Warwick's most famous alumni

I know Warwick is a relatively young university. It has been around 30 years or so only but it has an amazing leap in academic prestige ranking in that small span of time. Very rarely would a university become a premier global school at a young age of 30. Some UK unis have been around more than a 100 years ago and look how behind are they now to Warwick.

Being a young uni must have a lot of disadvantages. One of the obvious ones would be having a young alumni network.

in line with that, has Warwick already produce prominent alumni? Who are they and what were their contributions to the society (local or international)?

Reply 1

Totally Tom

18

wikipedia is your friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Warwick

go down to near bottom

lol sting!

Having dropped out in his first year, he's hardly a good example :wink:

Reply 4

Veecee

David Davis who was almost going to be Conservative party leader until the young gun (Oxford grad) blew him away.

He didn't just do some one year thing, a bit of research there, or get an honorary, like many "Alumni" - David Davis actually did a full blown first degree at Warwick.

Also Brian Paddick, Candidate for London Mayor, but he was also blown away for the job (by another Oxford grad)

Reply 5

andy_cole2

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Veecee

David Davis who was almost going to be Conservative party leader until the young gun (Oxford grad) blew him away.

He didn't just do some one year thing, a bit of research there, or get an honorary, like many "Alumni" - David Davis actually did a full blown first degree at Warwick.

Also Brian Paddick, Candidate for London Mayor, but he was also blown away for the job (by another Oxford grad)

lol the oxford reject status just loves to bite warwick students in the ass...

Stephen Merchant!

the_inept_one

DJ Yoda FTW....

Lol, I was about to mention him. He's pretty decent.

Reply 8

Quinion

10

We have the UK #2-ranked table footballer (#85 in the world).

True story.

Reply 9

andy_cole2

14

we must have had some top british american footballers, does britain have an american footbal team?

Ainsley Harriet...

Camila Batmanghelidjh - she's an amazing woman, has made a difference to so many lives . If you don't know about her work and Kids' Company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camila_Batmanghelidjh
http://kidsco.org.uk/
Was a documentary about her a few years back.

Reply 12

smooth3k

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oceane

Camila Batmanghelidjh - she's an amazing woman, has made a difference to so many lives . If you don't know about her work and Kids' Company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camila_Batmanghelidjh
http://kidsco.org.uk/
Was a documentary about her a few years back.

Plus her surname begins with BATMAN!!!

Reply 13

andy_cole2

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oceane

Camila Batmanghelidjh - she's an amazing woman, has made a difference to so many lives . If you don't know about her work and Kids' Company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camila_Batmanghelidjh
http://kidsco.org.uk/
Was a documentary about her a few years back.

wow thats so cool, the kids company is an incredible project *feels proud*

Reply 14

Paradiddle_man

Apparently the director of alien vs predator took film and lit in Warwick although he's probably a crap example.

Reply 15

barry_4_england

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Stephen Merchant(Y). Nice one.

Reply 16

philgiles54

Frank Skinner went there. As did Charles Clarke one time Labour Cabinet member (surprised he is not much mentioned). Most famous when I was there 74-76 was Steve Heighway the Liverpool footballer. I do remember General Gowen (deposed Nigeria dictator) trying to blend in very badly after protest to stop him being allowed to study.

Reply 17

johnperp

6

Ian Stewart is quite famous in maths for his pop maths books. I think he did his phd there (does that count?) edit: Also Martin Hairer - fields medallist.

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