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100 Notable alumni of University of Nottingham

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Nottingham is ranked #133 in the world and #13 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Nottingham sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Nottingham won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

John Tse

1. John Tse

1954-. (aged 72)
academic
John Tse Wing-ling is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.
Dave Hutchinson

2. Dave Hutchinson

1960-. (aged 66)
journalist writer
Dave Hutchinson is a science fiction writer who was born in Sheffield in England in 1960 and read American Studies at the University of Nottingham. He subsequently moved into journalism, writing for The Weekly News and The Courier for almost 25 years.
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Frank Halford

3. Frank Halford

1894-1955 (aged 61)
military flight engineer engineer aircraft pilot
Major Frank Bernard Halford CBE FRAeS was an English aircraft engine designer. He is best known for the series of de Havilland Gipsy engines, widely used by light aircraft in the 1920s and 30s.
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Akierra Missick

4. Akierra Missick

1983-. (aged 43)
politician
Akierra Mary Deanne Missick is a Turks and Caicos Islands lawyer and politician. She served as Deputy Premier and Minister of Education from 2012 to 2016 and Leader of Government Business and Minister of Infrastructure from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Progressive National Party, Missick has served as the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Leeward...
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Ed Hawkins

5. Ed Hawkins

1977-. (aged 49)
data scientist climatologist
Edward Hawkins MBE is a British climate scientist who is Professor of climate science at the University of Reading, principal research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), editor of Climate Lab Book blog and lead scientist for the Weather Rescue citizen science project. He is known for his data visualizations of climate change for the general public...
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Suraya Marshall

6. Suraya Marshall

1973-. (aged 53)
air navigator air force officer
Air Marshal Suraya Antonia Marshall, CBE is a senior Royal Air Force officer. She served as Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group RAF from October 2021 to March 2024, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff from June 2024 to November 2025, and was appointed Deputy Commander Cyber & Specialist Operations Command in November 2025.
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Tom Copley

7. Tom Copley

1985-. (aged 41)
politician
Tom Phillip Copley is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, serving as the Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development. He served as a London wide member of the London Assembly from 2012 to 2020 and is a former councillor on Lewisham Council.
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Etienne Stott

8. Etienne Stott

1979-. (aged 47)
kayaker canoeist
Etienne Stott MBE is an English slalom canoeist who started competing at the international level in 2002, initially in the K1 category, but switching to C2 in 2005. He retired from the sport in 2016. He is the Olympic Champion in the C2 event from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Alice Bentinck

9. Alice Bentinck

1986-. (aged 40)
company founder business analyst
Alice Yvonne Bentinck MBE is a British entrepreneur. Along with Matt Clifford she is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs First (EF), a London-based company builder and startup accelerator founded in 2011. EF finds exceptional talent from around the world, and funds them to build exceptional companies. In 2017, it was announced that Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock,...
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David Matthews

10. David Matthews

1943-. (aged 83)
composer
David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.
David Florence

11. David Florence

1982-. (aged 44)
canoeist
David Florence is a retired British slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2021. He is the 2013 and 2015 world champion in individual single canoe (C1) and 2013 champion in double canoe (C2), the latter with Richard Hounslow. Florence was the first canoeist since Charles Dussuet, sixty years earlier, to achieve the C1, C2 double...
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Katie Rowley Jones

12. Katie Rowley Jones

1978-. (aged 48)
singer
Katie Rowley Jones is a British musical theatre actress, best known for originating the role of Nessarose in the West End production of Wicked.
Mike Dilger

13. Mike Dilger

1966-. (aged 60)
television presenter ecologist
Mike Dilger is an English ecologist, television presenter and the wildlife reporter on the BBC television programme The One Show. He attended the University of Nottingham and UCNW Bangor in north Wales.
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Rajesh Talwar

14. Rajesh Talwar

university teacher lawyer writer
Rajesh Talwar is an Indian lawyer and author. He has written several books on the topics of law and human rights and also some children's books and plays.
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Jonathan Neale

15. Jonathan Neale

1962-. (aged 64)
businessperson engineer
Jonathan Neale is a British businessman and the chief operating officer of McLaren Group. Neale's responsibilities as part of the executive management team include infrastructure development, information technology, facilities management as well as holding a number of statutory directorships.
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Prince Imran ibni Ja’afar of Negeri Sembilan

16. Prince Imran ibni Ja’afar of Negeri Sembilan

1948-. (aged 78)
squash player politician
Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni Almarhum Tuanku Ja’afar is a member of Negeri Sembilan royal family who is the Tunku Muda Serting. He is the grandson of the first King of Malaysia, Tuanku Abdul Rahman. His father Tuanku Ja'afar, was also the 10th King of Malaysia. He was born as the second son of Tuanku Ja’afar, the 10th Yang di-Pertuan...
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Robert Brustein

17. Robert Brustein

1927-2023 (aged 96)
theatrical director journalist playwright theatre critic theatrical producer
Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theater critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his...
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Jeremy Browne

18. Jeremy Browne

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Jeremy Richard Browne is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton Deane from 2005 to 2015. He served as both Minister of State for Europe and the Americas and Minister of State for Crime Prevention.
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Zainab Hawa Bangura

19. Zainab Hawa Bangura

1959-. (aged 67)
diplomat minister politician
Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) since 2018, appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. She served as the second United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from...
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Tim Aker

20. Tim Aker

1985-. (aged 41)
politician
Timür Mark "Tim" Aker is a British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region. He was elected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate in 2014. He was head of UKIP's Policy Unit from August 2013 to January 2015, and was UKIP's candidate for the Thurrock constituency in the 2015 general election,...
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Richard Best, Baron Best

21. Richard Best, Baron Best

1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, OBE, DL, FAcSS is an independent Crossbench Member of the House of Lords with a special interest in housing issues.
Hassan Hassan

22. Hassan Hassan

1982-. (aged 44)
journalist writer
Hassan Hassan is an American author and journalist of Syrian origin. He co-wrote the 2015 New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Michael Weiss. He has written on Islamist groups in the Middle East. He frequently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Amanpour and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, and has written for The New York...
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Parmjit Dhanda

23. Parmjit Dhanda

1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Parmjit Singh Dhanda is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester from 2001 until the 2010 general election, succeeding Tess Kingham as the Labour MP for the seat.
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Darius Brubeck

24. Darius Brubeck

1947-. (aged 79)
composer pianist jazz musician university teacher
David Darius Brubeck is an American jazz pianist, author, and educator. He is the son of jazz pianist Dave Brubeck with whom he worked professionally in the 1970s, while also performing in his own bands, the Darius Brubeck Ensemble and Gathering Forces.
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Michael Pound

25. Michael Pound

2003-2006 (aged 3)
computer scientist researcher
Michael P. Pound is a researcher at the University of Nottingham. He is known for his work in the areas of bioimage analysis, computer vision, image recognition, computer security, and for his appearances on the video series Computerphile.
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Katherine Fletcher

26. Katherine Fletcher

1976-. (aged 50)
politician
Katherine Fletcher is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire, from 2019 to 2024. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and Minister for Women between September and October 2022.
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Judith Gough

27. Judith Gough

1972-. (aged 54)
diplomat consultant
Judith Mary Gough CMG is a British diplomat and has formerly served as the British ambassador to Sweden (2019–2024), Ukraine (2015–19) and Georgia (2010–2013).
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Sharon Laws

28. Sharon Laws

1974-2017 (aged 43)
sport cyclist
Sharon Laws was a British professional cyclist and environmental consultant.
Zoltán Dörnyei

29. Zoltán Dörnyei

1960-2022 (aged 62)
university teacher linguist psycholinguist
Zoltán Dörnyei was a Hungarian linguist. He was a professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He was known for his work on second language acquisition and the psychology of the language learner, in particular on motivation in second language learning, having published numerous books and papers on these topics.
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Angela Smith

30. Angela Smith

1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Angela Christine Smith is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 to 2019 and MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously an MP for Labour, later for Change UK, later still as a member of The Independents, then joined the...
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Peter von Matt

31. Peter von Matt

1937-2025 (aged 88)
literary scholar literary critic linguist university teacher writer
Peter von Matt was a Swiss philologist, specialist in German studies, and author. He was an authority in literary education.
Chris Mosdell

32. Chris Mosdell

singer songwriter lyricist composer poet
Christopher John Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, United States.
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Chris Wyles

33. Chris Wyles

1983-. (aged 43)
rugby union player
Chris Wyles is a former American-English rugby union player. Until his retirement in January 2016, Wyles represented the United States men's national rugby sevens team in three World Cups in 2007, 2011, and 2015. He was captain of the U.S. men's national rugby union team in the 2015 Rugby World Cup and for USA Sevens, a Rugby League World Sevens...
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Paul Butler

34. Paul Butler

1955-. (aged 71)
politician Anglican priest
Paul Roger Butler is a retired British Anglican bishop and a former Lord Spiritual of the House of Lords. He was installed and enthroned in Durham Cathedral on 22 February 2014 and was the Bishop of Durham, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Durham, from 20 January 2014 to 29 February 2024. On 12 September 2013 it was announced...
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Matthew Bannister

35. Matthew Bannister

1957-. (aged 69)
radio personality
Richard Matthew Bannister is a British media executive and broadcaster.
Roger Tomlinson

36. Roger Tomlinson

1933-2014 (aged 81)
geographer
Roger Frank Tomlinson OC FRCGS was an English-Canadian geographer and the primary originator of modern geographic information systems (GIS), and has been acknowledged as the "father of GIS."
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Blake Morrison

37. Blake Morrison

1950-. (aged 76)
writer author poet novelist
Philip Blake Morrison is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and was made into a drama film of the same title....
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Max Cooper

38. Max Cooper

1980-. (aged 46)
musician DJ producer
Max Cooper is a London-based electronic and techno music producer who has been releasing music since 2007. He has received positive reviews from magazines such as Clash and critical acclaim for his debut album Human.
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Peter Rice

39. Peter Rice

1966-. (aged 60)
businessperson
Peter Rice is a British American producer and media executive. He is the former chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content for The Walt Disney Company and former president of 21st Century Fox, where he worked from 1989 to 2019.
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Femi Oluwole

40. Femi Oluwole

1990-. (aged 36)
Femi Oluwolelisten is a British political activist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocacy group Our Future Our Choice. He has appeared as a commentator and activist on British television. He has written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Metro.
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Kelvin Hopkins

41. Kelvin Hopkins

1941-. (aged 85)
politician economist
Kelvin Peter Hopkins is a British politician. He was first elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Luton North in 1997. Hopkins was suspended by the Labour Party in 2017 after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him in the 2017 Westminster sexual misconduct allegations. Hopkins did not stand for re-election in the 2019 general election.
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Gail Carriger

42. Gail Carriger

1976-. (aged 50)
writer science fiction writer children's writer novelist
Gail Carriger is an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology (with...
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Scot McKnight

43. Scot McKnight

1953-. (aged 73)
theologian
Scot McKnight is an American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, theologian, and author who has written widely on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and Christian living. He served as the Julius R. Mantey Chair of New Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lisle, Illinois, but announced in January 2024 that he would leave the faculty by the...
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Chris Hawkins

44. Chris Hawkins

1975-. (aged 51)
journalist presenter
Christopher Charles Hawkins is a British radio presenter, DJ, and music pundit.
Antoinette Sandbach

45. Antoinette Sandbach

1969-. (aged 57)
barrister solicitor politician
Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach, known as Antoinette Sandbach, is a British barrister, farm manager and politician who was elected as a North Wales region Member of the Welsh Assembly at the May 2011 election, and subsequently elected Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire at the 2015 general election.
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Andrew Griffith

46. Andrew Griffith

1971-. (aged 55)
businessperson politician
Andrew John Griffith is a British Conservative Party politician and former senior media executive who has been Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade since November 2024 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and South Downs since 2019.
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Clive Granger

47. Clive Granger

1934-2009 (aged 75)
econometrician economist statistician university teacher
Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the University of California, San Diego. Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 in recognition of the contributions that he and his...
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Olav Bjortomt

48. Olav Bjortomt

1978-. (aged 48)
journalist quizzer
Stein Olav Bjortomt is a British international quiz player, four-time world champion (2003, 2015, 2018, 2019) and three-time individual European champion (2010, 2014, 2015). He is a player in one of the world's most successful quizzing teams, Broken Hearts, with which he has won several European championships.
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Ian Dickson

49. Ian Dickson

1963-. (aged 63)
music critic talent manager journalist
Ian Ross Perrygrove better known as Ian "Dicko" Dickson or simply "Dicko" is an English Australian television and radio presenter, television producer, music journalist and former record company executive and talent scout. He has been a talent judge on Australian Idol, The Next Great American Band, the 2012 reboot of Young Talent Time and Australia's Got Talent. He previously spent...
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Richard Scudamore

50. Richard Scudamore

1959-. (aged 67)
businessperson
Richard Craig Scudamore CBE is an English sports executive.
John Timpson

51. John Timpson

1943-. (aged 83)
business executive
Sir William John Anthony Timpson CBE is a British businessman who is chairman and owner of retailer Timpson.
Divya Maderna

52. Divya Maderna

1984-. (aged 42)
politician
Divya Maderna is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. She is a member of the Indian National Congress and was elected as MLA of the Osian constituency in the 2018 elections.
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Lauri Love

53. Lauri Love

1984-. (aged 42)
security hacker
Lauri Love is a British activist who was previously charged by the United States for his alleged activities with the hacker collective Anonymous. Love's case has been cited as precedent in the Julian Assange extradition proceedings.
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Michael Berry

54. Michael Berry

1970-. (aged 56)
radio personality restaurateur talk show host operations manager lawyer
Michael Christian Berry is an American conservative radio talk show host based in Houston, Texas. A former member of the Houston City Council, Berry has worked as an attorney, a real estate developer, and a restaurateur.
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Ja’afar I of Negeri Sembilan

55. Ja’afar I of Negeri Sembilan

1922-2008 (aged 86)
diplomat politician
Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman GCB was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan from 1967 until his death in 2008, and the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), from 1994 to 1999.
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Johnnie Johnson

56. Johnnie Johnson

1915-2001 (aged 86)
flying ace
Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL, nicknamed "Johnnie", was an English Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and flying ace who flew and fought during the Second World War.
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Tuanku Zara Salim

57. Tuanku Zara Salim

1973-. (aged 53)
swimmer engineer
Tuanku Zara Salim is the Raja Permaisuri (Queen consort) of Perak as the wife of Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, the current Sultan of the Malaysian state of Perak.
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Tony Lloyd

58. 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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Agatha Sangma

59. Agatha Sangma

1980-. (aged 46)
lawyer politician
Agatha Kongkal Sangma is an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya. At the age of 29, she is the youngest member of parliament ever in India to be appointed Union Minister in Government of India till date. Sangma is the second woman from Northeast India to be appointed a union...
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Caucher Birkar

60. Caucher Birkar

1978-. (aged 48)
mathematician
Caucher Birkar FRS is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician (born in Iran) and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Ahmad Tavakkoli

61. Ahmad Tavakkoli

1951-2025 (aged 74)
politician
Ahmad Tavakkoli was an Iranian conservative and principlist politician and journalist. He was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Also he was the managing-director of Alef news website and founder of the corruption watchdog, non-governmental organization Justice and Transparency Watch.
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Matthew P. Walker

62. Matthew P. Walker

1973-. (aged 53)
university teacher neuroscientist psychologist
Matthew Walker is a British author, scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Azlan Shah I of Perak

63. Azlan Shah I of Perak

1928-2014 (aged 86)
lawyer judge politician
Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-lah was Sultan of Perak from 1984 until his death in 2014, the ninth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), from 1989 to 1994, and the 5th Lord President of the Supreme Court, from 1982 to 1984.
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Daisy Cooper

64. Daisy Cooper

1981-. (aged 45)
politician
Daisy Cooper is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans since 2019. She has served as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2020, as well as the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson since 2024.
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Deng Yaping

65. Deng Yaping

1973-. (aged 53)
table tennis player
Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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Michael Coren

66. Michael Coren

1959-. (aged 67)
writer journalist television presenter radio personality
Michael Coren is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television personality, Coren hosted The Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 before moving to the Sun News Network to host The Arena with Michael Coren, from 2011 until the channel's demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on...
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Anil Kakodkar

67. Anil Kakodkar

1943-. (aged 83)
nuclear physicist mechanical engineer
Anil Kakodkar is an Indian nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay (or Turbhe) from 1996 to 2000. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, on 26 January...
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Ali Moustafa Mosharafa

68. Ali Moustafa Mosharafa

1898-1950 (aged 52)
physicist mathematician
Ali Moustafa Attia Mosharrafa was an Egyptian theoretical physicist. He was a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cairo University and also served as the University's first dean. He contributed to the development of Quantum theory as well as the Theory of relativity.
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Andrew Witty

69. Andrew Witty

1964-. (aged 62)
entrepreneur business executive
Sir Andrew Philip Witty is an English businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of American health insurance company UnitedHealth Group from February 2021 to May 2025. He was also the CEO of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline from 2008 to 2017, and chancellor of the University of Nottingham from 2013 to 2017. He also assisted the World Health...
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Andrew Bridgen

70. Andrew Bridgen

1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Andrew James Bridgen is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 2010 until 2024. He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023, having had the whip suspended in January after criticising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and claiming that a cardiologist told him it constitutes...
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Louise Haigh

71. Louise Haigh

1987-. (aged 39)
politician
Louise Margaret Haigh is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Transport from July to November 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley since 2015. She held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2015 and 2024.
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Emma Barnett

72. Emma Barnett

1985-. (aged 41)
journalist
Emma Barnett is a British broadcaster and journalist who presented Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 from 2021 until March 2024, when she joined the presenting team on BBC Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme Today.
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Natalie Pinkham

73. Natalie Pinkham

1978-. (aged 48)
television presenter presenter
Natalie Jane Pinkham is a British television presenter and Formula One pit lane reporter for Sky Sports F1, having held the same post for BBC Radio 5 Live in 2011. She is also known for hosting Police Interceptors Special Edition on 5*. She appeared on Live from Studio Five as a guest presenter and was a regular panellist on The...
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

74. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

1965-. (aged 61)
minister microbiologist malariologist politician
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, diplomat, and the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2017. He is the first African to become WHO Director-General, receiving an endorsement for the role by the African Union. Tedros played a role in the response to the Ebola virus epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022–2023 mpox...
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Don Airey

75. Don Airey

1948-. (aged 78)
conductor pianist session musician composer keyboardist
Donald Smith Airey is an English musician. He came to prominence as the keyboardist of the rock band Rainbow during 1979–1982. He has been the keyboardist of Deep Purple since 2002, after the retirement of Jon Lord. As well as Rainbow and Deep Purple, he has had a long and productive career playing with many other rock and metal acts,...
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Jolyon Palmer

76. Jolyon Palmer

1991-. (aged 35)
Formula One driver sports commentator racing automobile driver
Jolyon Carlyle Palmer is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and journalist, who competed in Formula One from 2016 to 2017. Since retiring from racing, Palmer has been a pundit for the BBC, Channel 4 and F1TV.
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Nicholas Farrell

77. Nicholas Farrell

1955-. (aged 71)
actor television actor
Nicholas C. Frost, known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film and television actor.
Haydn Gwynne

78. Haydn Gwynne

1957-2023 (aged 66)
singer television actor film actor stage actor lecturer
Haydn Gwynne was an English actress. She was nominated for the 1992 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance for the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1991), and won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical. She was also a five-time...
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Enzo Cilenti

79. Enzo Cilenti

1974-. (aged 52)
film actor television actor stage actor
Vincenzo Leonardo "Enzo" Cilenti is a British actor. His film credits include Wonderland (1999), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Millions (2004), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Theory of Everything (2014), The Martian (2015), High-Rise (2015), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Greed (2019), Heart of Stone (2023), The Beekeeper (2024).
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Theresa Tam

80. Theresa Tam

1965-. (aged 61)
chief medical officer
Theresa Tam is a Canadian physician and public servant who served as the chief public health officer of Canada (CPHO), the second-in-command of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Tam initially took the role as acting CPHO following the retirement of her predecessor, Gregory Taylor, on December 16, 2016. She was formally appointed on June 26, 2017. She stepped...
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Theo James

81. Theo James

1984-. (aged 42)
stage actor actor executive producer guitarist singer
Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis is an English actor and producer. He gained recognition for playing Tobias Eaton in The Divergent Series (2014–2016). He has starred in the horror films Underworld: Awakening (2012) and Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), the science fiction film Archive (2020), and the dark comedy The Monkey (2025) in a dual role as a pair of twin...
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Ruth Wilson

82. Ruth Wilson

1982-. (aged 44)
film actor actor stage actor
Ruth Wilson is an English actress. She has played the title character in Jane Eyre (2006), Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama Luther (2010–2013, 2019), Alison Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2018), and the title character in Mrs Wilson (2018). From 2019 to 2022, she portrayed Marisa Coulter in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials,...
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Meg-John Barker

83. Meg-John Barker

1974-. (aged 52)
writer existential therapist psychotherapist psychologist
Meg-John Barker is a writer, writing mentor, creative consultant, speaker, and independent scholar. They have written a number of anti self-help books on the topics of relationships, sex, and gender, as well as the graphic non-fiction books, Queer: A Graphic History and Gender: A Graphic Guide, and the book The Psychology of Sex. They are the writer of the relationships...
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Peter Mansfield

84. Peter Mansfield

1933-2017 (aged 84)
inventor physicist university teacher biophysicist
Sir Peter Mansfield FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Eva Carneiro

85. Eva Carneiro

1973-. (aged 53)
sports physician
Eva Carneiro is a Gibraltarian sports medicine specialist who is best known for serving as the first-team doctor of Chelsea, which she joined in 2009. Educated at the University of Nottingham, the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in Melbourne and Queen Mary University of London, she worked variously for West Ham United, the Public Health Department, the Olympic...
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Meg Munn

86. Meg Munn

1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Margaret Patricia Munn is a former politician who served as a Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015. After leaving Parliament, she has served in a variety of roles across the public sector, academia and international bodies.
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Anna Firth

87. Anna Firth

1966-. (aged 60)
politician barrister
Annalissa Firth is a British former politician and former barrister who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend West from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she was also a councillor on Sevenoaks District Council between 2011 and 2022.
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D. H. Lawrence

88. D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930 (aged 45)
playwright literary critic writer translator painter
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were...
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Molly Stevens

89. Molly Stevens

1997-2001 (aged 4)
engineer researcher
Dame Molly Morag Stevens is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. She is Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery and a member of the Department for Engineering Science and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.
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Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein

90. 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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David Drew

91. David Drew

1952-. (aged 74)
politician
David Elliott Drew is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from 1997 to 2010 and 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he was Shadow Minister for Farming and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019.
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Saira Khan

92. Saira Khan

1970-. (aged 56)
journalist businessperson
Saira Khan is a British television personality. She was a contestant on the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up. In 2012, Khan competed in the first series of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. From 2012 to 2017, Khan co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show, and in 2015, she presented the ITV...
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DanTDM

93. DanTDM

1991-. (aged 35)
Minecraft YouTuber
Daniel Robert Middleton, better known as DanTDM (formerly TheDiamondMinecart), is an English YouTuber, gamer, and author. He is primarily known for his Let's Play videos, particularly those featuring Minecraft, Roblox, Pokémon and Five Nights at Freddy's. Middleton's YouTube channel, which he started in 2012, has amassed over 29 million subscribers and 20 billion views as of 2025, making him one...
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Andrew John

94. Andrew John

1964-. (aged 62)
Anglican priest
The Rt. Rev. Andrew Thomas Griffith John is a retired Welsh Anglican bishop. He has served as Bishop of Bangor from 2008 to 2025, and was additionally Archbishop of Wales, the head of the Church in Wales, from 2021 until he announced his immediate retirement from the post on 27 June 2025.
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Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit

95. Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit

1978-. (aged 48)
businessperson politician
Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as the leader of the Future Forward Party from 2018 to 2020. From 2002 to 2018, he was the vice president of the Thai Summit Group, Thailand's largest auto parts manufacturer.
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Sara Danius

96. Sara Danius

1962-2019 (aged 57)
university teacher literary critic philosopher
Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
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Mikhail Svetov

97. Mikhail Svetov

1985-. (aged 41)
screenwriter politician blogger political scientist television producer
Mikhail Vladimirovich Svetov is a Russian politician, public figure, political scientist, and blogger. He serves as the chairman of the civil society movement "Civil Society". Svetov is one of the main ideologists and popularizers of libertarianism in Russia. He has organized major rallies on various political and public topics. Svetov runs a YouTube channel and an online newspaper, both entitled...
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Gay Mitchell

98. Gay Mitchell

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Gabriel Mitchell is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 1994 to 1997 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1992 to 1993. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2014 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from...
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Meena Alexander

99. Meena Alexander

1951-2018 (aged 67)
writer poet novelist university teacher
Meena Alexander was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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John Hayes

100. John Hayes

1958-. (aged 68)
politician
John Bernard Hayes ONZM is a former New Zealand politician and diplomat. A member of the National Party, he was a Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives in the Wairarapa electorate from 2005 to 2014.
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