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100 Notable alumni of SOAS, University of London

Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

SOAS, University of London is ranked #915 in the world and #75 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from SOAS, 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 SOAS, University of London won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Ali Ansari

1. Ali Ansari

1967-. (aged 59)
historian
Ali Massoud Ansari is a Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies.
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Petra Stienen

2. Petra Stienen

1965-. (aged 61)
diplomat politician columnist arabist
Petra Stienen is a Dutch human rights advocate with more than thirty years’ experience in diplomacy, international relations, civil society, social entrepreneurship and politics.
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Andrew Mango

3. Andrew Mango

1926-2014 (aged 88)
historian of Modern Age biographer writer opinion journalist journalist
Andrew James Alexander Mango was a British BBC employee and author.
Ajmal Masroor

4. Ajmal Masroor

1970-. (aged 56)
television presenter politician
Ajmal Masroor is a Bangladeshi-born British imam, broadcaster and political activist. He is known for being a television presenter on political discussions and on Muslim channels.
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Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera

5. Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera

1974-. (aged 52)
ulema
Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera is a Sunni Islamic scholar, author, and founder of Whitethread Institute and Zamzam Academy. He authored Fiqh al-Imam and Healthy Muslim Marriage. He was featured in the 2020 edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.
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Akbar S. Ahmed

6. Akbar S. Ahmed

1943-. (aged 83)
filmmaker university teacher writer diplomat anthropologist
Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He currently is a professor of International Relations and holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University, School of International Service in Washington, D.C. Akbar Ahmed served as the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland. He currently is a Global...
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Nur Masalha

7. Nur Masalha

1957-. (aged 69)
historian university teacher
Nur ad-Din Masalha is a Palestinian writer, historian, and academic. His work focuses on the history, politics, and theology of Palestine, including themes such as the Palestinian Nakba, Zionism, and liberation theology.
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Dharma Vira

8. Dharma Vira

1906-2000 (aged 94)
civil servant
Dharma Vira was an Indian civil servant and politician who served as the governor of Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Karnataka. Vira also served as a Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India.
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Paul Madden

9. Paul Madden

1959-. (aged 67)
diplomat
Paul Damian Madden CMG FRGS is a retired British diplomat, who was High Commissioner to Singapore and to Australia, and Ambassador to Japan between 2017 and 2021.
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Ananda Devi

10. Ananda Devi

1957-. (aged 69)
writer poet novelist short story writer
Ananda Devi Nirsimloo-Anenden, also known as Ananda Devi, is a francophone Mauritian author. She is the 2024 recipient of the Neustadt Prize, known as the "American Nobel."
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Kamal Salibi

11. Kamal Salibi

1929-2011 (aged 82)
historian archaeologist university teacher writer
Kamal Suleiman Salibi was a Lebanese historian, professor of history at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the founding Director (later Honorary President) of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, Jordan.
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Arthur Llewellyn Basham

12. Arthur Llewellyn Basham

1914-1986 (aged 72)
historian author
Arthur Llewellyn Basham FAHA was a British historian, Indologist and author. As a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous historians of India, including professors Nemai Sadhan Bose, Awadh Kishore Narain, Ram Sharan Sharma, Romila Thapar, and V. S. Pathak and Thomas R. Trautmann and...
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Hollie McNish

13. Hollie McNish

poet lecturer rapper
Hollie McNish is an English poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She has published four collections of poetry: Papers (2012), Cherry Pie (2015), Why I Ride (2015), Plum (2017) and one poetic memoir on politics and parenthood, Nobody Told Me (2016), of which the Scotsman suggested “The world needs this book...and so does every new parent” and for...
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Edith Penrose

14. Edith Penrose

1914-1996 (aged 82)
university teacher economist
Edith Elura Tilton Penrose was an American-born British economist whose best known work is The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, which describes how firms grow and how fast they do. Writing in The Independent, the economist Sir Alec Cairncross stated that the book brought Dr. Penrose "instant recognition as a creative thinker, and its importance to the analysis...
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M. K. Asante

15. M. K. Asante

1982-. (aged 44)
screenwriter film director rapper film producer
M. K. Asante is an American author, filmmaker, songwriter, recording artist, and professor. He is the author of the 2013 best-selling memoir Buck: A Memoir and the 2024 memoir Nephew: A Memoir in Four-Part Harmony.
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Peter Parker

16. Peter Parker

1924-2002 (aged 78)
businessperson
Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO was a British businessman and chairman of the British Railways Board from 1976 to 1983.
Suki Kim

17. Suki Kim

1970-. (aged 56)
teacher writer journalist
Suki Kim is a Korean American journalist and writer. She is the author of two books: the award-winning novel The Interpreter and a book of investigative journalism, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite. Kim is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea to conduct immersive journalism. Kim is...
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Mia Kang

18. Mia Kang

1988-. (aged 38)
model
Mia Kang is a British-Swiss fashion model, Muay Thai fighter, body confidence advocate, and television host based in New York City. Kang grew up in Hong Kong and was bullied as a young girl for being overweight. She halved her weight at the age of 13 and was soon scouted as a model. Kang modeled across Asia and Europe through...
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Ysabelle Lacamp

19. Ysabelle Lacamp

1954-2023 (aged 69)
singer actor novelist
Ysabelle Lacamp was a French novelist, singer and actress.
Navin Chawla

20. Navin Chawla

1945-2025 (aged 80)
civil servant biographer writer
Navin Chawla was an Indian civil servant and writer, who served as 16th Chief Election Commissioner of India. Four phases (out of five) of the Indian general election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, were executed under his supervision in April and May 2009.
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Michael Cook

21. Michael Cook

1940-. (aged 86)
historian university teacher
Michael Allan Cook FBA is a British historian and scholar of Islamic history. Cook is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam.
Ghida Fakhry

22. Ghida Fakhry

1970-. (aged 56)
journalist television presenter
Ghida Fakhry is a Lebanese-British journalist, currently a host and executive producer for TRT World in Washington D.C. She was a lead anchor for the global news channel Al Jazeera English at its launch in Washington D.C., and was later one of the primary anchors at the network's headquarters in Doha. She was also the host of Witness, a documentary...
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Emma McCune

23. Emma McCune

1964-1993 (aged 29)
activist humanitarian
Emma McCune was a British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married then-guerrilla leader Riek Machar. She was killed when hit by a matatu in Kenya whilst expecting her first child.
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Stefano Lentini

24. Stefano Lentini

1974-. (aged 52)
singer songwriter composer
Stefano Lentini is an Italian composer based in Rome. He has extensively composed and produced music for film, television, and theatre, working across a wide range of genres.
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Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh

25. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh

1946-. (aged 80)
historian writer geographer
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh is an Iranian political scientist and historian. He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He worked in Iranian universities as a geopolitics professor from 1999 to 2014, namely Tarbiat Modares University, University of Tehran and Shahid Beheshti University. He was fired from Tarbiat Modares University in 2014 by Revolutionary Guard Officer Sardar Yahya Rahim...
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Ambeth Ocampo

26. Ambeth Ocampo

1961-. (aged 65)
historian
Ambeth R. Ocampo is a Filipino public historian, academic, cultural administrator, journalist, author, and independent curator. He is best known for his definitive writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal and on topics in Philippine history and Philippine art through Looking Back, his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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Karen Yu

27. Karen Yu

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Yu Wan-ju, also known by her English name Karen Yu, is a Taiwanese politician. She served a single term on the Legislative Yuan as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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Zairil Khir Johari

28. Zairil Khir Johari

1982-. (aged 44)
politician
Zairil Khir Johari is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Penang State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration under Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow and Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tanjong Bunga since May 2018. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bukit Bendera from May...
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Nasri Atallah

29. Nasri Atallah

1982-. (aged 44)
writer
Nasri Atallah is a British-Lebanese Author, television host, film producer, and entrepreneur. He is the editor-in-chief of Esquire Middle East, Esquire Saudi and Esquire Qatar. He is the Head of Content at SRMG, a co-founder of Last Floor Productions, and a Contributing Editor at GQ Middle East.
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Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

30. Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

1915-2000 (aged 85)
diplomat writer politician
Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. She joined the Pakistani foreign service in 1948, and was the country's first female civil servant, as well as the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from 1964 to 1967, and a delegate to the United Nations,...
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Moussa Ibrahim

31. 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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Gold Panda

32. Gold Panda

1980-. (aged 46)
record producer disc jockey composer
Derwin Schlecker, professionally known as Gold Panda, is an English electronic record producer and songwriter. Derwin Dicker also performs house music as DJ Jenifa.
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Samia Nkrumah

33. Samia Nkrumah

1960-. (aged 66)
chairman of the executive board journalist bank teller politician
Honourable Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah is a Ghanaian politician and former chairperson of the Convention People's Party (CPP) making her the first woman to ever head a major political party in Ghana. In the 2008 parliamentary election, she won the Jomoro constituency seat on her first attempt. She is the daughter of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of...
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Pavin Chachavalpongpun

34. Pavin Chachavalpongpun

1971-. (aged 55)
diplomat writer historian
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is a Thai scholar notable for his criticism of the Thai monarchy. He currently resides in Japan as a political exile. He has been teaching at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University since 2012.
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Andrew Bertie

35. Andrew Bertie

1929-2008 (aged 79)
friar
Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1988 until his death in 2008.
Ivan van Sertima

36. Ivan van Sertima

1935-2009 (aged 74)
university teacher historian journalist anthropologist linguist
Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.
Catherine West

37. Catherine West

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Catherine Elizabeth West is an Australian-born British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Friern Barnet, previously Hornsey and Wood Green, since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific from 2024 to 2025.
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Gamal Nkrumah

38. Gamal Nkrumah

1959-. (aged 67)
editor writer journalist
Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah is a Ghanaian journalist, a Pan-Africanist and an editor of Al Ahram Weekly newspaper. He is the eldest son of the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and his Egyptian mother Fathia Nkrumah. His sister is the Ghanaian politician Samia Nkrumah.
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Husam Zomlot

39. Husam Zomlot

1973-. (aged 53)
diplomat politician
Husam Said Zomlot is a Palestinian diplomat, academic and economist. He was appointed Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom in October 2018. He has served as the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom since January 2026. Before his posting to the UK, he served as head of the PLO mission to the United States that was closed...
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Gita Sahgal

40. Gita Sahgal

author human rights defender journalist film producer
Gita Sahgal is a British writer, journalist, film director, feminist activist, and human rights activist, whose work focuses on the issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism.
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Louise Perry

41. Louise Perry

1992-. (aged 34)
journalist
Louise Perry is a British journalist, author and podcast host. She is a featured writer for the Daily Mail and a columnist at the New Statesman, and has been described as a leading reactionary feminist.
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Hüseyin Çelik

42. Hüseyin Çelik

1959-. (aged 67)
university teacher politician
Hüseyin Çelik is a Turkish former Minister of National Education of Turkey and member of parliament for Van for the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
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Wang Gungwu

43. Wang Gungwu

1930-. (aged 96)
historian sinologist
Wang Gungwu AO, CBE, also written Wang Gung Wu, is a Chinese Australian historian, sinologist, and writer specialising in the history of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora. An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American...
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Nasser Khalili

44. Nasser Khalili

1945-. (aged 81)
philanthropist entrepreneur art historian art collector businessperson
Sir Nasser David Khalili KCSS is a British scholar, collector, and philanthropist based in London. Born in Iran and educated at Queens College, City University of New York and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he is a naturalised British citizen.
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Emma Dabiri

45. Emma Dabiri

1979-. (aged 47)
writer academic television presenter radio personality
Emma Dabiri FRSL is an Irish writer and broadcaster. Her debut book, Don't Touch My Hair, was published in 2019. Her 2021 book, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition, became an international bestseller. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.
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Achim Steiner

46. Achim Steiner

1961-. (aged 65)
diplomat politician
Achim Steiner is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. He also serves as Chair of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. A Brazilian-German National, he completed his two terms as UN Under-Secretary General and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (2017–2025) and vice-chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Group in June 2025.
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Frank Furedi

47. Frank Furedi

1947-. (aged 79)
university teacher sociologist
Frank Furedi is a Hungarian-Canadian academic and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. He is well known for his work on sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, sociology of knowledge, and what he calls "paranoid parenting".
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Swapan Dasgupta

48. Swapan Dasgupta

1955-. (aged 71)
columnist politician journalist
Swapan Dasgupta is an Indian journalist and politician. He is influential within the Indian right-wing, writing columns for leading English dailies espousing Hindu nationalism. He was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. In 2015, Dasgupta was conferred with the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature and education.
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Chen I-hsin

49. Chen I-hsin

1972-. (aged 54)
politician
Chen I-hsin, also known by his English name Charles Chen, is a Taiwanese economist, econometrician, and politician.
Tessy Antony de Nassau

50. Tessy Antony de Nassau

1985-. (aged 41)
businessperson executive philanthropist soldier aristocrat
Tessy Antony de Nassau, formerly Princess Tessy of Luxembourg, is a Luxembourgish businesswoman and non-profit executive. She is a former member of the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg as the ex-wife of Prince Louis of Luxembourg, the third son of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. She married Prince Louis in 2006, and they have two sons. In January 2017, they...
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Har Dayal

51. Har Dayal

1884-1939 (aged 55)
revolutionary Indologist politician
Lala Har Dayal Mathur was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His simple living and intellectual acumen inspired many expatriate Indians living in Canada and the U.S. in their campaign against British rule in India during the First World War.
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Hammad Azhar

52. Hammad Azhar

1981-. (aged 45)
politician barrister
Muhammad Hammad Azhar is a Pakistani politician from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He was elected from NA-126 (Lahore-IV) in 2018 Pakistani general election and remained a member of National Assembly of Pakistan between August 2018 to January 2023. He served in various ministerial positions in Imran Khan ministry between 2018 and April 2022. He served as Energy Minister of Pakistan and Finance...
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Femi Fani-Kayode

53. Femi Fani-Kayode

1960-. (aged 66)
minister politician lawyer essayist poet
David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode is a Nigerian aristocrat, politician, writer, lawyer, diplomat and poet.
Alizeh Agnihotri

54. Alizeh Agnihotri

2000-. (aged 26)
actor
Alizeh Agnihotri, credited mononymously as Alizeh, is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She is the niece of Salman Khan, the daughter of actor Atul Agnihotri and producer Alvira Khan. She made her debut in the 2023 film Farrey.
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Salahuddin of Selangor

55. Salahuddin of Selangor

1926-2001 (aged 75)
politician
Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Alhaj was the Sultan of Selangor from 1960, and the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia) from 1999, until his death in 2001.
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Ehsan Yarshater

56. Ehsan Yarshater

1920-2018 (aged 98)
writer
Ehsan Yarshater was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

57. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

1961-. (aged 65)
commentator Lama film director actor screenwriter
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Tibetan Lama, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Bhutan. His five major films are The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003), Vara: A Blessing (2013), Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2017), and Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019). He is...
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Iqra Choudhary

58. Iqra Choudhary

1995-. (aged 31)
politician
Iqra Choudhary or Iqra Hasan is an Indian politician. She is the member of Lok Sabha from Kairana Lok Sabha constituency since 4 June 2024. She is a member of the Samajwadi Party.
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David Wilson

59. David Wilson

academic administrator political scientist
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. He was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong (from 1987 to 1992). He served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the British Monarch's representative to the Assembly, in 2010 and 2011. He is also one...
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Asif Nazrul

60. Asif Nazrul

1966-. (aged 60)
academic
Mohammad Nazrul Islam, better known as Asif Nazrul, is a Bangladeshi writer, novelist, columnist, political commentator and a professor of law at the University of Dhaka. He was appointed an adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh in August 2024. He was responsible for the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, the Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment...
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Martin Lings

61. Martin Lings

1909-2005 (aged 96)
poet writer university teacher librarian philosopher
Martin Lings, also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.
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Freya Madeline Stark

62. 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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Fatima Bhutto

63. Fatima Bhutto

1982-. (aged 44)
poet writer journalist
Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer and columnist. She is the daughter of politician Murtaza Bhutto, and grand-daughter of former Pakistani prime minister and president Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Born in Kabul, she was raised in Syria and Karachi, and received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College in New York City, followed by a master's degree from the SOAS, University of...
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Hsieh Che-ching

64. Hsieh Che-ching

1974-. (aged 52)
historian art historian
Hsieh Che-ching is a Taiwanese cultural/art history expert, broadcaster and travel writer.
Budiman Sudjatmiko

65. Budiman Sudjatmiko

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Budiman Sudjatmiko is an Indonesian activist, politician and actor. He is known for co-authoring the Indonesian Village Law and founding the Innovators 4.0 Movement. He is also known as a reform activist for his involvement in founding and leading the People's Democratic Party (PRD), and infamously, reading out the PRD manifesto in the courtroom. His book, Anak-Anak Revolusi, became one...
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Dom Joly

66. Dom Joly

1967-. (aged 59)
television presenter television director film actor comedian journalist
Dominic John Romulus Joly is an English comedian and writer. He is best known as the star of Trigger Happy TV (2000–2003), a hidden camera prank show that was broadcast in over 70 countries.
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Jason Chan Chi-san

67. Jason Chan Chi-san

1977-. (aged 49)
television actor television presenter actor film actor
Jason Chan is a Hong Kong actor and television presenter. He started off at TVB hosting a variety of English Pearl lifestyle shows, which required the use of his proficiency in various languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and Latin.
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Zeinab Badawi

68. Zeinab Badawi

1959-. (aged 67)
news presenter writer journalist radio journalist radio personality
Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, educator, civic activist, and writer. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30), and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC...
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Mirza Tahir Ahmad

69. Mirza Tahir Ahmad

1928-2003 (aged 75)
writer Khalifa
Mirza Tahir Ahmad was the fourth caliph (Arabic: خليفة المسيح الرابع, khalīfatul masīh al-rābi) and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected as the fourth successor of the founder of the community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He was elected on 10 June 1982, the day after the death of his predecessor, Mirza Nasir Ahmad.
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Romila Thapar

70. Romila Thapar

1931-. (aged 95)
historian professor university teacher writer
Romila Thapar is an Indian historian. Her principal area of study is ancient India, a field in which she is pre-eminent. Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Konon Molody

71. Konon Molody

1922-1970 (aged 48)
spy
Konon Trofimovich Molody was a Soviet intelligence officer, known in the West as Gordon Arnold Lonsdale. Posing as a Canadian businessman during the Cold War, he was a non-official (illegal) KGB intelligence agent and the mastermind of the Portland spy ring, which operated in Britain from 1953 until 1961.
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Antony Flew

72. Antony Flew

1923-2010 (aged 87)
university teacher philosopher
Antony Garrard Newton Flew was an English philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, Flew worked on the philosophy of religion. During the course of his career he taught philosophy at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele, and Reading in the United Kingdom, and at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Orde Wingate

73. Orde Wingate

1903-1944 (aged 41)
army officer
Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO & Two Bars was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
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Bernard Lewis

74. Bernard Lewis

1916-2018 (aged 102)
historian orientalist university teacher
Bernard Lewis, FBA was a British-American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Lewis's expertise was in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West.
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Carter Page

75. Carter Page

1971-. (aged 55)
businessperson
Carter William Page is an American petroleum industry consultant and a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign. Page is the founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital, a one-man investment fund and consulting firm specializing in the Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business.
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Halil İnalcık

76. Halil İnalcık

1916-2016 (aged 100)
historian writer university teacher
Halil İnalcık was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972. Between 1972 and 1986, he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. From 1994 onward, he taught at Bilkent University, where...
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Aung San Suu Kyi

77. Aung San Suu Kyi

1945-. (aged 81)
human rights defender writer politician
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from...
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Jemima Goldsmith

78. Jemima Goldsmith

1974-. (aged 52)
film producer screenwriter writer television producer activist
Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith, known professionally as Jemima Khan, is an English TV and film producer and screenwriter. She is the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company. Previously she was an associate editor for the British political and cultural magazine The New Statesman and European editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair.
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Bülent Ecevit

79. Bülent Ecevit

1925-2006 (aged 81)
poet writer translator politician journalist
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in 1974, 1977, 1978–1979, and 1999–2002. Ecevit was chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP) between 1972 and 1980, and in 1987 he became chairman of the Democratic Left...
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Varun Gandhi

80. Varun Gandhi

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Feroze Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician who has been a three time Member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from the Pilibhit constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into Rajnath Singh's team in March 2012 as General Secretary. He belongs to the Nehru–Gandhi family, which has occupied a prominent place in the politics...
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David Lammy

81. David Lammy

1972-. (aged 54)
jurist lawyer politician
David Lindon Lammy is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor since September 2025. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000. Lammy previously...
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Maajid Nawaz

82. Maajid Nawaz

1977-. (aged 49)
essayist politician writer human rights defender political activist
Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist and former radio presenter. He was the founding chairman of the think tank Quilliam. Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. His membership led...
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Inger Andersen

83. Inger Andersen

1958-. (aged 68)
economist United Nations official environmentalist
Inger Andersen is a Danish economist and environmentalist. In February 2019, she was appointed as the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Edmund “Ed” Husain

84. Edmund “Ed” Husain

1974-. (aged 52)
autobiographer
Edmund “Ed” Husain (born 25 December 1974) is a published British American author, co-founder of the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam Foundation, Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). As a political advisor he has worked with leaders and governments...
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Jung Chang

85. Jung Chang

1952-. (aged 74)
linguist poet biographer writer autobiographer
Jung Chang CBE is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005. Reception...
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Jonathan Cook

86. Jonathan Cook

1965-. (aged 61)
journalist opinion journalist
Jonathan Cook, born circa 1965, is a British writer and a freelance journalist formerly based in Nazareth, Israel, who writes about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He writes a regular column for The National of Abu Dhabi and Middle East Eye.
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Felix Finkbeiner

87. Felix Finkbeiner

1997-. (aged 29)
blogger conservationist non-fiction writer
Felix Finkbeiner is a German environmentalist and the founder of the international tree-planting and environmental advocacy organization Plant-for-the-Planet.
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Frank Dikötter

88. Frank Dikötter

1961-. (aged 65)
historian writer university teacher
Frank Dikötter is a Dutch historian who specialises in modern China. Dikötter is the author of The People's Trilogy, which consists of Mao's Great Famine (2010), The Tragedy of Liberation (2013), and The Cultural Revolution (2016), which aim to provide a description of Communist-led China.
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Stella Assange

89. Stella Assange

1983-. (aged 43)
lawyer human rights defender
Stella Assange is a Swedish-Spanish lawyer. Throughout her career, she has been an international advocate for human rights, most prominently in the case of her husband, Julian Assange. She changed her name to Stella Moris in 2012 and later to Stella Moris-Smith Robertson.
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Ekaterina Mizulina

90. Ekaterina Mizulina

1984-. (aged 42)
public figure whistleblower
Ekaterina Mikhailovna Mizulina is a Russian public figure, executive director of the National Center for Children's Assistance (2017–2020), member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, head of the Safe Internet League. She is the daughter of former Senator Yelena Mizulina.
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Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

91. Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

1973-. (aged 53)
aristocrat
Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway is a member by marriage of the Norwegian royal family. She has been married to Crown Prince Haakon, the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne, since 2001. Mette-Marit and Haakon have two children, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus.
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Francesca Albanese

92. Francesca Albanese

1977-. (aged 49)
international law scholar
Francesca Paola Albanese is an Italian legal scholar and expert on human rights, who has served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories since 1 May 2022; initially appointed for a three-year term, Albanese was confirmed for another three years in April 2025. She is the first woman to hold the position.
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Andrew Mwenda

93. Andrew Mwenda

1972-. (aged 54)
journalist
Andrew Mwenda is a Ugandan print, radio and television journalist, and the founder and owner of The Independent, a current affairs newsmagazine. He was previously the political editor of The Daily Monitor, a Ugandan newspaper, and was the presenter of Andrew Mwenda Live on KFM Radio in Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
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Hechmi Hamdi

94. Hechmi Hamdi

1964-. (aged 62)
writer journalist businessperson politician
Mohamed Hechmi Hamdi, also spelled Mohamed el Hachmi El-Hamdi, Hechmi Haamdi, or Hachmi Hamdi is a Tunisian journalist, media entrepreneur and politician, who lives in London. He is founder and owner of the oppositional Al Mustakillah TV channel. After the Tunisian Revolution in 2011 he founded the "Popular Petition" party later renamed to Current of Love.
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Adriano Maleiane

95. Adriano Maleiane

1949-. (aged 77)
civil servant economist minister politician
Adriano Afonso Maleiane is a Mozambican economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Mozambique from 3 March 2022 to 15 January 2025.
Luísa Diogo

96. Luísa Diogo

1958-2026 (aged 68)
minister economist politician
Luísa Dias Diogo was a Mozambican economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Mozambique from 2004 to 2010. She also served as Minister of Planning and Finance between 2000 and 2005. Diogo was the first female prime minister of Mozambique and her term in office was notable for the economic reforms that brought financial stability to the country...
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Aaron Mike Oquaye

97. Aaron Mike Oquaye

1944-. (aged 82)
politician university teacher lawyer diplomat minister
Aaron Mike Oquaye is a Ghanaian barrister and politician who served as the sixth Speaker of Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana from 2017 to 2021. An academic, diplomat and Baptist minister, he previously held the cabinet ministerial portfolios for energy and communication and was also the High Commissioner of Ghana to India (2002–04) in the Kufuor administration.
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John Evans Atta Mills

98. John Evans Atta Mills

1944-2012 (aged 68)
politician university teacher lawyer economist minister
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 Ghanaian presidential election. He was previously the third vice president from 1997 to 2001 under...
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Abdel Bari Atwan

99. Abdel Bari Atwan

1950-. (aged 76)
editor writer journalist linguist translator
Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian-born British journalist and the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, an Arab world digital news and opinion website. Previously he was the editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi from the founding of the paper in 1989 until July 2013.
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Timothy Winter

100. Timothy Winter

1960-. (aged 66)
Islamicist
Timothy John Winter, also known as Abdal Hakim Murad (Arabic: عبد الحكيم مراد), is an English Islamic scholar and theologian who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism. His work includes publications on Islamic theology, modernity, and Anglo-Muslim relations, and he has translated several Islamic texts.
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