Notable Alumni of University of Essex [Sorted List]

1. Ian H. Witten

computer scientist engineer university teacher

Ian Hugh Witten was a computer scientist at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He was a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Electrical Engineers.

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2. Danny Lopez

1974-. (aged 52)

diplomat

Danny Lopez MBE is a British and Spanish business executive and former diplomat, known for roles across government and technology. He is the CEO of cyber security firm Glasswall, a non-executive director at Aquis Stock Exchange, and served as the British Consul-General to New York from 2011 to 2016.

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3. Reshef Hen

1968-. (aged 58)

advocate lawyer politician

Reshef Ari Hen is an Israeli lawyer and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006.

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4. Vinod Chohan

1949-2017 (aged 68)

engineer scientist

Vinod Chandrasinh Chohan was a Tanzanian-born accelerator specialist and engineer. He was a Senior Staff Member at CERN for nearly 40 years.

5. James Stewart

1908-1997 (aged 89)

film actor poet military officer television actor director

James Stewart is a London-based family lawyer and Chambers HNW Family Lawyer of the Year.

6. C. George Sandulescu

1933-2018 (aged 85)

scholar textbook writer

Constantin George Sandulescu was a Joycean scholar, but in the first place, he was a linguist with twelve years' experience in the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s, specializing in Discourse Analysis. In that capacity he read a dozen or so papers at various international congresses (see texts below).

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7. Dominique Searle

1960-. (aged 66)

journalist

Dominique Searle, MBE, is a Gibraltarian journalist, son of the also journalist Jon Morgan Searle. Editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle, he is married and has three children.

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8. John Howarth

1958-. (aged 68)

businessperson politician

John Howarth is a British Labour Party politician who served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2017 to 2020.

9. Nigel S. Rodley

1941-2017 (aged 76)

human rights defender

Sir Nigel Simon Rodley KBE was an international lawyer and professor.

10. Marianne Majerus

1956-. (aged 70)

photographer

Marianne Majerus, born 1956 in Clervaux, Luxembourg, is one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers.

11. Donald C. Pogue

1947-2016 (aged 69)

lawyer judge

Donald Carl Pogue was a United States Judge of the United States Court of International Trade and served as Chair of the Court's Long Range Planning Committee and Budget Committee. He was appointed to the Trade Court in 1995 by President Bill Clinton.

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12. Oreoluwa Lesi

economist

Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi Listen is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and UK-trained economist and information technology expert. She is the founder and executive director of Women's Technology Empowerment Centre, a non-profit organisation that empowers women and girls socially and economically through education in Information technology. W.TEC was established in the year 2008. She is a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute...

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13. Julian Togelius

1979-. (aged 47)

computer scientist university teacher

Julian Togelius is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

14. Robert Priseman

1965-. (aged 61)

painter curator writer

Robert Priseman is a British artist, collector, writer, curator and publisher who lives and works in Essex, England. Over 200 works of art by Priseman are held in art museum collections around the world including the V&A, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Musée de Louvain la Neuve, The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, The Allen...

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15. Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson is an Icelandic politician. He was speaker of the Althing, in office 2013 until 2016. He was Iceland's Minister of Fisheries from September 2005, and became Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture when the two ministries merged on 1 January 2008 until 1 February 2009.

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16. Noel B. Salazar

1973-. (aged 53)

anthropologist

Noel B. Salazar is a sociocultural anthropologist known for his transdisciplinary work on mobility and travel, the local-to-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of 'Otherness', heritage, cultural brokering, cosmopolitanism and endurance.

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17. David Butler

1964-. (aged 62)

novelist poet writer

David Butler is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and actor. He has won several literary prizes, such as the Ted McNulty Award from Poetry Ireland and the Féile Filíochta International Award and the Fish Short Story Award.

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18. John Barrell

1943-. (aged 83)

historian literary historian university teacher scholar of English

John Charles Barrell FBA FEA is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies.

19. Peter Housden

1950-. (aged 76)

writer

Sir Peter James Housden KCB is a former public official who worked in local and central government. He served as Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government from June 2010 to June 2015. He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

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20. Sirikan Charoensiri

1986-. (aged 40)

lawyer

Sirikan Charoensiri is a Thai human rights attorney. She works with Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) and is one of the legal representatives of the fourteen student activists from the New Democracy Movement (NDM). She has been the subject of harassment and threats from Thai authorities, as well as criminal charges related to her work as a human rights...

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21. Alex Neve

1962-. (aged 64)

lawyer human rights defender

Robert Alexander Neve, OC is a Canadian human rights activist and international human rights lawyer. He served as the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada from January 2000 until October 2020.

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22. Alex Vatanka

1975-. (aged 51)

political writer

Alex Vatanka is a senior fellow and the founding director of the Iran program at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. He specializes in Iranian domestic and regional policies. Born in Tehran and also raised in Denmark, he joined the Middle East Institute in 2007. He was formerly an analyst with Jane’s Information Group in London (UK) before moving...

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23. Kee Thuan Chye

1954-. (aged 72)

actor poet writer

Kee Thuan Chye is a Malaysian actor, dramatist, poet and journalist. Acting in theatre, films, and on television for more than 40 years, he continues to do so. A noted civil rights activist, he would express in his plays whatever he could not express through the newspapers under Malaysia's repressive Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA). For speaking out without...

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24. Ramón Griffero

1954-. (aged 72)

theatrical director playwright writer

Ramón Griffero Sánchez is a Chilean playwright and theater director, one of the most prominent in his country. He is considered an emblematic figure of the national theater during the 1980s; his earliest productions are associated with cultural and political resistance to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

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25. James Gomez

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

James Gomez is a Singaporean academic, politician and a member of the Singapore Democratic Party.

26. Nigel Roberts

computer scientist

Dr Nigel Roberts FRSA is a British computer scientist.

27. Dick Leonard

1930-2021 (aged 91)

politician writer journalist

Richard Lawrence Leonard was a British writer, journalist and Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Romford from 1970 to 1974. He was a pro-European social democrat and had been a supporter of the late Labour foreign secretary Anthony Crosland, who championed Gaitskellism.

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28. Seye Ogunlewe

1991-. (aged 35)

sprinter

Adeseye "Seye" Akinola Ogunlewe Listen is a Nigerian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres. He was a finalist in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m at the 2015 All-Africa Games. He won the 100 m at the Nigerian Championships in 2015 and 2016.

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29. Carry Somers

1966-. (aged 60)

businessperson

Carry Somers is a British author, fashion designer, social entrepreneur, sustainability expert and campaigner. She is founder of Fashion Revolution global movement and was previously founder and director of Pachacuti. Somers is also the author of The Nature of Fashion (Chelsea Green, September 2025), a history of plant-based textiles and their impact on human societies and the natural environment. She...

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30. Pierre Joris

1946-2025 (aged 79)

poet translator university teacher essayist editor

Pierre Joris was a Luxembourgish-American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He moved between Europe, North Africa, and the United States for fifty-five years, publishing over eighty books.

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31. Ricardo Israel

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer politician

Ricardo Jacob Israel Zipper is a Chilean lawyer and academic. Israel was a candidate for President of Chile in 2013, representing the Regionalist Party of the Independents (PRI), but lost the election obtaining 0.57 per cent of the vote.

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32. Nike Oshinowo-Soleye

1966-. (aged 60)

model beauty pageant contestant socialite entrepreneur

Nike Oshinowo Listen is a Nigerian entrepreneur, TV host and former beauty pageant titleholder.

33. Richard Barbrook

1956-. (aged 70)

exhibition curator

Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.

34. Ambrose Lam

1961-. (aged 65)

solicitor

Ambrose Lam San-keung is a Hong Kong solicitor who served as the member of Legislative Council, representing Legal constituency. He was previously the president of the Law Society of Hong Kong from 2013 until his resignation in 2014.

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35. Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1949-. (aged 77)

professor political scientist university teacher politician

Margot Ruth Aline Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, CBE, FBA, FAcSS, is currently Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. She has written or contributed to a number of books, pamphlets and articles on poverty, social security and women's citizenship.

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36. Muhammad Ali Khan Saif

politician barrister

Muhammad Ali Khan Saif is a Pakistani politician from Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, He had been a member of Senate of Pakistan, from March 2015 to March 2021. He served as Federal Minister for Tourism and Youth Affairs from November 2007 to March 2008 in the caretaker federal cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro.

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37. Pierpaolo Donati

1946-. (aged 80)

university teacher philosopher sociologist

Pierpaolo Donati is an Italian sociologist and philosopher of social science, who is considered one of the main exponents of relational sociology and a prominent thinker in relational theory.

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38. Carla Guelfenbein

1959-. (aged 67)

screenwriter writer journalist

Carla Guelfenbein Dobry is a Chilean writer, winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2015 for her book Contigo en la distancia. Guelfenbein has published eight novels; The most recent one is called La naturaleza del deseo and it was published in 2022.

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39. Anisul Islam Mahmud

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

Anisul Islam Mahmud is a former Minister of Environment and Forest and Minister of Water Resources in the Cabinet of Bangladesh in the Third Hasina ministry from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1985 to December 1990 under President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

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40. Marie Mendras

1957-. (aged 69)

historian political scientist university teacher

Dr. Marie Mendras is a political scientist in the field of Russian and post-Soviet studies. She is a research fellow with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a professor at Sciences Po University’s School of International Affairs in Paris.

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41. Martin Docherty-Hughes

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Martin John Docherty-Hughes is a Scottish National Party politician. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire from 2015 until his defeat in 2024. He has also served as SNP Defence Spokesperson from 2023 to 2024.

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42. Edita Tahiri

1956-. (aged 70)

university teacher politician

Edita Tahiri is a leader of the independence of Kosovo, the former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs and peace negotiator. She was also minister for dialogue, minister of public administration and member of parliament in five terms. She was the chief negotiator of the Republic of Kosovo for seven years (2011-2017) in the EU facilitated dialogue, with US...

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43. Giorgos Provopoulos

1950-2024 (aged 74)

university teacher economist banker

George Provopoulos was a Greek economist who was the Governor of the Bank of Greece from 2008 to 2014, and was a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council. Prior to his appointment as Central Bank Head, he was a professor at the University of Athens.

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44. Tom Raworth

1938-2017 (aged 79)

poet publisher

Thomas Moore Raworth was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.

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45. Chris Moorman

1985-. (aged 41)

poker player

Chris Moorman, is a British professional poker player. As of August 2017, he is the all-time leader in career online poker tournament earnings crossing the $14 million mark.

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46. David Triesman, Baron Triesman

1943-2026 (aged 83)

merchant banker banker politician trade unionist

David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman was a British politician, merchant banker and trade union leader.

47. Nigel Wilson

1956-. (aged 70)

entrepreneur

Sir Nigel David Wilson is a British businessman. He was the group chief executive of Legal & General from 2012 to 2023. In 2024, he joined the Canary Wharf Group as chairman.

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48. 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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49. Sima Sami Bahous

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat

Sima Sami Bahous is a Jordanian diplomat and women's rights advocate, and has served as Executive Director of UN Women since 2021. She previously served as Jordan's Ambassador to the United Nations from 2016 to 2021. Earlier, she was Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt.

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50. John Etheridge

1948-. (aged 78)

guitarist jazz guitarist jazz musician

John Michael Glyn Etheridge is an English guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. He is best known for his work with Soft Machine from 1975 to 1978, 1984 and 2004 to present. He is the longest serving member in the history of the group surpassing founding...

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51. Richard Bartle

1960-. (aged 66)

computer scientist writer university teacher

Richard Allan Bartle is a British writer, professor and game researcher in the massively multiplayer online game industry. He co-created MUD1 (the first MUD) in 1978, and is the author of the 2003 book Designing Virtual Worlds.

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52. Houlin Zhao

1950-. (aged 76)

engineer general secretary

Houlin Zhao is a Chinese engineer who served as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) from 2015 to 2022. He was first elected at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, and re-elected at the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai. The ITU is the specialized United Nations Agency for Information and Communication Technology (ICT), working on promotion, collaboration, and...

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53. Ian Austin

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22...

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54. Hoshyar Zebari

1953-. (aged 73)

diplomat politician

Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, or simply Hoshyar Zebari is an Iraqi - Kurdish politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the country in 2014 and as Minister of Finance until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2014.

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55. Lisa Jardine

1944-2015 (aged 71)

historian literary critic professor non-fiction writer

Lisa Anne Jardine was a British historian of the early modern period.

56. James Duddridge

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Sir James Philip Duddridge, KCMG is a British politician and former banker. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend East and Rochford from 2005 to 2024. Duddridge previously held several ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

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57. Siobhain McDonagh

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Dame Siobhain Ann McDonagh DBE is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitcham and Morden since 1997. She served as an Assistant Whip in the Labour Government, but was dismissed following comments regarding a leadership contest to replace prime minister Gordon Brown.

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58. Andrew Wan

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Andrew Wan Siu-kin is the former vice-chairman of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Kwai Tsing District Council for Shek Yam constituency. He was elected in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election through New Territories West.

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59. Rena Dourou

1974-. (aged 52)

politician

Irene "Rena" Dourou is a Greek political scientist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From 2014 to 2019, she served as the Regional Governor of Attica. She lost re-election to New Democracy (Greece) Candidate Giorgios Patoulis on 7 July 2019.

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60. Sid Lowe

1976-. (aged 50)

podcaster

Simon James "Sid" Lowe is an English columnist and journalist. Born in Archway, London, and based in Madrid, he covers Spanish football for many publications, websites, television channels, radio stations, and football-related podcasts across the world.

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61. Haris Azhar

1975-. (aged 51)

human rights defender

Haris Azhar is an Indonesian human rights activist. He served as the coordinator of the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) during 2010-2016. He is also a founder of the Jakarta-based NGO, Lokataru.

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62. Nathan Zach

1930-2020 (aged 90)

librettist university teacher literary scholar poet songwriter

Nathan Zach was an Israeli poet. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent poets in the country's history, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1995 for poetry. He was also the recipient of other national and international awards. Zach was a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of Haifa.

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63. Vera Kolodzig

1985-. (aged 41)

actor film actor

Vera Kolodzig is a Portuguese actress of German descent.

64. Yao Jen-to

1969-. (aged 57)

sociologist politician

Yao Jen-to is a Taiwanese sociologist and politician who previously served as the vice chairperson and secretary-general of Straits Exchange Foundation from 21 June 2018 to 19 May 2020. He is currently a professor of sociology at National Tsing Hua University.

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65. Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein

1956-2022 (aged 66)

politician

Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein was the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claimed to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.

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66. Robert Service

1947-. (aged 79)

historian writer university teacher

Robert John Service FBA is a British post-revisionist historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a fellow of St Antony's College,...

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67. Rhys Frake-Waterfield

1991-. (aged 35)

film producer film screenwriter film director

Rhys Frake-Waterfield is an English filmmaker who became known for his 2023 independent horror film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and its 2024 sequel. It was the first theatrical film of his career, as well as the first for his company Jagged Edge Productions.

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68. Nuruddin Farah

1945-. (aged 81)

writer novelist

Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". Farah has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s, he has lived and taught...

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69. Leung Yiu-chung

1953-. (aged 73)

trade unionist politician

Leung Yiu-chung is a Hong Kong politician. He is a member of the pro-labour Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre, which is a part of the pan-democracy camp. He has had a long-standing tenure as a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Between 1998 and 2016, he represented the New Territories West geographical constituency, and from 2016 to 2020,...

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70. Stephen Daldry

1961-. (aged 65)

theatrical director film director director film producer

Stephen David Daldry CBE is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008).

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71. Oussama Mellouli

1984-. (aged 42)

swimmer

Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He is a three-time Olympic medalist, is an African record holder, and trains with the USC Trojans team based at the University of Southern California, where he studied as a computer science undergraduate and swam collegiately.

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72. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the first female speaker of the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad since April 2013 until September 2024. At 46, she became the youngest person to assume that office. She was also the chairperson of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2014 and 2017. She previously served as the state...

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73. Ben Okri

1959-. (aged 67)

novelist writer journalist author poet

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours...

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74. Virginia Bottomley

1948-. (aged 78)

justice of the peace social scientist social worker politician

Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2005.

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75. Christophoros A. Pissarides

1948-. (aged 78)

university teacher economist

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA is a Cypriot economist. He is Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on macroeconomics, labour economics, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics along with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for...

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76. John Bercow

1963-. (aged 63)

politician political scientist

John Simon Bercow is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the first MP since Selwyn Lloyd in 1971 to be elected speaker without having been...

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77. David Yates

1963-. (aged 63)

television director director film director film producer screenwriter

David Yates is an English filmmaker, who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter series and the three films of its prequel series, Fantastic Beasts. His work on the Harry Potter series brought him critical and commercial success along with accolades, such as the...

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78. 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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79. Daniel Libeskind

1946-. (aged 80)

architect

Daniel Libeskind is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.

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80. Stuart Etherington

1955-. (aged 71)

social worker business executive

Sir Stuart James Etherington FRSA is a British charity executive and former social worker. From 1994 to 2020, he was chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, with the membership base increasing from 400 to over 14,000. He was previously the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. He received a knighthood in 2010 in...

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81. Priti Patel

1972-. (aged 54)

politician

Dame Priti Sushil Patel is a British politician who has served as Shadow Foreign Secretary since November 2024, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she was Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2017. Patel has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham since 2010. She is...

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82. Kelly Murphy

1989-. (aged 37)

sport cyclist neuroscientist

Kelly Murphy OLY is an Irish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team IBCT. She was elite women's national champion in the time trial event in 2018 & 2019 and represented Ireland in this event at the European and World Championships in these same years. At the 2019 European Road Championships, Murphy finished 10th in the TT...

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83. Bryan Avery

1944-2017 (aged 73)

architect

Bryan Robert Avery MBE RIBA was an English architect, born in Wallingford, Berkshire. After his childhood years spent in Lymington in the New Forest, Hampshire, he studied architecture at Leicester College of Art (now the De Montfort University), followed by an MA in the History and Theory of Architecture at Essex University under Professors Joseph Rykwert and Dalibor Vesely.

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84. Tony Lawson

1950-. (aged 76)

economist

Tony Lawson is a British philosopher and economist. He is professor of economics and philosophy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and co-founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group....

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85. Nick Broomfield

1948-. (aged 78)

screenwriter director film director

Nicholas Broomfield is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he calls "Direct Cinema". His output ranges from studies of entertainers to political works such as examinations of South Africa before and after the end of...

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86. Abel Caballero

1946-. (aged 80)

writer economist university teacher politician

Abel Ramón Caballero Álvarez is a Spanish professor of Economics and since June 2007, the current mayor of Vigo, representing PSdeG-PSOE. Since 19 September 2015, he has also served as the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP).

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87. Dimitrij Rupel

1946-. (aged 80)

literary historian university teacher writer diplomat sociologist

Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.

88. Pippa Hackett

politician

Pippa Hackett is an Irish Green Party politician who served as a Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine from June 2020 to January 2025. She was one of three Ministers of State in attendance at cabinet, but without a vote. She was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from November 2019 to January 2025.

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89. Bergdís Ellertsdóttir

1962-. (aged 64)

diplomat

Bergdís Ellertsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat. She is the current ambassador of Iceland to the United States. She was a permanent representative of Iceland to the United Nations 2018–2019. Since 1991, when she joined Iceland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, she has had a diplomatic career with assignments covering NATO, EFTA, and the European Union. She has also served as Iceland's...

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90. Simon Critchley

1960-. (aged 66)

philosopher opinion journalist university teacher musician

Simon James Critchley is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City, US.

91. 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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92. Enrique Ayala Mora

1950-. (aged 76)

historian journalist university teacher politician

Manuel Enrique Alejandro Ayala Mora is a historian, political editorial writer, and a professor of Ecuador, who has been ideologue of the Socialist Party of Ecuador, and founder and former rector of the headquarters of Quito from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.

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93. Kevin Casas Zamora

1968-. (aged 58)

lawyer politician

Kevin Casas-Zamora is a Costa Rican politician, lawyer and political scientist. Casas-Zamora is Secretary General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an inter-governmental organization based in Stockholm; and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy research center based in Washington D.C. Prior to that...

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94. Óscar Arias Sánchez

1941-. (aged 85)

politician

Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was the president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.

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95. Victor Quesada

1985-. (aged 41)

writer theatrical director

Victor Quesada is a Colombian theatre director, playwright and writer.

96. Paulo Gonet Branco

1961-. (aged 65)

academic

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97. Ernesto Laclau

1935-2014 (aged 79)

university teacher philosopher sociologist

Ernesto Laclau was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe.

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98. Charles Kitwanga

1960-. (aged 66)

politician minister

Charles Muhangwa Kitwanga is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Misungwi constituency since 2010. He served as a minister of internal and home affairs in the Magufuli cabinet for five months beginning in December 2015. Kitwanga was found drunk during a parliamentary session on 20 May 2016 and was immediately suspended for drinking during working hours.

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99. Alhassan Bashir Fuseini

1956-. (aged 70)

civil servant politician newspaper editor

Hon. Alhassan Bashir Alhassan Fuseini, popularly known as Alhaji A. B. A. Fuseini, is a Ghanaian journalist and politician, who is the former deputy Northern Regional Minister of Ghana. He is a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Sagnarigu (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Northern Region on the ticket of the National Democratic...

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100. Paul Hunt

writer

Paul Hunt is British-New Zealand human rights expert who specialises in economic, social and cultural rights. Between 2019–2024, he held the office of Chief Commissioner at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.

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