Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
The head of the polytechnic was titled "Principal", and later "Director":
Notable students of Coventry University (and its previous incarnations Lanchester Polytechnic and Coventry Polytechnic) include:
Wikimedian in Residence
A Wikimedian in Residence is somebody who works with an organisation. They can also be known as a Wikipedian in Residence. The name is also shortened to WiR.
They help the people at the host organisation to understand Wikipedia. They also help them to understand Wikipedia's sister projects. The sister projects include Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. Usually, WiR do not write about the organisation where they work. Instead, they help experts at their organisation to write about the things they know.
WiRs work with different types of organisations. These are most often GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). Some residents work in educational institutions such as universities. Sometimes they work across several organizations. If they do, then they can be called a "Wikimedian at Large". one worked across New Zealand. Some WiRs are paid by the organization where they work. Or they can be paid by a Wikimedia-related organization. Some are volunteers.
The first WiR was at the British Museum. That was in 2010.
By 2016, more than 100 people had been a WiRs. By 2020 there were more than 220.
Richard Askey
Richard Allen Askey (June 4, 1933 – October 9, 2019) was an American mathematician. He was known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey–Gasper inequality for Jacobi polynomials is essential in de Brange's famous proof of the Bieberbach conjecture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.
In 1999 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Beppe Bigazzi
Giuseppe Bigazzi (Terranuova Bracciolini, 20 January 1933 – Arezzo, 7 October 2019) was an Italian executive, journalist, television presenter and writer. He was a television presenter for the RAI show "La prova del cuoco".
Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his Tony- and Emmy-winning role as Belize in the Broadway production and HBO miniseries "Angels in America". He is also known for his roles as Felix Leiter in the "James Bond" movies "Casino Royale", "Quantum of Solace" and "No Time to Die", Narcisse in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire", and Beetee in "The Hunger Games" movies.
Wright is set to play Commissioner James Gordon in the 2022 movie "The Batman".
Lorand Gaspar
Lorand Gaspar (28 February 1925 – 9 October 2019) was a Hungarian–born French poet. He was born in Târgu Mureș, Hungary. He published his first verse collection in 1966, "Le Quatrième État de la matière" (Flammarion) and published a number of prose works and travel books as a photographer.
Gaspar died on 9 October 2019 in Paris at the age of 94.
Filippo Penati
Filippo Luigi Penati (30 December 1952 – 9 October 2019) was an Italian politician. He was born in Monza. He was mayor of Sesto San Giovanni between 1994 and 2001 and president of the Province of Milan between 2004 and 2009. He died in Sesto San Giovanni, aged 66.
Richard Jeranian
Richard Jeranian () 17 July 1921 – 10 October 2019) was an Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer active in France.
His works were figurative, surrealist, cubist or abstract periods covering the themes of music, woman and Armenia through figures, landscapes, genre scenes or still lifes in oil and ink.
Jeranian died on 10 October 2019 at the age of 98.
Tarek Kamel
Tarek Kamel (8 May 1962 – 10 October 2019) was an Egyptian politician and computer engineer. He was Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 2004 through 2011.
Kamel died on 10 October 2019 in Cairo at the age of 57.
Juliette Kaplan
Marlene Juliette Kaplan (2 October 1939 – 10 October 2019) was a British actress. She was most famous for playing the role of battle-axe Pearl Sibshaw in the BBC comedy "Last of the Summer Wine", from 1985 to 2010.
Kaplan died of cancer of unknown primary origin on 10 October 2019, aged 80.
Marie-José Nat
Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Her best known roles were in "" and "" (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the movie "Violins at the Ball".
Nat died of cancer in Paris on 10 October 2019 at the age of 79.
Carlo Croccolo
Carlo Croccolo (9 April 1927 – 12 October 2019) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 100 movies since 1949. His debut came in the 1949 movie "The Firemen of Viggiù".
Croccolo died of pneumonia in Naples on 12 October 2019 at the age of 92.
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (吉川 貴久, September 4, 1936 – October 12, 2019) was a Japanese shooter. He competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics in the 50 m pistol event. He won bronze medals in 1960 and 1964.
Angelique Rockas
Angelique Rockas (born in Boksburg, South Africa) is an actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded Internationalist Theatre in the UK with patron Athol Fugard.The company featured multi-racial and multi-national productions of great European classics as early as 1981, The Stage Editorial April 1981As an actress Rockas played roles that challenged casting cliches. Her work as an activist is inextricably connected to her role as producer and actress.
"Rockas attracted admiration as an actress for her strong interpretation of roles",'Medea' with Theatro Technis 'Miss Julie' with her own company Internationalist Theatre. Other key performances are: Emma in The Camp by Griselda Gambaro and Annabella in 'Tis Pity She`s a Whore' which was also Rockas`s first theatre production under the banner of 'New Theatre' directed by Declan Donnellan ,and now listed as one of the major productions of Tis Pity for the decade of the 1980`s in the 20th century
Further stage roles include Carmen in 'The Balcony' , Yvette in 'Mother Courage ' ,Miriam in 'In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel' , Lady Macbeth , Tatiana in Gorky`s 'Enemies'.
Work at London`s Theatro Technis under the name of Angeliki : Io in 'Prometheus Bound', Myrrhine in 'Lysistrata', Paphlagoonia in the adaptation of Aristophanes 'The Knights' 'Oh Democracy', and Kyproula in 'The National Enganement', all directed by George Eugeniou.
She played Ms Ortiki in Thorodos Maragos TV Film 'Emmones Idees' on Greek television ERT.
Films:
As stated in the British Library archives Rockas first production was Ford`s `Tis Pity She`s a Whore ` under the name of New Theatre in 1980 and was a prelude to her creating Internationalist Theatre. Declan Donnellan was commissioned to direct the play. "it is something of a triumph. Naked passion is as raw under a three piece suit as draped in Renaissance brocades" . She herself portrayed Annabella as a sinister teenager and not the compliant passive beauty . Various accents from a Scottish, American and South African cast mixed seamlessly in this production as a start to the challenge of contemporary theatre mores
The company was first named New Internationalist Theatre then changed to Internationalist Theatre
", , whose attack on the practice of war could not— with South Atlantic news filling the front pages— have been more topical.." "The cast ..is made of experienced actors from all over the world and perhaps their very cosmopolitanism helps to bring new textures to a familiar dish ." Breaking racial casting barriers: Why is a Pakistani actor playing the role of the Pastor ? was the question posed by Time Out Magazine critic Malcolm Hay
Angelique Rockas theatre practitioner Internationalist Theatre