Alumni of the University of Bristol

This is a list of alumni of the University of Bristol, including a brief description of their notability. This list includes not just former students but persons who are or have been associated with the university, including former academics, Chancellors, and recipients of honorary degrees. See also Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol.

Top row: NME editor Krissi Murison, illusionist Derren_Brown, journalist Alastair Stewart, associate editor of the Independent newspaper Jemima Khan, comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams
Middle row Simon Pegg, satirst Chris_Morris_(satirist), musician James Blunt, Head of MI5 Jonathan Evans (MI5 officer), Nobel prize winning author J. M. G. Le Clézio,
Bottom row former editor-in-chief for The Observer Will Hutton, Paul Boateng MP, Nobel prize winning physicist Nevill Francis Mott, Nobel prize winning physicist Paul Dirac, Nobel prize winner Harold Pinter

Politics

• Paul Boateng (Member of Parliament)^[1]
• Gaositwe K.T. Chiepe (Botswana politician, diplomat)^[2]
• Michael Cocks (Labour Chief Whip and life peer).^[3]
• Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Africa)^[4]
• Sir Liam Donaldson (Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom Government)^[5]
• Manuel Esquivel (Former Prime Minister of Belize)^[6]
• Jonathan Evans (Head of MI5)^[7]
• David Kidney (Member of Parliament)^[8]
• Bob Marshall-Andrews (Member of Parliament)^[9]
• Danny Montano (Senator of the Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago)
• George W. Odlum (Minister of Foreign Affairs of St. Lucia)^[10]
• Lembit Öpik (former Member of Parliament)^[11]
• Dawn Primarolo (Member of Parliament)
• Daniel Russell (Official of the European Economic and Social Committee)
• Vivien Stern (Baroness Stern of Vauxhall)
• Rt Hon. Theresa Villiers (Conservative Member of Parliament^[12] and the Minister of State for Transport)^[13]
• Stephen Williams (Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament)^[14]
• Chris Woodhead (Columnist, former Chief Inspector of Schools)^[15]
• Dame Pearlette Louisy (Governor General of St.Lucia)

Academia

• A.G.E. Blake (Philosophical Writer and the Director of Studies at the DuVersity.)
• Linda Colley (prominent British historian, currently at Princeton University
• Elaine Graham (Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology, University of Manchester)
• Irving Hexham (Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary).
• Bill MacMillan (Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia)
• Sean Mann (Bioethicist, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley)
• John Metcalf (Editor of Canadian Notes and Queries).
• Nancy Millis (Chancellor of La Trobe University, Australia)
• David William Rhind (Vice-Chancellor of City University) ^[16]
• Brian Rotman (Author, with G. T. Kneebone, of Theory of Sets and Transfinite Numbers)
• Alastair Summerlee (President of the University of Guelph, Canada)
• Richard Sykes (Rector of Imperial College, formerly Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline)

Literature

• Angela Carter (Author) ^[17]
• Julia Donaldson (Children's author)
• Elena Forbes (Novelist)
• David Gibbins (Author)
• David Greig (Playwright)
• Sarah Kane (Playwright)
• Dick King-Smith (Author)
• J. M. G. Le Clézio (Nobel laureate, author)^[18]
• Kate Long (Author)
• Deborah Moggach (Author)
• Julie Myerson (Novelist)
• David Nicholls (Novelist and screenwriter) ^[19]
• Harold Pinter (Nobel laureate, Playwright)
• Mark Ravenhill (Playwright
• Mary Watson (Author)^[20]

Business

• Mike Bennett (businessman) who founded one of the UK's first digital agencies from the cellar of his student house ^[21]
• Mark Ellingham (Founder of Rough Guides)
• Sahar Hashemi (Founder of the chain Coffee Republic)^[22]
• Stephen Page (Chief Executive of Faber and Faber)
• Sinan Mohammed Rida al-Shibibi (Governor of the Iraqi Central Bank)^[23]
• Ben Elliot (founder of Quintessentially)

Journalism

• Katya Adler (BBC journalist)^[24]
• Misha Glenny (Newspaper and BBC radio journalist)^[25]
• Nik Gowing (BBC World News anchor)^[26]
• Will Hutton - (writer, weekly columnist and former editor-in-chief for The Observer)
• James Landale (BBC journalist and founder of Bristol's student newspaper Epigram)
• William Lewis (journalist) (Editor of The Daily Telegraph)^[16]
• Sheena McDonald (TV journalist)^[27]
• Sarah Montague (Presenter of the Today programme)^[28]
• Krissi Murison (Editor of New Musical Express)^[29]
• Susanna Reid (TV journalist)^[30]
• Kate Gerbeau (TV journalist)
• Alastair Stewart (TV journalist) ^[31]
• Caroline St John-Brooks (Newspaper journalist)^[32]
• Julie Welch (Sports journalist, author and screenwriter)^[33]
• Jim White (Newspaper journalist)^[34]

Science

Paul Dirac studied Electrical Engineering at Bristol. He later won a Nobel Prize for Physics.

• Michael Berry (Physicist)^[35]
• David Bohm (Physicist)^[36]
• Max Delbrück (Nobel laureate, Medicine)^[37]
• Keith Devlin (Logician)
• Philip Campbell (editor-in-chief of Nature)^[38]
• Paul Dirac (Nobel laureate, Physics)^[39]
• Klaus Fuchs (Physicist and Russian spy) ^[40]
• Dorothy Hodgkin (Nobel laureate, Chemistry)^[41]
• Kun Huang (Physicist)^[42]
• Rob Leslie-Carter (Engineer)
• Sean Mann (Bioethicist)^[43]
• Nevill Mott (Nobel laureate, Physics)^[44]
• Cecil Frank Powell (Nobel laureate, Physics)^[45]
• Sir William Ramsay (Nobel laureate, Chemistry)^[46]
• Debby Reynolds (Chief Veterinary Officer for the United Kingdom)^[47]
• Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (engineer)^[48]
• Geoffrey Tovey (serologist and founder of the UK Transplant service)^[49]

TV, film and theatre

Internationally successful actor and comedian Simon Pegg studied Drama at Bristol.

• David Bamber (Actor) ^[50]
• Marcus Brigstocke (Comedian) ^[51]
• Jeremy Brock (Actor and Director) ^[52]
• Derren Brown (Psychological Illusionist)^[1]
• Neil Cole (Comedian / Broadcaster)
• Alex Cox (Director)
• Dominik Diamond (TV Presenter)
• Gregory Doran (Theatre Director)
• Judy Finnigan (TV Presenter)
• Caroline Goodall (Actress)
• Jason Isaacs (Actor)
• Philip Jackson (Actor)
• Chris Langham (Comedian)
• Sue Lawley (TV Presenter)^[1]
• Matt Lucas (Comedian)^[52]
• Chris Morris (Comedian / Satirist)
• Iain Morris (Producer)
• Simon Pegg (Comedy writer and actor)^[52]
• Tim Pigott-Smith (Actor)
• Mark Ravenhill (Playwright)
• David Rappaport (Actor)
• Arnold Ridley (Actor)
• Jeremy Thomas (Film producer)
• Charlotte Uhlenbroek (TV presenter) ^[1]
• Paul Unwin (Director/writer)
• David Walliams (Comedian)^[52]
• Matthew Warchus (Director)^[52]
• Emily Watson (Actress)^[53]
• Michael Winterbottom (filmmaker)

Sports

• Tom Avery (Explorer)^[54]
• Alex King (Rugby union player ASM Clermont Auvergne)^[55]
• Josh Lewsey (England international in rugby union)^[55]
• Jake Meyer (Climber)^[56]
• Jean-Pierre Escalettes (President of the French Football Federation)^[57]
• Dave Attwood, (England rugby union player)
• Kyran Bracken, (England rugby union player)

Music

Musician James Blunt is an alumnus of Wills Hall.

• James Blunt (Musician, singer and songwriter)^[58]
• Julian Grant (Classical music composer)
• Jamie Lidell (Musician and soul singer, signed to Warp Records)^[59]
• Will Todd (Classical and Jazz music composer and Jazz pianist)
• Harriet Wheeler (Musician, singer for The Sundays)^[60]
• Jonathan Whitehead (Award-winning composer for film and television)

Others

• Craig Brown (satirist) (Journalist and humorous author)^[61]
• Mark Hewitt (studio potter)^[62]
• Jemima Khan (Socialite)^[63]
• Peter Russell (author)

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