Your Uni's Claim to Fame!

Every lecture I have, there is at least one mention of "and did you know that what we're studying right now was actually discovered in this very university!!!" to which everyone oo's and ahh's! or for the daily advert a lecturer always puts in a word of how this famous pop star went to our uni, or that famous celebrity! its great fun to see you've got something in common with famous people!!

So what I want to know, is what famous people went to your uni, and don't forget to mention ur uni name!

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Reply 1

Danithestudent

The Uni/Institute I want to go to is where Jimmy Choo learnt about fashion, Pierce Brosnan went and Alexi Sayle as well...
That's the London Institute btw

Reply 2

Xenon

I was at SOAS today with my friend and they were filming something there, though am not sure what it was about though. It was pretty funny; the students were told to not look at them filming and stuff, but sometimes it was impossible, especially when an actor started shouting out something.

Reply 3

Vienna

Danithestudent

The Uni/Institute I want to go to is where Jimmy Choo learnt about fashion, Pierce Brosnan went and Alexi Sayle as well...
That's the London Institute btw

love ya.

Reply 4

Unregistered

Ozzy Osbourne, Rodney Trotter and Joe Carter

Reply 5

Danithestudent

Jimmy Choo does make fantastic shoes, I'm what I call a repressed shoe freak, I want all these shoes but unfortunatley I have this little practical voice inside me saying "Where would you wear it? You can't walk in those! It won't go with what you have in your cupboard. £100 for a pair of shoes? you could buy an outfit with that!"

I take it out on bags instead.....i have 47 different bags and not a single one of them bigger than a handbag!

Reply 6

Danithestudent

Rodney Trotter aka Nicholas Lyndhurst lives real close to me in West Wittering, and my bf used to work in the Co-op there and he used to come in with darkn glasses and a hat and buy 40 L&B and 2 big bottles of Smirnoff Ice and do it in an american accent to avoid being recognised lol...Kylie has just bought a house down there as well

Reply 7

Vienna

Danithestudent

i hate 'practical' shoes though...ugh.

Reply 8

DanMushMan

glitz

where to start??

Reply 9

Danithestudent

Yeah there were these shoes that I saw the other day they were like high heels and were covered in the symbols they have on the weather reports they were sooo cool...but again ...little practical voice in my head...

Reply 10

Unregistered

Ok we can expand this thread to: famous people in ur uni & famous people you've seen!

I have seen a wide range of celebs in a wide range of places!
Richard & Judy - M&S!!!
Dale Winton - Tesco at 10pm LOL
Arnold Schwarznegger - in a cafe whilst on holiday in LA
Michael Jackson - in the hotel I was staying at whilst on holiday in France

Reply 11

Xenon

Um, I saw one of the tennis commentator guys (can't remember his name) at wimbledon.

Reply 12

Unregistered

JK Rowling used to go to my uni - Exeter ! So proud! :biggrin:

Reply 13

tweetsy85

I'm at UCL and every day we have our daily UCL advert on famous ex-students! its hilarious! The list so far includes
Alexander Graham Bell, Chris Martin, William Champion and Johnny Buckland (members of the band Coldplay) , Mahatma Gandhi (spiritual leader) , Chi Squared was found at UCL too!

Reply 14

Nylex

Chris Tarrant went to Bham.

Reply 15

DanMushMan

Christ's (1505)
Richard Clerke, John Milton, Charles Darwin, Jan Smuts, CP Snow, David Mellor, Richard Whiteley, Lord Mountbatten, Colin Dexter, Sacha Baron-Cohen (Ali G), Simon Schama, Rowan Williams

Churchill (1960)

Clare (1326)
Nicholas Ferrer, Hugh Latimer, Charles Cornwallis, David Attenborough, Peter Lilley, Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Stilgoe, James Watson, Andrew Wiles, Peter Ackroyd, Roger Norrington

Clare Hall (1984)

Corpus Christi (1352)
Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, Matthew Parker

Darwin (1976)
Jane Goodall

Downing (1800)
John Cleese, Michael Winner, Mike Atherton, Brian Redhead, Quentin Blake, Trevor Nunn, Michael Apted, Thandie Newton

Emmanuel (1584)
John Harvard, FR Leavis, Fred Hoyle, Griff Rhys Jones, Graeme Garden, Cecil Parkinson, John Wallis, Michael Frayn, Graham Chapman

Fitzwilliam (1896)
Lord Fawsley, Norman Lamont, Derek Pringle, Phil Edmonds, Lee Kuan Yew

Girton (1869)
Sandi Toksvig, Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Raquel Cassidy

Gonville and Caius (1348)
William Harvey, Thomas Shadwell, George Green, David Frost, Kenneth Clarke, Harold Abrahams, John Venn, Keith Vaz, Alastair Campbell

Homerton (1894)
Julie Covington, Nick Hancock, Cherie Lunghi, Sandi Toksvig, Graham Wynne

Hughes Hall (1885)

Jesus (1496)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Cranmer, Laurence Sterne, Alastair Cooke, Prince Edward, Lord Snowdon, Ted Dexter, Thomas Malthus, Nick Hornby, Tony Wilson

King's (1441)
Francis Walsingham, Rupert Brooke, JM Keynes, EM Forster, Robert Walpole, Martin Bell, Salman Rushdie, Alan Turing, David Baddiel, John Graham

Lucy Cavendish (1965)

Magdalene (1542)
Samuel Pepys, Charles Kingsley, CS Lewis, Michael Ramsey, Lord Tedder, Bamber Gascoigne, John Simpson, Michael Redgrave, Gavin Hastings, Charles Parnell, George Mallory, Katie Derham, Rob Wainwright, Mike Newell, Alan Rusbridger

New Hall (1954)
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Sue Perkins

Newnham (1871)
Eleanor Bron, Emma Thompson, Germaine Greer, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Drabble, AS Byatt, Rosalind Franklin, Anne Campbell, Dorothy Hodgkin, Shirley Williams, Claire Balding, Jane Goodall, Diane Abbott

Pembroke (1347)
William Pitt, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Gray, Peter Cook, Ted Hughes, Clive James, Peter May, Eric Idle, Bishop Ridley, George Stokes, Rab Butler, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Tom Sharpe, Arthur Bliss, Jonathan Lynn

Peterhouse (1284)
Thomas Gray, Henry Cavendish, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, Frank Whittle, Christopher Cockerell, Michael Howard, Michael Portillo, Richard Baker, John Whitgift, James Dewar, Sam Mendes, Stephanie Cook

Queens' (1448)
Desiderius Erasmus, Isaac Milner, Stephen Fry, Mike Foale, Derek Lewis, Charles Stanford, Richard Hickox, Osborne Reynolds

Robinson (1977)
Adrian Davies, Charles Hart, Konnie Huq

St Catharine's (1473)
John Addenbrooke, James Shirley, Ian McKellen, Jeremy Paxman, Steve Punt, Peter Hall

St John's (1511)
William Wordsworth, Paul Dirac, William Wilberforce, Jonathan Miller, Douglas Adams, Viscount Goderich, Lord Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, Trevor Bailey, Mike Brearley, Hugh Dennis, Rob Andrew, Sid Waddell

Selwyn (1882)
Hugh Laurie, Rob Newman, Clive Anderson, John Selwyn Gummer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Simon Hughes, Robert Harris

Sidney Sussex (1596)
Oliver Cromwell, David Owen, John Patten, Carol Vorderman, Ian Lang

Trinity (1546)
(living alumni only) Hermann Bondi, Freeman Dyson, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, John Nott, John Tusa, Douglas Hurd, Edward Stourton, Peter Bottomley, Leon Brittan, Prince Charles, Raymond Keene, Jonathan Mestel, Antony Gormley, Vanessa Feltz, John Crawley, Peter Shaffer, Mel Giedroyc, Stephen Frears, Alex Comfort, Edward Atterton, Thomas Gold

Trinity Hall (1350)
Admiral Howard, Robert Herrick, JB Priestley, Terry Waite, Norman Fowler, Tony Slattery, Geoffrey Howe, Donald Maclean, David Sheppard, Rachel Weisz, Stephen Hawking, Hans Blix, Andrew Marr

I didn't know about Konnie Huq