List of University of Nottingham people

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

Office holders[]

Chancellors[]

Vice-Chancellors[]

Notable alumni[]

Academia[]

  • 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, Presybterian 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

Arts and media[]

London Grammar
Theo James

Business[]

Government and politics[]

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[]

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, current 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 Sultanah (Queen) of Malaysia
  • Iman Afzan – Daughter of the 16th King of Malaysia

Government[]

Najib Razak- Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

Military[]

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

Natural sciences, engineering and medicine[]

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[]

Religion[]

  • 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[]

Sport[]

Tim Brabants

Writers and literature[]

  • 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
D.H. Lawrence
  • 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[]

Andre Geim – Nobel Prize–winning physicist
Sir Clive Granger, economist awarded the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Sir Ian Kershaw, historian
  • 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
  • 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–)
  • 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.[8]
  • 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

References[]

  1. ^ "News - University of Nottingham Appoints New Chancellor, Baroness Young of Hornsey OBE - University of Nottingham".
  2. ^ Manuscripts and Special Collections. "Benefactors of University College". Nottingham.ac.uk. University of Nottingham.
  3. ^ "Election 2012: Akierra Missick". Radio Turks and Caicos 107 FM. 11 August 2012. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  4. ^ "PNP Cabinet Sworn, PDM Challenges 4 District Results". Turks & Caicos Free Press. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  5. ^ David Mercer
  6. ^ Wright, Don (2015). Forever Forest: The Official 150th Anniversary History of the Original Reds. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445635170.
  7. ^ Lynn Simpson
  8. ^ "Monica Partridge". University of London. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
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