23 Notable alumni of
University of the West of England
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The University of the West of England is 1383rd in the world, 479th in Europe, and 88th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the University of the West of England sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Miranda Hart
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- actorcomediantelevision actorfilm actorautobiographer
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Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke, is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won three Royal Television Society awards, four British Comedy Awards and four BAFTA nominations for her self-driven semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda (2009–2015).
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Jessica Raine
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Jessica Raine is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Jenny Lee in the television series Call the Midwife (2012–2014) and Verity Lambert in the television film An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). Raine portrayed Catherine Parr in Becoming Elizabeth, a historical drama series featuring Elizabeth I as a teenager, in June 2022. From October 2022 she played the lead role in the TV thriller series The Devil's Hour. She has also had roles in stage and radio plays.
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Adjoa Andoh
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Lady Danbury in the Netflix Regency romance series Bridgerton, since 2020. Other roles on television include appearances in two series of Doctor Who as Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty and EastEnders. On stage, she has played lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre. Andoh made her Hollywood debut in autumn 2009, starring as Nelson Mandela's chief of staff Brenda Mazibuko alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Invictus, and has appeared in other feature films.
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David Knopfler
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- record producerpoetsinger-songwriter
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David Knopfler is a British musician. Together with his older brother Mark Knopfler, John Illsley, and Pick Withers, he founded the rock band Dire Straits in 1977, serving as rhythm guitarist on their first two albums. After quitting the band in 1980 during the recording of their third album, Knopfler embarked upon a solo career as a recording artist.
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CY Leung
- Enrolled in the University of the West of England
- 1974-1977 studied property management and valuation
- Occupations
- chartered surveyorpolitician
- Biography
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Leung Chun-ying GBM GBS JP KCM, also known as CY Leung, is a Hong Kong politician and chartered surveyor who has served as vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since March 2017. He was previously the third Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2017.
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Samantha Cameron
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- homemakerbusinessperson
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Samantha Gwendoline Cameron, Baroness Cameron of Chipping Norton, is an English businesswoman. Until 2010, she was the creative director of Smythson of Bond Street. She is married to David Cameron, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Foreign Secretary from 2023 to 2024. Cameron took on a part-time consultancy role at Smythson after her husband became prime minister.
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Weruche Opia
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- businesspersonactor
- Biography
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Reanne Weruche Opia is a Nigerian actress and entrepreneur. She is the founding CEO of the clothing line Jesus Junkie Clothing. She was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for her performance in the BBC miniseries I May Destroy You (2020).
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Joe Talbot
- Occupations
- singer
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Joseph Talbot is a Welsh singer. He has been the vocalist for British rock band Idles since their inception in 2009. In 2025, Talbot began hosting Oh Gatekeeper with Joe Talbot, a one-to-one interview-based podcast.
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Teo Nie Ching
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- lawyerpolitician
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Teo Nie Ching is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Deputy Minister of Communications under Minister Fahmi Fadzil since December 2023 and previously served as the Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital, also under Minister Fahmi Fadzil from December 2022 to December 2023 in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. She had served as Deputy Minister of Education in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, former Minister Maszlee Malik and former Acting Minister Mahathir from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Serdang from March 2008 to May 2013 and then the MP for Kulai since May 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH coalition. She has also served as the National Vice Chairperson of DAP since March 2025, Women Chief of DAP since September 2023 and State Chairperson of DAP of Johor since October 2024. She also served as the National Publicity Secretary of DAP from March 2022 to March 2025, International Secretary of DAP from November 2017 to March 2022, Assistant National Publicity Secretary of DAP and Assistant State Organising Secretary of DAP of Selangor from 2008 to 2011.
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Simon Shaw
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Simon Dalton Shaw is an English former rugby union player. He played as a lock for Bristol, London Wasps and Toulon. He won 71 caps for England between 1996 and 2011 and two for the British & Irish Lions, with whom he toured three times.
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Rob Hopkins
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- university teachermilitantwriterenvironmentalistblogger
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Rob Hopkins is an English environmental activist and writer, based in Totnes, England. He is best known as the founder and figurehead of the Transition movement, which he initiated in 2005. Hopkins has written six books on environmentalism and activism.
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Tessa Hadley
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- writernovelistshort story writeruniversity teacher
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Tessa Jane Hadley FRSL is a British author, who writes novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016 she won the Hawthornden Prize, as well as one of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham-Campbell judges describe her as "one of English's finest contemporary writers" and state that her writing "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful." As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.
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Regina Leung
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee is a former solicitor in Hong Kong. She is the wife of Leung Chun-ying, the former Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
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David Hempleman-Adams
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- company directoraircraft pilotindustrialistwriterpolar explorer
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Sir David Kim Hempleman-Adams is a British industrialist and adventurer.
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Dawn Primarolo
- Occupations
- politician
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Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo, DBE, PC is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015, when she stood down. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service. She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
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Meir Javedanfar
- Enrolled in the University of the West of England
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian-born Israeli Middle East commentator and academic. He left Iran in 1987 and now lives in Israel. He has worked as a foreign affairs commentator at BBC Persian. With Yossi Melman, he co-authored The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran.
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David Drew
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- politician
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David Elliott Drew is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from 1997 to 2010 and 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he was Shadow Minister for Farming and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019.
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Ashley Fox
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- solicitorpolitician
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Sir Ashley Peter Fox is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater since July 2024. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England and Gibraltar, and was leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019.
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Lee Chee Leong
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- politician
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Lee Chee Leong is a Malaysian politician from the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA). He served as one-term Member of Parliament (MP) of Malaysia for Kampar constituency in Perak, Malaysia from March 2008 to May 2013. As MP, he was twice appointed a deputy minister, first at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from April 2008 to June 2010 and later at the Ministry of Home Affairs from June 2010 to May 2013.
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Marko Stanojevic
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Marko Peter Stanojevic is an Italian rugby union footballer. He last played on the wing for Italian Top12 club Rovigo. Before his move to Italy, he had played four seasons with Bristol in England.
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Jay Hulme
- Occupations
- writer
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Jay Anthony Hulme is an English transgender performance poet and author from Leicester.
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Myles Jackman
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Myles Jackman is an English lawyer who specialises in defending cases related to pornography.
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Jonathan Shaw
- Enrolled in the University of the West of England
- 2001-2004 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- photographeracademic
- Biography
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Jonathan Shaw is a British photographer and educator.
