prisoner Air-Vice Marshal David Anthony Hobart, Royal Air Force officer Gerry Hughes – sailor, first single-handed crossing of the Atlantic by a deaf person. Natalya Kaspersky – co-founder and co-owner of Kaspersky Lab Paul Marsden – writer, businessman and former Labour/Liberal Democrat MP. Ian Rankin – Scottish writer Ken Robinson – educationalist Gwyn Singleton - dyslexia educationalist Mary Stuart – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lincoln Peter Ventress, Non-executive Chairman of Galliford Try Natalie Wood, The Apprentice contestant Honorary graduates Sir David Attenborough – British broadcaster and naturalist (honorary graduate) Tim Berners-Lee – engineer, computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web; recipient of OU honorary doctorate Gordon Brown – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (honorary doctorate) Brian Cox – physicist (honorary doctorate) Richard Dawkins – British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (honorary doctorate) Edward Heath – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975 (honorary doctorate) Terry Pratchett – English fantasy author (honorary doctorate) Staff Katharine Ellis, music historian John Fauvel, historian of mathematics Derek S. Pugh, Professor Emeritus for International Management Robin Wilson, mathematician References Open University Alumni