- Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (born June 18 1942) is the current President of the Republic of South Africa.
- Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (he is also Secretary of State for Wales). He is the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s.
- Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan CBE (born June 21, 1948) is a British novelist.
- Nigel Planer
Nigel George Planer (born February 22, 1953 in London) is an English actor, novelist and playwright. He was educated at Westminster School, Sussex University and LAMDA.
- Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade (born July 10 1945, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. She won three Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam doubles titles. She is particularly remembered for winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon in the championship's Centenary year on July 1, 1977, currently the last Briton to do so. It was also the Queen's Silver Jubilee year.
- Ben Bradshaw
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960 in London) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter The Minister of State in the Department of Health and Minister for the South West was one of the first openly gay MPs.
- Dan Norris
Dan Norris (born January 28, 1960) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke in England.
- Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory (born 9 January, 1954) is a British novelist, mainly associated with the historical fiction genre.
- David Lepper
David Lepper (born 15 September 1945, Richmond) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour Co-operative member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion since 1997.
- Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (November 26, 1953) is a British Labour politician, currently serving as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Leeds Central. In October 2006 Benn announced he was running for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, eventually coming fourth behind Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas.
- David Hallam
David Hallam is a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament for the counties of Hereford, Shropshire and the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England, in the 1994-1999 European Parliament. David Hallam was an active member of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee and played an important part in the European Union's response to the BSE crisis which affected British farming during his term of office.
- Alexandra Shulman
Alexandra Shulman (born 1957 or 1958) is the editor of the British edition of "Vogue". She was a regular columnist for the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper but has recently started writing a column every saturday for the "Daily Mail". She is one of the country's most oft-quoted voices on fashion trends. She took the helm of "Vogue" in 1992, presiding over a circulation increase to 200,000 and a higher profile for the publication.
- Brendan Foster
Brendan Foster, MBE (born 12 January, 1948 in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, England) is a British former distance runner, and the founder of the Great North Run. He was educated at St Joseph's Grammar School, the University of Sussex and Carnegie College of Physical Education, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University. Foster's athletic career saw him compete in three Olympic Games, …
- Becky Anderson
Becky Anderson is a British journalist, and the anchor of the CNN news programme "Business International". Anderson holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and French from the University of Sussex, and a Master's degree in Mass Communication from Arizona State University. She began her career as a journalist working in Arizona in the early '90s, and first started working for CNN in 1999, presenting "World Business This Morning".
- Tony Banks
Anthony George "Tony" Banks (born March 27, 1950) is an English songwriter, pianist/keyboard player, and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of progressive rock group Genesis and one of only two members (the other being guitarist/bassist Mike Rutherford) to belong to Genesis throughout its entire history. Banks is the most private of the Genesis members; most of what is known about his early life is from the book on Genesis by Armando Gallo.
- Shirley Thomas
Shirley Thomas Ph.D. (1920 - July 21 2005, Los Angeles, California), was a radio/television actress/writer/producer, author, and professor at the University of Southern California. Born in Glendale, California, the daughter of an electrical engineer and a homemaker, Dr. Shirley Thomas earned her B.A. in 1960 and her Ph.D. in Communications in 1967 from the University of Sussex. She was also awarded a diploma by the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics in 1995.
- Michael Fabricant
Michael Louis David Fabricant (born June 12, 1950) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Lichfield. Michael Fabricant was born in Brighton, the son of a rabbi, and attended the Brighton and Hove Grammar School. He then received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 1973 at Loughborough University, and went on to study at the University of Sussex, where he was awarded a master's degree in systems and econometrics in 1974, …
- Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow (born 1947) is a British American financial journalist, author, and founder of VDARE. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including "Forbes," the "Financial Post", and "National Review". Outside financial circles, he is best known for his writings on immigration policy and hosting the anti-illegal alien website Vdare.com. Brimelow founded the Center for American Unity in 1999 and served as its first president, …
- Kim Newman
Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's "Dracula" at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. He was born in London and raised in Aller, …
- Alan Woods
Alan Woods (born in Swansea, South Wales in 1944) is a Trotskyist politician and writer. He is the current chairman of the International Marxist Tendency and editor of "Socialist Appeal". He was born into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. At the age of 16 he joined the Young Socialists and became a Marxist joining the Militant Tendency within the Labour Party.
- Mark Steedman
Mark J. Steedman, FBA FRSE (born 18 September 1946) is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist. Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex in 1968, with a B.Sc in Experimental Psychology, and from the University of Edinburgh in 1973, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Dissertation:"The Formal Description of Musical Perception". Advisor: Prof. H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS). He has held posts as Lecturer in Psychology, …
- Andrew George
Andrew Henry George (born December 2, 1958) British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for St Ives, in Cornwall. Andrew George was born in Mullion near The Lizard, Cornwall, one of eight children born to a horticulturalist father and music teacher mother, and was educated locally at the Helston School, before attending the University of Sussex where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural and community studies in 1980.
- Merfyn Jones
Professor Merfyn Jones is a historian, broadcaster, governor of the BBC and vice-chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor. He grew up and still lives in Gwynedd, Wales. He is a prolific historian specialising in modern and contemporary Welsh history and has made numerous TV documentaries. His special interest is the history of the process of devolution (the establishing and development of the National Assembly for Wales) in Wales.
- Michael Fuller
Michael Fuller QPM is the Chief Constable of Kent Police and the first black Chief Constable in the United Kingdom. He began his policing career in the Metropolitan Police in 1975 as a cadet. In his time with the Metropolitan Police he served in some of the busiest and demanding areas of London, led Operation Trident and oversaw murder investigations in the Specialist Crime Directorate at Scotland Yard.
- Srđa Trifković
- Dermot Murnaghan
He joined Sky News from the BBC where he has fronted BBC Breakfast since September 2002. During this time he also presented Eggheads and Treasure Hunt for the BBC. Before joining the BBC he spent more than a decade presenting ITV's national news bulletins from London. Dermot was born in Devon in December 1957. After graduating with an MA in History from Sussex University, Dermot completed a postgraduate course in Journalism at City University.
- Shamshad Akhtar
Dr. Shamshad Akhtar Governor, State Bank of Pakistan Dr. Shamshad Akhtar took over as Governor, State Bank of Pakistan on January 2, 2006 for a three-year term; she brings rich experience, both national and international, to her new assignment. Prior to her appointment, Dr. Akhtar served the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as its Director General, Southeast Asia Department, and earlier as Deputy Director General of the Department.
- Michael Attenborough
Michael John Attenborough (born 13 February 1950) is a successful English theatre director. His parents are the actors Richard Attenborough (Baron Attenborough) and Sheila Sim. He was educated at Westminster School and Sussex University. He is currently the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in London and the joint vice-chairman of RADA.
- Dimitri Nanopoulos
Professor Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 1948) is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 19,000 times over across a number of separate branches of science. He studied Physics at the University of Athens and he graduated in 1971, continuing his studies at the University of Sussex in England, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 in High Energy Physics.
- Bob Mortimer
Robert "Bob" Renwick Mortimer (born May 23, 1959 in Middlesbrough, England), is an English comedian and actor who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves (see Vic and Bob).
- Steve Bassam Baron Bassam of Brighton
(John) Steven Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton (b. 11 June 1953) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and member of the House of Lords. Having studied at the University of Sussex and University of Kent, where he received a Masters in social work, Bassam began his career as a social worker at Camden Borough council. He moved on to other roles in local government, …
- Sarra Manning
Sarra Manning is a writer from England. She attended the University of Sussex and took up an English with Media Studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to "Melody Maker". She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine "J-17". Manning was the editor of "Elle Girl" (UK edition), …
- Tommy Boyd
Timothy Leslie Boyd (born December 14, 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a radio presenter and former children's television presenter who now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.
- Simon Fanshawe
Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe (born December 26, 1956, in Devizes, England) is a writer and broadcaster. He contributes frequently to British newspapers and radio. He first came to public attention as a stand-up comedian (winning the prestigious Perrier Award in 1989) and on the television programme "That's Life!". Since then he has been a very frequent contributor on a variety of subjects from arts to politics in newspapers and on many BBC radio and TV programmes.
- Peter Knight
Peter Knight is professor of Quantum Optics and Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2005. His work is concerned principally with theoretical quantum optics, strong field physics and especially quantum information science. According to Thomson-ISI he is the most frequently cited AMO (Atomic Molecular and Optical) theorist in the world.
- Henry Piper
Henry Piper is an English sculptor. Henry Piper studied philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He is a grandson of the 20th century landscape artist, John Piper. Most of Henry Piper's scultures consist of assembled pieces of discarded metalwork and other objects, often in the form of figures and faces. He has also undertaken some stone carving. He has exhibited in London and at venues such as the Henley Festival, Stonor and elsewhere.
- Timothy O'Shea
Timothy O'Shea (born Hamburg 1949) is the current Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom. Professor O'Shea was brought up in London and went to school in Essex. A Computer Scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College from 1998 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2001. A graduate of the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, …
- Musa Hitam
Tun Musa bin Hitam (born 18 April 1934), is a Malaysian politician and a former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, serving under Mahathir bin Mohamad. He was born in Johor Bahru, Johor on 1934.
- Leighton Andrews
Leighton Andrews (born August 11, 1957, in Cardiff) is a Welsh Labour politician, currently the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda since 2003.
- Martin Salter
Martin John Salter (born 19 April 1954 in Hampton, in west London) is a United Kingdom politician. He is Labour Member of Parliament for the Reading West parliamentary constituency.