Notable Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London [Sorted List]

1. Louisa Martindale

1872-1966 (aged 94)

surgeon physician

Louisa Martindale CBE FRCOG was an English physician, surgeon and writer. She also served as magistrate on the Brighton bench, was a prison commissioner and a member of the National Council of Women. She served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals at Royaumont Abbey in France in World War I, and as a surgeon in London in World War II. Through...

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2. Martin Pickford

1943-. (aged 83)

anthropologist professeur des universités paleoanthropologist paleontologist

Martin Pickford is a lecturer in the Chair of Paleoanthropology and Prehistory at the Collège de France and honorary affiliate at the Département Histoire de la Terre in the Muséum national d'Histoire. In 2001, Martin Pickford together with Brigitte Senut and their team discovered Orrorin tugenensis, a hominid primate species dated between 5.8 and 6.2 million years ago and a...

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3. Antony John Williams

1964-. (aged 62)

proprietor chemist

Antony John Williams is a British chemist and expert in the fields of both nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and cheminformatics at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He is the founder of the ChemSpider website that was purchased by the Royal Society of Chemistry in May 2009. He is a science blogger and an author.

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4. Helen Porter

1899-1987 (aged 88)

university teacher science writer biologist biochemist botanist

Helen Kemp Porter was a British botanist from Imperial College London. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first female professor at Imperial College London. Her studies of polysaccharide metabolism in tobacco plants were groundbreaking; she was one of the first British scientists to use the innovative technologies of chromatography and radioactive tracers.

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5. Alice Lee

1858-1939 (aged 81)

mathematician eugenicist statistician research fellow

Alice Lee was a British statistician and mathematician, one of the first women to graduate from London University. She was awarded a PhD in 1901. She worked with Karl Pearson from 1892. She was notable for demonstrating that the correlation between cranial capacity and gender was not a sign of greater intelligence in men compared to women.

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6. Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Delyth Jane Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin is a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, having formerly sat as a Labour peer. She was raised to the peerage in 2004 and appointed Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign, now Breast Cancer Now, in 2011. She was educated at Bedford College, London, BSc Physiology &...

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7. Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe

1945-. (aged 81)

trade unionist politician

Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe is a British politician and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was formerly a trade unionist and the Chief Executive of Universities UK.

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8. Margaret Wintringham

1879-1955 (aged 76)

suffragist teacher politician

Margaret Wintringham JP was a British Liberal Party politician. She was the second woman, and the first British-born woman, to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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9. Alec Wilkie

1948-. (aged 78)

mathematician university teacher

Alex James Wilkie FRS is a British mathematician known for his contributions to model theory and logic. Previously Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, he was appointed to the Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester in 2007.

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10. Duncan McCargo

1963-. (aged 63)

university teacher political scientist

Duncan McCargo is President's Chair in Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where is also a professor of English. McCargo retains an affiliation with the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, where he taught for many years. Prior to joining NTU he served for four years as director of the Nordic Institute of...

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11. Anna Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Anna Mary Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords, a former special adviser and public affairs consultant.

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12. Roger Wright

1956-. (aged 70)

manager

Sir Roger William Wright CBE is an English arts administrator. Roger Wright was CEO of Britten Pears Arts until the end of July 2024 when he left the role after 10 years. Wright was appointed the role of Chief Executive of The Rothschild Foundation in October 2024. The Rothschild Foundation was established in 2010 as a charity supporting arts, heritage,...

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13. Patricia Kingori

researcher sociologist

Patricia Kingori is a British Kenyan sociologist who is a Wellcome Senior Investigator and Professor at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the experiences of frontline health workers around the world. She is particularly interested in misinformation and pseudoscience. In 2015, Kingori was included on the Powerlist.

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14. Jenny Randerson

1948-2025 (aged 77)

politician

Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson, Baroness Randerson was a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She was a junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly...

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15. Ewan Pearson

1972-. (aged 54)

record producer disc jockey composer

Ewan Pearson is an English electronic music producer/remixer who works under various aliases including Maas, Sulky Pup, Villa America, World of Apples, and Dirtbox. He is also in Partial Arts with Al Usher. He has remixed for artists such as Cortney Tidwell, Seelenluft, Ladytron, Depeche Mode, The Rapture, Goldfrapp, and The Chemical Brothers. In 2001, Soma Quality Recordings released Small...

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16. Harriette Chick

1875-1977 (aged 102)

biochemist nutritionist physiologist

Dame Harriette Chick DBE was a British microbiologist, protein scientist, and nutritionist. She is best remembered for demonstrating the roles of sunlight and cod liver oil in preventing rickets. She also greatly contributed to the medical and public community as she discovered the origins of a number of diseases, including rickets and pellagra, and was a co-discoverer of the standard...

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17. Sophie Bryant

1850-1922 (aged 72)

mathematician

Sophie Willock Bryant was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist. She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England; one of the first to serve on a Royal Commission and on the Senate of the University of London.

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18. Mary Chamberlain

1947-. (aged 79)

historian writer

Mary Chamberlain is a British novelist and historian. She has been largely collected by libraries worldwide.

19. Katharine Stephen

1856-1924 (aged 68)

college head librarian

Katharine Stephen was a British librarian and later principal of Newnham College at Cambridge University.

20. Javier Bello

2000-. (aged 26)

beach volleyball player

Javier Bello is a British beach volleyball player.

21. Angela Mason

1944-. (aged 82)

politician LGBTQ rights activist

Angela Margaret Mason CBE is a British civil servant and activist, and a former director of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobbying organisation Stonewall. She is a former Chair of the Fawcett Society, a UK women's rights campaigning organisation and a Labour Party councillor in Camden.

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22. Joe Saward

1961-. (aged 65)

journalist

Jonathan Mark Christopher Saward is a British Formula One journalist.

23. Janet Fookes, Baroness Fookes

1936-. (aged 90)

politician

Janet Evelyn Fookes, Baroness Fookes, DBE, DL is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she is a life peer in the House of Lords. She was previously a member of the House of Commons from 1970 to 1997, representing the constituencies of Merton and Morden (1970–74) and Plymouth Drake (1974–97). She was a Deputy Speaker of the...

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24. Alex Lewington

1991-. (aged 35)

rugby union player

Alexander "Alex" Lewington is a retired rugby union winger.

25. Jessica Lee

1976-. (aged 50)

politician barrister

Jessica Katherine Lee, Lady Harrington of Watford is a British former Conservative Party politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Erewash in Derbyshire in 2010. She served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, before stepping down for the 2015 general election.

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26. Susan Bullock

1958-. (aged 68)

opera singer musician

Susan Margaret Bullock CBE is a British soprano. She has performed dramatic soprano parts at major opera houses, and also sung in concert and recital.

27. Benedict Rogers

1974-. (aged 52)

criminal defense lawyer human rights defender journalist

Benedict Richard Victor Rogers is a British human rights activist and journalist based in London. His work focuses on Asia, particularly Burma, North Korea, Indonesia, the Maldives, East Timor, Pakistan and Hong Kong. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Huffington Post and has appeared on BBC, CNN, Sky, Al Jazeera...

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28. Robert Garside

1967-. (aged 59)

explorer athletics competitor

Robert Garside, calling himself The Runningman, is a British runner who is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world. Garside began his record-setting run following two aborted attempts from Cape Town, South Africa and London, England. Garside set off from New Delhi, India on 20 October 1997, completing his run back at the...

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29. Vanessa Kingori

publisher editor journalist

Vanessa Kingori OBE is a multi-award-winning businesswoman with over 20 years of experience in the media and creative industries. She now serves as Google's Managing Director of Technology, Media, and Telecoms.

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30. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

1928-2015 (aged 87)

essayist poet writer

Marjorie Phyllis Oludhe Macgoye was born in Southampton, England, but immigrated to Kenya soon after Kenya became independent. She was a poet, novelist, and a missionary bookseller. She studied at the University of London for both her bachelor and master's degree. In 1954, she moved to Kenya to sell books and, while there, she met Daniel Oludhe Macgoye, a medical...

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31. Caroline Haslett

1895-1957 (aged 62)

editor engineer justice of the peace

Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett DBE, JP was an English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of women's rights. Haslett was the first secretary of the Women's Engineering Society and the founder and editor of its journal, The Woman Engineer. She was co-founder, alongside Laura Annie Willson and with the support of Margaret, Lady Moir, of the Electrical Association for...

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32. Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig

1943-2024 (aged 81)

historian politician university teacher

Ruth Beatrice Henig, Baroness Henig, CBE, JP, DL was a British academic historian and Labour politician.

33. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

1879-1967 (aged 88)

biologist taxonomist university teacher botanical collector microbiologist

Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE was a prominent English botanist and mycologist. During the First World War, she served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and then as Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) from 1918 to 1919. During the Second World War, from 1939 to 1941, she served as Chief Controller of the Auxiliary Territorial Service...

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34. Jonathan Goodall

1961-. (aged 65)

Anglican priest

Jonathan Michael Goodall is a British Roman Catholic priest and a former Church of England bishop. From 2013 to 2021, he was Bishop of Ebbsfleet, a suffragan bishop who is the provincial episcopal visitor in the western half of the Province of Canterbury for those "within the spectrum of Anglican teaching and tradition" who are "unable to receive the ministry...

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35. Jayne-Anne Gadhia

1961-. (aged 65)

chief executive officer

Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, DBE, CVO, FRSE is a British businesswoman. She is the Founder and Executive Chair of the fintech Snoop. She was the CEO of Virgin Money from 2007 to 2018.

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36. Ajahn Amaro

1956-. (aged 70)

Buddhist monk

Ajahn Amaro is a British–American Theravāda Buddhist monk and teacher, and abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. The centre, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah. Its chief priorities are...

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37. Daljit Nagra

1966-. (aged 60)

poet

Daljit Nagra MBE FRSL is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (based on a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice of the same name) was published by Faber in 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by...

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38. Dinah Craik

1826-1887 (aged 61)

essayist novelist writer children's writer poet

Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She wrote the novel, John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.

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39. Sophie Christiansen

1987-. (aged 39)

software engineer dressage rider

Sophie Margaret Christiansen is an English former equestrian who competed in four successive Paralympic Games. In 2012 and 2016 she gained three gold medals at the Paralympics. In 2008 she won two gold medals and a silver at the Beijing Paralympics whilst studying for a master's degree in mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She works as a software...

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40. Andrew Parmley

1956-. (aged 70)

politician

Sir Andrew Charles Parmley, KStJ is Principal of the Harrodian School in Barnes, London, and served as Lord Mayor of London for 2016–17.

41. Sarah Parker Remond

1824-1894 (aged 70)

physician autobiographer suffragist abolitionist

Sarah Parker Remond was an American-born British lecturer, activist, abolitionist campaigner and Italian physician.

42. Luisa Porritt

1987-. (aged 39)

politician

Luisa Manon Porritt is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

43. Saied Reza Ameli

1961-. (aged 65)

translator sociologist

Saied Reza Ameli is a (full) professor of communication at the University of Tehran. He is currently a member of Department of Communications and the director of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture, and Cyberspace Policy Research Center, Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. Sinde the 2010s, Ameli has worked on issues of Muslim minority identity...

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44. John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble

1956-. (aged 70)

politician

John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble, is a British politician. He is a life peer, and has served as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since May 2021.

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45. Candace Chong Mui Ngam

1976-. (aged 50)

screenwriter

Candace Chong Mui Ngam is a Chinese playwright from Hong Kong who has written scripts for play such as The French Kiss (2005), Murder in San José (2009) and The Wild Boar (2012). She has won the Hong Kong Drama Award seven times in the category of Best Script and in 2010 was given the title best drama artist by...

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46. Caroline Ansell

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Caroline Julie Porte Ansell is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 2015 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2024.

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47. Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George

1888-1972 (aged 84)

diarist

Frances Lloyd George, Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, CBE was a British woman who was the mistress, personal secretary, confidante and second wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

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48. Bradley Garrett

1981-. (aged 45)

geographer academic photographer

Bradley Garrett is an American geographer, writer, and photographer.

49. Shahidul Alam

1955-. (aged 71)

teacher unit still photographer blogger activist photographer

Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist.

50. Hamidreza Jalaeipour

1957-. (aged 69)

sociologist politician journalist

Hamidreza Jalaeipour is an Iranian sociologist and journalist, member of the Central Council of the Iran participation front, assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Tehran and one of the main members of the Iranian Sociological Association. He was the manager of Jame'ee and Nosazi newspapers and as well as the Chairman of the policy-making Council...

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51. Athene Seyler

1889-1990 (aged 101)

film actor actor stage actor

Athene Seyler was an English actress.

52. Gregory Barker

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Gregory Leonard George Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, PC is a British Conservative Party politician, life peer, and businessperson. In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, a role in which he served until 2014. At the following year's general election he stood down as MP for Bexhill and Battle and was appointed to...

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53. Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann

1855-1916 (aged 61)

gynecologist physician

Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was the first female general practitioner and gynecologist in Munich, Germany.

54. Norman Baker

1957-. (aged 69)

politician

Norman John Baker is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes in East Sussex from the 1997 general election until his defeat in 2015.

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55. Ahmad Fuadi

1972-. (aged 54)

writer

Ahmad Fuadi is an Indonesian writer, novelist and social entrepreneur. His debut novel Negeri 5 Menara (The Land of 5 Towers) broke the publisher's sales record (Gramedia Pustaka Utama) for the last 37 years. Negeri 5 Menara is the first part of the Negeri 5 Menara trilogy, followed by Ranah 3 Warna (The Earth of 3 Colors), and Rantau 1...

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56. Edith Durham

1863-1944 (aged 81)

writer illustrator scientific illustrator photographer painter

Mary Edith Durham was a British artist, anthropologist and writer who is best known for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Her advocacy on behalf of the Albanian cause and her Albanophilia gained her the devotion of many Albanians who consider her a national heroine.

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57. Sarah Perry

1979-. (aged 47)

novelist writer journalist

Sarah Grace Perry FRSL is an English author. She has had four novels published: After Me Comes the Flood (2014), The Essex Serpent (2016), Melmoth (2018) and Enlightenment (2024). Her work has been translated into 22 languages. She was appointed Chancellor of the University of Essex in July 2023, officially starting in this role on 1 August 2023.

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58. Clare Mackintosh

1976-. (aged 50)

writer police officer novelist journalist

Clare Mackintosh is a British author and former police officer.

59. Miriam Rothschild

1908-2005 (aged 97)

botanist scientific collector biologist entomologist zoologist

Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild DBE FRS was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany.

60. Margaret Busby

1944-. (aged 82)

author writer journalist

Margaret Yvonne Busby, CBE, Hon. FRSL, also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest publisher as well as the first black female book publisher in the UK when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the...

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61. Kathleen Lonsdale

1903-1971 (aged 68)

peace activist crystallographer engineer

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS was an Irish crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. During her career she attained several firsts for...

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62. Tahmima Anam

1975-. (aged 51)

journalist writer

Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.

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63. Andrew Stephenson

1981-. (aged 45)

politician

Andrew George Stephenson is a British former politician who most recently served as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care from November 2023 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire from 2010 until 2024.

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64. Valerie Vaz

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer politician

Valerie Carol Marian Vaz is a British Labour politician and former solicitor who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall and Bloxwich, previously Walsall South, since 2010. She served as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2016 to 2021 in the Shadow Cabinets of Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.

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65. Nick Kent

1951-. (aged 75)

music critic guitarist journalist

Nick Kent is a British rock critic and musician, best known for his writing for the NME in the 1970s, and his books The Dark Stuff (1994) and Apathy for the Devil (2010).

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66. Aaron Bastani

1984-. (aged 42)

columnist writer

Aaron John Bastani is a British political commentator, journalist and author. He co-founded the left-wing media organisation Novara Media in 2011 and regularly hosts and contributes to its Novara Live live news show on YouTube. Bastani popularised the term "Fully Automated Luxury Communism", which describes a post-capitalist society in which automation greatly reduces the amount of labour humans need to...

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67. Victoria Prentis

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Victoria Mary Prentis, Baroness Prentis of Banbury is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, Prentis served as the Member of Parliament for Banbury from 2015 until her defeat in 2024.

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68. Joby Talbot

1971-. (aged 55)

composer film score composer

Joby Talbot is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes, with a broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is known, to sometimes disparate audiences, for quite different works.

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69. Lucy Owen

1970-. (aged 56)

journalist news presenter

Lucy Owen is a Welsh television news reader.

70. Kate Perugini

1839-1929 (aged 90)

painter

Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens.

71. Robin Ince

1969-. (aged 57)

television actor actor presenter writer stand-up comedian

Robin Ince is an English comedian, actor and writer. He was a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox from 2009 to 2025, creating Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People, co-creating The Cosmic Shambles Network, and his stand-up comedy career.

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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. Leilani Dowding

1980-. (aged 46)

activist model beauty pageant contestant film actor

Leilani Dowding is an English former beauty pageant titleholder and former glamour model. After winning Miss Great Britain 1998 and representing the United Kingdom at Miss Universe 1998, she dropped out of college to pursue a career in glamour modelling, appearing as a Page 3 girl in The Sun and featuring in men's magazines such as Maxim and FHM. She...

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74. Abbas Akhoundi

1957-. (aged 69)

economist engineer politician

Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi is an Iranian politician and academic and former Minister of Roads and Urban Development, from 2013 to 2018. In 1993, Akhoundi became the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, making him one of the youngest ministers in Iran's modern history until Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi's appointment in 2017.

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75. Bobby Seagull

1984-. (aged 42)

television presenter teacher science communicator

Jay Bobby Seagull MBE is a British mathematics teacher, broadcaster and writer. He appeared on the television programme University Challenge in 2017, and in 2018 on Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain. His second book, The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers, was published in 2018.

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76. Nicholas de Roumanie

1985-. (aged 41)

team leader mountain guide instructor Water Safety Instructor businessperson

Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills, formerly known as Prince Nicholas of Romania, is the eldest child and only son of Princess Elena of Romania and Robin Medforth-Mills. As a grandson of King Michael of Romania, he was third in line to the defunct throne of Romania according to a new family statute enacted in 2007, that also conferred the title...

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77. Amir El-Masry

1990-. (aged 36)

actor

Amir El-Masry is an Egyptian-British actor. He won a Scottish BAFTA for his performance in the film Limbo (2020) and was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. He was named a 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

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78. Ben Key

1965-. (aged 61)

naval officer

Sir Benjamin John Key, KCB, CBE is a former Royal Navy admiral, who served as First Sea Lord from November 2021 to May 2025. On 2 July 2025, the Ministry of Defence announced that Key's service and commission had been terminated following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour, which found him to have "fallen far short of the values...

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79. Elizabeth Blackwell

1821-1910 (aged 89)

human rights defender writer women physician women's rights activist essayist

Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social reformer, and was a pioneer in...

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80. Example

1982-. (aged 44)

singer rapper singer-songwriter

Elliot John Gleave, known professionally as Example, is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. He released his debut studio album, What We Made, in 2007, followed by the mixtape What We Almost Made in 2008. Example first found success in 2010 with the release of his second studio album, Won't Go Quietly, which peaked at number four on...

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81. Aria Mia Loberti

actor activist

Aria Mia Loberti is an American actress and author. She is known for portraying Marie-Laure Leblanc in the Netflix miniseries All the Light We Cannot See (2023).

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82. Emma Freud

1962-. (aged 64)

television presenter broadcaster disc jockey

Emma Vallencey Freud is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.

83. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

1903-1988 (aged 85)

freedom fighter political activist

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer. She worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She was the first woman in India to contest in elections from Madras Constituency, but lost.

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84. David Bellamy

1933-2019 (aged 86)

scientific collector television presenter writer environmentalist botanist

David James Bellamy OBE was an English academic, botanist, television presenter, author and prominent environmental campaigner in the UK and globally. His distinctive, energetic style of presenting became well known to UK television audiences in the 1970s and 1980s. Later in life, he made some sceptical statements about climate science and was cancelled.

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85. Catherine Ashton

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat politician

Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.

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86. Roxanne McKee

1980-. (aged 46)

film actor actor model

Roxanne McKee is a Canadian-born British actress. She is best known for playing Louise Summers in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2005–2008), Lou Foster in the BBC Three drama series Lip Service (2010), Doreah in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2012) and Lady Claire Riesen in the Syfy apocalyptic supernatural series Dominion (2014–2015). She has also...

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87. George Eliot

1819-1880 (aged 61)

journalist philosopher writer translator poet

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and...

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88. Lenny Henry

1958-. (aged 68)

stand-up comedian writer comedian film actor screenwriter

Sir Lenworth George Henry is a British-Jamaican comedian, actor, presenter and writer. He gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, becoming a regular cast member of the children's entertainment show Tiswas and the sketch comedy show Three of a Kind. In 1984, he began The Lenny Henry Show, which ran until 2005...

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89. Jojo Moyes

1969-. (aged 57)

writer novelist journalist screenwriter

Pauline Sara Jo Moyes, known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, number-one New York Times best selling author and screenwriter. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into...

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90. Jeremy Northam

1961-. (aged 65)

television actor stage actor singer film actor

Jeremy Philip Northam is an English actor. His film credits include The Net (1995), Emma (1996), An Ideal Husband (1999), Amistad (1997), The Winslow Boy (1999), Gosford Park (2001) and Enigma (2001). In television, he also played Thomas More in the Showtime series The Tudors (2007–2008) and appeared as Anthony Eden in the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2017).

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91. Georgina Campbell

1992-. (aged 34)

actor

Georgina Campbell is an English actress. She won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014), making her the first black and first non-white actress to win that award. Her other television credits include Flowers (2016), Broadchurch (2017), the Black Mirror episode "Hang the DJ" (2017), Krypton (2018), and The Pale Horse (2020). She...

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92. Emily Davison

1872-1913 (aged 41)

suffragist teacher suffragette women's rights activist

Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit...

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93. KT Tunstall

1975-. (aged 51)

composer guitarist film director pianist singer

Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained attention with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland and has subsequently also appeared in two episodes of the comedy series This is Jinsy on Sky Atlantic. In 2025 it was estimated that Tunstall's accumulated...

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94. Mark Strong

1963-. (aged 63)

television actor voice actor stage actor film actor

Mark Strong is an English actor. He is an Olivier Award and a BAFTA TV Award winner, and has received nominations for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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95. Jüri Nael

1975-. (aged 51)

choreographer dancer television presenter actor

Jüri Nael is an Estonian choreographer, movement director, professor of contemporary performance and theatre pedagogue.

96. Moussa Ibrahim

1974-. (aged 52)

politician

Moussa Ibrahim Gaddafi is a Libyan political figure who rose to international attention in 2011 as Muammar Gaddafi's Information Minister and official spokesman, serving in this role until the government was toppled the same year in the Libyan Civil War. Ibrahim held frequent press conferences in the course of the war, denouncing rebel forces and the NATO-led military intervention, often...

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97. Freya Madeline Stark

1893-1993 (aged 100)

mountaineer explorer travel writer essayist photographer

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.

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98. Stewart Jackson

1965-. (aged 61)

politician banker

Stewart James Jackson, Baron Jackson of Peterborough is a British politician and adviser. Jackson served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough from 2005 to 2017. After being ousted by Labour's Fiona Onasanya at the 2017 general election, he served as Chief of Staff, and Special Adviser to David Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union,...

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99. Frederick Shava

1949-. (aged 77)

diplomat minister politician

Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava is a Zimbabwean politician who was appointed Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology on 15 October 2024. He was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade from 2 March 2021 to 15 October 2024. He also serves as a member of the Senate representing Midlands Province, having been sworn in on 17 March...

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100. Davis Chirchir

1960-. (aged 66)

politician minister

Davis Chirchir is a Kenyan politician who is currently serving as Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport. He previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum in the Uhuru Kenyatta Administration from 2017 to 2022 and in the William Ruto Government from 2022 to 2024.

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