This is a list of University of Bristol people, including a brief description of their notability. This list includes not just former students but persons who are or have been associated with the university, including former academics, Chancellors, and recipients of honorary degrees.
Staff and academics
Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors
Alumni
Government and politics
United Kingdom
International
The Law
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Alexander Cameron, English Barrister
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Richard Field, English
High Court Judge, Academic of
University of British Columbia
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,
University of Hong Kong
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McGill University
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Louisa Ghevaert, British family law lawyer
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Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, (born 31 January 1945) is a British judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020, and serves as a member of the House of Lords ...
, English judge and first woman to be appointed as the President of the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Chancellor of University (2004-2016)
* Sir
Stephen Laws
Sir Stephen Charles Laws, is a British lawyer and civil servant who served as the First Parliamentary Counsel between 2006 and 2012.
Laws read law at Bristol, graduating in 1972. He was the first in his family to go to University. After a year ...
, British lawyer and civil servant who served as the First Parliamentary Counsel (2006-2012)
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Victoria Sharp
Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp, , PC (born 8 February 1956) is the President of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales.
Early life
She is the daughter of Lord Sharp of Grimsdyke. Her twin brother is Rich ...
, English
Lady Justice of Appeal
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Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division
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It hears appeals on point ...
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Kathryn Thirlwall
Dame Kathryn Mary Thirlwall, DBE (born 21 November 1957), styled The Rt Hon Lady Justice Thirlwall, is an English judge of the Court of Appeal, and since December 2019 is the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales. She practised as a b ...
, English
Lady Justice of Appeal
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and
Deputy Senior Presiding Judge
Academia
Literature
Economics and business
Journalism
Science
TV, film, radio and theatre
Sports
Music
![James Blunt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/James_Blunt.jpg)
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James Blunt
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount; 22 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. A former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army, he served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. After l ...
, musician, singer-songwriter
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Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990. Since leaving the ...
, lead singer of The Stranglers
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Julian Grant
Julian Grant (born 3 October 1960) is an English-born classical composer best known for a series of operas. He is also known for chamber music works and his challenging children's music. He is active as composer, journalist, broadcaster and mus ...
, classical music composer
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Jamie Lidell
Jamie Alexander Lidderdale (born 18 September 1973, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England), known professionally as Jamie Lidell, is an English musician, soul singer and podcast host living in Nashville, Tennessee. Lidell was formerly a part of ...
, musician and soul singer, signed to
Warp Records
Warp Records (or simply Warp) is a British independent record label founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store employees Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon.Southern, Richard (2003) "Label of Love: WARP", X-RAY, ...
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Will Todd
Will Todd (b 14 January 1970) is an English musician and composer. He is a pianist, who performs regularly with others in his own works.
Biography and work
Todd was born in County Durham, attended Durham School and joined the choir of St Oswald ...
, classical and jazz composer; jazz pianist
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Harriet Wheeler
The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in the late 1980s, which released three albums throughout the 1990s.
The band's beginnings came with the meeting of singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin while attending ...
, musician, singer for
The Sundays
The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in the late 1980s, which released three albums throughout the 1990s.
The band's beginnings came with the meeting of singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin while attending ...
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Jonathan Whitehead, film and television composer
Others
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Roly Bain
David Roualeyn Findlater "Roly" Bain (18 January 1954 – 11 August 2016) was an English priest and clown who preached and performed as Holy Roly. He helped set up the organisation Holy Fools.
Early life and education
His father was Kenneth Br ...
, clown-priest
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Mark Hewitt, potter
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Mary Talbot, naval officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service
See also
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:Alumni of the University of Bristol
References
External links
Bristol's featured alumniBristol's alumnion
University Challenge
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Christmas Special 2012
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