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100 Notable alumni of University of Strathclyde

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Strathclyde is ranked #354 in the world and #35 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Strathclyde 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 Strathclyde won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jim Eadie

1. Jim Eadie

1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Jim Eadie is a Scottish politician who was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Southern constituency from 2011 to 2016. In 2021, he left the SNP and joined the Alba Party.
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Fulton MacGregor

2. Fulton MacGregor

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Fulton James MacGregor is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the constituency of Coatbridge and Chryston since 2016. He serves on the Justice and Education & Skills committees in the Scottish Parliament.
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Willie Coffey

3. Willie Coffey

1958-. (aged 68)
politician
William Lynch Coffey is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley since 2011, and previously Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 2007 to 2011, before boundary changes.
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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn

4. William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn

1856-1936 (aged 80)
industrialist philanthropist entrepreneur politician
William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, DL, known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was a British industrialist, founding the eponymous William Beardmore and Company.
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Richard Price

5. Richard Price

1966-. (aged 60)
translator poet
Richard John Price is a British poet, novelist, and translator. From 1988 to 2024 he was a librarian at the British Library, London.
Max Williamson

6. Max Williamson

2002-. (aged 24)
rugby union player
Max Williamson is a Scotland international rugby union player who plays for Glasgow Warriors at the Lock position.
Ann McKechin

7. Ann McKechin

1961-. (aged 65)
solicitor politician
Ann McKechin is a former British Labour Party politician and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Maryhill from 2001 until 2005 and Glasgow North from 2005 to 2015. She was a junior minister under Gordon Brown before becoming a member of Miliband shadow cabinet. She lost her seat to the Scottish National Party in the landslide at the 2015...
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Mark Griffin

8. Mark Griffin

1954-2018 (aged 64)
teacher sculptor
Mark Griffin is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2011. He is married to Stephanie and has three children.
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Roza Salih

9. Roza Salih

1989-. (aged 37)
human rights defender
Roza Salih is an Iraqi-Kurdish born, Scottish politician and human rights activist. In 2005, at the age of 15, she co-founded the Glasgow Girls with fellow pupils from Drumchapel High School. The Glasgow Girls campaigned to stop the UK Border Agency carrying out dawn raids and detaining and then deporting children, successfully preventing the deportation of their school friend, Agnesa...
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Gustavo Leite

10. Gustavo Leite

businessperson politician
Gustavo Alfredo Leite Gusinky is a Paraguayan businessman and politician, currently serving as Paraguay's ambassador to the U.S. since 2023.
Sandra Osborne

11. Sandra Osborne

1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Sandra Currie Osborne is a Scottish Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock from the 2005 to 2015 general elections. She was first elected as MP for the Ayr constituency in 1997, and resigned from a government job in 2003 over the Iraq War. She was a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee...
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Zoë Strachan

12. Zoë Strachan

1975-. (aged 51)
librettist writer journalist
Zoë Strachan is a Scottish novelist and journalist. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow.
Richard Owen

13. Richard Owen

1804-1892 (aged 88)
university teacher curator writer biologist zoologist
Richard Owen was a Scottish-born geologist, natural scientist, educator, and American military officer who arrived in the United States in 1828 and settled at New Harmony, Indiana. Owen, who was trained as a natural scientist and physician, served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. After the Civil War, Owen...
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Robert Renwick

14. Robert Renwick

1988-. (aged 38)
swimmer
Robert Peter Renwick is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and FINA world championships, as well as Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. Renwick is a world champion and a Commonwealth Games gold medallist. He first rose to prominence by swimming the anchor leg in the Scottish men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team at the 2006...
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Andy Love

15. Andy Love

1949-. (aged 77)
politician
Andy Love is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton from 1997 to 2015.
Andrew Kerr

16. Andrew Kerr

1878-1969 (aged 91)
athletics competitor baseball player basketball coach
Andrew Kerr is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC Scotland. Kerr is currently a political correspondent and presenter and presents and reports across a variety of different BBC Scotland radio and television programmes. On television, he has anchored both BBC Reporting Scotland and Scotland 2015. On BBC Radio Scotland, he has presented Good Morning Scotland and Newsdrive....
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K M Baharul Islam

17. K M Baharul Islam

2019-2021 (aged 2)
writer
K M Baharul Islam is presently the Director, Institute of Management Technology Hyderabad, India. He was a Professor and the Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur from July 2012 to Jan 2025. He served as the Dean during 2019-2021 at the same institute. He was elected as a Fellow of...
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Frank McAveety

18. Frank McAveety

1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Frank McAveety is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of Glasgow City Council from 2015 to 2017. He has been a councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow. He was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Shettleston constituency from 1999 to 2011.
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Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik

19. Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik

1957-. (aged 69)
businessperson politician
Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik CBE is a British Conservative politician and Life Peer. She served as a Member of European Parliament for Scotland from 2017 to 2020.
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Ainun Nishat

20. Ainun Nishat

1948-. (aged 78)
expert academic engineer
Ainun Nishat is a water resource and climate change specialist from Bangladesh. As of 2017, he is serving as a professor emeritus of BRAC University. He represented Bangladesh at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009, among other international climate-related conferences.
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John Scott

21. John Scott

politician police officer
John Peter Scott CBE FRSA FBA FAcSS is an English sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology, social stratification, the history of sociology, and social network analysis. He is currently working independently, and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Leicester, Essex, and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2007), a Fellow of...
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Arthur van Hoff

22. Arthur van Hoff

1963-. (aged 63)
computer scientist
Arthur van Hoff is a Dutch computer scientist and businessman.
Mohammed bin Saud Al-Tamimi

23. Mohammed bin Saud Al-Tamimi

civil servant engineer politician
Mohammed Altamimi is the Governor of Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) since October 2019, on the Grade “Excellent”; and the acting CEO of the Saudi Space Agency (SSA) since 2021.
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Willie Bain

24. Willie Bain

1972-. (aged 54)
politician
William Thomas Bain is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he was a Shadow DEFRA Minister from 2010 to 2011 and a Shadow Scotland Minister from 2011 to 2013.
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Joyce Msuya

25. Joyce Msuya

1968-. (aged 58)
microbiologist environmental scientist
Joyce Msuya is a Tanzanian microbiologist and environmental scientist who has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs since 2021. From 2018 to 2021, she served as the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.
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Cat Boyd

26. Cat Boyd

trade unionist
Cat Boyd is a Scottish trade union activist and a co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign and RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance.
Margaret Mitchell

27. Margaret Mitchell

1900-1949 (aged 49)
screenwriter novelist prose writer writer journalist
Janet Margaret Mitchell is a Scottish Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region from 2003 to 2021.
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Neil Findlay

28. Neil Findlay

1969-. (aged 57)
teacher politician
Neil Findlay is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian from 2011 to 2021. Formerly a member of Scottish Labour, he resigned from the party in March 2025.
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Tom Clarke

29. Tom Clarke

1941-. (aged 85)
politician
Sir Thomas Clarke, CBE, PC, JP, KSG is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 until 2015, representing Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2005 until losing his seat to Philip Boswell of the SNP in the May 2015 general election.
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Daniel Johnson

30. Daniel Johnson

1995-. (aged 31)
baseball player
Daniel Guy Johnson is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Southern constituency since 2016.
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Maureen Watt

31. Maureen Watt

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Maureen Elizabeth Watt is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and former Minister for Mental Health in the Scottish Government. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) representing the constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine from 2011 to 2021 when she retired, having previously served as a regional member for North East Scotland from 2006 until 2011.
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John Barton

32. John Barton

1944-2021 (aged 77)
businessperson
Robert John Orr Barton was a British businessman, who was chairman of Next plc and EasyJet.
William MacGregor

33. William MacGregor

1846-1919 (aged 73)
botanical collector scientific collector politician physician botanist
Sir William MacGregor, GCMG, CB, AM, PC, FRSGS was a Scottish colonial administrator who was Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Lagos Colony, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland.
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Ivan McKee

34. Ivan McKee

1963-. (aged 63)
businessperson politician
Ivan Paul McKee is a Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Public Finance since May 2024. He previously served as Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Provan since 2016.
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Stewart Stevenson

35. Stewart Stevenson

1946-. (aged 80)
banker engineer politician
James Alexander Stewart Stevenson is a Scottish former politician who served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and Minister for Environment and Climate Change from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, formerly Banff and Buchan, from...
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James Young

36. James Young

1949-. (aged 77)
singer songwriter singer-songwriter guitarist musician
James Young was a Scottish chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal and oil shales. He is often referred to as Paraffin Young.
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Carol Monaghan

37. Carol Monaghan

1972-. (aged 54)
politician
Carol Monaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North West from 2015 until the seat's abolition in 2024. She was the SNP Science, Innovation, Technology and Education spokesperson in the House of Commons.
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Jack Sim

38. Jack Sim

1957-. (aged 69)
philanthropist businessperson entrepreneur
Jack Sim Juek Wah, also known as Mr Toilet, is a Singaporean entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the founder of the World Toilet Organization and World Toilet Day initiative. He is also the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore.
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Sarah Thornton

39. Sarah Thornton

1965-. (aged 61)
ethnographer researcher sociologist
Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored four books and many articles about artists, the art market, bodies, people, culture, technology and design, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures, and ethnographic research methods.
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Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme

40. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme

1932-2017 (aged 85)
architect politician
Alexander Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme // GCON was a Nigerian politician who served as the first elected vice president of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983 during the Second Nigerian Republic under President Shehu Shagari as a member of the National Party of Nigeria.
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Susan Aitken

41. Susan Aitken

politician
Susan Aitken is a Scottish politician who has served as Leader of Glasgow City Council since 2017. A member of the Scottish National Party, she has been the leader of the SNP group on the council since 2014 and a councillor for the Langside ward since 2012.
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Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke

42. Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke

1950-. (aged 76)
diplomat politician
Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2003 and British High Commissioner to Australia from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts, previously Monklands East, from 1994 to 2005.
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Brendan O'Hara

43. Brendan O'Hara

1963-. (aged 63)
politician television producer
Brendan O'Hara is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and former TV producer. He serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber since the 2024 election, having previously represented the Argyll and Bute constituency from 2015 to 2024.
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John Macadam

44. John Macadam

1827-1865 (aged 38)
physician chemist politician
John Macadam, was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical doctor, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister, and honorary secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition. The genus Macadamia (macadamia nut) was named after him in 1857. He died at sea, on a voyage from Australia to New Zealand, aged 38.
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Malcolm Bruce

45. Malcolm Bruce

1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, PC is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and was the chairman of the International Development Select Committee from 2005 to 2015. He was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from January 2014 to May 2015. He was nominated for a life...
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Alex Gray

46. Alex Gray

1950-. (aged 76)
writer
Alex Gray is a Scottish crime writer. She has published 19 novels, all set around Glasgow and featuring the character of Detective Chief Inspector Lorimer and his psychological profiler Solomon Brightman, the earlier novels being published by Canongate and Allison & Busby and later books by Little Brown. She has also published magazine articles, poetry and short stories as well...
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Dugald Clerk

47. Dugald Clerk

1854-1932 (aged 78)
inventor
Sir Dugald Clerk KBE, LLD FRS (1854, Glasgow – 1932, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878 and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson's University in Glasgow (now the University of Strathclyde), and Yorkshire College, Leeds (now the University of Leeds). He formed the intellectual...
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Monica Lennon

48. Monica Lennon

1981-. (aged 45)
politician council member
Monica Lennon is a Scottish politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2016. A member of Labour Co-op, she has served in various roles on the front bench.
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Muhammad Khan Achakzai

49. Muhammad Khan Achakzai

1930-2023 (aged 93)
politician
Muhammad Khan Achakzai is a Pakistani politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Balochistan.
Emma Pollock

50. Emma Pollock

1971-. (aged 55)
guitarist musician singer-songwriter
Emma Pollock is a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician, and a founding member of the bands The Delgados and The Burns Unit. She is one of the founders of The Fruit Tree Foundation project and a contributor to Vox Liminis, a project linking prison experience and songwriting.
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Henry Faulds

51. Henry Faulds

1843-1930 (aged 87)
physician scientist
Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.
Jim McColl

52. Jim McColl

1951-. (aged 75)
businessperson
James Allan McColl OBE is a Scottish businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Clyde Blowers. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors.
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Patrick Grady

53. Patrick Grady

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Patrick John Grady is a Scottish politician. He was elected at the 2015 UK general election as the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North. He was re-elected in 2017 and in 2019, but chose not to stand again in 2024.
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Martin Kelner

54. Martin Kelner

1949-. (aged 77)
radio personality television actor
Martin Barry Kelner is a British journalist, author, comedian, singer, actor and TV presenter, whose primary career is in radio presenting. He has spent over 40 years hosting radio shows, mostly for the BBC, in particular Radio Leeds. He has been regularly accompanied throughout his career by comedy sidekick Edouard Lapaglie.
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Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin

55. Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin

1944-. (aged 82)
entrepreneur politician
Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin is a Scottish businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999, appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in 2008, and appointed Knight of the Thistle in the 2014 New Year Honours. He was also appointed to the Order of the Companions of...
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Johann Lamont

56. Johann Lamont

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Johann MacDougall Lamont is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 to 2014. She was previously a junior Scottish Executive minister from 2004 to 2007 and Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 until her election to the leadership in 2011. In addition to her ministerial and leadership roles,...
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Scott Cummings

57. Scott Cummings

1996-. (aged 30)
rugby union player
Scott James Cummings is a Scottish professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for United Rugby Championship club Glasgow Warriors and the Scotland national team.
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Zulkieflimansyah

58. Zulkieflimansyah

1972-. (aged 54)
politician
Zulkieflimansyah, sometimes colloquially called Bang Zul, is an Indonesian politician and academic who is the latest Governor proper of West Nusa Tenggara, serving for the term 2018-2023. Before being elected as governor, he had been elected to the People's Representative Council thrice.
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Annabel Goldie

59. Annabel Goldie

1950-. (aged 76)
politician
Annabel MacNicoll Goldie, Baroness Goldie is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2005 to 2011 and Minister of State for Defence from 2019 to 2023. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), as one of the additional members for the West Scotland region, from 1999 to 2016.
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Hugh Hendry

60. Hugh Hendry

1969-. (aged 57)
hedge fund manager financier businessperson
Hugh Hendry is a Scottish hedge fund manager and podcaster.
Amy Callaghan

61. Amy Callaghan

1992-. (aged 34)
politician
Amy Callaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the member of parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire from 2019 until 2024. She unseated the then Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, with a narrow majority of 149 votes or 0.3%, overturning her majority of 5,339 votes two years earlier. She was SNP Health spokesperson since and sat on...
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John Giannandrea

62. John Giannandrea

1965-. (aged 61)
programmer
John Giannandrea is a British software engineer and technology executive. He co-founded Metaweb and previously served in senior engineering roles at Tellme Networks, Netscape, and General Magic. Giannandrea joined Google in 2010 and later became the company’s chief of search and artificial intelligence.
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Jackie Baillie

63. Jackie Baillie

1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Dame Jacqueline Marie Baillie DBE is a Scottish politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2020. She has been Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Dumbarton constituency since 1999. She also served as acting Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in 2017 and again in 2021.
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Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton

64. Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton

1943-. (aged 83)
politician aristocrat
Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton, styled as Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden between 1984 and 1986, is a British Conservative Party politician and former hereditary peer, and Member of the European Parliament.
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Andrew O'Hagan

65. Andrew O'Hagan

1968-. (aged 58)
literary critic novelist editor writer journalist
Andrew O'Hagan is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. Three of his novels have been nominated for the Booker Prize and he has won several awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Robert Stevenson

66. Robert Stevenson

1772-1850 (aged 78)
civil engineer engineer inventor
Robert Stevenson FRSE FGS FRAS was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses. His works include the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Jim Murphy

67. Jim Murphy

1967-. (aged 59)
politician
James Francis Murphy is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 to 2010. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire, formerly Eastwood, from 1997 to 2015. He identifies as a social democrat and has expressed support for a foreign policy...
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Neill Collins

68. Neill Collins

1983-. (aged 43)
association football player association football coach
Neill William Collins is a Scottish football manager and former player who is the head coach of USL Championship club Sacramento Republic.
Elish Angiolini

69. Elish Angiolini

1960-. (aged 66)
lawyer college head
Lady Elish Frances Margaret Angiolini is a Scottish lawyer currently serving as Lord Clerk Register, the first woman to hold the role since its creation in the 13th century. She was appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the British Monarch's representative to the Assembly, in 2025, succeeding Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh. Angiolini...
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Angus MacNeil

70. Angus MacNeil

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Angus Brendan MacNeil is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Na h-Eileanan an Iar from 2005 to 2024.
Alex Kapranos

71. Alex Kapranos

1972-. (aged 54)
singer songwriter guitarist
Alexander Paul Kapranos is a Scottish musician. He is the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand. He has also been a part of the supergroups FFS and BNQT.
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Ed Byrne

72. Ed Byrne

1972-. (aged 54)
screenwriter television actor actor comedian
Edward Cathal Byrne is an Irish actor and comedian. He has presented the British television shows Just for Laughs and Uncut! Best Unseen Ads, has been a guest on numerous television panel games and has appeared on a number of television cooking shows.
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Cillian Sheridan

73. Cillian Sheridan

1989-. (aged 37)
association football player Gaelic football player
Cillian Sheridan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Highland League club Brechin City.
Rajiv Mehrishi

74. Rajiv Mehrishi

1955-. (aged 71)
civil servant Indian Administrative Service
Rajiv Mehrishi is a retired IAS officer of the 1978 batch belonging to the Rajasthan cadre who served as the 13th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors.
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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

75. Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

1970-. (aged 56)
politician solicitor lawyer journalist actor
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh OBE WS NP is a Scottish politician, solicitor, and former actress, who has served as chair of the Alba Party since 2021. She was also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2015 to 2017. A former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Ahmed-Sheikh served as the SNP's Trade and Investment spokesperson, Deputy...
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David Mundell

76. David Mundell

1962-. (aged 64)
solicitor politician
David Gordon Mundell, WS is a Scottish Conservative Party politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. He previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister, coming out in 2016.
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Denise Mina

77. Denise Mina

1966-. (aged 60)
playwright novelist comics writer university teacher criminologist
Denise Mina is a Scottish writer active since 1996. Her debut novel Garnethill was a bestseller and won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for best debut. It was followed by Exile and Resolution, completing a trilogy of novels featuring Maureen O’Donnell, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
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Omar Abdullah

78. Omar Abdullah

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Omar Abdullah is an Indian politician serving as the chief minister of union territory of Jammu and Kashmir since 2024 and also as the leader of the house in J&K Legislative Assembly. He had previously served as the 8th chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir between 2009 and 2014, and is the current vice president of the...
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John Logie Baird

79. John Logie Baird

1888-1946 (aged 58)
writer entrepreneur physicist
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
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Lauren Mayberry

80. Lauren Mayberry

1987-. (aged 39)
percussionist singer songwriter
Lauren Eve Mayberry is a Scottish musician who is the vocalist and percussionist of the pop band Chvrches. In Chvrches, Mayberry co-writes and co-produces the songs with Iain Cook and Martin Doherty, and sings as the lead vocalist. She also plays drums and keyboards. Mayberry is a soprano. Outside of music, she is an active feminist and philanthropist.
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Brian Souter

81. Brian Souter

1954-. (aged 72)
businessperson
Sir Brian Souter is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd, and the Souter Charitable Trust.
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Andrew Oswald

82. Andrew Oswald

1953-. (aged 73)
university teacher economist
Andrew Oswald is a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, England. He is an ISI highly cited researcher and has been a professorial fellow of the ESRC. He is currently a member of the board of reviewing editors of Science. He held previous posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard....
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Michael Connarty

83. Michael Connarty

1947-. (aged 79)
school teacher politician
Michael Connarty is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and East Falkirk from 2005 until 2015, and Falkirk East (1992–2005).
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Lisa Cameron

84. Lisa Cameron

1972-. (aged 54)
clinical psychologist psychologist politician
Lisa Cameron is a Scottish politician and former consultant clinical psychologist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow from winning the seat at the 2015 general election until standing down at the 2024 general election. First elected for the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was re-elected for that party in 2017 and 2019,...
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Manuel Cortes

85. Manuel Cortes

1967-. (aged 59)
trade unionist
Manuel Cortes is a British trade unionist who served as the General Secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) between 2011 and 2022.
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John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith

86. John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith

1944-. (aged 82)
trade unionist politician
John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, PC, is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, from 2021 to 2026. He was a member of Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative Party from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West Dunbartonshire. He also...
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Shirley-Anne Somerville

87. Shirley-Anne Somerville

1974-. (aged 52)
politician
Shirley-Anne Somerville is a Scottish politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice in the devolved Scottish government since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dunfermline since 2016, having previously served as an additional member for the Lothians region from 2007 to 2011.
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Julie Fowlis

88. Julie Fowlis

1978-. (aged 48)
singer musician singer-songwriter
Julie Fowlis FRSE is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
Clive Soley, Baron Soley

89. Clive Soley, Baron Soley

1939-. (aged 87)
blogger politician
Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley is a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2005, and later as a Member of the House of Lords until 2023.
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Aamer Anwar

90. Aamer Anwar

1967-. (aged 59)
lawyer
Aamer Anwar is a British political activist and lawyer of Pakistani origin. He was an active participant in the Stop the War Coalition, and campaigned against the 31st G8 summit at Gleneagles. He has been a longstanding critic of the Dungavel Detention Centre for failed asylum seekers, and is a trustee of the Time for Inclusive Education charity for LGBT-inclusive...
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Iain Stewart

91. Iain Stewart

1964-. (aged 62)
geologist television presenter
Iain Aitken Stewart CBE is a British Conservative Party politician and former accountant. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Milton Keynes South from 2010 until the seat's abolition in 2024.
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Simon Stevens

92. Simon Stevens

1966-. (aged 60)
Simon Stevens, also known as Simon Walsh in Secondlife, born 1974, is an English activist, Huffington Post blogger, and disability consultant known for his discussions on disability issues in the UK and on social media. Stevens formed Wheelies, a disability-friendly virtual nightclub within the 3D online community of Second Life. He is known as Simon Walsh and for his avatar's...
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Robert Wringham

93. Robert Wringham

1982-. (aged 44)
writer
Robert Wringham is a British writer, best known for his humor writing and as the editor of New Escapologist magazine. His first collection, A Loose Egg, was shortlisted for the 2015 Leacock Medal. He has also written two histories of alternative comedy and a comic novel.
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Paul Laverty

94. Paul Laverty

1957-. (aged 69)
actor jurist lawyer screenwriter film screenwriter
Paul Laverty is an Irish and Scottish screenwriter and lawyer best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. He has won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and was a nominee for the Best Screenplay award at the BAFTAs.
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John Stenhouse

95. John Stenhouse

1809-1880 (aged 71)
chemist
John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS was a British chemist. In 1854, he invented one of the first practical respirators.
Ursula Wyss

96. Ursula Wyss

1973-. (aged 53)
politician economist
Ursula Wyss is a Swiss politician, economist and urban planner. She represented the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013. From January 2013 to December 2020 she was an executive member (Gemeinderätin) of the city of Bern.
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Philippe Baptiste

97. Philippe Baptiste

1972-. (aged 54)
computer scientist researcher engineer
Philippe Baptiste is a French engineer, academic and researcher who has been serving as Minister responsible for Higher Education and Research in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou since 2024, reporting to Minister Elizabeth Borne.
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Luhaga Mpina

98. Luhaga Mpina

1975-. (aged 51)
politician minister
Luhaga Joelson Mpina is a Tanzanian politician and Member of Parliament for Kisesa constituency since 2005. He was the Minister of Livestock and Fisheries for 3 years in the Magufuli cabinet. In August 2025, he left the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and joined the Alliance for Change and Transparency. However, he was barred from running for president in the...
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Stephen Adei

99. Stephen Adei

1948-. (aged 78)
economist business incubator university teacher theatre entrepreneur writer
Stephen Adei is a Ghanaian economist, administrator and writer who is a former Director General and Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He is a former chairperson of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) under the Nana Akufo-Addo government.
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Teuea Toatu

100. Teuea Toatu

politician
Teuea Toatu is an I-Kiribati politician who has been the 7th Vice President of Kiribati since 2019, and a member of the House of Assembly and Minister for Finance and Economic Development since 2016. Prior to his tenure in the assembly he worked in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and in other economic positions in Kiribati.
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