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Cardiff University is a leading university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in the Cathays Park
Cathays Park

File:Cardiff City Hall wide view.jpgCathays Park is a civic centre area in central Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, consisting of a number of early 20th century buildings and a central park area, Alexandra Gardens....
 area of Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
, Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
Research Assessment Exercise

The Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions....
, almost 60 per cent of all research at Cardiff University was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent - 4* and 3* the top two categories of assessment.






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Cardiff University is a leading university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in the Cathays Park
Cathays Park

File:Cardiff City Hall wide view.jpgCathays Park is a civic centre area in central Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, consisting of a number of early 20th century buildings and a central park area, Alexandra Gardens....
 area of Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
, Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
Research Assessment Exercise

The Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions....
, almost 60 per cent of all research at Cardiff University was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent - 4* and 3* the top two categories of assessment.

Ranked number 133 of the world's top universities , Cardiff University celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2008. Before August 2004, the university was officially known as University of Wales, Cardiff , although it used the name Cardiff University publicly.

History

The Aberdare Report of 1881 recommended the foundation of university colleges in North Wales
North Wales

File:North Wales .pngNorth Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England....
 and South Wales
South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west....
 to complement the already established University College, Wales (now the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales....
) in Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. It is often colloquially known as Aber, and is located at the confluence of the Rivers River Ystwyth and River Rheidol....
. Following a public appeal that raised £37,000, the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened on October 24 1883, offering studies in Biology, Chemistry, English, French, German, Greek, History, Latin, Mathematics & Astronomy, Music, Welsh, Logic & Philosophy and Physics. The University College was incorporated by Royal Charter
Royal Charter

A royal charter is a charter granted by a Monarch to create institutions or other forms of incorporated bodies . In the United Kingdom legal tradition a royal charter is in the form of letters patent....
 the following year. John Viriamu Jones
John Viriamu Jones

John Viriamu Jones , was a Wales scientist and academic.John Viriamu Jones was born in Swansea, the son of a notable Independent minister, Thomas Jones....
 was appointed as the University’s first Principal, at age 27. The only college in Wales with its own degree awarding powers at this time was St David's University College. As such, Cardiff entered students for the examinations of the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
 until, in 1893, it became one of the founding institutions of the University of Wales
University of Wales

The University of Wales is a confederal university founded in 1893. It has accredited institutions throughout Wales, ranging from nineteenth-century establishments like University of Wales, Aberystwyth and University of Wales, Bangor to post-1992 universities like University of Wales, Newport and institutes of higher education such as Unive...
 and began awarding their degrees.

In 1885, Aberdare Hall
Aberdare Hall

Aberdare Hall is one of the halls of residence serving students at Cardiff University, Wales. It was built in 1893 with the intention of being an all-female hall ....
 opened as the first hall of residence, allowing women access to the university. This moved to its current site in 1895, but remains a single-sex hall. 1904 saw the appointment of the first female professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 in the UK, Millicent McKenzie.

Architect John Caroe sought to combine the charm and elegance of his former college (Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is one of the 31 Colleges of the University of Cambridge of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or University of Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduate students, and over 160 Fellows; however, counting only the student body it has somewhat fewer than Homert...
) with the picturesque balance of many of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 colleges. Building work on Main Building commenced in 1905 and was completed in many stages, the first in 1909. Money ran short for this project, however, and although the side-wings were completed in the 1960s the planned Great Hall has never been built. Prior to then, from its founding in 1883, the University was based in the Old Infirmary on Newport Road, Cardiff which is now part of the University’s Queen’s Buildings.

In 1931, the School of Medicine, which had been founded as part of the College in 1893 when the Departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology were founded, was split off to form the University of Wales College of Medicine
University of Wales College of Medicine

The University of Wales College of Medicine was a medical school based in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, that formed a part of the University of Wales....
. In 1972, the College was renamed University College, Cardiff.

In 1988, financial problems caused University College, Cardiff and the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology to merge, forming the University of Wales College, Cardiff. Following changes to the constitution of the University of Wales in 1996, this became the University of Wales, Cardiff.

In the early 1990s, the university's computer systems served as the home for The Internet Movie Database. In 1997, the College was granted full independent degree awarding-powers by the Privy Council
Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British monarchy. Its members are largely senior politicians, who were or are members of either the House of Commons of the United Kingdom or House of Lords....
 (though, as a member of the University of Wales it could not begin using them) and in 1999 the public name of the university was changed to Cardiff University. Some considered this part of an effort at Cardiff to set itself apart from the other colleges of the University of Wales, none of which are members of the Russell Group
Russell Group

The Russell Group is a collaboration of twenty Universities in the United Kingdom that receive two-thirds of universities' research grant and contract funding in the United Kingdom....
.

On 1 August, 2004 the University of Wales, Cardiff merged with the University of Wales College of Medicine
University of Wales College of Medicine

The University of Wales College of Medicine was a medical school based in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, that formed a part of the University of Wales....
. The merged institution separated from the collegiate University of Wales
University of Wales

The University of Wales is a confederal university founded in 1893. It has accredited institutions throughout Wales, ranging from nineteenth-century establishments like University of Wales, Aberystwyth and University of Wales, Bangor to post-1992 universities like University of Wales, Newport and institutes of higher education such as Unive...
 and officially took the name Cardiff University.

Cardiff today

In 2002, ideas were floated to re-merge Cardiff with the University of Wales College of Medicine following the publication of the Welsh Assembly Government's review of higher education in Wales. This merger became effective on August 1, 2004, on which date Cardiff University ceased to be a constituent institution of the University of Wales and became an independent "link institution" affiliated to the federal University. The process of the merger was completed on December 1, 2004 when the Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament

An act of Parliament is a statute wikt:enacted as primary legislation by a national or sub-national parliament. It is broadly equivalent to an act of Congress in the United States....
 transferring UWCM's assets to Cardiff University received Royal Assent. On December 17 it was announced that the Privy Council
Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British monarchy. Its members are largely senior politicians, who were or are members of either the House of Commons of the United Kingdom or House of Lords....
 had given approval to the new Supplemental Charter and had granted university status to Cardiff, legally changing the name of the institution to Cardiff University. Cardiff awarded University of Wales degrees to students admitted before 2005, but these have been replaced by Cardiff degrees. Medicine, dentistry and other health-related areas began to admit students for Cardiff degrees in 2006.

In 2004, Cardiff University and the University of Wales, Swansea
Swansea University

Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was founded as University College, Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales, following the report of the Haldane Commission into University Education in Wales....
 entered a partnership to provide a four-year graduate-entry medical degree. An annual intake of around 70 post-graduate students undertake an accelerated version of the Cardiff course at the University of Wales, Swansea for the first two years before joining undergraduate students at Cardiff for the final two years. All medicine/surgery graduates are awarded the degrees MB BCh. However from September 2009 Swansea University will be independently providing medical education in a revised 4-yr Graduate Entry Degree.

In 2005, The Wales College of Medicine, which is part of the University, launched the North Wales Clinical School in Wrexham
Wrexham

Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham , and the largest town in North Wales, located to the east of the region....
 in collaboration with the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
North East Wales Institute of Higher Education

Glyndwr University is a university in Wrexham, north-east Wales. Formerly known as the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , it was granted full university status in 2008 after being a member of the University of Wales since 2003....
 in Wrexham and the University of Wales, Bangor
University of Wales, Bangor

Bangor University is a university based in the city of Bangor, Wales in the County#United Kingdom of Gwynedd in North Wales Wales.The University occupies a substantial proportion of the city and also has some departments in Wrexham....
 and with the National Health Service
National Health Service

The National Health Service is the name commonly used to refer to the four publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, collectively or individually, although only the health service in England uses the name 'National Health Service' without further qualification....
 in Wales. This has been funded with £12.5 Million from the Welsh Assembly and will lead to the tripling of the number of trainee doctors in clinical training in Wales over a four year period.

The university has a rivalry with nearby Swansea University
Swansea University

Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was founded as University College, Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales, following the report of the Haldane Commission into University Education in Wales....
, against whom every year they have a varsity match
Varsity match

A varsity match is a sport fixture between two university rivals....
 termed the Welsh Varsity
Welsh Varsity

Every year, the Wales Varsity match match happens, between Cardiff University and Swansea University. The sports represented at this event are women's and men's rugby union, field hockey, squash , badminton, lacrosse, golf, basketball and fencing....
.

Reputation

Cardiff University
Cardiff University has a long standing tradition of providing the best education in Wales, as shown in its five year standing as the best centre of excellence in Wales in the Sunday Times League Tables. Cardiff is also the only university in Wales to be a member of the Russell Group
Russell Group

The Russell Group is a collaboration of twenty Universities in the United Kingdom that receive two-thirds of universities' research grant and contract funding in the United Kingdom....
 of Research Intensive Universities. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 33 out of the 34 research areas submitted by the University for assessment were shown to be undertaking research that includes world-leading work.

Times Higher Education ranked Cardiff University 99th in the top 100 universities in the world in 2007.

The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings
  • 2008 - Ranked 133 globally
  • 2007 - Moved into the top 100 globally at position 99
  • 2006 - placed 141 globally and 8-25 in Europe


The Times Online - Good University Guide 2009
  • Ranked 29th overall
    • Ranked 1st for Architecture
    • Ranked 2nd for Town and Country Planning and Landscape
    • Ranked 11th for Biological Sciences
    • Ranked 20th in Business Studies


The Guardian University Guide 2007
  • Ranked 33rd overall out of 149 universities in the institution-wide league table
    • Ranked 38th out of 140 universities for business and management studies


Rankings

  • Ranked 28th out of 123 universities overall in the institution-wide league table


UK University Rankings
League tables of British universities

League tables of British universities which rank the performances of universities in the United Kingdom on a number of criteria, have been published every year by The Times newspaper and several other newspapers since October 1992....
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993
Times Good University Guide 29th 28th 16th 22nd 21st= 25th 34th 29th 30th 30th 35th 34th 34th 39th= 28th 39th= 43rd=
Guardian University Guide 33rd 22nd 24th 24th 20th 36th 41st          
Sunday Times University Guide  24th= 28th 19th 19th 21st 15th 25th 29h 33rd 23rd 22nd     
Daily Telegraph   27th    32th=          
FT       22nd  34th 29th 35th      
Independent 37nd 27th               


Schools and colleges

Cardiff University has 29 academic schools and four graduate schools.

The academic schools are:

  • Architecture
  • Biosciences
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • City & Regional Planning
  • Computer Science
  • Cymraeg
  • Dentistry
  • Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Engineering
  • English, Communication and Philosophy
  • European Studies
  • Healthcare Studies
  • History and Archaeology
  • Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
  • Law
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Manufacturing Engineering Centre
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Music
  • Nursing and Midwifery Studies
  • Optometry and Vision Sciences
  • Pharmacy
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education
  • Psychology
  • Religious and Theological Studies
  • Social Sciences


Research and graduate schools
  • Humanities
  • Social Sciences
  • Biomedical and Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences and Engineering


Facilities

There are sporting facilities and sports teams in the BUCS university league, including men's and women's hockey.

The Cardiff University Students' Union
Cardiff University Students' Union

Cardiff University Students' Union is the students' union for Cardiff University and the largest in Wales, and, like most other students' unions, aims to promote the interests of its students....
 building is over the main railway going north from Cardiff to the Valleys
South Wales Valleys

The South Wales Valleys are a number of industrialised valleys in South Wales, stretching from eastern Carmarthenshire in the west to western Monmouthshire in the east and from the Heads of the Valleys in the north to the lower-lying, pastoralism country of the Vale of Glamorgan and the coastal plain around Swansea Bay, Bridgend, Cardiff...
, next door to Cathays railway station
Cathays railway station

Cathays railway station is a railway station lying on the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Line lines in the Cathays district of Cardiff, Wales. The station is 2 kilometres north of Cardiff Central railway station....
. It has shops, a nightclub and the studios of Xpress Radio
Xpress Radio

Xpress Radio is a student radio station based at Cardiff University. It was founded in 1996 and is mainly run by students at the university. It operates from a studio and editing suite on the fourth floor of the Cardiff University Students' Union building....
 (which is piped throughout the union) and Gair Rhydd
Gair rhydd

Gair Rhydd is the official student newspaper of Cardiff University. It is a weekly, free, tabloid-sized paper established in 1972 and edited by a full-time sabbatical officer of Cardiff University Students' Union....
 (Welsh
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
 for 'Free Word'), the student newspaper.

Notable alumni/current staff

Cardiff University Graduation Ceremony
Alumni and current staff of Cardiff University (and its predecessor) include:

  • Faisal al-Fayez
    Faisal al-Fayez

    Faisal al-Fayez was the Prime Minister of Jordan from 25 October, 2003, to 6 April 2005. He took office following the resignation of Ali Abu al-Ragheb and himself resigned after being criticized for not being reformist enough....
     (Prime Minister of Jordan
    Jordan

    Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
    )
  • Paul Atherton
    Paul Atherton

    Paul Atherton is managing director of and its sister not-for-profit company, . He is the first producer/ director to have his work broadcast on the Coca-Cola billboard in Piccadilly Circus, London with his film The Ballet of Change....
     (Television/Film Producer)
  • Professor Robin Attfield
    Robin Attfield

    Robin Attfield, MA University of Oxford, PhD University of Wales has been Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University since 1992Robin Attfield read Greats at Christ Church, Oxford and theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford....
     (Philosopher)
  • Professor Martin J. Ball
    Martin J. Ball

    Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor and Director of the Doris B Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette....
     (Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette

    The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana....
    )
  • Manish Bhasin
    Manish Bhasin

    Manish Bhasin is a popular football and cricket presenter for the BBC. He currently presents Football Focus, on BBC One at 12.10 p.m. on Saturdays, with regular pundits Mark Lawrenson and Lee Dixon....
     (Journalist)
  • Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
    Leszek Borysiewicz

    Sir Leszek K Borysiewicz, Order of the British Empire, is a British physician, immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently chief executive of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council ....
     (Deputy Rector, Imperial College London
    Imperial College London

    Imperial College London is a United Kingdom university in London that focuses primarily on science, engineering, medicine and business.Imperial is regularly placed in the top three in the Times National University League Table along with Oxford and Cambridge....
     and Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council
    Medical Research Council

    Medical Research Council may refer to:* Medical Research Council , a UK organisation* National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia's peak funding body for medical research...
    )
  • Mervyn Burtch (Composer)
  • Philip Cashian
    Philip Cashian

    Philip Cashian DMus BMus is an England composer.His teachers have included Professor Simon Bainbridge, Lukas Foss and Oliver Knussen. He has won various awards, including the Britten Prize and the PRS Prize....
     (Composer)
  • Christine Chapman
    Christine Chapman

    Christine Chapman is a Wales Wales Labour Party Co-operative Party politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Cynon Valley since 1999....
     (Politician)
  • Adrian Chiles
    Adrian Chiles

    Adrian Chiles is a England television and radio presenter.His journalistic training and love of football have resulted in a career in two streams of broadcasting, fronting general and notably business programmes such as Working Lunch; and sports programmes like Match of the Day 2....
     (TV Presenter)
  • Gillian Clarke
    Gillian Clarke

    Gillian Clarke was born on 8 June 1937 in Cardiff and is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator . She was brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire....
     (poet)
  • Professor Peter Coles
    Peter Coles

    Peter Coles is Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Cardiff University.His primary research interest is in Cosmology, and he is the author of a number of books on the subject....
     (Professor of Astrophysics)
  • The Rt Revd Paul Colton
    Paul Colton

    William Paul Colton is the Church of Ireland's Bishop of Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. Though he is perhaps more famous for being the priest who officiated at the wedding of footballer David Beckham and Spice girl Victoria Beckham on July 4, 1999 at the medieval Luttrellstown Castle on the outskirts of Dublin....
    , Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
    Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

    The Bishop of Cork , Cloyne and Rosscarbery is the Church of Ireland Ordinary of the united Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the Province of Dublin ....
  • Oliver Condy (Music journalist/writer and Editor of BBC Music Magazine)
  • HHJ Paul Downes Circuit Judge
    Circuit Judge

    Circuit Judges are senior judges in England and Wales who sit in the Crown Court, County Courts and certain specialized sub-divisions of the High Court of Justice, such as the Technology and Construction Court....
  • Huw Edwards
    Huw Edwards (journalist)

    Huw Edwards is a Welsh people BAFTA Awards journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Huw presents Britain's most-watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast....
     (Journalist)
  • Professor Sir Martin Evans
    Martin Evans

    Sir Martin John Evans Royal Society is a United Kingdom scientist, credited with discovering how to cell culture embryonic stem cells in 1981, and for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting....
     ( Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007)
  • Brian J. Ford
    Brian J. Ford

    Brian J. Ford is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 years....
     (Biologist, TV Presenter)
  • Max Foster
    Max Foster

    Max Foster is a senior anchor-correspondent on CNN International, based in London....
     (CNN Anchor, CNN Today
    CNN Today

    CNN Today is a rolling news programme by CNN International airing twice each weekday, once from London and the other from Hong Kong. The weekend editions air from the CNN Center in Atlanta....
    )
  • Alun Hoddinott
    Alun Hoddinott

    Alun Hoddinott Order of the British Empire , was the first Wales composer of classical music to receive international recognition. ...
     (Composer)
  • Professor Dr Robert Huber
    Robert Huber

    Robert Huber is a Germany biochemist and Nobel laureate.He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier....
      (Professor of Chemistry
    Chemistry

    Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
    , Nobel Laureate - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
     1988 )
  • Karl Hyde (member of Underworld (band)
    Underworld (band)

    Underworld is an English electronic music group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980. The band is perhaps best known for "Born Slippy .NUXX", a track made popular in the hit 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting ....
    )
  • Karl Jenkins
    Karl Jenkins

    Karl William Jenkins Order of the British Empire D.Mus. is a Wales musician and composer. Jenkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for 2005....
     (Composer)
  • Alan Johnston
    Alan Johnston

    Alan Graham Johnston is a United Kingdom journalist working for the BBC. He has been the BBC's correspondent in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip....
     (Journalist)
  • Riz Khan (Journalist)
  • Glenys Kinnock
    Glenys Kinnock

    Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock Royal Society of Arts is a Wales politician who has been a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament since 1994....
     (Politician)
  • Neil Kinnock
    Neil Kinnock

    Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1995, and was Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party leader from 1983 to 1992, when he resigned after the United Kingdom general election, 1992 defeat....
     (Politician)
  • Bernard Knight
    Bernard Knight

    Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, became a Home Office pathology in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980....
     (Crime Writer)
  • Siân Lloyd
    Siân Lloyd

    Si?n Lloyd is an ITV Weather weather forecasting....
     (TV Presenter)
  • Professor Vaughan Lowe
    Vaughan Lowe

    Alan Vaughan Lowe Queen's Counsel is a leading barrister and academic specialising in the field of international law. He has been Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1999....
     QC
    Queen's Counsel

    Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male Monarch, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of "Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law"....
     Chichele Professor of Public International Law
    Chichele Professor of Public International Law

    One of the statutory Chichele Professorships established at All Souls College, Oxford, this chair was established in 1859 as the Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy....
     in the University of Oxford
    University of Oxford

    The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
  • Hilary Marquand
    Hilary Marquand

    Hilary Adair Marquand PC was a British Labour Party politician.He was educated at Cardiff High School and at Cardiff University where he studied history and economics....
     (Politician)
  • Robert Minhinnick
    Robert Minhinnick

    Robert Minhinnick is a Wales poet, essayist, novelist and translator.Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Cardiff University....
     (co-founder of Friends of the Earth
    Friends of the Earth

    Friends of the Earth International is an international network of environmental organizations in 69 countries.In contrast to many other NGOs operating internationally, Friends of the Earth International is structured from the bottom up as a confederation of groups....
    )
  • Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (Advisor to Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
    )
  • John Warwick Montgomery
    John Warwick Montgomery

    John Warwick Montgomery was born October 18, 1931 in Warsaw, New York. In 2007 he was named "Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought" at Patrick Henry College....
     (Theologian and Barrister)
  • Professor Sir Keith Peters
    Keith Peters (medicine)

    From 1987 to 2005, Professor Sir Keith Peters Fellow of the Royal Society PMedSci has been Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge where he was head of the School of Clinical Medicine....
     FRS PMedSci (Regius Professor of Physic
    Regius Professor of Physic

    The term Regius Professor of Physic may refer to:*Regius Professor of Physic , a professorship at the University of Cambridge*Regius Professor of Physic , a professorship at the University of Dublin, Trinity College...
     in the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
    )
  • Steven Outerbridge
    Steven Outerbridge

    Stephen Devonne Outerbridge is a Bermuda cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He has played for Bermudian cricket team in seven One Day Internationals to date, making his debut at this level against Canadian cricket team in August 2006....
     - Bermudian Cricket
    Cricket

    Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
    er.
  • Bill Rammell
    Bill Rammell

    William Ernest "Bill" Rammell is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour Party Member of Parliament for Harlow since 1997 and is currently a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office....
     (Politician)
  • James Righton (Musician)
  • Dr Alice Roberts
    Alice Roberts

    Alice May Roberts Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Bachelor of Science Institute of Learning and Teaching Member Doctor of Philosophy is a clinical anatomy and Bioarchaeology teaching at the University of Bristol....
     (clinical anatomist and osteoarchaeologist)
  • Barham Salih
    Barham Salih

    Barham Ahmad Salih ;) born 1960) is a Iraqi Kurdistan politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in Iraqi legislative election, December 2005 as part of the Kurdistani Alliance list....
     (Politician)
  • Rick Smith (member of Underworld (band)
    Underworld (band)

    Underworld is an English electronic music group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980. The band is perhaps best known for "Born Slippy .NUXX", a track made popular in the hit 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting ....
    )
  • Jonathan Stevenson (BBC sports correspondent)
  • Craig Thomas
    Craig Thomas (author)

    David Craig Owen Thomas is a Wales author of thrillers, notably the "Mitchell Gant" series.He was educated at Cardiff High School and Cardiff University, obtaining his M.A....
     (Author)
  • Professor Keith Ward
    Keith Ward

    The Reverend Professor Keith Ward is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian, and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an ordained priest in the Church of England....
     (Philosopher, Gresham Professor of Divinity
    Gresham Professor of Divinity

    The Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596/7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and in addition the college now has visiting professors....
    , Gresham College
    Gresham College

    File:Gresham College, 1740.jpgGresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning off Holborn in central London. It enrolls no students and grants no academic degrees....
    )
  • Grace Williams
    Grace Williams

    Grace Mary Williams was a Wales composer....
     (composer)
  • Brian Wilson
    Brian Wilson (politician)

    Brian Wilson is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1987 until 2005, and served as a Minister of State from 1997 to 2003 ....
     (Politician)
  • Mark Wilson
    Mark Wilson

    Mark Wilson may refer to:* Mark Allen Wilson , American murder victim* Mark Wilson , American football offensive tackle* Mark Wilson , Second City alumnus...
     (Politician and previous mayor of Penarth)
  • Chandra Wickramasinghe
    Chandra Wickramasinghe

    Sri Lankan honours system Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, FIMA, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Society of Arts is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University....
     (Professor of Applied Mathematics- One of the foremost authorities on organic cosmic dust)


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