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Notable alumni[edit]
Notable Westminster alumni (and others who attended) include:
Architects and sculptors including Sir Thomas Bennett (architect and designer of Saville Theatre and London Mormon Temple), Alfred Bossom (Magnolia Hotel), Laurence Broderick (sculptor of The Bull, Birmingham Bullring), Ludo Campbell-Reid (2004 Olympic Games), Sir Anthony Caro (Dream City at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park), Trevor Dannatt, Ron Herron (Walking City), Ian Ritchie (Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre and Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art), Fred Roche (Milton Keynes Development), Alireza Sagharchi (Kings Cross regeneration programme), Cameron Sinclair (co-founder of Architecture for Humanity), Michael Webb (founding member of ), Michael Wilford (Lowry Centre and British Embassy in Berlin) and Chris Wilkinson (Gateshead Millennium Bridge).
Artists and photographers including Sybil Atteck (Trinidadian painter), Norman Blamey (Ordination, The Lavabo), John Frederick Brill (creator of the Bardia Mural), Fougasse (editor of Punch magazine), Iain Macmillan (photographer of The Beatles' Abbey Road album), Charles Keeping (children's author and lithographer Les Misérables, Beowulf and various works by Charles Dickens) and John Ryan (animator and creator of Captain Pugwash).
Authors and poets including Margery Allingham, Mary Jo Bang, George Barker, Samit Basu, Quentin Crisp, David Gascoyne, Mengistu Lemma and Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi.
Business-oriented people including Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe (co-founders of Pret à Manger), Robert Bellinger (former director of Arsenal Football Club), Wilfred Cass (businessman and philanthropist), Moorad Choudhry (Managing Director at Royal Bank of Scotland plc), Michael Jackson (former controller of BBC1 and BBC2, and Chairman of Universal Television), Tej Lalvani (CEO of Vitabiotics and dragon on Dragons' Den), and Adar Poonawalla (CEO of Serum Institute of India).
Entertainers and filmmakers including Raya Abirached (celebrity journalist, and host of the hit TV talent show Arabs Got Talent), Charlie Brooker (BAFTA-nominated broadcaster), Andrew Dunn (BAFTA winning cinematographer Edge of Darkness, The Bodyguard, Precious and The Butler), Asif Kapadia (Oscar winning filmmaker Senna and Amy), Arthur Max (Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning art director Se7en, Gladiator, Prometheus and The Martian), Seamus McGarvey (cinematographer Atonement, Anna Karenina, The Avengers and The Greatest Showman) and Neal Purvis (scriptwriter James Bond series including Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Spectre).
Fashion designers including Christopher Bailey (Chief Executive and Chief Creative Officer at Burberry), Markus Lupfer, Carri Mundane (founder and creative designer at CassettePlaya, Stuart Vevers (executive creative director at Coach) and Vivienne Westwood.
Journalists and commentators including Mo Abudu (media mogul), Talal Al-Haj (New York bureau chief for the Al-Arabiya news network), Carrie Gracie (journalist and newsreader at BBC News), James King (BBC film critic), Riz Lateef (BBC London newsreader), Annie Nightingale (BBC Radio 1 DJ), Rob Powell (political correspondent at Sky News), Jon Ronson (journalist and author of The Men Who Stare At Goats), Brian Whitaker (former Middle East editor at The Guardian newspaper) and Sian Williams (principal presenter at 5 News at 5).
Musicians including Caroline Alvares (member of Four of Diamonds), Amir Amor (Rudimental), Ciaran Jeremiah, Kevin Jeremiah and Richard Jones (members of the pop group The Feeling), Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright (members of the Grammy Award winning rock group Pink Floyd), Sigala (DJ and record producer), Al Shux (Grammy Award winning producer) and Charlie Watts (member of the Grammy Award winning rock group The Rolling Stones).
Politicians including Paul Xuereb (President of Malta 1987-1989), Rafik Abdessalem (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia), Janet Anderson (former Labour Party Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen), Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey (Conservative Party politician), Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox (politician and lobbyist), Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton (Crossbencher and member of the House of Lords), Natascha Engel (former Labour Party Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire), Christopher Fraser (Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk), Dominic Grieve (Former Conservative MP for Beaconsfield and Attorney General for England and Wales), David Lepper (former Labour Party Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion), Abdirahman Omar Osman (Former Mayor of Mogadishu - killed in 2019 by the armed group al-Shabaab), Gloria de Piero (former Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ashfield), Mark Versallion (Councillor and Treasurer for the Conservative Party), Bowen Wells (Conservative for Hertford and Stortford) and Peter Whittle, British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster.
Scientists and engineers including Sir Alexander Fleming (Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine),[51] Sir Frederick Augustus Abel (chemist and inventor of cordite), Seweryn Chomet (theoretical physicist), Sir Diarmuid Downs (former President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers), Lewis R. B. Elton (physicist and researcher in education), George Hockham (engineer and pioneer in research for fiber-optics), Gerald Palmer (Car designer, including Jowett Javelin and MG Magnette), Walter Eric Spear (physicist and pioneer of thin film displays) and Armand de Waele (chemist and rheologist).
Sports people including Lambros Athanassoulas (Greek rally driver), Colin Charvis (Captain of the Welsh national rugby team), Herbert Gayler (Olympic Cyclist and 12 hour record holder), Neil Laughton (adventurer), Dunia Susi (England women's football player) and Frank Turner (three-times Olympics gymnast).
Main article: List of University of Westminster alumni
Notable faculty and staff[edit]
Sir George Cayley
Charlz Algernon Parsons
Cherie Blair
Joshua Oppenheimer
John Henry Pepper
Buyuk sobiq Vestminster fakulteti va xodimlari o'z ichiga oladi Janob Jorj Cayley (aviatsiya muhandisligi otasi), Charlz Algernon Parsons (muhandis va ixtirochi bug ' turbinasi), Tom Ang (fotograf va BBC boshlovchilik), Cherie Blair (katta barrister, sobiq xotini Buyuk Britaniya bosh vaziri, Toni Blair), Harpal Brar (asoschisi va sobiq raisi Buyuk Britaniya kommunistik partiyasi (marksistik-leninchi)), Richard Burton (tashrif o'qituvchi va boshqarish muharriri Yahudiy Xronikasi), Nicholas Garnham (emeritus professor media tadqiqotlar sohasida), Idris Plantatsiya (moda dizayneri), Ketrin Grubb, rassom (Xarrow san'at maktabida o'qitilgan),[52] Mayer Hillman (katta kursdosh emeritus ushbu da Siyosatshunoslik Instituti), Butrus H Millard (buyuk Britaniya prezidenti Nosokinetics Guruh), Chantal Mouffe (siyosiy nazariyotchi), Ezra Funt (taniqli modernist raqam she'riyat), Yoshua Oppenheimer (Oskar nomzod kinorejissyor), Yuhanno Genri Qalampir (olim va ixtirochi), Jan Seaton (media tarixi professor va rasmiy tarixchi BBC), Hujjatli Waterhouse (me'mor va dizayner Tabiiy Tarix Muzeyi) va Brian Winston (Emmy mukofotga sazovor hujjatli skript yozuvchi).
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