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[edit] Academia

  • Stewart Adams - Inventor of Ibuprofen
  • Professor Bob Boucher - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
  • Professor Arthur Carty - National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
  • Sir Bernard Crossland - President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
  • Professor Louis Essen - physicist
  • Sir Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics
  • Gerald Hawkins - Professor of astronomy, noted for his interest in Stonehenge
  • Sir Brian Heap - Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, and former Vice-President of the Royal Society
  • Professor Reginald Hugh Hickling - Lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author
  • Emma J King - physicist & science communicator
  • JProfessor James Kinsley - a professor of linguistics who was called as an expert witness in a case about the use of the word 'bollocks' in the Sex Pistols' album title 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'
  • Lord Lewis of Newnham - chemist
  • Sir Keith O'Nions - geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils
  • Professor Austin Quigley - Dean, Columbia College of Columbia University
  • Roger Tomlinson - "Father of GIS"
  • Professor Ian Wilmut - embryologist who managed the team who cloned Dolly the sheep
  • Rev Dr Riad Kassis - Lebanese/Syrian theologian specializing in the Old Testament

[edit] Arts and media

  • Matthew Bannister - BBC broadcaster and administrator
  • Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale University repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
  • Michael Coren - author and broadcaster
  • Ian Dickson - judge of Australian Idol
  • Graham Fitkin - composer
  • Daniel Gerroll - actor
  • Elliott Gotkine - BBC South America correspondent
  • Haydn Gwynne - actress
  • Chris Hawkins - radio personality
  • Oliver James - Psychologist and TV presenter
  • Colin Matthews - composer
  • James Moir - former controller of BBC Radio 2
  • Richard Northedge - business journalist
  • Jeff Randall - Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and Sky television presenter
  • James Robinson - The Observer media correspondent
  • |Tracie]] - pop singer
  • Ruth Wilson - actress
  • Helen Willetts - BBC weather presenter
  • Alasdair Grant - Actor - Golden Globe winner for "Rasputin" (1996)
  • Tim Walklate - Musician - pioneered creating music on mobiles, famous for the song 'Arabian Hedgehogs'

[edit] Business

  • Jonathan Browning - Chairman, Vauxhall Motors
  • Michael Carpenter - Chairman & CEO, Citigroup Global Investments
  • John Coomber - CEO, Swiss Re
  • Kuok Khoon Ean]] - Chairman, South China Morning Post
  • Anne Gunther - CEO, Standard Life
  • Keith Hamill - Chairman, Moss Bros, Go Airline, Collins Stewart and Luminar
  • Michael Hodgkinson|Sir Michael Hodgkinson]] - Chairman, Post Office Ltd; former CEO, BAA Plc
  • Clive Hollick - Former owner of United News
  • Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
  • Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons
  • Oliver Pawle - Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank
  • Sir Robert Phillis - Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
  • Peter Rice - President, Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • John Timpson - Chairman, Timpson
  • Andrew Witty - CEO, Glaxo Smithkline

[edit] International politics and royalty

  • Rt. Hon Peter Ala Adjetey - Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament
  • Zainab Bangura - Human rights campaigner, former Sierra Leone Presidential Candidate
  • Najib Tun Razak|Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
  • His Majesty Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar, Tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, King of Malaysia, Yang Dipertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
  • His Majesty Sultan Raja Azlan Shah - Ninth King of Malaysia, Sultan of Perak
  • Tengku Tan Sri Ahmad Rithaudden - former Minister of Defence of Malaysia
  • Tuanku Bahiyah - the fifth Queen of Malaysia
  • Tun Dato Seri Dr. Haji Hamdan Bin Sheik Tahir - Governor of Penang province, Malaysia
  • Tunku Tan-Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Jaafar - Prince of Negeri Sembilan, President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia
  • Zara Salim Davidson - tha Crown Princess of Perak and the grandniece of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

[edit] Members of UK Parliament, as of 2005

  • Jeremy Browne MP - Liberal Democrat
  • Parmjit Dhanda MP - Labour
  • David Drew MP - Labour
  • John Henry Hayes MP - Conservative
  • Jimmy Hood MP - Labour
  • Kelvin Hopkins MP - Labour
  • Tony Lloyd MP - Labour, former Minister of State at the Foreign Office
  • Meg Munn MP - Labour, Minister for Women and Equality
  • John Pugh MP - Liberal Democrat
  • Angela Smith MP - Labour
  • Dari Taylor MP - Labour
  • Paddy Tipping MP - Labour

[edit] Other

  • Bob Allcock, Solicitor General, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
  • Richard Best, Baron Best|Lord Best of Godmanstone]] - Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Andrew Colquhoun - Director-General, The Royal Horticultural Society
  • Frank Halford - aircraft engine designer
  • Sir Anthony Holland - Chairman of Northern Ireland Parades Commission
  • The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Lord Hope of Thornes - former Archbishop of York|Lord Archbishop of York
  • The Rt Hon. Sylvia, Baroness Jay of Ewelme - Director-General, Food and Drink Federation
  • Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson - pilot, Second World War flying ace
  • Mary Marsh - Director of the NSPCC
  • John Monks - Former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
  • Dame Helen Reeves - Chief Executive of Victim Support
  • Sir John Sawers - Diplomat
  • Sir Richard Tilt - Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service
  • Sir Mike Tomlinson - Chief Inspector of Schools
  • Greville Wynne - British spy, imprisoned by the KGB

[edit] Sport

  • Kristan Bromley - Bob Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
  • Sir Denis Follows - General Secretary, The Football Association and Chairman, British Olympic Association
  • Brian Moore - England rugby player
  • Deryck Murray - Former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicketkeeper
  • Lynn Simpson - Former world champion canoeist
  • Deng Yaping - four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
  • Campbell Walsh - Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom(K1)Olympic Silver medilist, and Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004
  • Keith Wyness - Chief Executive, Everton FC
  • Edward Shield - Former junior world champion, ten pin bowling
  • Lawrence Palk - Former World Champion Surfer (Fiji, 1998). Nickname - Crazy Larry
  • Matt Smith - Leicester Tigers rugby player

[edit] Writers

  • Meena Alexander - writer and poet
  • Christopher Bigsby - novelist and literary critic
  • Peter Boardman - mountaineer and writer
  • Michael Bracewell - novelist
  • Idris Davies - poet
  • Jill Dawson - novelist
  • Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal - novelist
  • John Harvey - crime writer
  • Michael Hirst - screenwriter, Elizabeth
  • Alan Jones (priest), author and Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
  • Bert Keizer - author of Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
  • D. H. Lawrence - novelist
  • Stanley Middleton - novelist, winner of the Booker Prize
  • Blake Morrison - novelist, poet, critic and journalist
  • Michael Scammell - biographer, translator, Professor of Writing at Columbia University

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