14 Notable alumni of Solent University
Updated: June 03, 2026 EliteDegrees
Solent University is ranked #2,503 in the world and #126 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Solent University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Solent University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Juan Kouyoumdjian
1971-. (aged 55)
marine engineer
designer
engineer
Juan Kouyoumdjian, also known as Juan K a naval architect specializing in designing racing sailboats. His designs have obtained 2 Olympic gold medals, 3 VOR Volvo Ocean Race wins, 7 World Championship titles, 9 offshore speed records, 6 America's Cup involvements, amongst other competitions.
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2. Marc Van Peteghem
1957-. (aged 69)
marine architect
Marc Van Peteghem is a French naval architect, co-founder of VPLP a French based naval architectural firm, since 1983.
3. Nick Spalding
1974-. (aged 52)
writer
Nick Spalding is a British comedy novelist.
4. John Ford
1942-. (aged 84)
politician
funeral director
John Frank Ford is a British former Anglican bishop. From 2013 to 2019 he was the Bishop of The Murray in the Anglican Church of Australia. From 2005 to 2013, he was the Bishop of Plymouth, a suffragan bishopric in the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England. In November 2025 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
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5. Ricky Whittle
1981-. (aged 45)
actor
television actor
model
Richard George Whittle is a British actor. Whittle first came to prominence as a model for Reebok in the early 2000s. He is known in the United Kingdom for his role as Calvin Valentine in the soap opera Hollyoaks. In 2009, he finished second in the BBC reality competition Strictly Come Dancing. In 2012, Whittle crossed over to American television...
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6. Jonathan Ross
1960-. (aged 66)
television director
film critic
television actor
film actor
television producer
Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE is an English broadcaster, television personality, film critic, comedian, and writer. He has presented television comedy chat shows, including BBC's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001–2010) and ITV's The Jonathan Ross Show (2011–present). For the BBC show, he won three British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance. Ross hosted his own radio show on BBC...
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7. Santiago Lange
1961-. (aged 65)
skipper
Santiago Raúl Lange Roberti is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval architect.
8. Gary Hunt
1984-. (aged 42)
swimmer
competitive diver
Gary Hunt, also known as Roger Gary Hunt, is an elite sports diver, specialising in cliff or high diving, and is the 2019 World champion in high diving at World Aquatics Championships event, where he holds the championship record. With a silver in the 2013 edition of the event, Hunt is the most successful male diver in the short history...
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9. Sean Yazbeck
1973-. (aged 53)
film actor
actor
entrepreneur
Sean Yazbeck is a British-American businessman. He is the founder of multiple enterprise software and technology services companies. He is the winner of the fifth season of Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice.
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10. Yoann Richomme
1983-. (aged 43)
sailor
Yoann Richomme is a French navigator, sailor and yacht skipper. He has won the Solitaire du Figaro in 2016 and 2019 and the Route du Rhum in the Class 40 category in 2018 and 2022. In the Imoca class, he won the Retour à la Base 2023 and The Transat 2024.
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11. Adam Jones
1963-. (aged 63)
human rights defender
political scientist
writer
Adam Jones is a Canadian political scientist, writer, and photojournalist based at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction and other books in genocide studies. He is Executive Director of Gendercide Watch. He was chosen as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide" for...
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12. Oli Pettigrew
1981-. (aged 45)
model
actor
Oli Pettigrew is a television presenter and former model.
13. Camille Lepage
1988-2014 (aged 26)
war photographer
photojournalist
journalist
photographer
Camille Lepage was a French photojournalist who was killed during the conflict in the Central African Republic in 2014. Her death was described as a murder by the French presidency and it marked the first death of a Western journalist in the conflict.
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14. Ivor Archie
lawyer
Ivor Archie ORTT is a Trinidadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 2008 to 2025. He was formerly Solicitor general of the Cayman Islands from 1995 until his return to Trinidad in 1998.
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