100 Notable alumni of
University of Liverpool
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The University of Liverpool is 296th 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
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- security guarddissidentwhistleblowerintelligence officersystem administrator
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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American-Russian former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.
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Clive Barker
- Occupations
- painterscience fiction writerplaywrightvisual artistfilm director
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Clive Barker is an English writer, filmmaker and visual artist. He 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.
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Patricia Routledge
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- film actortelevision actorstage actorsinger
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Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge is an English actress and singer, best known for her comedy role as Hyacinth Bucket in the popular BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993.
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Anna Maxwell Martin
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- stage actorfilm actoractor
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Anna Maxwell Martin, sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin, is an English 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 (2020–2022). 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
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- professional wrestlermarine biologistactor
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Stuart Alexander Bennett is a British-American former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Wade Barrett as a colour commentator on the SmackDown brand.
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Har Gobind Khorana
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- biologistuniversity teachergeneticist
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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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Nick Grimshaw
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- television presenter
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Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw, nicknamed "Grimmy", is an English broadcaster 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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Chris Lowe
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- composerkeyboardistmusiciansingersongwriter
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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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Anton Lesser
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- film actortelevision actorstage 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, 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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James Chadwick
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- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Sir James Chadwick was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. 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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Michael Rosen
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- television producernovelistchildren's writerwriterauthor
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Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written over 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 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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- politician
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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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Jon Snow
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- broadcasterjournalisttelevision presenter
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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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Emma Hayes
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Emma Carol Hayes OBE is an English professional football manager who is the head coach of the United States women's national team. She is best known for her twelve-year stint with Chelsea Women, winning the FA Women's Super League on seven occasions, including five in a row from the 2019–20 season to the 2023–24 season. On 10 August 2024, she coached the U.S. women’s national team to a gold medal in the Paris Olympics. On 28 October 2024, she was awarded the inaugural Women's Johan Cruyff Trophy as the best coach in the women's game.
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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.
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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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Tung Chee Hwa
- Years
- 1937-.. (age 88)
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianship-owner
- Biography
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Tung Chee-hwa GBM 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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Carol Ann Duffy
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- playwrightauthorpoetprofessorwriter
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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 laureate, 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
- opinion journalistuniversity teacherwriterhistoriancontemporary historian
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Sir Ian Kershaw FRHistS FBA 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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- physicianpatron of the artsphilanthropist
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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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- screenwriterwriterhistoriantelevision presenter
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David Adetayo Olusoga OBE is a British historian, writer and broadcaster. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Olusoga has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian.
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Abdul Latif Rashid
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- politiciancivil engineer
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Abdul Latif Rashid, also known as Latif Rashid (Kurdish: لەتيف ڕەشید, romanized: Letîf Reşîd), is an Iraqi 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. Before 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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Gareth Ainsworth
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Gareth Ainsworth is an English professional former player and football manager who is the head coach of EFL League One club Shrewsbury Town.
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Ronald Ross
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- physiciannovelistzoologistepidemiologistbotanist
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Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS 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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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
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- politicianphysician
- 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 a Chancellor of the University of Limpopo.
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Aamer Anwar
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- 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 playerassociation football manager
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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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- businesspersonchief executive officer
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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 became the chief executive officer (CEO) in 2017 and the chairman of the board in 2019.
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Joseph Rotblat
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- In 1950 graduated with doctorate in physics
- Occupations
- physicist
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Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS 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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- biographerpoetliterary criticpainterwriter
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- actorpresenter
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Edward Michael Robbins is an English comedian, actor, broadcaster, radio DJ, television presenter and radio personality.
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Ong Teng Cheong
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- 1936-2002 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
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Ong Teng Cheong GCMG was a Singaporean politician, architect, and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore from 1993 to 1999. He was the first directly elected president in Singapore's history.
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Frederick Griffith
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- microbiologistphysicianpathologistbiologistgeneticist
- 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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Dave Brailsford
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- sport cyclistcoach
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Sir David John Brailsford CBE is a British sports director and former cycling coach. He is currently team principal of UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers, and was performance director of British Cycling from 1997 to 2014. He is also currently working with French football club Nice and English football club Manchester United as part of his role as Director of Sport at Ineos.
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Sid Watkins
- Occupations
- neurologistsurgeonphysicianneurosurgeon
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Eric Sidney Watkins, also known as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon. From 1978 to 2004, Watkins served as Safety and Medical Delegate in Formula One.
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Dawda Kairaba Jawara
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- politician
- Biography
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Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara GCMG 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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- writerplaywrightscreenwriter
- Biography
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Heidi Thomas OBE is an English screenwriter and playwright.
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Stella Rimington
- Occupations
- librarianwriterarchivistintelligence officer
- Biography
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Dame Stella Rimington DCB 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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Jadwiga Piłsudska
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- aircraft pilotarchitectmilitary officerathlete
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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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- stage actoractortelevision 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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James Stirling
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- architect
- Biography
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Sir James Frazer Stirling RA was a British architect.
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Jasmin Paris
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- runnerultramarathon runner
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Jasmin Karina Paris MBE 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. In 2024, she became the first woman to successfully complete the Barkley Marathons.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
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- presenterhistorianchurch historianscreenwriteruniversity teacher
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Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch Kt FSA FRHistS FBA 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
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- 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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David Gray
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- singerfilm score composerguitaristcomposersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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David Peter Gray is a British singer-songwriter. Having released his debut album in 1993, he received worldwide attention with White Ladder five years later, particularly for the hit single "Babylon". White Ladder was the first of three chart-toppers in six years for Gray in the UK, where it became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s. In 2019, it was ranked as the UK's tenth best-selling album of the 21st century. David Gray reached the US Top 20 with five successive albums, and has received four Brit Award nominations, including two nominations for Best British Male.
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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. In 2018, she was the victim of attempted murder by Jack Renshaw.
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F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
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- barristerjudgepoliticianwriterjurist
- 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
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Rory Jennings is a British actor, poker player and football pundit. He played Craig Dixon in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 27 July to 7 September 2007..
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Colum Eastwood
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Colum Eastwood is an Irish nationalist politician who served as Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from 2015 to 2024. 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
- sports executiveassociation football player
- Biography
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Aki Pasinpoika Riihilahti is a Finnish sports executive and a former professional footballer. He was known as a hard working defensive midfielder. He is 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 in the UEFA club competition committee and in the FIFA stakeholders committee.
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Helen Marnie
- Occupations
- singerkeyboardist
- 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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Debbie Abrahams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham East and Saddleworth since 2011. Abrahams was a member of the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2018. She remains in the House of Commons as a backbencher.
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Charles Glover Barkla
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Charles Glover Barkla was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of characteristic X-rays.
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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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Lee Bee Wah
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- 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 former politician and engineer. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she was the member of parliament (MP) representing the Nee Soon South division of Nee Soon GRC between 2011 and 2020, and previously Ang Mo Kio GRC between 2006 and 2011.
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Rob Grant
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterscience fiction writertelevision director
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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
- screenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Sir Philip Redmond CBE is an English television producer and screenwriter. He is known for creating the television series Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks.
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Jeffrey Thomas
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorscreenwritertelevision actorwriter
- 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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Frank Kermode
- Years
- 1919-2010 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherliterary 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 served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Winchester from 2010 to 2024. 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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Jo Boaler
- Occupations
- university teacheracademiceducational theoristadviser
- 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 mathematics education resources to teachers, students and parents. She is the author, co-author or editor of eighteen mathematics books, including Limitless Mind, Mathematical Mindsets, The Elephant in the Classroom, and What's Math Got To Do With It?.
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Bob Blackman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert John Blackman CBE MP is a British politician who has been the chairman of the 1922 Committee and chair of the Backbench Business Committee since 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow East since 2010. He served as the Joint Executive Secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee from 2012 to 2024. Blackman was the Member of the London Assembly (MLA) for Brent and Harrow between 2004 and 2008.
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Percy Jones
- Occupations
- musicianbassistguitaristjazz musician
- 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 to 1980, and 1992 to 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 2019.
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Kerry McCarthy
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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 was Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2016. She has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate since July 2024.
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Saunders Lewis
- Occupations
- politicianacademicwriterplaywrighthistorian
- Biography
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Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. Born into a Welsh-speaking ministerial family in Greater Liverpool, Lewis studied in a public school growing up. He rediscovered the importance of both his heritage language and cultural roots while serving as a junior officer in the British Army during the trenches of the First World War. As a vocal supporter of Welsh nationalism, Lewis believed, however, that heritage language revival, cultural nationalism, the dramatic arts, and culture needed to precede Welsh devolution or political independence. If the excessive Anglophilia and colonial mentality traditionally known as Dic Siôn Dafydd was never challenged or defeated, Lewis predicted in 1918, "the Welsh Parliament would be an enlarged County Council."
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Shahidul Alam
- Occupations
- activistphotographerteacherunit still photographerblogger
- Biography
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Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, a photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist.
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Rose Heilbron
- Occupations
- judgebarrister
- 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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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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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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Richard Miles
- Occupations
- historiananthropologisttelevision presenterarchaeologist
- 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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Stephen Myler
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- 2002-2005 graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in business studies
- Occupations
- rugby league playerrugby union 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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Peter Dowd
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Peter Christopher Dowd is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bootle since 2015. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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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 DBE is a Welsh businesswoman who has been the group chief executive officer of Aviva since July 2020.
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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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M. S. Valiathan
- Occupations
- surgeonphysiciancardiac surgeon
- Biography
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Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan was an Indian cardiac surgeon. He was a president of the Indian National Science Academy and a National Research Professor of the Government of India.
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Gerard Lyons
- Occupations
- writereconomist
- Biography
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Gerard Patrick Lyons is a British economist.
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John A. Agnew
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- In 1971 graduated with Certificate in Education
- Occupations
- geographeruniversity teacheracademic
- 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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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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Beverley Hughes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Beverley June Hughes, Baroness Hughes of Stretford PC 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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Danielle George
- Occupations
- lecturer
- Biography
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Danielle Amanda George CBE FIET 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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Rodney Robert Porter
- Occupations
- physiologistbiochemistphysicianuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Rodney Robert Porter was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.
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Leslie Evans
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Leslie Evans is the former 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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Wolfgang Rindler
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- In 1947 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wolfgang Rindler was an Austrian 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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Adewale Tinubu
- Occupations
- lawyermanaging director
- Biography
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Jubril Adewale "Wale" Tinubu CON is a Nigerian business executive and lawyer, who is the group chief executive of Oando PLC.
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Lynda Gratton
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologist
- 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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Anant Gupta
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- business executive
- 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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Maxwell Fry
- Occupations
- writerpainterarchitect
- Biography
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Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
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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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Philip Clarke
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- 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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Tony McNulty
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony James "Tony" McNulty is a retired 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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Paula Byrne
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- writerbiographerliterary critic
- Biography
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Paula Jayne Byrne, Lady Bate, is a British biographer, novelist, and literary critic.
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Averil Mansfield
- Occupations
- university teachervascular surgeon
- 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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F. David Peat
- Occupations
- philosopherbiographerphysicistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Francis David Peat was a British holistic physicist and author who has carried out research in solid state physics and the foundation of quantum theory.
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David Weatherall
- Occupations
- university teachermolecular biologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Sir David John Weatherall was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.
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Dariush Borbor
- Occupations
- painterwriterdesignersculptorarchitect
- 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
- lawyerjudge
- 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
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- 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
- record producercomposersongwritersaxophonist
- 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.
