Deborah Bull

The Baroness Bull
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
11 July 2018
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1963-03-22) 22 March 1963 (age 61)
Derby, England
Political partyCrossbench
EducationRoyal Ballet School
Occupation
  • Ballet dancer
  • writer
  • broadcaster
  • creative director

Deborah Clare Bull, Baroness Bull, CBE (born 22 March 1963), is an English dancer, writer, and broadcaster and former creative director of the Royal Opera House. She joined King's College London as Director, Cultural Partnerships in 2012. In 2015 she was appointed as the university's Assistant Principal (London), in 2018 was named Vice President & Vice-Principal (London) and in 2021 named Vice Principal (Communities & National Engagement) until her departure in July 2022.

Born in Derby, and brought up in Kent and Lincolnshire, she studied dance from the age of seven, first locally, and then at the Royal Ballet School. Whilst at the school she won the 1980 Prix de Lausanne, the prestigious international ballet competition.