27 Notable alumni of
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
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The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is 1915th in the world, 640th in Europe, and 115th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Huw Edwards
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Huw Edwards is a Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader. Until his suspension in July 2023, he was the lead presenter of BBC News at Ten, the evening news programme of the BBC.
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Amr Khaled
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- television presenteraccountant
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Amr Mohamed Helmi Khaled is an Egyptian Muslim activist and television preacher. The New York Times Magazine, in reference to Khaled's popularity in English-speaking countries, described him in 2006 issue as "the world's most famous and influential Muslim television preacher." In 2007, Amr Khaled was chosen as one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine. His message appeals to a large number of Muslims who want an easy way to understand Islam.
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Sulak Sivaraksa
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- politicianinternational forum participantjurist
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Sulak Sivaraksa is a Thai social activist, professor, writer and the founder and director of the Thai NGO "Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation", named after two authorities on Thai culture, Sathirakoses (Phya Anuman Rajadhon) and Nagapradeepa (Phra Saraprasoet). He initiated a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand, such as the College SEM (Spirit in Education Movement).
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Mesut Kurtis
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Mesut Kurtis is a Turkish–Macedonian singer who is represented by and signed to Awakening Records. He has released four albums namely "Salawat", "Beloved", "Tabassam", and "Balaghal Ula" and one mini album namely "Azeem Al-Shan".
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Karl McCartney
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- politician
- Biography
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Karl Ian McCartney is a British politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport from July to September 2022. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Lincoln. He was first elected at the 2010 general election and represented the constituency until he was defeated by Labour's Karen Lee at the 2017 general election. He was re-elected at the 2019 general election.
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Robert Croft
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Robert Damien Bale Croft is a former Welsh cricketer who played international cricket for the England cricket team. He is an off-spin bowler who played for Glamorgan and captained the county from 2003 to 2006. He retired from first class cricket at the end of the 2012 season, having played county cricket for 23 seasons. He commentates on cricket occasionally for Sky Sports.
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Michael A. Milton
- Occupations
- Christian ministersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Michael Anthony Milton is an American Presbyterian minister, theologian, educator, pastor, broadcaster, author, musician and retired U.S. Army Chaplain (Colonel). Initially a pastoral intern under D. James Kennedy, Milton became President and Senior Fellow of the D. James Kennedy Institute of Reformed Leadership. Milton succeeded Kennedy as the Teaching Pastor on the nationally televised sermon broadcast Truths That Transform (2013–2015). He has dual credentials in the Presbyterian Church in America and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and is also credentialed through the Presbyterian and Reformed Commission on Chaplains. Milton was elected to the James Ragsdale Chair of Missions and Evangelism at Erskine Theological Seminary in June 2015. He was named Provost of the Seminary in 2019. In 2022 Milton was named Distinguished Professor of Missions and Evangelism.
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Sue Slipman
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan Slipman was President of the National Union of Students between 1977 and 1978. She later joined the National Union of Public Employees. Since then she has held a wide range of appointments and offices in the public sector and the field of training and education.
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Rhodri Glyn Thomas
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- politician
- Biography
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Rhodri Glyn Thomas is a Welsh politician. He was the Plaid Cymru National Assembly for Wales Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from 1999 to 2016, when he did not re-stand for election. Following his retirement from the Assembly he was appointed President of the National Library of Wales.
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Glyn Garner
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- association football player
- Biography
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Glyn Garner is a Welsh international footballer who plays for Taff's Well as a goalkeeper.
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Daniel Evans
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Daniel Evans is a Welsh rugby union player who plays as a full-back.
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Eddie Duggan
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- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.
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Idris Jones
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Idris Jones is a retired Anglican bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1998 to 2009 and was also Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 2006 to 2009.
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Graham Allen
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- literary criticpoet
- Biography
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Graham Allen is a writer and academic from Cork city, Ireland. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Madhouse System (2016) and The One That Got Away (2014). He is a former recipient of the Listowel Single Poem Prize, awarded each year at Listowel Writers' Week. As a literary critic, he has published numerous books, including Harold Bloom: Towards a Poetics of Conflict (1994), Intertextuality (2000), and Roland Barthes (2003).
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Robert Jackson
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- pedagogue
- Biography
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Robert Mason David "Bob" Jackson is a British educator and educational researcher working in the fields of religious and intercultural education in the UK and internationally, and in educational policy at the European level. He has authored several influential books on an inclusive form of religious education in which young people learn together about religious and world view diversity, and has contributed to policy development on the religious dimension of intercultural education for the Council of Europe. He has written and presented educational broadcasts for BBC Education, and has edited both professional and academic journals. His work has been influential in a variety of countries beyond Europe. Away from academic work, he is a jazz musician and poet.
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Daniel Silvan Evans
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- linguistlexicographerpoet
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Daniel Silvan Evans was a Welsh clergyman, scholar and lexicographer. Educated at the Independent College in Brecon, Silvan Evans worked as a schoolmaster for five years. On marriage he conformed to the Established Church, studying at St David's College, Lampeter, where he became lecturer in Welsh. Ordained deacon in 1848 and priest the following year he served curacies at Llandegwning parish in Llŷn and from 1852 to 1862 at nearby Llangian, Caernarfonshire. In 1862 he was appointed to the living of Llanymawddwy, Merioneth.
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Elias Owen
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- association football player
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Elias Owen was a Welsh amateur footballer who made three appearances as a goalkeeper for the Wales national team in 1884. He killed himself while depressed over the outcome of his college final examinations.
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John Strand-Jones
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- rugby union playerAnglican priest
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John Strand-Jones was a Welsh rugby union player, who represented the Wales national rugby union team on five occasions in 1902 and 1903. His profession was in the clergy of the Anglican Church.
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James Buckley
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- 1849-1924 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- accountant
- Biography
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The Ven. James Rice Buckley, BD was Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1913 until his death.
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David John Bird
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- Anglican priest
- Biography
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David John Bird is dean emeritus of the historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the oldest church structure in continuous use in San Jose. He is a parish priest who reads and writes poetry and is particularly fond of Alfred Lord Tennyson. As a theologian, he emphasizes a liberal, compassionate, and inclusive approach and is devoted to ecumenism. Bird promotes Christian unity and is published in this field; since 2002, he has served on the national Committee of The Episcopal Church-United Methodist Church Dialogue.
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Bailey Davies
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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David Bailey "Beili" Davies was a Welsh rugby union fullback who played club rugby for Oxford University, Llanelli and London Welsh and international rugby for Wales. In his personal life he was a schoolmaster, clergyman and soldier.
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Alfred Mathews
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- rugby union playerChristian minister
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Alfred Augustus Mathews was a Welsh priest who was notable as a rugby union player in his youth; representing Lampeter at club level and playing a single international match for Wales.
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Evan Thomas Davies
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- writercleric
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Evan Thomas Davies, also known by the pseudonym "Dyfrig", was a Welsh priest. After completing his education at the school in Ystrad Meurig he moved to study at St David's College, Lampeter, graduating in 1869. He then spent the next year teaching, at Greenock, before, in 1870 being ordained Deacon (by Bishop Ollivant of Llandaf), and, in 1871, ordained Priest. For a while he was appointed Curate of Llanwynno, and later of Betws, Glamorganshire. In 1875, he moved to take up an appointment at St David's Welsh Church, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, before, in 1882, becoming vicar of Aberdyfi, and then, in 1890, of Pwllheli. In 1906 he was appointed Vicar of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog in Anglesey, where he remained until he retired in 1913. He also served as Rural Dean of Llŷn (1891 to 1900), and as Residentiary Canon of Bangor Cathedral (from 1906).
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John Silas Evans
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- 1864-1953 (aged 89)
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- astronomerpriest
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John Silas Evans, Rev. was a Welsh astronomer and priest. He became a senior figure within the Anglican Church in Wales and is well known for his astronomical writing published in Welsh and English.
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Joshua Hughes
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- 1807-1889 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Joshua Hughes was Bishop of St Asaph, an Anglican diocese in Wales, United Kingdom.
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David Williams
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- 1853-1931 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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David Williams was the Anglican Bishop of Huron and later Metropolitan of Ontario in the 20th century.
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John Griffiths
- Occupations
- pedagoguecleric
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The Venerable John Griffiths, BD, Rector of Neath, was Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1877 to 1897.
