List of University of Sussex alumni
This is a list of notable alumni of the University of Sussex.
Politicians
Hilary Benn, Labour Party Member of Parliament
Festus Mogae, President of Botswana
Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
Guy Scott, President of Zambia
- Peter Kyle, British Labour Politician and member of British Parliament
- Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
- Marina Baker, Liberal Democrat politician in Lewes
- Enele Sopoaga, Prime minister of Tuvalu
- 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
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle, British Labour politician and Member of British Parlimaent
- Ben Bradshaw, Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter, former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- Isatou Touray, Vice-president of The Republic of The Gambia
- Carlos Alvarado Quesada, president of Costa Rica
- 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
- Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
- Rob Davies, minister of the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa
- Bogolo Kenewendo, Economist and youngest-ever government minister of Botswana
- 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
- Sir Jonathan Faull, former British official in the European commission and current chair of European Public Affairs at Brunswick and Professor at King's College London
- 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
- Festus Mogae, President of Botswana
- Caroline Nokes, Conservative Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North
- Dan Norris, former Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke, North East Somerset
- Sherry Rehman, Senator, Pakistan (2015–Present)
- 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 – Present)
- 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
- Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of the State of Palestine
Scientists
- Adrian Bird CBE FRS, Director of Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
- Brenda Boardman MBE , policy development related to fuel poverty
- Amir Caldeira, Brazilian quantum physicist
- David Clary FRS, President, Magdalen College, Oxford
- Peter Coles, astrophysicist
- Ian H. S. Cullimore, computer scientist
- Anthony R. Dickinson FRS, neuroscientist
- Lesley Fallowfield, cancer psychologist
- Philip Ingham FRS, developmental biologist
- Francesca M. Kerton, chemistry professor
- Adam Kilgarriff, corpus linguist, lexicographer and the co-author of the Sketch Engine corpus management system
- 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
- Elizabeth F. Churchill, Director of User experience at Google and Vice President-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Dimitri Nanopoulos, quantum physicist
- Becky Parker, physicist and physics teacher
- Rohan Pethiyagoda, taxonomist
- Anil Seth, neuroscientist
- Nalin de Silva, theoretical physicist, philosopher, professor
- Mark Steedman, cognitive scientist
- Tim Sumner, experimental physicist
- Benjamin J Whitaker, chemist
Academics
Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission
- Abdalla Uba Adamu, professor, media scholar
- Daniele Archibugi, economic and political theorist
- Shamshad Akhtar, development economist, diplomat, former governor of State Bank of Pakistan
- Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Manchester Art Gallery
- 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
- Reetika Khera, economics professor
- Robert Hugh Layton, Emeritus Professor at Durham University
- István Mészáros, professor
- Paul Morris, educationalist
- Timothy O'Shea, vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
- Nick Rees-Roberts, professor
- Reza Shah-Kazemi, author
- Guy Standing, development economist
- Tim Sumner, professor
- John Windle, antiquarian, author, and gallerist
- Lucy Worsley, historian and curator
- Ayman Zohry, expert on migration studies
Writers and broadcasters
Helen Boaden, former BBC director
Ian McEwan, novelist and screenwriter
- Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher
- Becky Anderson, CNN International correspondent and presenter
- Desi Anwar, journalist, news presenter
- David Baboulene, travel writer and story theorist
- Mark Barrowcliffe, novelist
- Helen Boaden, former director of BBC Radio
- Tommy Boyd, broadcaster
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite, author
- Estelle Akofio-Sowah, businesswoman and Google country manager
- Shantanu Gupta, author and political analyst
- Peter Brimelow, journalist and author
- Emily Buchanan, BBC World Affairs correspondent
- Michael Buerk, BBC journalist and newsreader
- Richard Calder, novelist
- Duncan Campbell, investigative journalist, consultant, producer and forensic expert
- Lord Richard Cecil, journalist and adventurer (died 1978)
- Simon Fanshawe, writer, broadcaster
- Darius Fisher, producer, director
- Connie Glynn, writer and YouTuber
- 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
- Gabriel Josipovici, renowned contemporary British author
- Merfyn Jones professor, historian, broadcaster; governor of the BBC; vice-chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor
- Robin Lustig, broadcaster
- Marina Mahathir, leader in many non-governmental organizations
- 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
- Heydon Prowse, BAFTA award winner BBC journalist, activist, satirist and director
- Jolyon Rubinstein, BAFTA award winner actor, writer, producer and director
- Chris Ship, Deputy Political Editor of ITV News
- Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue
- Julia Somerville, broadcaster
- Zoe Strimpel, journalist, writer, historian
- Steve Coll, author and 1990 Pulitzer prize winner
- Shirley Thomas, professor, broadcaster
- Srđa Trifković, historian and journalist
- Janice Turner, writer for The Times
Musicians and entertainers
John Altman, film composer
- John Altman, award-winning film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, and conductor
- Tony Banks, keyboard player with Genesis
- Beardyman, beatboxer
- Frankie Boyle, comedian
- Daniel Catán, composer
- Graham Clark, jazz/rock violinist ex-Gong
- Mo Foster, session musician (bass guitar)
- Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk
- Marcus Hamblett, composer and musician
- Billy Idol, musician
- Jem, singer-songwriter
- Steve Knightley, singer-songwriter
- Cariad Lloyd, comedian and actress
- Ophelia Lovibond, actress
- Mura Masa, electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist, studied English Literature
- Bob Mortimer, comedian
- Sara Pascoe, stand-up comedian and author
- Grant Serpell, former drummer with Sailor and Affinity
- Cristian Vogel, electronic musician
- Jessie Ware, singer-songwriter
- Josephine Wiggs, bassist with The Breeders
Diplomats
Rebeca Grynspan, Head of United Nations Development Programme
- Rebeca Grynspan, former UN Under-Secretary-General and UN UNDP head and former vice president of Costa Rica
- 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
- Roberto Valent, United Nations diplomat
- 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
- Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala, mountaineer and first Sri Lankan and fourth women in the world to reach the peak of Mount Everest
- Ralf Rangnick, German former manager of FC Schalke 04 and VfB Stuttgart
- Virginia Wade, Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Champion, 1977
Business
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Keith Skeoch, CEO of Standard Life
- Jeremy Coller, CEO of Coller Capital, a British private equity firm
- Liam Hackett, activist, founder and CEO Ditch the Label
- Maikanti Baru, engineer, former chief, Nigeria's state oil firm; Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
- Harriet Lamb, CEO of International Alert
- Nancy Okail, Executive Director, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; expert on human rights
- Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund CEO, Galleon Group; convicted of insider trading
- Simon Segars, CEO of ARM Holdings plc, electronic engineer
- Keith Skeoch, chief executive (CEO) of Standard Life
- Noel Tata, industrialist
- Zhang Xin, entrepreneur and CEO of SOHO China
Others
- Michael Attenborough, director
- Linda Bellos, adviser
- Michael Fuller, Chief Constable of Kent Police
- Bruno Heller, screenwriter and actor
- Naomie Kremer, artist
- Claire Oboussier, artist
- David Pecaut, American-born Canadian civic activist and consultant
References
- "CAMP, David Lee, (1953 - )". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
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