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University of Sussex

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Sussex, England

Founding Date:
1961

Enrollment:
9,000

Official Website:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hilary Benn
Politician
26-Nov-1953   UK Minister for the Environment
Erna Brodber
Novelist
20-Apr-1940   Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home
Dave Camp
Politician
9-Jul-1953   Congressman, Michigan 4th
Jim Carter
Actor
19-Aug-1948   Mr. Carson on Downton Abbey
Norman Cohn
Historian
25-Jan-1915 31-Jul-2007 The Pursuit of the Millennium
Norman Davies
Historian
8-Jun-1939   God's Playground
Geoff Eley
Historian
14-May-1949   Forging Democracy
Peter Hain
Politician
16-Feb-1950   British MP, Neath
Billy Idol
Musician
30-Nov-1955   Sneering faux punk rocker
Thabo Mbeki
Head of State
18-Jun-1942   President of South Africa, 1999-2008
Ian McEwan
Novelist
21-Jun-1948   Amsterdam
Festus Mogae
Head of State
21-Aug-1939   President of Botswana
Paul Nurse
Scientist
25-Jan-1949   Regulators of cell cycle
Nigel Planer
Actor
22-Feb-1953   Neil on The Young Ones
Peter Rojas
Blogger
c. 1975   Gizmodo, Engadget
Martin Salter
Politician
19-Apr-1954   British MP, Reading West
Cristian Vogel
Electronic Musician
1972   Super Collider
Virginia Wade
Tennis
10-Jul-1945   Winner of 7 Grand Slam titles

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alec Boksenberg
Astronomer
18-Mar-1936   Image Photon Counting System
Rachel Bowlby
Educator
29-Jan-1957   Carried Away
Janet Burroway
Novelist
21-Sep-1936   The Dancer from the Dance
Norman Cohn
Historian
25-Jan-1915 31-Jul-2007 The Pursuit of the Millennium
John Cornforth
Chemist
7-Sep-1917 8-Dec-2013 Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist
7-Oct-1939 30-Apr-2016 Co-Discovered fullerenes
Anthony J. Leggett
Physicist
26-Mar-1938   Particle physicist, explored superfluidity
Martin Rees
Astronomer
23-Jun-1942   President of the Royal Society

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Richard Attenborough
Film Director
29-Aug-1923 24-Aug-2014 Gandhi
Charles Gordon-Lennox
Aristocrat
19-Sep-1929   10th Duke of Richmond
DeAnne S. Julius
Economist
14-Apr-1949   Chairman, Royal Institute of International Affairs
John Maynard Smith
Biologist
6-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
Walter Monckton
Politician
17-Jan-1891 9-Jan-1965 UK Minister of Defence, 1955-56




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