University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. It is the only university in England which is entirely located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and runs entirely on electricity from renewable energy sources. It was founded in August 1961, one of several New Universities to be built in the 1960s.

Alumni

;Politicians

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• Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, Labour politican, member of the House of Lords
• Hilary Benn, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for International Development
• Roger Berry (DPhil.), Member of Parliament
• Simon Busuttil, Maltese Member of the European Parliament
• David Lee Camp, U.S. Republican member of the House of Representatives
• David Hallam, Member of the European Parliament, author
• Peter Hain, Member of Parliament. Secretary of State for Wales, Leader of the House of Commons
• Musa Hitam, Malaysian politican
• Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
• Martin Salter, Labour Member of Parliament
• Lyn Walsh, Socialist Party politician
• Alan Woods, politican and writer

;Writers, journalists and broadcasters

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• Edward Kamau Brathwaite (PhD), Barbadian writer
• Peter Brimelow, journalist and author
• Simon Fanshawe, writer, broadcaster
• Philippa Gregory, novelist
• Merfyn Jones, historian, broadcaster and governor of the BBC
• Sarra Manning, writer
• Ian McEwan, novelist
• Bob Mortimer, comedian
• Andrew Morton, celebrity biographer
• Dermot Murnaghan, television presenter and jounalist
• Kim Newman, journalist and writer
• Chris Paling, author
• Nigel Planer, actor, novelist, playwright
• Shirley Thomas (PhD), professor, broadcaster
• Sr?a Trifkovi?, Serbian historian and journalist

;Scientists

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• John D. Barrow, physicist
• John Cornforth, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Harry Kroto, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Anthony Leggett, Nobel laureate in Physics
• Dimitri Nanopoulos, physicist

;Others

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• Michael Attenborough, director
• Daniel Catán, composer
• Cheung Kam Ching (PhD), philosopher
• A. C. Grayling, Philosopher
• Jemma Griffiths, Singer-songwriter better known as Jem
• Paul Hirst, professor
• Billy Idol, musician (did not graduate)
• Steve Knightley. singer-songwriter, musician
• Savenaca Siwatibau, Fijian acedemic leader, civil sevice administrator
• Virginia Wade, Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion 1977
• Jesoni Vitusagavulu, Fijian diplomat and Ambassador to the United States