List of University of Sussex alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of the University of Sussex.

Politicians

Shamshad Akhtar, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
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
Matt Rodda. Labour Member of Parliament for Reading East (UK Parliament constituency)
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-
Geoffrey Van Orden, Conservative MEP for East of England 1999-2019, formerly Brigadier, British Army
Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
Alan Woods, Trotskyist activist
Sherry Rehman, Senator, Pakistan (2015-Present) ^[2]

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

Daniele Archibugi, economic and political theorist
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
Mura Masa, electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist, studied English Literature
Grant Serpell, former drummer with Sailor and Affinity
Cristian Vogel, electronic musician
Jessie Ware, singer-songwriter
Josephine Wiggs, bassist with The Breeders

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
Gyr King, Co-Founder of King and McGaw, an art publisher and retailer
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
Simon Segars, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc, electronic engineer
Noel Tata, industrialist
Zhang Xin, entrepreneur
Ayman Zohry, expert on migration studies

References

↑ "CAMP, David Lee, (1953 - )". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Rehman

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