Famous Alumni

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R4R
Mar 2020
9:55am, 4 Mar 2020
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R4R
Ex-rugby players Mike Slemen and Kyran Bracken
Actors Shaun Evans and Michael Williams (late husband of Judi Dench)
Sir Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco
Various MP's including Peter Kilfoyle
Various bishops and archbishops

And one they don't mention anywhere - James Greenfield of the Angry Brigade
Mar 2020
10:17am, 4 Mar 2020
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Battlecat
Going back to Nellererererers post, I went to university in the Attenborough's actual house
Mar 2020
10:25am, 4 Mar 2020
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McGoohan
Er... we had an Attenborough building at Leicester Uni. Does that count?
Mar 2020
10:41am, 4 Mar 2020
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Wriggling Snake
We need a Winnie Mandela House Count
Mar 2020
11:17am, 4 Mar 2020
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Battlecat
McGoo - the Attenborough house was the little building next door, I think student services was in there.

The paternoster lift in the Attenborough building rip, god rest its soul. :-)
Mar 2020
11:34am, 4 Mar 2020
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becca7
The little building is called College House. I think the mathematics school uses it now.
Mar 2020
11:54am, 4 Mar 2020
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McGoohan
Ah the paternoster, responsible for so many students braining themselves as they mistimed their exit
Mar 2020
11:59am, 4 Mar 2020
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HellsBells
Sheffield still has its paternoster - just saying!
Mar 2020
12:20pm, 4 Mar 2020
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Battlecat
Ah yes. College house. That was the house the Attenborough's grew up in though wasn't it? Or is that a complete urban myth!?
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12:29pm, 4 Mar 2020
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becca7
It was true. The Uni has a page on College House that explains https://le.ac.uk/about/info/history/college-house.

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