List of University of East Anglia alumni
Name Class year Notability
Neil Adger PhD , 1998 Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter
James Barber FRS MSc , 1965 ; PhD , 1967 Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London
Nick Barton FRS PhD , 1979 Darwin Medal , Darwin-Wallace Medal and Erwin Schrödinger Prize winning evolutionary biologist
Sir John Beringer CBE PhD , 1973 Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol
Keith Beven FRS PhD , 1975 Robert E. Horton Medal winning hydrologist
Mervyn Bibb FRS BSc , 1974 ; PhD , 1978 Molecular microbiologist
Alan Bishop BSc Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award winning scientist
Robert Boutilier PhD , 1981 Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Cambridge
Keith Briffa PhD , 1984 Climatologist
Dennis Brown BSc , 1972 ; PhD , 1975 Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Kevin Burgess MSc , 1980 Rachal Professor of Chemistry at Texas A & M University
Lucy Carpenter FRS PhD , 1996 Rosalind Franklin Award winning physical chemist
Ken Carslaw MSc , 1991 ; PhD , 1994 Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds
Sir Andrew Cash OBE BA Chief Executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Gavin Crooks BSc , 1992 ; MSc , 1993 Discoverer of Crooks fluctuation theorem
Huw Davies PhD , 1980 Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Organic Chemistry at Emory University
Karen Duff BSc , 1987 Potamkin Prize winning pathologist and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University
Nick Dulvy PhD , 1998 Professor of Marine Biodiversity & Conservation at Simon Fraser University
Nick Eyles PhD , 1978 E. R. Ward Neale Medal winning geologist
Richard Flavell CBE , FRS PhD , 1967 Director of the John Innes Centre
Science and academia -- Science and public health
This List of University of East Anglia alumni includes graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of East Anglia. The list includes one current monarch and former Prime Minister, two de facto heads of state, two former Leaders of the House of Lords, two further Members of the House of Lords, nine Members of the House of Commons, and 28 Cabinet Ministers from 23 foreign nations, including one Vice President, one Deputy Prime Minister, four Foreign Ministers, four Finance Ministers, one Defence Minister, six Education Ministers, two Health Ministers, two Interior Ministers, and a Central Bank Governor. The list also includes one Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and President of the Royal Society, two Lasker Award winners, and a further eight Fellows of the Royal Society. Literary alumni include one Nobel laureate in Literature, three Man Booker Prize winners, 11 Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award) winners, and three Caine Prize winners.