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Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton

**Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton** DBE, GCStJ, FRCN (born 10 September 1935) is a British crossbench member of the House of Lords.

She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours. She was created a life peer as **Baroness Emerton**, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997.
Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes

**Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes**, AM, FRSA, JP (_née_ **McGirr**;  - April 14, 2024) was an Australian-born dentist and Conservative member of the British House of Lords. She is the only Australian woman to date who has been elevated to the peerage.
Llin Golding, Baroness Golding

**Llinos Golding, Baroness Golding** (born 21 March 1933) is a Labour Party politician. She currently sits in the House of Lords.   She is a radiographer and worked in the NHS and currently serves as Patron of the Society of Radiographers.
Elspeth Howe

**Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote**,  (born **Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand**; 8 February 1932 – 22 March 2022) was a British life peer. She was the widow of Geoffrey Howe. She was known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right.

She was a half-aunt to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Elspeth Howe served as deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980. She was later made Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. In the 1999 New Year's Honours she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Howe retired from Parliament on 2 June 2020.

Howe died on 22 March 2022 from cancer, aged 90.

## Infobox (person)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Baroness Howe of Idlicote
- **image**: Official portrait of Baroness Howe of Idlicote crop 2.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait of Baroness Howe of Idlicote
- **birth name**: Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand
- **children**: 3
- **parents**: Philip Morton Shand
Sybil Mary Shand
- **education**: Wycombe Abbey
London School of Economics
- **nationality**: British
Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids

**Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids**, OBE (10 January 1931 – 14 October 2025) was a Labour member of the House of Lords.

Howells was awarded an OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours, she was made a Life peer as **Baroness Howells of St Davids**, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich on 21 July 1999.

The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south-east of the Island.

In March 2009 she was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire in Luton.

Howells died on 14 October 2025, at the age of 94.

## Other websites

- Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 25 October 1999.
- 100 Great Black Britons.
Malamel

**Malamel** is a village in Pathanapuram Taluk in Kollam district, Kerala, India. This village is situated between Anchal and Valakom bypass road. In Malayalam, Malamel means "Top of the hill".

## Rock Temples

At Malamel, there is a huge rock on which there is a famous Shiva Temple. A temple festival is held on 3 December. The temple has 5 doors and is considered to be divine and ancient because of the close proximity of _Jadayupara_ (Chadayamangalam) (the rock that _Jadayu_ carried on his wings).  It has also a cave at extreme left of the temple, which a British Adventurer in the year 1946, tried in vain to venture into, and which leads to the Kulathupuzha Forest.  This cave is believed to be a haven for very venomous snakes.
Famous temples like _Arackal Devi Temple_ and _Perumannur Devi Temple_ are nearby.  Kottarakara Sree Mahaganapathy Kshethram is 12 km away.

Kottarakara and Punalur are the towns nearest to the village.

## Other websites

- Malamel Shiva Kshethram (Temple) at Google Maps

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Malamel
- **native name lang**: ml
- **settlement type**: Town
- **pushpin map**: India Kerala#India
- **pushpin label position**: right
- **pushpin map caption**: Location in Kerala, India
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: States and territories of India, State
- **subdivision name1**: Kerala
- **subdivision type2**: List of districts of India, District
- **subdivision name2**: Kollam district, Kollam
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **population density km2**: auto
- **demographics type1**: Languages
- **demographics1 title1**: Official
- **demographics1 info1**: Malayalam language, Malayalam, English language, English
- **timezone1**: Indian Standard Time, IST
- **utc offset1**: +5:30
- **registration plate**: KL-
Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe

**Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, DBE** (born 3 May 1930, née Owen) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours.

From 1997 to 2001 she was Opposition Whip. Since 2006 she is the Opposition Spokesperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs/Justice.

## Other websites

- "The Papers of Enoch Powell"
- Extract from _Hansard_
Martin Hoffman

**Martin Joseph Hoffman** (15 November 1929 – 15 May 2018) was a Czech-born British professional bridge player and writer of Jewish descent. He was born in Prague.

He was a survivor of the Holocaust and transported to Auschwitz. He was later moved to the Monowitz-Buna, Gross Rosen and Birkenau sub-camps of Auschwitz; and from there he was sent on a death march towards Buchenwald. In 1945, he was liberated by American Army troops, who adopted him as mascot, with the honorary rank of sergeant.
Billy Cannon

**Billy Abb Cannon** (August 2, 1937 – May 18, 2018) was an American football running back and tight end. He played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Cannon started playing football at Louisiana State University. He later played for the Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and the Kansas City Chiefs. In February 2013, Cannon suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in Baton Rouge.

Cannon died on May 18, 2018 in St. Francisville, Louisiana at the age of 80.

## Other websites

- LSU Tigers bio
St. Francisville, Louisiana

**St. Francisville** is a town in, and the parish seat of, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,557 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge city area.
Jaroslav Brabec

**Jaroslav Brabec** (27 July 1949 – 20 May 2018) was a Czech former track and field athlete. He competed in the shot put. He twice represented Czechoslovakia at the Summer Olympics (1972 and 1976). He was a three-time participant at the European Athletics Championships (1971, 1974 and 1978) and a three-time medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, being the champion at the 1973 edition.

Brabec died on 20 May 2018 in Prague at the age of 68.
Yan An

**Yan An** (simplified Chinese: 闫安; traditional Chinese: 閆安; Pinyin _Yàn Ān_; born 12 January 1993 in Beijing) is a male table tennis player from China. He is righthanded-player and uses the Shakehand-grip.

## Results from the ITTF-database

|Association|Competition|Year|City|Country|Singles|Doubles|Mixed|Team|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|CHN|Youth-World Championships|2007|Palo Alto|USA|Quarterfinals||||
|CHN|Youth- World Championships|2008|Madrid|ESP|||||
|CHN|Youth- World Championships|2009|Cartagena de Indias|COL|||||
|Quarterfinals|||||||||
|CHN|World Cup|2013|Verviers|BEL|Quarterfinals||||
|CHN|World Championships|2011|Rotterdam|NED|||last 16||
|CHN|World Championships|2013|Paris|FRA|Quarterfinals||||
|CHN|World Championships|2015|Suzhou|CHN|||Quarterfinals||
|CHN|Pro Tour (Polish Open)|2009|Warschau|POL|Quarterfinals|last 16|||
|CHN|Pro Tour (China Open)|2011|Suzhou|CHN|||||
|CHN|Asian Cup|2013|Hong Kong|HKG|||||
|CHN|Asian Youth Champ|2007|Hoengseong|KOR|||||
|CHN|Asian Championships|2009|Jaipur|IND|||||
|CHN|Asian Championships|2008|Simgapore|SIN|||||

## Infobox (sport)

- **name**: Yan An
- **image**: ITTF World Tour 2017 German Open Yan An 01.jpg
- **nicknames**: Yao Yan= Little Children
- **team**: China
- **type**: attacker
- **equipment**: DHS
Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins

**Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins**, KBE, DL, PC (born 18 January 1928) is a British Conservative politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

While in opposition, he served as the Conservative shadow minister for work and pensions in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 New Years Honours List.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Higgins
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Higgins crop 2.jpg
- **office**: Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- **term start**: 1972
- **primeminister**: Edward Heath
- **term end**: 1974
- **predecessor**: Patrick Jenkin
- **successor**: John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert, John Gilbert
- **office1**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Worthing (UK Parliament constituency), Worthing
- **term start1**: 1964
- **term end1**: 1997
- **predecessor1**: Otho Prior-Palmer
- **successor1**: constituency abolished
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **alma mater**: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton

**Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton** (2 March 1930 – 19 August 2023) was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. In 1981 he was moved to the Department of Health and Social Security and in 1982 to the Home Office. In 1984 he was promoted to Minister of State within the Home Office.

In 1985, Elton joined the Department of Environment, again as a Minister of State, but left the government the following year.

## Styles

- **2 March 1930 – 16 January 1934**: Rodney Elton
- **16 January 1934 – 18 April 1973**: _The Honourable_ Rodney Elton
- **18 April 1973 – 19 August 2023**: _The Right Honourable_ The Lord Elton

## Other websites

- Ministerial posts

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Elton
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Elton crop 2.jpg
- **office1**: Secretary of State for Environment, Minister of State for Environment
- **primeminister1**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start1**: 27 March 1985
- **term end1**: 10 September 1986
- **predecessor1**: _new appointment_
- **successor1**: William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, Hon. William Waldegrave
- **office2**: Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Minister of State for Home Affairs
- **primeminister2**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start2**: 11 September 1984
- **term end2**: 25 March 1985
- **predecessor2**: David Waddington, Baron Waddington, David Waddington
- **successor2**: David Mellor
- **office3**: Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs
- **primeminister3**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start3**: 6 April 1982
- **term end3**: 11 September 1984
- **predecessor3**: John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, The Lord Belstead
- **successor3**: David Mellor
- **office4**: Department for Health and Social Security, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
- **primeminister4**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start4**: 15 September 1981
- **term end4**: 6 April 1982
- **predecessor4**: Geoffrey Finsberg
- **successor4**: David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne, Lord Trefgarne
- **office5**: Northern Ireland Office, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- **primeminister5**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start5**: 7 May 1979
- **term end5**: 15 September 1981
- **predecessor5**: Tom Pendry
- **successor5**: David Mitchell (politician), David Mitchell
- **office9**: Member of the House of Lords
Lords Temporal, Lord Temporal
- **term start9**: 13 May 1973
Hereditary peer, Hereditary Peerage
- **predecessor9**: Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton, The 1st Lord Elton
- **birth date**: 2 March 1930
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **death date**: 19 August 2023
Robin Eames

**Robert "Robin" Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames**,  (born 27 April 1936), is an Anglican bishop. He served as Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.

## Infobox (christian leader)

- **type**: bishop
- **name**: The Lord Eames
- **title**: Former Primate of All Ireland
and Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland), Archbishop of Armagh
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Eames crop 2.jpg
- **church**: Church of Ireland
- **province**: Province of Armagh (Church of Ireland), Armagh
- **diocese**: Diocese of Armagh (Church of Ireland), Armagh
- **term**: 1986–2006
- **predecessor**: John Armstrong (archbishop of Armagh), John Armstrong
- **successor**: Alan Harper (bishop), Alan Harper
- **ordination**: 1963
- **consecration**: 21 April 1986
- **birth name**: Robert Henry Alexander Eames
- **birth place**: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, UK
- **religion**: Anglicanism, Anglican
- **spouse**: Christine Daly
- **alma mater**: Queen's University Belfast
Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith

**Robert William Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith** DL (born 30 September 1934), is a British farmer, and Conservative Party politician. Lord Dixon-Smith is a former Shadow Minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

**Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood**, PC (9 April 1937 – 7 July 2023) was a British lawyer and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Brown was appointed a High Court Judge in 1984 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving a knighthood on his appointment. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, in 1992 and was made a Privy Counsellor in the same year. He was Vice-President of the Civil Division from 2001 to 2003.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Brown of Eaton‑under‑Heywood
- **honorific-suffix**: Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood crop 2.jpg
- **office**: Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- **term start**: 1 October 2009
- **term end**: 9 April 2012
- **predecessor**: Position created
- **successor**: Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill
- **monarch**: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II
- **office2**: Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
- **term start2**: 13 January 2004
- **term end2**: 30 September 2009
- **predecessor2**: John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, The Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough
- **successor2**: Position eliminated
- **office3**: Lord Justice of Appeal
- **term start3**: 1992
- **term end3**: 2004
- **office4**: High Court Judge
- **term start4**: 1984
- **term end4**: 1992
- **birthname**: Simon Denis Brown
- **nationality**: United Kingdom, British
- **spouse**: Jennifer Buddicom
- **alma mater**: Worcester College, Oxford, Worcester College, University of Oxford, Oxford
- **occupation**: Judge
- **profession**: Barristers in England and Wales, Barrister
- **serviceyears**: 1955–57
- **rank**:  Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), Lieutenant
- **unit**: Royal Artillery
Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux

**Michael John Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux**, CBE (born 2 August 1938) is a British peer and a Member of the House of Lords. He has also been Chairman of the Tax Payers' Society from 1989–91 and has been Chairman of the European Secure Vehicle Alliance since 1992. In 1995, he was appointed CBE.

## Other websites

- Burke's Peerage and Gentry
- House of Lords biography
- Hansard
- Pedigree at Genealogics
- Entry at The Peerage
William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw

**William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw** (born 9 September 1936), commonly known as **Bill Bradshaw**, is a British academic and politician.  He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. He was formerly also a County Councillor in Oxfordshire from 1993 until his resignation in January 2008.

## Other websites

- Announcement of Bradshaw's introduction into the House of Lords, House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 26 July 1999

## Infobox (person)

- **honorific prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Bradshaw
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Bradshaw crop 2.jpg
- **occupation**: British academic and politician
- **party**: Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats
Alec Broers, Baron Broers

**Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers**, FRS FMedSci FREng (born 17 September 1938) is a British electrical engineer.

In September 2008, Lord Broers took over from Sir David Cooksey as chairman of the board of directors at the Diamond Light Source, the United Kingdom's largest new scientific facility for 45 years.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Broers
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Broers crop 2.jpg
- **birth place**: Calcutta, India
- **office**: List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge
- **term**: 1996-2003
- **predecessor**: David Glyndwr Tudor Williams
- **successor**: Alison Richard
- **chancellor**: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
- **alma mater**: Geelong Grammar School
Melbourne University
University of Cambridge
Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster

**Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster**,  (30 March 1927 – 3 April 2020) was a British Lord Temporal and former civil servant. From 1970 to 1975 he was the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.  He was knighted in 1978.  From 1979 to 1987, he served as Cabinet Secretary under Margaret Thatcher.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Armstrong of Ilminster crop 2.jpg
- **office**: Lord Temporal
- **term start**: 26 February 1988
- **term end**: 3 April 2020
- **office2**: Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
- **primeminister2**: Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
- **term start2**: 1970
- **term end2**: 1975
- **predecessor2**: Alexander Isserlis
- **successor2**: Kenneth Stowe
- **office3**: Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Permanent Secretary of the
 Home Office
- **primeminister3**: James Callaghan
- **term start3**: 1977
- **term end3**: 1979
- **predecessor3**: Sir Arthur Peterson
- **successor3**: Brian Cubbon
- **office4**: Cabinet Secretary
- **primeminister4**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start4**: 1979
- **term end4**: 1987
- **predecessor4**: John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, Sir John Hunt
- **successor4**: Sir Robin Butler
- **office5**: Civil Service (United Kingdom)#Head of the Home Civil Service, Head of the Home Civil Service
- **primeminister5**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start5**: 1981
- **term end5**: 1987
- **predecessor5**: Sir Douglas Allen
- **successor5**: Sir Robin Butler
- **birthname**: Robert Temple Armstrong
- **nationality**: British
- **party**: Crossbench
- **relations**: Sir Thomas Armstrong (father)
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

**Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside** (3 January 1932 – January 2022) was a British Labour politician. He was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa.

He was Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from March 1974 – July 1975, but resigned in disagreement with the government's Incomes Policy.

On 27 September 1997 he was created a Life peer as  **Baron Hughes of Woodside**, of Woodside in the City of Aberdeen.

Hughes's death was announced on 7 January 2022, aged 90.
Garry's Mod

**Garry's Mod** is a sandbox video game. The game is a mod for the video game _Half-Life 2_ made by Garry Newman in 2004 and was sold in 2006. In the game, the player can use a spawn menu to spawn objects known as props, or it can be used to spawn Non-player characters like zombies or Combine soldiers, taken from Half-Life 2. The player can move these objects using the physics gun. The game is known because of it's modding, with popular mods for Garry's Mod like _Trouble in Terrorist Town_, DarkRP and Prop hunt. Prop hunt became a popular video game mode, being used in other video games like _Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered_, _Call of Duty: Black Ops III_, _Fortnite Battle Royale_, and _Genshin Impact_.

## Gameplay

The game is an endless sandbox. Its base game mode, _sandbox,_ has no goals. The player can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, and move and interact with the objects in many ways. The player can move these using the "physics gun", a ray-gun that lets the user move, freeze, and rotate the objects. The individual limbs of ragdolls can also be interacted with. The "tool gun" lets the player change an objects properties, like welding things together, and changing the facial expressions of ragdolls.

## Development

_Garry's Mod_ was made by Garry Newman. He created Facepunch Studios while making _Garry's Mod_.

## Successor

Newman stated that a successor to _Garry's Mod_ in 2015 was in early development called _S&box_.

## Reception

_Garry's Mod_ is considered to be one of the best sandbox games.

## Infobox (video game)

- **image**: Garry's Mod logo.svg
- **released**: November 29, 2006
- **programmer**: Garry Newman
Post-credits scene

A **post-credits scene** appears after or during the closing credits of a movie. They are mostly used to amuse the audience or tell them that a sequel is coming soon.

The first post-credits scene is usually thought to be in 1903's _The Great Train Robbery_, in which the leader of the outlaw aims his gun at the audience and fires it. They gained popularity during the 1980s. An example is _Ferris Bueller's Day Off_, in which the title character tells the audience to leave the theatre.

Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are famous for these scenes, in which they usually tell the audience that a movie based on another Marvel hero is coming.

## Other websites

- What's after the credits?
- Movies with stingers
San Leandro, California

**San Leandro** is a large suburban town in Alameda County, California, United States. The population was 91,008 at the 2020 census.

It is on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, between Oakland to the northwest and Hayward to the southeast.

## Other websites

- Official website of the city of San Leandro
- San Leandro Chamber of Commerce
- San Leandro High School
- San Leandro Bytes
- San Leandro Times
- San Leandro Online
Old Greenwich, Connecticut

**Old Greenwich** is a neighborhood/section and census-designated place in Greenwich in Fairfield County, Connecticut,  United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 6,962.

It was founded in 1641. Old Greenwich has become popular for home buyers and ranks at 7th place among the nation's wealthiest communities in an annual Bloomberg report published March 5, 2018, "America's 100 Richest Places".
Muqtada al-Sadr

**Muqtada al-Sadr** (; born 12 August 1973) is an Iraqi Shia cleric, politician and militia leader. He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of Saraya al-Salam.

Muqtada al-Sadr is one of the most influential religious and popular figures in Iraq.

In May 2018, al-Sadr's coalition emerged as the frontrunnner in Iraq's national elections, the first since the Islamic State was declared defeated in Iraq.

## Infobox (person)

- **honorific prefix**: Hujjat al-Islam
- **name**: Muqtada al-Sadr

- **image**: Moqtada al-Sader in tehran 2019 (cropped) (cropped).jpg
- **birth place**: Najaf, Iraq
- **movement**: Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reform (Saairun)
- **citizenship**: Iraq
- **nationality**: Iraqis, Iraqi
John Milnor

**John Willard Milnor** (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician. He is known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. Milnor is a professor at Stony Brook University and one of the four mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize.

## Other websites

- Home page at SUNYSB
- Photo
- Exotic spheres home page
- The Abel Prize 2011 – video 

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: John Willard Milnor
- **image**: John Milnor.jpg
- **image size**: 220px
- **birth place**: Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
- **nationality**: American
- **field**: Mathematics
- **work institution**: State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook University
- **alma mater**: Princeton University
- **doctoral advisor**: Ralph Fox
- **doctoral students**: Tadatoshi Akiba
 Jon Folkman
John N. Mather, John Mather
Laurent C. Siebenmann
Michael Spivak
- **known for**: Exotic spheres
Fary–Milnor theorem
Milnor's theorem
Milnor–Thurston kneading theory
Surgery theory
- **spouse**: Dusa McDuff
- **prizes**: Putnam Fellow (1949, 1950)
 Sloan Fellowship (1955)
 Fields Medal (1962)
 National Medal of Science (1967)
 Leroy P Steele Prize (1982, 2004, 2011)
 Wolf Prize (1989)
 Abel Prize (2011)
Wolf Prize

The **Wolf Prize** is an international award granted in Israel. It has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for _"achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views."_

The prize is awarded in Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. It is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and an Arts prize.
Jean-Pierre Serre

**Jean-Pierre Serre** (; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 and the first Abel Prize in 2003.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

## Other websites

- Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France, biography and publications.
- Jean-Pierre Serre  at the French Academy of Sciences, in French.
- Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre  in Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
- An Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre.pdf) by C.T. Chong and Y.K. Leong, National University of Singapore.
- How to write mathematics badly a public lecture by Jean-Pierre Serre on writing mathematics.
- Biographical page  (in French)

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Jean-Pierre Serre
- **image**: Jean-Pierre Serre.jpg
- **caption**: Jean-Pierre Serre at Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach in 2009
- **birth place**: Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
- **nationality**: France, French
- **field**: Mathematics
- **doctoral advisor**: Henri Cartan
Michael Atiyah

**Sir Michael Francis Atiyah**  (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was an English mathematician specialising in geometry. He won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

He was president of the Royal Society (1990–1995), master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990–1997), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1995–2005), and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008). From 1997 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. During 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Atiyah said he had a proof for Riemann hypothesis.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.

Atiyah died on 11 January 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of 89.

## Other websites

- Michael Atiyah tells his life story at Web of Stories
- The celebrations of Michael Atiyah's 80th birthday in Edinburgh, 20-24 April 2009
- Mathematical descendants of Michael Atiyah

## Infobox (scientist)

- **embed**: yes
- **doctoral advisor**: W. V. D. Hodge
- **notable students**: Edward Witten
- **thesis title**: Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry
- **thesis url**: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251002
- **thesis year**: 1955
- **alma mater**: Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Sir Michael Atiyah
- **birth name**: Michael Francis Atiyah
- **image**: Michael Francis Atiyah.jpg
- **caption**: Michael Atiyah in 2007
- **birth place**: Hampstead, London, England
- **death place**: Edinburgh, Scotland
- **nationality**: British
- **known for**: Atiyah–Singer index theorem
Atiyah–Segal completion theorem
Yves Meyer

**Yves F. Meyer** (; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is known for proposing the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017.

He was teacher at the Prytanée national militaire (1960–1963), a teaching assistant at the Université de Strasbourg (1963–1966), a Professor at Université Paris-Sud (1966–1980), a Professor at École Polytechnique (1980–1986), a Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (1985–1995), a Senior Researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (1995–1999), an Invited Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (2000), a Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1999–2003), and has been a Professor Emeritus at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 2004.

## Other websites

- Gauss prize 2010

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Yves Meyer
- **image**: Yves Meyer (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) - Philippe Binant Archives.jpg
- **caption**: Yves Meyer at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 18 June 2000.
- **birth place**: Paris, France
- **nationality**: France, French
- **fields**: Mathematics
- **alma mater**: École Normale Supérieure
University of Strasbourg
- **thesis title**: Idéaux Fermés de L dans Lesquels une Suite Approche l'Identité
- **thesis url**: http://www.mscand.dk/article/viewFile/10813/8834
- **thesis year**: 1966
- **doctoral advisor**: Jean-Pierre Kahane
- **doctoral students**: Pascal Auscher
- **known for**: Wavelet theory
- **awards**: Salem Prize
Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize
Abel Prize
Isadore Singer

**Isadore Manuel Singer** (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Singer was known for his work with Michael Atiyah proving the Atiyah–Singer index theorem in 1962,.

Singer died on February 11, 2021 at his home in Boxborough, Massachusetts at the age of 96.

## Infobox (scientist)

- **image**: Isadore Singer 1977.jpeg
- **image size**: 200px
- **name**: Isadore Singer
- **birth name**: Isadore Manuel Singer
- **caption**: Isadore Singer, 1977
- **birth place**: Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, United States, U.S.
- **spouse**: Rosemary Singer (m. 1956)
- **nationality**: United States, American
- **field**: Mathematics
- **alma mater**: University of Michigan (BA)
University of Chicago (MS, PhD)
- **work institution**: MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA
- **doctoral advisor**: Irving Segal
- **doctoral students**: Richard L. Bishop
Andrew Browder
David Gregory Ebin, David G. Ebin
Dan Freed
Conan Nai-Chung Leung
John Lott (mathematician), John Lott
Hugo Rossi
Linda Preiss Rothschild, Linda Rothschild
Gerald Schwarz
Nancy K. Stanton

- **known for**: Atiyah–Singer index theorem
- **prizes**: Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969)
National Medal of Science (1983)
Wigner Medal (1988)
Steele Prize (2000)
Abel Prize (2004)
Lennart Carleson

**Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson** (born 18 March 1928) is a Swedish mathematician. He is known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis and for his proof of Lusin's conjecture. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1992, the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002, the Sylvester Medal in 2003, and the Abel Prize in 2006.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 1993 he became a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Lennart Carleson
- **image**: Carleson cropped.jpg
- **image size**: 200px
- **caption**: Lennart Carleson in May 2006.
- **birth place**: Stockholm
- **nationality**: Swedish people, Swedish
- **fields**: Mathematics
- **workplaces**: Royal Institute of Technology
Uppsala University
University of California, Los Angeles
- **alma mater**: Uppsala University
- **doctoral advisor**: Arne Beurling
- **doctoral students**: Svante Janson
Warwick Tucker
- **known for**: Carleson–Jacobs theorem
- **awards**: Abel Prize (2006)
Sylvester Medal (2003)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (2002)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Wolf Prize (1992)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (1984)
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

**Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan** FRS (born 2 January 1940) is an Indian-American mathematician. He is known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.

Varadhan's awards and honours include the National Medal of Science (2010) from President Barack Obama, "the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers and inventors". In 2007, he was awarded the Abel Prize.

## Other websites

- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, home page at the Courant Institute

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Srinivasa Varadhan
- **image**: Srinivasa Varadhan Heidelberg.JPG
- **image size**: 150px
- **caption**: Srinivasa Varadhan at the 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September 2013
- **birth place**: Madras (Chennai), Madras, Madras Presidency, British India
- **citizenship**: United States
- **nationality**: American
- **field**: Mathematics
- **alma mater**: University of Madras
Indian Statistical Institute
- **doctoral advisor**: C R Rao
- **doctoral students**: Peter Friz
Jeremy Quastel
- **known for**: Martingale problems; Large deviation theory
- **prizes**: National Medal of Science<small> (2010)</small>
Padma Bhushan<small> (2008)</small>
Abel Prize<small> (2007)</small>
Steele Prize<small> (1996)</small>
Birkhoff Prize<small> (1994)</small>
John G. Thompson

**John Griggs Thompson** (born October 13, 1932) is an American mathematician. He works at the University of Florida. He is known for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992 and the 2008 Abel Prize.

## Other websites

- List of mathematical articles by John G. Thompson
- Biography from the Abel Prize center

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: John Thompson
- **image**: John Griggs Thompson.jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: John Thompson in 2007
- **birth place**: Ottawa, Kansas, U.S.
- **nationality**: American
- **field**: Group theory
- **work institutions**: Harvard University (1961–62)
University of Chicago (1962–68)
University of Cambridge (1968–93)
University of Florida (1993–present)
- **alma mater**: Yale University
University of Chicago
- **doctoral advisor**: Saunders Mac Lane
- **doctoral students**: R. L. Griess
 Richard Lyons (mathematician), Richard Lyons
 Charles Sims (mathematician), Charles Sims
- **thesis title**: A Proof that a Finite Group with a Fixed-Point-Free Automorphism of Prime Order is Nilpotent
- **thesis year**: 1959
Jacques Tits

**Jacques Tits** (; 12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgium-born French mathematician. He worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.

In 1988 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

In 2008 he was awarded the Abel Prize, along with John Griggs Thompson, “for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.”

Tits died on 5 December 2021 at the age of 91.

## Other websites

- Biography at the Abel Prize site  (pdf)
- List of publications at the Université libre de Bruxelles

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Jacques Tits
- **image**: Jacques Tits (2008).jpg
- **caption**: Jacques Tits in May 2008
- **birth place**: Uccle, Belgium
- **death place**: France
- **citizenship**: Belgian (1930–1974)
French (since 1974)
- **fields**: Mathematics
- **workplaces**: Free University of Brussels
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
University of Bonn
Collège de France
French Academy of Sciences
- **doctoral advisor**: Paul Libois
- **doctoral students**: Francis Buekenhout
Jens Carsten Jantzen
Karl-Otto Stöhr
- **awards**: Cantor medal <small>(1996)</small>
Abel Prize <small>(2008, with John G. Thompson</small>)
- **known for**: The Tits group, the Tits alternative, Tits buildings
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

**Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov** (also **Mikhael Gromov**, **Michael Gromov** or **Mischa Gromov**; ; born 23 December 1943), is a French-Russian mathematician. He is known for work in geometry, analysis and group theory. He is a member of IHÉS in France and a Professor of Mathematics at New York University.

Gromov has won several prizes, including the Abel Prize in 2009 "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry".

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1993.

## Other websites

- Personal page at IHÉS
- Personal page at NYU

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
- **image**: Gromov Mikhail Leonidovich.jpg
- **caption**: Mikhail Gromov in 2009
- **birth place**: Boksitogorsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- **nationality**: Russian and French
- **alma mater**: Saint Petersburg State University, Leningrad State University (PhD)
- **doctoral advisor**: Vladimir Rokhlin (Soviet mathematician), Vladimir Rokhlin
- **doctoral students**: François Labourie
Pierre Pansu
- **known for**: Geometry
- **field**: Mathematics
- **work institutions**: Institut des hautes études scientifiques
New York University
John Tate

**John Torrence Tate Jr.** (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.

Tate was described as "one of the seminal mathematicians for the past half-century" by William Beckner, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas.

Tate died at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts on October 16, 2019 at the age of 94.

## Other websites

- Tate's home page

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: John Tate
- **image**: John Tate.jpg
- **birth name**: John Torrence Tate Jr.
- **birth place**: Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
- **nationality**: American
- **field**: Mathematics
- **work institutions**: Princeton University <small>(1950–1953)</small>
Columbia University <small>(1953–1954)</small>
Harvard University <small>(1954–1990)</small>
University of Texas at Austin <small>(1990–2009)</small>
- **alma mater**: Harvard University <small>(A.B., 1946)</small>
Princeton University <small>(Ph.D., 1950)</small>
- **doctoral advisor**: Emil Artin
- **doctoral students**: V. Kumar Murty
William C. Waterhouse
Benedict Gross
Jonathan Lubin
Stephen Lichtenbaum
Kenneth Alan Ribet
Joseph H. Silverman
Dinesh Thakur (mathematician), Dinesh Thakur
Jerrold Tunnell
Carl Pomerance
George Bergman
- **influenced**: John H. Coates
- **known for**: Tate conjecture
Tate module
- **awards**: Abel Prize (2010)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Wolf Prize (2002/03)
Steele Prize (1995)
Cole Prize in Number Theory (1956)
Endre Szemerédi

**Endre Szemerédi** (born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American mathematician. He worked in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986.

He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2012.

## Awards and honors

Szemerédi has won numerous awards and honors for his contribution to mathematics and computer science. A few of them are listed here:
- Grünwald Prize (1967)
- Grünwald Prize (1968)
- Rényi Prize (1973)
- George Pólya Prize for Achievement in Applied Mathematics (SIAM), (1975)
- Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1979)
- State of New Jersey Professorship (1986)
- The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (AMS), (2008)
- The Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics for deep and pioneering work from 1975 on arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers (2008)
- The Széchenyi Prize of the Hungarian Republic for his many fundamental contributions to mathematics and computer science (2012)
- The Abel Prize for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science (2012)

## Other websites

- Personal Homepage at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
- Interview by Gabot Stockert (translated from the Hungarian into English by Zsuzsanna Dancso)

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Endre Szemerédi
- **image**: Szemeredi1.JPG
- **caption**: Endre Szemerédi
- **birth place**: Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary
- **nationality**: Hungary, Hungarian United States, American
- **field**: Combinatorics
Computer science
Mathematics
Theoretical computer science
- **work institution**: Rutgers University
- **alma mater**: Moscow State University
- **doctoral advisor**: Israel Gelfand
- **prizes**: Abel Prize (2012)
Széchenyi Prize (2012)
Rolf Schock Prizes (2008)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008)
George Pólya Prize (1975)
Alfréd Rényi Prize (1973)
 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- **doctoral students**: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Gábor N. Sárközy, Gabor Sarkozy
Sir Des Champs

**Sir Des Champs** (foaled 28 May 2006 – 18 May 2018) was a French-bred, Irish-trained AQPS racehorse. He competed in National Hunt races.

After winning only one of his five races in his native country, Sir Des Champs was transferred to Ireland and won seven races in succession including the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle, Greenmount Park Novice Chase, Killiney Novice Chase, Jewson Novices' Chase and Growise Champion Novice Chase. The 2012/2013 saw the emergence of a rivalry between Sir Des Champs and another Irish-trained chaser Flemenstar.

After beating his rival in the Hennessy Gold Cup, Sir Des Champs was regarded as a leading contender for the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup in which he finished second to Bobs Worth.

He suffered a fatal injury when competing in Point-to-point racing on 18 May 2018 at the age of 11.
Ernst Sieber

**Ernst Sieber** (24 February 1927 – 19 May 2018) was a Swiss pastor and politician. He founded in 1988 for _disadvantaged people, to help to alleviate the hardships around addiction, disease, violence and homelessness_. Sieber wrote books about his work as social worker to finance the foundation.

From 1991 to 1995 he represented the citizens of the Canton of Zürich as member of the Evangelische Volkspartei (EVP) political party in the _Nationalrat_, the lower Swiss parliament's house.

Sieber died on 19 May 2018 at the age of 91 in Hospital Triemli in Zurich.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Ernst Sieber
- **image**: ZH SIEBER ERNST.JPG
- **caption**: Ernst Sieber in 2007
- **birth place**: Horgen, Switzerland
- **death place**: Zurich
- **nationality**: Swiss
- **alma mater**: University of Zürich
- **occupation**: Swiss pastor, social worker, writer and former politician
- **yearsactive**: 1957–2018
- **notable works**: Founder of the Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber foundation and relief organisation
- **awards**: Ernst Sieber#Awards
- **spouse**: Sonja Sieber-Vasalli
- **children**: 5
Koo Bon-moo

**Koo Bon-moo** (; 10 February 1945 – 20 May 2018) was a South Korean business executive. He was born in Jinju, South Korea. In 1995, Koo replaced his father Koo Cha-kyung as chairman of LG Group. Koo Bon-moo adopted his nephew Koo Kwang-mo in 2004.

Koo died of brain cancer on 20 May 2018 in Seoul at the age of 73.
John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer

**Edward John** "**Johnnie**" **Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer**, MVO (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992), styled **Viscount Althorp** until June 1975, was a British peer.

## Early life

Spencer was born in Bayswater, London, He was son of Albert Spencer and Lady Cynthia Hamilton

## Personal life

He was married to Frances Roche, They have five children by the marriage, He was remarried to Raine, Countess of Dartmouth in 1976.

He was the father of Diana, Princess of Wales. He was the maternal grandfather of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.

## Death

Spencer died on 29 March 1992 at Wellington Hospital in London of a heart attack at the age of 68.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Earl Spencer
- **honorific suffix**: LVO
- **birth place**: Bayswater, Paddington, London, England
- **birth name**: Edward John Spencer
- **known for**: Father of Diana, Princess of Wales
- **death place**: St John's Wood, London, England
Wang Qishan

**Wang Qishan** (; born 19 July 1948) is a Chinese retired politician who served as Vice President of the People's Republic of China from 2018 to 2023. Wang was one of the leading figures behind China's foreign affairs, along with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Between 2012 and 2017, Wang had served as the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Chinese Communist Party's internal control and anti-corruption body, and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He has been instrumental in carrying out General Secretary Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign since 2013.

Wang gained prominence in China's financial sector in the late 1980s. In 1994, Wang became the Governor of the China Construction Bank. Wang then successively served in three regional roles: Vice-Governor of Guangdong, Party Secretary of Hainan, and Mayor of Beijing. Wang then served as Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China in charge of finance and commercial affairs under premier Wen Jiabao from March 2008 to March 2013, during which he also gained a seat on the party's Politburo.

Wang is considered to be among Xi Jinping's closest political allies.

## Other websites

- Biography of Wang QishanXinhua
- Wang Qishan biography @ China Vitae
- Wang Qishan leaves Beijing Mayor post, leaves a legacy (Xinhua)

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Wang Qishan
- **native name lang**: zh-Hans-CN
- **image**: Wang Qishan at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1).jpg
- **imagesize**: 220px
- **caption**: Wang in 2019
- **office**: Vice President of the People's Republic of China
- **president**: Xi Jinping
- **term start**: 17 March 2018
- **term end**: 10 March 2023
- **predecessor**: Li Yuanchao
- **successor**: Han Zheng
- **office1**: Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
- **deputy1**: Zhao Hongzhu; others
- **term start1**: 15 November 2012
- **term end1**: 25 October 2017
- **predecessor1**: He Guoqiang
- **successor1**: Zhao Leji
- **office2**: Leader of the Central Leading Group for Inspection Work
- **term start2**: 15 November 2012
- **term end2**: 25 October 2017
- **deputy2**: Zhao Leji
Zhao Hongzhu
- **predecessor2**: He Guoqiang
- **successor2**: Zhao Leji
- **office3**: Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
- **alongside3**: Li Keqiang, Hui Liangyu, Zhang Dejiang
- **premier3**: Wen Jiabao
- **1blankname3**: Portfolio
- **1namedata3**: Finance, Commerce, others
- **term start3**: 15 March 2008
- **term end3**: 14 March 2013
- **birth place**: Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China (1912–49), China
- **nationality**: Chinese
- **party**: Communist Party of China
- **alma mater**: Northwest University, China, Northwest University