47 Notable alumni of
University of Stirling
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The University of Stirling is 1125th in the world, 400th in Europe, and 79th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 47 notable alumni from the University of Stirling sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Iain Banks
- Occupations
- philosopherwriterscience fiction writernovelist
- Biography
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Iain Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. After the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), he began to write full time. His first science fiction book, Consider Phlebas, appeared in 1987, marking the start of the Culture series. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Grace Dent
- Occupations
- children's writernovelistwriterjournalistbroadcaster
- Biography
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Grace Georgina Dent is a British columnist, broadcaster and author. She is a restaurant critic for The Guardian and from 2011 to 2017 wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard. She is a regular critic on the BBC's MasterChef and has appeared on Channel 4's television series Very British Problems.
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Duncan Scott
- Occupations
- swimmer
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Duncan William MacNaughton Scott is a Scottish swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships, LEN European Aquatics Championships, European Games and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Scott made history after winning four medals - more than any other British athlete at a single Olympic Games - in Tokyo 2020, simultaneously becoming Great Britain's most decorated swimmer in Olympic history. With an additional gold and silver medal in Paris 2024 bringing his total to eight, Scott became Scotland's most-decorated Olympian (surpassing Chris Hoy), and is currently tied with Bradley Wiggins as the second most-decorated Olympian in British history. Scott is the only athlete in the top three to still be actively competing, and the only member of the top four (Hoy, Scott, Wiggins and Jason Kenny) who is not a track cyclist.
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Daniel Kawczynski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Robert Kawczynski is a British politician who was a Conservative Party MP. Kawczynski has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a parliamentary aide to the former Welsh Secretary David Jones, as well as serving as a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and as Special Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron on Central and Eastern Europe and on Central and Eastern Europeans living in the United Kingdom. On 4 July 2024, Kawczynski lost to Labour candidate Julia Buckley in a historical electoral landslide for Labour in the constituency of Shrewsbury.
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Jackie Kay
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoet
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Jacqueline Margaret Kay, is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011.
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Jack McConnell
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, PC is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2001 to 2007. McConnell served as the Minister for Finance from 1999 to 2000 and Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs from 2000 to 2001. He has been a Labour life peer in the House of Lords since 2010 and previously served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Motherwell and Wishaw from 1999 to 2011. McConnell held the Presidency of the Conference of European Regions with Legislative Power (REGLEG) during November 2003 to November 2004.
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Tommy Sheridan
- Occupations
- politicianassociation football player
- Biography
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Thomas Sheridan is a Scottish politician who served as convenor of Solidarity from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as convenor of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) from 1998 to 2004 and as co-convenor of Solidarity from 2006 to 2016. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region from 1999 to 2007.
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Mònica Terribas
- Enrolled in the University of Stirling
- 1990-1994 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- political punditjournalisttelevision presenterscreenwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mònica Terribas i Sala is a Catalan journalist, full professor at Pompeu Fabra University. From 2008 to 2012 she was director of Televisió de Catalunya and the following year, editor of the newspaper Ara. From September 2013 to July 2020 she was the host and director of El matí de Catalunya Ràdio. Since February 2022 she has been vice-president of Òmnium Cultural.
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Hannah Bardell
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision producer
- Biography
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Hannah Mary Kennedy-Bardell is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 2015 until 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she served as its spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019.
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Jayne Secker
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Katherine Jayne Secker is an English journalist and newsreader for Sky News. She has presented Sky News Today on the channel since September 2014, formerly alongside Colin Brazier.
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Catriona Matthew
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Catriona Isobel Matthew OBE is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the US-based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.
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Lisa Cameron
- Occupations
- psychologistpoliticianclinical psychologist
- Biography
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Lisa Cameron is a Scottish politician and former consultant clinical psychologist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow from winning the seat at the 2015 general election until standing down at the 2024 general election. First elected for the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was re-elected for that party in 2017 and 2019, before she crossed the floor to the Scottish Conservatives in October 2023.
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Maggie Chapman
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Maggie Chapman is a Scottish politician and lecturer who is a Scottish Green Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Scotland. She was co-convenor of the Scottish Greens from November 2013 to August 2019, serving with Patrick Harvie, and was the party's lead candidate for the 2019 European election.
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Neil Gray
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Neil Charles Gray is a Scottish politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care since 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Airdrie & Shotts since 2021. Gray previously served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the equivalent Westminster seat from 2015 to 2021. He served as Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy from 2023 to 2024, and Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development from 2022 to 2023.
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Mark Cousins
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm criticfilm directorcinematographer
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Mark Cousins is an English-born, Northern Irish director and writer. A prolific documentarian, among his best-known works is the 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
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Colin Fleming
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Colin Fleming is a British retired professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.
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Stephen Kerr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Charles Kerr is a Scottish Conservative & Unionist politician, currently serving as a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland Region since 2021. From 2021 to 2022, Kerr served as the Convener of the Education, Children and Young People Committee. Prior to his election to Holyrood, Kerr was the Member of Parliament for Stirling from 2017 to 2019.
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Richard Leonard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Leonard is a British politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2017 to 2021. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), as one of the additional members for the Central Scotland region, since 2016. He ideologically identifies as a socialist, democrat and internationalist.
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Shirley-Anne Somerville
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shirley-Anne Somerville is a Scottish politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice in the devolved Scottish government since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dunfermline since 2016, having previously served as an additional member for the Lothians region from 2007 to 2011.
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Anum Qaisar-Javed
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Anum Qaisar, previously Anum Qaisar-Javed is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts from 2021 to 2024, when she lost the seat to Kenneth Stevenson of the Labour Party. She was also the SNP Spokesperson for Levelling Up from 2023 to 2024.
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Ross Murdoch
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Ross Murdoch is a Scottish competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in 2016 and 2020, the FINA World Championships and the LEN European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games from 2014 to the present. Between 2014 and 2016, Murdoch became a World, European and Commonwealth champion.
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Richie Ramsay
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Richie Ramsay is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.
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Jonny O'Mara
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Jonny O'Mara is a British tennis player. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 44 achieved on 20 May 2019. He also has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 489 achieved on 10 April 2017.
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Fiona Ritchie
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- podcastermusic journalist
- Biography
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Fiona Karen Ritchie MBE is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of The Thistle & Shamrock, an hour-long Celtic music program that aired weekly for more than 40 years throughout the United States on National Public Radio (NPR). She also curates ThistleRadio, a 24/7 web-based music channel devoted to new and classic music from Celtic roots, and is co-author of The New York Times Best Seller Wayfaring Strangers.
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Richard Lochhead
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Neilson Lochhead is a Scottish politician serving as the Minister for Business since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he served as the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment from 2007 to 2016. Lochhead has been a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999, first representing North East Scotland electoral region from 1999 to 2006, before representing the Moray constituency since 2006.
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Doug Allan
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Douglas George Allan OBE FRPS FRSGS is a Scottish wildlife cameraman and photographer best known for his work in polar regions and underwater.
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Alan Bissett
- Occupations
- writerplaywright
- Biography
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Alan Bissett is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, Boyracers and The Incredible Adam Spark, he became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and socialist politics. He also applied to be rector of the University of Glasgow in 2014.
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Kenneth Gibson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kenneth James Gibson is a Scottish politician serving as the Convenor of the Finance and Public Administration Committee since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cunninghame North since 2007, having previously represented the Glasgow electoral region from 1999 to 2003.
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Pam Duncan-Glancy
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pam Duncan-Glancy is a Scottish Labour politician who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since May 2021. She is the first permanent wheelchair user elected to the Scottish Parliament.
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Charlotte Henshaw
- Occupations
- swimmerparacanoeist
- Biography
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Charlotte Sarah Henshaw is a British Paralympic full-time athlete across multiple disciplines. Originally a swimmer, she changed to canoeing from 2017, becoming the reigning World champion in the KL2 (five-time) and VL3 (three-time) 200m events. In September 2021, at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, she became a Paralympic champion at her fourth games, winning the Women's KL2 event.
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Gordon Banks
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon Raymond Banks is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2005 to 2015.
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Craig Benson
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Craig Benson is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who specialised in breaststroke. He represented Great Britain at the Olympics and European Championships.
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Neil Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova
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- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Neil Forbes Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova KC is a Scottish lawyer and former Advocate General for Scotland.
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Andrew Oswald
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Andrew Oswald is a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, England. He is an ISI highly cited researcher and has been a professorial fellow of the ESRC. He is currently a member of the board of reviewing editors of Science. He held previous posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard. Andrew Oswald serves as the chair of the IZA Institute Network Advisory Group.
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Steven Paterson
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Steven Alexander Paterson is a former Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling between 2015 and 2017. He was not re-selected by the SNP to contest the Stirling seat at the 2019 general election.
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Bridget McConnell
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Bridget Mary McConnell, Lady McConnell of Glenscorrodale, CBE is a Scottish public sector administrator specialising in the arts. She was the chief executive officer of Glasgow Life from 2007 to 2022, the charity and arms-length body responsible for delivering culture and sport in Glasgow. McConnell participated in Glasgow's successful bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, serving as a member of the organising committee and as the Director of Ceremonies and Culture, while overseeing infrastructure required for the games. McConnell was responsible for a major overhaul of the city's sports, leisure, arts and cultural facilities.
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Muffy Calder
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Dame Muffy Calder is a Canadian-born British computer scientist, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. From 2012 to 2015 she was Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Government.
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John Campbell
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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John Campbell is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, California. He works primarily in philosophy of mind.
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Michael Connarty
- Occupations
- school teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Connarty is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and Falkirk East from 2005 until 2015, and Falkirk East (1992–2005).
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Nadia Al-Sakkaf
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Nadia Abdulaziz Al-Sakkaf is a former Yemeni Minister and politician. She was the editor in chief of the Yemen Times from 2005 until 2014, before becoming Yemen's first female Minister of Information. She fled Yemen in 2015 after the coup and is currently an independent researcher in politics, media, development and gender studies based in the United Kingdom. In 2011, Al-Sakkaf gave a popular TED talk called "See Yemen through my eyes" which had over 3 million views.
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Frankie Brown
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Frankie Brown is a Scottish former footballer who played for Falkirk Ladies, Whitehill Welfare, Hibernian, Bristol City and the Scotland national team.
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John Speakman
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- physiologistscientistediting staffuniversity teacherbiologist
- Biography
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John Roger Speakman is a British biologist working at the University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, for which he was Director from 2007 to 2011. He leads the University's Energetics Research Group, which uses doubly labeled water (DLW) to investigate energy expenditure and balance in animals. Between 2011-2020, he was a '1000 talents' Professor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, China, where he ran the molecular energetics group. In 2020 he moved to the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenzhen, China where he works at the Center for Energy Metabolism and Reproduction and Head of the Shenzhen Key laboratory of Metabolic Health.
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Bill Butler
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bill Butler is a Scottish Labour Co-operative Councillor. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Anniesland from a by-election in 2000 (following the death of the incumbent, First Minister Donald Dewar) until losing his seat in the 2011 election.
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Joanna Pickering
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Joanna Pickering is a British-born actress and playwright. She is known for her Trilogy Truth, Lies and Deception, her acting work in Pelleas starring alongside Alice Eve, and is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment.
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Colin Sinclair
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Colin Sinclair is a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was Moderator of the General Assembly for the year from May 2019. He has served as the minister at Palmerston Place Church in Edinburgh since 1996.
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Danielle Joyce
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 29)
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Danielle Joyce is a Scottish swimmer, who swims freestyle and backstroke in the S15 hearing impaired category. In 2017, she became a double gold medallist at the 23rd Deaflympics in Samsun, Turkey. She was born with moderate hearing loss which deteriorated rapidly from about the age of 12. She is now profoundly deaf in one ear and severely deaf in the other.
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Geoff Holder
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Geoff Holder is a British author. He has written twenty non-fiction books on the paranormal, as well as on unusual and unexplained events and objects. His works include The Jacobites and the Supernatural and 101 Things to Do with a Stone Circle, Scottish Bodysnatchers and nine titles in The Guide to the Mysterious... series, covering subjects throughout Britain.
