Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who was the 7th president of Ireland,serving from December 1990 to September 1997,the first woman to hold this office. Prior to her election,Robinson was a senator in Seanad Éireann between 1969 and 1989,and a councilor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Though briefly affiliated with the Labour Party while a senator,she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency and the first not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil. Following her time as president,Robinson became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez,known professionally as Martin Sheen,is an American actor. In a career spanning six decades he received numerous accolades including three Emmy Awards,a Golden Globe Award,and four Screen Actors Guild Award. Sheen is most known for his role as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the NBC series The West Wing (1999–2006).
Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor,and a Grammy Award. In 2020,he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Nigel Ernest James Mansell,is a British retired racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series (1993). Mansell was the reigning F1 champion when he moved over to CART,becoming the first person to win the CART title in his debut season,and making him the only person to hold both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship simultaneously.
David Jude Heyworth Law is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British television productions and feature films,later gaining recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999),for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Mairead Maguire,also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan,is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded,with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown,the Women for Peace,which later became the Community for Peace People,an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.
JoséManuel Durão Barroso is a Portuguese politician,lobbyist and university teacher,he previously served as non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He previously served as the 11th president of the European Commission and the 115th prime minister of Portugal.
Douglas Donald Davidson is an American Emmy Award winning television actor. He has portrayed Paul Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1978 to 2020,making him one of the soaps' longest-serving cast members.
Robert Henry Alexander Eames,Baron Eames,is an Anglican bishop and life peer,who served as Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
Clive Owen is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film Close My Eyes (1991) before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier (1998). In 2005,he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the drama Closer (2004).
Martin Faranan McDonagh is a British-Irish playwright and filmmaker. He is known for his absurdist black humour which often challenges the modern theatre aesthetic. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award,six BAFTA Awards,four Golden Globe Awards,three Olivier Awards,and nominations for five Tony Awards.
Scouting Ireland is one of the largest youth movements on the island of Ireland,a voluntary educational movement for young people with over 45,000 members,including over 11,000 adult volunteers early 2020. Of the 750,000 people between the ages of 6 and 18 in Ireland,over 6% are involved with the organisation. It was founded in 2004,following the amalgamation of two of the Scouting organisations on the island. It is the World Organization of the Scout Movement-recognised Scouting association in the Republic of Ireland. In Northern Ireland it operates alongside The Scout Association of the UK and the Baden-Powell Scout Association.
Chad Collyer is an American professional wrestler.
John Boyne is an Irish novelist. He is the author of fourteen novels for adults,six novels for younger readers,two novellas and one collection of short stories. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name.
Nigel Owens,is a Welsh former international rugby union referee,who retired in December 2020 after a 17-year career. He previously held the world record for the most test matches refereed and is one of five international referees listed as professional within the Welsh Rugby Union,alongside Craig Evans,Adam Jones,Dan Jones and Ben Whitehouse.
Patrick Allen Lowe FREng,known as Paddy Lowe,is the founder and CEO of the fossil-free synthetic fuel company Zero. A former motor racing engineer and computer scientist,he spent 32 years working in Formula One,serving as Chief Technical Officer at Williams Racing,Executive Director (Technical) at Mercedes Formula One team and Technical Director at McLaren. He was involved with cars that won 12 World Championships and secured 158 race wins. He left Formula One in 2019 and co-founded Zero in 2020.
The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) is a publicly funded post,with responsibility for protecting children's rights as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nigel Williams was the Commissioner from its introduction in 2003 until his death in 2006.
Börje Langefors was a Swedish engineer and computer scientist,Emeritus Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science,Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology,Stockholm,and "one of those who made systems development a science."
Ian Hugh Witten was a computer scientist at the University of Waikato,New Zealand. He was a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Simon Rogerson is lifetime Professor Emeritus in Computer Ethics at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR),De Montfort University. He was the founder and editor for 19 volumes of the Journal of Information,Communication and Ethics in Society. He has had two careers;first as a technical software developer and then in academia as reformer. He was the founding Director of CCSR,launching it in 1995 at the first ETHICOMP conference which he conceived and co-directed until 2013. He became Europe's first Professor in Computer Ethics in 1998. His most important research focuses on providing rigorously grounded practical tools and guidance to computing practitioners. For his leadership and research achievements in the computer and information ethics interdisciplinary field he was awarded the fifth IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award in 2000 and the SIGCAS Making a Difference Award in 2005.
