from October 2012 to January 2017; Karen Ramagge Prescott, the first female Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament and Paul Boateng, the UK's first Black Cabinet Minister.
In current affairs, former students include journalist and McMafia author Misha Glenny; BBC News Chief Political Correspondent James Landale (who founded the university independent newspaper Epigram); author and journalist Julie Myerson; editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group William Lewis; editor-in-chief of The Observer Will Hutton; Radio 4 presenter Sue Lawley; newsreader Alastair Stewart; and Sky News US Correspondent Dominic Waghorn. BBC Breakfast and Good Morning Britain anchor Susanna Reid was an editor of Epigram.
In entertainment, former students include rapper Shygirl; singer James Blunt; illusionist Derren Brown; comedians Jon Richardson, Marcus Brigstocke (who did not graduate), Matt Lucas and David Walliams; actors Simon Pegg, Chris Langham and Pearl Mackie; anime YouTuber Gigguk; Brass Eye creator Chris Morris; West End Composer and Lyricist Pippa Cleary and Stath Lets Flats creator Jamie Demetriou.
Notable alumni from the Film and Television Production department include film directors Mick Jackson; Michael Winterbottom; Marc Evans; Christopher Smith; Alex Cox; Peter Webber; and Maddie Moate.
Other alumni include Anne McClain, member of the 2013 NASA Astronaut Class; mathematician Iain Gordon; long jumper Jazmin Sawyers; Luke Bond, an organist at Windsor Castle; and baker Kim-Joy Hewlett.
== Gallery ==
== See also ==
Armorial of British universities
CHOMBEC
Education in Bristol
List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
List of universities in the United Kingdom
University of Bristol Theatre Collection
== Notes ==
== References ==
== Further reading ==
== External links ==
Official website
Official website of the University Students' Union
