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100 Notable alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London

Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

Goldsmiths, University of London is ranked #761 in the world and #64 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Goldsmiths, University of London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Goldsmiths, University of London won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Patsy Widakuswara

1. Patsy Widakuswara

journalist
Patsy Widakuswara is an Indonesian–American radio and broadcast journalist in the United States who covers the White House and U.S. politics. She is the White House Bureau Chief of Voice of America. An incident following VOA news director Robert R. Reilly's interview of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resulted in her removal from the White House beat and subsequent reinstatement...
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Bill Burns

2. Bill Burns

1957-. (aged 69)
artist
Bill Burns is a Canadian artist.
Marco Donnarumma

3. Marco Donnarumma

1984-. (aged 42)
new media artist
Marco Donnarumma is an Italian performance artist, sound artist, new media artist, inventor and theorist based in Berlin. His work addresses the relationship between body, politics and technology. He is widely known for his performances fusing sound, computation, robotics and biotechnology. He designs and builds body-related technologies, such as robotic prostheses powered by AI and musical instruments that use the...
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Manuel Mathieu

4. Manuel Mathieu

1986-. (aged 40)
painter
Manuel Mathieu is a Haitian contemporary visual artist recognized as a painter of abstract works that suggest figurative forms within ambiguous spaces. Mathieu draws from Haitian visual cultures and from Western art movements such as expressionism and existentialism. His practice weaves together formal techniques, Haitian contemporary art movements to explore phenomenologies of human relations as they relate to power dynamics,...
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Heather Jansch

5. Heather Jansch

1948-2021 (aged 73)
visual artist sculptor
Heather Jansch was a British sculptor notable for making life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood. Jansch reported that she struggled in her youth academically, but had a passion for drawing and writing. She attended Walthamstow Technical College for her Foundation year and from there gained a place at Goldsmith's. This proved a great disappointment, as figurative art was greatly derided...
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Simon Patterson

6. Simon Patterson

1967-. (aged 59)
painter conceptual artist artist visual artist photographer
Simon Patterson is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery, and three shows in Japan. He is the younger brother of the painter Richard Patterson.
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Lijia Zhang

7. Lijia Zhang

1964-. (aged 62)
journalist writer
Lijia Zhang is a rocket-factory-worker turned Chinese writer, columnist and public speaker. She describes herself as a communicator between China and the world and has given talks at conferences and institutions about contemporary China. She has lectured at many universities around the world including Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University in the U.S., Monash University, the University...
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Darren Johnson

8. Darren Johnson

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Darren Paul Johnson is a former English politician who was a prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales. He represented the Green Party on the London Assembly from 2000 to 2016 and was a Green councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham. He is now a writer and has had several rock music biographies published.
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Goldierocks

9. Goldierocks

1984-. (aged 42)
television presenter disc jockey journalist
Samantha Louise Hall, better known as Goldierocks, is a British DJ, broadcaster, journalist and voice over artist.
Suki Chan

10. Suki Chan

1977-. (aged 49)
artist
Suki Chan is an artist and filmmaker whose work uses light, moving image and sound to explore our perception of reality. She is drawn to light as a physical phenomenon, and the role it plays in our constantly shifting daily experience of our environment, be it urban or rural. Her pieces vary from photography, film installation to mixed-media sculptures.
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Nick Petford

11. Nick Petford

1961-. (aged 65)
academic geologist
Nick Petford is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northampton. Previously he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at Bournemouth University and before that Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Kingston University. He has also worked for BP and on academic and commercial research projects throughout the world. As an academic he is known for his...
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Assaf Gavron

12. Assaf Gavron

1968-. (aged 58)
rock musician writer translator literary editor journalist
Assaf Gavron is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator, and musician. Formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker, his books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop (2013), Prix Courrier International (France) for Croc Attack (2012), "Ein Buch für die Stadt" (Cologne, Germany) for the same novel (2012), and the Israeli Prime...
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Gerry Judah

13. Gerry Judah

1951-. (aged 75)
sculptor
Gerald David Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.
Stuart Pigott

14. Stuart Pigott

1960-. (aged 66)
journalist writer
Stuart Pigott is a British wine critic and author who has lived in Berlin since 1993. Pigott mostly writes in German, and focuses on German wine. He writes for the specialist magazines Feinschmecker and Weingourmet as well as the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Bozhidar Bozhanov

15. Bozhidar Bozhanov

1987-. (aged 39)
software developer software engineer politician
Bozhidar Plamenov Bozhanov is a Bulgarian programmer, entrepreneur politician and co-leader of the Yes Bulgaria! party. He is the Minister of Electronic Governance from 13 December 2021 to 2 August 2022. He is a member of the 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, and the 51st National Assembly.
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Michael D. Ford

16. Michael D. Ford

1928-2018 (aged 90)
art director illustrator production designer
Michael Dickins Ford was an English film art director and set decorator.
Rachel Howard

17. Rachel Howard

1969-. (aged 57)
painter
Rachel Howard is a British contemporary artist and painter, who has exhibited nationally and internationally and whose works are held in several private and public collections.
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Ajay Chabra

18. Ajay Chabra

1970-. (aged 56)
actor television actor
Ajay Chhabra is a British television and theatre actor, director, producer and comedian of Indo-Fijian heritage, who is best known for playing Anil in The Basil Brush Show, The Vicar, Suresh Mattai in the BBC Radio series The Archers and the Defense Barrister George Karnad in Holby City. Ajay, and Simmy Gupta are co-Artistic Directors of Nutkhut, and founder of...
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Quilla Constance

19. Quilla Constance

1980-. (aged 46)
television producer film director lecturer artist
Jennifer Allen, known professionally as Quilla Constance, is a British contemporary interdisciplinary artist and lecturer, born in Birmingham, 1980.
Corrie Corfield

20. Corrie Corfield

1961-. (aged 65)
announcer
Coriona Kear Ware Corfield is a radio broadcaster and producer known especially for her newsreading and continuity announcements on BBC Radio 4.
Walter Landor

21. Walter Landor

1913-1995 (aged 82)
graphic designer designer
Walter Joseph Landor was a brand designer and the founder of Landor & Fitch. He was a proponent of branding and consumer research techniques widely used to this day. Landor, the company he founded as Landor Associates in 1941, has offices around the world.
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Nouneh Sarkissian

22. Nouneh Sarkissian

1954-. (aged 72)
children's writer philologist politician
Nouneh Sarkissian is an Armenian art historian and author. She is the wife of former Armenian President Armen Sarksyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.
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Anthony Joseph

23. Anthony Joseph

1966-. (aged 60)
science fiction writer poet novelist jazz musician
Anthony Joseph FRSL is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. In 2023, he was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for his book Sonnets for Albert.
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Beatie Wolfe

24. Beatie Wolfe

2006-2009 (aged 3)
singer-songwriter guitarist artist singer
Beatie Wolfe is an Anglo-American conceptual artist and composer described as a "musical weirdo and visionary" known for seeing music differently and creating new formats for music and art in the digital era. These projects include a space broadcast via the Holmdel Horn Antenna, the world's first 360° AR live-stream, a visualization of 800,000 years of CO2 levels and a...
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Laura Bettinson

25. Laura Bettinson

1992-. (aged 34)
songwriter
Laura Bettinson, also known by her stage names Femme and Lau.ra, is an English singer, songwriter, producer and DJ. She started writing music at 16, gigging around the Midlands area before moving to London to study Bmus Popular Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Simon Hale

26. Simon Hale

1964-. (aged 62)
film score composer composer musician
Simon Hale is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist.
Cathy Jamieson

27. Cathy Jamieson

1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Catherine Mary Jamieson is a Scottish business director, currently a director at Kilmarnock Football Club and former politician. She served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2000 to 2008. She previously served in the Scottish Executive as Minister for Justice from 2003 to 2007 and Minister for Education and Young People from 2001 to 2003....
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Tom MacRae

28. Tom MacRae

1980-. (aged 46)
science fiction writer screenwriter composer
Tom MacRae is an English television writer, author, playwright, lyricist, television producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the television series Threesome and the book writer and lyricist of the Olivier nominated stage musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
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Kanya King

29. Kanya King

1969-. (aged 57)
entrepreneur
Kanya King, CBE, is a British entrepreneur who founded the MOBO Awards.
Bob and Roberta Smith

30. Bob and Roberta Smith

1963-. (aged 63)
painter photographer artist
Patrick Brill OBE RA, better known by his pseudonym Bob and Roberta Smith, is a British contemporary artist, writer, author, musician, art education advocate, and keynote speaker. He is known for his "slogan" art, is an associate professor at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University and has curated public art projects such as Art U...
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Fiona Mactaggart

31. Fiona Mactaggart

1953-. (aged 73)
philanthropist teacher politician
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart is a British politician and former primary school teacher who has been chair of the Fawcett Society since 2018. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough from 1997 to 2017.
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John Craxton

32. John Craxton

1922-2009 (aged 87)
painter lithographer scenographer
John Leith Craxton RA, was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian".
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Simon Toyne

33. Simon Toyne

1968-. (aged 58)
writer
Simon Toyne is a British writer of thriller fiction, including the Sanctus Trilogy and Solomon Creed series.
Owen Hatherley

34. Owen Hatherley

1981-. (aged 45)
journalist writer
Owen Hatherley is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture.
Iiris

35. Iiris

1991-. (aged 35)
actor singer composer
Iiris Vesik, better known as simply Iiris, is an Estonian singer, songwriter, and stage actress. Her debut album, The Magic Gift Box, was released in March 2012 under EMI Music Finland. She is also a member and the main singer of the group Night Tapes.
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Denton Welch

36. Denton Welch

1915-1948 (aged 33)
writer painter novelist diarist
Maurice Denton Welch was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.
Merlyn Rees

37. Merlyn Rees

1920-2006 (aged 86)
politician
Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–1976) and Home Secretary (1976–1979).
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Michael Landy

38. Michael Landy

1963-. (aged 63)
photographer draftsperson installation artist sculptor painter
Michael Landy CBE RA is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project (2010) at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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Liam Gillick

39. Liam Gillick

1964-. (aged 62)
painter conceptual artist sculptor artist installation artist
Liam Gillick is a British artist. In the 1990s he was one of the informal Young British Artists group; like many of them, he took a degree in fine art from Goldsmiths' College, in London. He was among the artists included in the Traffic exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux in Bordeaux in 1996, where Nicolas Bourriaud's concept...
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Mark Wallinger

40. Mark Wallinger

1959-. (aged 67)
video artist sculptor artist installation artist photographer
Mark Wallinger is an English artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain. His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Labyrinth (2013), a permanent commission for Art on...
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Monty Oxy Moron

41. Monty Oxy Moron

1961-. (aged 65)
keyboardist
Monty Oxymoron is a keyboardist for the English punk rock group the Damned.
Matthew Strachan

42. Matthew Strachan

1970-2021 (aged 51)
lyricist composer singer-songwriter
Matthew Strachan was an English composer and singer-songwriter. Matthew Strachen died on September 8th, 2021 in Twickenham, London, England. Matthew Strachen was just 50 years old.
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Rob da Bank

43. Rob da Bank

1973-. (aged 53)
journalist disc jockey
Robert John Gorham, known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is an English DJ and co-founder of music festivals Bestival, originally on the Isle of Wight and now moved to Lulworth, Dorset and Camp Bestival, also in Lulworth. He presented a show on BBC Radio 1 which focused on promoting new left-field music. Examples of artists featured on his show...
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Dayne Walling

44. Dayne Walling

1974-. (aged 52)
politician
Dayne Walling is an American politician who was the mayor of Flint, Michigan from 2009 to 2015. Although the Flint mayor's office is a nonpartisan position, Walling is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Paris Paloma

45. Paris Paloma

1999-. (aged 27)
singer-songwriter
Paris Paloma is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. She gained prominence through the single "Labour" (2023). Her debut album, Cacophony, was released in 2024.
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Janice Koh

46. Janice Koh

1969-. (aged 57)
performing artist actor politician
Janice Koh is a Singaporean actress and a former Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore.
Kerry McCarthy

47. Kerry McCarthy

1965-. (aged 61)
lawyer politician
Kerry Gillian McCarthy is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2016. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate from July 2024 to September 2025.
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Wade Elliott

48. Wade Elliott

1978-. (aged 48)
association football player association football coach
Wade Patrick Elliott is an English former professional footballer who was most recently head coach of EFL League One club Cheltenham Town. He played mainly as a right midfielder but could also play as a central midfielder.
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John Akomfrah

49. John Akomfrah

1957-. (aged 69)
film screenwriter theorist installation artist filmmaker film director
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
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Jon Caramanica

50. Jon Caramanica

1975-. (aged 51)
journalist music critic
Jon Caramanica is an American journalist and pop music critic who writes for The New York Times. He is also known for writing about hip-hop music.
Gillian Wearing

51. Gillian Wearing

1963-. (aged 63)
film director artist television producer conceptual artist sculptor
Gillian Wearing CBE, RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square.
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Tom Keating

52. Tom Keating

1917-1984 (aged 67)
painter art forger charlatan restorer
Thomas Patrick Keating was an English artist, art restorer and art forger. Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope—ranging from the Renaissance (Holbein, Titian, Tintoretto) to Modernism, Expressionism and Fauvism (Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse)—with heavy emphasis on English...
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Louise Casey

53. Louise Casey

1965-. (aged 61)
civil servant
Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock, DBE, CB, is a crossbench peer and current British government official, where she serves as lead non-executive director. She was the deputy director of Shelter in 1992, the head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit (RSU) in 1999, a director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit (ASBU) in 2003, head of the Respect Task Force...
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Keir Simmons

54. Keir Simmons

1972-. (aged 54)
journalist
Keir Hardie Brennan-Simmons is an English journalist. He has been the chief international correspondent for the NBC morning show Today since December 2018. He also appears regularly on the evening broadcast NBC Nightly News, and fills in as an anchor on MSNBC.
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Sarah Lucas

55. Sarah Lucas

1962-. (aged 64)
performance artist artist installation artist sculptor visual artist
Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, sculpture, collage and found objects.
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Laurence Juber

56. Laurence Juber

1952-. (aged 74)
guitarist session musician
Laurence Ivor Juber is an English musician, fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician. He played guitar in the rock band Wings from 1978 to 1981.
Alex James

57. Alex James

1968-. (aged 58)
bass guitarist
Steven Alexander James is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band Blur. He has also played with the bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam and Bad Lieutenant.
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Hisham Matar

58. Hisham Matar

1970-. (aged 56)
writer poet novelist essayist
Hisham Matar is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. Matar's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian,...
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Katy B

59. Katy B

1989-. (aged 37)
disc jockey singer-songwriter recording artist record producer
Kathleen Anne Brien, known professionally as Katy B, is an English singer. She released her debut studio album, On a Mission, in 2011, which spawned two top five hits, "Katy on a Mission" and "Lights On". In 2014 she released her second studio album, Little Red, which produced her third top five hit, "Crying for No Reason". Her third studio...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson

60. Linton Kwesi Johnson

1952-. (aged 74)
singer songwriter writer recording artist poet
Linton Kwesi Johnson CD, also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer/artist...
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Chris Corner

61. Chris Corner

1974-. (aged 52)
singer-songwriter DJ producer singer record producer
Christopher Anthony Corner is an English record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, singer and video artist. He was a founding member of the band Sneaker Pimps alongside Liam Howe, and is now active with his solo project IAMX.
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Suzanne Packer

62. Suzanne Packer

1962-. (aged 64)
actor
Suzanne Packer is a Welsh actress, known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the BBC medical drama Casualty from September 2003 to August 2015. She later returned to the series as a guest for the 30th-anniversary episodes in 2016. Since departing from Casualty, she has appeared in various television series including Bang, In My Skin and The Pembrokeshire...
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Yinka Shonibare

63. Yinka Shonibare

1962-. (aged 64)
photographer installation artist sculptor painter video installation artist
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, is a British artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. A hallmark of his art is the brightly coloured Ankara fabric he uses. As Shonibare is paralysed on one side of his body, he uses assistants to make works under his direction.
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Alex Zane

64. Alex Zane

1979-. (aged 47)
television presenter comedian journalist
Alex Zane is an English television presenter and DJ.
Tadeusz Kościński

65. Tadeusz Kościński

1956-. (aged 70)
politician banker
Tadeusz Kościński is a Polish politician. He served as Minister of Finance in the second cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki from November 2019, but resigned in February 2022 after a failed tax reform.
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A. G. Cook

66. A. G. Cook

1990-. (aged 36)
composer recording artist record producer musician
Alexander Guy Cook is an English record producer. He first became known as founder of the influential record label PC Music in 2013; its signees included Hannah Diamond, GFOTY, Danny L Harle and felicita. The label's style of exaggerated pop tropes grew to serve as the foundation of the hyperpop genre, which Cook is credited for developing and popularising. He...
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Tessa Jowell

67. Tessa Jowell

1947-2018 (aged 71)
politician
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from 1992 to 2015.
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Bernardine Evaristo

68. Bernardine Evaristo

1959-. (aged 67)
writer university teacher
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo is an English author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first black woman to win the Booker. The novel won many other awards including two British Book awards (aka "Nibbies"). In 2025,...
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Kae Tempest

69. Kae Tempest

1985-. (aged 41)
singer writer composer rapper poet
Kae Tempest is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.
Antony Gormley

70. Antony Gormley

1950-. (aged 76)
graphic artist artist scenographer painter installation artist
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley CH OBE RA is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently...
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Huang Ching-ying

71. Huang Ching-ying

1992-. (aged 34)
journalist politician
Huang Ching-yin, nicknamed Hsueh-chieh, is a Taiwanese politician who has served as Taipei City Councillor for the 1st constituency since 2022.
Neil Innes

72. Neil Innes

1944-2019 (aged 75)
composer pianist actor comedian songwriter
Neil James Innes was an English writer, comedian and musician. He first came to prominence in the comedy rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later became a frequent collaborator with the Monty Python troupe on their BBC television series and films, and is often called the "seventh Python" along with performer Carol Cleveland. He co-created the Rutles, a...
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Liz Fraser

73. Liz Fraser

1930-2018 (aged 88)
actor film actor
Elizabeth Joan Winch, known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles.
Lucian Freud

74. Lucian Freud

1922-2011 (aged 89)
graphic artist artist painter architectural draftsperson printmaker
Lucian Michael Freud OM CH was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
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Benedict Taylor

75. Benedict Taylor

1982-. (aged 44)
musician
Benedict Taylor is a British avant-garde violist, violinist and composer.
Mary Quant

76. Mary Quant

1930-2023 (aged 93)
fashion designer
Dame Barbara Mary Quant CH DBE FCSD RDI was a British fashion designer and icon. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements, and played a prominent role in London's Swinging Sixties culture. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants. Ernestine Carter wrote: "It is given to...
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Graham Coxon

77. Graham Coxon

1969-. (aged 57)
singer painter singer-songwriter composer guitarist
Graham Leslie Coxon is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who came to prominence as a founding member of the British rock band Blur, of which he was the lead guitarist and secondary vocalist.
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Dave Myers

78. Dave Myers

1957-2024 (aged 67)
television celebrity chef make-up artist chef
David James Myers was an English television presenter, and one half of the Hairy Bikers, along with Si King. He also appeared on the BBC celebrity talent show Strictly Come Dancing. Together, Myers and King presented a number of television cookery series for the BBC. They also launched an online weight loss programme, 'The Hairy Bikers Diet Club'.
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Julian Clary

79. Julian Clary

1959-. (aged 67)
comedian writer novelist television presenter improviser
Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian, actor, novelist and presenter. He began appearing on television in the mid-1980s. Since then, he has also acted in films, on television and in stage productions, including numerous pantomimes. He was the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 10 in 2012.
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John Illsley

80. John Illsley

1949-. (aged 77)
singer guitarist bassist
John Edward Illsley is an English musician, best known as bassist of the rock band Dire Straits. He has received multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award.
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Damien Hirst

81. Damien Hirst

1965-. (aged 61)
film director illustrator restaurateur engraver installation artist
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely...
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Malcolm McLaren

82. Malcolm McLaren

1946-2010 (aged 64)
conceptual artist talent manager record producer songwriter talent agent
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English fashion designer, entrepreneur and music manager. He was a promoter and a manager for punk rock and new wave bands such as New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants, and Bow Wow Wow, and was an early influencer of the punk subculture.
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Brian Molko

83. Brian Molko

1972-. (aged 54)
singer guitarist vocalist songwriter executive producer
Brian Molko is a Scottish-American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo. He is known for his nasal voice and high registered vocals, feminine/androgynous appearance, aggressive guitar style and non-standard tunings.
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John Cale

84. John Cale

1942-. (aged 84)
experimental musician music arranger pianist film score composer television actor
John Davies Cale is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music.
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Princess Beatrice of York

85. Princess Beatrice of York

1988-. (aged 38)
philanthropist businessperson socialite film actor
Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, she is ninth as of 2026.
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Kalki Koechlin

86. Kalki Koechlin

1984-. (aged 42)
screenwriter stage actor television actor writer film actor
Kalki Koechlin is a French actress who works in films and stage. Known for her unconventional body of work, primarily in Hindi films, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award. Although a French citizen, she has been raised and lived most of her life in India.
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James Blake

87. James Blake

1988-. (aged 38)
singer record producer composer singer-songwriter disc jockey
James Blake Litherland is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his emotive, soulful light head voice and use of falsetto, he first gained recognition following the release of three extended plays—The Bells Sketch, CMYK and Klavierwerke—in 2010. He signed with A&M Records to release his self-titled debut album (2011) the following year, which was met with critical...
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Steve McQueen

88. Steve McQueen

1969-. (aged 57)
artist television producer film producer screenwriter sculptor
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matters, he has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in...
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Damon Albarn

89. Damon Albarn

1968-. (aged 58)
singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist record producer musician
Damon Albarn is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman, main vocalist, and lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson

90. Sam Taylor-Johnson

1967-. (aged 59)
film director film producer artist photographer director
Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson OBE is a British filmmaker. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles' singer and songwriter John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists.
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Molly Parkin

91. Molly Parkin

1932-2026 (aged 94)
novelist fashion editor painter autobiographer journalist
Molly Noyle Parkin was a Welsh painter, novelist and journalist, who became most well-known for her work on Nova magazine, newspapers and television in the 1960s.
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Sarah Gillespie

92. Sarah Gillespie

singer painter singer-songwriter guitarist songwriter
Sarah Gillespie is a British-American singer-songwriter, poet and producer known for her blend of poetic lyrics with folk, blues, and jazz influences. She has released five albums, which have received critical acclaim. Gillespie has collaborated with prominent jazz musicians including Chris Montague, Mercury prize nominated Kit Downes, Laura Jurd, James Maddren, and Ruth Goller. Her style is often compared to...
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Alison Hume

93. Alison Hume

1965-. (aged 61)
screenwriter science fiction writer television producer politician
Alison Louise Hume is a British Labour Party politician and television writer who has been Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby since 2024. In television she is known for her work as creator and executive producer of the CBBC series The Sparticle Mystery and the BBC drama Rocket Man.
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Vaughan Grylls

94. Vaughan Grylls

1943-. (aged 83)
artist
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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Max Hattler

95. Max Hattler

1976-. (aged 50)
composer film editor production designer cinematographer film producer
Max Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker. He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" and "Spin" (2010), abstract stop motion works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animation loops "Sync", "1923 aka Heaven" and "1925 aka Hell" (2010).
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Tracey Emin

96. Tracey Emin

1963-. (aged 63)
photographer salesperson textile artist architectural draftsperson printmaker
Dame Tracey Karima Emin DBE RA is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016.
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Henry Bond

97. Henry Bond

1966-. (aged 60)
exhibition curator writer photographer
Henry Bond, FHEA is an English writer, photographer, and visual artist. In his Lacan at the Scene (2009), Bond made contributions to theoretical psychoanalysis and forensics.
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Tiziana Terranova

98. Tiziana Terranova

1967-. (aged 59)
writer researcher sociologist lecturer
Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published the monograph Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches, and appeared as a keynote speaker in several conferences. She...
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Laure Prouvost

99. Laure Prouvost

1978-. (aged 48)
videographer performance artist installation artist sound artist artist
Laure Prouvost is a French artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media installation Deep See Blue Surrounding You.
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Giselle Laronde

100. Giselle Laronde

1963-. (aged 63)
model beauty pageant contestant
Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde-West is a Trinidadian model, Stenographer and beauty queen who won Miss World 1986, representing Trinidad and Tobago. She became the second woman from that nation to win an international beauty pageant, after Janelle Commissiong Miss Universe 1977 and the only one to date, to win Miss World title. The pageant was held in London, UK at the...
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