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. The list includes one current monarch and former prime minister, two de facto heads of state, one vice president, one deputy prime minister, and two former Leaders of the House of Lords. The list also includes two Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, one president of the Royal Society, two Lasker Award winners, and a further 15 fellows of the Royal Society. Literary alumni include one Nobel laureate in Literature, three Booker Prize winners, 11 Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award) winners, and three Caine Prize winners.

Earlham Hall, home to UEA Law School

Politics and government

Heads of state and government

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Sir Robert Fulton	BA, 1970	Governor of Gibraltar (2006–2009) and Commandant General Royal Marines	[1]
Sir Carlyle Glean	MA, 1982	Governor-General of Grenada (2008–2013)	[2]
Tupou VI	BA, 1980	King of Tonga (2012–present) and Prime Minister of Tonga (2000–2006)	[3]

United Kingdom

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos	ARE, 1978	Leader of the House of Lords (2003–2007)	[4]
Douglas Carswell	BA, 1993	Conservative and UKIP Member of Parliament	[5]
Judith Chaplin	DipEcon	Conservative Member of Parliament	[6]
Tony Colman	MA, 2009; PhD, 2013	Labour Member of Parliament	[7]
Caroline Flint	BA, 1983	Labour Member of Parliament	[8]
Michael Heaver	BA, 2011	Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament	[9]
Jon Owen Jones	BSc, 1975	Labour Member of Parliament	[10]
Tess Kingham	PGCE, 1987	Labour Member of Parliament	[11]
Rachael Maskell	BSc, 1994	Labour Member of Parliament	[12]
Brian Mathew	BA, 1983	Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament	[13]
Manuela Perteghella	MA, 2000; PhD, 2006	Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament	[14]
Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland	BA, 1975	Crossbench Peer and actor	[15]
Murad Qureshi	BA, 1987	Labour Member of the London Assembly	[16]
Adrian Ramsay	BA, 2002; MA, 2005	Green Party Member of Parliament and co-leader	[17]
Connor Rand	BA, 2014	Labour Member of Parliament	[18]
Sam Rushworth	MRes, 2011; PhD, 2018	Labour Member of Parliament	[19]
Rosalind Scott, Baroness Scott of Needham Market	BA, 1999	Liberal Democrat Peer	[20]
Karin Smyth	BA, 1988	Labour Member of Parliament	[21]
Ivor Stanbrook	PhD, 1995	Conservative Member of Parliament	[22]
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde	BA, 1982	Leader of the House of Lords (2010–2013)	[23]
David Thomas	BA, 1993	Labour Member of the European Parliament	[24]
Adam Tomkins	LLB, 1990	Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament	[25]

Europe

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Rubina Berardo	BA, 2003	Member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic	[26]
Hugh Bronson	MA; PhD, 2001	Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin	[27]
Marios Demetriades	BSc, 1993	Cypriot Transport Minister	[28]
Françoise Dupuis	MA, 1967	President of the Brussels Regional Parliament	[29]
Össur Skarphéðinsson	PhD, 1983	Icelandic Foreign Minister	[30]

Middle East

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Mohamed Ali Hasan Ali	MSc, 1987; PhD, 1994	Member of the Bahraini Consultative Council	[31]
Serwan Baban	PhD, 1991	Kurdish Cabinet Minister	[32]
Saeed Qasim Al-Khalidi Al-Maliki	MSc, 2002; PhD 2006	Member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia	[33]
Mansour bin Attia bin Mohammed Al-Mazrouei	PhD, 2006	Member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia	[34]
Yahya Al-Mutawakel	PhD, 1992	Yemeni Trade Minister	[35]
Hilal Al Sarmi	MA	Member of the Consultative Assembly of Oman	[36]
Tariq bin Saeed bin Hilail Al-Shammari	PhD, 2016	Member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia	[37]

Asia

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
José Abel	MSc, 2004	East Timorese Secretary of State	[38]
Mariyam Azra	MA, 1998	Maldivian Minister of State	[39]
Anil Baijal	MA	Lieutenant Governor of Delhi	[40]
Nomin Chinbat	BA, 2006	Mongolian Cabinet Minister	[41]
Cüneyd Düzyol	MA, 1993	Turkish Cabinet Minister	[42]
Hala Hameed	MPhil, 1993; PhD, 2004	Maldivian Minister of State	[43]
Choida Jamtsho	MSc, 2006	Member of the Bhutanese National Assembly	[44]
Cheng Kai-nam	BA, 1988	Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong	[29]
Murat Karayalçın	MA, 1977	Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and Turkish Foreign Minister	[29]
Martin Manurung	MA, 2007	Member of the Indonesian People's Representative Council	[45]
Suyoi Osman	BA, 1975	Bruneian Education and Health Minister	[29]
Adam Shareef	MA, 2008	Maldivian Defence Minister	[29]
Salbiah binti Sulaiman	BA, 1978	Member of the Legislative Council of Brunei	[46]
Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech	DipEcon	Thai Finance Minister	[47]
Wan Hisham	BSc, 1979	Malaysian State Assemblyman	[29]
Adanan Yusof	BA	Bruneian Home Affairs and Health Minister	[48]

Oceania

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Mathias Cormann	Law, 1994	Australian Finance Minister and Secretary-General of the OECD	[49]
Dee Margetts	BA, 1982	Senator for Western Australia	[50]
Teima Onorio	MA, 1990	Vice President of Kiribati	[51]

Americas

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Alvin Bernard	MA	Member of the Dominican House of Assembly	[29]
Julio Boltvinik	MA, 1973	Member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies	[52]
Gino Costa	MA, 1983	Peruvian Interior Minister	[53]
Óscar González	MA, 1974; PhD, 1980	Member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies	[54]
Daniel Kagan	Politics, 1973	Member of the Colorado Senate	[29]
Manuel Lajo	PhD, 1987	Member of the Peruvian Congress	[55]
Pedro Rosas Bravo	MSc, 1978	Venezuelan Finance Minister	[56]

Africa

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Gamal El-Araby	MA	Egyptian Education Minister	[29]
Manuel de Araújo	PhD, 2011	Member of the Mozambican Assembly of the Republic	[57]
Syda Bbumba		Ugandan Finance Minister	[58]
Aimé Boji	MA, 1997	Democratic Republic of the Congo Budget Minister	[29]
Sinknesh Ejigu	MSc, 1988	Ethiopian Cabinet Minister	[59]
Daphrose Gahakwa	MSc, 1997; PhD, 2001	Rwandan Education Minister	[60]
Zuwera Ibrahimah	MA	Ghanaian Member of Parliament	[61]
Ousman Jammeh	MA, 1984	Gambian Foreign Minister	[62]
Asha Abdullah Juma	MA, 2000	Member of the Tanzanian National Assembly	[63]
Donald Kaberuka	MPhil, 1979	President of the African Development Bank and Rwandan Finance Minister	[64]
Rosebud Kurwijila	MPhil, 1994	African Union Commissioner	[29]
Agnes Kwaje Lasuba	BA, 1990; MSc, 1991	South Sudanese Cabinet Minister	[65]
Alie Badara Mansaray	MA, 2005	Sierra Leonean National Commissioner for Social Action	[66]
Eddie Mbadiwe	PhD, 1975	Member of the Nigerian House of Representatives	[67]
Tito Mboweni	MA, 1988	Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and South African Labour Minister	[68]
Juma Ngasongwa	PhD, 1988	Tanzanian Trade Minister	[69]
Rolph Payet	BSc, 1992	Seychellois Cabinet Minister	[70]
Junedin Sado	PgDip, 1987	Ethiopian Cabinet Minister	[29]
Peter Sinon	BA, 1990; MA, 1996	Seychellois Cabinet Minister	[71]
Stone Sizani	MA, 1995	Member of the South African National Assembly	[72]
Hassan Wario	MA, 1998; PhD, 2013	Kenyan Cabinet Minister	[73]
Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf	MA, 1983	Member of the Nigerian Senate	[74]

Diplomats

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Aníbal de Castro	BA, 1979	Dominican Republic Ambassador to the United States	[75]
Albert Chua	BA, 1990	Singaporean Permanent Representative to the United Nations	[76]
Shofry Abdul Ghafor	BA, 1981	Bruneian Permanent Representative to the United Nations	[77]
Alan Hunt	BA, 1970	UK High Commissioner to Singapore	[78]
Arjun Karki	PhD, 2001	Nepali Ambassador to the United States	[79]
Abubakarr Multi-Kamara	MA, 1982	Sierra Leonean Ambassador to China	[80]
Philip Priestley	BA, 1968	UK Ambassador to Gabon and UK High Commissioner to Belize	[81]
Ingebjørg Støfring	MA, 1987	Norwegian Ambassador to Bangladesh and Zimbabwe	[82]

Science and academia

Science and public health

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Ibrahim Abubakar	PhD, 2007	Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health	[83]
Neil Adger	PhD, 1998	Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter	[84]
Franklin Aigbirhio	BSc, 1984	Professor of Molecular Imaging Chemistry at the University of Cambridge	[85]
James Barber	MSc, 1965; PhD, 1967	Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London	[86]
Nick Barton	PhD, 1979	Darwin Medal, Darwin–Wallace Medal and Erwin Schrödinger Prize winning evolutionary biologist	[87]
Sir John Beringer	PhD, 1973	Emeritus professor at the University of Bristol	[88]
Keith Beven	PhD, 1975	Robert E. Horton Medal winning hydrologist	[89]
Mervyn Bibb	BSc, 1974; PhD, 1978	Molecular microbiologist	[90]
Alan Bishop	BSc	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award winning scientist	[91]
Robert Boutilier	PhD, 1981	Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Cambridge	[92]
Keith Briffa	BSC; PhD, 1984	Climatologist	[93]
Dennis Brown	BSc, 1972; PhD, 1975	Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School	[94]
Kevin Burgess	MSc, 1980	Rachal Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University	[95]
Lucy Carpenter	PhD, 1996	Rosalind Franklin Award winning physical chemist	[96]
Ken Carslaw	MSc, 1991; PhD, 1994	Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds	[97]
Sir Andrew Cash	BA	Chief executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	[98]
Gavin Crooks	BSc, 1992; MSc, 1993	Discoverer of Crooks fluctuation theorem	[99]
Huw Davies	PhD, 1980	Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Organic Chemistry at Emory University	[100]
Karen Duff	BSc, 1987	Potamkin Prize winning pathologist	[101]
Nick Dulvy	PhD, 1998	Professor of Marine Biodiversity & Conservation at Simon Fraser University	[102]
Julian Eastoe	BSc, 1986; PhD, 1990	Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol	[103]
Nick Eyles	PhD, 1978	E. R. Ward Neale Medal winning geologist	[104]
Marcus Flather	MBA, 2016	Cardiologist and expert in clinical trials
Richard Flavell	PhD, 1967	Director of the John Innes Centre	[105]
Lynne Frostick	PhD, 1975	President of the Geological Society of London	[106]
Dame Sarah Gilbert	BSc, 1983	Saïd Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford and Project Lead on the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine	[107]
Beverley Glover	PhD, 1996	Bicentenary Medal winning botanist	[108]
Don Grierson	BSc, 1967	Emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham	[109]
Jane Hart	PhD, 1987	Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Southampton	[29]
Louise Heathwaite	BSc, 1982	Hydrochemist	[110]
Martin Heeney	PhD, 1990	Professor of Organic Materials at Imperial College London	[111]
Brian Hemmings	PhD, 1975	Cloëtta Prize winning biochemist	[112]
Sir Michael Houghton	BSc, 1972	2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome	[113]
Keith Hunter	PhD, 1977	Marsden Medal winning marine chemist	[114]
Tony James	BSc, 1986	Daiwa Adrian Prize winning chemist	[115]
David Jones	PhD, 1965	Flavelle Medal winning biologist	[116]
Dame Emily Lawson	PhD, 1993	Head of the NHS COVID-19 vaccine programme	[117]
Simon Leather	PhD, 1980	Professor of Entomology at Harper Adams University	[118]
Tim Lenton	PhD, 1998	Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter	[119]
Neil McKeown	BSc, 1984; PhD, 1987	Beilby Medal and Prize and Tilden Prize winning chemist	[120]
Nicholas Mills	BSc, 1976; PhD, 1979	Professor of Insect Population Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley	[121]
Richard Nichols	PhD, 1984	Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at Queen Mary University of London	[122]
Sir Paul Nurse	PhD, 1973	2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and President of the Royal Society	[123]
Giles Oldroyd	BA, 1994	Plant scientist	[124]
Timothy Osborn	BSc, 1990; PhD, 1995	Director of the Climatic Research Unit	[125]
Julian Pearce	PhD, 1973	Bigsby Medal and Murchison Medal winning geochemist	[126]
Terence Rabbitts	BSc, 1968	Colworth Medal winning molecular biologist	[127]
Clive Randall	BSc, 1983	Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University	[128]
Sarah Raper	BSc, 1974; PhD, 1978	Climatologist	[129]
Michael G. Ritchie	PhD, 1988	Evolutionary biologist	[130]
David Rogers	BSc, 1980	Chief executive of the Met Office	[131]
Benjamin Santer	BSc, 1984; PhD, 1987	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award winning atmospheric scientist	[132]
Nicole Steinmetz	PhD, 2007	Professor of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego	[133]
Nicola Stonehouse	BSc	Professor in Molecular Virology at the University of Leeds	[134]
William Sutherland	BSc	President of the British Ecological Society	[135]
Rihab Taha	PhD, 1984	Microbiologist who worked on Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program	[136]
Nick Talbot	PhD, 1990	Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter	[137]
Colin Thorne	BSc; PhD, 1978	Back Award winning geographer	[138]
Peter Thorne	BSc, 1998; PhD, 2001	IPCC Fifth Assessment Report lead author	[139]
Simon Thrush	PhD, 1985	Director of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Auckland	[140]
Chris Turney	BSc	Bigsby Medal winning geologist and climatologist	[29]
Amarilis de Varennes	PhD, 1985	President of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia	[141]
Rob Varley	BSc, 1983	Chief executive of the Met Office	[142]
Alan Whiteside	MA, 1980	AIDS researcher	[143]
Christopher Wood	PhD, 1974	Miroslaw Romanowski Medal winning biologist	[144]
John Derek Woollins	BSc, 1976; PhD, 1979	Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of St Andrews	[145]
Deng Zixin	PhD, 1987	Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences	[146]

Other academics

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
David Acheson	PhD, 1971	President of the Mathematical Association	[147]
Mel Ainscow	PhD, 1995	Professor of Education at the University of Manchester	[148]
Franklin Allen	BA, 1977; MPhil, 1979	Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	[149]
Virginia DeJohn Anderson	MA	Historian	[150]
John Ashdown-Hill	BA, 1971	Historian	[151]
Diane Atkinson	MA, 2005	Historian	[152]
Judith Baxter	BA, 1976	Sociolinguist	[153]
Deryck Beyleveld	PhD, 1975	Professor of Law and Bioethics at Durham University	[154]
Will Brooker	BA, 1991	Cultural critic	[155]
Andrew Bowie	PhD, 1980	Professor of Philosophy and German at Royal Holloway, University of London	[156]
Peter Buckley	MA, 1970	Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds	[157]
Michael Casey	BA, 1990	James Wright Professor of Music at Dartmouth College	[158]
Steven Casey	BA, 1994	Professor of International History at the London School of Economics	[29]
Mark Coeckelbergh	MA, 1999	Philosopher of technology	[29]
Selim Deringil	BA, 1975; PhD, 1979	Historian	[29]
Tim Dunne	BA, 1989	International relations scholar	[29]
Glenn Foard	PhD, 2008	Archaeologist	[29]
Charles Freeman	MA, 1978	Historian	[29]
Gerald Gazdar	BA, 1970	Linguist	[159]
Richard Grayson	BA, 1991	Professor of Twentieth Century History at Goldsmiths, University of London	[29]
Andrew Hemingway		Emeritus professor of Art History at University College London	[160]
Kathryn Hughes	MA, 1987	Historian	[161]
William John Hutchins	PhD, 2000	Linguist	[29]
Peter Lamarque	BA, 1970	Professor of Philosophy at the University of York	[162]
Christopher Lane	BA, 1988	Professor of English at Northwestern University	[163]
Robert Lyman	PhD, 2011	Military historian	[164]
Susan Owens	BSc; PhD, 1981	Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge	[165]
Judith Phillips	PhD, 1989	Gerontologist	[166]
Andrew Reynolds	BA, 1998	Political scientist	[167]
Peter Stachura	MA, 1968; PhD, 1971	Historian	[168]
June Thoburn	MSW, 1988	Social work scholar	[169]
Sir Alan Tuckett	BA, 1969	Educationist	[170]
Graeme Turner	PhD, 1976	Cultural historian	[29]
Ginette Vincendeau	PhD, 1985	Professor of Film Studies at King's College London	[171]
Richard Webster	BA, 1972	Cultural historian	[172]
Marysia Zalewski	BA, 1988	International relations scholar	[29]

Academic administrators

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Asaf Savaş Akat	MA, 1968	Rector of Istanbul Bilgi University	[173]
Robin Baker	PhD, 1984	Vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Chichester	[174]
Rick Caulfield	PhD, 1993	Chancellor of the University of Alaska Southeast	[175]
Carl Lygo	LLM, 1991	Vice-chancellor of Arden University	[176]
Margaret Muthwii	MA, 1986; PhD, 1994	Vice-chancellor of Pan Africa Christian University	[177]
Ahmed Nasri	PhD, 1985	President of Fahd bin Sultan University	[178]
Mike Rands	BSc, 1978	Master of Darwin College, Cambridge	[179]
John Saka	PhD, 1985	Vice-chancellor of the University of Malawi and Mzuzu University	[180]
Paul Thompson	MA, 1984; PhD, 1987	Chair of the British Council and Rector of the Royal College of Art	[181]
Ibrahim Umar	PhD, 1974	Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano	[29]
Primitivo Viray	PhD, 1999	President of Ateneo de Naga University	[29]
Paul Wellings	PhD, 1980	Vice-chancellor of the University of Wollongong and the University of Lancaster	[182]

Literature

Booker Prize winners

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Anne Enright	MA, 1988	Booker Prize winning author	[183]
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro	MA, 1980	2017 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate and Booker Prize winning author	[183]
Ian McEwan	MA, 1971	Booker Prize winning author	[183]

Costa Book Award winners

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
David Almond	BA, 1973	Whitbread Book Award winning children's author	[184]
Tash Aw	MA, 2003	Whitbread Book Award winning novelist	[185]
Susan Fletcher	MA, 2002	Whitbread Book Award winning novelist	[186]
Adam Foulds	MA, 2001	Costa Book Award winning poet	[186]
Emma Healey	MA, 2011	Costa Book Award winning novelist	[187]
Avril Joy	BA, 1972	Costa Book Award winning author	[188]
Andrew Miller	MA, 1991	Costa Book Award winning novelist	[189]
Dame Rose Tremain	BA, 1967	Whitbread Book Award and Orange Prize winning novelist	[190]
Christie Watson	MA, 2009	Costa Book Award winning novelist	[191]

Caine Prize winners

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Helon Habila	PhD, 2008	Caine Prize winning novelist	[161]
Henrietta Rose-Innes	PhD	Caine Prize winning novelist	[192]
Binyavanga Wainaina	MPhil, 2010	Caine Prize winning novelist	[191]

Other writers

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Matthew De Abaitua	MA, 1994	Writer	[193]
Annabel Abbs	BA	Writer	[194]
Ayobami Adebayo	MA, 2014	Writer	[195]
Anita Agnihotri	MSc	Writer	[196]
Naomi Alderman	MA, 2003	Novelist	[185]
Nicholas Allan	MA, 1981	Children's author	[185]
Ali Almossawi	BSc, 2005	Writer	[197]
Julie Ann Amos	BSc, 1983	Writer	[29]
Princess Anna of Bavaria	MA	Political biographer	[198]
Árni Þórarinsson	BA, 1973	Writer	[199]
Mona Arshi	MA, 2010	Poet	[200]
Trezza Azzopardi	MA, 1998	Novelist	[185]
Urvashi Bahuguna	MA, 2014	Poet and essayist	[201]
John Bainbridge	BA, 1992	Author	[202]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo	MA, 2017	Author	[203]
Sebastian Barker	MA, 1970	Poet	[204]
Paul Batchelor	MA, 2000	Poet	[185]
Martyn Bedford	MA, 1994	Novelist	[185]
Julia Bell	MA	Novelist	[205]
Brett Ellen Block	MA, 1998	Author	[185]
Peter Bowker	MA, 1991	Screenwriter	[185]
Tim Bowler	BA, 1972	Novelist	[185]
John Boyne	MA, 1996	Novelist	[185]
Jon Brittain	BA, 2008	Playwright	[185]
Keith Brooke	BSc, 1987	Writer	[185]
Stephen Buoro	MA, 2019	Novelist	[206]
Sam Byers	MA, 2004; PhD, 2014	Novelist	[185]
Aifric Campbell	MA, 2003; PhD, 2007	Writer	[185]
Anthony Cartwright	BA, 1996	Novelist	[185]
Christopher Catherwood	PhD, 2006	Author	[207]
Gillian Chan	BEd, 1980	Children's author	[208]
Tracy Chevalier	MA, 1994	Historical novelist	[185]
Suzanne Cleminshaw	PhD, 1991	Writer	[185]
Mark Cocker	BA, 1982	Author	[185]
Stephen Cole	BA, 1992	Writer	[29]
David Connolly	PhD, 1997	Literary translator	[209]
Peter J. Conradi	BA, 1967	Writer	[185]
Judy Corbalis	MA, 1990	Novelist	[185]
Sarah Corbett	MA, 1999	Poet	[185]
Andrew Cowan	MA, 1985	Novelist	[185]
Nick Crittenden	PhD	Writer
Helen Cross	MA, 1998	Novelist	[185]
Fflur Dafydd	MA, 2000	Writer	[186]
Shon Dale-Jones	BA, 1990	Writer	[29]
Donna Daley-Clarke	MA, 2001	Novelist	[186]
Louise Doughty	MA, 1987	Novelist	[186]
Ruth Dugdall	MA	Novelist	[210]
Suzannah Dunn	MA, 1989	Novelist	[186]
Joe Dunthorne	BA, 2004; MA, 2005	Novelist	[186]
Susan Elderkin	MA, 1994	Author	[186]
Oliver Emanuel	MA, 2002	Playwright	[186]
Diana Evans	MA, 2003	Novelist	[186]
Fadia Faqir	PhD, 1990	Author	[186]
Stephen Finucan	MA, 1996	Short story writer	[186]
David Flusfeder	MA, 1988	Author	[186]
Bo Fowler	MA, 1995	Novelist	[186]
Sue Gee	PhD, 2007	Novelist	[211]
Ruth Gilligan	MA, 2011	Writer	[161]
Jim Goar	PhD, 2012	Poet	[161]
Imogen Hermes Gowar	BA; MA	Author	[212][213]
Nigel Gray	MA, 1983	Author	[214]
Tim Guest	MA, 1999	Author	[161]
Mohammed Hanif	MA, 2005	Writer	[161]
Graeme Harper	PhD, 1997	Writer	[161]
Jane Harris	MA, 1992; PhD, 1995	Novelist and screenwriter	[161]
Alix Hawley	MA, 2002	Novelist	[161]
Amanda Hodgkinson	MA, 2001	Novelist	[215]
Edward Hogan	MA, 2004	Novelist	[161]
Emma Hooper	PhD, 2010	Writer	[216]
Richard House	PhD, 2008	Author	[161]
Naomi Ishiguro	MFA	Author	[217]
Mick Jackson	MA, 1992	Novelist	[188]
Christopher James	MA, 2000	Poet	[188]
Andrew Jefford	MA, 1981	Journalist and author	[29]
Marie-Louise Jensen	BA, 1986	Children's author	[188]
Anjali Joseph	MA, 2008; PhD	Author	[188]
Panos Karnezis	MA, 2000	Novelist	[188]
Tadzio Koelb	MA, 2008	Novelist	[218]
Muhammad Mojlum Khan	BA, 1994	Writer	[219]
Larissa Lai	MA, 2001	Novelist	[188]
Hernán Lara Zavala	MA, 1981	Novelist	[191]
Joanna Laurens	MA, 2003	Playwright	[188]
Ágnes Lehóczky	MA, 2006; PhD, 2010	Poet	[188]
Frances Liardet	MA, 2000	Translator of Arabic literature	[188]
Steve Lightfoot	MA	Screenwriter	[220]
Toby Litt	MA, 1995	Novelist	[188]
Philip MacCann	MA	Writer	[189]
Deirdre Madden	MA, 1985	Novelist	[189]
Robert McGill	MA, 2002	Writer	[189]
Laura McGloughlin	MA, 2007	Literary translator	[29]
Nalin Mehta	MA, 2003	Writer	[29]
Sarah Emily Miano	MA, 2002; PhD, 2007	Author	[189]
Lucasta Miller	PhD, 2007	Writer and journalist	[29]
Tom Moran	BA, 2009	Writer	[29]
Esther Morgan	MA, 1998	Poet	[189]
Tom Morton-Smith	BA, 2001	Playwright	[189]
Charles Moseley	PhD, 1971	Writer	[221]
Syed Askar Mousavi	BA, 1987	Writer	[29]
Neel Mukherjee	MA, 2001	Novelist	[189]
Paul Murray	MA, 2001	Novelist	[189]
Sandra Newman	MA, 2002	Writer	[189]
Ng Yi-Sheng	MA, 2014	Writer and poet	[189]
Timothy Ogene	MA	Poet and novelist	[29]
Tolu Ogunlesi	MA, 2011	Writer and journalist	[222]
Nessa O'Mahony	MA, 2003	Poet and writer	[223]
Troy Onyango	MA	Writer
John Osborne	BA, 2000	Writer and poet	[189]
Kathy Page	MA, 1988	Novelist	[224]
Glenn Patterson	MA, 1986	Novelist	[224]
Christine Pountney	MA, 1997	Author	[224]
Natasha Pulley	MA, 2012	Author	[225]
Dina Rabinovitch	MA, 2000	Journalist and writer	[224]
Mario Reading	EUR, 1972	Novelist	[29]
Eleanor Rees	MA, 2002	Poet	[224]
Ben Rice	MA, 2000	Novelist	[224]
Sam Riviere	PhD, 2013	Poet	[224]
Eliza Robertson	MA, 2012	Writer	[224]
Monique Roffey	BA, 1987	Writer	[29]
Tatiana de Rosnay	BA, 1984	Writer	[29]
Anthony Sattin	MA, 1984	Writer	[190]
Simon Scarrow	MA, 1992	Author	[190]
James Scudamore	MA, 2004	Novelist	[190]
W. G. Sebald	PhD, 1973	Writer	[226]
Owen Sheers	MA, 1998	Author, poet and playwright	[190]
Jeremy Sheldon	MA, 1996	Novelist	[190]
Robert Sheppard	MA, 1979	Poet	[190]
Guillermo Sheridan	MA, 1986	Literary critic	[55]
Elizabeth L. Silver	MA, 2004	Writer	[227]
Kathryn Simmonds	MA, 2002	Poet	[190]
Clive Sinclair	BA, 1969; PhD, 1983	Novelist	[190]
Alexander Gordon Smith	BA, 2003	Novelist	[190]
Rob Magnuson Smith	MA	Novelist	[228]
Erin Soros	PhD, 2014	Author	[229]
Paul Stewart	MA, 1979	Writer	[190]
Margaret Stohl	MA, 1988	Writer	[29]
Jon Stone	BA, 2004	Poet	[190]
Andrea Stuart	BA, 1984	Writer	[230]
Julia Stuart	MA, 2013	Novelist	[190]
Todd Swift	MA, 2004	Poet	[190]
Hwee Hwee Tan	BA, 1995	Novelist	[190]
Mark Tilton	MA, 1997	Screenwriter	[190]
Carol Topolski	MA, 2004	Novelist	[190]
Erica Wagner	MA, 1991	Author and literary editor of The Times	[191]
Martin Walls	BA, 1989	Poet	[191]
Craig Warner	MA, 2013	Playwright and screenwriter	[191]
Thomas Warner	MA, 2002	Poet	[191]
Phil Whitaker	MA, 1996	Novelist	[191]
Matt Whyman	MA, 1992	Novelist	[191]
Clare Wigfall	MA, 2000	Writer	[191]
Luke Williams	MA, 2002	Author	[191]
D. W. Wilson	MA, 2010; PhD, 2014	Author	[191]
Snoo Wilson	BA, 1969	Playwright	[191]
Jennifer Wong	MA, 2009	Writer and poet	[191]
Gregory Woods	BA, 1974; MA, 1975; PhD, 1983	Poet and author	[191]
Luke Wright	BA, 2003	Poet	[191]
Anna Ziegler	MA, 2002	Playwright	[231]

Arts

Actors

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Roger Ashton-Griffiths	PhD, 2015	Actor	[232]
Jack Davenport	BA, 1995	Actor	[233]
Simon Paisley Day	BA	Actor	[234]
Leena Dhingra	MA, 1991; PhD, 2001	Actress	[186]
James Frain	BA, 1990	Actor	[235]
Michael Hobbs		Actor	[236]
Jennifer Kirby	BA, 2010	Actress	[237]
Matt Milne	BA, 2011	Actor	[238]
Annabel Mullion	BA, 1991	Actress	[29]
Andrew Novell	MA, 2003	Actor	[239]
Steve Oram	BA, 1994	Actor	[29]
Vicki Pepperdine		Actress	[240]
Catherine Rabett	BA	Actress	[29]
John Rhys-Davies	BA, 1966	Actor	[241]
Jiang Shuying	MSc, 2011	Actress	[242]
Matt Smith	BA, 2005	Actor	[243]
Olivia Vinall	BA, 2010	Actress	[244]

Comedy

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Pat Cahill		Comedian
Nina Conti	BA, 1995	Comedian	[245]
David Cummings	BA, 1980	Screenwriter and musician	[29]
Simon Day	BA, 1989	Comedian and actor	[246]
Charlie Higson	BA, 1980	Comedian and author	[238]
John Kearns	BA, 2008	Comedian	[247]
Arthur Smith	BA, 1976	Comedian and author	[238]
Paul Whitehouse	DEV, 1977	Comedian	[248]

Film and television

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Nan Achnas	MA, 1996	Film director	[55]
Bea Ballard	BA, 1980	Television producer and executive	[29]
Sir Colin Callender	BA, 1973	President of HBO Films	[249]
Gurinder Chadha	BA, 1983	Film director	[238]
Andy Devonshire	BA	Television director and producer	[250]
Saul Dibb	BA, 1990	Film director	[238]
Don Homfray	BA, 1999	BAFTA award winning production designer	[251]
Stephen Lambert	BA, 1981	Television producer and executive	[252]
David Lemieux	MA, 1999	Grateful Dead legacy manager, producer, archivist
Amir Muhammad	LLB, 1995	Film director	[253]
Simon Nicholls	LLB, 1999	Television producer	[29]

Visual arts

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Paul Atterbury	BA, 1972	Antiques expert	[254]
Bendor Grosvenor	PhD, 2009	Art historian	[255]
Dan Harries	MA, 1988	Artist	[29]
Anna Jóelsdóttir	MA, 1985	Artist	[256]
Marianne Majerus	MA, 1983	Photographer	[29]
Nick Miller	BA, 1984	Artist	[29]
Philip Mould	BA, 1981	Art historian	[257]

Arts administrators

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Mary Allen	MA, 2002	Chief executive of the Royal Opera House	[258]
Andrew Bolton	BA, 1987; MA	Museum curator	[259]
Alissandra Cummins	BA, 1981	Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society	[260]
Séan Doran	BA, 1983	Chief executive of English National Opera	[261]
Derek Gillman	LLM, 1996	Director of the Barnes Foundation	[262]
Tessa Jackson	BA, 1977	Director of the Institute of International Visual Art	[263]
Penny Johnson	BA, 1978	Director of the Government Art Collection	[264]
Jack Lohman	BA, 1979	Director of the Museum of London and the Royal British Columbia Museum	[29]
Mordechai Omer	PhD, 1976	Director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art	[29]
Anna Southall	BA, 1970	Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales	[29]
Boris Wastiau	MA, 1993; PhD, 1997	Director of the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève	[265]

Music

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Terry Burrows	BA	Musician and author	[29]
Jo Dipple	BA	CEO of UK Music and former special adviser to Gordon Brown	[266]
Terry Edwards	BA, 1982	Musician	[29]
William Goodchild	BA, 1985	Composer	[29]
Aziz Harun	BSc, 2021	Bruneian Singer	[267]
Shabs Jobanputra	BA, 1990	Music executive	[238]
Kishon Khan	BSc, 1991	Musician	[29]
Gareth Malone	BA, 1997	Emmy Award winning choirmaster	[238]
Eduardo Marturet	BA, 1974	Conductor	[268]
Dario Palermo	PhD, 2014	Composer	[29]
Elizabeth Parker	BA, 1973	Composer	[29]
Geoffrey Poole	BA, 1970	Composer	[29]
Julian Siegel	BA, 1986	Musician	[238]
Andrew Skeet	BA, 1993	Composer	[29]
Matt Tong	BA, 2000	Musician	[269]

Media

Newsreaders and correspondents

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
David Grossman	BA, 1987	Newsnight correspondent	[270]
Razia Iqbal	BA, 1985	BBC News correspondent	[238]
Maupe Ogun	MA	Nigerian journalist	[271]
Stuart Ramsay	BA, 1985	Sky News Chief Correspondent and Emmy Award winning journalist	[272]
Selina Scott	BA, 1972	Newsreader	[29]
Mark Stone	BA, 2001	Sky News US Correspondent and Emmy Award winning journalist	[29]
Geraint Vincent	BA, 1994	ITV News Middle East Correspondent	[238]

Radio

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Iain Dale	BA, 1985	Political commentator and radio presenter	[273]
Greg James	BA, 2007	BBC Radio 1 presenter	[238]
Zeb Soanes	BA, 1997	Radio 4 newsreader	[29]

Media executives

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Dame Jenny Abramsky	BA, 1968	Director of BBC Radio	[274]
James Boyle	MA, 1971	Controller of BBC Radio 4	[275]
Jonathan Powell	BA, 1969	Controller of BBC One	[276]
Peter Rippon	BA, 1988	Editor of Newsnight	[277]
Sally-Ann Wilson	BA, 1980; MPhil	Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association	[278]

Other media personalities

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Benedict Allen	BSc, 1981	Explorer	[279]
Darren Bett	BSc, 1989	BBC weather forecaster	[280]
Steve Blame	MA, 2006	Broadcaster	[281]
Jim Chapman	BSc	YouTube vlogger	[282]
Joanna Coles	BA	Editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire	[283]
John Fraser	MA, 1970	Journalist	[208]
Rebecca Lowe	BA, 2002	Sports reporter	[284]
Christina Patterson	MA, 1987	Journalist	[285]
Mark Seddon	BA, 1984	Journalist	[29]
Emily Sheffield	BA	Editor of the Evening Standard	[286]
Jake Wallis Simons	PhD, 2009	Editor of The Jewish Chronicle	[287]
Penny Tranter	BSc, 1982	BBC weather forecaster	[238]
Martin Tyler	BA, 1967	Football commentator	[288]

Activism and charity

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Patrick J. Bergin	PhD, 1996	CEO of the African Wildlife Foundation	[289]
David Harker	BA, 1972	Chief executive of Citizens Advice	[290]
Jad Isaac	PhD, 1979	Director General of the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem	[291]
Gary Lefley	BA, 1976	General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament	[292]
Richard Sandbrook	BSc, 1968	Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development	[293]

Business

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Alison Brimelow	BA, 1970	President of the European Patent Office	[294]
Eduardo Costantini	MA, 1975	Argentine billionaire and founder of the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA)	[295]
Neil Doncaster	MBA, 2008	CEO of the Scottish Premier League	[296]
Ahmad Fuaad	BSc, 1993	CEO of UMW Holdings, Proton and Malakoff	[297]
Joe Greenwell	BA, 1973	CEO of Jaguar Land Rover	[298]
Tamara Ingram	BA, 1982	CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi and J. Walter Thompson	[299]
Dame Karen Jones	BA, 1978	Founder and CEO of Café Rouge and Punch Taverns	[300]
Billy Kan	BSc	Hong Kong billionaire	[301]
Marcus Leaver	BA, 1992	Publishing executive	[302]
Tshediso Matona	MSc, 1996	CEO of Eskom	[303]
Mike Norris	BSc, 1983	CEO of Computacenter	[238]
Brendan O'Neill	PhD, 1973	CEO of ICI and Diageo	[304]
Thari Pheko	BSc, 1983	CEO of Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority	[305]
Robert Schofield	BA, 1973	CEO of Premier Foods	[306]
Alexander Smith	BSc, 1973	CEO of Pier 1 Imports	[307]
David Tabizel	BA, 1986	Co-founder of Autonomy	[308]

Economists

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco	MA, 1992	Mozambican economist	[309]
Mario Luis Fuentes	PhD, 1982	Director General of the Mexican Social Security Institute	[310]
Engilbert Guðmundsson	MSc, 1979	Director General of the Icelandic International Development Agency	[311]
David Jackson	MSc, 1987	Director of Local Development Finance United Nations Capital Development Fund	[312]
Swinburne Lestrade	MSc, 1975	Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States	[313]
David Nuyoma	BA; MA	Chairman of the Namibian Stock Exchange and CEO of the Development Bank of Namibia	[314]
Güven Sak	MA, 1984	Founding member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Turkey	[315]

Law

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Michael Bloch	MPhil	Barrister	[316]
Andrew Gordon-Saker	LLB, 1980	Senior Costs Judge	[317]
Michael Lodge	LLB	Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority	[318]
Anna Marcoulli	LLB, 1995	Judge of the General Court (European Union)	[319]
Derek Pang	LLB, 1985	Justice of Appeal of the High Court of Hong Kong	[320]
Ashby Pate	LLM, 2009	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Palau	[321]
Laura Pillay	LLB, 2001	Judge of the Supreme Court of Seychelles	[322]
Hassan Al-Sayed	PhD, 2003	Judge of the Qatar International Court	[323]
Sanford Steelman	EAS, 1972	Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeal	[324]
Robert Warnock	BA, 1974	Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas	[325]
Ian Wingfield	BA, 1970	Solicitor General of Hong Kong	[326]
David Wood	BA, 1970	President of the Council of Circuit Judges	[327]
Dora Zatte	LLB, 1997	Ombudsman of the Seychelles	[328]

Armed forces

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Steven Abbott	BA, 1977	Commandant General of the RAF Regiment	[329]
Atiqullah Baryalai	MA, 2012	Afghan Deputy Defense Minister	[330]
Sir Anthony Dymock	BA, 1970	UK Military Representative to NATO	[331]
Neil Morisetti	BSc, 1979	Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces	[332]

Policing and intelligence services

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
David Bolt	BA, 1976	Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration	[333]
Matthew Dunn	BA, 1996	MI6 field agent turned author	[334]
Sir Peter Fahy	MA, 1998	Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police	[335]
Michael Shipster	MA, 1977	Diplomat and MI6 officer	[336]

Religion

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Ed Condry	BA, 1974	Bishop of Ramsbury	[337]
Audrey Elkington	PhD, 1983	Archdeacon of Bodmin	[338]
Olivia Graham	BA, 1984	Bishop of Reading	[339]
Arthur Hawes	BA, 1986	Archdeacon of Lincoln	[340]
Garth Norman	MEd, 1982	Archdeacon of Bromley & Bexley	[341]
Stephen Waine	BA, 1980	Dean of Chichester	[342]

Sport

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Eworitse Ezra Arenyeka	MSc, 2018; PhD	Boxer	[343]
Wayne Barnes	LLB, 2000	Rugby union referee	[344]
Jessica Draskau-Petersson	LLB, 2000	Olympic runner	[345]
Rebecca Field	BA, 2010	Bowls player	[346]
Natasha Howard	BSc, 2002	Olympic rower	[347]
Andy Ripley	BA, 1969	England rugby player	[348]
James Vowles	BSc, 2000	Team principal of Williams Racing	[29]
Phil Whelan	BSc, 1993	Premier League footballer	[349]