University of Kent - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of the University of Kent include:

• Sir David Akers-Jones - Former acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1986/87
• Fu Ying - Vice Foreign Minister of People's Republic of China
• Michael Baigent - author
• Valerie Bloom – poet
• Ivo H. Daalder Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution
• Alan Davies - English comedian and actor
• Gavin Esler - BBC journalist and author
• David Fulton - Cricketer, former Captain of Kent CCC
• Ellie Goulding - Singer and Songwriter
• Charlotte Green - BBC Radio 4 Presenter and Newsreader
• Jane Hutt - Welsh Labour politician and Minister in the Welsh Assembly since 1999.
• Kazuo Ishiguro - writer (Remains of the Day)
• Andrew S.I.D. Lang - mathematical physicist
• Rebecca Lenkiewicz - playwright
• Carolyn McCall OBE - EasyJet Chief Executive Officer
• Mark Mardell - BBC North America Editor
• David Mitchell - writer (Cloud Atlas)
• Sir Hugh Orde OBE - former Chief Constable of Northern Ireland
• Kevin Porée, Record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, recording engineer and lecturer in theatre studies
• Howard Read - Perrier nominated comedian
• Crown Prince Shwebomin - Exiled Crown Prince of Burma
• Robert Wade – screenwriter
• Sarah Waters - writer (Tipping the Velvet)
• Tom Wilkinson OBE - actor, Oscar nominee
• Nick Wilton - actor, screenwriter
• Christopher Wrench - Shanter Publisher's Writer of the Year 2009
• Patrick Wright - journalist and author
• Roys Poyiadjis - Entrepreneur and financier
• E. L. James - writer (Fifty Shades of Grey)