Notable alumni of Cranfield University

Winnie Byanyima

aircraft pilot · b. 1959

20th and 21st-century Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat

Nader al-Dahabi

politician · b. 1946

Jordanian politician

Charles Ingram

novelist · b. 1963

British fraudster

Pat Symonds

engineer · b. 1953

British motorsport engineer

Raghbir Singh Bhola

field hockey player · 1927–2019

Indian field hockey player (1927-2019)

James Vowles

team manager · b. 1979

British motorsport engineer

Patrick Sanders

army officer · b. 1966

commmander of United Kingdom Strategic Command

Omobola Johnson

minister · b. 1963

Nigerian Cabinet Minister

Jack Hathaway

naval aviator · b. 1982

Naval aviator and NASA astronaut

British management consultant

Crispin Blunt

politician · b. 1960

British politician

Rudolf de Korte

banker · 1936–2020

Dutch politician (1936-2020)

Ghanaian politician

Nigerian engineer specializing in water supply

Andrus Öövel

sportsperson · b. 1957

Estonian politician, canoeist and sportsperson (born 1957)

Ahmed Lawan

politician · b. 1959

President of the Senate of Nigeria

Ugandan lawyer, columnist, author, security sector manager and politician

Ghanaian politician

Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein

minister · b. 1950

Sudanese politician

James Morris

cricketer · b. 1967

British politician (born 1967)

Vahit Kirişci

university teacher · b. 1960

Turkish statesperson (born 1960)

Andy Palmer

chief executive officer · b. 1963

British businessman

British businessman

David Fleming

ecologist · 1940–2010

British activist

Nigerian politician

Benjamin Bathurst

military personnel · b. 1964

British Army officer

Aishah Ahmad

banker · b. 1976

Nigerian accountant, financial analyst and financial manager

Accountant, businesswoman and corporate executive in Kenya

Miles Flint

businessperson · b. 1953

British businessman

Nigel Doughty

association football player · 1957–2012

venture capitalist (1957-2012)

Sigurjón Þórðarson

biologist · b. 1964

Icelandic politician

Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada

politician · b. 1956

Mexican politician

Ghanaian engineer

British Army officer

Nneka Abulokwe

technologist

British Nigerian tech entrepreneur and digital governance specialist

Mitchell Yockelson

historian · b. 1962

American military historian and archivist

Vinita Marwaha Madill

military flight engineer · b. 1987

British Space Operations engineer and science communicator

Irish field hockey player

Ph.D. Cranfield Institute of Technology 1979

Expert in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) International Development, Business and Philanthropic Management, Fundraising and Sustainability.

Canadian economist

Nigerian politician

Tyrone Urch

military leader · b. 1965

British general

Katherine Bennell-Pegg

civil servant · b. 1984

Australian space systems engineer

Chris Liebenberg

minister · b. 1934

South African politician

Antony Jenkins

banker · b. 1961

banker

British politician (1938-2008)

Jordanian businessman

Hong Kong politician

Stuart Skeates

military personnel · b. 1966

British general

Benon Biraaro

politician · 1958–2020

Ugandan military officer (1958-2020)

Nigerian agricultural engineer

British military historian

Catriona Laing

diplomat

British diplomat

Raynald Droz

military personnel · b. 1965

Brigadier of the Swiss Armed Forces

Finnish maritime and logistics researcher (born 1969)