List of University of East Anglia alumni

This List of University of East Anglia alumni includes graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of East Anglia.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

A

• Steven Abbott - Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment
• Dame Jenny Abramsky - Director of BBC Radio
• Sir George Agnew, 7th Baronet
• Naomi Alderman - novelist
• Nicholas Allan - children's author
• Benedict Allen - explorer
• Franklin Allen - Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Mary Allen - Former Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House
• David Almond - Whitbread Award winning children's author
• Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos - Former Leader of the House of Lords and current British High Commissioner to Australia
• Geoffrey Archer - fiction writer
• Diane Atkinson - historian
• Paul Atterbury - antiques expert
• Tash Aw - Whitbread Award winning author
• Trezza Azzopardi - novelist and academic

B

• Serwan Baban - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kurdistan - Hawler
• John Bainbridge - author
• Robin Baker - Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Chichester
• Bea Ballard - television executive
• Ladi Balogun - CEO of First City Monument Bank
• James Barber - Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London
• Sir Robert Barclay, 15th Baronet
• Sebastian Barker - poet
• Nick Barton - Professor at the University of Edinburgh
• Martyn Bedford - novelist
• Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland - Hereditary peer
• Alvin Bernard - Dominican Senator
• Darren Bett - BBC weather forecaster
• Steve Blame - broadcaster
• Brett Ellen Block - author
• Peter Bowker - screenwriter
• Tim Bowler - novelist
• John Boyne - novelist
• Alison Brimelow - President of the European Patent Office
• Dennis Brown - Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
• James Buckley - actor

C

• Douglas Carswell - Conservative Member of Parliament
• Michael Casey - Professor of Music at Dartmouth College
• Christopher Catherwood - author and academic
• Gurinder Chadha - film director
• Judith Chaplin - Conservative Member of Parliament
• Tracy Chevalier - historical novelist
• Bazlul Chowdhury - Vice-Chancellor of the Independent University, Bangladesh
• Suzanne Cleminshaw - writer
• Mark Cocker - author
• Nina Conti - actress and comedian
• Judy Corbalis - novelist
• Mathias Cormann - Senator for Western Australia
• Andrew Cowan - novelist
• Helen Cross - novelist
• Carol Crowther - clown, author and Water Rat
• David Cummings - screenwriter and musician

D

• Iain Dale - Conservative blogger and political commentator
• Donna Daley-Clarke - novelist
• Fflur Dafydd - writer and musician
• Simon Day - comedian and actor
• Jack Davenport - actor
• Alexis Jayne Defoe - actress
• Saul Dibb - film director
• Louise Doughty - novelist, playwright and journalist
• Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon
• Suzannah Dunn - novelist and academic
• Tim Dunne - Professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter
• Sir Anthony Dymock - UK Military Representative to NATO and the EU
• Hugo Rhys, 10th Baron Dynevor - Hereditary peer

E

• Anne Enright - Booker Prize winning author
• Richard Evans - Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge

F

• Peter Fahy - Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police
• Stephen Finucan - short story writer
• Susan Fletcher - Whitbread Award winning author
• Caroline Flint - Labour Member of Parliament and former Minister of State for Europe
• Adam Foulds - novelist and poet
• James Frain - actor
• John Fraser - Master of Massey College, University of Toronto
• Matt Fullerty - novelist
• Sir Robert Fulton - Governor of Gibraltar and Commandant General Royal Marines

G

• Daphrosa Gahakwa - Rwandan Education Minister
• Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde - Leader of the House of Lords and Cabinet minister
• Sue Gee - novelist
• Richard Grayson - Professor of Twentieth Century History at Goldsmiths, University of London
• Don Grierson - Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham
• David Grossman - Newsnight's political correspondent
• William Goodchild - composer
• Tim Guest - author

H

• Helon Habila - novelist
• Mohammed Hanif - writer
• Dan Harries - artist and theorist
• Jane Harris - novelist and screenwriter
• Nigel Hart - hedge fund manager
• Robin Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford - Hereditary peer
• Charlie Higson - comedian and author
• Kathryn Hughes - historian
• Clement Kofi Humado - Ghanaian Member of Parliament
• Maggie Humm - Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London
• Alan Hunt - British High Commissioner to Singapore

I

• Kazuo Ishiguro - Whitbread and Booker Prize winning author
• Razia Iqbal - BBC arts correspondent
• Helen Ivory - poet

J

• Mick Jackson - novelist
• Christopher James - poet
• Greg James - BBC Radio 1 DJ
• Ousman Jammeh - Gambian Foreign Minister
• Andrew Jefford - journalist and author
• Marie-Louise Jensen - children's author
• Jon Owen Jones - Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament
• Karen Jones - founder and CEO of Café Rouge and Punch Taverns

K

• Panos Karnezis - novelist
• John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley - Hereditary peer
• Tess Kingham - Labour Member of Parliament

L

• Larissa Lai - novelist
• Stephen Lambert - television executive
• David Lamieux - audiovisual archivist for the Grateful Dead
• Christopher Lane - Professor of Literature at Northwestern University
• Toby Litt - novelist
• Graham Logan - molecular chemistry innovator
• Jack Lohman - Director of the Museum of London
• Rebecca Lowe - sports reporter

M

• Deirdre Madden - novelist
• Gareth Malone - choirmaster
• Tito Mboweni - Governor of the South African Reserve Bank
• James McCreet - novelist
• Ian McEwan - Booker Prize winning author
• Sarah Emily Miano - author
• Andrew Miller - novelist
• Lucasta Miller - writer and journalist
• Nicholas Mills - Professor of Insect Population Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley
• Neil Morisetti - Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College
• Tom Morton-Smith - playwright
• Amir Muhammad - writer and filmmaker
• Paul Murray - novelist

N

• Juma Ngasongwa - Tanzanian Member of Parliament
• Simon Nicholls - BBC comedy producer
• Mike Norris - CEO of Computacenter
• Sir Christopher Nugent, 6th Baronet
• Sir Paul Nurse - Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and President Elect of the Royal Society

O

• Brendan O'Neill - CEO of ICI and Diageo
• John Osborne - writer and poet

P

• Kathy Page - novelist
• Glenn Patterson - novelist
• Rolph Payet - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles
• Jonathan Powell - Controller of BBC One
• Philip Priestley - British Ambassador to Gabon and British High Commissioner to Belize

Q

• Murad Qureshi - Member of the London Assembly

R

• Mario Reading - novelist
• David Reeves - CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
• John Rhys-Davies - actor
• Ben Rice - novelist
• Andy Ripley - England rugby player

S

• Simon Scarrow - author
• Robert Schofield - CEO of Premier Foods
• Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market - President of the Liberal Democrats
• Selina Scott - broadcaster
• James Scudamore - novelist
• Mark Seddon - journalist
• Owen Sheers - author, poet and playwright
• Jeremy Sheldon - novelist
• Julian Siegel - musician
• Kathryn Simmonds - poet
• Timothy Simmons - British Ambassador to Slovenia
• Clive Sinclair - novelist
• Össur Skarphéðinsson - Icelandic Foreign Minister
• Alexander Smith - CEO of Pier 1 Imports
• Alexander Gordon Smith - novelist
• Arthur Smith - comedian and author
• Matt Smith - actor, notably the eleventh Doctor Who
• Patrick Snowball - CEO of Suncorp-Metway Limited
• Ivor Stanbrook - Conservative Member of Parliament
• Todd Swift - poet

T

• Rihab Taha - Iraqi Biological Weapons Chief, nicknamed Dr. Germ
• Hwee Hwee Tan - novelist
• David Thomas - Labour MEP
• Paul Thompson - Rector of the Royal College of Art
• Adam Tomkins - Professor of Public Law at the University of Glasgow
• Penny Tranter - BBC weather forecaster
• Rose Tremain - Whitbread Award winning author
• Martin Tyler - football commentator

U

• Ibrahim Umar - Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University and the Federal University of Technology, Minna

V

• Geraint Vincent - ITV Newsreader

W

• Erica Wagner - author, critic, and literary editor of The Times
• Martin Walls - poet
• Richard Webster - Freud scholar and author
• Paul Wellings - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster
• Owain David Williams - academic
• Paul Whitehouse - comedian
• Kit Whitfield - novelist
• Matt Whyman - novelist
• Clare Wigfall - writer
• Snoo Wilson - playwritght, novelist and screenwriter
• Gregory Woods - poet and author

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