43 Notable alumni of
University of Wolverhampton
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The University of Wolverhampton is 1393rd in the world, 485th in Europe, and 89th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from the University of Wolverhampton sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Suzi Perry
- Occupations
- presentermodeljournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Suzi Perry is a British television presenter covering Grand Prix motorcycle racing for BT Sport. She is known for covering Grand Prix motorcycle racing for the BBC for 13 years, The Gadget Show on Channel 5 for eight years and the BBC's Formula One coverage from 2013 to 2015.
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Adesua Etomi
- Enrolled in the University of Wolverhampton
- In 2009 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in theatre
- Occupations
- musicianfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Tolulope Adesua Etomi-Wellington commonly known as Adesua Etomi (Listen) is a Nigerian actress and entrepreneur. She debuted her film career with Knocking On Heaven's Door (2014). Since then she has starred in several films and many awards. Amongst them is the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards.
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Alice Amter
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Alice Amter is an English actress, best known for her character Mrs. Koothrappali in the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory and Dr. Kapoor on Hot in Cleveland.
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Moazzam Begg
- Biography
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Moazzam Begg is a British Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention by the US government in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for nearly three years. Seized by Pakistani intelligence at his home in Pakistan in February 2002, he was transferred to the custody of US Army officers, who held him in the detention centre at Bagram, Afghanistan, before transferring him to Guantanamo Bay, where he was held until January 2005.
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Chris Heaton-Harris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher Heaton-Harris is a British former politician who served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from September 2022 to July 2024, and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from February to September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry from 2010 to 2024.
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Reno Omokri
- Occupations
- writercriticlawyer
- Biography
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Reno Omokri is a Nigerian author, columnist, adventure traveller, and social media influencer.
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Cornelia Parker
- Occupations
- installation artistsculptorartistprintmaker
- Biography
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Cornelia Ann Parker CBE RA is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.
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Fazle Noor Taposh
- Enrolled in the University of Wolverhampton
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh is a Bangladeshi politician and former mayor of South Dhaka. Previously he served as a member of the Bangladesh Parliament for Dhaka-10 and Dhaka-12 from the Bangladesh Awami League. He is a grand-nephew of Bangladesh's first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a first-cousin-once-removed of Bangladesh's second female prime minister Sheikh Hasina. He has been missing since the fall of his aunt Sheikh Hasina's regime on 5 August 2024.
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Juhar Mahiruddin
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Juhar bin Mahiruddin is a Malaysian politician who served as the 10th Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah from January 2011 to December 2024, Speaker of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly from December 2002 to December 2010, Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat and Member of Parliament (MP) for Kinabatangan from October 1990 to November 1999. He is also the longest-serving Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah in the history of the state by holding the position for 14 years, Chancellor of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and founding member of the United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO).
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Hannah Wants
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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Hannah Alicia Smith is a British house music DJ and producer better known by her stage name Hannah Wants, and a former professional footballer.
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Pandikar Amin Mulia
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pandikar Amin bin Mulia is a Malaysian politician who has served as President of United Sabah National Organisation (New) (USNO Baru) since February 2021. He served as 8th Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat from April 2008 to April 2018, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department from December 1999 to November 2002, State Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of Sabah from May 1997 to March 1999, State Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Sabah from March 1994 to May 1997, Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tempasuk from 1994 to 1999 and again from March 2004 to March 2008, Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Usukan from 1982 to 1985 as well as a former cum founding President of the People's Justice Front (AKAR) from 1989 to 1995. He is also the first Sabahan, East Malaysian and also ethnic Bajau Iranun to hold the office of the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat.
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Laura Harvey
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Laura Kate Harvey is an English football manager and former player who currently manages Seattle Reign FC of the American National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She holds USSF "A" and UEFA "A" coaching licenses.
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Gohar Ali Khan
- Occupations
- politicianbarristerlawyer
- Biography
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Gohar Ali Khan is a Pakistani lawyer and politician who has been the caretaker chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) since 2 December 2023. He has also been serving as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 29 February 2024. He previously served as the PTI's chief election commissioner from 15 July 2023 till 30 November 2023. As an attorney, Khan has aided former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his predecessor as chair of the PTI, in his legal cases.
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Ville Skinnari
- Occupations
- politicianice hockey playeradvocate
- Biography
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Ville Skinnari is a Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade in the cabinet of Prime Minister Antti Rinne and then in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sanna Marin from 2019 to 2023.
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Bill Etheridge
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Milroy Etheridge is an English politician who was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands region. He was elected in 2014 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate, but left the party in October 2018 and joined the Libertarian Party. He joined the Brexit Party in 2019 but rejoined UKIP in September 2020. He unsuccessfully stood for UKIP leader in 2016, and 2024.
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McHenry Venaani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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McHenry Venaani is a Namibian politician and the President of the Popular Democratic Movement, a party with five seats in the National Assembly of Namibia and one seat in the National Council of Namibia. Venaani was contesting for a presidential race which took place on the 27th November 2024. Venaani has been a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2010, in 2014, and since 2015. At the time of his appointment in 2002, he was Namibia's youngest MP. He was one of the three candidates standing for election as Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority in January 2023, competing against Hoze Riruako and Mike Kavekotora.
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Jono Bacon
- Occupations
- software developerwritermusicianguitaristengineer
- Biography
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Jonathan Edward James Bacon is a writer and software engineer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California. He works as a consultant on community strategy.
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Exodus Geohaghon
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Exodus Isaac Geohaghon is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Northern Premier League Division One Midlands club Shepshed Dynamo.
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Chelsie Giles
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Chelsie Giles is a British judoka. She won the gold medal in the women's 52 kg event at the 2022 European Judo Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Giles' medal was the first awarded to Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Han Sai Por
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Han Sai Por is a Singaporean sculptor. A graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), East Ham College of Art, Wolverhampton College of Art (now the School of Art and Design of the University of Wolverhampton), and Lincoln University, New Zealand, she worked as a teacher and later as a part-time lecturer at NAFA, the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, and the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, before becoming a full-time artist in 1997.
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Abi Daré
- Born in
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Nigeria - Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Abimbola "Abi" Daré is a Nigerian author and public speaker who now lives in Essex, England. In 2018 she won the Bath Novel Award, and was a finalist in the Literary Consultancy Pen Factor 2018. Her debut novel The Girl With The Louding Voice was published in 2020 to critical acclaim.
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Omar Deghayes
- Biography
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Omar Amer Deghayes is a Libyan citizen who had legal residency status with surviving members of his family in the United Kingdom since childhood. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2002. He was held by the United States as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay detention camp from 2002 until December 18, 2007. He was released without charges and returned to Britain, where he lives. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 727. Deghayes says he was blinded permanently in one eye, after a guard at Guantanamo gouged his eyes with his fingers. Deghayes was never charged with any crime at Guantanamo.
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Mark O'Shea
- Occupations
- herpetologistzoologist
- Biography
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Mark Timothy O'Shea MBE is an English herpetologist, photographer, author, lecturer, and television personality. He is known internationally as the presenter of the Animal Planet/Discovery Channel series O'Shea's Big Adventure.
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Trevor Beattie
- Occupations
- private space travelercreative directorcopywriter
- Biography
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Trevor Beattie is a British advertising executive. He is a founding partner, chairman and creative director of Beattie McGuinness Bungay (BMB), and was formerly the chairman and creative director of TBWA London. Considered one of the leading figures in advertising in Britain, Beattie has been responsible for a number of high-profile and sometimes controversial advertising campaigns, most notably the "fcuk" campaign for French Connection and the 1994 Playtex Wonderbra campaign featuring Eva Herzigová. He has managed campaigns for the Labour Party, being a friend of Peter Mandelson and a supporter of New Labour. Beattie masterminded the ad campaigns for the Labour party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.
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David Carruthers
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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David Carruthers is a British businessman who was the CEO of online gambling company BETonSPORTS plc from July 2000 until July 2006. He was arrested in the United States on 16 July 2006 on charges related to his role as CEO of the company. He was subsequently convicted of racketeering conspiracy, and sentenced to 33 months in prison.
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Robert Wringham
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Robert Wringham is a British writer, best known for his humor writing and as the editor of New Escapologist magazine. His first collection, A Loose Egg, was shortlisted for the 2015 Leacock Medal. He has also written two histories of alternative comedy and a comic novel.
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Brian Jenkins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian David Jenkins is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth from 1997 until 2010. From 1996 to 1997, he was MP for South East Staffordshire before minor boundary changes in 1997.
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Nando Bodha
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nandcoomar Bodha, commonly known as Nando Bodha, is a Mauritian barrister, TV news presenter, politician and former government minister.
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Charles Wheeler
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler KCVO CBE PRA was a British sculptor who worked in bronze and stone who became the first sculptor to hold the presidency of the Royal Academy, from 1956 until 1966.
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Obi Emelonye
- Enrolled in the University of Wolverhampton
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Obi Emelonyelisten is a Nigerian film director. He is known for directing award-winning films such as Last Flight to Abuja (2012), The Mirror Boy (2011), and Onye Ozi (2013).
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Alice Ong
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Alice Ong is a Burmese actress, model and beauty pageant title holder of Shan-Chinese descent. She gained popularity after starring in the 2018 film Dimensions which brought her wider recognition.
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Steven Linares
- Occupations
- politicianbarristerteacher
- Biography
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The Hon. Steven Ernest Linares is a Gibraltarian teacher, trade unionist, barrister and former politician affiliated to the Liberal Party of Gibraltar. He was an MP at the Gibraltar Parliament and as of December 2011 formed part of the Government of Gibraltar as Minister for Sport, Culture, Heritage, Youth, Utilities, Refuse Collection, Fire Service, Civil Contingencies and Postal Services. Since June 2021, Linares was the Minister for Housing, Employment, Youth and Sport. On 19 September 2023, it was announced that he would not stand for re-election, ending his 23 year career as MP and 12 years as Minister. He has been replaced as the third Gibraltar Liberal Party (and one of 10 GSLP/Libs coalition) candidate by Leslie Bruzon, whom he became his election agent at the fiercely contested but successful elections.
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Terence Naidu
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Terence Naidu is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who served as Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pasir Bedamar from May 2013 to November 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions.
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Michael John Foster
- Occupations
- financial analystpoliticianlecturer
- Biography
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Michael John Foster is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Worcester from 1997 until 2010, and was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development.
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Sarah Graley
- Occupations
- illustratorcomics artist
- Biography
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Sarah Graley is a British cartoonist, best known for the ongoing webcomic, Our Super Adventure, and for their work on comic series such as Kim Reaper, Glitch, Minecraft and Donut The Destroyer.
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Vaughan Grylls
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Vaughan Grylls is a British artist, photographer, and author. Known for his fine art photography and sculptures, Grylls first received recognition for his 1960s pun-sculptures and, later, for his 1980s photography and panoramic photo collages.
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Eddie Duggan
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.
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Rick Rudd
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- potter
- Biography
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Richard Steward Rudd MNZM is an English-born New Zealand potter.
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Andrew White
- Occupations
- writertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Andrew White is a writer, filmmaker and broadcaster.
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Michael Salu
- Occupations
- graphic designer
- Biography
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Michael Salu, British-born of Nigerian heritage, is a creative director, art and photography editor, designer, brand strategist, writer and illustrator.
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Antonio Zappulla
- Enrolled in the University of Wolverhampton
- 1999-2002 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Biography
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Antonio Zappulla is the CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters. The foundation is an independent charity registered in the UK and the US.
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Anne Schwegmann-Fielding
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Anne Schwegmann-Fielding is a British sculptor and mosaic artist, who has been producing artworks made from recycled materials since the early 1990s.
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Helen Calcutt
- Occupations
- journalistdancer
- Biography
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Helen Calcutt, is a British poet, dancer, and choreographer.
