45 Notable alumni of
University of Brighton
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The University of Brighton is 902nd in the world, 318th in Europe, and 64th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from the University of Brighton sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Billy Idol
- Occupations
- film actorguitaristsingeractormusician
- Biography
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William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English-American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of the group Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in the US. The name "Billy Idol" was inspired by a schoolteacher's description of him as "idle".
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Paddy Considine
- Occupations
- film actormusicianphotographerscreenwriteractor
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Patrick George Considine is an English actor, director, and screenwriter. He has received two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards and a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
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Fatboy Slim
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerrecording artistclub DJdisc jockey
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Norman Quentin Cook, also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim (among others), is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist for the Hull-based indie rock band the Housemartins, who achieved a UK number-one single with their a cappella cover of "Caravan of Love". After the Housemartins split up, Cook formed the electronic band Beats International in Brighton, who produced the number-one single "Dub Be Good to Me". He then played in Freak Power, Pizzaman, and the Mighty Dub Katz with moderate success.
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Alison Moyet
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritersingeractor
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Geneviève Alison Jane Ballard is an English singer noted for her powerful bluesy contralto voice. She came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America), but has since mainly worked as a solo artist.
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Roma Downey
- Enrolled in the University of Brighton
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorfilm producer
- Biography
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Roma Downey is a Northern Irish actress, producer and author. For nine seasons, Downey played Monica the angel in the CBS television series Touched by an Angel. She also played the leading role of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Emmy award-winning NBC mini-series A Woman Named Jackie. In addition to her television work, Downey has performed on stage with the Abbey Theatre, The National Theatre of Ireland and has appeared both on and off Broadway.
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Adam Pearson
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision presenter
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Adam Pearson is a British actor, presenter and campaigner. He appeared in the 2013 film Under the Skin. He has neurofibromatosis and has been involved in outreach programmes to prevent bullying associated with deformities.
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Abu Hamza al-Masri
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- preacherengineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, or simply Abu Hamza, is an Egyptian cleric who was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque in London, England, where he preached Islamic fundamentalist views.
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Chris Barrie
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorcomedianactorentertainer
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Chris Barrie is a British actor and comedian. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show Spitting Image (1984–1996) and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). Barrie starred as Arnold Rimmer in 13 series of the sci-fi space comedy Red Dwarf between 1988 and 2020, and as Gordon Brittas in seven series of the BBC leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire (1991–1997).
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Jo Whiley
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Johanne Whiley-Morton, better known by her professional name Jo Whiley, is an English radio DJ and television presenter. She was the host of the long-running weekday later weekend Jo Whiley Show on BBC Radio 1. She currently presents her weekday evening Radio 2 show. She is also the main presenter for the BBC's Glastonbury Festival coverage.
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Bat for Lashes
- Occupations
- drummerguitaristcomposersinger-songwriterrecording artist
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Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released five studio albums: Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009), The Haunted Man (2012), The Bride (2016), and Lost Girls (2019). She has received three Mercury Prize nominations. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey.
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Saira Khan
- Occupations
- businesspersonjournalist
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Saira Khan is a British television personality. She was a contestant on the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up. In 2012, Khan competed in the first series of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. 2012 to 2017, Khan co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show, and in 2015, she presented the ITV series Guess This House. From 2015 to 2020, she was a regular panelist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. Khan has also competed in the eighteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, and in 2019, she competed in the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice.
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Cressida Cowell
- Occupations
- writervisual artistauthorchildren's writerillustrator
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Cressida Cowell FRSL is a British children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world.
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Philip Reeve
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterauthorscience fiction writeractor
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Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator of children's books, primarily known for the 2001 book Mortal Engines and its sequels (the 2001 to 2006 Mortal Engines Quartet). His 2007 novel, Here Lies Arthur, based on the legendary King Arthur, won the Carnegie Medal.
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Rankin
- Occupations
- fashion photographerfilm directorphotographer
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John Rankin Waddell, known as Rankin, is a British photographer and director who has photographed, amongst other subjects, Björk, Kate Moss, Madonna, David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II.
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Rachel Whiteread
- Occupations
- conceptual artistphotographerinstallation artistdrawersculptor
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Dame Rachel Whiteread is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
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Darren Grimes
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Darren Grimes is a British right-wing political commentator and activist. A Liberal Democrat activist before dropping out of university, he then worked for a number of Brexit campaigns. He set up the website Reasoned in May 2020.
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Sultan Al Niadi
- Occupations
- astronaut
- Biography
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Sultan Al Neyadi is an Emirati astronaut and one of the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazza Al Mansouri. He is the first Arab to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6-month mission, as part of Expedition 69 and the first Arab astronaut to perform a spacewalk. On 6 January 2024, Al Neyadi was appointed as the minister of state for youth in the UAE, and was sworn in on 11 January 2024.
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Alison Lapper
- Occupations
- painterphotographer
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Alison Lapper MBE is a British artist. She is the subject of the sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from September 2005 until late 2007. She and her late son Parys featured in the BBC docuseries Child of Our Time.
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Chris Riddell
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- children's writercartoonistwritereditorial cartoonistillustrator
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Chris Riddell is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002.
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The Haxan Cloak
- Occupations
- record producercomposer
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Bobby Krlic, known by his stage name The Haxan Cloak, is a British composer, artist, music producer and musician.
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Barbara Hulanicki
- Occupations
- fashion designerwriterillustrator
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Barbara Hulanicki is a fashion designer, born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and best known as the founder of clothes store Biba.
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Joseph Mount
- Occupations
- record producermusician
- Biography
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Joseph Patrick Kennith Mount is an English musician and record producer. He is the founder of British band Metronomy.
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Pooja Shah
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Pooja Ashwin Shah is a British actress, filmmaker and model. She is known for her role as Kareena Ferreira in the popular UK soap opera EastEnders. Shah works with her husband directing and writing short films and has won three film awards for them.
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Mick Quinn
- Occupations
- musicianguitaristsongwriter
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Mick Quinn is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as founding member of English rock band Supergrass. He is a permanent member of fellow Oxford band Swervedriver.
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Anji Hunter
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Angela Margaret Jane "Anji" Hunter is an English public relations advisor. She is noted for her close partnership with former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Molly Parkin
- Occupations
- painterjournalist
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Molly Parkin is a Welsh painter, novelist and journalist, who became most well-known for her work on Nova magazine, newspapers and television in the 1960s.
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Kate O'Connell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kate O'Connell is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay South constituency from 2016 to 2020. During her time in the Dáil, O'Connell campaigned in favour of abortion rights as well as pushing for more funding for healthcare services in Ireland.
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Peter Connolly
- Enrolled in the University of Brighton
- Studied in 1951-1953
- Occupations
- historianwriterillustrator
- Biography
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Peter William Connolly FSA was a British scholar of the ancient world, Greek and Roman military equipment historian, reconstructional archaeologist and illustrator. He was a regular contributor to such periodicals as the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies and Roman Frontier Studies.
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Ian Beck
- Occupations
- writerillustrator
- Biography
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Ian Archibald Beck is an English children's illustrator and author. In addition to his numerous children's books, he is also known for his cover illustration on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. More than a million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. Beck was Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1999.
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Catherine Gotani Hara
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- politicianspeaker
- Biography
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Catherine Gotani Hara is a Malawian politician who has been the Speaker of the National Assembly since June 2019, the first woman to hold the position.
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George Chakravarthi
- Occupations
- television producerphotographerartistperformance artist
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George Chakravarthi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, video, painting and performance. His work addresses the politics of identity including race, sexuality and gender, and also religious iconography among other subjects. He was born in India and moved to London, England in 1980.
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Laura Pannack
- Occupations
- photographer
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Laura Pannack is a British social documentary and portrait photographer, based in London. Her work is often of children and teenagers. Pannack received first place in the World Press Photo Awards in 2010, the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2012, and won the Portfolio category in the Sony World Photography Awards in 2021.
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Ewen Spencer
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Ewen Spencer is a British photographer and filmmaker based in Brighton, England. His photography is primarily of youth and subcultures.
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Keith Coventry
- Occupations
- paintersculptorexhibition curator
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Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize.
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Damilola Ogunbiyi
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- international forum participant
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Damilola Ogunbiyi is a global leader and advocate for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on SDG7, which calls for access to reliable, affordable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy.
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David Baboulene
- Occupations
- screenwriterautobiographer
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David Baboulene, is an English academic, story consultant, and author of humorous travel books, children's illustrated stories and academic works on story theory.
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Anna Dumitriu
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Anna Dumitriu is a pioneering visual artist based in Brighton, England, specialising in BioArt. Her installations, interventions and performances use digital, biological and traditional media including bacteria, digital technology and craft techniques, working with diverse audiences.
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Camille Walala
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Camille Vic-Dupont, known professionally as Camille Walala, is a French multi-disciplinary designer based in East London. She is known for her life-size murals and installations as well as her post-modernism inspired patterns.
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Ray Cooper
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
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Ray Cooper, also known as Chopper, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Sweden.
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Michael Pinsky
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- artistinstallation artist
- Biography
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Michael Pinsky is a visual artist who uses diverse media such as video, performance, mapping systems and sculpture to explore geopolitical aspects of a site. Through the displacement and conflation of existing objects and activities he critiques the impact of society’s behaviour. He is known particularly for his projects in the public realm.
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Robert Koenig
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Robert Koenig is an English sculptor, who specialises in wood sculpture and is a prominent exponent of the art of woodcarving using the traditional tools of mallet and chisel. He is known for his carved and polychromed figurative wood sculptures, which he has been creating since the early 1980s. One of the earliest polychromed figures was shown in the 'Temple' exhibition at the Shaw Theatre, London in 1988.
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Louise Giblin
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Louise Giblin MRSS is a British body-cast sculptor. She is noted in particular for her "Body-Casting Olympians" project.
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Faye McClelland
- Occupations
- triathlete
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Faye McClelland is a British paratriathlete who competes in the PT4 category. As of May 2016, she is the 3rd-ranked women's PT4 athlete internationally. She finished fourth at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Previously she won the ITU world title in her classification in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, placing second in 2014. In 2016 Faye competed in the Paralympics in Rio, placing 4th.
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Nick Baker
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Nick Baker is an Australian business executive and CEO of Outdoria. Baker previously worked as the chief marketing officer for Tourism Australia, a position he held from 2007 to 2015. He also served as the CEO of RedBalloon between 2015 and 2017.
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Hannah Berry
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Enrolled in the University of Brighton
- Studied in 2004
- Occupations
- writercomics artist
- Biography
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Hannah Berry is a British comics artist and writer based in Brighton. She is the third UK comics laureate and the first woman to be offered the role, taking over from Charlie Adlard in 2019. In 2018 she was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
