UK Fulbright Commission - Alumni

Alumni

The British Fulbright Scholars Association (BFSA) is the alumni association for British Fulbright Scholars. The BFSA is a private, non-profit organisation that promotes transatlantic relationships and international understanding through its network of Fulbright scholars. US-UK Fulbright alumni are also invited to join the State Alumni and Fulbright Association networks.

According to the Fulbright website, the following individuals are notable alumni of the scholarship program:

• Malcolm Bradbury - novelist
• Liam Byrne - politician
• Milton Friedman - economist and Nobel Prize Winner 1976
• Charles Kennedy - politician
• John Lithgow - actor
• Sylvia Plath - poet
• William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire - politician
• Ian Rankin - novelist
• Sir Christopher Rose - judge
• Shirley Williams - politician
• Toby Young - journalist and playwright
• Ben Broadbent - external member on the Monetary Policy Committee
• Richard Rogers - architect
• Siobhan Davies - choreographer
• Susanna White - film-maker
• Stewart Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield - advisor to Gordon Brown (2001-2009) and lecturer at Oxford University
• Mike Brearley - England cricketer
• Katherine Whitehorn - journalist
• Tony Badger - professor of American History and Master of Clare College
• Walter Bodmer - geneticist
• Lord Butterworth - founding VC of Warwick University, 1963-1985
• David Cannadine - historian
• Lord Higgins - Conservative MP and Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1972-1974
• Ken Jones - President of ACPO until 2008, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Victoria, Australia
• Onora O'Neill - philosopher, Chair of Nuffield Foundation
• Sir Ian Kennedy - Chair, Independent Parliamentary Standards Committee
• Sir Ernst Gombrich - art historian
• Michael Atiyah - mathematician, President of the Royal Society, 1990-1995
• Baroness Deech - Chair, Bar Standards Board