EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Sussex, England

Founding Date:
1961

Enrollment:
9,000

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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