List of University of Sussex alumni

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

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  Dimitri Nanopoulos
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  John Altman
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  Ian McEwan
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  Rebeca Grynspan, Head of UN development

Politicians

• Shamshad Akhtar, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
• 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
• 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
• 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-
• Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
• Alan Woods, Trotskyist activist

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

• 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
• Grant Serpell, former drummer with Sailor and Affinity
• Cristian Vogel, electronic musician
• Jessie Ware, singer-songwriter
• Josephine Wiggs, bassist with The Breeders
• Mura Masa, electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist, studied English Literature at Sussex in 2014 before leaving to pursue his career in music.

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