With over 200,000 alumni, our community is made up of innovative thinkers and change makers who are demonstrating Kent’s excellence on the world stage. From Nobel Prize laureates to gold medal winning Olympians, the ambition of our Kent graduates knows no bounds.
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary fiction authors and in 2017 he received Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding is a singer-songwriter who rose to fame after winning the BBC Sound of 2010 poll. She has had 12 UK top 10 singles and won two Brit Awards.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Emeritus Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 in recognition of ‘his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.’
Susannah Townsend MBE
Susannah Townsend MBE
Susannah Townsend MBE is an English field hockey player. She won gold for Team GB at the 2016 Olympic Games in a nail-biting final match against the Netherlands.
Robert Lethbridge
Robert Lethbridge
Professor Robert Lethbridge is the most prominent UK academic of the ‘First 500’ generation of Kent graduates. Notably, he was Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge between 2005 and 2013.
Celebrating your success
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