Notable Alumni of University of East Anglia [Sorted List]

1. Erica Wagner

1967-. (aged 59)

literary critic writer journalist

Erica Wagner FRSL is an American author and critic, living in London, England. She is former literary editor of The Times.

2. Tamara Ingram

1960-. (aged 66)

businessperson

Tamara Ingram, OBE is a British businesswoman. Tamara is currently chairman of integrated content agency The 10 Group, Asthma and Lung UK, Chair of the ESG committee as a NED for Marks and Spencer and non executive director of Intertek and Marsh Mclennan.

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3. Zoya Phan

1980-. (aged 46)

human rights defender

Zoya Phan is a Burmese political activist. She resides in the United Kingdom, and is the Campaign Manager of the human rights organization Burma Campaign UK. She was an outspoken critic of the Burmese government when it was under direct military rule, repeatedly calling for democratic reform in Burma, as well as economic sanctions from both the British government and...

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4. Luke Wright

1982-. (aged 44)

poet

Luke Wright is a British poet, performer, publisher, curator and broadcaster.

5. Manuela Perteghella

1974-. (aged 52)

translator pedagogue university teacher politician

Manuela Perteghella is an Italian-born British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stratford-on-Avon since 2024.

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6. Alexander Gordon Smith

1979-. (aged 47)

children's writer publisher writer

Alexander Gordon Smith is an author of children and Young Adult fiction.

7. Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market

1957-. (aged 69)

politician

Rosalind Carol "Ros" Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market is a British Liberal Democrat politician, non-executive director of the National Archives and a member of the House of Lords. Baroness Scott was president of the Liberal Democrats between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010 and was succeeded by Tim Farron.

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8. Mark Cocker

1959-. (aged 67)

naturalist

Mark Cocker is a British author and naturalist. He lives with his wife, Mary Muir, and two daughters in Claxton, Norfolk. The countryside around Claxton is a theme for two of his twelve books.

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9. Richard Beard

1967-. (aged 59)

writer novelist sports journalist teacher

Richard James Beard is an English author of fiction and non-fiction books and short literature. He is the winner of the 2018 Ackerley Prize for his memoir The Day That Went Missing.

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10. Murad Qureshi

1965-. (aged 61)

journalist

Murad Qureshi is a British former Labour and Co-operative Party politician, and a former Member of the London Assembly.

11. Árni Þórarinsson

1950-. (aged 76)

journalist writer

Árni Þórarinsson is an Icelandic writer. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

12. Benjamin D. Santer

1955-. (aged 71)

climatologist researcher

Benjamin David Santer is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Previously, he was a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. He retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2021. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology from 1987 to 1992. He...

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13. Glenn Patterson

1961-. (aged 65)

writer

Glenn Patterson FRSL is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best known as a novelist. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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14. Carlyle Glean

1932-2021 (aged 89)

politician

Sir Carlyle Arnold Glean, GCMG was a Grenadian politician, who served as governor-general of Grenada from 2008 to 2013.

15. Michael Heaver

1989-. (aged 37)

politician

Michael Eric Heaver is a British broadcaster and former politician. He was elected as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England constituency in the 2019 election and served in that role until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. Previously, he was the chair of the UK Independence Party (UKIP)'s youth wing, Young...

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16. Natasha Pulley

1988-. (aged 38)

novelist teacher writer

Natasha Katherine Pulley is a British author. She is best known for her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which won a Betty Trask Award.

17. Adam Tomkins

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Adam Tomkins is a British academic and politician who is the John Millar Professor of Public Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. A member of the Scottish Conservatives, he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region from 2016 to 2021, when he stood down for that year's elections.

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18. Terry Edwards

1960-. (aged 66)

saxophonist

Terry Edwards is an English musician who plays trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophones, guitar and keyboards.

19. Tom Moran

1987-. (aged 39)

novelist comedian screenwriter

Tom Moran is a British screenwriter.

20. Emma Healey

1985-. (aged 41)

bookbinder writer

Emma Constance Healey is a British novelist. Her debut novel, Elizabeth Is Missing won the annual Costa Book Award for First Novel.

21. Suchart Thadathamrongvej

1952-. (aged 74)

politician economist

Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech is a Thai politician and professor. He served as Minister of Finance under Samak Sundaravej and Somchai Wongsawat from August to December 2008 and as Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Yingluck Shinawatra from January to October 2012. From September to November 2008, he was the chairman of the Pheu Thai Party.

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22. Diana Evans

1971-. (aged 55)

journalist novelist

Diana Omo Evans FRSL is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London. Evans has written four full-length novels. Her first novel, 26a, published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers, the Betty Trask Award and the deciBel Writer of the Year award. Her third novel Ordinary People was shortlisted for the 2019...

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23. Robert Fulton

1948-. (aged 78)

military officer

Lieutenant General Sir Robert Henry Gervase Fulton, KBE, KStJ is a retired British Royal Marines officer who served as Governor of Gibraltar from 2006 to 2009.

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24. Robin Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford

1975-. (aged 51)

businessperson

Charles Robin de Bohun Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford, 16th Baronet, is the premier viscount in the Peerage of England.

25. Margaret Stohl

1967-. (aged 59)

writer novelist

Margaret Stohl is an American novelist. She is the author of 14 novels, as well as 5 volumes of comics and several video games. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

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26. Sasha Saidin

1976-. (aged 50)

actor singer

Sasha Mohd Saidin is a Malaysian singer and actress. She was formerly a member of the Malaysian pop group "Elite".

27. Neel Mukherjee

1970-. (aged 56)

writer novelist

Neel Mukherjee, FRSL is an Indian English-language novelist based in London and the US. His first novel, Past Continuous, won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award in 2008. Under its UK title, A Life Apart, it won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for best fiction in 2010. His second novel, The Lives of Others, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man...

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28. Paul Atterbury

1945-. (aged 81)

television presenter puppeteer lecturer journalist antiquarian seller

Paul Rowley Atterbury FRSA is a British antiques expert, known for his many appearances since 1979 on the BBC TV programme Antiques Roadshow. He specialises in the art, architecture, design and decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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29. Steve Blame

1959-. (aged 67)

journalist television presenter

Steve Blame is a British television presenter and screenwriter. He was the news editor and presenter between 1987 and 1994 for the television channel MTV.

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30. Louise Doughty

1963-. (aged 63)

playwright novelist journalist literary critic writer

Louise Doughty is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her bestselling novels, including Apple Tree Yard. She has also worked as a cultural critic for newspapers and magazines. Her weekly column for The Daily Telegraph was published as A Novel in a Year in 2007. Doughty was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme A...

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31. Zeb Soanes

1976-. (aged 50)

television presenter news presenter journalist

Zebedee Soanes is a British radio presenter who hosts the weekday evening music show Relaxing Evenings with Zeb Soanes on Classic FM.

32. Stephen Lambert

1959-. (aged 67)

television producer

Stephen Lambert OBE is an English television producer and executive who works in Britain and America. He is the chief executive of Studio Lambert, one of All3Media's production companies, which produces Gogglebox, Undercover Boss, Squid Game: The Challenge, Race Across the World, The Circle and The Traitors. It also produces scripted series including Three Girls, The Nest and Boarders.

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33. Michael Houghton

1949-. (aged 77)

researcher biochemist virologist microbiologist

Sir Michael Houghton is a British scientist and Nobel Prize laureate. Along with Qui-Lim Choo, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, he co-discovered Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) led to the rapid development of diagnostic reagents to detect HCV in blood supplies, which has...

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34. Owen Sheers

1974-. (aged 52)

writer playwright poet novelist

Owen Sheers FRSL is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer-in-residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team.

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35. Gary Cheng

1950-. (aged 76)

politician

Gary Cheng Kai Nam is a Hong Kong politician who served as vice-chairman for the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong party. He was educated at Pui Kiu Middle School, the University of East Anglia (BA), and the University of Hong Kong. He was a longtime member of the Legislative Council. During the legislative election in...

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36. Princess Anna, Princess Manuel of Bavaria

1978-. (aged 48)

journalist writer

Princess Anna of Bavaria, known professionally as Anna von Bayern, is a German journalist and author who has been serving as the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Coty Inc. since 2020. A member of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg by birth, she became a member of the House of Wittelsbach in 2005 through her marriage to Prince Manuel of Bavaria.

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37. Rachael Maskell

1972-. (aged 54)

politician

Rachael Helen Maskell is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for York Central since 2015. She was Shadow Environment Secretary from 2016 to 2017 and Shadow Employment Secretary in 2020.

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38. Binyavanga Wainaina

1971-2019 (aged 48)

journalist writer

Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he became the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazine, launched in Kenya, East Africa. In April 2014, Time magazine included Wainaina in its annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World".

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39. Andrew Bolton

1966-. (aged 60)

curator

Andrew John Bolton OBE is a British museum curator and incumbent head curator of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the host venue for the annual Met Gala.

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40. Jasmine Blackborow

1990-. (aged 36)

filmmaker voice actor audiobook narrator actor

Jasmine Sky Blackborow is an English actress who began her career in theatre. On television, she is known for her roles in the first season of the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021), the Canal+ and BBC drama Marie Antoinette (2022), and Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen (2024), also on Netflix. Her films include School's Out Forever (2021), Daemon Mind (2024)...

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41. Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland

1953-. (aged 73)

politician writer actor film actor musician

Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck, commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an Australian-born British actor and writer, known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers.

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42. Mohammed Hanif

1964-. (aged 62)

journalist writer

Mohammed Hanif is a British-Pakistani writer and journalist. His work has been published by The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The New Yorker and The Washington Post. Hanif worked as a correspondent for the BBC News based in Karachi and was the writer of a feature film about the city, The Long Night. Hanif has written two novels, A...

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43. Jim Chapman

1987-. (aged 39)

model writer YouTuber blogger television producer

Jim Chapman is an English YouTuber. Chapman began posting videos on his YouTube channel in 2010 and released his first book, titled 147 Things, on 5 October 2017.

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44. Doc Brown

1977-. (aged 49)

comedian screenwriter musician

Benjamin Harvey Bailey Smith, professionally known as Doc Brown, is an English actor, comedian, rapper, screenwriter, songwriter, producer, and voiceover artist. He portrayed DS Joe Hawkins in the television series Law & Order: UK. He is also known for portraying Nathan Carter in the CBBC television series 4 O'Clock Club from 2012 to 2015, and Imperial Security Bureau agent Lieutenant...

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45. Steve Lightfoot

screenwriter television producer

Steve Lightfoot is a British television writer and producer who worked as an executive producer and writer on the NBC thriller television series Hannibal, the Netflix series The Punisher and, recently, the Netflix thriller miniseries Behind Her Eyes and Shantaram.

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46. Steve Oram

1973-. (aged 53)

comedian television actor screenwriter film actor film director

Stephen John Oram is an English actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his role in the multi-award winning 2012 film Sightseers, which he also co-wrote. His other credits include People Like Us (2001), It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004), Tittybangbang (2006–2007), Suburban Shootout (2006), The Mighty Boosh (2007), Connections (2008), The World's End (2013), Wipers Times (2013),...

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47. Arthur Smith

1954-. (aged 72)

comedian television actor writer television producer improviser

Brian Arthur John Smith is an English alternative comedian, presenter and writer.

48. Anne Enright

1962-. (aged 64)

television director novelist film director television producer literary critic

Anne Teresa Enright FRSL is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Her essays on literary themes have appeared in the London Review of...

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49. Jeff Minter

1962-. (aged 64)

computer scientist engineer programmer television producer

Jeff Minter is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of video game developer Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the ZX80. Minter's games are shoot 'em ups which contain titular or in-game references demonstrating his fondness of...

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50. Adrian Ramsay

1982-. (aged 44)

politician

Adrian Philip Ramsay is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Waveney Valley since 2024. He was a co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 1 October 2021 to 2 September 2025. He was previously the deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2008 to 2012. He served...

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51. Tracy Chevalier

1962-. (aged 64)

novelist screenwriter writer

Tracy Rose Chevalier is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.

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52. Wayne Barnes

1979-. (aged 47)

barrister rugby union match official

Wayne Barnes OBE is an English retired international rugby union referee. He was a frequent referee in the English Premiership, and refereed games in the Heineken Cup and the European Challenge Cup. At international level, Barnes refereed matches at the Rugby World Cup, the Six Nations, the Rugby Championship and the Pacific Nations Cup competitions.

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53. Philip Mould

1960-. (aged 66)

television presenter art dealer art critic

Philip Jonathan Clifford Mould is an English art dealer, London gallery owner, art historian, writer and broadcaster. He has made a number of major art discoveries, including works of Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony Van Dyck and Thomas Lawrence.

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54. Bendor Grosvenor

1977-. (aged 49)

art historian art dealer television presenter

Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor is a British art historian, writer and former art dealer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost artworks by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. As a dealer, he specialised in Old Masters, with a particular interest in Anthony van Dyck.

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55. 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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56. Joanna Coles

1962-. (aged 64)

editor film producer

Joanna Louise Coles is the chief creative and content officer for The Daily Beast. She was chief content officer for Hearst Magazines from 2016 to 2018.

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57. Murat Karayalçın

1943-. (aged 83)

diplomat politician

Murat Karayalçın is a prominent Turkish politician. He is a former foreign minister (1994–1995), deputy prime minister, and a former mayor of Ankara (1989–1993). He is the founder (in 2002) of the new SHP.

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58. 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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59. Iain Dale

1962-. (aged 64)

radio personality writer blogger opinion journalist politician

Iain Dale is a British broadcaster, author, political commentator, and a former publisher and book retailer. He has been a blogger since 2002. He was the publisher of the Total Politics magazine between 2008 and 2012, and the managing director of Biteback Publishing until May 2018. Since September 2010, he has hosted a regular discussion show on the radio station...

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60. Douglas Carswell

1971-. (aged 55)

politician researcher

John Douglas Wilson Carswell is a British former politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017, co-founded Vote Leave, and since 2021 also serves as president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.

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61. Caroline Flint

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Caroline Louise Flint is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley from 1997 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she attended the Cabinet as Minister for Housing and Planning in 2008 and Minister for Europe from 2008 to 2009.

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62. Charlie Higson

1958-. (aged 68)

television actor novelist television producer film actor singer

Charles Murray Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television and is the author of the young adult post-apocalyptic book series The Enemy, as well as the first five novels in the Young Bond series.

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63. Tatiana de Rosnay

1961-. (aged 65)

writer novelist journalist screenwriter

Tatiana de Rosnay is a French-British writer.

64. Vicki Pepperdine

1961-. (aged 65)

comedian actor

Vicki Pepperdine is an English comedy actress and writer. She was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for co-writing the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–12), and was also nominated for a British Comedy Award for her portrayal of Pippa Moore in the series.

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65. James Frain

1968-. (aged 58)

actor television actor film actor theatrical director stage actor

James Frain is an English actor. His best known television roles include Thomas Cromwell in the Showtime/CBC historical drama The Tudors, Franklin Mott in the HBO drama True Blood (2010), Warwick the Kingmaker in the BBC drama serial The White Queen (2013), John Sumner in the Sky/Canal+ crime drama The Tunnel (2013), Ferdinand Chevalier in the BBC/Space sci-fi thriller Orphan...

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66. Paul Whitehouse

1958-. (aged 68)

screenwriter television actor actor comedian

Paul Julian Whitehouse is a Welsh actor, comedian, presenter, and writer. He was one of the main stars of the BBC sketch comedy series The Fast Show and has starred with Harry Enfield in the shows Harry & Paul and Harry Enfield & Chums. He has appeared with Bob Mortimer in the BBC series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing and...

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67. John Boyne

1971-. (aged 55)

novelist short story writer writer journalist children's writer

John Boyne is an Irish novelist and writer. He is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas, and one collection of short stories. Boyne's historical novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) received critical acclaim and was adapted into a 2008 drama film of the same name. As of 2022, the book...

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68. Greg James

1985-. (aged 41)

writer television presenter radio program designer radio personality

Gregory James Alan Milward is an English radio DJ, television presenter and author. He has been a presenter on BBC Radio 1 since 2007, and has hosted the station's flagship breakfast show since 2018. Before then, he presented its drive-time show.

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69. Gurinder Chadha

1960-. (aged 66)

screenwriter film director director film producer

Gurinder Kaur Chadha, OBE is a Kenyan-born British film director of Indian origin, best known for the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham (2002). Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. The common theme in her work showcases the trials of Indian women residing in the UK and how they must reconcile their converging traditional...

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70. Martin Tyler

1945-. (aged 81)

sports commentator association football coach association football player

Martin Tyler is an English football commentator and coach. He worked as a commentator for Sky Sports from 1990 to 2023, covering the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, as well as other domestic and international competitions. Tyler had previously commentated for ITV in the 1970s and 1980s. He provided his voice to the football video game series FIFA from...

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71. Simon Scarrow

1962-. (aged 64)

historian writer university teacher

Simon Scarrow is a British writer. Scarrow completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer, firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form College, then at City College Norwich.

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72. Gareth Malone

1975-. (aged 51)

conductor television presenter choir director musician

Gareth Edmund Malone OBE is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing". He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as The Choir, which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants. Malone was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012...

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73. Matt Smith

1989-. (aged 37)

association football player

Matthew Robert Smith is an English actor. He is best known as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who (2010–2013), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in The Crown (2016–2017) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon (2022–present).

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74. John Rhys-Davies

1944-. (aged 82)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor known for portraying Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Sallah in the Indiana Jones franchise. He has received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with one win, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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75. Jack Davenport

1973-. (aged 53)

stage actor television actor film producer actor film actor

Jack Arthur Davenport is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series This Life and Coupling, and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He has also appeared in other Hollywood films, such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Kingsman: The Secret Service. On television, Davenport is known for his...

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76. Ian McEwan

1948-. (aged 78)

playwright film screenwriter novelist film producer author

Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".

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77. Paul Stewart

1955-. (aged 71)

writer children's writer novelist teacher

Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for three series written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels, and the Far Flung Adventures series.

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78. Karin Smyth

1964-. (aged 62)

politician

Karin Marguerite Smyth is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South since 2015. She has served as a Minister of State for Secondary Care since July 2024.

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79. Kazuo Ishiguro

1954-. (aged 72)

novelist science fiction writer lyricist songwriter author

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has...

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80. John Ashdown-Hill

1949-2018 (aged 69)

teacher historian

Louis John Frederick Ashdown-Hill MBE FSA, commonly known as John Ashdown-Hill, was an independent historian and author of books on late medieval English history with a focus on the House of York and Richard III. Ashdown-Hill died on 18 May 2018; after living with motor neurone disease for some time.

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81. Peter Fahy

1959-. (aged 67)

police officer

Sir Peter Martin Fahy is a retired senior British police officer. He was the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), the United Kingdom's third largest police force. He retired from the police force on 23 October 2015 after serving for 34 years.

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82. Sarah Gilbert

1962-. (aged 64)

immunologist researcher professor

Dame Sarah Catherine Gilbert DBE FRS is an English vaccinologist who is a Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Vaccitech. She specialises in the development of vaccines against influenza and emerging viral pathogens. She led the development and testing of the universal flu vaccine, which underwent clinical trials in 2011.

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83. James Vowles

1979-. (aged 47)

engineer team manager

James Patrick Vowles is a British racing driver, motorsport engineer and Team Principal of Williams. Before joining Williams, he was the motorsport strategy director at Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team. He was also responsible for the Brawn GP race strategy, which was critical to the team's championship-winning 2009 season. He has worked in Formula One for over 20 years, including...

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84. Andrew Miller

1985-. (aged 41)

baseball player

Andrew Brooke Miller is an English novelist. He has published ten novels and has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year, the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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85. Sandra Newman

1965-. (aged 61)

writer novelist

Sandra Newman is an American writer. She has a BA from Polytechnic of Central London, and an MA from the University of East Anglia.

86. Michael Hüther

1962-. (aged 64)

university teacher economist

Michael Hüther is a German economist who currently serves as director of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft. He has previously been the chief economist of DekaBank. Hüther also is an honorary professor at the European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen.

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87. Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde

1960-. (aged 66)

businessperson politician

Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, CH, PC, known informally as Tom Strathclyde, is a British Conservative politician. Lord Strathclyde served in the political role of Leader of the House of Lords from the 2010 general election until January 2013 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, having been Leader of the Opposition in...

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88. Mark Coeckelbergh

1975-. (aged 51)

philosopher

Mark Coeckelbergh is a Belgian philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. He currently holds the ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and is Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala.

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89. Mathias Cormann

1970-. (aged 56)

politician

Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.

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90. Raoul Schrott

1964-. (aged 62)

translator poet literary critic writer

Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.

91. Gino Costa

1956-. (aged 70)

lawyer politician

Gino Francisco Costa Santolalla is a Peruvian politician who is an Independent Congressman caucusing with the Purple Party, representing the constituency of Lima.

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92. Eduardo Costantini

1946-. (aged 80)

economist philanthropist businessperson

Eduardo Francisco Costantini is an Argentine real estate developer and businessman and the founder and chairman of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA). As of September 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.6 billion.

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93. Donald Kaberuka

1951-. (aged 75)

minister economist politician

Donald P. Kaberuka is a Rwandan economist and was the president of the African Development Bank from September 2005 until September 2015.

94. David Anthony King

1939-. (aged 87)

chemist

Sir David Anthony King is a South African-born British chemist, academic, and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG).

95. Manuel de Araújo

1970-. (aged 56)

politician economist

Manuel A. Alculete Lopes de Araújo is a Mozambican politician who has been Mayor of Quelimane since December 2011.

96. Tolu Ogunlesi

1982-. (aged 44)

writer poet journalist photographer

Tolu Ogunlesilisten is a Nigerian journalist, poet, photographer, fiction writer, and blogger. Ogunlesi was appointed to the role of special assistant on digital/new media by President Muhammadu Buhari on 18 February 2016.

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97. Ayobami Adebayo

1988-. (aged 38)

writer novelist

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ listen is a Nigerian writer. Her 2017 debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques. She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in 2017.

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98. Helon Habila

1967-. (aged 59)

university teacher poet writer

Helon Habila Ngalabak Listen is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

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99. Tito Mboweni

1959-2024 (aged 65)

minister economist politician

Tito Titus Mboweni was a South African politician who served as Minister of Finance of South Africa in the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa from 2018 to 2021.

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100. Tupou VI of Tonga

1959-. (aged 67)

monarch naval officer diplomat politician

Tupou VI is King of Tonga. He served as Prime Minister of Tonga from 2000 to 2006 during the reign of his father King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV.