- John Sumpter
Professor John Sumpter is a distinguished professor of the Brunel University, UK. He is an ecotoxicologist, and was amongst the team that first discovered endocrine disruption in fish, and the role of endocrine disrupting chemicals. He also developed the Yeast Estrogen Assay (YES).
- Steven Schwartz
Steven Schwartz (born 1946) became the Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia on February 10 2006. He was previously Vice Chancellor of Brunel University in the UK and of Murdoch University in Western Australia. Schwartz is a trained psychologist and a university corporate manager by experience. He has publicly stated that he wishes universities to be more market-oriented, research-focused, accountable, transparent and held to higher standards, …
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and numerous important bridges. Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems.
- Heinz Wolff
Professor Heinz Wolff (born 29 April 1928) is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He is best known for his television and radio work, including the TV series "The Great Egg Race". He was born in Berlin, and moved to Britain with his family at the age of ten, arriving on the day World War II broke out. After school, he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, …
- Adam Kuper
Adam Kuper (born 1941) is a British anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means. Born and raised in South Africa, he took his first degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His doctorate, from the University of Cambridge, was based on field research in the Kalahari desert in what is now Botswana.
- Steve Dixon
Stephen Robert Dixon (born 1956 in Manchester, England) is a British actor and academic. He studied performing arts at the University of Manchester, graduating in the same class as Rik Mayall. He worked as an actor for many years, taking minor roles in films like Privates On Parade and on television shows including The Young Ones and The Krypton Factor whilst working silmutaneously as a stand-up comic at The Comedy Store in London.
- Steve Woolgar
Stephen Woolgar is a sociologist who has worked very close to Bruno Latour, with whom he co-authored "Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts". He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He is now Professor of Marketing at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Green College.
- Michael Sterling
Professor Michael Sterling FREng (born 9 February 1946) is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham. He began his career as an electrical engineer in 1964 joining AEI (later GEC) as a student apprentice with a scholarship to the University of Sheffield to read Electronic and Electrical Engineering, graduating with a 1st class Honours degree and subsequently a PhD in computer control in 1971.
- Christopher Fox
Christopher Fox (born 1955 in York) is a British composer. He studied at the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and York, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Jonathan Harvey. He received a PhD in composition from the University of York in 1984. From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the composition staff at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. He is currently Professor in Music at Brunel University, a post he took up in 2006.
- Alan Sugar
Sir Alan Michael Sugar is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16, Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. He now has an estimated fortune of £830m. and was ranked 84th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Despite being best known as a technology businessman, most of Sugar's wealth now derives from his property portfolio in Mayfair, rather than business ventures.
- Richard Sykes
Sir Richard Sykes, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, (born 1942) is the current Rector of Imperial College. He is a trustee of the Natural History Museum (London) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was formerly chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He is perhaps best known for leading Glaxo's introduction of the drug Zantac.
- John Crank
John Crank (6 February 1916 - 3 October 2006) was a mathematical physicist, best known for his work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Crank was born in Hindley in Lancashire. His father was a carpenter's pattern-maker. Crank studied at Manchester University from 1934 to 1938, where he was awarded a B.Sc. and M.Sc., as a student of Lawrence Bragg and Douglas Hartree. Later, in 1953, Manchester University awarded him with a D.Sc.
- John Morrison
John Noble Lennox Morrison (born July 14, 1943 in Hexham, joined the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) in 1967 as a desk-level intelligence analyst. During his Ministry of Defence (MoD) career he occupied a wide range of analytical and management positions in the DIS and elsewhere, including three tours in the Cabinet Office, culminating as Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).
- Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson (born 1951 in Manchester, England) is a games reviewer and writer. He is one of the best known authors in the gaming industry. In 1975, he founded the company Games Workshop with Ian Livingstone, and the two created the line of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks published by Penguin Books. Jackson now works at Lionhead Studios, which he founded with Peter Molyneux. He is also an honorary lecturer at Brunel University in London, …
- Marie Jahoda
Marie Jahoda (January 26 1907 - April 28 2001) was a British social psychologist of Austrian descent. Jahoda was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where oppression was rampant. This was a major influence on her life. In 1928 she earned her teaching diploma from the Pedagogical Academy of Vienna, and in 1933 earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Vienna.
- Neville A. Stanton
Neville A. Stanton is a British professor and head of human-centered design research at Brunel University. He specializes in human factors and has authored and edited several books on applications of the subject. He has been published in "Nature."
- James Plaskitt
James Andrew Plaskitt (born 23 June 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington. Born in Grimsby, Plaskitt was educated at the Pilgrim School in Bedford and went up to University College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He graduated in 1976 and subsequently took a master's degree in Politics before taking up a lectureship at University College.
- Alan Smithers
Professor Alan Smithers, the distinguished educationist, is best known for his distinctive style of research, which leads to him often being called upon to comment on the issues of the day. His early experience in science led him to the view that educational researchers are wrong in aping the scientific paradigm.
- Ranulph Glanville
Ranulph Glanville (born London, 13 June, 1946) is a researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association (1964-71). He completed a PhD in cybernetics at Brunel University in 1975, and a second PhD in Human Learning from Brunel in 1988. He has worked briefly as an architect in UK and Finland. He taught at the Architectural Association 1972-78, and Portsmouth Polytechnic 1978-97.
- Mike Coughlan
Mike Coughlan is Chief Designer for the McLaren Formula One team, and has been in the position since 2002. Coughlan was born in the United Kingdom, and studied Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University, graduating in 1981. He first designed cars for Tiga Cars, which competed in junior formulae, until 1984, when he joined the Lotus Formula One team. As the team's fortunes waned, it was reorganised at the end of 1990, …
- Archie Panjabi
Archie Panjabi (', born 1973) is a British actress.
- Cleopatra Mukula
Cleopatra Mukula is a Kenyan student and founder of Peggoty Foundation UK. Cleopatra was born in Mombasa, Kenya, to a Kenyan (Luo) mother and a Ugandan (Teso) father. She has a BSc in Health Care Law and Ethics, and is studying for a Masters in Documentary Film at Brunel University. She is the founder of Peggoty Foundation UK, a charity which educates,empowers and caters for orphaned and impoverished children in Africa.
- Stanley O. Gaines
Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. is a Social Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Brunel University. Gaines is the author of Culture, Ethnicity, and Personal Relationship Processes, published by Routledge in 1997.
- Joe Worsley
Joseph Paul Richard Worsley MBE (born 14 June 1977 in London) is a rugby union player who plays flanker for Wasps and England. He was educated at Hitchin Boys' School and Brunel University and joined London Wasps at the age of 16 from Welwyn rfc. He became the youngest player to represent England U21s, after being a member of the England Schools 18 Group Grand Slam team in 1994-95.
- Pekka Sauri
Pekka Markus Sauri is a Finnish psychologist and a Green League politician. He is currently the deputy mayor of Finland's capital city, Helsinki. Sauri became well-known in Finland during the late 1990s for hosting a popular radio show "Yölinja" ("Nightline") in which he tried to help callers with their various personal problems. Sauri attended the Helsinki University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1977 and licenciate degree in 1980.
- Matthew Digby Wyatt
Sir (Matthew) Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 - 21 May 1877) was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. Born in Rowde, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt.
- Warwick Murray
Dr. Warwick E Murray (born 1972) is a British-born New Zealand human geographer and Latin Americanist. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1993 (BSocSci, jt.hons), and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1996. He has held academic posts at the University of the South Pacific, and Brunel University (UK). He is currently Associate Professor/Reader in human geography at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
- Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke Of Luxembourg
William, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg ("Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie") born November 11, 1981, is the eldest child of Grand Duke Henri and his wife Maria Teresa Mestre. A descendant of the House of Nassau, founded in 1093, which has ruled Luxembourg since 1890, Guillaume has been Heir Apparent to the throne of Luxembourg since his father's accession in 2000. He is styled "HRH The Hereditary Grand Duke", …
- Keith Hopkins
Morris Keith Hopkins (June 20 1934-March 8 2004) was a British historian and sociologist. He was professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2001. Hopkins warred continuously against the assumption that serious history could be written by induction from inadequate ancient sources, which had often come to be treated as though they were sacred texts. A brilliant and iconoclastic historian of imperial Rome, …
- John Wakeham
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC (born June 22, 1932), is a businessman and British Conservative Party politician. Since he left government, he has been active in business again, notably being a director of Enron before its collapse. Educated at Charterhouse School, he was a successful accountant and later businessman before his election to the House of Commons for Maldon, Essex in 1974. He became a minister after Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979.
- David Crutcher
David Crutcher born in Burley, England in 1940 is a politician and small business man from Calgary, Alberta. He graduated from Brunel University in England in 1962 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1994 David Crutcher founded Ramatek Inc. a company that specializes in detecting engine wear in heavy machinery by analyzing the composition of motor oils.
- John Large
John H. Large is an independent nuclear engineer and analyst primarily known for his work in assessing and reporting upon nuclear safety and nuclear related accidents and incidents. From the mid-1960s until 1986 Large was an academic in Brunel University's School of Engineering, where he undertook research for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Large lead the nuclear risk assessment team for the raising of Russian submarine K-141 Kursk, …
- James Redmond
Sir James Redmond was one of the pioneers of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He spent the greater part of his career with the Engineering Department of the BBC rising all the way through the ranks from vision mixer to Director of Engineering and was involved in overseeing most of the technical developments which made modern TV broadcasting possible. He was one of the engineers responsible for the successful development of live outside broadcasting, …
- Lucy Verasamy
Lucy Verasamy (born 2 August 1980) is a weather forecaster for Sky News, and terrestrial channel Five in the United Kingdom. Verasamy attended Silfield Primary School and Framlingham College Junior School Suffolk and King Edward VII High School in Norfolk; where she studied A-Level Geography. After graduating with a degree in Geography and Earth Sciences from Brunel University in 2001, she worked at the Press Association’s weather centre for four years as a forecaster, …
- Anastasios Papaligouras
Anastasios Papaligouras (born April 14, 1948) is a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician and the current Minister of Justice. Born in Athens, Papaligouras studied law at the University of Athens and took a Masters in Comparative European Law at Brunel University, London. He was leader of ONNED (the New Democracy youth organisation) from 1976 to 1977. From 1976 to 1978, he was a member of the New Democracy Executive Committee.
- Ben Gollings
Ben Gollings (born 13 May 1980 in Launceston, Cornwall) is a rugby union footballer who plays fly-half for Tasman and England Sevens. Gollings was educated at Canford School and in 1997 led the school to success at The National Schools 7's. In 2000, he was selected for England in the Students' World Cup, whilst at Brunel University. Gollings has previously played for Bournemouth, Gloucester, Bath Development U19 side, Harlequins, Newcastle Falcons, Worcester and Sunnybank.
- Bindya Solanki
Bindya Solanki (born 24 May) is a British Asian actress. Solanki comes from Southend on Sea, the seaside town in Essex. Her parents are of Gujarati descent and emigrated to England in the 60s. She attended Brunel University and graduated in 1995 with a BA (hons) degree in drama. She made her television debut in the ITV children's programme "My Parents Are Aliens" in 1999, playing a teacher.
- Hajaz Akram
Hajaz Akram is a British Asian actor, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. He has appeared in numerous television dramas, including "Doctor Who", "Murder in Mind" and "Casualty", and is also the voice of DJ Panjit Gavaskar ("Radio Del Mundo") in "Grand Theft Auto". He has had film roles in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" and "Batman Begins".
- Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy is a Professor of Marketing and Communication at Queen Mary, University of London, since Janurary 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and has previously been a Professor at Keele Universityand Brunel University, and a Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He also holds postgraduate degrees from Cambridge University, the University of Oxford, …
- Sunny Hundal
Sunny Hundal is a British Asian journalist. He was born in London in 1977 to Sikh parents of Indian origin. He has a degree in Economics from Brunel University and has written for leading British newspapers including The Financial Times, and The Independent. He has been interviewed by ITV News, Sky News, and Channel 4 News. Sunny Hundal is the founder and editor of "Asians in Media" magazine. He also runs the progressive "Pickled Politics" weblog, …