100 Notable alumni of
University of Sussex
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The University of Sussex is 243rd in the world, 83rd in Europe, and 17th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Sussex sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the University of Sussex won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Billy Idol
- Occupations
- singersongwriterguitarist
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William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English rock singer. He achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X. He later embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made him a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in America.
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Walter O'Brien
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- television producercomputer securitywhite hatchief executive officer
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Walter O'Brien is an Irish businessman and information technologist. He was also the executive producer and loose inspiration for the television series Scorpion. He is known for his claims of various accomplishments (such as a childhood IQ of 197) that have not withstood scrutiny.
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Kemi Badenoch
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Graduated with Master of Engineering
- Occupations
- authorpolitician
- Biography
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Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since November 2024. Badenoch previously worked in the Cabinet for prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Essex, previously Saffron Walden, in 2017.
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Jim Carter
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractorlighting designer
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James Edward Carter is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Mr Carson in the ITV historical drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), which earned him four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012–2015). He reprised the role in the feature films Downton Abbey (2019), Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) and Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025).
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Ian McEwan
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- playwrightfilm screenwriternovelistfilm producerauthor
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Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
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Bob Mortimer
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- screenwritertelevision presenterwritercomedianactor
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Robert Renwick Mortimer is an English comedian, television presenter, writer and actor. He is one half of the comedy double act Reeves and Mortimer with Vic Reeves, and appears in the Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing series with Paul Whitehouse. He has appeared on TV panel shows such as Would I Lie to You? and Taskmaster.
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Sara Pascoe
- Occupations
- comedianscreenwriterwriteropinion journaliststand-up comedian
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Sara Patricia Pascoe is an English comedian, actress, presenter and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster for Channel 4 and QI for BBC Two.
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Thabo Mbeki
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1962 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- ministereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician and economist who served as the president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC). Before that, he was deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999.
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Lucy Worsley
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- 1997-2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- historianwritertelevision presenter
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Lucy Worsley is an English historian, author, curator, television presenter and podcaster. She was the joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces from 2003 to 2024, but is best known amongst UK television viewers as a presenter of BBC Television and Channel 5 series on historical topics.
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Noel Tata
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Noel Naval Tata is an Indian businessman of Parsi descent. He is the chairman of the Tata Sons, Trent and Tata Investment Corporation, the managing director of Tata International, and the vice chairman of Titan Company and Tata Steel.
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Jessie Ware
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- composersinger-songwriterrecording artistsinger
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Jessica Lois Ware is a British singer and songwriter. She came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album, Devotion (2012), which peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and produced the single "Wildest Moments". Her second studio album, Tough Love (2014), reached number nine in the UK and produced the singles "Tough Love" and "Say You Love Me". Her third studio album, Glasshouse (2017), reached number seven in the UK.
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Frankie Boyle
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- television presenterautobiographercomedianjournaliststand-up comedian
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Francis Martin Patrick Boyle is a Scottish comedian and writer. Boyle first gained widespread recognition as a regular panellist on the comedy show Mock the Week from 2005 until 2009. He then created and starred in the Channel 4 sketch show Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights (2010) and BBC Two's chat show Frankie Boyle's New World Order (2017–2022). In 2020, he presented a four-part series on BBC Two, Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland. He has toured and released several stand-up specials. Boyle has been involved in public controversies due to his humour.
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Bertie Carvel
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Robert Hugh Carvel is a British actor. He has twice won a Laurence Olivier Award: for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, and for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Rupert Murdoch in Ink. For the latter role, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.
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Philippa Gregory
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Philippa Gregory CBE is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two films.
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Tony Banks
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- guitaristsongwriterpianistcomposerkeyboardist
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Anthony George Banks is an English musician primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis. Banks is also a prolific solo artist, releasing six solo studio albums that range through progressive rock, pop, and classical music.
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Clive Myrie
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Clive Augustus Myrie is a British journalist, newsreader and presenter for the BBC. He is one of the channel's chief news presenters and correspondents, as well as its election results presenter. Since August 2021, he has been the host of the long-running BBC quiz shows Mastermind and Celebrity Mastermind.
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Steve Toussaint
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Stephen Toussaint is a British actor and writer. He first gained prominence through his role in the ITV crime drama The Knock (1994–2000). Currently, he plays Lord Corlys Velaryon in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon.
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Cariad Lloyd
- Occupations
- actorcomedianimproviser
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Katie Cariad Lloyd is a British comedian, actress, writer, and podcaster. She is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious, the creator and host of Griefcast, and an improv teacher.
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Michael Fabricant
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- politician
- Biography
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Sir Michael Louis David Fabricant is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lichfield in Staffordshire, formerly Mid Staffordshire, from 1992 until his defeat in 2024.
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Virginia Wade
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Sarah Virginia Wade is a British former professional tennis player. She won three major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.
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Hilary Benn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hilary James Wedgwood Benn is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds South, formerly Leeds Central, since 1999. He previously served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2001 to 2010.
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Mura Masa
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- composerrecording artistrecord producerdisc jockey
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Alexander George Edward Crossan, better known by his stage name Mura Masa, is a Guernsey-born electronic record producer and songwriter. Crossan is best known for his 2016 song "Lovesick" (featuring ASAP Rocky), which peaked at number 59 on the UK singles chart. He produced English singer PinkPantheress' 2022 single "Boy's a Liar", which peaked at number two on the chart, while its remix with American rapper Ice Spice peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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Nigel Planer
- Occupations
- comediantelevision actorwriterfilm actorplaywright
- Biography
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Nigel George Planer is a British actor, writer and musician. His television credits include playing Neil in the sitcom The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in the sitcom Filthy, Rich and Catflap and narrating the children's animated series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has also appeared in Hairspray. He won a BRIT award in 1984 and has been nominated for Olivier, TMA, WhatsOnStage, and BAFTA awards.
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Bruno Heller
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- film producerexecutive producerfilm directorshowrunnertelevision producer
- Biography
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Bruno Heller is a British screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series Rome, the CBS television series The Mentalist, the FOX television series Gotham, based on the Batman franchise, and co-creating the Gotham prequel television series Pennyworth, based on the Batman and V for Vendetta franchises, for Epix and HBO Max.
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Carlos Alvarado Quesada
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist, and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC), he previously served as Minister of Labor and Social Security under President Luis Guillermo Solís.
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Raj Rajaratnam
- Occupations
- financierbanker
- Biography
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Rajakumaran Rajaratnam is a Sri Lankan-American former hedge fund manager and founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm. He is also the author of his memoir, Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon.
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Mohammad Shtayyeh
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- economistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Palestine from 2019 to 2024. On 26 February 2024, he and his government announced their resignation, remaining in office in a demissionary capacity until a new government was formed on 31 March 2024.
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Guy Standing
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistteacher
- Biography
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Guy Standing FAcSS is a British labour economist. He is a professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He created the term precariat to describe an emerging class of workers who are harmed by low wages and poor job security as a consequence of globalisation. Since the 2011 publication of his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, his work has focused on the precariat, unconditional basic income, deliberative democracy, and the commons.
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Andrew Morton
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- biographerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Andrew David Morton is an English journalist and writer who has published biographies of royal figures such as Diana, Princess of Wales, and celebrity subjects including Tom Cruise, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Monica Lewinsky; several of his books have been unauthorised and contain contested assertions.
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Norman Davies
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1966 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ivor Norman Richard Davies CMG FBA FRHistS is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern Europe and is UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, professor emeritus at University College London, a visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe, and an honorary fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014.
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Owen Smith
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- television producerpoliticianjournalist
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Owen Smith is a British lobbyist and former politician. A member of the Labour Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 2010 to 2019.
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Guy Scott
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- ministereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Guy Lindsay Scott is a Zambian politician, who served as acting president of Zambia from 2014 to 2015, and was the 12th vice president from 2011 to 2014. Scott became acting president upon Michael Sata's death in office on 28 October 2014. This made him the first head of state of European descent in mainland Africa since F. W. de Klerk in 1989.
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Hélio Oiticica
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- filmmakerperformance artistpaintersculptordraftsperson
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Hélio Oiticica was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art," which included Parangolés and Penetrables, like the famous Tropicália. Oiticica was also a filmmaker and writer.
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Jem
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- songwritersinger-songwriterrecording artistsinger
- Biography
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Jemma Gwynne Griffiths, known by her stage name Jem, is a Welsh singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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A. C. Grayling
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- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE FRSA FRSL is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland (now Malawi). Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities (now Northeastern University London), an independent undergraduate college in London. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.
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Angela Barnes
- Occupations
- actorcomedianstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Angela Barnes is an English stand-up comedian, mostly known for her appearances on Mock the Week.
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Peter Kyle
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- politician
- Biography
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Peter John Kyle is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade since September 2025. He previously served as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove and Portslade, formerly Hove, since 2015.
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Michael Buerk
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- broadcasternews presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Michael Duncan Buerk is a British journalist and newsreader. He presented BBC News from 1973 to 2002 and has been the host of BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze since 1990. He was also the presenter of BBC One's docudrama 999 from 1992 to 2003. From 2017, Buerk also presented the TV programme Royal Recipes which ran for two series.
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Caroline Nokes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North since 2010.
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Cosmo Sheldrake
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Cosmo Christopher Sheldrake is an English musician, composer, and producer. He is the son of parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake and voice teacher Jill Purce, and the brother of mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. He released his first single, "The Moss"/"Solar", in 2014 and followed it up with the Pelicans We EP in 2015.
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Marina Mahathir
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Marina binti Mahathir is a Malaysian socio-political activist and writer. She is the eldest child of the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad and Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali. She graduated with a degree in international relations from the University of Sussex and in 2019, completed a master's in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia.
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Dermot Murnaghan
- Occupations
- television presenterpresenterjournalist
- Biography
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Dermot John Murnaghan is an English media personality, notable as a journalist, news reporter and television host. He has been a presenter for numerous networks, including at Channel 4, a news presenter at CNBC Europe, Independent Television News and BBC News. He presented news programmes in a variety of time slots from when he joined Sky News in 2007, until the end of February 2023. Murnaghan also presented the BBC quiz show Eggheads between 2003 and 2014.
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John Cornforth
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- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.
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Peter Hain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PC is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015.
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Becky Anderson
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Rebecca Anderson is a British journalist and the anchor of CNN International's flagship news and current affairs primetime news program Connect the World. She previously hosted Business International.
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Josephine Wiggs
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs, simply known as Josephine Wiggs, is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician, best known for her work as bassist in the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She has also formed multiple side-projects, including her own bands Honey Tongue, The Josephine Wiggs Experience, and Dusty Trails.
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Heydon Prowse
- Occupations
- actorclimate activist
- Biography
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Heydon Prowse is a British activist, journalist, satirist, director and comedian. He is best known for writing and performing in BBC Three's Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised alongside Jolyon Rubinstein. As part of that show he gave George Osborne a GCSE maths text book, a stunt that featured on the front cover of The Daily Telegraph and other publications.
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Brendan Foster
- Occupations
- long-distance runnermarathon runnermiddle-distance runner
- Biography
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Sir Brendan Foster CBE is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser. He founded the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the gold medal in the 5,000 metres at the 1974 European Championships and the 10,000 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He later provided commentary and analysis on athletics, particularly long-distance events, for BBC Sport.
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Euclid Tsakalotos
- Occupations
- economistphilosopheruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the Central Committee of Syriza and has represented Athens B in the Hellenic Parliament since May 2012. He left Syriza in November 2023 and on 5 December 2023 he became founding member of New Left (Greece) parliamentary group.
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Alice Arnold
- Occupations
- actornews presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Alice Arnold is a British broadcaster and journalist. She was a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 for more than twenty years until the end of December 2012. She currently works for Bauer Media Audio UK hosting on Mellow Magic.
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Festus Mogae
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Motswana politician and economist who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was re-elected in October 2004. After ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama.
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Kim Newman
- Occupations
- playwrightnovelistscience fiction writerfilm criticjournalist
- Biography
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Kim James Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction – both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven – and alternative history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award.
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Harry Kroto
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistscientist
- Biography
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Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
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Ben Bradshaw
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Sir Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1997 to 2024. Before entering politics he worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
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Noureddine Melikechi
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Noureddine Melikechi is an Algerian atomic, molecular, and optical physicist, educator and inventor. He is the author of more than 125 peer-reviewed publications, six book chapters and 15 patents. He is a member of the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s largest Mars exploration effort to date. Melikechi is dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences and professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is currently serving as Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Sherry Rehman
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman is a Pakistani politician and journalist who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2015. She was the first female Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from March to August 2018 and served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2013. She is currently serving as the Federal Minister for the Ministry of Climate Change.
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Hattie Hayridge
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianactorcomedianfilm actor
- Biography
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Hattie Hayridge is a British comedian and actress, best known for the role of Holly in Red Dwarf during the third, fourth and fifth series. She was described as a "cult figure in a beloved sit-com" by The List in 2007.
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Zhang Xin
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officer
- Biography
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Zhang Xin is an American businesswoman best known for co-founding the real estate developer SOHO China with her husband Pan Shiyi.
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Dan Norris
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Dan Norris is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset and Hanham since 2024. He previously served as Mayor of the West of England from 2021 to 2025, and as the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010.
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Beardyman
- Occupations
- YouTuberbeatboxervloggermusician
- Biography
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Darren Alexander Foreman, better known as Beardyman, is an English musical producer, DJ, multivocalist, musician and comedian from London known for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping.
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Froyla Tzalam
- Occupations
- anthropologistpolitician
- Biography
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Dame Froyla Tzalam GCMG is a Belizean Mopan Maya anthropologist and community leader, who has served as the third governor-general of Belize since 27 May 2021.
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Jeremy Deller
- Occupations
- filmmakervideo artistperformance artistartist
- Biography
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Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller's work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Great Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.
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Anil Seth
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- neuroscientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anil Kumar Seth is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally.
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Catherine Mayer
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Catherine Mayer is an American-born British author and journalist, and the co-founder and President of the former Women's Equality Party (WE) in the UK.
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Albie Sachs
- Occupations
- writerlawyerjudgeuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Albert Louis Sachs OLS, known as Albie Sachs, is a South African lawyer, activist, writer, and former judge appointed to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela.
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Alan Woods
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Alan Woods is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) and was a founder of Socialist Appeal (now the Revolutionary Communist Party). He is political editor of the RCI's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party. Woods has expressed particularly vocal support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, leading to speculation that he was a close political adviser to the president.
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Ben Sidran
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1971 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- television presenternon-fiction writerradio personalityjazz pianistsongwriter
- Biography
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Ben Hirsh Sidran is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer. Early in his career he was a member of the Steve Miller Band and is the father of Grammy-nominated musician, composer and performer Leo Sidran.
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Shamshad Akhtar
- Occupations
- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Shamshad Akhtar was a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who served as the caretaker finance minister of Pakistan from 2023 to 2024 as well as from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.
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Kenan Malik
- Occupations
- biologistjournalistneuroscientistphilosopher
- Biography
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Kenan Malik is a British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism, and race. These topics are core concerns in The Meaning of Race (1996), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000) and Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008).
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Lucie Green
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1998 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomerphysicisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Lucinda "Lucie" Green is a British science communicator and solar physicist.
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Stuart Townend
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- singerhymnwritersongwriter
- Biography
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Stuart Townend is an English Christian worship leader and writer of hymns and contemporary worship music. His songs include "In Christ Alone", (2001, co-written with Keith Getty, Townend's first collaboration with any other songwriter), "How Deep The Father's Love For Us", "Beautiful Saviour" and "The King of Love". As of 2008, Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) lists "In Christ Alone" in its Top 25 CCLI Songs list.
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John Gribbin
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerphysicistjournalistastrophysicist
- Biography
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John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Best known for In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, he has also written biographies of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Buddy Holly. Robert Macfarlane calls him "one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around."
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Dimitri Nanopoulos
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Dimitri V. Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist residing in New York. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 57,000 times across a number of separate branches of science.
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Zoe Strimpel
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Zoe Strimpel is a British conservative columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph.
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Lai Shin-Yuan
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Lai Shin-yuan is a Taiwanese social scientist who served as minister of the Mainland Affairs Council from 2008 to 2012.
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Ricardo Lagos Weber
- Occupations
- economistlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Andrés Lagos Weber, son of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, is a politician who served as the Ministry General Secretariat of Government of Chile in the administration of former President Michelle Bachelet after having worked for Bachelet's 2005-2006 campaign.
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Enele Sopoaga
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Enele Sosene Sopoaga PC is a Tuvaluan diplomat and politician who was Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 2013 to 2019.
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Peter Jonas
- Occupations
- theatre managerintendanttalent manager
- Biography
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Sir John Peter Jonas CBE FRCM FRSA was a British arts administrator and opera company director.
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Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala
- Occupations
- women's rights activistmountaineer
- Biography
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Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala is a Sri Lankan women’s rights activist with 20 years of experience and a rock climber / mountaineer for nearly as long. She has worked at national, regional, and global levels as a technical advisor, advocate, trainer, researcher, and program manager on issues relating to gender, gender-based violence, sexuality, masculinity, women’s human rights, and more recently, women in sports. In 2016, she became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest. In recognition of this achievement, from 2016-2019 she was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Rights by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Women's Affairs. In 2017, she was also included in the BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world. In 2023, she was the recipient of the International Olympic Committee’s Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions Award for Asia (Olympic Council of Asia) (The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC SL)). Since returning from Everest, she has delivered over 500 motivational speeches, to schools, universities, clubs, professional sports teams, corporate entities, government, and non-governmental organizations, as well as the military and police. She is currently the Gender and Human Rights Advisor at the Family Planning Association in Sri Lanka, working to address stigma and discrimination faced by people seeking HIV services, and is a co-creator of ‘Delete Nothing’ – a local web-based initiative aimed at addressing online gender-based violence in Sri Lanka. Jayanthi serves on several boards and is the current Chairperson of the Women and Media Collective and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies. She is also a trustee of the ‘Women of the World Foundation’, a UK-based charity. Jayanthi holds an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Sussex (UK) and a post graduate diploma in Women’s Studies from the University of Colombo. For more details, find her on LinkedIn.
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John M. Ball
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- 1969-1972 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir John Macleod Ball is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
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Clive Hamilton
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- economistprofessorwriter
- Biography
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Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual currently serving as Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government, and is the founder and former executive director of The Australia Institute. He regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates. Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for "service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends".
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Yannis Ragousis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Giannis Ragousis is a Greek economist and politician of SYRIZA who had previously served in the government of Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
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Mo Foster
- Occupations
- session musicianguitaristbassist
- Biography
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Michael Ralph "Mo" Foster was an English multi-instrumentalist, record producer, composer, solo artist, author, and public speaker. Through a career spanning over half a century, Foster toured, recorded, and performed with dozens of artists, including Jeff Beck, Gil Evans, Gary Moore, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Joan Armatrading, Gerry Rafferty, Brian May, Scott Walker, Frida of ABBA, Cliff Richard, George Martin, Van Morrison, Dr John, Hank Marvin, Heaven 17, Véronique Sanson and the London Symphony Orchestra. He released several albums under his own name, authored a humorous book on the history of British rock guitar, written numerous articles for music publications, continued to compose production music, and established himself as a public speaker. Foster was an assessor for JAMES, an industry organisation that gives accreditation to music colleges throughout the United Kingdom. In 2014, Foster was a recipient of a BASCA Gold Badge Award to honour his lifelong contribution to the British songwriting and composing community.
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Rebeca Grynspan
- Occupations
- economistlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary-General of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
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Giles Ji Ungpakorn
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Giles Ji Ungpakorn is a Thai-British academic, and Marxist political activist, who formerly worked as a teacher at Chulalongkorn University. He worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, before he fled to the United Kingdom in 2009 after facing a lèse majesté charge in Thailand.
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Helen Boaden
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Helen Boaden is a British former broadcasting executive who spent more than 30 years working for the BBC, including as Director of Radio between February 2013 and September 2016.
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Srđa Trifković
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- historianwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Srđa Trifković is a Serbian-American publicist, politician and historian. He is currently a foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles, and a politics professor at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Simon Segars
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officer
- Biography
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Simon Anthony Segars FRS is a British business executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022. ARM is the UK's largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, England, and was acquired by SoftBank Group for £24.3 billion in 2016.
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Caroline Ansell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Julie Porte Ansell is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 2015 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2024.
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Suma Chakrabarti
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Sir Sumantra "Suma" Chakrabarti KCB is a British former civil servant who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from July 2012 to July 2020. He was previously the highest ranking Indian in Britain's civil service, serving as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from late 2007 until 2012.
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Simon Fanshawe
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe OBE is an English writer, activist and broadcaster. He contributes frequently to British newspapers, television and radio. Fanshawe is also now a consultant and non-executive director of public and private organisations. He was one of the founders of the LGBT charity Stonewall, and won the Perrier Comedy Award in 1989. In 2019, Fanshawe became one of the supporters of the initiative that led to the formation of the LGB Alliance.
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Dave Camp
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Studied in 1973-1974
- Occupations
- lawyeremployeepolitician
- Biography
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David Lee Camp is a former American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015. Camp represented Michigan's 4th congressional district since 1993, and previously served one term representing Michigan's 10th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Camp was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, serving from 2011 to 2015. In March 2014, he announced that he would not run for re-election.
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John Altman
- Occupations
- conductorcomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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John Altman is an English film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.
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Howie Severino
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Horacio "Howie" Gorospe Severino is a Filipino broadcast journalist, anchor, host, documentarist and podcaster who is currently working in GMA Network, as consultant of GMA Integrated News, editor-at-large of GMA News Online, and is best known for hosting GMA Public Affairs' documentary program i-Witness.
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Simon Gillham
- Occupations
- rugby union executivebusiness executive
- Biography
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Simon Gillham is the co-owner and director of the professional French rugby team Club athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin. He is also chairman of the English Championship, the second level of men's English rugby. Between 2007 and 2022, he was a member of Vivendi’s Management board. He is the father of 4 Franco-British children.
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Andrew George
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Henry George is an English and Cornish Liberal Democrat politician. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives in Cornwall since 2024, previously representing the constituency from 1997 to 2015, when he was defeated by the Conservatives' Derek Thomas. He was the vice-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Housing and Planning Group in the 2010 parliament. George has served as a member of Cornwall Council for Ludgvan, Madron, Gulval and Heamoor, having been elected in the 2021 council election.
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Mateusz Szczurek
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Mateusz Szczurek is a Polish economist and politician. He was the Polish Minister of Finance in the governments of successive prime ministers Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz from 2013 to 2015.
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Matt Rodda
- Occupations
- civil servantpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Matthew Richard Allen Rodda is a British Labour Party politician, former journalist, and civil servant who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading Central, previously Reading East, since 2017.
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Claudia Hammond
- Occupations
- radio personalitywriteropinion journalistpsychologistjournalist
- Biography
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Claudia Anne Hammond is a British author, frequent radio presenter and podcast host for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and occasional TV presenter.
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Eberechi Wike
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Eberechi Suzzette Wike is a Nigerian jurist and lawyer. A judge in the Rivers State High Court, she is the wife of former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike who is currently the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
