100 Notable alumni of
University of Strathclyde
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The University of Strathclyde is 523rd in the world, 196th in Europe, and 44th 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
- writerentrepreneurphysicist
- Biography
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John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical 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
- percussionistsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Lauren Eve Mayberry is a Scottish musician who is the vocalist and percussionist of the 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. Outside of music, she is an active feminist and philanthropist.
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Omar Abdullah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Omar Abdullah is an Indian politician serving as the chief minister of union territory of Jammu and Kashmir since 2024 and also as the leader of the house in J&K Legislative Assembly. He had previously served as the 8th chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir between 2009 and 2014, and is the current vice president of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, a position he has held since 2009 and also previously served as its president. Abdullah also served as a member of parliament in the Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2009, representing the Srinagar parliamentary constituency, and was a union minister of State for External Affairs.
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Alex Kapranos
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- singersongwriterguitarist
- Biography
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Alexander Paul Kapranos is a Scottish musician. He is the lead vocalist 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
- Occupations
- 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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- screenwritertelevision actoractorcomedian
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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
- Occupations
- association football playerGaelic football player
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Cillian Sheridan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Highland League club Brechin City.
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John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith
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- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, PC, is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, from 2021 to 2026. 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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Rajiv Mehrishi
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- civil servantIndian Administrative Service
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Rajiv Mehrishi is a retired IAS officer of the 1978 batch belonging to the Rajasthan cadre who served as the 13th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors.
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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
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- politiciansolicitorlawyerjournalistactor
- Biography
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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh OBE WS NP is a Scottish politician, solicitor, and former actress, who has served 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 National Party (SNP), Ahmed-Sheikh served as the SNP's Trade and Investment spokesperson, Deputy Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, and National Women's and Equalities Convener.
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Julie Fowlis
- Occupations
- singermusiciansinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Julie Fowlis FRSE is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
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David Mundell
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- Biography
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David Gordon Mundell, WS is a Scottish Conservative Party politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. He previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister, coming out in 2016.
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Denise Mina
- Occupations
- playwrightnovelistcomics writeruniversity teachercriminologist
- Biography
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Denise Mina is a Scottish writer active since 1996. Her debut novel Garnethill was a bestseller and won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for best debut. It was followed by Exile and Resolution, completing a trilogy of novels featuring Maureen O’Donnell, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
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Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton
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- politicianaristocrat
- Biography
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Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton, styled as Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden between 1984 and 1986, is a British Conservative Party politician and former hereditary peer, and Member of the European Parliament.
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Andrew O'Hagan
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- literary criticnovelisteditorwriterjournalist
- Biography
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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 Prize.
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Paul Laverty
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- actorjuristlawyerscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
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Paul Laverty is an Irish and Scottish screenwriter and lawyer best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. He has won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and was a nominee for the Best Screenplay award at the BAFTAs.
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Robert Stevenson
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineerinventor
- Biography
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Robert Stevenson FRSE FGS FRAS was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses. His works include the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
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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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Brian Souter
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Sir Brian Souter is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, 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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Neill Collins
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- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Neill William Collins is a Scottish football manager and former player who is the head coach of USL Championship club Sacramento Republic.
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Elish Angiolini
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- lawyercollege head
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Lady Elish Frances Margaret Angiolini is a Scottish lawyer currently serving as Lord Clerk Register, the first woman to hold the role since its creation in the 13th century. She was appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the British Monarch's representative to the Assembly, in 2025, succeeding Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh. Angiolini was a pro-vice chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2017 to 2025, and served as the Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 2012 to 2025; she was also a candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election. From 2011 until June 2022, she was styled as Dame Elish Angiolini.
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Angus MacNeil
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Angus Brendan MacNeil is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Na h-Eileanan an Iar from 2005 to 2024.
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Iain Stewart
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- geologisttelevision presenter
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Iain Simpson Stewart MBE FGS FRSE 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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Jackie Baillie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Jacqueline Marie Baillie DBE is a Scottish 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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Zulkieflimansyah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zulkieflimansyah, sometimes colloquially called Bang Zul, is an Indonesian politician and academic who is the latest Governor proper 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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Annabel Goldie
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- 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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Philippe Baptiste
- Enrolled in the University of Strathclyde
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherengineer
- Biography
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Philippe Baptiste is a French engineer, academic and researcher who has been serving as Minister responsible for Higher Education and Research in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou since 2024, reporting to Minister Elizabeth Borne.
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Hugh Hendry
- Occupations
- hedge fund managerfinancierbusinessperson
- Biography
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Hugh Hendry is a Scottish hedge fund manager and podcaster.
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Simon Stevens
- Biography
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Simon Laurence Stevens, Baron Stevens of Birmingham is Chair of the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Chair of Cancer Research UK, Chair of King's College London, and an independent member of the House of Lords. In Parliament he focuses on defence and international relations (particularly maritime issues), science, the environment, health, and higher education policy. Stevens was for seven years previously Chief Executive of NHS England. Earlier in his career he was senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister, a senior executive in the private sector, and worked internationally including in Guyana, Malawi, and the United States.
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Amy Callaghan
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amy Callaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the member of parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire from 2019 until 2024. 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 was SNP Health spokesperson since and sat on the Health and Social Care Select Committee during her time in Parliament.
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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 British software engineer and technology executive. He co-founded Metaweb and previously served in senior engineering roles at Tellme Networks, Netscape, and General Magic. Giannandrea joined Google in 2010 and later became the company’s chief of search and artificial intelligence.
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Lisa Cameron
- Occupations
- clinical psychologistpsychologistpolitician
- 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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Henry Faulds
- Occupations
- physicianscientist
- 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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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 was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors.
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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, but chose not to stand again in 2024.
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Martin Kelner
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- radio personalitytelevision actor
- 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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Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin is a Scottish 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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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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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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Scott Cummings
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Scott James Cummings is a Scottish professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for United Rugby Championship club Glasgow Warriors and the Scotland national team.
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Dugald Clerk
- Occupations
- 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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Monica Lennon
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- 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 Labour Co-op, she has served in various roles on the front bench.
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Muhammad Khan Achakzai
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- 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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Emma Pollock
- Occupations
- guitaristmusiciansinger-songwriter
- 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 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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Brendan O'Hara
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision producer
- Biography
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Brendan O'Hara is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and former TV producer. He serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber since the 2024 election, having previously represented the Argyll and Bute constituency from 2015 to 2024.
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John Macadam
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- physicianchemistpolitician
- Biography
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John Macadam, was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical doctor, 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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Malcolm Bruce
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, PC is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and was the chairman of the International Development Select Committee from 2005 to 2015. He was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from January 2014 to May 2015. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours. He was also previously President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats until being succeeded by Councillor Eileen McCartin from 1 January 2016.
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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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Stewart Stevenson
- Occupations
- bankerengineerpolitician
- 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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James Young
- Occupations
- chemistengineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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James Young 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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Carol Monaghan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carol Monaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North West from 2015 until the seat's abolition in 2024. She was the SNP Science, Innovation, Technology and Education spokesperson in the House of Commons.
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Jack Sim
- Occupations
- philanthropistbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Jack Sim Juek Wah, also known as Mr Toilet, is a Singaporean entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the founder of the World Toilet Organization and World Toilet Day initiative. He is also the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore.
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Sarah Thornton
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- ethnographerresearchersociologist
- Biography
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Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored four books and many articles about artists, the art market, bodies, people, culture, technology and design, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures, and ethnographic research methods.
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Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- 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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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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Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- 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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Ursula Wyss
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- 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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Teuea Toatu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teuea Toatu is an I-Kiribati politician who has been the 7th Vice President of Kiribati since 2019, and a member of the House of Assembly and Minister for Finance and Economic Development since 2016. Prior to his tenure in the assembly he worked in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and in other economic positions in Kiribati.
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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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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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Luhaga Mpina
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Luhaga Joelson Mpina is a Tanzanian 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. In August 2025, he left the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and joined the Alliance for Change and Transparency. However, he was barred from running for president in the 2025 Tanzanian general election over complaints that the party had failed to comply with nomination procedures in the primaries.
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William MacGregor
- Occupations
- botanical collectorscientific collectorpoliticianphysicianbotanist
- Biography
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Sir William MacGregor, GCMG, CB, AM, PC, FRSGS was a Scottish colonial administrator who was Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Lagos Colony, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland.
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Ivan McKee
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Ivan Paul McKee is a Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Public Finance since May 2024. He previously served as Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise from 2021 to 2023. 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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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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Neil Findlay
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- 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. Formerly a member of Scottish Labour, he resigned from the party in March 2025.
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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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Daniel Johnson
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
- 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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Ainun Nishat
- Occupations
- expertacademicengineer
- 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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John Scott
- Occupations
- sociologistsociology professor
- Biography
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John Peter Scott CBE FRSA FBA FAcSS 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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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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Mohammed bin Saud Al-Tamimi
- Enrolled in the University of Strathclyde
- In 2005 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- civil servantengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammed Altamimi is the Governor of Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) since October 2019, on the Grade “Excellent”; and the acting CEO of the Saudi Space Agency (SSA) since 2021.
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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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Joyce Msuya
- Occupations
- microbiologistenvironmental scientist
- 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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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 59)
- 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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Andrew Kerr
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- news presenternewspaper editorjournalist
- 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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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 Director, Institute of Management Technology Hyderabad, India. He was a Professor and the Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur from July 2012 to Jan 2025. 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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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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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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Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik CBE 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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Richard Owen
- Occupations
- naturalistgeologistwriter
- 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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Robert Renwick
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- 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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Ann McKechin
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- 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 Miliband shadow cabinet. She lost her seat to the Scottish National Party in the landslide at the 2015 general election.
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Andrew Oswald
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- 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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Mark Griffin
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- 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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Roza Salih
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Roza Salih is an Iraqi-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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Stephen Adei
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- economistbusiness incubatoruniversity teachertheatre entrepreneurwriter
- 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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John Stenhouse
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS was a British chemist. In 1854, he invented one of the first practical respirators.
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Gustavo Leite
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Gustavo Alfredo Leite Gusinky is a Paraguayan businessman and politician, currently serving as Paraguay's ambassador to the U.S. since 2023.
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Sandra Osborne
- Occupations
- 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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Zoë Strachan
- Occupations
- librettistwriterjournalist
- 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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Jim Eadie
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- 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 from 2011 to 2016. In 2021, he left the SNP and joined the Alba Party.
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Fulton MacGregor
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- politician
- Biography
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Fulton James MacGregor 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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Willie Coffey
- Occupations
- 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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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn
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- industrialistphilanthropistentrepreneurpolitician
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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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Michael Connarty
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- 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 East Falkirk from 2005 until 2015, and Falkirk East (1992–2005).
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Clive Soley, Baron Soley
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- bloggerpolitician
- Biography
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Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley is a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2005, and later as a Member of the House of Lords until 2023.
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Richard Price
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- translatorpoet
- Biography
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Richard John Price is a British poet, novelist, and translator. From 1988 to 2024 he was a librarian at the British Library, London.
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Max Williamson
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- rugby union player
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Max Williamson is a Scotland international rugby union player who plays for Glasgow Warriors at the Lock position.
