List of University of Bristol people

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This is a list of University of Bristol people, including a brief description of their notability. This list includes not just former students but persons who are or have been associated with the university, including former academics, Chancellors, and recipients of honorary degrees.

Staff and academics[]

  • Mike Ashfold FRS, FRSC, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
  • Sir Michael Berry, physicist and Royal Society Research Professor[1]
  • Michael Benton FRS, FRSE, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology
  • Robert Bickers, Professor of History
  • Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Dave Cliff, computer scientist
  • Beryl May Dent, mathematical physicist
  • Philip Donoghue FRS, Professor of Palaeobiology
  • Esther Eidinow, Professor of Ancient History
  • Tim Elliott FRS, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry
  • Peter Flach, computer scientist
  • Mike Fraser, Professor of Human-computer interaction
  • Jean Golding OBE, FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
  • Christopher Hawkesworth FRS, FRSE, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry
  • Mark Horton, Senior Teaching Fellow, British maritime and historical archaeologist
  • Ronald Hutton, historian
  • Richard Huxtable, Professor of Medical Ethics and Law[2]
  • Katharine Cashman FRS, Professor of Volcanology
  • Ursula King, Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies
  • Martin Kuball, Professor of Physics, Director of Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability
  • David May, Professor of Computer Science
  • Jeremy O'Brien, physicist
  • Sandu Popescu, Professor of Physics
  • John Rarity FRS, Professor of Optical Communication Systems
  • Nigel Smart, cryptographer
  • Samir Okasha, philosopher

Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors[]

Alumni[]

Government and politics[]

United Kingdom[]

Jonathan Evans, former Head of MI5
Theresa Villiers, Conservative MP

International[]

The Law[]

Academia[]

  • Percy Anstey, economist
  • Janette Atkinson, psychologist and academic
  • A.G.E. Blake, philosophical writer and academic
  • Dame Glynis Breakwell, psychologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath
  • Linda Colley, British historian, currently at Princeton University
  • Adrian Franklin, Professor of Sociology, University of Tasmania
  • Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent
  • Elaine Graham, Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology, University of Manchester
  • Brian Hayden, Professor of Physical Chemistry within Chemistry at the University of Southampton
  • Irving Hexham, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary
  • Syed Hamid Hussain, Professor of Chemistry at Bacha Khan University
  • Bill MacMillan, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia
  • Michael McClelland, Professor of Microbiology and Genetics at the University of California, Irvine
  • Stephen McKay, academic and Professor of Social Research at the University of Lincoln
  • John Metcalf, editor of Canadian Notes and Queries
  • David Miller, Professor of Political Sociology
  • Nancy Millis, Chancellor of La Trobe University, Australia
  • Eliahu Nissim (born 1933), Israeli Professor of Aeronautical Engineering; President of the Open University of Israel
  • Charles Wang Wai Ng, civil engineer and academic, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • David William Rhind, Vice-Chancellor of City University, London[18]
  • Brian Rotman, author (with G. T. Kneebone) of Theory of Sets and Transfinite Numbers
  • George Stanley Rushbrooke, Theoretical physicist
  • Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University
  • Alastair Summerlee, President of the University of Guelph, Canada
  • Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College; formerly Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline

Literature[]

Economics and business[]

Journalism[]

Will Hutton, columnist and newspaper editor
Alastair Stewart, TV journalist

Science[]

  • Tom Avery, explorer[40]
  • David Bohm, physicist[41]
  • Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief, Nature[42]
  • Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield, engineer[43]
  • Max Delbrück, Nobel laureate, Medicine[44]
  • Keith Devlin, logician
  • Paul Dirac, Nobel laureate, Physics[45]
  • Peter Dunn, paediatrician[46]
  • Klaus Fuchs, physicist; Soviet spy[47]
  • Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger[48]
  • Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel laureate, Chemistry[49]
  • Kun Huang, physicist[50]
  • Judith Kingston, paediatrician[51]
  • Rob Leslie-Carter, engineer
  • Chris MacMahon, mechanical engineer
  • Nevill Mott, Nobel laureate, Physics[52]
  • Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London
  • Cecil Frank Powell, Nobel laureate, Physics[53]
  • Sir William Ramsay, Nobel laureate, Chemistry[54]
  • Debby Reynolds, Chief Veterinary Officer for the UK[55]
  • Dame Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the Met Office
  • Geoffrey Tovey, serologist who founded the UK Transplant service[56]

TV, film, radio and theatre[]

Marcus Brigstocke, comedian and satirist
Derren Brown, illusionist
Simon Pegg, actor and writer
David Walliams, comedian

Sports[]

Music[]

Musician James Blunt
  • James Blunt, musician, singer-songwriter[73]
  • Hugh Cornwell, lead singer of The Stranglers
  • Julian Grant, classical music composer
  • Jamie Lidell, musician and soul singer, signed to Warp Records[74]
  • Will Todd, classical and jazz composer; jazz pianist
  • Harriet Wheeler, musician, singer for The Sundays[75]
  • Jonathan Whitehead, film and television composer

Others[]

See also[]

  • Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol

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