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 – 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

References

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^ "Pret a Manger chain sold to private equity firm Bridgepoint in £350m deal". The Independent. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
^ "Happy mediums". The Guardian. 22 August 2005. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
^ Canadian Art School (17 January 2012). "Jeremy Laing, fashion designer". Canadian Art. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
^ Johnson, Jessica. "The Canadian School". No. September 2010. The Walrus. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
^ "Designer Stuart wins British fashion award". News and Star. 4 November 2006. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "Dame Vivienne Westwood portrait". The Telegraph. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
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^ ^a ^b "The British film industry is thriving and so are the courses on offer". The Independent. 31 January 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
^ English, Department of (4 May 2017). "Mary Jo Bang". Department of English. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
^ "Graduate from Commercial Music BA course wins Brit award for Best British Single". www.westminster.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
^ "Alexander Fleming Biography". NNDB. 22 July 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
^ "Islamic State: Profile of Mohammed Emwazi aka 'Jihadi John'". BBC News. 26 February 2015.

[1] "Chris Wilkinson, Esq, OBE, RA". Debrett's. Retrieved 13 February 2012.

[2] "Pret a Manger chain sold to private equity firm Bridgepoint in £350m deal". The Independent. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2012.

[3] "Happy mediums". The Guardian. 22 August 2005. Retrieved 13 February 2012.

[CAS-4] Canadian Art School (17 January 2012). "Jeremy Laing, fashion designer". Canadian Art. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

[Walrus_Johnson-5] Johnson, Jessica. "The Canadian School". No. September 2010. The Walrus. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

[6] "Designer Stuart wins British fashion award". News and Star. 4 November 2006. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[7] "Dame Vivienne Westwood portrait". The Telegraph. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2012.

[tele22611-8] "University of Westminster guide". The Telegraph. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2012.

[indep31108-9] "The British film industry is thriving and so are the courses on offer". The Independent. 31 January 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2012.

[10] English, Department of (4 May 2017). "Mary Jo Bang". Department of English. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

[11] "Graduate from Commercial Music BA course wins Brit award for Best British Single". www.westminster.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2019.

[12] "Alexander Fleming Biography". NNDB. 22 July 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2012.

[13] "Islamic State: Profile of Mohammed Emwazi aka 'Jihadi John'". BBC News. 26 February 2015.

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