Editing Alan Sugar (section)

==Early life==
Alan Michael Sugar was born on 24 March 1947 in [[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], [[East London]], into a [[British Jews|Jewish family]].<ref name="Beckford">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1941104/Sir-Alan-Sugar-fails-to-make-top-100-Jews-list.html# |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512153925/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1941104/Sir-Alan-Sugar-fails-to-make-top-100-Jews-list.html |archive-date=12 May 2008 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sir Alan Sugar fails to make top 100 Jews list |last=Beckford|first=Martin|date=9 May 2008|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=3 June 2012}}</ref> His father, Nathan, was a tailor in the garment industry of the [[East End]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091121143900/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6607972/Sir-Alan-Sugar-The-Lords-think-Im-a-brusque-ignorant-cockney.html "The Lords think I'm a brusque, ignorant cockney"], ''The Daily Telegraph''</ref> His maternal grandparents were born in [[Russia]], and his paternal grandfather was born in [[Poland]]. Sugar's paternal grandmother, Sarah Sugar, was born in London to [[Poles in the United Kingdom|Polish parents]].{{cn|date=June 2023}}

When Sugar was young, his family lived in a [[council flat]]. Because of his profuse, curly hair, he was nicknamed "Mop head", a name that he still goes by in the present day.<ref name = TRAS>{{cite AV media |title= The Real Alan Sugar|publisher= [[BBC 2]]|date= 21 January 2009}}</ref> He attended Northwold Primary School and then [[Brooke House Secondary School]] in [[Upper Clapton]], Hackney, and made extra money by working at a greengrocers.<ref name = TRAS/> After leaving school at the age of 16,<ref name="The Board"/> he worked briefly for the civil service as a statistician at the Ministry of Education.{{cn|date=June 2023}}