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100 Notable alumni of University of Sheffield

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Sheffield is ranked #138 in the world and #14 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Sheffield 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 Sheffield won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Martin Stephen

1. Martin Stephen

1949-. (aged 77)
George Martin Stephen is the former High Master of St Paul's School in London until 1 January 2011. He is an author and has been described as "one of Britain's highest profile heads".
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Zara Dampney

2. Zara Dampney

1986-. (aged 40)
beach volleyball player
Zara Dampney is a British beach volleyball player, and former indoor volleyball player. She was chosen as one of the two players to take the home nation qualification spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with teammate Shauna Mullin.
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Philip Bourne

3. Philip Bourne

1953-. (aged 73)
researcher bioinformatician academic administrator physical chemist
Philip Eric Bourne is an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer, and businessman. He is currently Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and was the first associate director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative, and formerly...
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Noel Kingsbury

4. Noel Kingsbury

gardener horticulturist non-fiction writer
Noel Kingsbury is a British garden designer and writer on gardening, plant sciences and related topics. He is best known for his promotion of naturalistic planting design in gardens and designed landscapes, and his collaboration with Dutch garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf on books on planting design. He writes occasionally for The Daily Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated magazine and The...
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Vanessa Lawrence

5. Vanessa Lawrence

1962-. (aged 64)
geographer official
Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence CB HonFREng FRGS FRICS FRSGS CCMI is a British businessperson, geographer and speaker working internationally.
Riri Fitri Sari

6. Riri Fitri Sari

1970-. (aged 56)
civil servant university teacher
Riri Fitri Sari is a professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia (UI). She was the CIO / Head of Information System Development and Services of the University of Indonesia (2006-2014).
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Jan McFarlane

7. Jan McFarlane

1964-. (aged 62)
Anglican priest
Janet Elizabeth "Jan" McFarlane is a British Church of England bishop and former speech and language therapist. She has been Dean of Lichfield, the primus inter pares (first among equals) of the clergy at Lichfield Cathedral — the mother church of the Diocese of Lichfield — since 2024; she has also been an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese since...
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Charles Montgomery

8. Charles Montgomery

1955-. (aged 71)
naval officer
Vice Admiral Sir Charles Percival Ross Montgomery, KBE, ADC is a retired Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord from 2010 to 2012. He then served as Director General of the Border Force from 2013 to 2017.
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William Barnsley Allen

9. William Barnsley Allen

1892-1933 (aged 41)
military physician
William Barnsley Allen was a British Army medical officer who was decorated for gallantry four times during the First World War, including an award of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Jean-Paul Adam

10. Jean-Paul Adam

1977-. (aged 49)
swimmer politician
Jean-Paul Adam is a Seychellois politician. He served as Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the Cabinet of Seychelles until 30 October 2020. He previously served as Minister of Finance, Trade & The Blue Economy from 2015 to 2016, and, before that, as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2015. Between 2020 and 2023, he was Director for...
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Judith Kirton-Darling

11. Judith Kirton-Darling

1977-. (aged 49)
trade unionist politician
Judith "Jude" Kirton-Darling is a British politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North East England region for the Labour Party between 2014 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
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Hollie Webb

12. Hollie Webb

1990-. (aged 36)
field hockey player
Hollie Pearne-Webb is an English former field hockey player who played as a defender for Wimbledon and the England and Great Britain national teams.
Becky Wragg Sykes

13. Becky Wragg Sykes

2004-2010 (aged 6)
archaeologist blogger writer
Rebecca Wragg Sykes is a British paleolithic archaeologist, broadcaster, popular science writer and author who lives in Wales. She is interested in the Middle Palaeolithic, specifically in the lives of Neanderthals; and she is one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, a website set up to celebrate the lives of women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology. She is a patron of...
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Nick Beighton

14. Nick Beighton

1981-. (aged 45)
rower canoeist engineer
Nicholas Beighton is a British paracanoeist and former British Army officer. Beighton took up rowing as part of the rehabilitation programme after losing his legs during active service. He competed in the mixed scull with partner Samantha Scowen at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. He subsequently switched to the paracanoe discipline and won the bronze medal in the Men's...
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David Leigh

15. David Leigh

1963-. (aged 63)
university teacher chemist
David Alan Leigh FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist, Royal Society Research Professor and, since 2014, the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2012) and Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Warwick (1998–2001).
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Andy Hargreaves

16. Andy Hargreaves

1951-. (aged 75)
non-fiction writer sociologist
Andrew Hargreaves is visiting professor at the University of Ottawa and research professor at Boston College.
Adam Hart

17. Adam Hart

television presenter university teacher zoologist entomologist scientist
Adam Hart FRSB FRES is an English scientist, author and broadcaster, specialising in ecology, entomology and conservation, especially in southern Africa. He has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects. Hart has written and presented numerous BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service documentaries and written more than 120 scientific papers.
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Kevin Dowd

18. Kevin Dowd

1958-. (aged 68)
economist
Kevin Dowd is a British economist, having research interests in private money and free banking, monetary systems and macroeconomics, financial risk measurement and management, political economy and policy analysis, and pensions and mortality modelling. Since 2012, he has been a Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School.
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Bitange Ndemo

19. Bitange Ndemo

1959-. (aged 67)
diplomat academic
Elijah Bitange Ndemo is a global technocrat and professor currently serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union. Professor Ndemo is also an academic and newspaper columnist with the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation and its sister publication, the Business Daily. He currently serves part-time as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business...
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Alasdair Cochrane

20. Alasdair Cochrane

1978-. (aged 48)
human rights defender political theorist ethicist university teacher
Alasdair Cochrane is a British political theorist and ethicist who is currently Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his work on animal rights from the perspective of political theory, which is the subject of his two books: An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010,...
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Prem Sikka

21. Prem Sikka

1951-. (aged 75)
chartered accountant
Prem Nath Sikka, Baron Sikka is a British-Indian accountant and academic. He holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex.
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Bob Woffinden

22. Bob Woffinden

1948-2018 (aged 70)
journalist
Robert Woffinden was a British investigative journalist. Formerly a reporter with the New Musical Express, he later specialised in investigating miscarriages of justice. He wrote about a number of high-profile cases in the UK, including James Hanratty, Sion Jenkins, Jeremy Bamber, Charles Ingram, Jonathan King, and Barry George.
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Hans Kornberg

23. Hans Kornberg

1928-2019 (aged 91)
university teacher biochemist biologist
Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS was a British-American biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1982 to 1995.
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Onkar Sahota

24. Onkar Sahota

politician
Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician and general practitioner who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2022 to 2023. He was Deputy Chair of the London Assembly from 2023 to 2024, and the first Labour member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon, from 2012 until 2024.
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Norman Fenton

25. Norman Fenton

1956-. (aged 70)
mathematician university teacher
Norman Elliott Fenton is a British mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Professor of Risk Information Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is known for his work in software metrics and is the author of the textbook Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, as of 2014 in its third...
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Mary-Jess Leaverland

26. Mary-Jess Leaverland

1990-. (aged 36)
singer songwriter
Mary-Jess Leaverland, or simply Mary-Jess, is an English singer and songwriter who won Min Xing Chang Fan Tian (or in English: I Want to Sing to the Stars), the Chinese version of The X Factor, which was televised to 70 million people in December 2009.
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Caroline Voaden

27. Caroline Voaden

1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Caroline Jane Voaden is a British politician and international journalist, who has served as Member of Parliament for South Devon since 2024 for the Liberal Democrats, having previously served as the party's leader in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020, and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England and Gibraltar constituency from 2019...
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Dave Renton

28. Dave Renton

1972-. (aged 54)
historian political scientist
David Renton is a British barrister, historian, and socialist. Renton has represented clients in a number of high-profile cases, especially concerning trade union rights and the protection of free speech.
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Tahir Gozal

29. Tahir Gozal

1972-. (aged 54)
businessperson
Tahir Gözel is an Azerbaijani businessman known for work both in the corporate and in sports worlds. He is the president of Qarabağ Football Club. Gözel is also the founder of the Tahir Gözel Initiative for Development (TGID), an organization focused on sustainable development and socio-economic advancement.
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Holly Bourne

30. Holly Bourne

1986-. (aged 40)
children's writer writer journalist
Holly Bourne is a British author of young adult fiction who is the author of novel Am I Normal Yet? and several other books. She also writes online on feminist issues and writes for The Mix, a charity-run advice website for under-25s.
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Donald Bailey

31. Donald Bailey

1901-1985 (aged 84)
engineer civil engineer
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. Field Marshal Montgomery is recorded as saying that "without the Bailey bridge, we should not have won the war."
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Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth

32. Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth

1951-. (aged 75)
constitutional scholar university teacher politician writer political scientist
Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth, FRSA, FAcSS, FRHistS, is an English author, academic and Conservative peer. He has been described as "the United Kingdom's greatest living expert on Parliament" and "a world authority on constitutional issues."
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Samantha Dixon

33. Samantha Dixon

1965-. (aged 61)
spokesperson whip politician
Samantha Kate Dixon MBE is a British politician who serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chester North and Neston. She sat for the predecessor seat of City of Chester from a 2022 by-election until the seat's abolition at the 2024 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she was Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council from 2015...
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Jonathan Arnott

34. Jonathan Arnott

1981-. (aged 45)
chess player politician
Jonathan William Arnott is a British politician and former schoolteacher. Following the 2014 European Parliament election, he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East England region. Originally sitting as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) representative, he resigned from the party on 19 January 2018 to sit as an independent until designating as Brexit Party...
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David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere

35. David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere

1939-. (aged 87)
politician
David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL MP is a British Labour Party politician, former cabinet minister and author.
Arifin Zakaria

36. Arifin Zakaria

1950-. (aged 76)
lawyer judge
Arifin bin Zakaria is a Malaysian lawyer who served as the seventh Chief Justice of Malaysia, serving from 12 September 2011, succeeding Zaki Azmi, until 31 March 2017.
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Kevin Barron

37. Kevin Barron

1946-. (aged 80)
politician
Sir Kevin John Barron is a British Labour Party politician and former coal industry worker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rother Valley from 1983 until 2019.
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Mayumi Pacheco

38. Mayumi Pacheco

1998-. (aged 28)
association football player
Mayumi "Maz" Pacheco is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Everton. A former England youth international, she received her first senior call-up for the Philippines in 2024.
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Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison

39. Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison

1869-1951 (aged 82)
physician university teacher anatomist politician
Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, was a British medical doctor and politician. A member of the Liberal and Labour parties, he served as Minister of Munitions during the First World War and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under Clement Attlee.
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Mohamed Amersi

40. Mohamed Amersi

1960-. (aged 66)
barrister philanthropist entrepreneur investor adviser
Mohamed Amersi is a British businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Inclusive Ventures Group, and former chairman of QML Group. He is a donor to the Conservative Party, having given nearly £525,000 since 2018.
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Anne Rafferty

41. Anne Rafferty

1950-. (aged 76)
judge barrister
Dame Anne Judith Rafferty is an English jurist, who served as a Lady Justice of Appeal of England and Wales from 2011 to 2020.
Meg-John Barker

42. 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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Abdel Rahman Shokry

43. Abdel Rahman Shokry

1886-1958 (aged 72)
poet teacher translator
Abdel Rahman Shokry was an Egyptian poet from the Diwan school of poets.
Urooj Mumtaz

44. Urooj Mumtaz

1985-. (aged 41)
cricketer
Urooj Mumtaz Khan is a Pakistani cricket commentator, television host, dentist, and former cricketer. She played as an all-rounder, bowling right-arm leg break and batting right-handed. She appeared in one Test match, 38 One Day Internationals and nine Twenty20 Internationals for Pakistan between 2004 and 2010. She played domestic cricket for Karachi and Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited.
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Elise Andrew

45. Elise Andrew

1989-. (aged 37)
webmaster blogger writer
Elise Andrew is a British blogger and science communicator. She was the CEO and founder of IFLScience, a website and Facebook page on popular science. With regard to the site, Andrew has come under criticism for plagiarism, unlicensed use of intellectual property, reporting false and misleading information, and rarely issuing corrections.
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Luke Graham

46. Luke Graham

1985-. (aged 41)
politician
Luke Patrick Graham is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2017 to 2019.
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James Harkin

47. James Harkin

1978-. (aged 48)
screenwriter television presenter radio producer podcaster television writer
James Michael Harkin is a British podcaster, television host, and television writer. He is one of the four regular hosts of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, together with Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski. He was also a presenter of the BBC Two television show No Such Thing as the News. He is a researcher...
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Justin Madders

48. Justin Madders

1972-. (aged 54)
solicitor politician
Justin Piers Richard Madders is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, previously Ellesmere Port and Neston, since 2015. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets from July 2024 to September 2025.
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Dorothy Byrne

49. Dorothy Byrne

journalist
Dorothy Byrne is a British television news editor. Dorothy was Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 Television for 15 years, during which time her programmes won numerous Royal Television Society, BAFTA and Emmy awards, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for her outstanding contribution to television and has won several major television awards...
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Muhammad Anis

50. Muhammad Anis

1957-. (aged 69)
university teacher civil servant metallurgist
Muhammad Anis is an Indonesian engineer and academic administrator who became UI's rector from 2014 until 2019. He was previously the university's academic director from 2003 from 2007 and first deputy rector from 2007 until 2013.
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Ben Purkiss

51. Ben Purkiss

1984-. (aged 42)
association football player futsal player
Benjamin John Purkiss is an English former professional footballer and former chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA).
Bernard Hogan-Howe

52. Bernard Hogan-Howe

1957-. (aged 69)
police officer
Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe, QPM is an English former police officer and was the head of London's Metropolitan Police as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2011 until 2017.
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Graham Stringer

53. Graham Stringer

1950-. (aged 76)
politician council member
Graham Eric Stringer is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Blackley and Middleton South since the 2024 general election. He has served as the area's MP continuously since 1997, representing the predecessor constituencies of Manchester Blackley (1997–2010), and Blackley and Broughton (2010–2024). Between 1999 and 2002, he served minor roles in the Labour Government...
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Olivia Blake

54. Olivia Blake

1990-. (aged 36)
politician council member
Olivia Frances Blake-Dagnall is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam since 2019.
Tim Hughes

55. Tim Hughes

1977-. (aged 49)
Anglican priest composer singer-songwriter
Timothy David Llewelyn Hughes is a British worship leader, singer, songwriter, and Anglican priest. Formerly the director of worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, a large Anglican church in central London, he has since been ordained as a minister in the Church of England and appointed Vicar of St Luke's, Gas Street Birmingham. He leads Worship Central, an international worship training...
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Graeme Lowdon

56. Graeme Lowdon

1965-. (aged 61)
businessperson engineer
Graeme Paul Lowdon is a British businessman and entrepreneur serving as team principal for the Cadillac Formula 1 Team. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of the Virgin and Marussia Formula One teams.
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Mohd Rashid Hasnon

57. Mohd Rashid Hasnon

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Mohd Rashid bin Hasnon is a Malaysian politician who served as Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat I under former Speakers Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof and Azhar Azizan Harun from July 2018 to December 2022, Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu Pahat from May 2018 to November 2022, Deputy Chief Minister of Penang I, Member of the Penang State Executive...
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Nick Timothy

58. Nick Timothy

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Nicholas James Timothy CBE is a British politician and former special adviser serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor from January 2026. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Suffolk since 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, alongside Fiona Hill, under Prime...
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Brooke Magnanti

59. Brooke Magnanti

1975-. (aged 51)
biostatistician physician writer autobiographer blogger prostitute
Brooke Magnanti is an American-born naturalised British former research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour. While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl known by the working name Taro.
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Richard Roberts

60. Richard Roberts

1948-. (aged 78)
television presenter
Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.
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Gavin Bryars

61. Gavin Bryars

1943-. (aged 83)
composer musicologist jazz musician double-bassist
Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music.
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Tony Miles

62. Tony Miles

poker player
Anthony John Miles was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
Sarah Champion

63. Sarah Champion

1969-. (aged 57)
politician
Sarah Deborah Champion is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since 2012.
Robert Courts

64. Robert Courts

1978-. (aged 48)
politician barrister
Robert Alexander Courts KC is a British Conservative politician and barrister who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2016 to 2024. He served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from December 2023 to 2024. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport in the Johnson government from 2020 to 2022 and served as Chair...
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Natalie Rushdie

65. Natalie Rushdie

opera singer
Natalie Rushdie is a Scottish jazz singer. Classically trained, she has sung at the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium and the London Coliseum as well as for numerous charities and on television shows as well as being asked to sing at a number of sporting events.
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Steve Reed

66. Steve Reed

1963-. (aged 63)
politician
Steven Mark Ward Reed is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since September 2025, having previously served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham and...
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Nurettin Canikli

67. Nurettin Canikli

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Nurettin Canikli is a Turkish politician, the former Minister of National Defense of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Giresun under the ruling Justice and Development Party. He previously also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and the Minister of Customs and Trade of Turkey.
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Anita Chui

68. Anita Chui

1988-. (aged 38)
film actor
Anita Chui was born in Hong Kong, a British Chinese actress, singer, and film producer. Her family moved to the UK and she later returned to Hong Kong to pursue acting career in film since 2012 and gained attention in Hong Kong with her leading role in Special Female Force (2016). She later rose to prominence in Asia with her...
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Jazmin Sawyers

69. Jazmin Sawyers

1994-. (aged 32)
bobsledder sports commentator long jumper singer
Jazmin Sawyers is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England. In 2023, she won her first major senior title at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
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Bryony Page

70. Bryony Page

1990-. (aged 36)
trampoline gymnast
Bryony Kate Frances Page is a British trampoline gymnast. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in individual trampoline. She is the 2021 and 2023 women's individual trampoline world champion, and part of the British team that won team gold at the 2013 world championships, and all-around team gold in 2022.
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Dan Cruickshank

71. Dan Cruickshank

1949-. (aged 77)
historian television presenter art historian architect
Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank OBE is a British art historian and BBC television presenter with a special interest in the history of architecture.
Munya Chawawa

72. Munya Chawawa

1992-. (aged 34)
comedian
Munyaradzi Oliver Chawawa is a British–Zimbabwean actor, comedian and comedy rapper.
Jim O'Neill

73. Jim O'Neill

1957-. (aged 69)
writer economist businessperson politician
Terence James O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley is a British economist best known for coining BRIC, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the four once-rapidly developing countries that he predicted would challenge the global economic power of the developed G7 economies. He is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Conservative government minister.
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Herbert Chapman

74. Herbert Chapman

1878-1934 (aged 56)
association football player association football coach
Herbert Chapman was an English football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most influential and successful managers in the early 20th century, before his sudden death in 1934. He is regarded as one of the game's greatest innovators.
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Hussain Dawood

75. Hussain Dawood

1943-. (aged 83)
businessperson
Hussain Dawood is a Pakistani businessman and philanthropist who is the chairman of Engro Holdings and The Dawood Foundation. He is also the chairman of the Karachi School of Business & Leadership (KSBL).
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Paul Mason

76. Paul Mason

1960-. (aged 66)
writer journalist television presenter trade unionist
Paul Mason is a British journalist. He writes a weekly column at The New European and monthly columns for Social Europe and Frankfurter Rundschau. He was Business Correspondent and then Economics Editor of the BBC Two television programme Newsnight from 2001, and Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News from 2013, becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He...
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Lucy Prebble

77. Lucy Prebble

1980-. (aged 46)
playwright screenwriter writer
Lucy Ashton Prebble is a British playwright and producer. She has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
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Jake Berry

78. Jake Berry

1978-. (aged 48)
politician
Sir James Jacob Gilchrist Berry is a British politician and solicitor who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen from 2010 to 2024. He was Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio from 6 September to 25 October 2022. Before this, he served as Minister of State for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth from...
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Edmund de Waal

79. Edmund de Waal

1964-. (aged 62)
potter non-fiction writer university teacher writer printmaker
Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE is an English contemporary artist, potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje...
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Dan Walker

80. Dan Walker

1977-. (aged 49)
sports journalist television presenter
Daniel Meirion Walker is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter from Crawley, England. He currently presents 5 News on Channel 5 and the weekday breakfast show on Classic FM.
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Chris Chibnall

81. Chris Chibnall

1970-. (aged 56)
executive producer showrunner writer television producer prose writer
Christopher Antony Chibnall is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV mystery-crime drama Broadchurch (2013–17) and as the third showrunner of the 2005 revival of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2018–22). Chibnall wrote five episodes of the series under previous showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, and he...
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David Blunkett

82. David Blunkett

1947-. (aged 79)
politician diarist
David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, PC is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (formerly Sheffield Brightside)...
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Joseph Marcell

83. Joseph Marcell

1948-. (aged 78)
film actor television actor stage actor
Joseph Marcell is a Saint Lucian-born British actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Geoffrey Butler, the butler on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from September 1990 until the show ended in May 1996.
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Jessica Ennis-Hill

84. Jessica Ennis-Hill

1986-. (aged 40)
athletics competitor
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill is an English retired athlete who specialised in the heptathlon and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), and the 2010 European champion. She is also the 2010 World Indoor pentathlon champion. A member of the City of Sheffield & Dearne athletic club,...
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Amy Johnson

85. Amy Johnson

1903-1941 (aged 38)
aircraft pilot
Amy Johnson CBE was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
Tim Key

86. Tim Key

1976-. (aged 50)
screenwriter stand-up comedian actor radio personality poet
Timothy Key is an English poet, comedian, actor and screenwriter. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, both as a solo act and as part of the comedy group Cowards, and plays Sidekick Simon in various Alan Partridge film and television projects. In 2009, he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for...
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Lee Child

87. Lee Child

1954-. (aged 72)
author screenwriter writer film actor novelist
James Dover Grant CBE, primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor (1997), won both the Anthony Award and...
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Andy Haldane

88. Andy Haldane

1967-. (aged 59)
economist
Andrew George Haldane CBE FRS FAcSS FRSA is a British economist who worked at the Bank of England between 1989 and 2021 progressing to the role of chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics. He moved from the Bank of England in June 2021 to serve as chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, which he...
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Fay Hield

89. Fay Hield

1978-. (aged 48)
singer
Fay Hield is a traditional English folk singer and a Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield.
Harry Kroto

90. Harry Kroto

1939-2016 (aged 77)
university teacher chemist scientist
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
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David Marks

91. David Marks

1944-. (aged 82)
singer songwriter guitarist
David Francis Marks is a psychologist, author and editor of numerous articles and books concerned mainly with five areas of psychological research – judgement, health psychology, consciousness, parapsychology and intelligence. Marks is also the originator of the General Theory of Behaviour and has curated exhibitions and books about artists and their works.
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Hatoon Kadi

92. Hatoon Kadi

television producer YouTuber journalist comedian
Hatoon Kadi is a Saudi Arabian comedian and activist who hosts the Noon Al Niswa comedy show on YouTube, which has 292,912 subscribers (as of 8 December 2016). She presents social phenomena from a woman's perspective, using sarcasm, avoiding judgment and without trying to find solutions. She is known for her satiric videos about women's and family issues, often highlighting...
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Ken Jones

93. Ken Jones

1952-. (aged 74)
police officer
Kenneth Jeffrey Jones OBE was a Welsh sprinter and record breaking Welsh international rugby union footballer. He played for both Wales and the British Isles. He is best known in Wales for his contribution to Welsh rugby, but most notably for his winning try against the All Blacks in 1953.
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Stephen Daldry

94. 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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Nicholas Liverpool

95. Nicholas Liverpool

1934-2015 (aged 81)
diplomat politician
Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.
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Helen Sharman

96. Helen Sharman

1963-. (aged 63)
chemist astronaut Research Cosmonaut
Helen Patricia Sharman is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.
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Maggie Atkinson

97. Maggie Atkinson

1956-. (aged 70)
civil servant
Margaret Elizabeth Atkinson is an English educator and the former Children's Commissioner for England. After a career in teaching, she moved into public service administration, initially in education, but later in Children Services. Her appointment and tenure as Children's Commissioner was notable for a series of controversies.
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Anne Main

98. Anne Main

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Anne Margaret Main is a Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the general election of 2005, and was re-elected in 2010, 2015 and 2017. She lost her seat to Daisy Cooper, a Liberal Democrat, at the 2019 general election.
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Hans Krebs

99. Hans Krebs

1900-1981 (aged 81)
Whitley Professor of Biochemistry university teacher physiologist biochemist physician
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions...
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Van Badham

100. Van Badham

1974-. (aged 52)
writer playwright novelist columnist
Vanessa Badham is an Australian writer and activist. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the Guardian Australia website.
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