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Leicester (pronounced /ˈlɛstər/ ( listen), LES-ter) is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England. It is the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In 2006, the...
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| x De Montfort University |
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De Montfort University (DMU) is a British university situated in the centre of Leicester, England. The university is made up of one main campus and one outlying campus. The main campus is currently being expanded to incorporate a new Business and...
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| x University of Leicester |
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The University of Leicester is a research led university based in Leicester, England, with approximately 20,000 registered students - about 13,000 of them full-time students and 7,000 part-time and/or distance learning. The main campus is a mile...
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Filbert Street, in Leicester, England, was a football stadium, and the home of Leicester City from 1891 to 2002. Although officially titled "The City Business Stadium" in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively by its address, like...
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The Walkers Stadium is a football stadium which hosts home matches of English football team Leicester City F.C. The all-seater stadium, inaugurated in July 2002, holds 32,500 and is named in a ten-year deal after sponsors worldwide snack foods firm...
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| x Leicester Medical School |
Leicester Medical School is a medical school in England. Part of the University of Leicester, it offers five-year and four-year (graduate entry) courses in medicine, awarding its graduates the MBChB degree. About 10 per cent of students on the five...
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| x Leicester College |
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Leicester College is a further education College in Leicester, England. The College is one of the largest in the UK with over 26,000 students, and 1,600 staff with an annual budget of £53 million. The College has three main campus sites; the Abbey...
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| x Leicester City Council |
Leicester City Council is a unitary authority responsible for local government in the city of Leicester, England. It consists of 54 councillors, representing 22 wards in the city. It is currently controlled by the Labour Party and is led by Ross...
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| x Gary Lineker |
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Gary Winston Lineker OBE (born 30 November 1960) is a retired English international football striker and is currently a sports broadcaster for the BBC and Eredivisie Live. He remains England's top scorer in the World Cup finals, with 10 goals....
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| x Graham Chapman |
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Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in...
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| x David Icke |
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David Vaughan Icke (pronounced /aɪk/; born 29 April 1952) is a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world." A former professional football player, reporter,...
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| x C. P. Snow |
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow CBE (15 October 1905–1 July 1980) was an English physicist and novelist, who also served several important positions in the UK government. He is perhaps best known for a series of novels known collectively as Strangers...
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| x Joseph Merrick |
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Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an Englishman who became known as "The Elephant Man" because of his physical appearance caused by a congenital disorder. Because of his condition, he would garner the sympathy of the United...
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| x Henry Walter Bates |
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Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS (Leicester, 8 February 1825 – London, 16 February 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with...
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| x Colin Wilson |
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Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931 in Leicester), a prolific British writer, first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism, and other topics.
Born and raised in Leicester,...
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| x Sue Townsend |
Susan Lillian Townsend (born 2 April 1946) is an English novelist and playwright, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books. Her writing often combines comedy with social commentary, though she has written purely dramatic works as well....
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| x Julian Barnes |
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Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has...
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| x Henry Ernest Atkins |
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Henry Ernest Atkins (20 August 1872 – 31 January 1955) was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts. He won every year from 1905 to 1911, and again...
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| x Dominic Keating |
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Dominic Keating (born 1 July 1962) is a British television, film and theatre actor, best known for his portrayal as Lt. Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise.
Keating was born in Leicester to an Irish father; his grandfather, a brigadier, was...
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| x Peter Shilton |
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Peter Leslie Shilton, OBE (born Leicester, England, 18 September 1949) is a former football goalkeeper who holds the record for playing more games than any other player. His international career earned him 125 caps, making him England's most capped...
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| x Kelvin Hopkins |
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Kelvin Peter Hopkins (born 22 August 1941) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Luton North.
Kelvin Hopkins was born in Leicester, the son of renowned physicist Harold Hopkins FRS, and was educated at the Queen Elizabeth...
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| x Rosie Winterton |
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Rosalie Winterton (born 10 August 1958) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central since 1997; currently, Winterton is a Minister of State for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination, where...
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| x Dion Dublin |
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Dion Dublin (born 22 April 1969 in Leicester, Leicestershire) is a retired English footballer. He was capped four times for England. Dublin started his career as a centre back, but made his name at Cambridge United as a goal-scoring centre forward....
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| x Willie Thorne |
William Joseph Thorne (born 4 March 1954 in Wigston, Leicester), best known as Willie Thorne, is a former English professional snooker player and now a commentator.
A strong junior player, Thorne became national under-16 champion at both snooker and...
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| x Paul Dodge |
Paul William Dodge (born 26 May 1958 in Leicester, England) is a former English rugby union international footballer who gained 32 caps for his country between 1978 and 1985. His Leicester Tigers career earned him 436 appearances.
Paul joined Tigers...
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| x Parmjit Singh Gill |
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Parmjit Singh Gill (born 20 December 1966, Leicester) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. As Member of Parliament for Leicester South from 2004 to 2005, he was the first and, to date, the only ever ethnic-minority Liberal Democrat MP.
He was...
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| x Ollie Smith |
Oliver James Smith (born 14 August 1982 in Leicester) is an English rugby player who plays for Montpellier Hérault RC and England usually at outside centre and occasionally inside centre or wing. He sees himself as a centre who has enough pace to...
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| x Betty Driver |
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Betty Mary Driver, MBE (born 20 May 1920 in Leicester) is an English singer, actress and author, most noted for her role as Betty Williams on the British soap Coronation Street.
Betty Driver was born to parents Frederick and Nellie Driver in 1920 at...
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| x Stephen Frears |
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Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film director.
Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr. Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was...
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| x Thomas Cooper |
Thomas Cooper (March 20, 1805 – July 15, 1892) was a Chartist poet.
Cooper was born in Leicester, and apprenticed to a shoemaker. In spite of hardships and difficulties, he educated himself, and at 23 was a schoolmaster.
He became a leader and...
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| x Martin J. Taylor |
Sir Martin John Taylor FRS (born 18 February 1952) is professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity...
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| x Alan Walters |
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Professor Sir Alan Arthur Walters (17 June 1926 – 3 January 2009) was a British economist, best known as the former Chief Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1983 and again in 1989 after he had returned from America....
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| x John Leeson |
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John Leeson (born March 1943 in Leicester, England) is a British actor who although having had a varied stage and television career spanning forty years including both work in repertory and West End productions including "Plaza Suite" (1969); "Flint...
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| x Harry Ellis |
Harry Alistair Ellis (born 17 May 1982 in Leicester) is an English rugby union footballer who plays scrum half for Leicester Tigers and England. Ellis is perhaps not the most naturally talented scrum-half, but he more than makes up for that with...
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| x Ben Hammersley |
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Ben Hammersley (born 3 April 1976 in Leicester, England) is a British journalist, broadcaster, photographer, and technologist, currently based between London, England, and Florence, Italy.
He is currently Editor at Large of Conde Nast's Wired UK...
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| x William Buckingham |
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William Buckingham (February 1886 – 15 September 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Buckingham...
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| x Michael Robinson |
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Michael John Robinson (born July 12, 1958 in Leicester, England) is a former England-born Irish international footballer.
A striker, he later became a top television pundit and presenter in Spain.
Robinson started his career with Preston North End...
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| x Quentin Willson |
Quentin Willson (born 23 July 1957) is a British TV presenter and motoring expert, and perhaps most widely known as a presenter of the motoring programmes Top Gear, Britain's Worst Driver, and Fifth Gear.
Willson studied English Literature at the...
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| x Michael Kitchen |
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Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as DCS Foyle in the British TV series Foyle's War.
Kitchen worked with the National Youth Theatre and the Belgrade...
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| x Suzanna Leigh |
Suzanna Leigh (born Suzanna Smyth on 26 July 1945 in Belgrave, Leicester) is a former English actress.
Born to a manufacterer of auto engines Suzanna Leigh grew up in Belgrave, England and later went to convent schools outside London. She began...
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| x Matt Piper |
Matthew James "Matt" Piper (born September 29, 1981 in Leicester, England) is an English former footballer. He played as a winger.
Piper was educated at Rawlins Community College, and came through the youth ranks of hometown club Leicester City....
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| x Jon Callard |
Jonathan Edward Brooks Callard (born 1 January 1966 in Leicester) is a coach at the Rugby Football Union's National Academy. He formerly played rugby union at fullback for Bath and England.
Callard taught physical education classes and sports...
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| x Richard Armitage |
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Richard Armitage (born 22 August 1971) is a British actor.
Born in Leicester, he went to Huncote Primary School in Huncote, later Brockington College in Enderby and then Pattison College in Coventry, and then studied acting at the London Academy of...
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| x Geoff Peters |
Geoff Peters (born April 1973) is a freelance sports radio broadcaster from Leicestershire. He is currently a football reporter for talkSPORT and has previously presented shows on the station. He was part of the commentary team for them at the 2006...
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| x Louis Deacon |
Louis Deacon (born 7 October 1980 in Leicester) is an English rugby union footballer. He is a lock.
His playing career started as an eight year old, playing with Wigston, before joining Syston. He later joined Syston and as a Ratcliffe College...
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| x Josette Simon |
Josette Patricia Simon OBE (born 1960) is a British actress of Antiguan descent. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
She is best known for her portrayal of Dayna Mellanby in the third and fourth seasons of...
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| x Dale Smith |
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Paul Dale Smith (born November 1976) is a writer and playwright from Leicester, England but currently living and working in Greater Manchester. He writes under the name Dale Smith, and has had previous works published and performed under the names...
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| x John Henry Chamberlain |
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John Henry Chamberlain (June 21, 1831 – October 22, 1883), generally known professionally as J H Chamberlain, was a nineteenth century English architect.
Working predominantly in the Victorian Gothic style, he was one of the earliest and foremost...
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| x Kevin Hewick |
Kevin Hewick (born in Leicester on 4 February 1957) is an English singer-songwriter who was an early member of the Factory Records roster. In the present day he is known for his epic 3-4 hour length live sets.
Newly added to the Factory roster...
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| x DJ SS |
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DJ SS, born Leroy Small (on August 27 1970) , is a Drum and Bass DJ and producer from Leicester, United Kingdom. His artist name has nothing to do with the Nazi SS. His name actually stands for Scratchenstein which is a name he used when he was a...
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| x Ryan Amoo |
Ryan Lee Amoo (born 11 October 1983 in Leicester), is an English footballer currently playing for Thurnby Rangers.
A utility player by nature, Amoo has demonstrated that playing in the defensive line and in particular anywhere across the middle of...
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| x Alison King |
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Alison King (born 3 March 1973) is an English actress. She has had major television roles as Lynda Block in the Sky One television series Dream Team, and as Carla Connor in Coronation Street since 2006.
Alison King was born on 3 March 1973 at...
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| x Parminder Nagra |
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Parminder Kaur Nagra (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. More recently she starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama...
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| x Paul Anderson |
Paul Anderson (born 23 July 1988 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) is a footballer playing for Nottingham Forest. He plays primarily as a winger and can operate on either flank.
Anderson attended Brownlow County Primary School then John Ferneley...
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| x Darren Maddy |
Darren Lee Maddy (born 23 May 1974, Leicester) is an English cricketer who plays first class cricket for Warwickshire. He played three Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England, making one international fifty in his ten innings between 1998...
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| x Stefan Oakes |
Stefan Trevor Oakes (born 6 September 1978) is an English footballer, who plays for Lincoln City in Football League Two after rejecting a new contract at Wycombe Wanderers.
Oakes' brother Scott was also a professional footballer. Their father Trevor...
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| x Roger Chapman |
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Roger Chapman (born Roger Maxwell Chapman on 8 April 1942 in Leicester) is an English rock vocalist.
Roger "Chappo" Chapman was originally the vocalist for a band called Farinas formed by Charlie Whitney, who released the single "You'd Better Stop"...
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| x Mark Selby |
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Mark Selby (born June 19, 1983, Leicester, England) is an English professional snooker and pool player. Runner up in the World Snooker Championship 2007, he was the 2006 WEPF World Eight-ball Champion. In January 2008, Selby won the Masters, his...
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| x Samit Patel |
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Samit Rohit Patel (born 30 November 1984 in Leicester) is a English cricketer who has his roots from Baroda, Gujarat, India. He plays first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He made his One Day International debut for England in...
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| x Ashley Chambers |
Ashley Renaldo Chambers (born 1 March 1990 in Leicester) is an English footballer currently playing for Wycombe Wanderers on loan from Leicester City.
Chambers joined Leicester aged eight. After playing for the Leicester Under-18s and reserves he...
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