• Source: 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

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John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent (1949 - 1954)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1954 - 1971)
Sir Francis Hill (1971 - 1978)
Sir Gordon Hobday (1978 - 1993)
Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing (1993 - 2000)
Fujia Yang (2000 - 2012)
Sir Andrew Witty (2013–2017)
Baroness Young of Hornsey (2020–present)




= Vice-Chancellors

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Bertrand Hallward (1948 - 1965)
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton (1965 - 1970)
John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1971 - 1975)
Basil Weedon (1976 - 1988)
Sir Colin Campbell (1988 - 2008)
Sir David Greenaway (2008 - September 2017)
Shearer West (October 2017 – present)




Notable alumni






= Academia

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Bob Boucher – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
Arthur Carty – National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
Sir Bernard Crossland – President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
Paul Dibb – Australian defence intelligence official and Head of the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Louis Essen – physicist
Charles Bungay Fawcett – geographer
Pamela Gillies – Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University
Sir Clive Granger – 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics
Gerald Hawkins – Professor of Astronomy, noted for his interest in Stonehenge
Harriet Hawkins – Professor of Human Geography, noted in the field of geohumanities
Nigel Healey – Vice-Chancellor of Fiji National University
Sir Brian Heap – Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and former Vice-President of the Royal Society
Reginald Hugh Hickling – lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author
John Pilkington Hudson – the university's first Professor of Horticulture
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham – chemist
Scot McKnight – Professor of Religious Studies at North Park University, recognised for his scholarship on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus
Victor Mundella — Physicist; Professor of Physics, Northern Polytechnic Institute; Principal of Sunderland Technical College
Sir Keith O'Nions – geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils
Brian Norton – solar energy technologist, President, Dublin Institute of Technology
Austin Quigley – Dean, Columbia College
Nigel Shadbolt – Principal of Jesus College, Oxford and Chairman of the Open Data Institute
Roger Tomlinson – "father of GIS"
Carl Trueman – author, Presbyterian theologian, and Professor of Historical Theology and Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary.
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
Matthew P. Walker – Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science
Silke Weinfurtner – Physicist and quantum gravity researcher




= Arts and media

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Sue Arrowsmith - artist
Matthew Bannister – BBC broadcaster and administrator
Olav Bjortomt – quiz setter for The Times and notable contestant
Robert Brustein – Harvard English professor, founder of Yale University repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
Don Broco - British rock group
Liz Carr – comedian and disabled rights activist
Michael Coren – author and broadcaster
Ian Dickson – judge of Australian Idol
Mike Dilger – nature presenter on The One Show
Elliott Gotkine – BBC South America correspondent
Haydn Gwynne – actress
London Grammar - British pop group
Chris Hawkins – radio personality
Oliver James – psychologist and TV presenter
Theo James – actor
Colin Matthews – composer
David Matthews – composer
James Moir – former controller of BBC Radio 2
Jeff Randall – Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and Sky television presenter
Katie Rowley Jones – actress
Frances Ryan – journalist and author
Clive Tyldesley – lead football commentator for ITV
Ruth Wilson – actress
Helen Willetts – BBC weather presenter
Tracie Young – pop singer
Natalie Pinkham - Sky Sports F1 presenter
Zoe Beresford - Contestant on series 7 of The Apprentice UK




= Business

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Jonathan Browning – Chairman, Vauxhall Motors
Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny - founder OpenX Innovations
Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick – former owner of United News
Steve Holliday – CEO, National Grid plc
Tim Martin – Chairman of Wetherspoons
Judith McHale – President and CEO, Discovery Communications
Kike Oniwinde – founder of BYP Network
Sir Robert Phillis – Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
William Henry Revis - a lace and hosiery manufacturer and major benefactor of Nottingham University College.
John Rishton – CEO, Royal Ahold and Rolls-Royce
John Timpson – Chairman, Timpson
Andrew Witty – CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
Robin Vince – President and CEO, BNY Mellon




= Government and politics

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United Kingdom

Tim Aker MEP - UK Independence Party
Andrew Bridgen MP – Conservative
Jeremy Browne MP – Liberal Democrat, Minister of State at the Foreign Office
Neil Carmichael MP – Conservative
David Drew MP - Labour
Michael Dugher MP, Labour, PPS
Parmjit Dhanda - Former Labour MP
Tom Ellis - Former Labour MP, before defecting to Social Democratic Party
Charlie Elphicke MP – Conservative
John Henry Hayes MP – Conservative, Minister of State for Transport
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
Merlyn Rees - Former Labour MP and Home secretary
Angela Smith MP – Labour
Antoinette Sandbach MP - Conservative
Dari Taylor - Former Labour MP
Paddy Tipping - former Labour MP
Nadia Whittome - Labour MP



International politics

Peter Ala Adjetey – Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana between 2001 and 2005
Isaac Kobina Abban – 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
Philip Edward Archer – 8th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
Zainab Bangura – Sierra Leone Foreign Minister, human rights campaigner, former Presidential Candidate
Lateefa Al Gaood – first female Member of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain
Abdoulie Janneh - former United Nations Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Alpha Kanu - Sierra Leonean politician and the current Sierra Leone minister of Presidential and Public Affairs.
Leon Lillie - US member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Judith McHale – US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Tun Dato Seri 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
Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen Ismail – former Malaysian Minister of Defense, former Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mikhail Svetov – Russian politician, one of the main ideologists and popularizers of libertarianism in Russia
Riza Yunos – Bruneian politician, Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Office.



Royalty

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, 34th Sultan of Perak
Zara Salim Davidson – wife of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak and grandniece of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tuanku Bahiyah – fifth Raja Permaisuri Agong (Queen) of Malaysia
Iman Afzan – Daughter of the 16th King of Malaysia



Government

Akierra Missick – Deputy Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Sir John Sawers – former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations who later went on before retiring to become Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Sir Richard Tilt – Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service
Sir Mike Tomlinson – Chief Inspector of Schools




= Military

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Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson – pilot, Second World War flying ace




= Natural sciences, engineering and medicine

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Engineering

Reginald Coates - civil engineer and former President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Frank Halford – aircraft engine designer
Peter Hansford – civil engineer and (from November 2012) UK government's chief construction adviser
Onyeche Tifase - electrical engineer and MD/CEO of Siemens Nigeria



Natural sciences

Michael Creeth - Biochemist who confirmed the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA
David Dolphin - Chemist and lead creator of Visudyne
Anil Kakodkar - Nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer
Ian Wilmut – embryologist who managed the team who cloned Dolly the sheep



Medicine

Qanta Ahmed - British-American physician specializing in sleep disorders, and author, women's rights activist, journalist, and public commentator.
Monica Lakhanpaul - medical doctor, public health expert, and academic




= Religion

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David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes – former Lord Archbishop of York
Alan Jones - former Dean of the Episcopal Grace Cathedral in San Francisco
Henry Luke Orombi - former Archbishop of the church of Uganda




= Other

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Kweku Adoboli - former UBS employee known for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal
Richard Best, Baron Best – Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Sue Biggs CBE - Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society
Mary Marsh – Director of the NSPCC
John Monks – former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Adam Powell – game designer and co-founder of Neopets
Donna Powell – game designer and co-founder of Neopets
Dame Helen Reeves – Chief Executive of Victim Support
Kemebradikumo Pondei – acting managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission
David Sharp - mountaineer
Sir Nigel Sweeney – High Court Judge
Greville Wynne – British spy, imprisoned by the KGB
Levison Wood - Explorer




= Sport

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Tim Baillie – London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic gold medallist
Chris Bartley – London 2012 Men's Four Rowing Olympic silver medallist
Tim Brabants – three-time Olympic medallist in canoeing
Kristan Bromley – Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
Eva Carneiro – British Physician, Chelsea FC Team Doctor (2009-2015)
Melissa-Jane Daniel – 5 world records in archery
David Florence – Beijing 2008 Canoe Slalom(C1) and London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic Silver medallist
Sir Denis Follows – General Secretary, The Football Association; Chairman, British Olympic Association
David Mercer – sports broadcaster
Brian Moore – England rugby union representative footballer and commentator
Deryck Murray – former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicket-keeper
William Henry Revis – scored the first goal for the Nottingham Reds, the UK's oldest football league team.
Lynn Simpson – former World Individual and World Series Canoe Slalom Champion
Matt Smith – Leicester Tigers rugby player
Etienne Stott – London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic gold medallist
Campbell Walsh – Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom (K1) Olympic silver medallist; Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004
Keith Wyness – former Chief Executive, Everton FC
Deng Yaping – four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
Michael Gill – professional cyclist riding for UCI Continental team Saint Piran
Rob Carmichael – tallest professional rugby union player in the world, playing for Edinburgh Rugby




= Writers and literature

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Meena Alexander – writer and poet
Christopher Bigsby – novelist and literary critic
Peter Boardman – mountaineer and writer
Michael Bracewell – novelist
Idris Davies – poet
Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal – novelist
Jonathan Emmett – children's author
John Harvey – crime writer
Michael Hirst – screenwriter, Elizabeth
Alan Jones – author and Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Bert Keizer – author of Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
D.H. Lawrence – novelist
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
Rajesh Talwar - Indian writer




Notable academics



Gwen Alston - aerodynamicist and educationalist
Viacheslav Belavkin – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
Wilfrid Butt – biochemist and endocrinologist
Kenneth Cameron - toponymist of English place-names
George Carey – Archbishop of Canterbury
George Checkley – modernist architect
Bryan Campbell Clarke – pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails
Stephen Daniels – cultural geographer
Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone - first Lady Trent professor of chemical engineering
Esther Eidinow – ancient historian
Ivan Fesenko – mathematician
Sir John Ambrose Fleming – pioneer of electronics
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
David Greenaway – economist and Vice Chancellor (2008–2017)
Don Grierson – geneticist
George Garfield Hall – mathematician
F. B. Hinsley - founder of the School of Mining Engineering
Susan Howson – first female winner of the Adams Prize (for mathematics)
Robin Lyth Hudson – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
Luce Irigaray
Sir Ian Kershaw – historian, one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich
Graham Kendall - Professor of Computer Science and the Provost and CEO of University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Sir Michael Lyons – Chairman, BBC Trust
Sir Peter Mansfield – physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
David H.H. Metcalfe – President, Royal College of General Practitioners
Tom Paulin – poet and literary critic
Monica Partridge - first woman Prof at Nottingham University.
Ivy Pinchbeck - economic historian
Lewis Thorpe – translator of Medieval works; Professor of French
Sir Martyn Poliakoff – chemist
Prof. John Rich - emeritus professor in the department of Classics
Sir John Cyril Smith – lawyer
Vivian de Sola Pinto – poet and literary critic
W. J. H. Sprott – Professor of Philosophy
John Webster – mycologist
Vernon White – formerly special lecturer in theology, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
Richard G. Wilkinson – public health
Robert Wood - special professor 1998-2005, psychologist and writer
Xu Zhihong – President, Peking University




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