List of alumni of the University of Westminster

This is a list of alumni of the University of Westminster (including its predecessor institutions).

Architecture and Urban Design

• Raymond Allchin archaeologist and cultural historian of ancient India
• Sir Thomas Bennett KBE FRIBA – architect (Saville Theatre, London Mormon Temple)
• Alfred Bossom – Conservative Party politician; architect (Magnolia Hotel)
• Ludo Campbell-Reid – urban designer (2004 Olympic Games)
• Gordon Cullen – architect; author (Townscape)
• Ralph Erskine – Swedish architect (Clare Hall, University of Cambridge)
• Stephen Gardiner O.B.E, architect and writer
• John Harvey (1911–1997) – architectural historian
• Ron Herron – creator of the Walking City
• Jack Howe – architect and industrial designer
• Shiu-Kay Kan – architect, industrial and lighting designer
• Michael Manser CBE – architect and past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects
• Ivan Margolius – author, architect and propagator of Czech culture and technology
• Peter Melvin - architect and vice-president Royal Institute of British Architects
• Vicky Richardson – editor of architecture and design magazine Blueprint
• Ian Ritchie CBE – architect (Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre, Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art)
• Fred Roche CBE – architect and general manager of Milton Keynes Development Corporation
• Alireza Sagharchi RIBA FRSA – architect (New Quadrangle and Theatre for Magdalen College, University of Oxford; Kings Cross regeneration programme)
• Hamid Shirvani – President of California State University, Stanislaus
• Cameron Sinclair – co-founder of Architecture for Humanity
• Raglan Squire – British architect
• Michael Webb – founding member of Archigram
• Michael Wilford CBE – architect (Lowry Centre, British Embassy in Berlin)
• Chris Wilkinson^[1] – architect (Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Magna Centre)

Art

• Eileen Aldridge – painter and illustrator
• Anthea Alley – painter and sculptor
• Sybil Atteck – Trinidadian painter
• Norman Blamey – artist (Ordination, The Lavabo)
• Eden Box – artist
• John Frederick Brill – painter (creator of the Bardia Mural)
• Laurence Broderick – sculptor (The Bull, Birmingham Bullring)
• Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE – sculptor (Dream City at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Black Cover Flat at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
• Richard Cullen – animator and music video director
• Leonard Daniels – painter and teacher
• Leslie Davenport - painter and teacher
• George Finey – Australian artist
• Dennis Flanders – artist and illustrator
• Fougasse – editor of Punch magazine
• Mark Gertler – portrait and landscape painter
• Thomas Hennell – painter and writer
• Usha Rani Hooja – Indian sculptor
• Jacobine Jones – sculptor (seven principal industries at the Bank of Canada Building, figures of scholar and hockey player at Kerr Hall, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University))
• Charles Keeping – illustrator, children's author and lithographer (Les Misérables, Beowulf and various works by Charles Dickens)
• Constance-Anne Parker – sculptor
• Margot Perryman – artist
• John Ryan – animator and creator of Captain Pugwash
• Steve Sabella – Palestinian artist
• Flora Twort – painter
• Melanie Walsh – children's book illustrator
• Barbara Warren – Irish painter

Business

• Sinclair Beecham – co-founder of Pret à Manger^[2]
• Wilfred Cass – businessman and philanthropist
• Adekunle Ojora - business mogul and philanthropist
• Moorad Choudhry – Managing Director Royal Bank of Scotland plc
• Michael Jackson^[3] – Chairman, Universal Television Group USA
• Neil Laughton (born 31 October 1963) is a former army officer, entrepreneur and adventurer.
• Julian Metcalfe - co-founder of Pret a Manger
• Bejay Mulenga - businessman and creative consultant

• Adar Poonawalla - businessman and CEO of Serum Institute of India

Fashion

• Claire Barrow - fashion designer and artist
• Christopher Bailey – Chief Executive and Chief Creative Officer (Burberry)
• Jeremy Laing – Canadian fashion designer; exchange student while studying fashion at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University)^[4][5]
• Carri Mundane – fashion designer (Cassetteplaya)
• Stuart Vevers^[6] – fashion designer (Loewe)
• Vivienne Westwood^[7] – fashion designer
• Ashley Williams - fashion designer

Film and television

• Stephen K Amos – comedian and TV presenter
• David Bonneville – screenwriter and director
• Charlie Brooker – BAFTA-nominated broadcaster^[8]
• Kristian Digby – presenter and director
• Andrew Dunn – BAFTA winning cinematographer (Hitch, The History Boys, Extraordinary Measures, Life as We Know It)
• Ruth England – newscaster and former presenter of Wish You Were Here...?
• Trisha Goddard – TV presenter/chat show host
• Darine Hamze – Lebanese actress and filmmaker
• Asif Kapadia – BAFTA winning filmmaker (The Warrior and Senna)
• Aret Komlosy – singer
• John Lundberg – documentary filmmaker
• Sunshine Martyn – Big Brother 11 contestant
• Arthur Max – Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning art director (Gladiator, American Gangster and Robin Hood)
• Seamus McGarvey – cinematographer (Along Came Polly, Sahara, World Trade Center and The Avengers)^[9]
• Stella Meghie – Canadian film director and screenwriter
• Trevor Miller – author and screenwriter
• Suleman Mirza – Signature dance group
• Jake Nava – music video and commercial director
• Carl Ng – Chinese/Hong Kong actor
• Perou – fashion photographer and judge of Make Me a Supermodel
• Rafi Pitts – Iranian film director
• Neal Purvis^[9] – scriptwriter (James Bond series including Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace)
• Matt Richards – TV producer
• Georgia Toffolo – TV and media personality
• Anand Tucker – film director (Shopgirl, Leap Year)
• Stanley Unwin – comedian
• Danny Wallace – writer and presenter
• Timothy West – actor and director

Government and politics

• Rafik Abdessalem – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia
• Ibikunle Amosun – Governor, Ogun State, Nigeria
• Janet Anderson – Labour Party Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen
• Jean Arnault – United Nations Special Representative to Georgia
• Sir Robert Bellinger GBE – Lord Mayor of London and director of Arsenal Football Club
• Katalin Bogyay – Hungarian Ambassador to UNESCO
• Harpal Brar – UK-based Indian communist
• Ana Maria Teles Carreira – Angolan Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Sir Bryan Cartledge KCMG – British diplomat and architect
• Asma Chaâbi - Mayor of Essaouira, Morocco
• Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey – Conservative politician
• Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox – politician, lobbyist
• Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton – crossbencher and member of the House of Lords
• Keith Darvill – Labour Councillor and former MP for Upminster
• Jack Easter – Australian politician and Member of Parliament
• Natascha Engel – Labour Party MP for North East Derbyshire
• Christopher Fraser – Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk
• Dominic Grieve QC – Conservative MP for Beaconsfield and Attorney General for England and Wales
• Stephen Hesford – Labour Party MP for Wirral West
• Brian Hord – Conservative Party politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Ahmed Inaz – Minister of Finance and Treasury of Maldives
• Raheem Kassam (born 1986) - political activist and journalist
• Supinya Klangnarong – Thai media rights activist
• David Lepper – Labour Party MP for Brighton Pavilion
• Satyabrata Mookherjee – former Indian Union Minister of State
• Julian Morris – director of think-tank International Policy Network
• Geoff Mulgan – director of the Young Foundation
• Zac Nsenga – Rwandan Ambassador to the United States
• Mohamed Nur – Former Mayor of Mogadishu
• Olabisi Onabanjo – Nigerian Governor
• Abdirahman Omar Osman – Former Mayor of Mogadishu killed in 2019 by the armed group al-Shabaab
• Michael Otedola – Nigerian Governor
• Gloria de Piero – Labour MP for Ashfield
• Anand Ramlogan – human rights attorney
• Sir Anthony Seldon – political commentator
• Adin Talbar – former Deputy Director of the Israel Ministry for Commerce and Industry
• Azzam Tamimi – member of the Muslim Association of Britain
• Mark Versallion – Councillor and Treasurer for the Conservative Party
• Bowen Wells – Conservative MP for Hertford and Stortford
• Rosie Wrighting – Labour MP for Kettering
• Lilian Wolfe – anarchist and founding contributor to The Voice of Labour
• Paul Xuereb – President of Malta
• Stefán Jón Hafstein (Icelandic writer and statesman)
• Yang Cheng-wu-7th Magistrate of Kinmen County, member of the 9th Legislative Yuan
• Makram Mustafa Queisi- Former Jordanian Minister of Youth and Ambassador

Literature

• Margery Allingham - author of Campion mysteries
• Mary Jo Bang – poet and Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis^[10]
• George Barker – poet and author (Pacific Sonnets, The Dead Seagull)
• Samit Basu – author (The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations)
• Quentin Crisp^[8] – writer and raconteur (Englishman in New York)
• Zee Edgell MBE – author and professor of English at Kent State University
• David Gascoyne – poet (Roman Balcony, Sun at Midnight, Recontres avec Benjamin Fondane)
• Dorothy Hartley – social historian (Food in England, Life and Work of the People of England)
• Mengistu Lemma – Ethiopian poet
• Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi – author (Last Song of Dusk)
• Clive Sansom – poet, playwright and speech educator
• Philip Tew – Professor of English (post-1900 literature) Brunel University, novelist

Media and journalism

• Faisal Abbas - Editor-in-chief of Arab News, Saudi Rabia
• Talal Al-Haj – New York bureau chief for the Al-Arabiya news network
• William Frankel – former editor of the Jewish Chronicle
• Fran Godfrey – BBC Radio 2 newsreader
• Carrie Gracie – journalist and newsreader at BBC News
• Rose Hacker – journalist and sex educator
• Will Cozens - Capital presenter
• Hsiao-Hung Pai – Taiwan-born journalist and author
• Denis Jenkinson – motor sport journalist
• James King – BBC film critic
• Sarah Mukherjee – BBC's Environment Correspondent
• Annie Nightingale MBE – BBC Radio 1 DJ
• Nick Bright – BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter
• Michelle Olley – former deputy editor of Penthouse
• Ofeibea Quist-Arcton – National Public Radio foreign correspondent, journalist, broadcaster, and host
• Jon Ronson – journalist and author of The Men Who Stare At Goats
• Matt Smith – Sky News Entertainment Correspondent
• Brian Whitaker – former Middle East editor at The Guardian newspaper
• Mo Abudu - media mogul, owner of EbonyLife TV
• Muyiwa Olarewaju - TV & Radio Broadcaster at Christian Broadcasting Network & Premier Chrisitan Radio

Music

• Amir Amor - member of drum and bass band Rudimental^[11]
• David Balfe – The Teardrop Explodes and founder of Zoo Records
• Banks & Wag – TV composers (The X Factor, ZingZillas, Ross Noble) and musicians
• Einar Örn Benediktsson – member of Icelandic anarcho-punk group KUKL
• Luke Busby – producer Temposhark
• Alex Cartana – Spanish Singer/Songwriter/Actress
• Robert Diament – singer/songwriter Temposhark
• Henry's Final Dream – indie rock band; all members studied at the University
• Jono Grant - One Third of London-based trance trio Above & Beyond and founder of UK Label Anjunabeats
• Ciaran Jeremiah – member of pop group The Feeling
• Kevin Jeremiah – member of pop group The Feeling
• Richard Jones – member of pop group The Feeling
• Nick Mason – musician, member of rock group Pink Floyd
• Jake Nava – music and advertising director
• Pure Reason Revolution – progressive rock band
• William G. Shields – English rapper better known as Jehst
• Al Shux – producer of the Jay-Z hit song "Empire State of Mind"
• Paul Stewart – member of pop group The Feeling
• Mumzy Stranger – British singer, rapper, producer and writer.
• Techno Squirrels – electro-pop band
• Simon Toulson-Clarke – lead singer of pop-group Red Box
• Roger Waters^[8] – musician and lyricist of rock group Pink Floyd
• Charlie Watts – musician, member of The Rolling Stones
• Rick Wright – musician, member of rock group Pink Floyd
• Riccardo Zanotti – musician, member of pop group Pinguini Tattici Nucleari

Photography

• Arnis Balcus - photographer; video artist
• Stuart Roy Clarke – photographer, known for his major work The Homes Of Football
• Iain Macmillan – photographer (cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road album)
• Scarlet Page – photographer and daughter of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page
• Olivier Richon – photographer and Professor of Photography at the Royal College of Art
• Jo Spence – photographer, known for the documentation of her struggle with cancer

Science and engineering

• Frederick Abel – chemist and inventor of cordite
• Seweryn Chomet – physicist
• Sir Diarmuid Downs – former President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Lewis R. B. Elton – physicist and researcher in education
• Mary English – mycologist and historian
• Sir Alexander Fleming – Nobel Prize in Medicine^[12]
• H. J. Gough – former President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• George Hockham – engineer and pioneer in research for fiber-optics
• David Lewis – psychologist
• Gerald Palmer – British car design engineer
• Walter Eric Spear – physicist and pioneer of thin film displays
• Armand de Waele – British chemist and rheologist

Sports

• Lambros Athanassoulas – Greek rally driver
• Colin Charvis – rugby player and captain of the Welsh national rugby team
• Herbert Gayler - Olympic Cyclist and 12 hour record holder.
• Dunia Susi – England women's football player
• Frank Turner - three-times Olympics gymnast

Miscellaneous

• Henry Allingham – supercentenarian and World War I veteran
• A. E. Bassom – pioneer of traffic policing
• Shirley Becke - commander of London Metropolitan Police's A4 Branch (Women Police), first woman officer in United Kingdom to reach chief officer rank.
• Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell – Archbishop of York
• Mladen Dolar – Slovenian philosopher
• Lucy Bella Earl – teacher of English, YouTuber
• Mohammed Emwazi – militant jihadist^[13]
• Princess Aisha bint Faisal – Jordanian princess
• Maurice Grosse – paranormal investigator
• Simmon Latutin – awarded George Cross for bravery during World War II
• Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra – Malaysian Kelantanese prince
• Allyson Williams (midwife)