List of University of Leeds people

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This list of University of Leeds people is a selected list of notable past staff and students of the University of Leeds.

Students[]

Politics[]

Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia

Media[]

Andy Kershaw, journalist and radio D.J.

Arts[]

Mark Knopfler, musician

Music[]

  • The members of Alt-J met at the university (Fine Art; English Literature, 2007)[14]
  • David Gedge, guitarist, songwriter and vocalist in The Wedding Present, Cinerama (band) (Mathematics, 1981)[15]
  • Alex Glasgow, singer/songwriter (German)
  • Mark Knopfler, rock musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter (English, 1973)[15]
  • Little Boots, born Victoria Hesketh, electronica musician[16]
  • Corinne Bailey Rae, soul singer (English Literature, 2000)[15]
  • Simon Rix, bass player for Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs (Maths and Geography, 2000)[15]
  • Sigma (DJs), English drum and bass duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie
  • Kyle Simmons, member of Bastille
  • Dan Smith, member of Bastille[15]
  • Estelle White, composer
  • Katie White, singer and guitarist of The Ting Tings[17]
  • Joanne Yeoh, Malaysian violinist (Music, 1999)[18]

Theatre and Film[]

  • Shona Auerbach, award-winning director/cinematographer of Dear Frankie
  • Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Textile Management, did not graduate due to family reason)
  • Emma Mackey, French-British actress
  • Alistair McGowan, actor, comedian and impressionist (English, 1986)[10]
  • Kay Mellor, television actress and scriptwriter (attended Bretton Hall, 1983)
  • Hannah New, English model and actress
  • Kate Phillips, English actress
  • Ronald Pickup, English actor (English 1962)
  • Chris Pine, American Hollywood actor, studied as a year abroad student during his junior year (English)[10]
  • Laura Rollins, English actress, studied English and Theatre[19]
  • Siddhanth, Indian Kannada actor, (studied M.H.A.)[20]

Literary[]

  • Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher (English and French, 1979)
  • Nick Brownlee, crime thriller writer
  • Jonathan Clements, writer (Japanese, 1994)
  • Tony Harrison, poet (Classics with Linguistics, 1958)[13]
  • Storm Jameson, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914)[21]
  • Lucy Diamond, pen name of Sue Mongredien, children's author (English 1993)
  • Arthur Ransome, writer,[21] studied science for two terms in 1901
  • Herbert Read, poet and literary critic (English)[21]
  • Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 (English, 1957)[13]
  • Greg Stekelman, writer and illustrator, author of A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep (English and Spanish, 1998)
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author (English student, 1960s)[22]

Other[]

  • Paul Crowther, philosopher, university lecturer and author
  • Jeremy Dyson, screenwriter and member of The League of Gentlemen (Philosophy, 1989)[13]
  • Jacky Fleming, award-winning cartoonist
  • Barry John, theatre director and teacher

Science and technology[]

Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut
  • Lilias Armstrong, phonetician (B.A., 1906)[23]
  • Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist (Botany, 1973)
  • Robert Blackburn, aviation pioneer and founder of Blackburn Aircraft[21] (Engineering, 1906)
  • Emily Cummins, Technology Woman of the Future 2006, British Female Innovator Of the Year 2007
  • Val Curtis, professor in public health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Rubina Gillani, Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist
  • Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold and the Construction Industry Council (Civil Engineering, 1957)[21]
  • Sir Percival Hartley (1905) Director of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research
  • D. G. Hessayon, gardening author (Botany, 1950)[13]
  • V. Craig Jordan, responsible for pioneering research into breast cancer and the development of the cancer drug tamoxifen (BSc and Ph.D. in pharmacology, 1969 and 1972)[24]
  • Esther Killick, physiologist (MB ChB 1929, MSc 1937, DSc 1952)
  • Michael Lawrie, computer security and social networking expert (Computational Science, 1989)
  • Michael Martin, bridge engineer (Civil Engineering, 1975)[25]
  • Sir Timothy O'Shea, computer scientist and Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
  • George Porter, chemist, Nobel Prize winner and President of the Royal Society (Chemistry, 1941)
  • Anya Reading, geophysics lecturer at the University of Tasmania (PhD Geophysics 1997)
  • Malcolm Richardson, mycologist
  • Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut (Biometeorology, 1981)
  • Margot Shiner, gastroenterologist (Medicine, 1947)
  • Karen Steel, geneticist, Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • James Francis Tait, Endocrinologist and discoverer of aldosterone. (Physics 1945)
  • Hassan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford
  • Jennifer Wilby, Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
  • Anne Young (nurse), founder of the first Irish school of general nursing
  • Robert Zachary, paediatric surgeon
  • Niaz Ahmad Akhtar, Vice Chancellor of the University of the Punjab

Other[]

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali, translator of the Quran
  • Michael Asher, desert explorer and author (English 1977)[13]
  • Alistair Brownlee, Olympian and ITU Triathlon World Champion (Physiology and Sport 2009)[26]
  • Daniel Byles, Guinness World Record-holding ocean rower and polar explorer (Economics and Management Studies 1996)
  • Nancy Cruickshank, British entrepreneur in beauty, fashion, and technology[27]
  • Abdul Haque Faridi, Bangladeshi academic
  • Kat Fletcher, president of the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom, 2004-2006 (Sociology)
  • Bagrat Galstanyan, Armenian theologian and cleric, primate of the Diocese of Tavush
  • Andrew Harrison (born 1970), CEO of Carphone Warehouse[28]
  • Sir Peter Hendy, Chairman, Network Rail (Economics & Geography, 1975)[29]
  • Richard Hoggart, sociologist and author of The Uses of Literacy (English, 1939)[21]
  • Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs (Gender Studies)[30]
  • Simon Lee, businessman, Chief Executive of RSA Insurance Group (English and French)
  • Nicola Mendelsohn, British advertising executive (English and Theatre Studies, 1992)[29]
  • Abdullah O. Nasseef, Saudi geologist, chemist and politician
  • W. H. New, Professor of English Literature at The University of British Columbia, Officer of the Order of Canada
  • Tom Palmer, Rugby Union player
  • David Parry, dialectologist who founded the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects
  • Ivor Porter, ambassador and author of Operation Autonomous and King Michael (English, 1936)
  • Richard Profit, polar explorer (Biology and Management Studies 1996)
  • Subir Raha, Indian business leader (MBA 1985)
  • Ken Robinson, educationalist (English and drama, 1972)
  • Sir Christopher Rose, former head of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division (LL.B., 1957)[31]
  • Jacob Rowan, former captain for the England U20 Rugby Union Team and current player for Gloucester Rugby[26]
  • Harold Shipman, general practitioner and convicted serial killer (Medicine, 1970)
  • Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian serial rapist and most prolific rapist in British legal history (Human geography)[32]
  • George Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's School, London (English and History)
  • Brigadier Mike Stone, Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Defence
  • Marilyn Stowe, divorce lawyer and the first Chief Assessor and Chief Examiner of the Law Society's Family Law Panel (Law, 1970s)
  • Cec Thompson, rugby league player and co-founder of Student Rugby League
  • Paul Watson, Pohnpei State football team coach (Italian, 2005)

Staff[]

Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist

The following people have been members of staff at the university:

  • Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929)[21]
  • William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Lecturer/Reader in Textile Physics, 1928-1946, Professor of Biomolecular Physics, 1946–61)[21]
  • Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
  • Maurice Beresford, economic historian, Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985)
  • Regina Lee Blaszczyk, professor of business history and leadership chair in the history of business and society
  • Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1909-1915)[21]
  • Asa Briggs, historian
  • Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University Librarian, 1997-2000)
  • Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Anthony Carrigan (lecturer in postcolonial literature and cultures, 2013–16)
  • Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University
  • Pit Corder, professor and applied linguist (1961-1964)
  • David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1985)[21]
  • Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor
  • Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980)
  • Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981)
  • Jane Ingham, botanist (Research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley, 1920-1930)
  • Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist
  • Benedikt Isserlin, semitist and ancient historian
  • Catherine Karkov, art historian
  • Susanne Karstedt, criminologist[33]
  • Percy Fry Kendall, award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22)
  • Ursula King, scholar of religion and gender
  • G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English)
  • Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970)[21]
  • Irene Manton, botanist and cell biologist (Professor of Biology, 1946-1969)
  • David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979)
  • Duncan McCargo, Professor of Political Science (twice Head of School of Politics and International Studies), 1993-2020
  • John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology
  • Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician[34]
  • Ralph Miliband, political theorist (Professor and Head of Politics department, 1972-1978)[21]
  • David Macey, Intellectual historian
  • Fred Orton, art historian
  • Joseph Hubert Priestley, botanist (Professor of Botany, 1911-1944)[35]
  • Sheena Radford, Astbury Professor of Biophysics
  • Leonard James Rogers, mathematician (Mathematics 1889-1919)
  • James Scott, chair of obstetrics and gynaecology 1961–89
  • Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner
  • J. I. M. Stewart, writer, often under the pen name Michael Innes (English, 1930-1935)
  • E. P. Thompson, historian (Extramural, 1948-1965)[21]
  • J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (English, 1920-1925)[21]
  • Stephen Turnbull, military historian
  • Philip Wilby, composer, School of Music until 2006
  • Fiona Williams, Professor of Social Policy from 1996 to 2012
  • Ian N. Wood, historian of the Middle Ages
  • Verna Wright, Professor of Rheumatology

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