Notable Alumni and Graduates
The OU has over two million alumni, including:
- Elizabeth Arnold – children's writer
- Craig Brown – former Scotland football manager
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge – Royal Air Force (RAF) officer
- Romola Garai – actress
- Dean Anthony Gratton – author and columnist
- Peter Cottrell – soldier, author and military historian
- Bobby Cummines OBE FRSA – charity chief executive and reformed offender
- Lenny Henry – entertainer
- Gerry Hughes – sailor, first single-handed crossing of the Atlantic by a deaf person
- Mylene Klass – actress and media personality
- Paul Marsden – writer, businessman and former Labour/Liberal Democrat MP
- Neil McIntosh – journalist
- John Reid – Labour politician and former Cabinet minister
- Professor Mary Stuart – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lincoln
- David Wilkinson – psychologist, ambiguity theorist and Oxford academic
- Meles Zenawi – Prime Minister of Ethiopia
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