List of University of Sussex alumni
This is a list of notable alumni of the University of Sussex.
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Politicians
- Shamshad Akhtar, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
- Marina Baker, Liberal Democrat politician in Lewes
- Tony Baldry, former Conservative Member of Parliament for Banbury
- Hilary Benn, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, former Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Ben Bradshaw, Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter, former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Simon Busuttil, Maltese Member of the European Parliament
- David Lee Camp, U.S. member of the House of Representatives[1]
- Bernard Coard, minister and deputy prime minister of Grenada
- Rob Davies, minister of the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa
- Michael Fabricant, Conservative Member of Parliament for Lichfield
- Andrew George, former Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives
- Philip Gould, Lord Gould, Life peer and adviser to the Labour Party
- Peter Hain, former Labour Member of Parliament for Neath and Secretary of State for Wales
- David Hallam, former Labour Member of the European Parliament, author
- Musa Hitam, former deputy prime minister of Malaysia
- David Lepper, former Labour Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion
- Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa
- Caroline Nokes, Conservative Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North
- Dan Norris, former Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke, North East Somerset
- George Saitoti, Kenyan politician
- Martin Salter, former Labour Member of Parliament for Reading West
- Guy Scott, President of Zambia
- Mateusz Szczurek, Finance Minister of Poland
- Euclid Tsakalotos, Greek finance minister, 2015-
- Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
- Alan Woods, Trotskyist activist
Scientists
- Adrian Bird CBE FRS, Director of Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
- Amir Caldeira, Brazilian quantum physicist
- Anil Seth, Neuroscientist
- David Clary FRS, President, Magdalen College, Oxford
- Peter Coles, astrophysicist
- Ian Cullimore, computer scientist
- Nalin de Silva, theoretical physicist, philosopher, professor
- Anthony R. Dickinson FRS, neuroscientist
- Lesley Fallowfield, cancer psychologist
- Philip Ingham FRS, developmental biologist
- Adam Kilgarriff, corpus linguist, lexicographer and the co-author of the Sketch Engine corpus management system
- Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS, Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences Imperial College London
- Georgina Mace CBE FRS, Director, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London
- Dimitri Nanopoulos, quantum physicist
- Rohan Pethiyagoda, taxonomist
- Mark Steedman, cognitive scientist
- Tim Sumner, experimental physicist
- Benjamin J Whitaker, chemist
Academics
- Alan Carter, philosopher
- Cheung Kam Ching, philosopher
- Norman Davies, historian
- Paul Gilroy, professor and cultural critic
- A. C. Grayling, philosopher
- Paul Hirst, professor
- Mary James, educator
- Calestous Juma, professor
- Sir Peter Knight, professor
- István Mészáros, professor
- Paul Morris, educationalist
- Timothy O'Shea, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
- Reza Shah-Kazemi, author
- Guy Standing, development economist
- Tim Sumner, professor
- Lucy Worsley, historian and curator
Writers and broadcasters
- Becky Anderson, CNN International correspondent and presenter
- Desi Anwar, journalist, news presenter
- David Baboulene, travel writer and story theorist
- Mark Barrowcliffe, novelist
- Tommy Boyd, broadcaster
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite, author
- Peter Brimelow, journalist and author
- Emily Buchanan, BBC World Affairs correspondent
- Michael Buerk, BBC journalist and newsreader
- Richard Calder, novelist
- Lord Richard Cecil, journalist and adventurer (died 1978)
- Simon Fanshawe, writer, broadcaster
- Darius Fisher, producer, director
- Philippa Gregory, novelist
- Charlotte Greig, novelist and musician
- Claudia Hammond, writer, broadcaster
- Patrick Hicks, novelist and poet
- Tobias Hill, novelist and poet
- Alan Jenkins, poet
- Merfyn Jones professor, historian, broadcaster; governor of the BBC; vice-chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor
- Robin Lustig, broadcaster
- Sarra Manning, writer
- Howard Marks, Welsh author, former teacher and drug smuggler
- Ian McEwan, novelist
- Andrew Morton, journalist and writer
- Dermot Murnaghan, television presenter and journalist
- Clive Myrie, BBC News presenter and journalist
- Kim Newman, journalist and writer
- Chris Paling, novelist
- Ashley Pharoah, television writer
- Nigel Planer, actor, novelist, playwright
- Chris Ship, Deputy Political Editor of ITV News
- Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue
- Julia Somerville, broadcaster
- Shirley Thomas, professor, broadcaster
- Srđa Trifković, historian and journalist
- Janice Turner, writer for The Times
Musicians
- John Altman, award-winning film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, and conductor
- Tony Banks, keyboard player with Genesis
- Beardyman, beatboxer
- Graham Clark, jazz/rock violinist ex-Gong
- Mo Foster, session musician (bass guitar)
- Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk
- Billy Idol, musician
- Jem, singer-songwriter
- Steve Knightley, singer-songwriter
- Grant Serpell, former drummer with Sailor and Affinity
- Cristian Vogel, electronic musician
- Jessie Ware, singer-songwriter
- Josephine Wiggs, bassist with The Breeders
- Mura Masa, electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist, studied English Literature at Sussex in 2014 before leaving to pursue his career in music.
Diplomats
- Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch diplomat and ambassador to the United States
- Jamie Shea, Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations of NATO
- Savenaca Siwatibau, Fijian academic leader, civil service administrator
- Jesoni Vitusagavulu, Fijian diplomat and ambassador to the United States
Sports
- Rosalie Birch, England Test cricketer, part of Ashes winning team 2005
- Brendan Foster, former distance runner, founder of the Great North Run, and currently a BBC athletics commentator
- Ralf Rangnick, German former manager of FC Schalke 04 and VfB Stuttgart
- Virginia Wade, Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Champion, 1977
Others
- Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher
- Michael Attenborough, director
- Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Manchester Art Gallery
- Linda Bellos, adviser
- Frankie Boyle, comedian
- Daniel Catán, composer
- Jeremy Coller, CEO of Coller Capital, a British private equity firm
- Maximillion Cooper, founder of Gumball 3000
- Michael Fuller, Chief Constable of Kent Police
- Bob Gillespie, industrialist and author
- Rebeca Grynspan, UN development head
- Liam Hackett, activist, founder and CEO Ditch the Label
- Bruno Heller, screenwriter and actor
- Marina Mahathir, leader in many non-governmental organizations
- Bob Mortimer, comedian
- Claire Oboussier, artist
- Nancy Okail, Executive Director, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; expert on human rights
- David Pecaut, American-born Canadian civic activist and consultant
- Noel Tata, industrialist
- Peter Upton, CMG international civil servant
- Zhang Xin, entrepreneur
- Ayman Zohry, expert on migration studies
- Gyr King, Co-Founder of King and McGaw, an art publisher and retailer
- Simon Segars, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc, electronic engineer
References
- ↑ "CAMP, David Lee, (1953 - )". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
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