Notable alumni of Brunel University of London

Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

b. 1981

monarch of Luxembourg since 2025

Tony Adams

association football player · b. 1966

English footballer

Archie Panjabi

film actor · b. 1972

British actress (born 1972)

Eniola Aluko

association football player · b. 1987

English association football player (born 1987)

Phillips Idowu

athletics competitor · b. 1978

British triple jumper

Kelly Sotherton

athletics competitor · b. 1976

Welsh athletics (sport) competitor

Damson Idris

television actor · b. 1991

British actor

Anita Asante

association football player · b. 1985

English footballer (born 1985)

Audley Harrison

boxer · b. 1971

British boxer

Carl Barât

guitarist · b. 1978

English musician

John McDonnell

politician · b. 1951

British Labour politician (born 1951)

Adwoa Aboah

model · b. 1992

British model

Athletics (sport) competitor

Hope Powell

autobiographer · b. 1966

English association football player and manager (born 1966)

Roger Hammond

cyclo-cross cyclist · b. 1974

British cyclist

Sophie McShera

stage actor · b. 1985

British actress

James Cracknell

ocean rower · b. 1972

British rower

Beverly Naya

film producer

Nigerian actress

British Formula One designer

Perri Shakes-Drayton

athletics competitor · b. 1988

British hurdler

Greg Davies

stand-up comedian · b. 1968

Welsh stand-up comedian and actor

Kate Richardson-Walsh

field hockey player · b. 1980

field hockey captain for Great Britain and England

Shailesh Vara

politician · b. 1960

British politician (born 1960)

British modern pentathlete

Stephanie Coker

presenter · b. 1989

Nigerian on-air personality and television presenter

Mark Bagley

comics artist · b. 1957

artist

Lee Mack

autobiographer · b. 1968

British comedian

British archer

Tony James

guitarist · b. 1953

British musician

Ville Skinnari

ice hockey player · b. 1974

Finnish politician and ice hockey player

Abang Johari

politician · b. 1950

Premier of Sarawak since 2017

Layla Moran

politician · b. 1982

British politician (born 1982)

Melissa Courtney-Bryant

athletics competitor · b. 1993

British female distance runner

Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns

politician · b. 1947

British Conservative Party politician (born 1947)

Charlie Winston

recording artist · b. 1978

English singer-songwriter

Rosena Allin-Khan

politician · b. 1978

British politician and physician (born 1978)

Welsh athlete

Turkish actor (born 1986)

Egyptian chemist

Nigerian-British soprano singer, songwriter and opera composer (born 1981)

Aliyah Saleem

women's rights activist · b. 1989

author and secular activist

Ommo Clark

software design

Nigerian software designer, techpreneur, public speaker, CEO and founding director of iBez Nigeria.

Emma Ania

athletics competitor · b. 1980

British sprinter

Marina Yannakoudakis

politician · b. 1956

British Conservative Member of the European Parliament (born 1956)

Allyn Condon

athletics competitor · b. 1974

British sprinter and bobsledder

Afrikan Boy

rapper · b. 1989

British rapper

Anglo-Swiss nurse

Abiodun Oyepitan

athletics competitor · b. 1979

English sprinter

English rugby union footballer

Ghanaian academic and a physician

Sarah Dines

barrister · b. 1965

British politician

Nigerian politician

Abba Gumel

mathematician · b. 1966

Nigerian mathematician

Rwandan-Swiss film director (born 1987)

British politician (1961–2023)

Beth Rodford

rower · b. 1982

British rower

Tiziana Terranova

lecturer · b. 1967

Italian theorist, activist, faculty (born 1967)

Alec Shelbrooke

politician · b. 1976

British politician (born 1976)

Abo Eisa

association football player · b. 1996

Sudanese / British association football player

British filmmaker and journalist

Chad Gould

beach soccer player · b. 1982

Footballer (born 1982)

Pekka Sauri

journalist · b. 1954

Finnish psychologist, Green League politician and civil servant

John Leech

politician · b. 1971

British Liberal Democrat politician

Jenny Chapman

politician · b. 1973

British Labour Party politician

Hamdullah Mohib

diplomat · b. 1983

Afghan politician and diplomat

Amal Fashanu

fashion designer · b. 1988

British journalist and activist

Greek politician

British cyberneticist (1946-2014)

Connie Henry

athletics competitor · b. 1972

British triple jumper

Hungarian politician (1958)

Hanna Liubakova

journalist · b. 1989

Belarusian freelance journalist and researcher

actress

Chris Ogbechie

university teacher · b. 1949

Nigerian Marketer, Administrator and Professor of Strategic Management

Turkish singer and actor

Malaysian politician

Dutch–British politician (1941-2010)

Iyiola Omisore

politician · b. 1957

Nigerian politician, Former Senator & Deputy Governor of Osun State

English broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker

Uzbek lawyer

Tina Daheley

journalist · b. 1979

English journalist and television presenter

British politician (1912-1994)

Reza Moridi

physicist · b. 1945

Canadian politician

British hurdler

Hadi Marzban

film director · 1944–2025

Iranian film director, actor, writer and playwright (1944-2025)

Emma Obanye

entrepreneur · b. 1982

British businesswoman

Nigerian media executive

Robin Lester Carhart-Harris

researcher · b. 1950

British researcher

British actor

Hannah Critchlow

science communicator · b. 1980

neuroscientist

British writer

British athlete

English rugby union player

British athlete

Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Molecular Biology

English footballer (born 1975)