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 – 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

• Konstantia Sofokleous – artist

• Flora Twort – painter

• Melanie Walsh – children's book illustrator

• Barbara Warren – Irish painter

Business
• Sinclair Beecham – co-founder of Pret à Manger

• Wilfred Cass – businessman and philanthropist

• Adekunle Ojora - business mogul and philanthropist

• Moorad Choudhry – Managing Director Royal Bank of Scotland plc

• Michael Jackson – 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)

• Carri Mundane – fashion designer (Cassetteplaya)

• Stuart Vevers – fashion designer (Loewe)

• Vivienne Westwood – 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

• 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)

• 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 – 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

• Raheem Kassam – British political activist

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 – 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

• 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 – 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

• 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

• 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