Notable Alumni of University of Manchester [Sorted List]

1. Ellen Wilkinson

1891-1947 (aged 56)

writer suffragette politician trade unionist

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her career, as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jarrow, she became a national figure when she played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March of the town's unemployed to London to petition for the right...

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2. Martin Jacques

1945-. (aged 81)

journalist broadcaster

Martin Jacques is a British academic, journalist, political commentator and writer. He first came to prominence as the editor of Marxism Today, which under his leadership from 1977 to 1991 became an influential forum for political debate on the British left. He later co-founded the think tank Demos in 1993 and has written extensively as a columnist for major British...

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3. Nick Brown

1977-. (aged 49)

lawyer politician reality television participant

Nicholas Hugh Brown is a British former politician and trade unionist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East between 1983 and 2024. He represented the Labour Party until his resignation in 2023. Brown is the longest-serving Chief Whip of the Labour Party, discontinuously holding the position several times between 1997 and 2021 under Blair, Brown,...

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4. Sally Davies

1949-. (aged 77)

hematologist executive university teacher physician

Dame Sally Claire Davies GCB DBE FRS FMedSci is a British physician. She was the Chief Medical Officer from 2010 to 2019 and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016. She worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She is now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge,...

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5. William Hanson

1989-. (aged 37)

non-fiction writer lecturer

William Richard Henry Hanson FRSA is a British etiquette coach, author and podcast host. He is best known for his podcasts Help I Sexted My Boss, which he co-hosts with Jordan North, and The Luxury Podcast (formerly known as Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast), which he co-hosts with Jonathan Vernon-Smith. Hanson is owner of The English Manner, an etiquette...

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6. Tony Brooks

1932-2022 (aged 90)

Formula One driver racing driver racing automobile driver

Charles Anthony Standish "Tony" Brooks was a British racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961. Nicknamed "the Racing Dentist", Brooks was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1959 with Ferrari and Vanwall, and won six Grands Prix across six seasons.

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7. Atul Khatri

1968-. (aged 58)

chief executive officer actor stand-up comedian

Atul Naraindas Khatri is an Indian stand-up comedian and YouTube personality. He was rated among the top Indian comedians by CNN-IBN and was the only Indian to perform in the Hong Kong International Comedy Festival. He was also the winner of the CEO's Got Talent Season 1.

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8. Rane Willerslev

1971-. (aged 55)

anthropologist director

Rane Willerslev is a Danish anthropologist. In his academic career, he has travelled extensively and has a particular interest in tribal cultures, both present and prehistoric. On 1 July 2017, he was appointed director of the National Museum of Denmark by Culture Minister Mette Bock.

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9. Liam Byrne

1970-. (aged 56)

businessperson politician

Liam Dominic Byrne is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North, previously Birmingham Hodge Hill, since 2004. He served in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet from 2008 to 2010.

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10. Mekapati Goutham Reddy

1971-2022 (aged 51)

businessperson politician

Mekapati Goutham Reddy was an Indian businessman and politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was the Minister for Industries, Commerce, and Information Technology in the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was elected twice and served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing the Atmakur Assembly constituency on behalf of YSR...

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11. Faiza Shaheen

1983-. (aged 43)

economist activist writer

Faiza Shaheen is a British academic and economist in the field of economic inequality.

12. Caspar Tsui

1977-. (aged 49)

politician

Caspar Tsui Ying-wai is a Hong Kong politician, government official and DAB party member. From 2020 to 2022, he has been Secretary for Home Affairs.

13. Chi Onwurah

1965-. (aged 61)

engineer politician

Dame Chinyelu Susan "Chi" Onwurah is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West since 2024, and previously for Newcastle upon Tyne Central from 2010 to 2024, when the constituency was abolished. She is a member of the Labour Party.

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14. Peter Maxwell Davies

1934-2016 (aged 82)

composer pedagogue pianist opera composer classical composer

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.

15. Rhys James

1991-. (aged 35)

comedian

Rhys James is a British stand-up comedian. James has appeared on Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo.

16. Jo Coburn

1968-. (aged 58)

journalist

Joanne Dawn Coburn is a British journalist who works for Times Radio. She has spent most of her career with BBC News, having been a regular presenter of Politics Live (and at one time also of Sunday Politics along with Andrew Neil). She was previously a political correspondent for BBC Breakfast and is also a former BBC political correspondent for...

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17. Louise Wener

1966-. (aged 60)

singer guitarist songwriter writer novelist

Louise Jane Wener is an English writer, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Sleeper.

18. David Aaronovitch

1954-. (aged 72)

writer author journalist television presenter

David Morris Aaronovitch is an English journalist, television presenter and author. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What...

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19. Michel Evgenij Chossudovsky

1946-. (aged 80)

researcher professor writer conspiracy theorist peace activist

Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist and author. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa and the president and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), which runs the website globalresearch.ca, founded in 2001, which publishes falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Chossudovsky has promoted conspiracy theories about 9/11.

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20. William Wragg

1987-. (aged 39)

politician

William Peter Wragg, is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester from 2015 to 2024. As a member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as a vice-chairman of its 1922 Committee. From April 2024 until parliament was dissolved in May 2024, he sat as an independent.

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21. Ruth Ware

1977-. (aged 49)

waiter teacher writer bookseller novelist

Ruth Warburton, known by the pen name Ruth Ware, is a British author.

22. Sophia Chan Siu-chee

1958-. (aged 68)

politician

Sophia Chan Siu Chee GBS JP is a Hong Kong professor and politician. She served as Secretary for Food and Health from 2017 to 2022.

23. Giles Martin

1969-. (aged 57)

songwriter record producer

Giles Martin is an English record producer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. His studio recordings, stage shows, TV and film works have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful around the world. He is the son of Beatles producer George Martin and half-brother of actor Gregory Paul Martin.

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24. Anna Ford

1943-. (aged 83)

presenter news presenter journalist

Anna Ford is a British retired journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She first worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, ITN, and the BBC. Ford helped launch the British breakfast television broadcaster TV-am. She retired from broadcast news presenting in April 2006 and was a non-executive director of Sainsbury's until the end of 2012. Ford...

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25. John M. Allegro

1923-1988 (aged 65)

university teacher archaeologist anthropologist linguist photographer

John Marco Allegro was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. He was a populariser of the Dead Sea Scrolls through his books and radio broadcasts. He was the editor of some of the most famous and controversial scrolls published, the pesharim. A number of Allegro's later books, including The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, brought him both popular...

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26. Gaston Browne

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Gaston Alphonso Browne is an Antiguan politician serving as the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda and leader of the Labour Party since 2014. Before entering politics, he was a banker and businessman.

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27. Sophie Hannah

1971-. (aged 55)

children's writer poet writer

Sophie Hannah is a British poet and novelist.

28. Jonathan Reynolds

1980-. (aged 46)

politician trainee solicitor

Jonathan Neil Reynolds is a British politician who has served as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since September 2025. He previously served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he...

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29. Noor el-Sheikh

1987-. (aged 39)

actor announcer

Noor el-Sheikh is a Bahraini broadcaster and actress.

30. Shazia Mirza

1978-. (aged 48)

comedian stand-up comedian journalist

Shazia Mirza is a British comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her stand-up comedy, and her articles in British newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

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31. Melvin Calvin

1911-1997 (aged 86)

university teacher biologist chemist engineer biochemist

Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.

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32. Tony Hawks

1960-. (aged 66)

actor writer film director

Antony Gordon Hawksworth MBE, known professionally as Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author.

33. Waldemar Januszczak

1954-. (aged 72)

television presenter television director film director art critic journalist

Waldemar Januszczak is a Polish-British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in 1992, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.

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34. Ian Livingstone

1949-. (aged 77)

entrepreneur fantasy author video game developer screenwriter role-playing game designer

Sir Ian Livingstone CBE is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995. Along with Steve Jackson, he is also the co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series.

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35. Starry Lee

1974-. (aged 52)

politician

Starry Lee Wai-king SBS JP is a Hong Kong politician who is the 4th and current President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 2026.

36. James Ford

1978-. (aged 48)

composer record producer drummer musician

James Ellis Ford is an English record producer and songwriter, known for being a member of Simian Mobile Disco and the Last Shadow Puppets as well as his production work with Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Depeche Mode, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Haim, Gorillaz, Klaxons, The Last Dinner Party, Jessie Ware, Kylie Minogue, Declan McKenna, the Pet Shop Boys, Pulp and...

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37. Amitabh Kant

1956-. (aged 70)

Amitabh Kant is a retired 1980 batch IAS officer who served as India's G20 Sherpa from 8 July 2022 till 16 June 2025 and as the chief executive officer of NITI Aayog, a public policy think tank of the Government of India.

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38. Richard Dillane

1964-. (aged 62)

film actor actor television actor

Richard Dillane is an English actor. He appears in Soldier Soldier, Cold Feet (2000), Space Race (2005), Tristan & Isolde (2006), Spooks (2007), Casualty (2008-2009), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), Doctor Who (2011), Argo (2012), Dead in Tombstone (2013), Wolf Hall (2015), Peaky Blinders, Poldark (2016), Giri/Haji (2019), Young Wallander (2020), The Crown. and Andor (2022-2025).

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39. Christabel Pankhurst

1880-1958 (aged 78)

women's rights activist feminist editor activist architect

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an...

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40. Marcy Kaptur

1946-. (aged 80)

urban planner politician

Marcia Carolyn Kaptur is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 9th congressional district since 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the longest-serving woman in congressional history and has served as the dean of Ohio's congressional delegation since 2009. Her district stretches across northwestern Ohio along the southern shore of Lake Erie and includes...

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41. Armeena Khan

1987-. (aged 39)

model actor

Armeena Rana Khan is a Pakistani-Canadian film and television actress and model.

42. Maggie Philbin

1955-. (aged 71)

television presenter

Margaret Elizabeth Philbin OBE is a British radio and television presenter whose credits include Tomorrow's World, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and latterly Bang Goes the Theory.

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43. Sujoy Ghosh

1966-. (aged 60)

screenwriter film director film producer actor

Sujoy Ghosh is an Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He has directed Jhankaar Beats (2003), Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak (2005), Aladin (2009), Kahaani (2012), Kahaani 2 (2016) and Badla (2019). He has also written and directed short films such as Ahalya (2015) and Anukul (2017). He had directed two projects for Netflix,...

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44. Lucy Porter

1973-. (aged 53)

writer podcaster stand-up comedian comedian

Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer, presenter, and comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She is also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including The News Quiz, Quote... Unquote and The Personality Test.

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45. Alexander Nix

1975-. (aged 51)

chief executive officer director businessperson

Alexander James Ashburner Nix is a British businessman who was the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica and a former director of the SCL Group, Nix led SCL Group's elections division (SCL Elections), which was contracted by a variety of governments and political campaigns, including the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The company also ran Kenyan President...

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46. Lise Mayer

1957-. (aged 69)

screenwriter

Lise Mayer is an American television and film writer. She was creator and co-writer, alongside Rik Mayall and Ben Elton, of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones.

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47. Liv Boeree

1984-. (aged 42)

television presenter model poker player

Olivia "Liv" Boeree is a British science communicator, philanthropist, host of the Win-Win podcast, and professional poker player. She is a World Series of Poker (WSOP) and European Poker Tour (EPT) champion, and is the only female player in history to win both a WSOP bracelet and an EPT event. Boeree is a 3× winner of the Global Poker Index...

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48. Shobna Gulati

1966-. (aged 60)

actor

Shobna Gulati is an English actor and presenter. Gulati is known for playing Anita in dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013. They also played Mari Hoff in the 2006 UK Tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. From 2013 to 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk...

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49. Peter Hammill

1948-. (aged 78)

composer record producer guitarist songwriter poet

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer-songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano and produces his own recordings and occasionally those of other artists. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Progressive...

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50. Tim Booth

1960-. (aged 66)

singer songwriter singer-songwriter actor film actor

Timothy Booth is an English singer-songwriter, actor and dancer. He is the lead singer and co-founder of the indie rock band James, and co-wrote several of their hit singles including "Sit Down", "Come Home", and "Laid". As an actor, Booth is also known for portraying Victor Zsasz in the 2005 film Batman Begins.

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51. James Lovelock

1919-2022 (aged 103)

university teacher environmentalist chemist futurist mythographer

James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.

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52. Tracy-Ann Oberman

1966-. (aged 60)

actor film actor

Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English actress, playwright and narrator who is best known as Chrissie Watts in EastEnders (2004–2005, 2024-2026) and Valerie Lewis in Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020).

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53. Javed Jaffrey

1963-. (aged 63)

television producer voice actor actor comedian

Syed Jaaved Ahmed Jaffrey is an Indian actor, dancer, producer and comedian who has appeared in Hindi films and television shows. He is the son of the comedian Jagdeep. He joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in March 2014 and contested the 2014 Indian general election from the Lucknow constituency finishing fifth.

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54. Adrian Edmondson

1957-. (aged 69)

screenwriter film director television actor comedian film actor

Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter, who came to fame as part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s. He and his comedy partner Rik Mayall starred in the television sitcoms The Young Ones (1982–1984), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991–1995), the last of which was written by Edmondson...

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55. Fra Fee

1987-. (aged 39)

singer actor stage actor

Fra Fee is a Northern Irish actor and singer. He is best known for playing Courfeyrac in Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, and for his role as Kazi in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fee also played the role of Michael Carney in Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman at the Royal...

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56. Mark Kermode

1963-. (aged 63)

film critic journalist television presenter musician

Mark Kermode is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter, author and podcaster. He is the co-presenter (with Ellen E. Jones) of the BBC Radio 4 programme Screenshot, and co-presenter (alongside long-time collaborator Simon Mayo) of the film-review podcast Kermode & Mayo's Take. Kermode is a regular contributor to The Observer, for which he was chief film critic...

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57. Terence Lewis

1975-. (aged 51)

dancer choreographer actor

Terence Lewis is an Indian dancer and choreographer. He is known for judging the reality dance shows Dance India Dance and Nach Baliye (2012–2017).

58. Osman Kavala

1957-. (aged 69)

philanthropist entrepreneur human rights defender patron of the arts businessperson

Mehmet Osman Kavala is a Turkish economist, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. Kavala is the founder and chair of the board of Anadolu Kültür, an Istanbul-based nonprofit arts and culture organization. In 2019, he received the European Archaeological Heritage Prize from the European Association of Archaeologists for his efforts to protect and preserve significant examples of cultural heritage in danger...

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59. Haider Al-Abadi

1952-. (aged 74)

electrical engineer engineer politician

Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed.

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60. Meera Syal

1961-. (aged 65)

stage actor actor comedian writer film actor

Dame Meera Syal is an English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and by portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She has become one of the UK's best-known Asian personalities.

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61. Doon Mackichan

1962-. (aged 64)

film actor comedian screenwriter

Sarah Doon Mackichan is a British actress, comedian and writer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the double-Emmy-award-winning sketch comedy series Smack the Pony (1999–2003, 2017). Mackichan frequently collaborates with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in the comedy series The Day Today (1994) and Brass Eye (2001). She played the role of Cathy Whyte in...

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62. David Oakes

1983-. (aged 43)

film actor television actor stage actor

Rowan David Oakes FLS is an English actor, ecologist and conservationist. He is best known for his roles in the series The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, The White Queen, Victoria, Vikings: Valhalla, and for his discursive Natural History podcast, Trees A Crowd. He currently serves as Vice President to The Wildlife Trusts.

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63. Lorraine Ashbourne

1961-. (aged 65)

film actor actor stage actor

Lorraine Ashbourne is an English actress.

64. Jesse Armstrong

1970-. (aged 56)

showrunner screenwriter journalist

Jesse David Armstrong is an English screenwriter and producer. Known for writing for a string of critically acclaimed British comedy series as well as satirical dramas, he has received numerous accolades including two BAFTA TV Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three WGA Awards, and eight Emmy Awards in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Film Awards.

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65. Ben Elton

1959-. (aged 67)

novelist television actor film director actor film producer

Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up comedian and on screen. One of the major figures in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, he used a style of left-wing political satire in his early stand-up comedy.

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66. Conor Woodman

1974-. (aged 52)

presenter author economist

Conor Thomas Patrick Woodman is an Irish author and broadcaster best known as the host of Scam City and Around the World in 80 Trades.

67. Roger Allam

1953-. (aged 73)

radio drama actor stage actor television actor film actor singer

Roger William Allam is an English actor who has performed on stage, in film, on television and radio.

68. Joe Abercrombie

1974-. (aged 52)

science fiction writer writer film editor

Joseph Edward Abercrombie is an English author of epic fantasy books and a film editor. He is the author of The First Law and The Age of Madness trilogies, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting, and a trilogy of young adult novels. His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult...

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69. Norman Foster

1935-. (aged 91)

designer politician film actor architect

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and operates internationally. He also serves as president of...

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70. Parineeti Chopra

1988-. (aged 38)

actor

Parineeti Chopra is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Chopra is a recipient of several accolades, including a Filmfare and a National Film Award. Chopra has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2013.

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71. Brian Cox

1968-. (aged 58)

physicist keyboardist film producer film actor musician

Brian Edward Cox is an English physicist and musician. He is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and...

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72. J. J. Thomson

1856-1940 (aged 84)

university teacher mathematician physicist

Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." In 1897, he showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles (now called electrons), which he calculated must have bodies much...

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73. Alex Garland

1970-. (aged 56)

television writer film director television director writer novelist

Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author, screenwriter, film and television director. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he...

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74. Joe Lycett

1988-. (aged 38)

LGBTQ rights activist television presenter writer comedian sculptor

Joe Harry Lycett is a British comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on many TV shows, including Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI, as the announcer on Saturday BBC One show Epic Win, the narrator for Ibiza Weekender and as the presenter on BBC Two's The Great British Sewing Bee,...

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75. Josh Widdicombe

1983-. (aged 43)

stand-up comedian television actor comedian entertainer radio personality

Joshua Michael Widdicombe is an English comedian, presenter and actor. He is best known for his appearances on The Last Leg (2012–present), Fighting Talk (2014–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019), Mock the Week (2012–2016) and his BBC Three sitcom Josh (2015–2017).

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76. James Prescott Joule

1818-1889 (aged 71)

physicist

James Prescott Joule was an English physicist. Joule studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI unit of energy, the joule (J), is named after him.

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77. Benedict Cumberbatch

1976-. (aged 50)

actor television actor film actor voice actor stage actor

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and four Golden Globes. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was...

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78. Milo Yiannopoulos

1984-. (aged 42)

blogger writer journalist

Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right political commentator, whose speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, and social justice. He is a former editor of Breitbart News, an American far-right news and opinion website.

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79. Jack Whitehall

1988-. (aged 38)

comedian television actor screenwriter television presenter stand-up comedian

Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, actor, writer and television personality. He is known for his roles as JP in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Fresh Meat (2011–2016) and as Alfie Wickers in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education (2012–2014, 2022–2024). He also co-wrote the latter and its film adaptation, The Bad Education Movie (2015).

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80. Vincent Kompany

1986-. (aged 40)

association football player association football coach

Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. As a player, he is best known for his eleven seasons at Manchester City, eight of which he served as captain. Kompany also represented the Belgium national team for fifteen years and...

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81. Toby Jones

1966-. (aged 60)

actor television actor screenwriter film actor voice actor

Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen. From 1989 to 1991, Jones trained at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning...

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82. Tony Lloyd

1950-2024 (aged 74)

politician

Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years, making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997, Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012, and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester...

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83. Duncan Watmore

1994-. (aged 32)

association football player

Duncan Ian Watmore is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Rotherham United.

84. Abdul Latif Rashid

1944-. (aged 82)

politician civil engineer

Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, also known as Letif Reshid (Kurdish: لەتيف ڕەشید, romanized: Letîf Reşîd), is an Iraqi politician serving as the 9th president of Iraq. He was previously the Minister of Water Resources under the government of Nouri al-Maliki. Before that, he served in the same position under both the Iraqi Transitional Government and the Iraqi Interim Government. Rashid...

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85. James Chadwick

1891-1974 (aged 83)

university teacher nuclear physicist physicist

Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project...

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86. Alasdair MacIntyre

1929-2025 (aged 96)

university teacher philosopher

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a Scottish-American philosopher who contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics...

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87. 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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88. Rami Hamdallah

1958-. (aged 68)

university teacher linguist politician

Rami Hamdallah is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as Prime Minister of Palestine from 2013 to 2019 and was previously the president of An-Najah National University in Nablus from 1998 to 2013.

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89. Sophie Raworth

1968-. (aged 58)

broadcaster news presenter journalist television presenter

Sophie Jane Raworth is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC. She is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News (mainly BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten). She has been a television presenter for state occasions and has also presented the BBC's Election Night coverage, alongside other presenters.

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90. Winnie Byanyima

1959-. (aged 67)

politician entrepreneur diplomat aircraft pilot engineer

Winifred Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS (2019 to present). She is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist, and diplomat.

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91. Sarfraz Manzoor

1971-. (aged 55)

announcer screenwriter journalist

Sarfraz Manzoor is a British journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, and screenwriter of Pakistani origin. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, presenter of documentaries on BBC Radio 4, and a cultural commentator who appears on programmes such as Newsnight Review and Saturday Review. His first book, Greetings from Bury Park, was published in 2007.

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92. Carme Chacón

1971-2017 (aged 46)

university teacher lawyer politician

Carme Maria Chacón Piqueras was a Spanish lawyer, lecturer and politician who was minister of Defence from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

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93. Andre Geim

1958-. (aged 68)

scientist inventor physicist professor

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

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94. Konstantin Novoselov

1974-. (aged 52)

university teacher inventor physicist

Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov is a Russian–British physicist. His work on graphene with Andre Geim earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Novoselov is a professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore and is also the Langworthy Professor of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

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95. Michael D. Higgins

1941-. (aged 85)

writer poet political scientist politician

Michael Daniel Higgins is an Irish politician, poet and broadcaster who served as the president of Ireland from November 2011 to November 2025. Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator from 1973 to 1977 and a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1981 to 1982, returning to the Seanad from 1983 to 1987 and the Dáil from...

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96. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

1943-. (aged 83)

university teacher politician

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is an Icelandic politician who was the fifth president of Iceland, serving from 1996 to 2016. He was previously a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the People's Alliance and served as Minister of Finance from 1988 to 1991.

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97. Chuka Umunna

1978-. (aged 48)

lawyer writer politician

Chuka Harrison Umunna // is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group, later Change UK, along...

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98. Ralph Gonsalves

1946-. (aged 80)

lawyer politician

Ralph Everard Gonsalves is a Vincentian politician who served as prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 2001 to 2025, and as the leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) since 2001. He was the longest continuously serving prime minister since St. Vincent's independence in 1979, with almost 25 years in office. Gonsalves has been Member of Parliament...

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99. Samia Suluhu Hassan

1960-. (aged 66)

minister economist politician

Samia Suluhu Hassan is a Tanzanian politician and the sixth president of Tanzania, serving since 19 March 2021. She is the first woman to serve in the position and previously served as vice-president of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021, from which she ascended to the presidency following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli.

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100. Abdalla Hamdok

1956-. (aged 70)

economist official minister politician

Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani is a Sudanese public administrator who served as the 15th prime minister of Sudan from 2019 to October 2021, and again from November 2021 until his resignation in 2022.

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