# 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 – 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
* Wilfred Cass – businessman and philanthropist
* Adekunle Ojora - business mogul and philanthropist
* Moorad Choudhry – Managing Director Royal Bank of Scotland plc
* Michael Jackson – 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)
* Carri Mundane – fashion designer (Cassetteplaya)
* Stuart Vevers – fashion designer (Loewe)
* Vivienne Westwood – 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
* 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)
* 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 – 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
* 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 – 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
* 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 – 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
* 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
* 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