15 Notable alumni of
University of Sunderland
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The University of Sunderland is 1811th in the world, 610th in Europe, and 110th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from the University of Sunderland sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tony Scott
- Occupations
- directorfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Anthony David Leighton Scott was a British film director and producer.
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Jordan North
- Occupations
- radio personalitypodcaster
- Biography
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Jordan Levi North is a British radio DJ and television presenter from York, England. Since April 2024, he has been the host of Capital Breakfast, and formerly hosted lunchtime and drivetime shows on BBC Radio 1.
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Steve Cram
- Occupations
- middle-distance runnermarathon runnertrack and field coachathletics competitor
- Biography
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Stephen Cram, CBE is a British retired track and field athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", after his home town, Cram set world records in the 1,500 m, 2,000 m, and the mile during a 19-day period in the summer of 1985. He was the first man to run 1,500 m under 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He won the 1,500 m gold medal at the 1983 World Championships and the 1,500 m silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
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Ross Pearson
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
- Biography
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Ross Pearson is a retired English mixed martial artist and professional boxer. A 26-fight veteran of the UFC, he was a three-time "Fight of the Night" winner and was the lightweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 9.
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Ortis Deley
- Occupations
- presenterdisc jockeytelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Ortis Deley is a British television presenter, comedian, singer, radio DJ and actor. He is of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent, best known for presenting the Children's BBC Saturday morning flagship series Live & Kicking. As of November 2021, he is a presenter on The Gadget Show. He has also co-presented Police Interceptors in the UK, with Rick Edwards. He appeared on Police Interceptors special edition where he drove around with the Cleveland and Durham specialist operations unit as well as observing the operations of the control centre.
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Terry Deary
- Occupations
- children's writertheatrical directorstage actorwriterhistorian
- Biography
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William Terence Deary is a British children's author of 351 books, selling over 38 million copies in over 45 languages, best known as the writer of the Horrible Histories series. Since 1994 he has been one of Britain's best-selling authors. In 2012, he was the tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and was voted Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author of the 20th Century by Books for Keeps magazine.
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Carl I. Hagen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carl Ivar Hagen is a Norwegian politician and former Vice President of the Storting, the Norwegian parliament. He was the leader of the Progress Party from 1978 to 2006, when he stepped down in favour of Siv Jensen. Under his leadership, he was the undisputed leader and, in many ways, personally controlled its ideology and policies.
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Azzam Tamimi
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientistacademic
- Biography
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Azzam Tamimi is a British-Palestinian Jordanian academic and political activist. He is currently a freelance presenter at Alhiwar TV Channel. He headed the Institute of Islamic Political Thought until 2008. Tamimi has written several books on Middle Eastern and Islamic politics, including "Power-Sharing Islam", "Islam and Secularism in the Middle East", Rachid Ghannouchi, Democrat within Islamism and Hamas: A History from Within.
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Tony Lawson
- Enrolled in the University of Sunderland
- 1992-1997 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Tony Lawson is a British philosopher and economist. He is professor of economics and philosophy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and co-founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. Lawson is noted for his contributions to heterodox economics and to philosophical issues in social theorising, most especially to social ontology.
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Mike Rumbles
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael John Rumbles is a former Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. He served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Scotland, from 2016 to 2021. He previously represented West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine before being defeated at the 2011 election in the successor constituency of Aberdeenshire West).
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Andrew Singleton
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- neurogeneticistresearcherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Andrew B. Singleton is a British neurogeneticist currently working in the USA. He was born in Guernsey, the Channel Islands in 1972, where he lived until he was 18 years old. His secondary education was conducted at the Guernsey Grammar School. He earned a first class degree in Applied Physiology from Sunderland University and his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where he studied the genetics of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias at the Medical Research Council Neurochemical Pathology Unit. He moved to the United States in 1999, where he began working at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida studying the genetic basis of Parkinson's disease, ataxia, and dystonia. He moved to the National Institutes of Health in 2001 to head the newly formed Molecular Genetics unit within the Laboratory of Neurogenetics. In 2006 he took over as Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and became an NIH Distinguished Investigator in the intramural program at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in 2017. In 2020 he stepped down as the Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and became the Acting Director of the newly formed Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias at the NIA. In 2021 he became the Director of CARD.
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Peter McArdle
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Peter McArdle is an English artist, member of the Stuckists art group, and gallery owner.
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Alex Hanna
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Alex Hanna is an English artist. He studied Fine Art at Sunderland Polytechnic from 1983 to 1986. His paintings display arrangements of disposable packaging and objects which have little or no material value. These objects are arranged in a traditional still life format and painted using process based and traditional painting techniques.
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Brendan Cleary
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Brendan Cleary is a poet who was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland but lives in England.
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Michael Short
- Enrolled in the University of Sunderland
- 1995-1999 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- 1999-2003 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- engineerresearcherprofessor
- Biography
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Michael Short is Professor of Control Engineering and Systems Informatics and leads the Centre for Sustainable Engineering at Teesside University in the UK. He received a BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in 1999 and a PhD (Robotics) in 2003 from the University of Sunderland. In 2012 he was also awarded a PGCHE from Teesside University. He was previously at the University of Leicester until 2009, and was made Reader (Professor) in January 2015 and full (Chair) Professor (by Research) in August 2020. Michael is also a time-served automation and process control engineer, with eight years' industrial experience.
