- Archbishop Of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England, recognized by convention as the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The incumbent is Dr. Rowan Williams. Williams is the 104th in the list of Archbishops of Canterbury, a line stretching back more than 1400 years to Saint Augustine of Canterbury, who founded the see, the oldest in England, in the year 597. Along with the Church of England as a whole, …
- Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi Frank Furedi is a professor of sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and has written widely on history, sociology and politics. He is author of Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age , The Culture of Fear: Risk-Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation and Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child .
- Michael Kölling
Michael Kölling Ph.D is a German senior programming lecturer and software developer currently lecturing at the University of Kent. He is also a key member of the team that developed the BlueJ and Greenfoot Java learning environments. BlueJ is used in over 780 institutions world wide. Kölling was also involved in the development of the Blue programming language which was an object-oriented programming language that was developed especially for teaching.
- Robert Worcester
Sir Robert Worcester , a Governor of the English Speaking Union, is the Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), London, and now an International Director of Ipsos Group, Paris, and Chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory Board. He is a Past-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).
- Jim Woodcock
Professor Jim C. P. Woodcock FRSA FBCS is a British computer scientist. Woocock gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Until 2001 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was also a Fellow of Kellogg College. He then joined the University of Kent and is now based at the University of York. His research interests include: strong software engineering, Grand Challenge in dependable systems evolution, …
- Richard Sakwa
Richard Sakwa is head of the department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is an expert in the field of Russian and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics. He has written and edited several books and articles on this area.
- Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin Tickell (born 1930), GCMG, KCVO, is a British diplomat, environmentalist and academic. After secondary education at Westminster School as a King's Scholar, he went to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Modern History. He did his national service in the Coldstream Guards. As a diplomat he was Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977-1980), British Ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983), …
- Ellie Lee
Dr. Ellie Lee is a lecturer in social policy at the University of Kent in Kent, United Kingdom. In 1996 she founded the Pro-Choice Forum, and is a member of the Institute of Ideas, a left-wing think tank. She wrote for the now defunct magazine "Living Marxism" and writes for its successor, "LM Magazine". She is a member of the Marxist LM group.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan) moved with his family to England in 1960, when he was a young child, after his oceanographer father Shizuo Ishiguro was employed by the British government. Kazuo Ishiguro 's Japanese parents believed that they would soon return to Japan and prepared their son to resume life in his native land. However, they stayed in Britain, and Ishiguro grew up straddling two cultures, the Japan of his parents and his adopted country England.
- David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born January, 1969) is an English novelist. He has written four novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The latest, "Black Swan Green", was longlisted for the 2006 award. Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an MA in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, …
- David Turner
David A. Turner is a prominent British computer scientist. He obtained a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and became a professor within six months. He has held professorships at Queen Mary College, London, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he now retains the post of Emeritus Professor. He is currently (2004) Professor of Computation at Middlesex University, England.
- Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson, OBE (born December 12, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor.
- Mark Connelly
Mark Connelly is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury. He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, "We Can Take It!", as well as other books and essays. He also detests Wikipedia and regards it as an unreferenced, unreliable and generally very poor source of (reputable) information. However, this entry would appear to be factually correct.
- Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy (1923 - November 4 1997 was a Scottish economist, often considered one of the finest theorists of his generation. He was born into a large family, the youngest of five sons; he was the son of George Kennedy, an architect, and grandson of the painter Charles Napier Kennedy. A gifted child, he was educated at Gordonstoun, and entered Balliol College, Oxford at the age of seventeen. His tutor there was Thomas Balogh.
- Fu Ying
Fu Ying (born 1953) has been Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom since March 2007. From 2004 to 2007 she was Chinese ambassador to Australia. She gained some notoriety in 2005 by claiming that dissident diplomat Chen Yonglin would not be persecuted or prosecuted if he returned to China, and for suggesting that he was only putting forth such a case to gain sympathy for his bid for a visa. Fu was born in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China.
- David McLellan
David McLellan is visiting Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He was previously Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford University. He has been Visiting Professor at the State University of New York, Guest Fellow in Politics at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, …
- Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, "Tipping the Velvet", as well the novels that followed, including "Affinity", "Fingersmith", and "The Night Watch".
- Princess Marina
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was a member of the British Royal Family; the wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George V and Queen Mary. Princess Marina was the last foreign-born princess to marry into the British royal family; subsequent brides have been commoners.
- Jo Grimond
Joseph "Jo" Grimond, Baron Grimond (29 July 1913 - 24 October 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly in 1976. Grimond was born in St Andrews in Fife and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He became a barrister, and in 1938 married Laura Bonham Carter, a granddaughter of Herbert Henry Asquith.
- Michael Hogg
Michael Hogg is a Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (SBOS) at Claremont Graduate University. He is an Honorary Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent and the University of Queensland, and is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
- Valerie Bloom
Valerie Bloom is a poet. She was born in Clarendon, Jamaica and came to England in 1979. She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury from 1982 to 1984 and now lives in Kent. She has published several collections, the most recent of which is "Whoop an' Shout!" She writes poetry both in English and Jamaican patois. Many of her performances include a 'crash course' in patois for audience members unfamiliar with the language.
- Glenn White
Glenn J. White is currently Professor of Astronomy at the Open University, UK, and Research Group Leader of the Astronomy Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He currently carries out research on star formation and on Exoplanets
- Chris Mole
Christopher David Mole, known as Chris Mole, (born March 16, 1958, Bromley) is the current member of Parliament for Ipswich in eastern England, and a member of the ruling Labour Party. He won the seat in the 2001 by-election held after the death of Jamie Cann and was re-elected in the General Election held in May 2005.
- David Horsey
David Horsey (born 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist in the United States. His cartoons appear in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide. Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3. He began perfecting his craft as a cartoonist in the "Cascade", the school newspaper at Ingraham High School.
- Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross (born 1956) is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A writer for "Artforum", "The Nation" and "The Village Voice", he is also the author and/or editor of numerous books. Much of his writing focuses on labor and the work force, from the Western world of business and technology to sweatshop labor in the Third World. Making some use of social theory as well as ethnography, …
- David Lepper
David Lepper (born 15 September 1945, Richmond) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour Co-operative member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion since 1997.
- Gavin Esler
Gavin Esler (born Glasgow, February 27, 1953) is a BBC television presenter. Gavin Esler is currently one of the five main presenters on BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme, "Newsnight". He joined the programme in January 2003, replacing Jeremy Vine, who left to take over from Jimmy Young on Radio 2. Esler also presents "Dateline London" most Sunday mornings at 11am on BBC News 24. The programme is also broadcast on BBC World.
- Robert Horton
Sir Robert Horton (born 18 August 1939) is a UK businessman. He is the eldest of three brothers, David Horton and Mark Horton. He spent 30 years working for BP; He became Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of BP in 1989, and was forced out in connection to a "slump in performance" He was Chairman of Railtrack from 1993 - 1999 and led the organisation through the early years of its existence including an industrial dispute from June to September 1994.
- Harry Bloom
Harry Bloom (1913-1981) was a South African journalist, novelist, and political activist of Jewish descent. Educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, he worked as an advocate in Johannesburg until exiling himself to England in 1963. Actor Orlando Bloom was raised as his son, although it was posthumously revealed that Orlando's biological father was family friend Colin Stone.
- Chris Davies
Christopher Graham Davies (born 7 July 1954) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He is a former Member of Parliament, and since 1999 he has been a Member of the European Parliament. Davies was born in Lytham St Annes. His father was a doctor, and his mother a nurse. He was educated at Cheadle Hulme School (1965-72), at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (1972-75, …
- Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (born 1947) is an American author. She was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A. in 1966. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 1977. Her first novel, "Housekeeping" (1980), won a PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- Rosalyn Higgins
Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins, DBE, QC (b. in London, 1937) is the President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006.
- Emily Thornberry
Emily Thornberry (born 27 July 1960, London) is a British Labour Party politcian. She has been Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. Thornberry was educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and practiced as a barrister specialising in human rights from 1985 to 2005 in Tooks Chambers, run by Michael Mansfield. In the 2001 general election she stood for Parliament in Canterbury where she claimed she was a local candidate, …
- Rosie Boycott
Rosel Marie Boycott (born 13 May 1951), better known as Rosie Boycott, is a British journalist and feminist. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and read mathematics at the University of Kent. After working briefly for the radical magazine "Friends" in 1971, Boycott was responsible, with Marsha Rowe, for founding the feminist magazine "Spare Rib" in 1971. In 1973 she co-founded Virago Press, with Carmen Callil and Marsha Rowe, …
- Paul Sutcliffe
Paul Sutcliffe is professor of mathematics at the University of Kent. Using supercomputers he has modelled topological solitons. In a famous result he showed that skyrmions look like buckminsterfullerene. He is winner of the 2006 LMS Whitehead Prize.
- Shiulie Ghosh
Shiulie Ghosh (born September 28,1968) is a Doha-based television journalist for Al Jazeera. She obtained a degree in Law from the University of Kent before joining Radio Cleveland as a Programme Assistant. In 1990 she was accepted as BBC News Trainee and worked in various posts at the BBC before joining the ITV News in 1998. In 2001 she was named Best Television News Journalist at the British Telecom Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards (EMMA).
- Fred D'Aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar (born February 2, 1960) is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. D'Aguiar was born in London of Guyanese parents. He spent his childhood, from the age of two to twelve, in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His "Bill of Rights", about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a finalist for the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University (1989-90), Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, …
- Brian J. Ford
Brian J. Ford (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire) is an English independent scientist, prolific author and popular interpreter of scientific issues for the general populace, whose scientific papers and numerous books have been published internationally. He is also a TV celebrity and lecturer in many countries. Professor Ford is a Fellow of Cardiff University, Member of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Honorary member of Keynes College, University of Kent, …
- Charlotte Green
Charlotte Green (born 1958) is a British radio announcer and news reader for the BBC's Radio 4. The main programmes that she is involved in are the "Today" programme, "PM" and the "Shipping Forecast". She regularly reads the amusing newspaper cuttings on "The News Quiz", and her voice is regularly imitated by Jan Ravens on the radio version of the BBC comedy sketch show "Dead Ringers", enunciating phrases, laced with doubles entendres, …
- Adrian Gilbert
Adrian Gilbert (Born July 1949) is a bestselling British author and independent publisher who lives in Kent, England. His books are centred around investigations into ancient Esoteric knowledge and religious Mysteries. He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury reading for an Honours degree in Chemistry. After travels to the Middle East he came to work in publishing and then Computer Programming.