List of University of Nottingham people

A list of people related to the University of Nottingham or to its predecessor, University College, Nottingham.

Office holders

Chancellors

• Lord Trent (1949 – 1954)
• The Duke of Portland (1954 – 1971)
• Sir Francis Hill (1971 – 1978)
• Sir Gordon Hobday (1978 – 1993)
• Lord Dearing of Kingston-upon-Hull (1993 – 2000)
• Professor Fujia Yang (from 2000)

Vice-Chancellors

• Bertrand Hallward (1948 – 1965)
• Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors (1965 – 1970)
• Lord Butterfield of Stechford (1971 – 1975)
• Professor Basil Weedon (1976 – 1988)
• Sir Colin Campbell (1988 - Sept 2008)
• Professor David Greenaway (from Sept 2008)

Notable alumni

Academia

• Stewart Adams - Inventor of Ibuprofen
• Professor Bob Boucher - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
• Professor Arthur Carty - National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
• Sir Bernard Crossland - President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• Professor Louis Essen - physicist
• Charles Bungay Fawcett, Geographer
• Sir Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics
• Gerald Hawkins - Professor of astronomy, noted for his interest in Stonehenge
• Sir Brian Heap - Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and former Vice-President of the Royal Society
• Professor Reginald Hugh Hickling - Lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author
• John Pilkington Hudson - the university's first professor of horticulture
• Rev Dr Riad Kassis - Lebanese/Syrian theologian specializing in the Old Testament
• Professor James Kinsley - a professor of linguistics who was called as an expert witness in a case about the use of the word 'bollocks' in the Sex Pistols' album title 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'
• Lord Lewis of Newnham - chemist
• Scot McKnight - Professor of Religious Studies at North Park University, recognized for his scholarship on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus
• Sir Keith O'Nions - geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils
• Professor Deepak Pental- Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi,India
• Professor Austin Quigley - Dean, Columbia College
• Roger Tomlinson - "Father of GIS"
• Graham Twelftree - Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Regent University School of Divinity, renowned for his contribution to the Third Quest for the Historical Jesus and his extensive work on miracles in the New Testament
• Professor Ian Wilmut - embryologist who managed the team who cloned Dolly the sheep
• Professor B.A.Chopade-Director ,Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, University of Pune

Arts and media

• Matthew Bannister - BBC broadcaster and administrator
• Olav Bjortomt - quiz setter for The Times and notable contestant
• Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale University repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
• Chris Choi - ITV News journalist
• Michael Coren - author and broadcaster
• Ian Dickson - judge of Australian Idol
• Graham Fitkin - composer
• Daniel Gerroll - actor
• Ramsay Gilderdale - actor
• Elliott Gotkine - BBC South America correspondent
• Haydn Gwynne - actress
• Chris Hawkins - radio personality
• Oliver James - Psychologist and TV presenter
• Theo James - actor
• Colin Matthews - composer
• James Moir - former controller of BBC Radio 2
• Richard Northedge - business journalist
• Charlie Parrish - Features Editor, Loaded magazine
• Jeff Randall - Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and Sky television presenter
• James Robinson - The Observer media correspondent
• Katie Rowley Jones - actress
• Tracie - pop singer
• Ruth Wilson - actress
• Helen Willetts - BBC weather presenter
• Jessica Stockdale - Artist/Musician/Gourmet Chef

Business

• Zoe Beresford - Territory Manager, AMG Group; candidate on The Apprentice series seven
• Jonathan Browning - Chairman, Vauxhall Motors
• Michael Carpenter - Chairman & CEO, Citigroup Global Investments
• John Coomber - CEO, Swiss Re
• Kuok Khoon Ean - Chairman, South China Morning Post
• Anne Gunther - CEO, Standard Life
• Keith Hamill - Chairman, Moss Bros, Go Airline, Collins Stewart and Luminar
• Sir Michael Hodgkinson - Chairman, Post Office Ltd; former CEO, BAA Plc
• Baron Hollick - former owner of United News
• Roger Liddell, CEO, LCH.Clearnet
• Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
• Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons
• Oliver Pawle - Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank
• Sir Robert Phillis - Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
• Peter Rice - President, Fox Searchlight Pictures
• John Timpson - Chairman, Timpson
• Andrew Witty - CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
• John Rishton - CEO, Royal Ahold and Rolls-Royce
• Steve Holliday - CEO, National Grid
• Michael Queen - CEO, 3i
• Kweku Adoboli - UBS trader, UBS

International politics and royalty

• Peter Ala Adjetey - Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana between 2001 and 2005.
• Zainab Bangura - Sierra Leone Foreign Minister, Human rights campaigner, former Presidential Candidate
• Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - Prime Minister of Malaysia 2009-present
• His Majesty Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar - Tenth King of Malaysia, Yang Dipertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
• His Majesty Sultan Raja Azlan Shah - Ninth King of Malaysia, current Sultan of Perak
• Tengku Tan Sri Ahmad Rithaudden - former Minister of Defence of Malaysia and current chairman of the Malaysian campus
• Tuanku Bahiyah - fifth Sultanah (Queen) of Malaysia
• Tun Dato Seri Dr. Haji Hamdan Bin Sheik Tahir - Former Governor of Penang, Malaysia
• Tunku Tan-Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Jaafar - Former Malaysian ambassador and Sultan of Negeri Sembilan
• Zara Salim Davidson - wife of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak and grandniece of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
• Judith McHale - US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
• Lateefa Al Gaood - First female Member of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain

UK Politicians

• Andrew Bridgen MP - Conservative
• Jeremy Browne MP - Liberal Democrat, Minister of State at the Foreign Office
• Neil Carmichael MP - Conservative
• Michael Dugher MP, Labour, PPS
• John Henry Hayes MP - Conservative, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning
• Jimmy Hood MP - Labour
• Kelvin Hopkins MP - Labour
• Tony Lloyd MP - Labour, former Minister of State at the Foreign Office
• Stephen Mosley MP - Conservative
• Meg Munn MP - Labour, former Minister for Women and Equality
• John Pugh MP - Liberal Democrat
• Angela Smith MP - Labour

Other

• Bob Allcock, Solicitor General, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
• Lord Best of Godmanstone - Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Andrew Colquhoun - Director-General, The Royal Horticultural Society
• Frank Halford - aircraft engine designer
• Sir Anthony Holland - Chairman of Northern Ireland Parades Commission
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Lord Hope of Thornes - former Lord Archbishop of York
• The Rt Hon. Sylvia, Baroness Jay of Ewelme - Director-General, Food and Drink Federation
• Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson - pilot, Second World War flying ace
• Mary Marsh - Director of the NSPCC
• Alexander McLean - Founder and Director of African Prisons Project
• John Monks - former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
• Dame Helen Reeves - Chief Executive of Victim Support
• Sir John Sawers - Former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and current Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
• Sir Nigel Sweeney - High Court Judge
• Sir Richard Tilt - Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service
• Sir Mike Tomlinson - Chief Inspector of Schools
• Greville Wynne - British spy, imprisoned by the KGB
• Dr Amanda Horton-Mastin - Director of Innovation at Comic Relief
• Kweku Adoboli

Sport

• Tim Brabants - Olympic canoeist
• Melissa-Jane Daniel - 5 World Records in archery
• Kristan Bromley - Bob Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
• Sir Denis Follows - General Secretary, The Football Association and Chairman, British Olympic Association
• Jon McCarthy - Former York City, Port Vale, Birmingham City, and Northern Ireland footballer
• Brian Moore - England rugby union representative footballer and commentator
• Deryck Murray - Former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicketkeeper
• Lynn Simpson - Former World Individual and World Series Canoe Slalom Champion
• Deng Yaping - four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
• Campbell Walsh - Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom(K1)Olympic Silver medalist, and Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004
• Keith Wyness - Former Chief Executive, Everton FC
• Matt Smith - Leicester Tigers rugby player
• David Florence Beijing 2008 Canoe Slalom(C1)Olympic Silver medalist

Writers

• Meena Alexander - writer and poet
• Christopher Bigsby - novelist and literary critic
• Peter Boardman - mountaineer and writer
• Michael Bracewell - novelist
• Idris Davies - poet
• D.H. Lawrence - novelist
• Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal - novelist
• John Harvey (author) - crime writer
• Michael Hirst - screenwriter, Elizabeth
• Alan Jones (priest), author and Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
• Bert Keizer - author of Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
• Stanley Middleton - novelist, winner of the Booker Prize
• Blake Morrison - novelist, poet, critic and journalist
• Michael Scammell - biographer, translator, Professor of Writing at Columbia University

Notable academics

• Sir John Ambrose Fleming - Pioneer of Electronics
• William Askew - Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
• Viacheslav Belavkin - mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
• George Carey - Archbishop of Canterbury
• Professor Bryan Campbell Clarke FRS - Pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails.
• Hugh Gaitskell - Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition 1955-1963
• Andre Geim - Nobel prize winning physicist
• Clive Granger - Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist
• Don Grierson - geneticist
• George Garfield Hall - mathematician
• Susan Howson - first female winner of the Adams Prize (for mathematics)
• Luce Irigaray
• Sir Ian Kershaw - historian
• Sir Michael Lyons - Chairman, BBC Trust
• Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Laureate physicist
• Tom Paulin - poet and literary critic
• Ivy Pinchbeck - economic historian
• Martyn Poliakoff - chemist
• Sir John Cyril Smith - law
• Vivian de Sola Pinto - poet and literary critic
• Lewis Thorpe - translator of Medieval works and Professor of French
• Richard G. Wilkinson - public health
• Professor Xu Zhihong - President Peking University
• David Greenaway (Economist) - Economist and Vice Chancellor 2008-
• Vernon White - formerly special lecturer in theology, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester