100 Notable alumni of
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is 19th in the world, 3rd in Europe, and 3rd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Oxford sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 11 individuals affiliated with the University of Oxford won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- 1911-1915 studied English and English literature
- Occupations
- teacherpoetmilitary officerwritertranslator
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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Anthony Eden
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- aristocratdiplomatpolitician
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Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC, was a British Conservative politician who served three periods as Foreign Secretary and then as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
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Rupert Murdoch
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1953 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- businesspersonpublisherfinancierentrepreneureditor
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Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American businessman, media tycoon, and investor. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and The Australian), in the US (The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post), book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through the Fox Corporation). He was also the owner of Sky (until 2018), 21st Century Fox (until 2019), and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022, Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world.
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Imran Khan
- Occupations
- investorautobiographercricketerpolitician
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Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who served as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidence motion. He is the founder and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), one of the largest political parties in the country.
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Robert Mugabe
- Occupations
- politician
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s.
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Thomas Hobbes
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- 1603-1608 studied logic and physics
- Occupations
- politiciantranslatorphilosopherpolitical scientisteconomist
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Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.
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Kellyanne Conway
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- politicianpollstercampaign managerlawyerpolitical scientist
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Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway is an American political consultant and pollster, who served as Senior Counselor to the President in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2020.
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Lewis Carroll
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- logicianautobiographerwriterphotographernovelist
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied in 1887-1892
- Occupations
- barristerpolitician
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Dominion of Pakistan's first governor-general until his death. He is revered in Pakistan as the Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader") and Baba-i-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birthday is observed as a national holiday in Pakistan.
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Anna Wintour
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- editorjournalistwriterfashion editor
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Dame Anna Wintour is a British and American journalist, who has served as editor-in-Chief of Vogue since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020; she is also the Artistic Director of Condé Nast and the Global Editorial Director of Vogue. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour has become an important figure in much of the fashion world, praised for her eye for emerging fashion trends. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour".
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Richard Dawkins
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1966 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- evolutionary biologistscreenwriterzoologisttheoretical biologistsociobiologist
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Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.
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Sarah Rafferty
- Occupations
- film actoractorstage actortelevision actor
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Sarah Gray Rafferty is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Donna Paulsen on the USA Network legal drama Suits.
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Robert Hooke
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- astronomerphilosophernaturalistinventorarchitect
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Robert Hooke FRS was an English polymath active as a scientist and architect, who, using a microscope, was the first to visualize a micro-organism. An impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood, he found wealth and esteem by performing over half of the architectural surveys after London's great fire of 1666. Hooke was also a member of the Royal Society and since 1662 was its curator of experiments. Hooke was also Professor of Geometry at Gresham College.
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Christopher Hitchens
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- Occupations
- journalistessayistwriterliterary criticpolitical scientist
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Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature. Hitchens originally described himself as a democratic socialist, and he was a member of various socialist organisations throughout his life, including the International Socialists. Hitchens eventually stopped describing himself as a socialist, but he continued to identify as a Marxist, supporting Marx's materialist conception of history. Hitchens was very critical of aspects of American foreign policy, such as American involvement in war crimes in Vietnam, Chile and East Timor. However, he also supported the United States in the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War and other military interventions.
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Erwin Schrödinger
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- physicistacademicmathematiciannon-fiction writerprofessor
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time.
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Rachel Maddow
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 2001 graduated with doctorate in political science
- Occupations
- journalist
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Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams. Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio from 2005 to 2010. Maddow has received multiple Emmy Awards for her broadcasting work and in 2021 received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her book Blowout (2019).
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Oxxxymiron
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied in 2004-2008
- Occupations
- hip hop musicchief executive officerrapper
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Miron Yanovich Fyodorov, known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian hip-hop artist and former CEO of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund. He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums The Wandering Jew and Gorgorod are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap.
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Camilla Luddington
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- actormotion capture actingvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Camilla Anne Luddington is a British actress, best known for her role as Josephine “Jo” Wilson in the ABC medical drama series, Grey's Anatomy. She is also known for voicing Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games, for which she provided the motion capture.
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Edward Heath
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- journalistmilitary personnelconductorpolitician
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Sir Edward Richard George Heath was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside of politics, Heath was a yachtsman, a musician, and an author.
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Sophie Irene Hunter
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- actorplaywrightwritertheatrical director
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Sophie Irene Hunter is an English actress, singer, avant-garde theatre director and playwright. She made her directorial debut in 2007 co-directing the experimental play The Terrific Electric at the Barbican Pit after her theatre company Boileroom was granted the Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. In addition, she has directed an Off-Off-Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (2010) at Access Theatre, the performance art titled Lucretia (2011) based on Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia at Location One's Abramovic Studio in New York City, and the Phantom Limb Company's 69° South also known as Shackleton Project (2011) which premièred at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre and later toured North America.
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Holland Roden
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- television actoractorfilm actor
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Holland Roden is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Lydia Martin in MTV's teen drama series Teen Wolf, Zoe Woods in Syfy's horror anthology series Channel Zero: Butcher's Block, Bridget Cleary in Amazon Prime Video's horror anthology documentary series Lore and as Erin Isaacs in the horror films No Escape and Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.
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Roger Penrose
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- astronomerphilosopherscientistwritermathematician
- Biography
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Sir Roger Penrose is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London.
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Nicholas Gonzalez
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- film actortelevision actorvoice actormodel
- Biography
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Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Alex Santiago on the Showtime television series Resurrection Blvd. and Dr. Neil Melendez on the ABC television series The Good Doctor.
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Susan Sontag
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- journalistfilm directorscreenwriterwomen's rights activistnovelist
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Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), Styles of Radical Will (1968), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978), as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999).
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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- economistbankerpolitician
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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK (Spanish: [pepeˈka]), is a Peruvian economist, politician and public administrator who served as President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as the Prime Minister of Peru and Minister of Economy and Finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March 2018, following a successful impeachment vote and days before a probable conviction vote. Since 10 April 2019 he has been in pretrial detention, due to an ongoing investigation on corruption, money laundering, and connections to Odebrecht, a public works company accused of paying bribes.
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
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- monarch
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is Druk Gyalpo or "Dragon King" of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne in his favor, he became the monarch on 9 December 2006. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.
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W. H. Auden
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1928 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English studies
- Occupations
- screenwritercomposerauthorwriterlibrettist
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Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".
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Bellamy Young
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- film actorfilm producerstage actortelevision actor
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Bellamy Young is an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Melody "Mellie" Grant in the ABC drama series Scandal (2012–2018). In 2014, for her portrayal of Mellie, Young won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Young also starred in the Fox series Prodigal Son (2019–2021).
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Matt Hancock
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Matthew John David Hancock is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021, and as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in 2018 for six months. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2010.
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William Golding
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- science fiction writerwriternovelistscreenwriterpoet
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Sir William Gerald Golding, was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
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Felix Yusupov
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- opinion journalistmilitary officerentrepreneurpatron of the arts
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Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, was a Russian aristocrat from the Yusupov family. He is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin and marrying Princess Irina Alexandrovna, a niece of Tsar Nicholas II.
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Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- businesspersonwriteraristocratphysiotherapistcontributing editor
- Biography
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Princess Märtha Louise of Norway is the only daughter and elder child of King Harald V and Queen Sonja and a self-described clairvoyant. She was married to the late writer and visual artist Ari Behn from 2002 to 2017.
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Emerald Fennell
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- film actoractorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period drama films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), The Danish Girl (2015), and Vita and Virginia (2018). She went on to receive wider recognition for her starring roles in the BBC One period drama series Call the Midwife (2013–17) and for her portrayal of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in the Netflix period drama series The Crown (2019–20).
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Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo
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- politicianhistorian
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Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo y Peralta-Ramos, 14th Marchioness of Casa Fuerte, MP is a Spanish journalist, historian, and politician of the People's Party. She has served as Member of the Congress of Deputies since 21 May 2019 for Barcelona and was Spokesperson of her party in Congress until 21 August 2020. She is of French—Argentine descent.
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Bobby Jindal
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1994 graduated with Master of Letters
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016 and is the only living former Louisiana governor. Jindal previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
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William of Ockham
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- philosopherwriterphysicistlogiciantheologian
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William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the 14th century. He is commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, and also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology. William is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 10 April.
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Bongbong Marcos
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., commonly referred to as Bongbong Marcos (BBM), is a Filipino politician who served as a senator from 2010 to 2016. He is the second child and only son of former president, dictator, and kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.
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Niall Ferguson
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1989 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teachereconomic historianhistorian
- Biography
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Niall Campbell Ferguson is a Scottish historian based in the United States who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard, the London School of Economics and New York University, a visiting professor at the UK New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, England.
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Ed Miliband
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- politicianpodcaster
- Biography
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Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015, resigning after Labour's defeat at the 2015 general election. Alongside his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Robert Reich
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- university teacherpolitical scientisteconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Bernard Reich is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, as well as serving as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board.
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Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
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Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia has been a claimant to the headship of the Imperial Family of Russia (who reigned as Emperors and Autocrats of All the Russias from 1613 to 1917) since 1992. Although she has used Grand Duchess of Russia as her title of pretence with the style Imperial Highness throughout her life, her right to do so is disputed. She is a great-great-granddaughter in the male line of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.
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William Herschel
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- composeroboistphysicistmusicianastronomer
- Biography
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Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS was a German-born British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750–1848). Born in the Electorate of Hanover, William Herschel followed his father into the military band of Hanover, before emigrating to Great Britain in 1757 at the age of nineteen.
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Roger Bacon
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- musicologisttheologiantranslatorwriteralchemist
- Biography
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Roger Bacon, also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method, along with his teacher Robert Grosseteste. Bacon applied the empirical method of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) to observations in texts attributed to Aristotle. Bacon discovered the importance of empirical testing when the results he obtained were different from those that would have been predicted by Aristotle.
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John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
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- military officerpolitician
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Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC, known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in Kent to an Anglo-Irish family, he saw brief service as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, before becoming a cavalry officer. He achieved rapid promotion and distinguished himself on the Gordon Relief Expedition. French had a considerable reputation as a womaniser throughout his life, and his career nearly ended when he was cited in the divorce of a brother officer while in India in the early 1890s.
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John Wesley Shipp
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- television actoractorfilm actor
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John Wesley Shipp is an American actor known for his various television roles. He played the lead Barry Allen on CBS's superhero series The Flash from 1990 to 1991, and Mitch Leery, the title character's father, on the drama series Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2001. Shipp has also played several roles in daytime soap operas including Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from 1980 to 1984, and Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns from 1985 to 1986 (which earned him his first Daytime Emmy Award). He portrays Barry Allen's father Henry, Earth-2 Flash Jay Garrick, and Earth-90's Barry Allen/The Flash on the current series entitled The Flash on the CW network.
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Richard von Weizsäcker
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- lawyermilitary personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German politician (CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobility, he took his first public offices in the Evangelical Church in Germany.
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Lucy Worsley
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- 1992-1995 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- television presenterhistorian
- Biography
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Lucy Worsley is a British historian, author, curator, and television presenter. She is Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces but is best known as a presenter of BBC Television series on historical topics.
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Maisie Richardson-Sellers
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Maisie Richardson-Sellers is a British actress. She is known for her recurring role as Eva Sinclair on The CW series The Originals, as well as her starring roles as King Saul of Israel's daughter Michal in the ABC Biblical series Of Kings and Prophets and as Amaya Jiwe / Vixen and Charlie on The CW superhero series Legends of Tomorrow.
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John Neely Kennedy
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Civil Law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Neely Kennedy, is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017. A Democrat turned Republican, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017.
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George Pell
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- Catholic deaconCatholic priest
- Biography
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George Pell is an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy between 2014 and 2019, and was a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers between 2013 and 2018. Ordained a priest in 1966 and bishop in 1987, he was made a cardinal in 2003. Pell served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), the seventh Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996). He has also been an author, columnist and public speaker. Since 1996, Pell has maintained a high public profile on a wide range of issues, while retaining an adherence to Catholic orthodoxy.
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Elizabeth Dole
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- presidentlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford Dole is an American attorney, author and politician who served in the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush presidential administrations. She also served as a United States Senator for North Carolina from 2003 to 2009.
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Bob Hawke
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- politicianunion organizertrade unionist
- Biography
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Robert James Lee Hawke AC, GCL was an Australian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud
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- politicianpoet
- Biography
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Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian politician, artist, and poet who is the governor of Makkah Province, in office from 2007 to 2013 and again since 2015. He was the Saudi minister of education from 2013 to 2015. He was also the governor of Asir Province from 1971 to 2007. He served as the adviser to King Salman.
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Henry Moseley
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- engineerchemistphysicist
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. This stemmed from his development of Moseley's law in X-ray spectra.
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Dan Houser
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- screenwritervideo game producer
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Daniel Houser is an English video game producer, writer, and voice actor, as well as the co-founder (along with his brother Sam) and former vice president of creativity for Rockstar Games. As well as producing video games, Houser was the head writer for Rockstar Games, being the lead for Bully (2006), Red Dead Redemption (2010) and Max Payne 3 (2012). He has also written, or co-written, almost all of the titles in the Grand Theft Auto series.
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Juliana Awada
- Occupations
- designerbusinessperson
- Biography
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María Juliana Awada is an Argentine businesswoman who served as the First Lady of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. She is the first woman in this role to have received the distinction of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 70 years and the second in history after Eva Perón in 1947. In 2016, she was chosen as the most elegant First Lady in the world by ¡Hola! magazine.
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Ilan Ramon
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- aircraft pilotmilitary officermilitary personnelastronaut
- Biography
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Ilan Ramon was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was a Space Shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and the six other crew members were killed when the spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry. At 48, he was the oldest member of the crew. Ramon is the only foreign recipient of the United States Congressional Space Medal of Honor, which he was awarded posthumously.
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Haitham bin Tarik Al Said
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- sovereignpolitician
- Biography
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Haitham bin Tariq Al Said is the Sultan of Oman. Prior to becoming sultan, he served for multiple decades in the cabinet of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, his cousin. He was Minister of Heritage and Culture from 2002 to 2020. Sultan Qaboos named Haitham as his successor in his will, and he was proclaimed sultan on 11 January 2020, hours after Qaboos's death.
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Edmond Halley
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- astronomermeteorologistdemographerphilosophermathematician
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Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
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Brian Greene
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- physicistwriterprofessortheoretical physicistauthor
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Brian Randolph Greene is a leading American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 1990–1995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.
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Duns Scotus
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- clericphilosopherfathertheologianuniversity teacher
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John Duns Scotus, commonly called Duns Scotus, was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher, and theologian. He is one of the four most important philosopher-theologians of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages, together with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and William of Ockham.
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Stuart Hall
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- university teachersociologistart theoristliterary critic
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Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
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Bill Bradley
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied in 1968
- Occupations
- businesspersonbasketball playerwriterpoliticiansenior advisor
- Biography
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William Warren Bradley is an American politician and former professional basketball player. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1979–1997). He ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore.
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Maudy Ayunda
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- actorsinger-songwriterwriteractivist
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Ayunda Faza Maudya, known as Maudy Ayunda, is an Indonesian singer-songwriter, actress, author and activist for education and youth-related interests.
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Stephen Wolfram
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- university teacherartificial intelligence researcheropinion journalistmerchantmathematician
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Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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Guðni Jóhannesson
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- university teacherpoliticianhistoriantranslator
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Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson is an Icelandic historian serving as the sixth and current president of Iceland. He took office in 2016 after winning the most votes in the 2016 election, 71,356 (39.1%). He was reelected in 2020 with 92.2% of the vote.
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Paweł Pawlikowski
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- television directorscreenwriterfilm director
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Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski is a Polish filmmaker and Oscar award-winning film producer. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with Ida (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Cold War (2018), for which Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Isko Moreno
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- politician
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Francisco Moreno Domagoso, also known by his stage name Isko Moreno (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈis.kɔ mɔˈɾɛ.nɔ]), is a Filipino politician and actor currently serving as the 22nd mayor of Manila since 2019. Before heading the capital city of the Philippines, he first gained notability as an actor and television personality. He entered politics in 1998, and ran for city councilor and was elected for three consecutive terms. In 2007, he ran as vice mayor of Manila and was elected for three consecutive terms. In 2016, he was term-limited as vice mayor and unsuccessfully ran for senator in the 2016 senatorial elections. He placed 16th out of 50 candidates. He then served in the Duterte cabinet as social welfare undersecretary for a few months in 2018 before running and being elected mayor of Manila in a landslide victory against his former allies Joseph Estrada and Alfredo Lim in the 2019 local elections.
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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
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- aristocratpolitician
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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, was the eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I, King of England and Scotland; and his wife Anne of Denmark. His name derives from his grandfathers: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; and Frederick II of Denmark. Prince Henry was widely seen as a bright and promising heir to his father's thrones. However, at the age of 18, he predeceased his father when he died of typhoid fever. His younger brother Charles succeeded him as heir apparent to the English, Irish, and Scottish thrones.
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Larry Sanders
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Lawrence Sanders is an American-British academic, social worker, politician, and former Health and Social Care Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the older brother of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator and two-time U.S. presidential candidate.
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Nabeel Qureshi
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- writermissionary
- Biography
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Nabeel Asif Qureshi was a Pakistani-American Christian apologist, author, activist and speaker. Raised by a devout Muslim family from the Ahmadi sect, Qureshi converted to Christianity as a university student following several years of debate with a Christian friend. He subsequently became a Christian apologist and was a speaker with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) from 2013 until 2016. Qureshi authored three books: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity, Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward, and No God But One—Allah or Jesus.
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Yang Jiang
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- playwrighttranslator
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Yang Jiang was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
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Haruhiko Kuroda
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- professoreconomistbanker
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Haruhiko Kuroda, is the 31st and current Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ). He was formerly the President of the Asian Development Bank from 1 February 2005 to 18 March 2013.
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Timothy Snyder
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- political scientisthistorianwriteruniversity teacherliterary critic
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Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written several books, including the best-sellers Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
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Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner
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- aristocrat
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Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner is the second daughter of King Olav V and his wife, Crown Princess Märtha of Norway. She is the older sister of King Harald V of Norway and younger sister of the late Princess Ragnhild.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
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- writerpoetCatholic priesthistorian
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Geoffrey of Monmouth was a British cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. He is best known for his chronicle The History of the Kings of Britain (Latin: De gestis Britonum or Historia Regum Britanniae) which was widely popular in its day, being translated into other languages from its original Latin. It was given historical credence well into the 16th century, but is now considered historically unreliable.
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J.B.S. Haldane
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- biochemistphysiologistgeneticistbiologistuniversity teacher
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. He served in the Great War, and obtained the rank of captain. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field, he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University College London. Renouncing his British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute for the rest of his life.
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Heita Kawakatsu
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- university teachereconomisthistorianpolitician
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Heita Kawakatsu is the current governor of Shizuoka Prefecture. Born in 1948, he has been governor since 2009. Part of his political program is opposition to the Tokyo-Nagoya MagLev route.
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Norbert Lammert
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Norbert Lammert is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 12th President of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2017.
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Rachel Parris
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- comedianactorimproviser
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Rachel Sarah Parris is an English comedian, musician, actress and presenter. She appears on the satirical news show Late Night Mash (formerly The Mash Report).
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Frank Luntz
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- political punditpolitical adviserstatistician
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Frank Ian Luntz is an American political and communications consultant, pollster, and pundit, best known for developing talking points and other messaging for Republican causes. His work has included assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, and public relations support for pro-Israel policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce a desired effect; including use of the term death tax instead of estate tax, and climate change instead of global warming.
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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- physicistcrystallographerbiophysicistbiologistbiochemist
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology.
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Tony Hoare
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- engineercomputer scientistwriteruniversity teacherprogrammer
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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng (born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work earned him the Turing Award, usually regarded as the highest distinction in computer science, in 1980.
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José Padilha
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwritertelevision producer
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José Bastos Padilha Neto is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer of the Netflix original series Narcos, starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura, and directed the first two episodes in the series.
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Ed Fornieles
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- artist
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Edward Fornieles is an English artist. Fornieles uses film, social media platforms, sculpture, installation and performance to express the interaction of family, relationships, popular memes, language and the subcultures of the 21st century. His work operates within immersive simulations, which construct and enact alternative political and social spaces. His projects often involve cultural, social, and infrastructural production.
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Risto Ryti
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- bankerlawyereconomistpolitician
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Risto Heikki Ryti served as the fifth president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. Ryti served (1939–1940) as prime minister during the Winter War of 1939–1940 and the Interim Peace of 1940–1941. Later he became president during the Continuation War of 1941–1944. After the war, Ryti was the main defendant in the Finnish war-responsibility trials (1945–1946), which resulted in his conviction for crimes against peace.
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David Vitter
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- lobbyistlawyerpolitician
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David Bruce Vitter is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and politician who served as United States Senator for Louisiana from 2005 to 2017.
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Akosua Busia
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- writerscreenwriteractorsongwriterfilm director
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Akosua Gyamama Busia is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her role as Nettie Harris in the 1985 film The Color Purple alongside Whoopi Goldberg.
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Arthur Evans
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- art historianarchaeologistnumismatistanthropologist
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Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Based on the structures and artifacts found there and throughout the eastern Mediterranean, Evans found that he needed to distinguish the Minoan civilisation from Mycenaean Greece. Evans was also the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.
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Kurt Hahn
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- pedagoguehead teacher
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Kurt Matthias Robert Martin Hahn was a German educator. He was decisive in founding, among other organizations and initiatives, Stiftung Louisenlund, Schule Schloss Salem, Gordonstoun, Outward Bound, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, and the first of the United World Colleges, Atlantic College.
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Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 67)
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- politicianaristocratchartered surveyorland ownerlarge estate owner
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Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland,, styled Lord Ralph Percy until 1995, is a British hereditary peer and rural landowner and current head of the House of Percy.
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Gracyanne Barbosa
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- modelPlayboy Playmate
- Biography
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Gracyanne Jacobina Barbosa Vieira is a Brazilian fitness model and Carnaval dancer.
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Dido Harding
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- Studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics
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- jockeybusinessperson
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Diana Mary "Dido" Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe, is a British businesswoman and Conservative life peer serving as chairwoman of NHS Improvement since 2017. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the head of the NHS Test and Trace programme until April 2021.
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
- Enrolled in the University of Oxford
- 1989-1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy is a British journalist. He presents the Channel 4 News and is currently lead presenter on the programme. and the foreign-affairs documentary series Unreported World.
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Vashti Bunyan
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- singerguitaristsinger-songwritersongwriter
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Jennifer Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. She released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She subsequently released two albums: Lookaftering in 2005, and Heartleap in 2014.
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Prince Carlos Hugo, Hereditary Duke of Parma
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- politician
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Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma and Piacenza was the head of the House of Bourbon-Parma from 1977 until his death. Carlos Hugo was the Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain and sought to change the political direction of the Carlist movement through the Carlist Party, of which he was the official head during the fatal Montejurra Incident. His marriage to Princess Irene of the Netherlands in 1964 caused a constitutional crisis in the Netherlands.
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Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
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- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Faisal bin Salman Al Saud is a member of the House of Saud and governor of Madinah province in Saudi Arabia.
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John Lennox
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- philosopher of sciencemathematicianwriteruniversity teacherapologist
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John Carson Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist and Christian apologist. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and faith (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had numerous public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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Michael Ignatieff
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- politiciannovelisthistorianwriteruniversity teacher
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Michael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. Most recently, he was rector and President of Central European University; he held this position from 2016 until July 2021.
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Michelle Krusiec
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- film actoractorfilm producertelevision actor
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Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec is an American actress, writer and producer.
