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Notable Keelites
We are proud to mention these few from among our many distinguished and notable alumni:
John Abram (Composer)
Maggie Atkinson (Children's Commissioner, England)
Phil Avery (BBC weather presenter)
Yvette Baker (Champion orienteer)
Tony Barrand (Anthropologist and folk musician)
Emran bin Bahar (ambassador for Brunei Darussalam)
Stan Beckensall (expert in prehistoric rock art)
Francis Beckett (Writer, known for his biographies of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown)
David Benest (Colonel, Parachute Regiment)
Jo Beverley (Author, romantic novelist)
Carol Birch (author)
Jonty Bloom (BBC business correspondent)
Phillida Bunkle (New Zealand MP)
Mike Cattermole (racing commentator)
Paul Clarke (Secretary of State, MP)
Wayne Clarke (Radio presenter)
David Collett (director VSO, CEO Wateraid)
Bob Cooling (Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff)
David Cooney (Irish ambassador to the UK)
Peter Coulson (High Court judge)
Sandra Dawson (Organisational theorist)
Edward Derbyshire (geologist)
Jonathon Dollimore (Sociologist; cultural and literary theorist)
John Duncan (UK diplomat UN & NATO)
David Edwards (Second person to win top prize on "Who wants to be a Millionaire?")
Tony Elliot (Founder and owner of Timed Out)
Jack Emery (director, writer, producer)
Richard English (Political historian)
Farahanaz Faizal (High Commisoner for the Maldives)
Jem Finer (musician, songwriter, The Pogues)
Don Foster (MP)
Zuklfikar Ghose (author)
Jonathan Gledhill (Bishop of Lichfield)
John Golding (MP)
Charles Iain Hamilton (Naval historian)
Giles Hooper (Author and Head of Music, University of Liverpool)
Sir Jeffrey James (UK High Commissioner to Kenya)
Eric Joyce (MP)
Mumtaz Kassam (Deputy High Commissioner for Uganda)
Denise King (chief executive Girlguiding UK)
Marina Lewycka (author)
Bernard Lloyd (actor)
Ron Maddison (astronomer)
Michael Mansfield (prominent QC)
Pradeep Mathur (educationalist)
Peter Mond, Lord Melchett (executive director of Greenpeace)
Alun Michael (First Secretary to National Assembly for Wales)
Ian Moncrieff (UK National Hydrographer)
Jim Moran (EU Ambassador)
Sir Richard Mottram (Cabinet Office)
Helen Nellis (Lord Lieutenant)
Sam Nolutshungu (political scientist)
Gerry Northam (BBC investigative journalist)
Marina Oliver (novelist)
Sir Nick Partridge (chief executive, Terence Higgins Trust)
Priti Patel (MP)
David Pownall (playwright and author)
Antti Sakari Saario (composer and lecturer)
Malcolm Shaw (Law Scholar)
Beverley Skeggs (Sociologist)
Brian Stewart (UK ambassador to Algeria)
Joan Stringer (Political scientist)
John Sutton (general secretary, Secondary Heads Association)
Adelaide "Mama" Tambo (anti-apartheid activist, South African MP)
Chris Taylor (landscape archaeologist)
Lord John Taylor of Warwick (politician)
John Thompson (sociologist)
Sir John Vereker (Governor of Bermuda)
Lynda Waltho (MP)
Peter Whelan (playwright)
Dame Jo Williams (chief executive MENCAP)
Chris Woodhead (chief inspector of schools)
Fiona Woolf (President of the Law Society)
And the 1968 University Challenge winners: Paul Brownsey, Pam Maddison (Groves), Aubrey "Larry" Lawrence, Andy MacMullen
