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Every lecture I have, there is at least one mention of "and did you know that what we're studying right now was actually discovered in this very university!!!" to which everyone oo's and ahh's! or for the daily advert a lecturer always puts in a word of how this famous pop star went to our uni, or that famous celebrity! its great fun to see you've got something in common with famous people!!
So what I want to know, is what famous people went to your uni, and don't forget to mention ur uni name!
So what I want to know, is what famous people went to your uni, and don't forget to mention ur uni name!
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The Uni/Institute I want to go to is where Jimmy Choo learnt about fashion, Pierce Brosnan went and Alexi Sayle as well...
That's the London Institute btw
That's the London Institute btw
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I was at SOAS today with my friend and they were filming something there, though am not sure what it was about though. It was pretty funny; the students were told to not look at them filming and stuff, but sometimes it was impossible, especially when an actor started shouting out something.
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(Original post by Danithestudent)
The Uni/Institute I want to go to is where Jimmy Choo learnt about fashion, Pierce Brosnan went and Alexi Sayle as well...
That's the London Institute btw
The Uni/Institute I want to go to is where Jimmy Choo learnt about fashion, Pierce Brosnan went and Alexi Sayle as well...
That's the London Institute btw
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#6
Jimmy Choo does make fantastic shoes, I'm what I call a repressed shoe freak, I want all these shoes but unfortunatley I have this little practical voice inside me saying "Where would you wear it? You can't walk in those! It won't go with what you have in your cupboard. £100 for a pair of shoes? you could buy an outfit with that!"
I take it out on bags instead.....i have 47 different bags and not a single one of them bigger than a handbag!
I take it out on bags instead.....i have 47 different bags and not a single one of them bigger than a handbag!
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Rodney Trotter aka Nicholas Lyndhurst lives real close to me in West Wittering, and my bf used to work in the Co-op there and he used to come in with darkn glasses and a hat and buy 40 L&B and 2 big bottles of Smirnoff Ice and do it in an american accent to avoid being recognised lol...Kylie has just bought a house down there as well
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(Original post by Danithestudent)
Jimmy Choo does make fantastic shoes, I'm what I call a repressed shoe freak, I want all these shoes but unfortunatley I have this little practical voice inside me saying "Where would you wear it? You can't walk in those! It won't go with what you have in your cupboard. £100 for a pair of shoes? you could buy an outfit with that!"
I take it out on bags instead.....i have 47 different bags and not a single one of them bigger than a handbag!
Jimmy Choo does make fantastic shoes, I'm what I call a repressed shoe freak, I want all these shoes but unfortunatley I have this little practical voice inside me saying "Where would you wear it? You can't walk in those! It won't go with what you have in your cupboard. £100 for a pair of shoes? you could buy an outfit with that!"
I take it out on bags instead.....i have 47 different bags and not a single one of them bigger than a handbag!
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(Original post by glitz)
Every lecture I have, there is at least one mention of "and did you know that what we're studying right now was actually discovered in this very university!!!" to which everyone oo's and ahh's! or for the daily advert a lecturer always puts in a word of how this famous pop star went to our uni, or that famous celebrity! its great fun to see you've got something in common with famous people!!
So what I want to know, is what famous people went to your uni, and don't forget to mention ur uni name!
Every lecture I have, there is at least one mention of "and did you know that what we're studying right now was actually discovered in this very university!!!" to which everyone oo's and ahh's! or for the daily advert a lecturer always puts in a word of how this famous pop star went to our uni, or that famous celebrity! its great fun to see you've got something in common with famous people!!
So what I want to know, is what famous people went to your uni, and don't forget to mention ur uni name!
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#10
Yeah there were these shoes that I saw the other day they were like high heels and were covered in the symbols they have on the weather reports they were sooo cool...but again ...little practical voice in my head...
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#11
Ok we can expand this thread to: famous people in ur uni & famous people you've seen!
I have seen a wide range of celebs in a wide range of places!
Richard & Judy - M&S!!!
Dale Winton - Tesco at 10pm LOL
Arnold Schwarznegger - in a cafe whilst on holiday in LA
Michael Jackson - in the hotel I was staying at whilst on holiday in France
I have seen a wide range of celebs in a wide range of places!
Richard & Judy - M&S!!!
Dale Winton - Tesco at 10pm LOL
Arnold Schwarznegger - in a cafe whilst on holiday in LA
Michael Jackson - in the hotel I was staying at whilst on holiday in France
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I'm at UCL and every day we have our daily UCL advert on famous ex-students! its hilarious! The list so far includes
Alexander Graham Bell, Chris Martin, William Champion and Johnny Buckland (members of the band Coldplay) , Mahatma Gandhi (spiritual leader) , Chi Squared was found at UCL too!
Alexander Graham Bell, Chris Martin, William Champion and Johnny Buckland (members of the band Coldplay) , Mahatma Gandhi (spiritual leader) , Chi Squared was found at UCL too!
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#16
Christ's (1505)
Richard Clerke, John Milton, Charles Darwin, Jan Smuts, CP Snow, David Mellor, Richard Whiteley, Lord Mountbatten, Colin Dexter, Sacha Baron-Cohen (Ali G), Simon Schama, Rowan Williams
Churchill (1960)
Clare (1326)
Nicholas Ferrer, Hugh Latimer, Charles Cornwallis, David Attenborough, Peter Lilley, Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Stilgoe, James Watson, Andrew Wiles, Peter Ackroyd, Roger Norrington
Clare Hall (1984)
Corpus Christi (1352)
Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, Matthew Parker
Darwin (1976)
Jane Goodall
Downing (1800)
John Cleese, Michael Winner, Mike Atherton, Brian Redhead, Quentin Blake, Trevor Nunn, Michael Apted, Thandie Newton
Emmanuel (1584)
John Harvard, FR Leavis, Fred Hoyle, Griff Rhys Jones, Graeme Garden, Cecil Parkinson, John Wallis, Michael Frayn, Graham Chapman
Fitzwilliam (1896)
Lord Fawsley, Norman Lamont, Derek Pringle, Phil Edmonds, Lee Kuan Yew
Girton (1869)
Sandi Toksvig, Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Raquel Cassidy
Gonville and Caius (1348)
William Harvey, Thomas Shadwell, George Green, David Frost, Kenneth Clarke, Harold Abrahams, John Venn, Keith Vaz, Alastair Campbell
Homerton (1894)
Julie Covington, Nick Hancock, Cherie Lunghi, Sandi Toksvig, Graham Wynne
Hughes Hall (1885)
Jesus (1496)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Cranmer, Laurence Sterne, Alastair Cooke, Prince Edward, Lord Snowdon, Ted Dexter, Thomas Malthus, Nick Hornby, Tony Wilson
King's (1441)
Francis Walsingham, Rupert Brooke, JM Keynes, EM Forster, Robert Walpole, Martin Bell, Salman Rushdie, Alan Turing, David Baddiel, John Graham
Lucy Cavendish (1965)
Magdalene (1542)
Samuel Pepys, Charles Kingsley, CS Lewis, Michael Ramsey, Lord Tedder, Bamber Gascoigne, John Simpson, Michael Redgrave, Gavin Hastings, Charles Parnell, George Mallory, Katie Derham, Rob Wainwright, Mike Newell, Alan Rusbridger
New Hall (1954)
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Sue Perkins
Newnham (1871)
Eleanor Bron, Emma Thompson, Germaine Greer, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Drabble, AS Byatt, Rosalind Franklin, Anne Campbell, Dorothy Hodgkin, Shirley Williams, Claire Balding, Jane Goodall, Diane Abbott
Pembroke (1347)
William Pitt, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Gray, Peter Cook, Ted Hughes, Clive James, Peter May, Eric Idle, Bishop Ridley, George Stokes, Rab Butler, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Tom Sharpe, Arthur Bliss, Jonathan Lynn
Peterhouse (1284)
Thomas Gray, Henry Cavendish, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, Frank Whittle, Christopher Cockerell, Michael Howard, Michael Portillo, Richard Baker, John Whitgift, James Dewar, Sam Mendes, Stephanie Cook
Queens' (1448)
Desiderius Erasmus, Isaac Milner, Stephen Fry, Mike Foale, Derek Lewis, Charles Stanford, Richard Hickox, Osborne Reynolds
Robinson (1977)
Adrian Davies, Charles Hart, Konnie Huq
St Catharine's (1473)
John Addenbrooke, James Shirley, Ian McKellen, Jeremy Paxman, Steve Punt, Peter Hall
St John's (1511)
William Wordsworth, Paul Dirac, William Wilberforce, Jonathan Miller, Douglas Adams, Viscount Goderich, Lord Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, Trevor Bailey, Mike Brearley, Hugh Dennis, Rob Andrew, Sid Waddell
Selwyn (1882)
Hugh Laurie, Rob Newman, Clive Anderson, John Selwyn Gummer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Simon Hughes, Robert Harris
Sidney Sussex (1596)
Oliver Cromwell, David Owen, John Patten, Carol Vorderman, Ian Lang
Trinity (1546)
(living alumni only) Hermann Bondi, Freeman Dyson, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, John Nott, John Tusa, Douglas Hurd, Edward Stourton, Peter Bottomley, Leon Brittan, Prince Charles, Raymond Keene, Jonathan Mestel, Antony Gormley, Vanessa Feltz, John Crawley, Peter Shaffer, Mel Giedroyc, Stephen Frears, Alex Comfort, Edward Atterton, Thomas Gold
Trinity Hall (1350)
Admiral Howard, Robert Herrick, JB Priestley, Terry Waite, Norman Fowler, Tony Slattery, Geoffrey Howe, Donald Maclean, David Sheppard, Rachel Weisz, Stephen Hawking, Hans Blix, Andrew Marr
I didn't know about Konnie Huq
Richard Clerke, John Milton, Charles Darwin, Jan Smuts, CP Snow, David Mellor, Richard Whiteley, Lord Mountbatten, Colin Dexter, Sacha Baron-Cohen (Ali G), Simon Schama, Rowan Williams
Churchill (1960)
Clare (1326)
Nicholas Ferrer, Hugh Latimer, Charles Cornwallis, David Attenborough, Peter Lilley, Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Stilgoe, James Watson, Andrew Wiles, Peter Ackroyd, Roger Norrington
Clare Hall (1984)
Corpus Christi (1352)
Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, Matthew Parker
Darwin (1976)
Jane Goodall
Downing (1800)
John Cleese, Michael Winner, Mike Atherton, Brian Redhead, Quentin Blake, Trevor Nunn, Michael Apted, Thandie Newton
Emmanuel (1584)
John Harvard, FR Leavis, Fred Hoyle, Griff Rhys Jones, Graeme Garden, Cecil Parkinson, John Wallis, Michael Frayn, Graham Chapman
Fitzwilliam (1896)
Lord Fawsley, Norman Lamont, Derek Pringle, Phil Edmonds, Lee Kuan Yew
Girton (1869)
Sandi Toksvig, Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Raquel Cassidy
Gonville and Caius (1348)
William Harvey, Thomas Shadwell, George Green, David Frost, Kenneth Clarke, Harold Abrahams, John Venn, Keith Vaz, Alastair Campbell
Homerton (1894)
Julie Covington, Nick Hancock, Cherie Lunghi, Sandi Toksvig, Graham Wynne
Hughes Hall (1885)
Jesus (1496)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Cranmer, Laurence Sterne, Alastair Cooke, Prince Edward, Lord Snowdon, Ted Dexter, Thomas Malthus, Nick Hornby, Tony Wilson
King's (1441)
Francis Walsingham, Rupert Brooke, JM Keynes, EM Forster, Robert Walpole, Martin Bell, Salman Rushdie, Alan Turing, David Baddiel, John Graham
Lucy Cavendish (1965)
Magdalene (1542)
Samuel Pepys, Charles Kingsley, CS Lewis, Michael Ramsey, Lord Tedder, Bamber Gascoigne, John Simpson, Michael Redgrave, Gavin Hastings, Charles Parnell, George Mallory, Katie Derham, Rob Wainwright, Mike Newell, Alan Rusbridger
New Hall (1954)
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Sue Perkins
Newnham (1871)
Eleanor Bron, Emma Thompson, Germaine Greer, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Drabble, AS Byatt, Rosalind Franklin, Anne Campbell, Dorothy Hodgkin, Shirley Williams, Claire Balding, Jane Goodall, Diane Abbott
Pembroke (1347)
William Pitt, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Gray, Peter Cook, Ted Hughes, Clive James, Peter May, Eric Idle, Bishop Ridley, George Stokes, Rab Butler, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Tom Sharpe, Arthur Bliss, Jonathan Lynn
Peterhouse (1284)
Thomas Gray, Henry Cavendish, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, Frank Whittle, Christopher Cockerell, Michael Howard, Michael Portillo, Richard Baker, John Whitgift, James Dewar, Sam Mendes, Stephanie Cook
Queens' (1448)
Desiderius Erasmus, Isaac Milner, Stephen Fry, Mike Foale, Derek Lewis, Charles Stanford, Richard Hickox, Osborne Reynolds
Robinson (1977)
Adrian Davies, Charles Hart, Konnie Huq
St Catharine's (1473)
John Addenbrooke, James Shirley, Ian McKellen, Jeremy Paxman, Steve Punt, Peter Hall
St John's (1511)
William Wordsworth, Paul Dirac, William Wilberforce, Jonathan Miller, Douglas Adams, Viscount Goderich, Lord Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, Trevor Bailey, Mike Brearley, Hugh Dennis, Rob Andrew, Sid Waddell
Selwyn (1882)
Hugh Laurie, Rob Newman, Clive Anderson, John Selwyn Gummer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Simon Hughes, Robert Harris
Sidney Sussex (1596)
Oliver Cromwell, David Owen, John Patten, Carol Vorderman, Ian Lang
Trinity (1546)
(living alumni only) Hermann Bondi, Freeman Dyson, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, John Nott, John Tusa, Douglas Hurd, Edward Stourton, Peter Bottomley, Leon Brittan, Prince Charles, Raymond Keene, Jonathan Mestel, Antony Gormley, Vanessa Feltz, John Crawley, Peter Shaffer, Mel Giedroyc, Stephen Frears, Alex Comfort, Edward Atterton, Thomas Gold
Trinity Hall (1350)
Admiral Howard, Robert Herrick, JB Priestley, Terry Waite, Norman Fowler, Tony Slattery, Geoffrey Howe, Donald Maclean, David Sheppard, Rachel Weisz, Stephen Hawking, Hans Blix, Andrew Marr
I didn't know about Konnie Huq
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#18
(Original post by Unregistered)
I think that definitely wins!
I wonder which has more- cambridge or oxford?
lol
I think that definitely wins!
I wonder which has more- cambridge or oxford?
lol
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#20
Bill Clinton. And I'm doing the same undergraduate course at the same college that Stephen Hawking did.
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