100 Notable alumni of
University of Strathclyde
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The University of Strathclyde is 514th in the world, 190th in Europe, and 45th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Strathclyde sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Logie Baird
- Occupations
- physicistinventornon-fiction writerentrepreneur
- Biography
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John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
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Lauren Mayberry
- Enrolled in the University of Strathclyde
- Studied law
- Occupations
- journalistsinger-songwritersongwritersinger
- Biography
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Lauren Eve Mayberry is a Scottish singer, musician and songwriter. She is the vocalist and percussionist of the Scottish pop band Chvrches. In Chvrches, Mayberry co-writes and co-produces the songs with Iain Cook and Martin Doherty, and sings as the lead vocalist. She also plays drums and keyboards. Mayberry is a soprano.
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Omar Abdullah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Omar Abdullah is an Indian politician who served as former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference since 2009.
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Alex Kapranos
- Occupations
- singerguitaristsongwriter
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Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley is a Scottish musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist of Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand. He has also been a part of the supergroups FFS and BNQT.
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Aamer Anwar
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- lawyer
- Biography
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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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Ed Byrne
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- television actorscreenwritercomedianactor
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Edward Cathal Byrne is an Irish actor and comedian. He has presented the British television shows Just for Laughs and Uncut! Best Unseen Ads, has been a guest on numerous television panel games and has appeared on a number of television cooking shows.
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Cillian Sheridan
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- Gaelic football playerassociation football player
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Cillian Sheridan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward.
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Rajiv Mehrishi
- Occupations
- Indian Administrative Servicecivil servant
- Biography
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Rajiv Mehrishi was born on 8 August 1955 in Rajasthan. He was the 13th Comptroller and Auditor General of India and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors. He is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1978 batch belonging to the Rajasthan cadre.
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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
- Occupations
- lawyersolicitorpoliticianactorjournalist
- Biography
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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh OBE WS NP is a Scottish politician, serving as chair of the Alba Party since 2021. She was also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2015 to 2017. A former member of the Scottish Conservatives, Labour, and the Scottish National Party (SNP), Ahmed-Sheikh served as the SNP's Trade and Investment spokesperson, Deputy Shadow Leader of the House in the House of Commons, and the SNP's National Women's and Equalities Convener. A solicitor and businessperson, and a former actress, Ahmed-Sheikh founded and formerly chaired the Scottish Asian Women's Association.
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David Mundell
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- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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David Gordon Mundell, is a Scottish politician and solicitor who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister, formally coming out in 2016.
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John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith
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- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith is a British politician and life peer who has served as Lord Speaker since 2021. He was a member of Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative Party from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West Dunbartonshire. He also served as Chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee. Following his appointment to the House of Lords, McFall served as Senior Deputy Speaker from 2016 to 2021 before succeeding Lord Fowler as Lord Speaker.
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Julie Fowlis
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwritermusician
- Biography
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Julie Fowlis is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
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Denise Mina
- Occupations
- university teachercomics writernovelistplaywrightwriter
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Denise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir, she has also written for comic books, including 13 issues of Hellblazer.
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Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton
- Occupations
- aristocratpolitician
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Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton, styled as Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden between 1984 and 1986, is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the eldest son of the Conservative politician Maurice Macmillan and grandson of prime minister Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton.
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Brian Souter
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Sir Brian Souter is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Dame Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd, and the Souter Charitable Trust.
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Paul Laverty
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- lawyerhumanitarianscreenwriteractor
- Biography
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Paul Laverty is a screenwriter and lawyer best known for his screenplays for films directed by Ken Loach.
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Jim Murphy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Francis Murphy is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 to 2010. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire, formerly Eastwood, from 1997 to 2015. He identifies as a social democrat and has expressed support for a foreign policy of Western interventionism. He has been described as being on the political right of the Labour Party.
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Robert Stevenson
- Occupations
- inventorengineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Robert Stevenson, FRSE, FGS, FRAS, FSA Scot, MWS was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses. His works include the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
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Andrew O'Hagan
- Occupations
- writereditornovelistliterary criticjournalist
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Andrew O'Hagan is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. Three of his novels have been nominated for the Booker Prize and he has won several awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
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Iain Stewart
- Occupations
- television presentergeologist
- Biography
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Iain Simpson Stewart is a Scottish geologist who is currently Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability at the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. He is a UNESCO Chair in Geoscience and Society and formerly a member of the Scientific Board of UNESCO's International Geoscience Programme. Described as geology's "rock star", Stewart is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC, notably the BAFTA nominated Earth: The Power of the Planet (2007).
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Angus MacNeil
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- politician
- Biography
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Angus Brendan MacNeil is a Scottish politician serving as the independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Na h-Eileanan an Iar covering the Outer Hebrides. He was elected as the Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate in 2005. He was re-elected for the party at the subsequent four elections, but was suspended for one week from the party's Parliamentary group in July 2023, after which he decided not to rejoin, leading to his suspension and later expulsion from the party.
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Annabel Goldie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Annabel MacNicoll Goldie, Baroness Goldie is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2005 to 2011 and Minister of State for Defence from 2019 to 2023. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), as one of the additional members for the West Scotland region, from 1999 to 2016.
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Neill Collins
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Neill William Collins is a Scottish football manager and former player who is the head coach of EFL League One club Barnsley.
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Jackie Baillie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Jacqueline Marie Baillie is a politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2020. She has been Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Dumbarton constituency since 1999. She also served as acting Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in 2017 and again in 2021.
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Hugh Hendry
- Occupations
- financierhedge fund managerbusinessperson
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Hugh Hendry is a Scottish hedge fund manager and podcaster.
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Zulkieflimansyah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zulkieflimansyah is an Indonesian politician and academician who is the current Governor of West Nusa Tenggara, serving for the term 2018-2023. Before being elected as governor, he had been elected to the People's Representative Council thrice.
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Simon Stevens
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- international forum participant
- Biography
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Simon Laurence Stevens, Baron Stevens of Birmingham is Chair of Cancer Research UK and an independent member of the House of Lords. He served as the eighth Chief Executive of NHS England from 2014 to 2021.
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Henry Faulds
- Occupations
- scientistphysician
- Biography
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Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.
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Amy Callaghan
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amy Callaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the member of parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire since the 2019 general election. She unseated the then Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, with a narrow majority of 149 votes or 0.3%, overturning her majority of 5,339 votes two years earlier. She has been SNP Health spokesperson since 2023 and sits on the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
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Elish Angiolini
- Occupations
- college headlawyer
- Biography
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Lady Elish Frances Angiolini is a Scottish lawyer who currently serves as Lord Clerk Register. She was the Lord Advocate of Scotland from 2006 until 2011, having previously been Solicitor General since 2001. She was the first woman, the first procurator fiscal, and the first solicitor to hold either post. Since September 2012, Angiolini has been the Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has been a pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2017 and is an Honorary Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also served as Chancellor of University of the West of Scotland from 2013 to 2021. Since leaving office she has led several investigations and inquiries, including a review of deaths in police custody commissioned by the then-Home Secretary Theresa May. In June 2022, she was appointed a Lady of the Order of the Thistle by Queen Elizabeth II; she is currently the only non-royal woman appointed to the order. In June 2023, she was appointed to the office of Lord Clerk Register by King Charles III, the first woman to hold the role since its creation in the 13th century.
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Lisa Cameron
- Occupations
- politicianpsychologistclinical psychologist
- Biography
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Lisa Cameron is a Scottish politician and former consultant clinical psychologist who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow since winning the seat at the 2015 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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Patrick Grady
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patrick John Grady is a Scottish politician. He was elected at the 2015 UK general election as the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North. He was re-elected in 2017 and in 2019.
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Jim McColl
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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James Allan McColl OBE is a Scottish businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Clyde Blowers. He is a member of the Council of Economic Advisors.
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Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin
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- politicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin, KT, CH, FRSGS is a British businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999, appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in 2008, and appointed Knight of the Thistle in the 2014 New Year Honours. He was also appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016.
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Martin Kelner
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Martin Barry Kelner is a British journalist, author, comedian, singer, actor and TV presenter, whose primary career is in radio presenting. He has spent over 40 years hosting radio shows, mostly for the BBC, in particular Radio Leeds. He has been regularly accompanied throughout his career by comedy sidekick Edouard Lapaglie.
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Johann Lamont
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Johann MacDougall Lamont is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 to 2014. She was previously a junior Scottish Executive minister from 2004 to 2007 and Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 until her election to the leadership in 2011. In addition to her ministerial and leadership roles, she has been a campaigner on equality issues and violence against women throughout her political career.
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John Giannandrea
- Enrolled in the University of Strathclyde
- In 1988 studied computer science
- Occupations
- programmer
- Biography
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John Giannandrea is a Scottish software engineer and businessman. He co-founded Metaweb, led Google Search and artificial intelligence, was co-founder and CTO of the speech recognition company Tellme Networks, Chief Technologist of the web browser group at Netscape, senior engineer at General Magic, and is now a senior executive at Apple Inc. In December 2018, it was announced that Giannandrea had been appointed Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at Apple, the department rumored to have the most involvement with Apple’s electric car project.
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Dugald Clerk
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- inventor
- Biography
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Sir Dugald Clerk KBE, LLD FRS (1854, Glasgow – 1932, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878 and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson's University in Glasgow (now the University of Strathclyde), and Yorkshire College, Leeds (now the University of Leeds). He formed the intellectual property firm with George Croydon Marks, called Marks & Clerk. He was knighted on 24 August 1917.
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Muhammad Khan Achakzai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Khan Achakzai is a Pakistani politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Balochistan.
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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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Monica Lennon
- Occupations
- council memberpolitician
- Biography
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Monica Lennon is a Scottish politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2016. A member of the Scottish Labour Party, she has served in various roles on the Scottish Labour front bench. She was the Scottish Labour Spokesperson for Health and Sport from 2018 to 2021, Scottish Labour Spokesperson for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work from March 2021 to June 2021 and Scottish Labour Spokesperson for Net Zero, Energy and Transport from June 2021 to November 2021. She was a candidate in the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership election and currently serves on the Scottish Parliament's Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee.
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Stewart Stevenson
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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James Alexander Stewart Stevenson is a Scottish former politician who served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and Minister for Environment and Climate Change from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, formerly Banff and Buchan, from 2001 to 2021.
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Emma Pollock
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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Emma Pollock is a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician, and a founding member of the bands The Delgados and The Burns Unit. She is also one of the founders of The Fruit Tree Foundation project and a contributor to Vox Liminis, a project linking prison experience and songwriting.
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Malcolm Bruce
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
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John Macadam
- Occupations
- chemistphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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The Honorable Dr John Macadam, was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister, and honorary secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition. The genus Macadamia (macadamia nut) was named after him in 1857. He died at sea, on a voyage from Australia to New Zealand, aged 38.
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Alex Gray
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Alex Gray is a Scottish crime writer. She has published 19 novels, all set around Glasgow and featuring the character of Detective Chief Inspector Lorimer and his psychological profiler Solomon Brightman, the earlier novels being published by Canongate and Allison & Busby and later books by Little Brown. She has also published magazine articles, poetry and short stories as well as stories for BBC radio schools programmes.
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Carol Monaghan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carol Monaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North West in the general election in May 2015. She is the SNP Science, Innovation, Technology and Education spokesperson in the House of Commons.
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Brendan O'Hara
- Occupations
- television producerpolitician
- Biography
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Brendan O'Hara is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Argyll and Bute in 2015. He has been the SNP spokesperson for Foreign Affairs since September 2023. He served as the SNP Digital, Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson from 2017 to 2018, the SNP Defence spokesperson from 2015 to 2017, SNP International Development spokesperson from 2022 to 2023 and SNP Chief Whip in 2023.
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James Young
- Occupations
- chemistbusinesspersonengineer
- Biography
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James Young FRS FRSE FCS DL LLD was a Scottish chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal and oil shales. He is often referred to as Paraffin Young.
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Sarah Thornton
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- researcherethnographersociologist
- Biography
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Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored three books and many articles about artists, the art market, technology and design, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures, and ethnographic research methods.
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Iain Livingstone
- Occupations
- police officerassociation football player
- Biography
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Sir Iain Thomas Livingstone, is a retired Scottish police officer who served as Chief Constable of Police Scotland. He was previously Deputy Chief Constable Designate of the force. He was named as the next Chief Constable on 15 August 2018 and took up office formally on 27 August 2018. He retired from Police Scotland in August 2023.
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Ursula Wyss
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Ursula Wyss is a Swiss politician, economist and urban planner. She represented the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013. From January 2013 to December 2020 she was an executive member (Gemeinderätin) of the city of Bern.
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Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2003 and British High Commissioner to Australia from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts, previously Monklands East, from 1994 to 2005.
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John Barton
- Enrolled in the University of Strathclyde
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Robert John Orr Barton was a British businessman, who was chairman of Next plc and EasyJet.
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Maureen Watt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maureen Elizabeth Watt is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and former Minister for Mental Health in the Scottish Government. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) representing the constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine from 2011 to 2021 when she retired, having previously served as a regional member for North East Scotland from 2006 until 2011.
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Susan Aitken
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan Aitken is a Scottish politician who has served as Leader of Glasgow City Council since 2017. A member of the Scottish National Party, she has been the leader of the SNP group on the council since 2014 and a councillor for the Langside ward since 2012.
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Margaret Mitchell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janet Margaret Mitchell is a Scottish Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region from 2003 to 2021.
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William MacGregor
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianbotanist
- Biography
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Sir William MacGregor, GCMG, CB, AM, PC, FRSGS was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Lagos Colony, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland.
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Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Alexander Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme // GCON was a Nigerian politician who served as the first elected vice president of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983 during the Second Nigerian Republic under President Shehu Shagari as a member of the National Party of Nigeria.
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Neil Findlay
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Neil Findlay is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian from 2011 to 2021. A member of Scottish Labour, he was previously a councillor in West Lothian from 2003 to 2012.
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Arthur van Hoff
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Arthur van Hoff is a Dutch computer scientist and businessman.
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Tom Clarke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Thomas Clarke, CBE, PC, JP, KSG is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 until 2015, representing Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2005 until losing his seat to Philip Boswell of the SNP in the May 2015 general election.
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Ivan McKee
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ivan Paul McKee is a Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise since 2021, having previously served as Minister for Trade, Innovation and Public Finance, 2020-21 and Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation from 2018 to 2020. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Provan since 2016.
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John Scott
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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John Peter Scott is an English sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology, social stratification, the history of sociology, and social network analysis. He is currently working independently, and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Leicester, Essex, and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2007), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected 2005), and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2003). He has been a member of the British Sociological Association since 1970. In 2015 he became Chair of Section S4 of the British Academy. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Essex University.
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Willie Bain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Thomas Bain is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he was a Shadow DEFRA Minister from 2010 to 2011 and a Shadow Scotland Minister from 2011 to 2013.
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Daniel Johnson
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Guy Johnson is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Southern constituency since 2016.
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Cat Boyd
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Cat Boyd is a Scottish trade union activist and a co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign and RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance.
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Manuel Cortes
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Manuel Cortes is a British trade unionist who served as the General Secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) between 2011 and 2022.
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Andy Love
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andy Love is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton from 1997 to 2015.
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Robert Wringham
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Robert Wringham is a British writer, best known for his humor writing and as the editor of New Escapologist magazine. His first collection, A Loose Egg, was shortlisted for the 2015 Leacock Medal. He has also written two histories of alternative comedy and a comic novel.
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Ainun Nishat
- Occupations
- expertengineeracademic
- Biography
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Ainun Nishat is a water resource and climate change specialist from Bangladesh. As of 2017, he is serving as a professor emeritus of BRAC University. He represented Bangladesh at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009, among other international climate-related conferences.
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Teuea Toatu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teuea Toatu is an I-Kiribati politician who is the current vice president and minister for Finance & Economic Development in the Cabinet of Kiribati. He is 1 of 3 Members of the House of Assembly representing the constituency of Abaiang. He was appointed vice-president on 19 June 2019. He graduated with a BA in accounting and economics form the University of the South Pacific in 1980, and completed a certificate in computing at the University of East Anglia in 1984. He subsequently completed his MSc at the University of Strathclyde and his PhD at the Australian National University.
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Andrew Kerr
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- journalistnewspaper editornews presenter
- Biography
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Andrew Kerr is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC Scotland. Kerr is currently a political correspondent and presenter and presents and reports across a variety of different BBC Scotland radio and television programmes. On television, he has anchored both BBC Reporting Scotland and Scotland 2015. On BBC Radio Scotland, he has presented Good Morning Scotland and Newsdrive. He has also presented on the Scottish edition of Sunday Politics, Newsnight Scotland and Politics Scotland.
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Frank McAveety
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank McAveety is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of Glasgow City Council from 2015 to 2017. He has been a councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow. He was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Shettleston constituency from 1999 to 2011.
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Robert Renwick
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Robert Peter Renwick is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and FINA world championships, as well as Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. Renwick is a world champion and a Commonwealth Games gold medallist. He first rose to prominence by swimming the anchor leg in the Scottish men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games as a 17-year-old. The team won silver, after he was narrowly touched out by the English relay team. Renwick featured in every major Olympic or world championship for Britain from 2007 to 2016.
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K M Baharul Islam
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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K M Baharul Islam is presently the Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He served as the Dean during 2019-2021 at the same institute. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on 18 March 2020. Since October 2021, he is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
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Joyce Msuya
- Occupations
- environmental scientistmicrobiologist
- Biography
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Joyce Msuya is a Tanzanian microbiologist and environmental scientist who has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs since 2021. From 2018 to 2021, she served as the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.
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Richard Owen
- Occupations
- geologistnaturalistwriter
- Biography
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Richard Owen was a Scottish-born geologist, natural scientist, educator, and American military officer who arrived in the United States in 1828 and settled at New Harmony, Indiana. Owen, who was trained as a natural scientist and physician, served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. After the Civil War, Owen taught at Indiana University for fifteen years (1864–79) and chaired its natural science department. While retaining his faculty position at IU, Owen also served as Purdue University's first president (1872–74). During the interwar years, Owen taught natural science at the Western Military Institute in Kentucky and after its merger with the University of Nashville in Tennessee. In addition, Owen assisted his brother, David Dale Owen, with early geological studies of the Northwest Territory. In 1860 Richard Owen succeeded his brother to become Indiana's second state geologist. His research interests included geology, meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, and seismology. Owen authored scientific works that included geological surveys of several U.S. states.
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Ann McKechin
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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Ann McKechin is a former British Labour Party politician and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Maryhill from 2001 until 2005 and Glasgow North from 2005 to 2015. She was a junior minister under Gordon Brown before becoming a member of Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband. She lost her seat to the Scottish National Party in the landslide at the 2015 general election.
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Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik is a British Conservative politician and Life Peer. She served as a Member of European Parliament for Scotland from 2017 to 2020.
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Philippe Baptiste
- Enrolled in the University of Strathclyde
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- researcherengineer
- Biography
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Philippe Baptiste is a French engineer, academic and researcher. Baptiste is most well known as the president of the National Centre for Space Studies CNES in addition to his several books and scientific publications and communications in the field of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operational research and artificial intelligence.
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Luhaga Mpina
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luhaga Joelson Mpina is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kisesa constituency since 2005. He was the Minister of Livestock and Fisheries for 3 years in the Magufuli cabinet.
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Mark Griffin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark Griffin is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2011. He is married to Stephanie and has three children.
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John Stenhouse
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS was a Scottish chemist. In 1854, he invented one of the first practical respirators.
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Stephen Adei
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- writerorganizational founderIndependent inventoruniversity teacherbusiness incubator
- Biography
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Stephen Adei is a Ghanaian economist, administrator and writer who is a former Director General and Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He is a former chairperson of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) under the Nana Akufo-Addo government.
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Jim Eadie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jim Eadie is a Scottish politician who was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Southern constituency 2011–16. In 2021, he left the SNP and joined the Alba Party.
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Sandra Osborne
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- politician
- Biography
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Sandra Currie Osborne is a Scottish Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock from the 2005 to 2015 general elections. She was first elected as MP for the Ayr constituency in 1997, and resigned from a government job in 2003 over the Iraq War. She was a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013. She was a member of the Defence Select Committee 2010-13 and was a member of the Council of Europe.
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Willie Coffey
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- politician
- Biography
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William Lynch Coffey is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley since 2011, and previously Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 2007 to 2011, before boundary changes.
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Michael Connarty
- Occupations
- politicianschool teacher
- 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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Roza Salih
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Roza Salih is a Kurdish-born, Scottish politician and human rights activist. In 2005, at the age of 15, she co-founded the Glasgow Girls with fellow pupils from Drumchapel High School. The Glasgow Girls campaigned to stop the UK Border Agency carrying out dawn raids and detaining and then deporting children, successfully preventing the deportation of their school friend, Agnesa Murselaj, a Roma from Kosovo. Salih, who was born in Southern Kurdistan, is a co-founder of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan.
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Zoë Strachan
- Occupations
- librettistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Zoë Strachan is a Scottish novelist and journalist. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow.
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Fulton MacGregor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fulton James MacGregor MSP is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the constituency of Coatbridge and Chryston since 2016. He serves on the Justice and Education & Skills committees in the Scottish Parliament.
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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn
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- philanthropistindustrialistpoliticianentrepreneur
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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, DL, known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was a British industrialist, founding the eponymous William Beardmore and Company.
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Fiona McLeod
- Occupations
- librarianpolitician
- Biography
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Fiona Grace McLeod is a Scottish politician who served as acting Minister for Children and Young People from 2014 to 2015. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency from 2011 to 2016, having previously represented the West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.
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Roderick Campbell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roderick Alexander McRobie Campbell is a retired Scottish National Party politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Fife constituency from 2011 to 2016.
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James Craig Annan
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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James Craig Annan was a pioneering Scottish-born photographer and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
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James Sheridan Muspratt
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Dr James Sheridan Muspratt FRSE FRSD was an Irish-born research chemist and teacher. His most influential publication was his two-volume book Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures (1857–1860).
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Richard Price
- Occupations
- poettranslator
- Biography
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Richard John Price is a British poet, novelist, and translator.
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Ross D. King
- Occupations
- researchercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Ross Donald King is a Professor of Machine Intelligence at Chalmers University of Technology.
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James Gimzewski
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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James Kazimierz Gimzewski FRS FREng FInstP is a Scottish physicist of Polish descent who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy.
