List of University of Warwick people

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This is a list of University of Warwick people, including office holders, current and former academics and alumni of the University of Warwick, including a brief description of their notability.

Warwick has over 150,000 alumni[1] and an active alumni network.[2]

Former students[]

Academics[]

  • Janet Beer - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
  • Robert Calderbank - former Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke University and winner of the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the Claude E. Shannon Award
  • David Cardwell FREng - superconducting engineer and head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department
  • Colin Cooper - Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of East Anglia
  • John Fauvel - historian of mathematics at the Open University
  • Luciano Floridi - philosopher of information
  • Oliver Hart - economist and former Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2016
  • H.A. Hellyer - policy consultant and Senior Research Fellow for Muslims in Europe
  • Alan Hywel Jones - Principal Research Fellow and senior consultant at Sheffield Hallam University, materials scientist and inventor
  • Maris Martinsons - Professor of Management; international business consultant
  • Donna-Maria Maynard - Professor of Psychology at The University of the West Indies
  • Moeletsi Mbeki - Deputy Chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs; brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki
  • Patricia McFadden - Swazi author; Professor of Sociology; African radical feminist
  • Andy Newsam - Professor of Astronomy Education and Engagement at Liverpool John Moores University; Director of the National Schools Observatory; Physics and Computer Science 1991
  • Pippa Norris - political scientist and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Ian Stewart FRS - popular science author; Professor of Mathematics
  • Leslie Valiant FRS - British computer scientist and Turing Award winner
  • - An Expert In Salafiyyah

Art[]

Business[]

Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director of the World Bank

Cinema and theatre[]

  • Paul W. S. Anderson (Film and Literature) – film director
  • Adam Buxton (dropped out after two terms) – comedian and actor, best known as part of Adam and Joe
  • Dominic Cooke – artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre
  • Paul Darke (PhD in Film) - academic, artist and disability rights activist, creator of the ''normality drama' theory
  • Brett Goldstein (Film & Feminism) – actor and comedian
  • Vadim Jean (History) – film director
  • Alex Jennings (English and Theatre Studies 1978) – actor who has performed in many lead roles at the RSC
  • Ruth Jones (Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts 1988) – actress known as Myfanwy in Little Britain and Nessa in Gavin & Stacey
  • Lloyd Langford – comedian (film and television)
  • Stephen Merchant (Film and Literature 1996) – wrote, directed and acted in the British television series The Office and Extras, in such roles as the 'Oggmonster' and 'Darren Lamb' respectively.
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt (English) – actor, known from the award-winning comedy series Green Wing
  • Frank Skinner, then Chris Collins (MA in English Literature 1981) – comedian, actor, writer
  • Hannah Waterman – actress

Government and politics[]

David Davis
Lord Gus O'Donnell
Andy Haldane

History[]

Literature[]

Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler
  • Nicholas Blincoe – author
  • Simon Calder (Mathematics) – travel writer for The Independent
  • Jonathan Coe (English Literature) – novelist and writer
  • Sarah Crossan, Irish author.
  • Anne Fine (History '68) FRSL – children's author
  • James Franklin (Mathematics) – historian of ideas; philosopher
  • Sam Gillespie – philosopher and early translator and commentator of Alain Badiou, crucial to Badiou's initial reception in the English-speaking world
  • Mal Lewis Jones (English and American literature '70) – children's author
  • A.L. Kennedy (Theatre and Performance Studies) – author
  • Peter Linebaugh (History '75) – author of The Magna Carta Manifesto
  • Sally Nicholls (Philosophy and Literature '05) - children's and young adult author
  • Mal Peet – author, writer of popular young adult literature, Keeper, Tamar, others...
  • Robin Stevens, children's author
  • Chip Tsao (pen name: To Kit) (English Literature) – Hong Kong cultural and political commentator
  • Patrick M. Vollmer – House of Lords Librarian
  • Tony Wheeler (Engineering '68) – co-founder of Lonely Planet (LP) travel guides
  • Yilin Zhong (Cultural Studies '05) – journalist and author of 8 books, novel "Chinatown" released in 2011.

Law[]

  • Constance Briscoe – disgraced barrister convicted of perverting the course of justice[3]
  • Phil Shiner (LLM '85) – lawyer struck off for misconduct

Media[]

Camila Batmanghelidjh, charity executive
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh – charity executive
  • Jennie Bond (French and European Literature 1968) – former BBC Royal correspondent
  • Brian Deer (Philosophy) – The Sunday Times; Channel 4
  • Tom Dunmore (Film & Literature) – Editor In Chief, Stuff Magazine
  • George Eaton – political editor of the New Statesman
  • Giles Fletcher (Computer Science 1987) – glam rock artist
  • Janan Ganesh (Politics) – Financial Times journalist
  • Leona Graham (Drama) – radio presenter and VoiceOver artis
  • Merfyn Jones – Governor BBC and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor
  • James King (Film and Literature) – BBC Radio 1 film critic
  • Timmy Mallett (History 1977) – 1980s children's television presenter
  • Simon Mayo (History and Politics 1981) – broadcaster
  • Peter Salmon (European Literature 1977) – BBC television executive
  • Tim Vickery (History and Politics) – South American football correspondent for BBC Sport, ESPN and an analyst on SporTV's main morning programme, Redação SporTV.
  • Christian Wolmar (1971) – writer on transport and social issues
  • Dawn Foster (English 2009) - British journalist, broadcaster and author

Music[]

Sting
  • DJ Yoda (English and American Literature 1998) – Hip hop turntablist
  • Gareth Emery – DJ and founder of electronic label Garuda, rated world's no.14 DJ in 2012
  • Roxanne Emery – solo singer/songwriter artist, founder of LATE records
  • Adem Ilhan (studied Mathematics) – solo artist; member of Fridge
  • Kode9 (PhD in Philosophy) – dubstep producer, DJ and owner of the Hyperdub record label
  • Sting (left after one term) – lead singer of The Police and solo artist
  • Very Rev Robert Willis – Dean of Canterbury, composer of hymns

Sport[]

  • Kevin Blackwell (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
  • Aidy Boothroyd (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
  • Steve Heighway (Economics) – Liverpool F.C. footballer
  • Mark Hughes (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
  • Stuart Pearce MBE (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
  • [Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of BSoc] - man of little words
  • [Member of ISoc Treasury]

Notable faculty and staff[]

Notable current and former faculty and staff at Warwick include:

Biological sciences[]

  • Sir Howard Dalton FRS
  • Sir Brian Follett - also formerly Warwick University's Vice-Chancellor (1993-2001)

Chemistry[]

Classics and Ancient History[]

English[]

Germaine Greer
  • Susan Bassnett - translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature
  • Jonathan Bate
  • Andrew Davies - television screenwriter
  • Sir Michael Edwards OBE - first Briton to be voted into the Académie française[4]
  • Maureen Freely - writer, author and translator of works by Orhan Pamuk
  • K. W. Gransden - poet and critic; one of the founders of the English Department[5]
  • Germaine Greer - former Professor of English and Comparative Literature[5]
  • A L Kennedy
  • China Miéville - fiction writer
  • David Vann - creative writing professor

Engineering and computer science[]

Lord Bhattacharyya
  • Lord Bhattacharyya - founder and Director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group
  • Mike Cowlishaw - creator of the REXX programming language
  • Hugh Darwen - creator of Tutorial D database language
  • Mike Paterson FRS - former director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications
  • Kevin Warwick - cyborg researcher

History[]

  • David Arnold FBA - Indian historian
  • Sir John Elliott FBA - Spanish historian
  • Sir J.R. Hale - Renaissance historian and first Professor of History at Warwick University
  • E.P. Thompson - Marxist historian and founding member of the CND

Law[]

Mathematics and statistics[]

Christopher Zeeman
Fields Medallist Martin Hairer

Philosophy[]

Social sciences[]

  • Lady Margaret Archer - theorist in critical realism; former President of International Sociological Association; current president of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences[6]
  • Sir George Bain - former Chairman of the School of Industrial and Business Studies
  • Söhnke M. Bartram - Professor of Finance
  • James A. Beckford - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
  • Jim Bulpitt - Professor of Politics
  • Robin Cohen - honorary professor
  • Nicholas Crafts - professor of economics and economic history
  • Avinash Dixit - economist
  • Robert Fine - Professor Emeritus, theorist of cosmopolitanism
  • Steve Fuller - Professor of Sociology, theorist in science and technology studies
  • Wyn Grant - former Chair of the British Political Studies Association (2002-2005); President of the PSA (2005-2008) Political scientist with interest in comparative public policy
  • Peter J. Hammond - Professor of Economics
  • H. A. Hellyer - senior research Fellow; specialist on Muslims in Europe and West-Muslim world relations
  • Richard Higgott - Director of the Warwick Commission to the World Bank
  • Abhinay Muthoo - Professor of Economics and Dean of Warwick in London
  • Andrew Oswald - Professor of Economics
  • Tobias Preis - Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Finance
  • John Rex - Professor Emeritus
  • Sir Ken Robinson - Professor Emeritus of Education
  • Leonard Seabrooke - Professor of International Political Economy
  • Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky - Professor Emeritus of Political Economy
  • Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford FBA - former Chief Economist of the World Bank
  • Susan Strange - political economist and former chair of International Relations
  • Mark P. Taylor - Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of International Finance
  • John Williamson - English economist who coined the term Washington Consensus
  • Sarah D. Goode - Former lecturer in child health at Warwick Medical School
  • Richard Aldrich - Professor of International Security and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
  • Justin Greaves - Associate Professor
  • Trevor McCrisken - Associate Professor, US Politics and International Studies, Author

Other[]

  • The Coull String Quartet - quartet-in-residence since 1977
  • Koen Lamberts - psychologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of York
  • Mark Smith, - physicist, Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
  • Nigel Thrift - geographer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick
  • Colin Candy - Also known as "Disco Dave", Student Union resident DJ

Administration[]

Chancellors[]

Former Chancellor Richard Lambert
  • William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes - Chancellor-designate (died in December 1964 before taking office)
  • Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1965–1977)
  • Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (1977–1989)
  • Sir Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal (1989–2002)
  • Sir Nicholas Scheele (2003–2008)
  • Sir Richard Lambert (2008–2016)[7]
  • Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (2017–present)[8]

Vice-Chancellors[]

References[]

  1. ^ The Economist (PDF) http://www.economist.com/media/wmba/war.pdf. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ "University of Warwick Alumni & Friends". warwick.ac.uk.
  3. ^ "Constance Briscoe - 9-12 Bell Yard". 8 March 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013.
  4. ^ "France - British poet anointed to guard French language". France 24. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  5. ^ a b Williams, Annabel (October 2016). "A Conversation Martin Stannard and Barbara Cooke". Exchanges: The Warwick Research Journal. 4 (1): 1–13. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Vatican Radio". Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  7. ^ "New Chancellor Appointed". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  8. ^ "University of Warwick Senate and Council appoints Baroness Ashton as Warwick's first ever woman Chancellor". www2.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
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