100 Notable alumni of
University of Westminster
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The University of Westminster is 496th in the world, 182nd in Europe, and 41st in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Westminster 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 Waters
- Occupations
- composerscreenwriterpeace activistrecording artistpianist
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George Roger Waters is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.
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Alexander Fleming
- Occupations
- inventorphysicianpharmacologistsurgeonbacteriologist
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Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease". For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain.
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Vivienne Westwood
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- businesspersonfashion designeruniversity teacheractivistjewelry designer
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Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the last 50 years.
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Richard Wright
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- composerkeyboardistsingerpianistsinger-songwriter
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Richard William Wright was an English keyboardist and songwriter who co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He appeared on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all of their tours. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Pink Floyd.
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Nick Mason
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- drummerautobiographerrecord producercomposerracing automobile driver
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Nicholas Berkeley Mason is an English drummer and a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He has been the only constant member since the band's formation in 1965, and the only member to appear on every Pink Floyd album. He co-wrote Pink Floyd compositions including "Echoes", "Time", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "One of These Days".
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Charlie Brooker
- Occupations
- showrunnerjournalisttelevision presentercomedianscreenwriter
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Charlton Brooker is an English writer, television presenter, producer and satirist. He is the creator, writer, and an executive producer of the sci-fi drama anthology series Black Mirror, and has written for comedy series such as Brass Eye, The 11 O'Clock Show, and Nathan Barley.
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Timothy West
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Timothy Lancaster West was an English actor with a long and varied career across theatre, film, and television. He began acting in repertory theatres in the 1950s before making his London stage debut in 1959 moving on to three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1960s. During his life, West played King Lear (four times) and Macbeth (twice) along with other notable roles in The Master Builder and Uncle Vanya.
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Michael Kiwanuka
- Occupations
- recording artistmusiciansingerguitaristcomposer
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Michael Samuel Kiwanuka is a British singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is currently signed to Polydor Records. His debut album Home Again (2012) went gold in the United Kingdom, while his second album Love & Hate (2016) debuted at the top of the charts. He has been nominated for numerous honours, including Brit Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, BBC Music Awards, and Grammy Awards. He won the BBC's Sound of... in 2012 and the Mercury Prize in 2020. His most recent album, Small Changes, was released in November 2024.
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Adar Poonawalla
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Adar Poonawalla is an Indian businessman. He is the chief executive officer of Serum Institute of India and Chairman of Poonawalla Fincorp. His father is Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the Serum Institute of India.
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Jon Ronson
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- film directorjournalistradio personalityscreenwriterwriter
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Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for works such as Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011).
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Tanya Hope
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- modelactor
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Tanya Hope is an Indian actress and model who acts in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil films. Hope started modeling and became Miss India Kolkata 2015. She was a finalist of Femina Miss India 2015. She debuted in 2016 with the Telugu film Appatlo Okadundevadu.
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Grace Chatto
- Occupations
- musiciancellistvocalistpercussionist
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Grace Chatto is an English musician and singer who is the cellist, backing vocalist and occasional main vocalist, for the electronic music band Clean Bandit.
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Quentin Crisp
- Occupations
- graphic designerstage actorsocialitemodelactor
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Quentin Crisp was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant. He afterwards became a gay icon due to his flamboyant personality, fashion sense, and wit. His iconic status was occasionally controversial due to his remarks about subjects like the AIDS crisis, inviting censure from gay activists including human-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
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Tej Lalvani
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Tej Lalvani is a British businessman and the CEO of the UK's largest vitamin company Vitabiotics, founded by his father Kartar Lalvani. He is best known for being one of the "dragons" on the BBC television series Dragons' Den from 2017 to 2021.
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Jamie Janumala
- Occupations
- comedian
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Jamie Lever is an Indian actress and comedian who works in Hindi films and television. She is the daughter of comedian and actor Johnny Lever.
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Sigala
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- record producerdisc jockeycomposerrecording artist
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Bruce Fielder, known professionally as Sigala, is an English DJ and record producer. He has had eight songs peak within the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, including his 2015 debut single "Easy Love", which interpolates "ABC" by the Jackson 5.
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Dominic Grieve
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
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Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve KC PC is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield from 1997 to 2019 and was the Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee from 2015 to 2019.
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Peter Weiss
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- production designerwriterscreenwriterplaywrightmusician
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Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.
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Raheem Kassam
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- journalistpolitician
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Raheem J. Kassam is a British political activist, former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London, and former chief adviser to former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage. He has been described as far-right and right-wing by several media publications. Kassam formerly ran in the party's November 2016 leadership election before dropping out of the race on 31 October 2016. He is the former global editor-in-chief of Human Events and most recently became the editor-in-chief of The National Pulse.
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Gloria De Piero
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisttelevision presenter
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Gloria De Piero is a British broadcaster and former Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield from 2010 to 2019.
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Stephen K. Amos
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- comedian
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Stephen Kehinde Amos is a British comedian and television personality. A regular on the international comedy circuit, he is known for including his audience members during his shows. He began his career as a compere at the Big Fish comedy clubs in South London, and has been nominated for Chortle's Best Compere Award three times in 2004, 2007 and 2008.
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Danny Wallace
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- journalisttelevision presentercomedianscreenwritertelevision producer
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Daniel Frederick Wallace is a British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television. His notable works include the books Join Me and Yes Man, narrating Thomas Was Alone, voice acting as Shaun Hastings in the Assassin's Creed game series, and fronting the TV series How to Start Your Own Country.
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Hugh Lofting
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- Studied in 1907
- Occupations
- civil engineerscreenwriterwriterchildren's writernovelist
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Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician to talking animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published.
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Kristian Digby
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- television presentertelevision director
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Scott Kristian Edwin Digby was an English television presenter and director best known for presenting To Buy or Not to Buy on BBC One. On 1 March 2010 he was found dead in what police said were "unexplained circumstances". On 9 November 2010, a coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
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Ossip Zadkine
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- painterprintmakeruniversity teachersculptorteacher
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Ossip Zadkine was a Russian and French artist of the School of Paris. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.
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Carrie Gracie
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- television producernews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Carrie Gracie is a Scottish journalist and newsreader best known as having been China Editor for BBC News.
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Anthony Seldon
- Occupations
- historianteacherbiographer
- Biography
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Sir Anthony Francis Seldon FRSA FRHistS FKC is a British contemporary historian and educator. As an author, he is known for his political biographies of consecutive British Prime Ministers, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Seldon is the author or editor of more than 45 books on contemporary history, politics and education.
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Şafak Pavey
- Occupations
- human rights activistpoliticianwriterdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Şafak Pavey is a Turkish diplomat, columnist and politician. She was a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) representing Istanbul Province. She is the first disabled woman ever elected to the Turkish parliament, and is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 1996, before she turned 20, her left arm and left leg were amputated after a train accident in Switzerland.
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Elizabeth Emanuel
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Elizabeth Florence Emanuel is a British fashion designer who is best known for designing, with her former husband David Emanuel, the wedding dress worn by Lady Diana Spencer on her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981. Since then Elizabeth has developed her own label and worked in costume design for airlines, cinema, pop video and television productions, as well as providing a couture service to some of the world's most famous women.
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Mosunmola Abudu
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- screenwritermedia proprietorphilanthropistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Mosunmola "Mo" Abudu is a Nigerian media mogul, philanthropist, and former human resources management consultant.
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Stephen Cottrell
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- priest
- Biography
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Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell SCP is a Church of England bishop. Since 9 July 2020, he has been the Archbishop of York and Primate of England; the second-most senior bishop of the church and the most senior in northern England. He previously served as Bishop of Reading (an area bishop in the Diocese of Oxford), 2004–2010, and as Bishop of Chelmsford, 2010–2020.
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Silvester Belt
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Silvestras Beltė, professionally known as Silvester Belt, is a Lithuanian singer and songwriter. He represented Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Luktelk".
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Riz Lateef
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- journalistnews presenter
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Rizwana "Riz" Lateef is a British journalist, newsreader and deputy news manager at the BBC. She is the principal presenter for the regional television news service for London, BBC London. Lateef presents the BBC London News 18:30 bulletin from Monday to Thursday and some editions of the 22:30 programme.
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Ralph Erskine
- Occupations
- urban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Ralph Erskine ARIBA was a British architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.
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Kamran Shahid
- Occupations
- journalistfilm director
- Biography
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Kamran Shahid, is a Pakistani TV anchor person, academic, author and journalist. He is the main news anchor for the TV show On The Front with Kamran Shahid on Dunya News.
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Susie Silvey
- Occupations
- art modelactorfashion modelmodelfilm actor
- Biography
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Susan "Susie" Silvey, occasionally Suzie Silvey, is an English actress, dancer and model, active in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Yang Cheng-wu
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- employeepolitician
- Biography
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Yang Cheng-wu is a Taiwanese politician. He is the incumbent chairman of the Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation. He had served as Magistrate of Kinmen County since 25 December 2018 until 25 December 2022, having won the office in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections. Prior to contesting the magistracy, Yang represented Kinmen County in the Legislative Yuan.
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Anthony Caro
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- artistsculptorvisual artist
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Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation.
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Stella Meghie
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Stella Meghie is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is known for her feature films Jean of the Joneses, Everything, Everything (2017), The Weekend (2018), and The Photograph (2020). Meghie has also directed episodes for television series including Grown-ish, Insecure, and First Wives Club.
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Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Caroline Anne Cox, Baroness Cox, FRCS, FRCN is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005, as well as being a minister in government. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University, Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006 to 2013, and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.
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Ibikunle Oyelaja Amosun
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ibikunle Amosun is a Nigerian politician, former governor of Ogun State and two-term senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He first served as an elected senator for Ogun Central district of Ogun State, Nigeria from June 2003 to June 2007, and reelected in 2019. After an unsuccessful bid for governor of Ogun State in April 2007, he was elected governor of the state on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform in 2011. He contested again for a second term as governor under the All Progressives Congress and after winning the election, was sworn into office on 29 May 2015.
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Azzam Tamimi
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientistacademic
- Biography
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Azzam Tamimi is a British-Palestinian Jordanian academic and political activist. He is currently a freelance presenter at Alhiwar TV Channel. He headed the Institute of Islamic Political Thought until 2008. Tamimi has written several books on Middle Eastern and Islamic politics, including "Power-Sharing Islam", "Islam and Secularism in the Middle East", Rachid Ghannouchi, Democrat within Islamism and Hamas: A History from Within.
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Jake Nava
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- record producerfilm directormusic video directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Jake Nava is a British director, mostly known for his work in music videos for Beyoncé, Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Britney Spears and The Rolling Stones. He also directs TV commercials, notably for Guinness and Levi Strauss & Co.
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Mumzy Stranger
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterrecording artist
- Biography
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Muhammad Mumith Ahmed, known professionally as Mumzy Stranger or his producing name SP (an abbreviation of Stranger Productions), is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He made his mainstream recording debut in the summer of 2009 with his debut single "One More Dance" along with follow-up single, "Showgirl". The following year, he released Fly with Me which is the lead single from his debut album, Journey Begins.
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Rafi Pitts
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- film produceractorscreenwriterfilm directorfilm editor
- Biography
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Rafi Pitts is an Iranian film director.
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Einar Örn Benediktsson
- Occupations
- politicianmusiciantrumpetersinger
- Biography
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Einar Örn Benediktsson, often billed as Einar Örn, is an Icelandic popular music singer and trumpet player. He was a member of the Sugarcubes. He served as a member of the Reykjavík City Council between 2010 and 2014.
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Natascha Engel
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- 1993-1994 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Natascha Engel is a British former politician. She served as Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Derbyshire from 2005 until her defeat at the 2017 general election.
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Mark Gertler
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Mark Gertler was a British painter of figure subjects, portraits and still-life.
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Ouissem Belgacem
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- 2010-2011 graduated with master's degree in business management
- Occupations
- entrepreneurassociation football playerwriter
- Biography
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Ouissem Belgacem is a French former high-performance athlete and writer of Tunisian origin. He played football for Toulouse FC from the ages of 13 to 18 years old. He published his first autobiographical novel, Adieu ma honte, in 2021. Belgacem often raises awareness about homophobia in the field of football, which he had to leave to live his sexuality freely.
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Nikenike Vurobaravu
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nikenike Vurobaravu is a Vanuatuan diplomat and politician who has served as President of Vanuatu since 23 July 2022. Previously having been employed in numerous diplomatic and government positions, including as the first resident High Commissioner to Fiji, he was elected as president during the eighth round of the 2022 Vanuatuan presidential election in July 2022. He is a member of the Vanua'aku Pati (VP) political party.
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Harpal Brar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harpal Brar was an Indian communist, politician, writer and businessman, based in the United Kingdom. He was the founder and chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), a role from which he stood down in 2018.
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Virginia Crosbie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Virginia Ann Crosbie is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from the 2019 general election until 2024. Prior to her political career, she worked as a director at UBS and HSBC before retraining as a mathematics teacher.
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Herbert Maryon
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Herbert James Maryon OBE FSA FIIC was an English sculptor, conservator, goldsmith, archaeologist and authority on ancient metalwork. Maryon practiced and taught sculpture until retiring in 1939, then worked as a conservator with the British Museum from 1944 to 1961. He is best known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, which led to his appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton
- Occupations
- swimmerpoliticianactivisttable tennis player
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Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton, DL was a British crossbench member of the House of Lords, disability campaigner and Paralympic athlete. She was the founder and life-long president of the Spinal Injuries Association. She was Vice President of the Snowdon Trust, founded by the Earl of Snowdon, which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. Her 53 years' membership of the House of Lords was the longest of any female peer.
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Stereo Mike
- Occupations
- record producersongwriterrappersinger
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Mihalis Exarchos, known professionally by his stage name Stereo Mike, is a Greek hip hop artist. He is the first MTV EMA Award winner in the "Best Greek Act" category. Stereo Mike represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 alongside singer Loucas Yiorkas with the song "Watch My Dance", placing seventh with 120 points.
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Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, PC, FRGS is a retired British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Wallasey from 1974 to 1992. She served as Minister of State for Overseas Development and Africa at the Foreign Office, in the Conservative government from 1989 to 1997.
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Sophie Scott
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Sophie Kerttu Scott CBE FMedSci FBA is a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL). Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter particularly speech perception, speech production, vocal emotions and human communication. She also serves as director of UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Lucy Bella Earl
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 31)
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- In 2016 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in marketing communications
- Occupations
- English teacher
- Biography
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Lucy Bella Simkins is a British teacher of English as a foreign language and the creator of the educational channel 'English with Lucy' on YouTube. She was given the British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in English language teaching in 2017 and the Entrepreneurial Award by the University of Westminster in 2018.
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Sandra Newman
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Sandra Newman is an American writer. She has a BA from Polytechnic of Central London, and an MA from the University of East Anglia.
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Rafik Abdessalem
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rafik Abdessalem Bouchlaka is a Tunisian politician. He served as the minister of foreign affairs under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.
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Janet Anderson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janet Anderson was a British politician from the Labour Party. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen from 1992 until 2010, when she lost her seat. She was the Minister for Tourism from 1998 to 2001, a period which included the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak. In the 2009 United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, she was found to have claimed costs for journeys she had not made.
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Geoff Mulgan
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Sir Geoffrey John Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). From 2011 to 2019 he was chief executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and visiting professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.
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Michelle Olley
- Occupations
- journalisteditor
- Biography
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Michelle Olley is a British writer, journalist and magazine and book editor.
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Katalin Bogyay
- Occupations
- diplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Katalin Annamária Bogyay is a Hungarian ambassador, diplomat, journalist and the President of the United Nations Association of Hungary since April 2021. She has been a lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 2022, and teaching at the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy since 2021. In 2021 she founded the Women4Diplomacy movement. She served as the 15th Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations in New York (1 January 2015 - 31 December 2020). She is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO (2009–2014) and the President of the 36th session of UNESCO General Conference (2011–2013).
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Peter Wilson
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- Studied Standard Chinese
- Occupations
- diplomatcivil servant
- Biography
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Peter Michael Alexander Wilson CMG is a civil servant whose most recent post was to serve as Director General Europe in the FCDO. He has also served as British Ambassador to Brazil, British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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John Henry Pepper
- Occupations
- writerchemist
- Biography
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John Henry "Professor" Pepper was a British scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide range of technological innovations. He is primarily remembered for developing the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost, building a large-scale version of the concept by Henry Dircks, which Pepper first publicly demonstrated during an 1862 Christmas Eve theatrical production of the Charles Dickens novella, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, causing a sensation among those in attendance at the Regent Street theatre in London.
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Mohamed Nur
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohamoud Ahmed Nur is a Somali politician. He served as the Mayor of Mogadishu from 2010 to 27 February 2014.
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Abdirahman Omar Osman- Eng Yarisow
- Occupations
- managerpolitician
- Biography
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Abdirahman Omar Osman was a Somali politician who was the Governor of Banaadir and Mayor of Mogadishu. Abdirahman Omar Osman, also known as Eng. Yarisow, was involved in Somali politics for the last 12 years of his life. He served the Government of Somalia as a senior advisor, Minister of Information twice, Minister of Treasury, spokesperson of the government, Senior Media & Strategic Communications Advisor and Senior Advisor & Spokesperson of the Office of the President.
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Rihards Kols
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rihards Kols is a Latvian politician of the National Alliance who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He was a member of the Saeima since 2014, serving as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2018 to 2024. During his tenure, Kols led the Saeima delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and represented the Saeima in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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Folorunsho Coker
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Folorunsho Coker is a Nigerian businessman, politician and director general of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation since March 2017. He was formerly the managing director of the number plate production authority of State of Lagos and commissioner for tourism, Arts & Culture and Special Adviser Central Business District in Lagos State. Coker was the chief executive officer of Brown Restaurant and La Casa Group prior to his appointment as commissioner for tourism, Arts & Culture. He was a jury member for the 2nd edition of the Nigerian Travel Awards (NTA). In 1992, Coker was appointed as personal assistant to Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, He was later appointed as the Managing Director of the Number Plate Production Authority of State of Lagos. In 2014, he was appointed special adviser on the Central Business District of Lagos to Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), then governor of Lagos State.
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Laurence Broderick
- Occupations
- sculptorvisual artistillustrator
- Biography
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Laurence Broderick FRSA was a British sculptor. His best known work is 'The Bull', a public sculpture erected in 2003 at the Bull Ring, Birmingham. The Bull is about 4.5 meters long, about 220 cm high and weighs about 6.5 tons. It is one of the largest bronze animal sculptures in the country. His work consists largely of figurative carvings in stone and editions in bronze.
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Kwaw Ansah
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kwaw Paintsil Ansah is a Ghanaian film-maker, whose work as writer, director or producer includes Love Brewed in the African Pot in 1980 and Heritage Africa in 1989. His first feature, Love Brewed in the African Pot, earned immediate popular and critical acclaim throughout English-speaking Africa. Despite all the awards and the success, it would be nearly 10 years before Ansah could complete his next major film project, the ambitious Heritage Africa (1989). Yet again, the film was widely acclaimed and awarded. Since then, Ansah has produced other films, including Harvest at 17 (1994), Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade (1994) and The Golden Stool, the Soul of the Asantes (2000). Ansah is a crusader for African filmmaking and dramatic art, working ceaselessly for improved funding and distribution of African films within Africa. He has been chairman of FEPACI and a leader in the direction of FESPACO. In 1998, Ansah was awarded the Acrag Prize, the Living Legend Award for Contribution to the Arts of Ghana.
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John Lundberg
- Occupations
- film directorartistfilm producer
- Biography
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John Lundberg is an English artist and documentary filmmaker. His work is concerned with ostension. Underpinning all of his work is an interest in how myth and artifice can shape and alter reality, especially regarding crop circles, UFOlogy, and other examples of urban legends and the paranormal.
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Trevor Miller
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Trevor Miller is an English screenwriter, author and playwright who the Record Mirror joked "is hailed by some as the voice of a generation". The London Evening Standard called his debut novel Trip City "an On the Road for the post warehouse party generation." He has since moved to Los Angeles, where he writes film screenplays.
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Shirley Ayorkor Botchway
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- Graduated with Master of Arts in mass media
- Occupations
- politicianoffice administratordirector
- Biography
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Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey is the incoming Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations. At the time of her appointment, she was Ghana's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. She was appointed foreign minister by Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo on 10 January 2017. Previously, she was a Member of Parliament for Anyaa-Sowutuom from 2013 to 2021 and had served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Minister of State at the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing under John Kufuor. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party.
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John Biggs
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Robert Biggs is a British Labour Co-op politician who was Mayor of Tower Hamlets between 2015 and 2022.
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David Lewis
- Occupations
- photographerwriterjournalistpsychologist
- Biography
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David Lewis is a French-born English neuropsychologist, author and lecturer.
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Richard Arnold
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Sir Richard David Arnold styled the Rt Hon Lord Justice Arnold is a Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
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Helen McCookerybook
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Helen McCookerybook is a British musician and singer-songwriter, who was the bass player and co-singer with the Chefs (an acclaimed Brighton based punk band), during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She went on to form Helen and the Horns in the mid 80s. Both bands were admired by John Peel, recording six BBC Radio 1 sessions between them. After a long break from her music career, Helen McCookerybook started again as a solo artist in 2005. She regularly plays live gigs, releases recordings, and promotes occasional revivals of Helen and the Horns.
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Simon Reevell
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Simon Justin Reevell is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury in West Yorkshire during one parliament, losing his seat at the 2015 election.
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Ranald Munro
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- air force officermilitary officer
- Biography
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Air Vice-Marshal Ranald Torquil Ian Munro, CB, CBE, TD, VR, DL is a general counsel and company secretary; he was a senior officer in the Army Reserve before transferring to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
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Michael Aron
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Michael Douglas Aron is a British diplomat who has been Ambassador to Kuwait, Iraq, Libya and Sudan, and Yemen.
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Ayo Shonaiya
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Ayo Shonaiya is a filmmaker and lawyer, he was also a music talent agent who has managed many of Nigeria's artists. The list include Fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, pop star D'banj, music producer Don Jazzy and rapper Eldee the Don. He has also represented former beauty queen and rapper Muna and global music star Akon. He is the founder of entertainment and media management company The RMG Company in the UK and Nigeria, and Managing Partner at the Lagos-based law firm Shonaiya & Co.
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Petia
- Occupations
- singeractor
- Biography
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Petia Pavlova, known mononymously as Petia, is a Bulgarian-American singer-songwriter and actress, based in Los Angeles. In 1997 she became the face of Pepe Jeans London. Petia moved to London, UK in 1998 where she studied Commercial Music and Music Business Management at the University of Westminster. She relocated to United States in 2009 and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Jüri Nael
- Occupations
- choreographerdancertelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Jüri Nael is an Estonian choreographer, movement director, professor of contemporary performance and theatre pedagogue.
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Laila Johnson-Salami
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Laila Johnson-Salami is a Nigerian journalist. She has worked with Spice TV, Nigeria Info FM, Wazobia Max TV and is now a Correspondent at Arise News. In 2022, she picked up inaugural UNDP/UN Women International Women’s Day Award for Media and Entertainment category and was nominated for the 2022 Gatefield People’s Journalist for Africa Award. She is known for her work in promoting gender equality, youth empowerment, climate action and social inclusion. She is a co-founder of We Rise Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on women emancipation and a founding member of Feminist Coalition.
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Mark Finch
- Years
- 1961-1995 (aged 34)
- Occupations
- LGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Mark Finch was an English promoter of LGBT cinema. Having founded and expanded several international film festivals he created the first LGBT film market for distributors, sales agents, and independent film producers.
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Steve Sabella
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Steve Sabella is a Berlin-based artist who uses photography and photographic installation as his principle modes of expression, and author of the memoir The Parachute Paradox, published by Kerber Verlag in 2016.
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Stuart Roy Clarke
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Stuart Roy Clarke is an English documentary photographer. His major works include The Homes of Football and Scenes from a British Summer Country Pop Music Festival.
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Anthony Benjamin
- Occupations
- artistgraphic artistprintmakerpaintersculptor
- Biography
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Anthony Benjamin FRSA, RE was an English painter, sculptor and printmaker. Referred to as a 'polymathic artist' by critic Rosemary Simmons when writing about his work for the Borderline Images By Anthony Benjamin show at The Graffiti Gallery in 1979.
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Sarah Flood-Beaubrun
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sarah Flood-Beaubrun is a Saint Lucian lawyer and politician. Beaubrun is the former representative for the constituency of Castries Central in the House of Assembly. Beaubrun lost her seat in the 2021 Saint Lucian General Election dubbed a landslide victory for the Saint Lucia Labour Party.
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Eugene Boakye Antwi
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Enrolled in the University of Westminster
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in business administration
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Eugene Boakye Antwi is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Subin Constituency in the Ashanti Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He is the former Deputy Minister for Works and Housing.
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Shiu-Kay Kan
- Occupations
- engineerlighting designerarchitect
- Biography
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Shiu-Kay Kan is a British architect, industrial designer, and lighting designer. After making a successful start as an architect in the 1980s he turned his attention to designing lights. He has sold his design to some clients (e.g. House of Fraser, Habitat or IKEA).
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Judith Ackland
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Judith Ackland was an English artist, a landscape painter and creator of dioramas.
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Rula Halawani
- Occupations
- photographerpedagogue
- Biography
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Rula Halawani is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem.
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Charles Bruce
- Years
- 1836-1920 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- librariancolonial administratorprofessordiplomat
- Biography
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Sir Charles Bruce GCMG JP was a British colonial administrator and author. He was the 18th Governor of Mauritius, from 1897 to 1903.
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Birgit Skiöld
- Occupations
- illustratorartist
- Biography
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Birgit Skiöld was a Swedish master printmaker and modernist artist who ran the highly successful Print Workshop in the basement of 28 Charlotte Street, London from 1958 to the late 1970s. She was a noted member of the London art scene during that period, and her life is commemorated by an eponymous award for innovation in printmaking.
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Mary Stella Edwards
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Mary Stella Edwards was an English painter, creator of dioramas and poet.
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Steven George West
- Occupations
- podiatrist
- Biography
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Sir Steven George West CBE DL FRSM FRSA is a British podiatrist, the vice-chancellor, president and chief executive officer of the University of the West of England since 2008. He holds a number of national and international advisory appointments in higher education, healthcare policy and regional government.
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Gunter Silva Passuni
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Gunter Silva is a Peruvian writer.
