Dame Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger was born in Glasgow in 1975 and is Britain's most successful female rower. She won Olympic gold in the women's double sculls at London 2012 alongside Anna Watkins, and earned silver medals at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008, making her the only female British athlete to medal in four consecutive Olympic Games. She holds six world championship titles. She studied Law at Edinburgh University, earned an MPhil in Medical Law and Medical Ethics from Glasgow University, and completed a PhD in homicide sentencing at King's College, University of London in 2013.