94 Notable alumni of
University of Wales
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The University of Wales is 710th in the world, 253rd in Europe, and 52nd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 94 notable alumni from the University of Wales sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Roger Whittaker
- Occupations
- recording artistmusiciansingercomposerwhistle artist
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Roger Henry Brough Whittaker was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and musician. His music is an eclectic mixture of folk music and popular songs, the latter variously in a crooning or in a schlager style. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.
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John Sessions
- Occupations
- stage actoractorcomediantelevision actorscreenwriter
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John Sessions was a British actor and comedian. He was known as a regular performer on comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the sitcom Stella Street, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.
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Rachel Roberts
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Rachel Roberts was a British actress. She is best remembered for her screen performances as the older mistress of the central male characters in both Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963). For each, she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for This Sporting Life. Her other notable film appearances included Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Yanks (1979).
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Mona Yamamoto
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- announcertarentonews presenterjournalist
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Mona Yamamoto is a Japanese TV announcer and presenter. Her father is Norwegian and she became a naturalized Japanese citizen at the age of 6.
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Mark Drakeford
- Occupations
- politician
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Mark Drakeford is a Welsh politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Finance since September 2024, having previously held the position from 2016 to 2018. He previously served as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour from 2018 to 2024, and as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care from 2013 to 2016, and on an interim basis in 2024. He was first elected as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Cardiff West in 2011 and is considered to be on the soft left of Labour.
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Mmusi Maimane
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Graduated with Master of Theology
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mmusi Aloysias Maimane is a South African politician, businessman, and leader of Build One South Africa, a political party. Maimane is also the former Leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) political party from 10 May 2015 to 23 October 2019, and the former Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa from 29 May 2014 to 24 October 2019. He became the first black South African to lead the DA.
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Bilal Philips
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- writerIslamicistteacher
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Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips is a Jamaican-born Canadian Islamic teacher, speaker, author, founder and chancellor of the International Open University, who lives in Qatar.
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Strive Masiyiwa
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- businesspersonhumanitarianphilanthropist
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Strive Masiyiwa is a London-based Zimbabwean billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of international technology groups Econet Global and Cassava Technologies.
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Vaughan Gething
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Humphrey Vaughan ap David Gething is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party politician who served as First Minister of Wales from March to August 2024, and served as leader of Welsh Labour from March to July 2024, making him the first black leader of any European country. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2011.
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Claire Keegan
- Occupations
- writer
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Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review. She is also known for her novellas, two of which have been adapted as films.
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Zaghloul El-Naggar
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- writeruniversity teachergeologist
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Zaghloul Ragheb Mohammed Al Naggar, also known as Zaghloul El-Naggar, is an Egyptian geologist, Muslim scholar, and author. The main theme of El-Naggar's books has been science in Quran; his philosophy of science is blended with religion. He left his academic career to become the Chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt.
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Leanne Wood
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Studied social work
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leanne Wood is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from March 2012 to September 2018, and served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) from 2003 to 2021.
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Chung Dong-young
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- politicianjournalistdiplomat
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Chung Dong-young is a politician and was the United New Democratic Party nominee for President of South Korea in 2007.
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Babita Sharma
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
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Babita Sharma is a British television newsreader who worked on the domestic BBC News Channel and BBC World News, presenting the Newsday strand each Monday to Wednesday from London with Rico Hizon in Singapore. Sharma stopped presenting on BBC News during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Alun Cairns
- Occupations
- bloggerpolitician
- Biography
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Alun Hugh Cairns is a Welsh Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan from 2010 to 2024. He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 2016 to 2019.
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Ewuare II
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ewuare II was crowned the Oba of Benin on 20 October 2016. He is the 40th Oba, a title created for the Head of State (Emperor) of the Benin Empire at some time between 1180 and 1300.
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Nick Fry
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- businessperson
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Nicholas Richard Fry is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, having previously served in similar roles at previous incarnations of the company.
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Aneirin Hughes
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- singeractortelevision actor
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Aneirin Hughes is a Welsh actor and singer known for playing Chief Superintendent Brian Prosser in the BBC4 Welsh police drama Hinterland. He won a Best Actor BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA Wales) for his appearance as Delme in Cameleon (1997), a Welsh language film.
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Syed Mustafa Kamal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Syed Mustafa Kamal is a Pakistani politician and Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 29 February 2024, and he is founder and chairman of Pak Sarzameen Party. He was previously a senator in the Senate of Pakistan and served as the mayor of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.
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Joseph Y. Yun
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Joseph Yuosang Yun is an American diplomat. He is the former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations, appointed in March 2022 by President Joe Biden to negotiate amendments to the Compact of Free Association (CFA), the agreement governing the relationship between the United States and the Freely Associated States (FAS) of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau.
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Rizwan Khan
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in clinical physiology
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
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Riz Khan is a British broadcaster Currently working as a presenter for Al Arabiya English.
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Fuziah Salleh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fuziah binti Salleh is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Ministers Salahuddin Ayub and Armizan Mohd Ali as well as Senator since December 2022. She served as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of religious affairs in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuantan from March 2008 to November 2022. She is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition. She has also served as the Secretary-General of PKR since September 2024. She also served as the State Chairperson of PKR of Pahang from May 2024 to September 2024, Women Chief of PKR from July 2020 to July 2022 and Vice President of PKR from November 2010 to August 2014 as well as the State Chairperson of PH of Pahang from March 2019 to September 2022.
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Keith Ward
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- Anglican priestuniversity teachertheologianphilosopherpriest
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Keith Ward FBA is an English philosopher and theologian. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a priest of the Church of England. He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, until 2003. Comparative theology and the relationship between science and religion are two of his main topics of interest.
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Neil Brand
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- composertelevision actorpianistactor
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Neil Brand is an English dramatist, composer and author. In addition to being a regular silent film accompanist at London's National Film Theatre, Brand has composed new scores for two restored films from the 1920s, The Wrecker and Anthony Asquith's Underground.
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Ghazali Shafie
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Muhammad Ghazali bin Shafie was a Malaysian politician and diplomat. He served under the administrations of four Prime Ministers, most notably as Minister of Home and Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1984.
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S. O. Davies
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistminer
- Biography
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Stephen Owen Davies, generally known as S. O. Davies, was a Welsh miner, trade union official and Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Merthyr Tydfil from 1950 to 1972, and previously Merthyr from 1934 to 1950. In 1970, when well past 80, he was deselected as parliamentary candidate by his local party association on account of his age. He fought the constituency in the 1970 general election as an Independent and won comfortably, a rare example in British politics of an independent candidate defeating a major party's organisation.
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Dannie Abse
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- writerphysician writerpoet
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Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.
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Derek Thomas
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Derek W. H. Thomas is a Reformed pastor and theologian known for his teaching, writing and editorial work. He retired in December, 2023 as the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina. He is currently serving as interim preacher at First Presbyterian Church in Yazoo City, MS. He continues as distinguished visiting professor of systematic and historical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.
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John Silkin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Ernest Silkin was a British left-wing Labour politician and solicitor.
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Christina Rees
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Christina Rees is a Welsh politician who served as Member of Parliament for Neath from 2015 to 2024. She is a member of the Labour and Co-operative parties.
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Maimunah Mohd Sharif
- Occupations
- politiciangestorwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Dato' Seri Maimunah binti Mohd Sharif is a Malaysian civil servant and urban planner who has been serving as the 15th Mayor of Kuala Lumpur since August 2024. She also served as the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) since January 2018 until January 2024, becoming the first Asian woman to serve as Executive Director of UN-Habitat. On 20 January 2022, she was re-elected by the UN General Assembly for a two-year term that ends on 19 January 2024.
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John Githongo
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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John Githongo is a former Kenyan journalist who investigated bribery and fraud in his home country (Kenya) and later, under the presidency of Mwai Kibaki, took on an official governmental position to fight corruption. In 2005 he left that position, later accusing top ministers of large-scale fraud. In the Anglo-leasing corruption which he blew the lid over, fraudulent deliveries of government military and forensic laboratory equipment were allegedly ordered, "delivered" and the payment completed in the former president Uhuru Kenyatta's tenure. The story of his fight against corruption is told in Michela Wrong's book It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower.
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Ioannis Plakiotakis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Giannis Plakiotakis is a Greek politician who served as the acting President of New Democracy following the resignation of Vangelis Meimarakis. He has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) for Lasithi since 2004.
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Richard Barnes
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- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Michael Barnes is a British politician, who was the Deputy Mayor of London from 2008 to 2012. A former member of the Conservative Party, Barnes served as the Leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly from 2007 to 2008, and was the Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Ealing and Hillingdon from 2000 to 2012, when he lost his seat to Labour. On 30 September 2014, Barnes defected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
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Lin Bih-jaw
- Occupations
- politicianinternational relations scholar
- Biography
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Lin Bih-jaw is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician who served as the Secretary-General to the President from May to October 2016.
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Tan Yee Kew
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Graduated with Master of Economics in area studies and development studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tan Yee Kew is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wangsa Maju from May 2018 to November 2022, for Klang from April 1995 to March 2008 and Parliamentary Secretary of International Trade and Industry from March 2004 to March 2008. She is a member and Chairperson of the Disciplinary Board of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. She was also the Treasurer of PKR before 2018, Deputy Women Chief of MCA from 1996 to 2005, State Women Chief of MCA of Selangor and Member of the Central Committee of MCA.
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Steph Swainston
- Occupations
- writernovelistscience fiction writer
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Stephanie Jane Swainston is a British literary fantasy/science fiction author, known for the Castle series. Her debut novel, The Year of Our War (2004), won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
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Mick Antoniw
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorjurist
- Biography
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Mick Antoniw is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician, who was Counsel General for Wales from 2021 to 2024, having previously served in the position from 2016 to 2017. He previously served as Minister for the Constitution from 2021 to 2024. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Pontypridd since 2011.
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Grace Ibingira
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Grace Stuart Katebariirwe Ibingira was a Ugandan lawyer and politician.
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Michael Batty
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- In 1984 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- geographeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michael Batty CBE FBA FRS FAcSS is a British academic currently appointed as Bartlett Professor of Planning in The Bartlett at University College London. His work spans the fields of urban planning, geography and spatial data science. He has been Director—now Chairman—of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995. His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity, the same prize a second time for his book The New Science of Cities in 2017–2018, the University Consortium GIS Research Award in 2012, and the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the so-called 'Nobel for geography', in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and in 2016, the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). He also received the Senior Scholar Award of the Complex Systems Society in September 2016.
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Karen Lord
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- novelist
- Biography
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Karen Lord is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo (2010), retells the story "Ansige Karamba the Glutton" from Senegalese folklore and her second novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013), is an example of social science fiction. Lord also writes on the sociology of religion.
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Folasade Ogunsola
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- 1992-1997 studied medical microbiology
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola OON is a Nigerian professor of medical microbiology, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. She specializes in disease control, particularly HIV/AIDS. Ogunsola was provost of College of Medicine, University of Lagos and the first woman to occupy the position. She was also the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development Services) of the institution between 2017 and 2021. She was acting vice chancellor of the University of Lagos for a short period in 2020 when the university was plunged into crisis as a result of the removal of the Vice Chancellor by the University Council.
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Gareth Davies
- Occupations
- cricketerrugby union player
- Biography
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William Gareth Davies is a former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player and former chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union.
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James Maloney
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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James V. Maloney MP is a Canadian lawyer and politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 election. He represents the electoral district of Etobicoke—Lakeshore as a member of the Liberal Party.
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John Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John William Patrick Smith is a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan from the 1989 by-election to 1992 and from 1997 to the 2010 general elections.
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S. M. Khan
- Years
- 1957-2024 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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S. M. Khan was an Indian Information Service officer of Government of India. Khan, a 1982-batch IIS officer, had a long tenure with Central Bureau of Investigation as its spokesperson and Press Secretary to then President of India A P J Abdul Kalam, and served as Director of Jamia Hamdard Residential Coaching Academy.
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Jane Davidson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane Davidson is a Welsh former Labour politician, the former Assembly Member for Pontypridd, and served as minister for environment, sustainability and housing in the Welsh Government. She also previously served as the Welsh vice-president of the Ramblers' Association, stepping down when appointed minister for environment, sustainability and housing in 2007. She announced in 2008 that she would not be seeking re-election to the assembly in 2011.
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David Beerling
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologist
- Biography
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David John Beerling FRS FLSW is the Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate change mitigation and Sorby Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (APS) at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
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Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts, PC, FRSA, was a Welsh Labour member of Parliament.
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Jane den Hollander
- Born in
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Zambia - Occupations
- academic administratorcell biologist
- Biography
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Jane Elizabeth den Hollander AO is an Australian university administrator and was the sixth Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University. Den Hollander is currently serving as the Interim Vice Chancellor of Murdoch University.
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John Griffiths
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Griffiths is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who previously served as Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development from 2011 to 2013. Griffiths has represented the constituency of Newport East in the Senedd since 1999.
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Ibrahim Mohammed Awal
- Occupations
- businesspersonjournalistcivil servant
- Biography
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Ibrahim Mohammed Awal is a Ghanaian journalist, marketer, entrepreneur and politician. He was CEO of Graphic Communications Group and Chase Petroleum. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and has served as Minister of Business Development of Ghana since 2017. He was the Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture.
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Bhawana Ghimire
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- sports executive
- Biography
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Bhawana Ghimire was the CEO of Cricket Association of Nepal from 2014 to 2016.
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Andrew Gould
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Andrew Frederick James Gould is a British businessman, the former chairman and CEO of Schlumberger.
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Koh Nai Kwong
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Koh Nai Kwong is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as a Senator since March 2024 and from December 2020 to December 2023. He served as Member of the Malacca State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under former Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam from 2007 to 2008, Member of Parliament (MP) for Alor Gajah from May 2013 to May 2018 and Member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kesidang from March 2004 to March 2008. He is a member, the State Deputy Chairman and the Division Chief of Hang Tuah Jaya of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the BN coalition. He was also the State Legal Advisor to BN of Malacca from 2006 to 2011.
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David Caron
- Occupations
- juristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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David D. Caron was an American attorney who was the dean of the King's College London School of Law, and an emeritus professor of UC Berkeley School of Law. Caron was a Member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and a Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice. After his death it was said that "at (his) prime, (he) was arguably one of the top two or three arbitrators in the United States and in the world."
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Jagadish Ghimire
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jagdish Ghimire was a Nepalese writer, political analyst and development worker.
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Tom Alweendo
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Kavaningilamo Alweendo is a Namibian politician who has been Minister of Mines and Energy since 2018. In 1997, he became the first Namibian Governor of the Bank of Namibia when he replaced Jafaar bin Ahmad of Malaysia.
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Barry Morgan
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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Barry Cennydd Morgan is a retired Welsh Anglican bishop from Neath, Wales who, from 2003 to Jan 2017, was Archbishop of Wales. He was both Primate and Metropolitan of the Church in Wales; Morgan was the Bishop of Bangor from 1992 to 1999, and was the Bishop of Llandaff from 1999 until his retirement in January 2017. He was the longest serving archbishop in the entire Anglican Communion, at the time of his retirement.
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David Lloyd
- Occupations
- general practitionerpolitician
- Biography
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David Rees "Dai" Lloyd is a retired Welsh politician and GP. He was the Plaid Cymru Member of the Senedd for South Wales West from 1999 to 2011 and again between 2016 and 2021.
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Meri Huws
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Meri Huws is a Welsh academic and public official and formerly the Welsh Language Commissioner. Born in Carmarthenshire, she was educated at Ysgol Bro Gwaun, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she studied law and politics, and the University of Oxford, where she studied to be a social worker. She was the head of the Lifelong Learning Department at Bangor University, and deputy vice-chancellor.
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Howard Riley
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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John Howard Riley is an English pianist and composer, who worked in jazz and experimental music idioms.
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David S. Baxter
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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David Steward Baxter has been a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2006. A native of Scotland, and a resident of England at the time of his call, he is only the third general authority who was native to the United Kingdom and also living there at the time of his call.
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Neil Costa
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Neil Francis Costa is a Gibraltarian barrister and politician affiliated to the Liberal Party of Gibraltar. In December 2011 he was elected an MP to the Gibraltar Parliament and was elected Minister for Tourism, Public Transport, Commercial Affairs and the Port. After the Ministerial reshuffle of December 2014, he became Minister for Business and Employment. In October 2016, he was appointed Minister for Health, Care and Justice. In October 2019, Costa confirmed his decision that he would not seek re-election and returned to work as a barrister.
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David Russell Hulme
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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David Russell Hulme is a Welsh conductor and musicologist. He is an emeritus reader and the former director of music at Aberystwyth University and is known for his research and publications on the music of Arthur Sullivan, the composer of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. He is also an authority on the music of Edward German.
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Rajshekhar Mansur
- Years
- 1942-2022 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- authorlinguist
- Biography
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Rajshekhar Mansur was an Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. He was the son and disciple of vocalist Mallikarjun Mansur.
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Adefemi Kila
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adefemi KilaListen is a Nigerian politician and engineer who served in the Senate, representing Ekiti Central in April 2007 just after working for Julius Berger Nigerian Plc for 30 years as a civil engineer and as a technical manager (administration) for 18 years. He is currently a council member of Standards Organisation of Nigeria SON. He is a devoted Christian of the Anglican church of Nigeria.
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Victoria Vesna
- Occupations
- university teachernew media artistacademicvideo artist
- Biography
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Victoria Vesna is a professor and digital media artist. She is known for her feminist video, computer and internet art and has been active since the early 1980s. Along with collaborator Jim Gimzewski she is thought to have created one of the first interactive artworks related to nanotechnology (sometimes called nanoart) and defines her art practice as experimental research.
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Robert Jones
- Occupations
- composermusicianorganist
- Biography
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Robert Jones is a Welsh composer, organist and choirmaster.
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Nidal Hilal
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- chemical engineerresearchereditor
- Biography
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Nidal Hilal is an academic, engineering scientist and scientific adviser. He is a Global Network Professor at New York University and the founding director and principal investigator of NYUAD Water Research Center. He held professorships at the University of Nottingham and Swansea University in the United Kingdom. He is an emeritus professor of engineering at Swansea University and the founding director of the Centre for Water Advanced Technologies and Environmental Research.
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Leonard Brockington
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Leonard Walter Brockington CMG QC was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, public figure, and the first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
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Tunde Adegbola
- Occupations
- engineerlinguist
- Biography
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Tunde Adegbola, also known as T. A. or Uncle T, is a scientist, musician, engineer, linguist and culture activist. He is best known for his work in setting up most of the pioneering private television and radio stations in Nigeria. He is the founder of TIWA systems and the executive director of Alt-i (African Languages Technology Initiative).
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Ado J. G. Muhammad
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Dr. Ado Jimada Gana Muhammad is the Global Programme Director at the D-8 Health and Social Protection Programme and was once the Executive Director/CEO of the Nigeria' s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), the government organ responsible for developing national primary health care (PHC) policy and supporting states and Local Government Areas (LGAs) to implement them. Dr. Muhammad was appointed to that position on November 1, 2011, by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Prior to his appointment, Dr Ado served as a Special Assistant to the permanent secretary, Dr Daudu, in the State House, Abuja. Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, where Dr. Muhammad hails from, commended President Goodluck Jonathan for appointing the medical doctor, describing the action as putting "a square peg in a square hole". Dr Ado succeeded Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate who was in 2011 appointed as the Minister of State for Health, thereby creating a vacuum at the NPHCDA.
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Pauline van den Driessche
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Pauline van den Driessche is a British and Canadian applied mathematician who is a professor emerita in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria, where she has also held an affiliation in the department of computer science. Her research interests include mathematical biology, matrix analysis, and stability theory.
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Mary Gillham
- Occupations
- botanistnaturalistuniversity teacherwriterlecturer
- Biography
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Mary Eleanor Gillham MBE was a British naturalist, university lecturer, and writer, who was resident for many years in Gwaelod y Garth and then Radyr, in Cardiff, Wales until her death.
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Alan Wayne Jones
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Alan Wayne Jones is a researcher and scholarly writer on the subject of forensic toxicology and human physiology relating to alcohol consumption. Jones was born in Pontypridd, Wales, UK, but worked for most of his career in Sweden.
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Susan Deacy
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in classics
- Occupations
- classical scholaruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Susan Jane Deacy is a classical scholar who has been Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton since January 2018. She researches the history and literature of the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality, ancient Greek mythology and religion, and disability studies. She is also an expert on the teaching of subjects which are potentially sensitive, including sexual violence, domestic violence, and infanticide; she was project leader on the initiative 'Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom'. She is also series editor of Routledge's Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, and has been editor of the Bulletin of the Council of University Classical Departments since 2011.
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Russell Trood
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Graduated with Master of Science in economics
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Russell Brunell Trood was a Liberal Party Senator for the state of Queensland, Australia. His surprise election as the third Liberal from Queensland in the 2004 Federal Election, along with 38 other Coalition Senators gave the federal government of John Howard a majority in the Senate and thus control of both houses of Parliament. He did not retain his seat in the 2010 Australian federal election. His term in the senate ended on 30 June 2011.
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Emrys G. Bowen
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Emrys George Bowen FRGS, FSA, also known as E. G. Bowen, was an internationally renowned geographer with a particular interest in the physical geography and social geography of his native Wales. A diminutive figure, Bowen was on the academic staff of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from the 1920s and continued to write and lecture there until his death in 1983.
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Kenneth Bowen
- Occupations
- opera singerteacherconductor
- Biography
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Kenneth Bowen was a Welsh tenor who was Head of Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
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Daloni Metcalfe
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Daloni Metcalfe is a Welsh television and radio presenter, currently presenting the Ffermio and Fferm Ffactor series on S4C.
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Jaime Peraire
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Jaime Peraire, from Barcelona, is the H. N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and former head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in computational aspects of aeronautics and astronautics.
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Mohamed El Maadid
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Mohammed G A Al Maadheed is a Qatari physician, retired general and writer. He is widely regarded as a pioneering figure in the development of the sports medicine field in Qatar. He has been involved in sports medicine projects in the country since 1991.
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Don McKay
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Don McKay CM is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator.
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Frank Coles
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Frank Coles is a British-American entrepreneur and a maritime lawyer.
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Juan Carlos Castilla
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 85)
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologist
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Castilla Zenobi is a marine biologist. He received his PhD from the University of Wales. Since 1965, he has been a faculty member at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 1985, he published a paper on a study which focused on a part of the Chilean coastline from which humans had been excluded. He is a recipient of the 1996 TWAS Prize and the 2011 Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology.
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Wolfgang Messner
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in the University of Wales
- 1995-1998 graduated with Master of Business Administration in financial management
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
- Biography
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Wolfgang Messner is Clinical Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC). Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina in August 2016, he was Professor of International Management at the MYRA School of Business in Mysore (India), and Director of GloBus Research.
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John Tudno Williams
- Occupations
- translatorBible translator
- Biography
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John Tudno Williams FLSW was the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales from 2006 to 2007 and the Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth, from 1998 to 2003.
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Euan Edworthy
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitical scientistconsultant
- Biography
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Euan Edworthy MBE is a British public relations (PR) consultant and philanthropist based in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Samuel Ifor Enoch
- Occupations
- university teacherChristian minister
- Biography
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Samuel Ifor Enoch was Professor of New Testament Studies and Principal of the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth in Wales.
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Alfred Weeks Szlumper
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Alfred Weeks Szlumper CBE, was a British railway engineer. He was the President of the Permanent Way Institution and the Chief Engineer of the London and South Western Railway and later the Southern Railway company.
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Sharon Tregenza
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Sharon Tregenza is a British author of children's books, stories and verse.
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Christopher J. Yorath
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Christopher James Yorath was a Welsh-Canadian engineer and urban planner.
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Edgar Rees Jones
- Occupations
- politicianbarristerjurist
- Biography
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Sir Edgar Rees Jones KBE MP was a Welsh barrister and Liberal Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Merthyr Tydfil from 1910 to 1918, and then for Merthyr from 1918 to 1922. During World War I he served as head of the Priorities Division of the Ministry of Munitions.
