Notable Alumni of Queen Mary University of London [Sorted List]

1. Jeffrey Jon Shaw

1938-. (aged 88)

parasitologist

Jeffrey Jon Shaw OBE, FLS, FASTMH is a British parasitologist who began working in Latin America in 1962. Although officially retired, he is presently a Senior Professor at São Paulo University's Biomedical Sciences Institute where he continues his research in its Parasitology Department.

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2. Ian Lewis

1961-. (aged 65)

computer scientist engineer

Ian Lewis is an American computer scientist who is the director of infrastructure investment for the University of Cambridge and previously the director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service from 2005 to 2014

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3. Zara Stone

1989-. (aged 37)

journalist writer

Zara Stone is a San Francisco-based author and journalist. In 2020, her first book, The Future of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, was published by Mango Publishing. Local News Matters says it "will STEM the tide of male domination in science." KALW described it as "about projects that women in STEM are working on." It...

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4. Bekeme Masade

1982-. (aged 44)

entrepreneur writer

Bekeme Masade-Olowola is a Nigerian social entrepreneur, a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative – the world's leading sustainability impact measurement and reporting standards body – and the Chief Executive of CSR-in-Action, a group made of a consulting firm, a think tank and a training institute dedicated to corporate social responsibility, policy development, advocacy, empowerment...

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5. Malcolm Chisholm

1945-2015 (aged 70)

university teacher chemist

Malcolm Harold Chisholm was a British inorganic chemist who worked mainly in North America, a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University who contributed to the synthesis and structural chemistry of transition metal complexes.

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6. Edward J. Russell

1872-1965 (aged 93)

university teacher pedologist researcher agronomist author

Sir Edward John Russell OBE FRS was a British soil chemist, agriculture scientist, and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943. He was responsible for hiring R. A. Fisher for statistical research at Rothamsted and driven by concerns over a lack of international information exchange about agriculture, he initiated the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, which later became the Commonwealth...

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7. Kenneth Allen

1923-1997 (aged 74)

nuclear physicist physicist

Kenneth William Allen was an English nuclear physicist. He was a professor of nuclear physics at the University of Oxford, England. The Independent stated that "Allen will be best remembered for his outstanding contributions to nuclear structure physics and for his advocacy of the use of electrostatic nuclear accelerators in other areas of science. Accelerators – otherwise known as "atom...

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8. Angela Speck

astrophysicist astronomer

Angela Karen Speck is a Professor of Astrophysics and the Chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She works on infrared astronomy and the study of space dust. She is a popular science communicator, and was co-chair of the National Total Solar Eclipse Task Force.

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9. Kate Pyne

1943-2015 (aged 72)

historian

Kate Pyne was an English historian working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston. Her work there included the writing of technical history on various aspects of the British nuclear weapons programme from its earliest days to the present time. Prior to taking a degree in Modern History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, she worked for...

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10. Adam Tinworth

1971-. (aged 55)

journalist

Adam Matthew J. Tinworth is a journalist and writer who co-authored two major role-playing games, Demon: The Fallen and Werewolf: The Forsaken from White Wolf Publishing. He was also an extensive contributor to Hunter: The Reckoning, a game line that was subsequently ported to video games.

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11. Mārtiņš Kazāks

1973-. (aged 53)

economist

Mārtiņš Kazāks is a Latvian economist and the current governor of the central Bank of Latvia since December 2019.

12. David Newman

1956-. (aged 70)

university teacher political scientist geographer

David Newman OBE is a British-Israeli scholar in political geography and geopolitics. He is a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Department of Politics and Government and was this department's first chairperson. Newman also served for many years as chief editor of the academic journal Geopolitics and as dean of BGU's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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13. Christopher Pitchford

1947-2017 (aged 70)

judge barrister

Sir Christopher John Pitchford was a senior British judge who was a Lord Justice of Appeal in England and Wales from 2010 until he retired because of ill health in 2017.

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14. Lisa Downing

1974-. (aged 52)

university teacher philologist

Lisa Downing is an author and academic. She is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham.

15. Andrew Pocock

1955-. (aged 71)

diplomat

Sir Andrew John Pocock KCMG is a British former diplomat who was High Commissioner to Nigeria and Permanent Representative to ECOWAS 2012–15.

16. Lee Harwood

1939-2015 (aged 76)

poet writer

Lee Harwood was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.

17. Verla De Peiza

1971-. (aged 55)

lawyer politician

Verla A. De Peiza is a Barbadian politician and lawyer. She was the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 12 August 2018 to 21 January 2022, and was the first woman to hold this position. She also previously served as a Senator for the DLP from 2010 to 2018.

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18. Martin Paul Eve

1986-. (aged 40)

writer programmer lecturer university teacher

Martin Paul Eve is a British academic, writer, computer programmer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London and the Technical Lead for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State University. Previously, Eve was Principal R&D Developer at Crossref from 2023-2024 and Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University...

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19. Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel

1964-. (aged 62)

land owner politician

Francis Michael Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel, styled Viscount Ennismore until 1997, is an Irish and British peer. He first sat in the House of Lords by right of his United Kingdom peerage of Baron Hare and was later one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of...

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20. Tejinder Virdee

1952-. (aged 74)

physicist university teacher

Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS, is a Kenyan-born British experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) alongside a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project. CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started...

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21. Raed Fahmy Jahid

1950-. (aged 76)

politician

Raid Jahid Fahmi is an Iraqi politician and economist who is the current secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party since 2016. He served as minister of science and technology in the first government of Nouri al-Maliki from 2006 to 2010.

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22. Jerry Brotton

1969-. (aged 57)

historian cartographer university teacher writer

Jerry Brotton is a British historian. He is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a television and radio presenter and a curator.

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23. Geraint F. Lewis

1969-. (aged 57)

astrophysicist astronomer physicist university teacher

Geraint Francis Lewis, FLSW is a Welsh astrophysicist, best known for his work on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic cannibalism. Lewis is a professor of astrophysics (teaching and research) at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, part of the University of Sydney's School of Physics. He is head of the Gravitational Astrophysics Group. He was previously the associate head for...

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24. Naila Kiani

mountaineer

Naila Kiani; is the leading Pakistani female high altitude and one of the world’s most accomplished female mountaineer. Kiani is the first Pakistani woman to climb 12 of the 14 eight-thousanders. She is one of the ten mountaineers worldwide and the only Pakistani who climbed multiple (7 peaks) above 8000 m in less than six months. Kiani is also the...

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25. John Whittaker

1945-. (aged 81)

university teacher economist politician

John Whittaker is a former UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region from 2004 to 2009.

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26. Derek Marlowe

1938-1996 (aged 58)

playwright screenwriter writer

Derek William Mario Marlowe was an English playwright, novelist, screenwriter and painter.

27. Elf Lyons

1991-. (aged 35)

comedian stand-up comedian

Emily-Anne "Elf" Lyons is a British stand-up comedian, writer and actress.

28. Nathalie Handal

1969-. (aged 57)

playwright poet non-fiction writer

Nathalie Handal is a poet, writer and professor at New York University. She has published 10 books, including Life in a Country Album.

29. Halima Begum

1975-. (aged 51)

Halima Begum is a Bangladeshi-British charity executive, who was chief executive of Oxfam UK until December 2025. She has worked the Department for International Development, the British Council and the Runnymede Trust.

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30. Samson Abramsky

1953-. (aged 73)

computer scientist engineer

Samson Abramsky is a British computer scientist who is a Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2021.

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31. Michael Duff

1949-. (aged 77)

physicist

Michael James Duff FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.

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32. Gerard Lyons

1961-. (aged 65)

writer economist

Gerard Patrick Lyons is a British economist.

33. Kia Abdullah

1982-. (aged 44)

journalist novelist

Kia Abdullah is an English novelist, journalist, and travel writer. She is the best-selling author of courtroom dramas Take It Back (HarperCollins, 2019), Truth Be Told (HarperCollins, 2020), Next of Kin (HarperCollins, 2021) and Those People Next Door (HarperCollins, 2023). She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Telegraph and the BBC,...

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34. Rudranath Capildeo

1920-1970 (aged 50)

mathematician politician

The Hon. Rudranath Capildeo TC was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, mathematician and barrister. He was a member of the prominent Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family. Capildeo was the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 1960 to 1969 and the first Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of the independent Trinidad and Tobago from 1962 to 1967. He...

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35. Roy Strong

1935-. (aged 91)

autobiographer curator art historian landscape architect exhibition curator

Sir Roy Colin Strong, CH, FRSL, FSA is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Strong was knighted in 1982, and made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016.

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36. Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah

1979-. (aged 47)

Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, MVO is a Ghanaian-born officer in the British Army. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II as her equerry, he was the first black man to hold this position. Twumasi-Ankrah is an officer of the Household Cavalry and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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37. Peter Caruana

1956-. (aged 70)

politician barrister

Sir Peter Richard Caruana, KCMG KC is a Gibraltarian former politician who served as Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1996 to 2011 and Leader of the Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD) from 1991 to 2013. He is the longest serving Chief Minister to date. A barrister by profession, Caruana was appointed a Queen's Counsel for Gibraltar in 1998 (which became King's...

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38. Arthur Wint

1920-1992 (aged 72)

diplomat sprinter middle-distance runner

Arthur Stanley Wint OD MBE was a Jamaican Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War, a sprinter, a physician, and later the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. While competing at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, whilst a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he won two gold and two silver medals, becoming the first Jamaican...

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39. Stephanie Peacock

1986-. (aged 40)

trade unionist politician

Stephanie Louise Peacock is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley South, previously Barnsley East, since 2017. She has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth since July 2024.

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40. Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1985-. (aged 41)

politician

Bellavia Janet Ribeiro-Addy is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clapham and Brixton Hill, previously Streatham, since 2019. In 2020, she was briefly Shadow Minister for Immigration. She chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations. On the political left, she is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.

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41. Stephen Hammond

1962-. (aged 64)

politician economist

Stephen William Hammond is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon from 2005 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.

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42. Julie Gardner

1969-. (aged 57)

television producer executive producer manufacturer

Julie Ann Gardner MBE is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of Doctor Who and its spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. She worked on Doctor Who from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide. In 2015, Gardner co-founded the...

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43. Tom Pursglove

1988-. (aged 38)

politician

Thomas Christopher John Pursglove is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Minister from September 2021 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby from May 2015 until 2024 when he was defeated.

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44. Diana Johnson

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Dame Diana Ruth Johnson DBE is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions since 2025.

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45. Caroline Spelman

1958-. (aged 68)

politician

Dame Caroline Alice Spelman DBE is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019. From May 2010 to September 2012 she was the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on...

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46. Tigran Avinyan

1989-. (aged 37)

politician

Tigran Avinyan is an Armenian politician and businessman currently serving as the Mayor of Yerevan. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia from 2018 to 2021 in Nikol Pashinyan's government. He is a founding member of the ruling Civil Contract Party. He was the Civil Contract Party's mayoral candidate for the Yerevan City Council election which took place on...

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47. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1927-2013 (aged 86)

novelist screenwriter writer

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.

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48. Peter Mansfield

1933-2017 (aged 84)

inventor physicist university teacher biophysicist

Sir Peter Mansfield FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.

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49. Kamran Daneshjoo

1956-. (aged 70)

politician

Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.

50. Apsana Begum

1990-. (aged 36)

politician

Apsana Begum is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Poplar and Limehouse in east London since 2019. Elected as a member of the Labour Party, Begum had the party whip withdrawn on 23 July 2024 after she voted for an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Begum regained the party whip in September 2025.

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51. Bernard Butler

1970-. (aged 56)

record producer guitarist singer-songwriter

Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for being the guitarist for the band Suede from 1989 to 1994, appearing on the albums Suede (1993) and Dog Man Star (1994). He would leave the band midway through the recording of the latter.

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52. Kia Joorabchian

1971-. (aged 55)

sports agent

Kiavash Joorabchian is an Iranian-born British-educated businessman largely involved in association football. In the register of directorships at Companies House in London, Joorabchian gives two nationalities, Canadian and British, born on 14 July 1971.

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53. Prannoy Roy

1949-. (aged 77)

journalist author

Prannoy Lal Roy is an Indian economist, chartered accountant, psephologist, journalist and author. He is the former executive co-chairperson of NDTV and one of its co-founders, along with his wife Radhika Roy. Currently works with his new instalment DeKoder

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54. Piers Corbyn

1947-. (aged 79)

conspiracy theorist physicist meteorologist businessperson political activist

Piers Richard Corbyn is a British weather forecaster, anti-vaccine activist, conspiracy theorist, and former politician. Corbyn was born in Wiltshire and raised in Shropshire wherein he attended Adams' Grammar School. He was awarded a first class BSc degree in physics from Imperial College London in 1968 and a postgraduate MSc in astrophysics from Queen Mary College, University of London, in...

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55. Alasdair MacIntyre

1929-2025 (aged 96)

university teacher philosopher

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a Scottish-American philosopher who contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics...

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56. Eva Carneiro

1973-. (aged 53)

sports physician

Eva Carneiro is a Gibraltarian sports medicine specialist who is best known for serving as the first-team doctor of Chelsea, which she joined in 2009. Educated at the University of Nottingham, the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in Melbourne and Queen Mary University of London, she worked variously for West Ham United, the Public Health Department, the Olympic...

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57. Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands

1966-. (aged 60)

aristocrat writer journalist

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands is married to Prince Constantijn and is the sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

58. Jane Hill

1969-. (aged 57)

television presenter news presenter journalist

Jane Amanda Hill is an English newsreader and journalist for the BBC. She is one of the corporation’s main network anchors, regularly presenting the BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Ten and BBC News at Six. She also presents The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

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59. Bruce Dickinson

1958-. (aged 68)

composer aircraft pilot heavy metal singer rock musician screenwriter

Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day. He is known for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence.

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60. Pete Doherty

1979-. (aged 47)

guitarist activist songwriter painter poet

Peter Doherty is an English musician. He is best known for being co-frontman of the Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997. His other musical projects are indie bands Babyshambles and Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres.

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61. Graham Chapman

1941-1989 (aged 48)

composer actor comedian television actor writer

Graham Chapman was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surrealist comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979).

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62. Bill O'Reilly

1949-. (aged 77)

baseball player radio personality teacher podcaster journalist

William James O'Reilly Jr. is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host.

63. Graham McTavish

1961-. (aged 65)

stage actor television actor voice actor actor film actor

Graham McTavish is a Scottish actor and author. He is known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, The Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher, Dougal MacKenzie and William Buccleigh MacKenzie in the Starz series Outlander, and Harrold Westerling in the HBO series House of the Dragon. He is also known for his roles in...

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64. Peaches Geldof

1989-2014 (aged 25)

photographer model columnist journalist screenwriter

Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof was an English columnist, television personality, and model.

65. Romola Garai

1982-. (aged 44)

screenwriter stage actor film director actor film actor

Romola Sadie Garai is a British actress and film director. Known for her extensive work on stage and screen, she often acts in period films. Her early film roles include Nicholas Nickleby (2002), I Capture the Castle (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004), and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004). She has gained prominence for her performances in the critically acclaimed costume...

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66. Fleur East

1987-. (aged 39)

fitness model dancer songwriter recording artist entertainer

Fleur East is an English singer, songwriter, rapper and presenter. East competed on the eleventh series of The X Factor in 2005 as part of the girl group Addictiv Ladies but was unsuccessful. In 2012, she signed with Strictly Rhythm. In collaboration with Drumsound & Bassline Smith, she released "One in a Million" (2013), which peaked at number 53 on...

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67. Nick Jennings

1966-. (aged 60)

computer scientist artificial intelligence researcher

Nicholas Robert Jennings is a British computer scientist who was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University in 2021. He was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London, the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science, and the inaugural Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. His research covers the areas of AI,...

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68. Philip Campbell

1951-. (aged 75)

editor

Sir Philip Henry Montgomery Campbell FRS FRAS FInstP is a British astrophysicist. He worked as editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed scientific journal Nature from 1995 to 2018. From 2018 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing company Springer Nature until his retirement in May 2023.

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69. Peter Hain

1950-. (aged 76)

politician

Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PC is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member...

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70. Sarah Waters

1966-. (aged 60)

writer novelist

Sarah Ann Waters OBE is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

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71. Sarah Harrison

1982-. (aged 44)

journalist editor

Sarah Harrison is a British former WikiLeaks section editor. She worked with the WikiLeaks' legal defence and has been described as Julian Assange's closest adviser. Harrison accompanied National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden on a high-profile flight from Hong Kong to Moscow while he was sought by the United States government.

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72. Kate Williams

1974-. (aged 52)

historian television presenter opinion journalist writer

Kate Williams is a British historian, author, and television presenter. She is a professor of public engagement with history at the University of Reading.

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73. Esther McVey

1967-. (aged 59)

executive producer television presenter businessperson politician

Esther Louise, Lady Davies, styled as Esther McVey, is a British politician and television presenter who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2017 and was the MP for Wirral West from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, she served in cabinet as Minister of State for Employment from 2013 to 2015, Secretary of...

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74. Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

1942-. (aged 84)

politician

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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75. Virginia Crosbie

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Virginia Ann Crosbie is a British former politician and nuclear industry advocate. Crosbie is the Managing Director of NEMO an international NGO organization focused on advancing safe, secure, and sustainable nuclear technology in the maritime sector. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from 2019 until 2024. Crosbie is chair of Supporters of Nuclear Energy (SONE),...

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76. Helen Pluckrose

1974-. (aged 52)

writer non-fiction writer literary theorist opinion journalist editor

Helen Pluckrose is a British author and cultural writer known for critiques of critical theory and social justice activism and promotion of liberal ethics, most notably in the grievance studies affair.

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77. John Meurig Thomas

1932-2020 (aged 88)

university teacher chemist

Sir John Meurig Thomas, also known as JMT, was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.

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78. Sara Torres

1991-. (aged 35)

novelist researcher poet

Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro is a Spanish poet and novelist. In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry. For her first novel, Lo que hay, she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL (Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros) (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022....

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79. Guðni Jóhannesson

1968-. (aged 58)

historian politician university teacher translator

Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson is an Icelandic historian and politician who served as the sixth president of Iceland from 2016 to 2024.

80. Tomás Bulat

1964-2015 (aged 51)

economist journalist university teacher columnist

Tomás Ariel Bulat was an Argentine economist, journalist, writer, and professor. He was known for his report on channel A24. He wrote some books about the economy. Some of those books are La economía de tu vida, "Estamos Como Somos" and la Economía descubierta. Bulat was born in Buenos Aires.

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