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was a Gambian politician who served as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994, when he was deposed.
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Heidi Thomas
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- writerscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Heidi Thomas is an English screenwriter and playwright.
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Stella Rimington
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- writerlibrarianintelligence officerarchivist
- Biography
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Dame Stella Rimington is a British author and former Director General of MI5, a position she held from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment. In 1993, Rimington became the first DG of MI5 to pose openly for cameras at the launch of a brochure outlining the organisation's activities.
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James Stirling
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Sir James Frazer Stirling was a British architect.
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Jadwiga Piłsudska
- Occupations
- architectaircraft pilotathletemilitary officer
- Biography
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Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska was a Polish pilot who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski.
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Roy Roberts
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- actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Roy Roberts was an American character actor. Over his more than 40-year career, he appeared in more than nine hundred productions on stage and screen.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Occupations
- university teacherscreenwriterchurch historianhistorianpresenter
- Biography
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Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor. Since 1997, he has been Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford.
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Syed Kamall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Syed Salah Kamall, Baron Kamall is a British politician and academic, who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care (2021–22).
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Rosie Cooper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999, when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year, she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022, when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianjudgebarristerjurist
- Biography
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Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and barrister who attained high office in the early 20th century, in particular as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a skilled orator, noted for his staunch opposition to Irish nationalism, his wit, pugnacious views, and hard living and drinking. He is perhaps best remembered today as Winston Churchill's greatest personal and political friend until Birkenhead's death aged 58 from pneumonia caused by cirrhosis of the liver.
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Rory Jennings
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Rory Jennings is a British actor and poker player. He played Craig Dixon in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 27 July to 7 September 2007.
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Colum Eastwood
- Occupations
- council memberpolitician
- Biography
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Colum Eastwood is an Irish nationalist politician serving as Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) since 2015. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Foyle since 2019, served in Northern Ireland Assembly from 2011 to 2019 and served on Derry City Council from 2005 to 2011.
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Aki Riihilahti
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- association football playersports executive
- Biography
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Aki Pasinpoika Riihilahti is a retired Finnish footballer. He is known as a hard working, defensive midfielder. He is now working as the CEO of HJK Helsinki. He was voted by leading European clubs to be the vice-chairman of European Club Association (ECA) and has also important positions both at UEFA (club competition committee) and FIFA (stakeholders committee).
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Matt Taylor
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Matthew Graham George Thaddeus Taylor is a British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency. He is best known to the public for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He is Project Scientist of the Rosetta mission.
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Charles Glover Barkla
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Charles Glover Barkla FRS FRSE was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays).
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Debbie Abrahams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham East and Saddleworth since 2011.
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Helen Marnie
- Occupations
- singermusiciankeyboardist
- Biography
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Helen Lindsay Marnie is a Scottish musician, known as the lead vocalist and one of the keyboardists and songwriters of the electronic band Ladytron. In 2012, she started a solo career as Marnie and released her debut solo album Crystal World on 11 June 2013. Her second solo album, Strange Words and Weird Wars, was released on 2 June 2017.
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Lee Bee Wah
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Lee Bee Wah, also known as Huajie (Chinese: 花姐; pinyin: Huājiě; lit. 'Sister Flower'), is a Malaysian-born Singaporean retired politician and engineer.
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Jeffrey Thomas
- Occupations
- television actorwriterscreenwriteractor
- Biography
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Jeffrey Thomas is a Welsh-born New Zealand actor and writer, best known for his film, television and stage roles.
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Rob Grant
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriterscreenwritertelevision director
- Biography
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Robert Grant is an English comedy writer, television producer and co-creator of the Red Dwarf comedy franchise. Since Red Dwarf, Grant has written two television series, The Strangerers and Dark Ages, and four solo novels, his most recent being Fat. During his career Grant has been involved in two distinct writing partnerships: the first with Doug Naylor, and the second and most recent with Andrew Marshall.
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Phil Redmond
- Occupations
- television producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Sir Philip Redmond is an English television producer and screenwriter from Huyton, England. He is known for creating the television series Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks.
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Frank Kermode
- Years
- 1919-2010 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterliterary critic
- Biography
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Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.
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Steve Brine
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Charles Brine is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Winchester since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, he worked as a BBC radio journalist and in public relations prior to his political career. Brine identifies as a one-nation conservative. In November 2022, he was elected chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
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Emma Jane Unsworth
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Emma Jane Unsworth is a British writer from Bury, Greater Manchester. She writes short stories and has had three novels published; Hungry, the Stars and Everything, Animals and Adults.
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Percy Jones
- Occupations
- bassistmusicianjazz musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Percy Jones is a Welsh bass guitarist known as a member of the jazz fusion ensemble Brand X, from 1974-1980, and 1992-1999.
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Charlotte Nichols
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charlotte Louise Nichols is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Warrington North since the 2019 general election.
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Kerry McCarthy
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Kerry Gillian McCarthy is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she is the Shadow Minister for Climate Change. She was Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2016.
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Saunders Lewis
- Occupations
- historianplaywrightwriteracademicpolitician
- Biography
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Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist, supporter of Welsh independence and was a co-founder of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Party of Wales), later known as Plaid Cymru. Lewis is usually acknowledged as one of the most prominent figures of 20th century Welsh literature. In 1970, Lewis was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature. Lewis was voted the tenth greatest Welsh hero in the '100 Welsh Heroes' poll, released on St. David's Day 2004.
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Jo Boaler
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacheradvisoreducational theorist
- Biography
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Jo Boaler is a British education author and Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Mathematics Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Boaler is involved in promoting reform mathematics and equitable mathematics classrooms. She is the co-founder and faculty director of youcubed a Stanford centre that offers free mathematics education resources to teachers, students and parents. She is the author, co-author or editor of eighteen mathematics books, including Limitless Mind (2019), Mathematical Mindsets (2016), What's Math Got To Do With It? (2009) and The Elephant in the Classroom (2010).
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Rodney Robert Porter
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianbiochemistphysiologistchemist
- Biography
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Prof Rodney Robert Porter, CH, FRS FRSE HFRCP was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.
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Rose Heilbron
- Occupations
- barristerjudge
- Biography
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Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE was a British barrister who served as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King's Counsel in England, the first woman to lead in a murder case, the first woman recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the first woman treasurer of Gray's Inn. She was also the second woman to be appointed a High Court judge, after Elizabeth Lane.
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Shahidul Alam
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- bloggerunit still photographerphotographerteacher
- Biography
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Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photojournalist, teacher and social activist. He has been a photographer for more than forty years and "his photographs have been published in almost every major western media outlet".
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Amelia Womack
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amelia Helen Womack is a British Green Party of England and Wales politician. She served as the party's Deputy Leader from 2014 to 2022. She is a co-chair of the People's Assembly Against Austerity and co-founded Another Europe Is Possible.
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Stephen Myler
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- 2002-2005 graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in business studies
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby league player
- Biography
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Stephen Myler is an English rugby player. He played most of his career with the Northampton Saints in Premiership Rugby, and he currently plays for Ospreys in the United Rugby Championship.
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Christopher Wood
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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John Christopher "Kit" Wood was an English painter born in Knowsley, near Liverpool.
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Richard Miles
- Occupations
- television presenteranthropologisthistorianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Richard Miles is a British historian and archaeologist, best known for presenting two major historical documentary series: BBC2's Ancient Worlds (2010), which presented a comprehensive overview of classical history and the dawn of civilisation, and BBC Four's Archaeology: A Secret History (2013).
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Bob Blackman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert John Blackman is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow East since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as the Joint Executive Secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee since 2012. Blackman was the Member of the London Assembly (MLA) for Brent and Harrow between 2004 and 2008.
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Jasmin Paris
- Occupations
- runner
- Biography
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Jasmin Karina Paris is a British runner who has been a national fell running champion and who has set records for the Bob Graham Round and the Ramsay Round.
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Alden McLaughlin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Alden McNee McLaughlin Jr., is a Caymanian politician, former Premier of the Cayman Islands and current Speaker of Parliament of the Cayman Islands. McLaughlin previously served as leader of the People's Progressive Movement party from February 2011 – March 2021. McLaughlin is the elected member for the Red Bay Constituency in George Town, currently serving his sixth term in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands. He has been an elected representative in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands continuously since 2000.
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Peter Dowd
- Occupations
- council memberpolitician
- Biography
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Peter Christopher Dowd is a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bootle in May 2015. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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Gerard Lyons
- Occupations
- economistwriter
- Biography
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Gerard Patrick Lyons is a British economist.
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John A. Agnew
- Occupations
- university teachergeographer
- Biography
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John A. Agnew, FBA is a prominent British-American political geographer. Agnew was educated at the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool in England and Ohio State in the United States.
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Danielle George
- Occupations
- lecturer
- Biography
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Danielle Amanda George is a Professor of Radio frequency engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning at the University of Manchester in the UK. George became the 139th President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in October 2020.
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Wu Ching-kuo
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Wu Ching-kuo was the president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), a post he held from 2006 to 2017. He resigned from his position in November 2017.
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Amanda Blanc
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Dame Amanda Jayne Blanc is a Welsh businesswoman who has been the chief executive of Aviva since July 2020. Aviva has 18.5 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Canada, £401 billion of group assets under management and 22,000 people.
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Leslie Evans
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Leslie Evans was the Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government. In this role, Evans was the principal policy adviser to the First Minister and Secretary to the Scottish Cabinet. Evans was the senior civil servant in Scotland and led more than 5,000 civil servants working for the Scottish Government, supporting development, implementation and communication of government policies, in accordance with the Civil Service Code. At a UK level, she was a member of the Civil Service Board. She was succeeded as Permanent Secretary by John-Paul Marks in January 2022.
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Beverley Hughes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Beverley June Hughes, Baroness Hughes of Stretford is a British politician who most recently served as Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester for Policing and Crime between 2017 and 2023. A member of the Labour Party, Hughes was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston from 1997 to 2010. In 2004, she was appointed to the Privy Council. From 2005 to 2009, she served in the Government as the Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families.
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Wolfgang Rindler
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- In 1947 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Wolfgang Rindler was a physicist working in the field of general relativity where he is known for introducing the term "event horizon", Rindler coordinates, and (in collaboration with Roger Penrose) for the use of spinors in general relativity. An honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, he was also a prolific textbook author.
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Anant Gupta
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- business executiveinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Anant Gupta is Founder Chairman & CEO, TECHCELX, an integrated business acceleration and investment firm. He is also former President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a global information technology services company
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Lynda Gratton
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Lynda Gratton a British organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and the founder of HSM Advisory, known for her work on organisational behaviour.
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M. S. Valiathan
- Occupations
- surgeoncardiac surgeon
- Biography
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Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan is an Indian cardiac surgeon. He is a former President of the Indian National Science Academy and National Research Professor of the Government of India.
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Maxwell Fry
- Occupations
- painterwriterarchitect
- Biography
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Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry, was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
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Philip Clarke
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Philip Andrew Clarke is a British businessman. He served as the chief executive officer of Tesco plc until 1 September 2014.
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Phil Clarke
- Occupations
- rugby league player
- Biography
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Philip Clarke is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Great Britain and England international representative back-rower or stand-off, he played his club rugby league in England for Wigan (with whom he won five consecutive Challenge Cup Finals from 1991 to 1995), and in Australia for the Sydney City Roosters.
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Jane Kennedy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane Elizabeth Kennedy is a British politician and the inaugural Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree, formerly Liverpool Broadgreen, from 1992 to 2010.
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Averil Mansfield
- Occupations
- vascular surgeonuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dame Averil Olive Bradley, known professionally as Averil Mansfield, is a retired English vascular surgeon. She was a consultant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, from 1982 to 2002, and in 1993 she became the first British woman to be appointed a professor of surgery.
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David Weatherall
- Occupations
- university teachergeneticistmolecular biologist
- Biography
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Sir David John Weatherall, GBE, FRS was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.
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Paula Byrne
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticbiographer
- Biography
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Paula Jayne Byrne, Lady Bate, is a British biographer, novelist, and literary critic.
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Tony McNulty
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony James "Tony" McNulty is a British politician who was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow East from 1997 to 2010. During his ministerial career, which began in 2003, he was Minister for London and later Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions. He resigned his position on 5 June 2009 after allegations in the press regarding his expenses.
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F. David Peat
- Occupations
- physicistbiographerphilosophernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Francis David Peat was a holistic physicist and author who has carried out research in solid state physics and the foundation of quantum theory.
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Dariush Borbor
- Occupations
- writerpainterarchitectsculptordesigner
- Biography
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Dariush Borbor, is an Iranian-French architect, urban planner, designer, sculptor, painter, researcher, and writer. In 1963, Borbor established his own firm under the name of Borbor Consulting Architects, Engineers, City Planners. In 1976, he set up Sphere Iran, a consortium of four specialist consulting firms, and proposed a comprehensive National Environmental Master plan for Iran. In 1992, he created the Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies (RILIS) where he is the director.
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Wendy Beetlestone
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Wendy Beetlestone is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Sascha Karolin Aulepp
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Sascha Karolin Aulepp is a German judge and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister for Children and Education in the government of Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte since 2021.
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Ian Ritchie
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- saxophonistsongwritercomposerrecord producer
- Biography
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Ian Ritchie is a Scottish composer, record producer, arranger and saxophonist. He was the producer of Roger Waters' album Radio K.A.O.S., along with other recordings with Laurie Anderson, Pete Wylie (Sinful), Hugh Cornwell (Wolf) and the Big Dish (Swimmer). During the 1980s, he collaborated with English singer/songwriter Gary Numan.
