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100 Notable alumni of University of Birmingham

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Birmingham is ranked #108 in the world and #11 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Birmingham sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Birmingham won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

David Allen Green

1. David Allen Green

1971-. (aged 55)
blogger solicitor lawyer journalist
David Allen Green is an English lawyer and writer. He is the former legal correspondent for the New Statesman; writes about law and policy for the Financial Times; and has previously blogged using the pseudonym Jack of Kent.
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Terry Hands

2. Terry Hands

1941-2020 (aged 79)
director theatrical director
Terence David Hands, CBE was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in...
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Evan Parker

3. Evan Parker

1944-. (aged 82)
composer recording artist saxophonist jazz musician
Evan Shaw Parker is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Li Siguang

4. Li Siguang

1889-1971 (aged 82)
geologist politician
Li Siguang, also known as J. S. Lee, was a Chinese geologist and politician. He was the founder of China's geomechanics. He was an ethnic Mongol. He made outstanding contributions, which changed the situation of "oil deficiency" in the country, enabling the large-scale development of oil fields to raise the country to the ranks of the world's major oil producers.
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Malia Bouattia

5. Malia Bouattia

1987-. (aged 39)
women's rights activist journalist
Malia Mazia Bouattia is the former president of the National Union of Students (NUS) of the United Kingdom, elected at the National Conference in April 2016. She was the first female Black British and Muslim leader of the NUS. She attended the University of Birmingham. In March 2017, she was defeated in her attempt to run for a second term...
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Ajit Seth

6. Ajit Seth

1951-. (aged 75)
civil servant
Ajit Kumar Seth is an Indian civil servant who was the 30th Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of India. He is a 1974 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Uttar Pradesh Cadre. Upon retirement from the post of Cabinet Secretary, Ajit Kumar Seth was appointed as Chairman of Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).
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Hisayoshi Takeda

7. Hisayoshi Takeda

1883-1972 (aged 89)
translator mountaineer explorer botanist
Hisayoshi Takeda was a Japanese botanist whose father was the British diplomat Sir Ernest Satow. He was a founder of the Japanese Natural History Society, and is known for his campaign to preserve the environment at Oze, which is now Oze National Park.
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John Vane

8. John Vane

1927-2004 (aged 77)
university teacher pharmacologist biochemist
Sir John Robert Vane FRS was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson...
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Kehinde Andrews

9. Kehinde Andrews

1983-1983 (aged 0)
university teacher sociologist
Kehinde Nkosi Andrews is a British academic and author specialising in Black studies. He was the first Black studies professor in the United Kingdom.
Norman Haworth

10. Norman Haworth

1883-1950 (aged 67)
chemist
Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins.
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Jim Field Smith

11. Jim Field Smith

1979-. (aged 47)
writer film director television director screenwriter
Jim Field Smith is an English film and television director, writer and producer.
Gabriel Prokofiev

12. Gabriel Prokofiev

1975-. (aged 51)
composer
Gabriel Prokofiev is a Russian-British composer, producer, DJ, and founder of the Nonclassical record label and nightclub. He has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and his works have been performed internationally by orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, MDR Leipzig, Buenos Aires Philharmonic and Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra.
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Ian Morris

13. Ian Morris

1960-. (aged 66)
classical scholar anthropologist historian university teacher art historian
Ian Matthew Morris is a British historian and archaeologist who is the Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University.
Femi Oke

14. Femi Oke

1966-. (aged 60)
reporter broadcaster journalist television presenter
Femi OkeListen is a British television presenter and journalist.
Faik Öztrak

15. Faik Öztrak

1954-. (aged 72)
statesperson economist politician
Faik Öztrak is a Turkish politician who served as the deputy leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) from 2010 to 2015. He has been a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Tekirdağ since 2007, having first been elected at the 2007 general election. He was re-elected in 2011, June 2015 and November 2015. Between 2010 and 2014,...
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Karl Willetts

16. Karl Willetts

1966-. (aged 60)
singer
Karl Willetts is an English death metal vocalist, best known as the lead singer of Bolt Thrower and Memoriam.
Teodor Shanin

17. Teodor Shanin

1930-2020 (aged 90)
sociologist pedagogue
Teodor Shanin OBE was a British sociologist who was for many years Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was credited with pioneering the study of Russian peasantry in the West, and is best known for his first book, The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910–25 (Clarendon Press, 1972). After the collapse...
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Lizo Mzimba

18. Lizo Mzimba

1968-. (aged 58)
television presenter presenter journalist
Lizo Mzimba is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known for being a presenter for Newsround between 1998 and 2008 and is currently the Entertainment Correspondent for BBC News.
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Yao Tongbin

19. Yao Tongbin

1922-1968 (aged 46)
scientist military flight engineer
Yao Tongbin was a Chinese scientist and one of China's foremost missile engineers. He was beaten to death during the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Award, and officially recognized as a "martyr" within China.
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Debra W. Soh

20. Debra W. Soh

1990-. (aged 36)
opinion journalist columnist journalist psychologist neuroscientist
Debra W. Soh is a Canadian columnist, author, and former academic sex researcher.
Mary Lee Woods

21. Mary Lee Woods

1924-2017 (aged 93)
computer scientist programmer mathematician
Mary Lee Berners-Lee was an English mathematician and computer scientist who worked in a team that developed programs for the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. She was the mother of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Mike Berners-Lee, an English researcher and writer on greenhouse gases.
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Woo Kwok-hing

22. Woo Kwok-hing

1946-. (aged 80)
barrister judge politician
Woo Kwok-hing, GBS, CBE, QC is a Hong Kong retired judge. He was the vice-president of the Court of Appeal of the High Court and former chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) and commissioner on Interception of Communications and Surveillance. In the 2017 Chief Executive election, he received 21 votes in the 1,194-member Election Committee and lost to the...
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Sven Giegold

23. Sven Giegold

1969-. (aged 57)
politician economist
Sven Giegold is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as the party's deputy chair since 2024, under co-chairs Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak.
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Richard Horton

24. Richard Horton

1961-. (aged 65)
physician journalist editing staff editor
Richard Charles Horton is editor-in-chief of The Lancet, a United Kingdom–based medical journal. He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and the University of Oslo.
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Hannah Witton

25. Hannah Witton

1992-. (aged 34)
talk show host YouTuber writer
Hannah Lisa Witton is an English and German YouTuber, broadcaster, and author. She creates video blogs centred around parenthood, fashion, food and lifestyle. Until 2024, she produced educational content on relationships, sex and sexual health, and other intersecting issues.
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Prince Seeiso of Lesotho

26. Prince Seeiso of Lesotho

1966-. (aged 60)
diplomat politician
Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso of Lesotho, Principal Chief of Matsieng is the younger brother of Lesotho's King Letsie III, and son of the Southern African country's King Moshoeshoe II (1938–1996) and Queen 'Mamohato Bereng Seeiso (1941–2003).
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John Milbank

27. John Milbank

1952-. (aged 74)
university teacher theologian non-fiction writer philosopher political theorist
Alasdair John Milbank is a British theologian and philosopher. He is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he is also president of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy and the Centre for Social Renewal. Milbank has previously taught at Lancaster University, University of Cambridge, and University of Virginia, where he held the Frances...
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Non Stanford

28. Non Stanford

1989-. (aged 37)
triathlete athletics competitor
Non Rhiannydd Stanford MBE is a British former professional triathlete, representing Great Britain and Wales at international level. Stanford was the ITU (now World Triathlon) World Champion in 2013, part of the Great Britain world champion mixed relay team in 2012 and represented Team GB at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished fourth behind teammate...
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Nia Roberts

29. Nia Roberts

1972-. (aged 54)
actor
Nia Roberts is a Welsh actress.
David Gill

30. David Gill

1843-1914 (aged 71)
university teacher photographer astronomer
David Alan Gill CBE is a British football executive, formerly chief executive of Manchester United and a vice-chairman of The Football Association. He served as vice-chairman of the G-14 management committee until the G-14 was disbanded. He sits on the UEFA Executive Committee as of 2013. Gill was elected as a FIFA Vice-President sitting on the FIFA Council in 2015;...
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Rose Hudson-Wilkin

31. Rose Hudson-Wilkin

1961-. (aged 65)
Anglican priest
Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin CD MBE KHC is a British Anglican prelate, who serves as Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the diocese of Canterbury – deputising for the archbishop – since 2019: she is the first black woman to become a Church of England bishop. She was previously Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019,...
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Jo Gideon

32. Jo Gideon

1952-. (aged 74)
politician
Joanna Mary Gideon is a British Conservative Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency from the 2019 general election to the 2024 general election.
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Tim Plester

33. Tim Plester

1970-. (aged 56)
playwright television actor film director actor
Timothy Marc Plester is a British actor, playwright, and filmmaker, best known for the documentaries Way of the Morris and The Ballad of Shirley Collins - plus a multifarious number of cameo roles for film and TV.
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Adam Osborne

34. Adam Osborne

1939-2003 (aged 64)
computer scientist engineer entrepreneur writer
Adam Osborne was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.
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Francis William Aston

35. Francis William Aston

1877-1945 (aged 68)
physicist chemist
Francis William Aston FRS was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Chrissie Wellington

36. Chrissie Wellington

1977-. (aged 49)
triathlete
Christine Ann Wellington OBE is an English former professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She held all three world and championship records relating to ironman-distance triathlon races: firstly, the overall world record, secondly, the Ironman World Championship course record (from 2009 until Mirinda Carfrae lowered it in 2013), and thirdly, the official world record for all Ironman-branded triathlon...
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Louise Hazel

37. Louise Hazel

1985-. (aged 41)
athletics competitor
Louise Victoria Hazel is an English track and field athlete from March, Cambridgeshire, who specialises in the multi-event heptathlon. She has competed in four major international championships. The first was in 2006 when she came 17th at the European Championships and the second was three years later when she finished 14th at the World Championships. During 2009 she was ranked...
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Julian Smith

38. Julian Smith

1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Sir Julian Richard Smith is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Skipton and Ripon since 2010. He served as Government Chief Whip from 2017 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2019 to 2020.
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Christian Burgess

39. Christian Burgess

1991-. (aged 35)
association football player
Christian Albert Elliot Burgess is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Belgian Pro League club Union SG.
Nazir Afzal

40. Nazir Afzal

1962-. (aged 64)
lawyer
Nazir Afzal OBE is a British solicitor and former prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Craig Mackinlay

41. Craig Mackinlay

1966-. (aged 60)
chartered accountant politician
Craig Mackinlay, Baron Mackinlay of Richborough, JP, is a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet from 2015 to 2024.
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Mohammad Marandi

42. Mohammad Marandi

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is an American-Iranian academic, intellectual and political analyst. He is closely linked to the Iranian government. London based newspaper Iran International, describes him as a "mouthpiece" of the Iranian government. He is described on his website as a "prominent Iranian defender of the Islamic revolution".
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James Heappey

43. James Heappey

1981-. (aged 45)
politician
Major James Stephen Heappey is a British politician and former soldier who served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 2020 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wells in Somerset from 2015 to 2024.
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Wavel Ramkalawan

44. Wavel Ramkalawan

1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Wavel Ramkalawan is a Seychellois politician and Anglican priest who served as the 5th President of Seychelles from 2020 to 2025. Ramkalawan was an opposition MP from 1993 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition from 1998 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. On 25 October 2020, Ramkalawan won the presidential election,...
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Edward Bach

45. Edward Bach

1886-1936 (aged 50)
bacteriologist writer philosopher homeopath physician
Edward Bach was a British medical doctor, bacteriologist, homeopath, and spiritual writer, best known for developing the Bach flower remedies, a form of alternative medicine inspired by classical homeopathic traditions.
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Irving Finkel

46. Irving Finkel

1951-. (aged 75)
assyriologist writer prose writer philologist archaeologist
Irving Leonard Finkel is an English philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.
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Phyllida Lloyd

47. Phyllida Lloyd

1957-. (aged 69)
film director theatrical director
Phyllida Christian Lloyd, CBE is an English film and theatre director and producer. She has been nominated for a British Academy Film Award, a European Film Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and two Tony Awards. She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2010 New Year Honours.
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Geoffrey Ma

48. Geoffrey Ma

1956-. (aged 70)
judge
Geoffrey Ma Tao-li GBM KC SC is a retired Hong Kong judge who served as the 2nd Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal—the court of last resort (or supreme court) in Hong Kong. Between 2001 and 2010, he held various positions in the High Court of Hong Kong, including Chief Judge, Justice of Appeal, and Judge...
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Jane Garvey

49. Jane Garvey

1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Jane Susan Garvey is a British radio presenter, until recently of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and co-founder of the weekly podcast series Fortunately (from March 2017 to November 2022). She now hosts a Times Radio show and the "Off Air" podcast with Fi Glover.
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Sister Bliss

50. Sister Bliss

1970-. (aged 56)
musician pianist disc jockey composer record producer
Ayalah Deborah Bentovim, better known by her stage name Sister Bliss, is a British keyboardist, record producer, DJ and songwriter. In the studio, she is best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong as one half of the production duo Rollo & Sister Bliss, and particularly as part of Faithless.
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Spencer Davis

51. Spencer Davis

1939-2020 (aged 81)
singer guitarist musician
Spencer Davis was a Welsh musician. He founded the Spencer Davis Group, a band that had several hits in the 1960s including "Keep On Running", "Somebody Help Me", "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man", all sung by Steve Winwood. Davis subsequently enjoyed success as an A&R executive with Island Records.
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Michael David Jackson

52. Michael David Jackson

1944-2024 (aged 80)
autobiographer military officer
General Sir Michael David Jackson was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an...
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Madeleine Carroll

53. Madeleine Carroll

1906-1987 (aged 81)
actor film actor
Edith Madeleine Carroll was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress.
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John Stewart Bell

54. John Stewart Bell

1928-1990 (aged 62)
mathematician translator physicist
John Stewart Bell FRS was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories.
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Hadley Fraser

55. Hadley Fraser

1980-. (aged 46)
stage actor singer actor musician
Hadley Fraser is an English actor and singer. He made his West End debut as Marius Pontmercy in Les Misérables. He also originated the role of Tiernan for his Broadway debut in The Pirate Queen.
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Mick Aston

56. Mick Aston

1946-2013 (aged 67)
anthropologist archaeologist
Michael Antony Aston FSA was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and published fifteen books on archaeological subjects. A keen populariser of the discipline, Aston was widely known for appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4...
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Jonathan Miller

57. Jonathan Miller

1934-2019 (aged 85)
opera director writer producer neurologist actor
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, comedian and physician. After training in medicine and specialising in neurology in the late 1950s, he came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. He popularized anatomy in The Body...
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Maurice Wilkins

58. Maurice Wilkins

1916-2004 (aged 88)
author biophysicist crystallographer physician physicist
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal...
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U. R. Ananthamurthy

59. U. R. Ananthamurthy

1932-2014 (aged 82)
writer poet literary critic university teacher
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. In 1994, he became the sixth Kannada writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan...
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Elliot Cowan

60. Elliot Cowan

1976-. (aged 50)
film actor television actor stage actor
Elliot Aidan Cowan is a British film and television actor, known for portraying Corporal Jem Poynton in Ultimate Force, Mr Darcy in Lost in Austen, and Ptolemy in the 2004 film Alexander. He also starred as Lorenzo de' Medici in Da Vinci's Demons and Daron-Vex in Krypton. Cowan recently played King Henry VII in Starz's The Spanish Princess and featured...
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Desmond Morris

61. Desmond Morris

1928-. (aged 98)
illustrator ethnologist zoologist writer primatologist
Desmond John Morris FLS hon. caus. is an English zoologist, ethologist, and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.
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Chris Addison

62. Chris Addison

1971-. (aged 55)
television director comedian film director television actor actor
Christopher David Addison is a British comedian, writer, actor, and director. He is known for his role as Ollie Reeder in the BBC Two political satire series The Thick of It (2005–2012) and Toby Wright in its spin-off film In the Loop (2009). He was a panellist on several editions of TV comedy panel show Mock the Week. He is...
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Luciana Berger

63. Luciana Berger

1981-. (aged 45)
politician
Luciana Clare Berger, Baroness Berger, is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019, and a Member of the House of Lords since 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she was a founding member of The Independent Group, later Change UK, before joining the Liberal Democrats; Berger rejoined Labour...
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Girish Chandra Murmu

64. Girish Chandra Murmu

1959-. (aged 67)
civil servant
Girish Chandra Murmu is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of Gujarat cadre who has served as 14th Comptroller and Auditor General of India from 2020 to 2024 and as the external auditor of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He served as chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors and the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. He is currently...
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Peter Brock

65. Peter Brock

1945-2006 (aged 61)
racing driver racing automobile driver
Peter Geoffrey Brock AM, known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring...
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Ben Shephard

66. Ben Shephard

1974-. (aged 52)
journalist television presenter
Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard is an English television presenter and journalist. Since 2024, he has co-presented ITV's This Morning alongside Cat Deeley.
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Jess Phillips

67. Jess Phillips

1981-. (aged 45)
politician
Jessica Rose Phillips is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.
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Philip Kerr

68. Philip Kerr

1956-2018 (aged 62)
poet lawyer screenwriter writer science fiction writer children's writer
Philip Ballantyne Kerr was a Scottish author, best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers.
Sope Dirisu

69. Sope Dirisu

1991-. (aged 35)
actor television actor stage actor
Sope Dirisu is a British actor. He made his film debut in 2016 with Sand Castle, Criminal, and The Huntsman: Winter's War. Since 2020, he has starred as Elliot Carter in the Sky Atlantic series Gangs of London, while in 2022, he starred as the titular character in the period drama film Mr. Malcolm's List.
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Anna Soubry

70. Anna Soubry

1956-. (aged 70)
barrister journalist television presenter politician
Anna Mary Soubry PC is a British barrister, journalist and former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe from 2010 to 2019. Known for her support of pro-European policies, she was originally elected as a Conservative but left the party to join Change UK in 2019.
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Jed Mercurio

71. Jed Mercurio

1966-. (aged 60)
film director television director television producer fighter pilot writer
Gerald Gary Mercurio OBE is a British television writer, producer, director and novelist. A former hospital doctor and Royal Air Force officer, Mercurio has been ranked among UK television's leading writers. In 2017, Mercurio was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Television Society and the Baird Medal by RTS Midlands.
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Zarah Sultana

72. Zarah Sultana

1993-. (aged 33)
politician
Zarah Sultana is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South since 2019. She was a Labour Party MP until July 2024 when she had the whip suspended for voting against the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap. She was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and its chairperson from 2020 to...
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Tom Riley

73. Tom Riley

1981-. (aged 45)
television actor stage actor film producer film actor
Tom Riley is an English actor, producer, and director.
Victoria Wood

74. Victoria Wood

1953-2016 (aged 63)
stand-up comedian film actor screenwriter television director singer-songwriter
Victoria Wood was an English comedian, actress, musician, screenwriter, and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to activities, attitudes and...
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Stanley Baldwin

75. Stanley Baldwin

1867-1947 (aged 80)
politician
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was prominent in the political leadership of the United Kingdom between the world wars. He was prime minister on three occasions, from May 1923 to January 1924, from November 1924 to June 1929 and from June 1935 to May 1937.
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Tamsin Greig

76. Tamsin Greig

1966-. (aged 60)
narrator stage actor actor film actor
Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig is a British actress. She is known for both dramatic and comedic roles. She played Fran Katzenjammer in the Channel 4 sitcom Black Books, Dr Caroline Todd in the Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing, Beverly Lincoln in British–American sitcom Episodes and Jackie Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner. Other roles include Alice Chenery...
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Elizabeth Henstridge

77. Elizabeth Henstridge

1987-. (aged 39)
film actor actor film director
Elizabeth Frances Henstridge is an English actress, model and director. She is best known for her role as Jemma Simmons in the ABC superhero action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Karren Brady

78. Karren Brady

1969-. (aged 57)
television presenter politician autobiographer journalist businessperson
Karren Rita Brady, Baroness Brady, CBE is a British business executive and television personality. She is a former managing director of Birmingham City F.C. and current vice-chairman of West Ham United F.C., and an aide to Alan Sugar on The Apprentice. She is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and has been a Small Business Ambassador for the...
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Chris Tarrant

79. Chris Tarrant

1946-. (aged 80)
radio personality television presenter
Christopher John Tarrant OBE is an English retired broadcaster, television personality, radio DJ, and comedian. He is best known for presenting the ITV children's television show Tiswas from 1974 to 1981 and the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from its inception in 1998 until 2014.
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Ann Widdecombe

80. Ann Widdecombe

1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Ann Noreen Widdecombe DSG is a British politician and television personality who has been Reform UK's Immigration and Justice spokesperson since 2023. Originally a member of the Conservative Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and The Weald, and the former Maidstone constituency, from 1987 to 2010. She was a member of the Brexit Party from 2019 until...
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Tim Curry

81. Tim Curry

1946-. (aged 80)
memoirist film producer comedian television actor singer
Timothy James Curry is an Emmy Award-winning English actor and singer. He is famous for playing many villainous roles and rose to prominence as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the musical film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), reprising the role he had originated in the 1973 London, 1974 Los Angeles, and 1975 Broadway musical stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show.
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Matthew Goode

82. Matthew Goode

1978-. (aged 48)
film actor actor television actor
Matthew William Goode is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's television film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting...
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Simon Le Bon

83. Simon Le Bon

1958-. (aged 68)
singer songwriter singer-songwriter
Simon John Charles Le Bon MBE is an English singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. He also received...
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Dzulkefly Ahmad

84. Dzulkefly Ahmad

1956-. (aged 70)
politician docent
Dzulkefly bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Health for the second term in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2023 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuala Selangor from March 2008 to May 2013 and again since May 2018. He served his first term as the Minister...
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Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

85. Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

1954-. (aged 72)
diplomat sociologist politician
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN, she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997, serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President...
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Paul Nurse

86. Paul Nurse

1949-. (aged 77)
researcher geneticist biochemist chemist
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist, President of the Royal Society and former Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
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Yanis Varoufakis

87. Yanis Varoufakis

1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher politician writer non-fiction writer economist
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the...
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Perry Christie

88. Perry Christie

1943-. (aged 83)
politician athletics competitor
Perry Gladstone Christie PC, MP is a Bahamian former politician who served as prime minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017. He is the second longest-serving Bahamian elected parliamentarian (behind Sir Roland Symonette who was first elected to parliament in 1925 and served until 1977), representing the Centreville constituency from 1977 to 2017. He...
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Gisela Stuart

89. Gisela Stuart

1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Labour Party, she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
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Christine McVie

90. Christine McVie

1943-2022 (aged 79)
singer keyboardist songwriter
Christine Anne McVie was an English musician. She was the keyboardist and one of the vocalists and songwriters of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
Jim Ratcliffe

91. Jim Ratcliffe

1952-. (aged 74)
engineer chief executive officer businessperson chairperson
Sir James Arthur Ratcliffe is a British billionaire, chemical engineer, and businessman. Ratcliffe is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the INEOS chemicals group, which he founded in 1998.
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Jim Crace

92. Jim Crace

1946-. (aged 80)
novelist short story writer writer playwright author
James Crace FRSL is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew.
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Simon Thomas

93. Simon Thomas

1973-. (aged 53)
television presenter
Simon George Thomas is a Welsh former politician who was a member of Plaid Cymru. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion from 2000 to 2005, and an Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales representing the Mid and West Wales list between 2011 and 2018.
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William Lane Craig

94. William Lane Craig

1949-. (aged 77)
apologist university teacher writer philosopher Christian theologian
William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and theologian. He is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology of Biola University.
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Fernando Zavala

95. Fernando Zavala

1971-. (aged 55)
politician economist
Fernando Martín Zavala Lombardi is a Peruvian politician, who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 28 July 2016 to 17 September 2017. Previously he was the President of Backus and Johnston, a subsidiary of SABMiller. From 2005 to 2006 he was Minister of Economy and Finance.
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Rodolfo Neri Vela

96. Rodolfo Neri Vela

1952-. (aged 74)
engineer astronaut politician
Rodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez and the first Mexican astronaut.
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Hakainde Hichilema

97. Hakainde Hichilema

1962-. (aged 64)
politician economist
Hakainde Hichilema, often known by his initials HH and the nickname "Bally," is a Zambian businessman, farmer, and politician who is the seventh and current president of Zambia since 24 August 2021. After having contested five previous elections in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016, he won the 2021 presidential election with 59.02% of the vote. He has led the...
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Mo Ibrahim

98. Mo Ibrahim

1946-. (aged 80)
engineer scientist businessperson politician
Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim KCMG is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which, when sold, had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the...
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Fiona Phillips

99. Fiona Phillips

1961-. (aged 65)
journalist television presenter
Fiona Evon Phillips is an Australian politician who has been the Labor member for Gilmore in the House of Representatives since the 2019 Australian federal election.
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Pratikno

100. Pratikno

1962-. (aged 64)
academic politician
Pratikno is an Indonesian politician and academic. He currently serving as Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs. He also served as the Minister / Secretary of State of Indonesia in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet, the cabinet appointed by President Joko Widodo for his second term in office 2019–2024.
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