Patrick Wintour

ABOUT PATRICK WINTOUR

Well-respected British journalist who rose through the ranks to become a political and diplomatic editor for The Guardian. He has also had multiple stints as the newspaper's chief political correspondent.

He studied at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford.

He was named Political Journalist of the Year at the 2007 British Press Awards.

His father Charles was a newspaper editor and his mother's name is Eleanor. He married journalist Rachel Sylvester in 2002. They have two children and he has two other kids from a previous marriage. His sister is Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour .

Owen Jones and Paul Johnson are other prominent journalists who were born in the United Kingdom.