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

• Lord Trent (1949 – 1954)
• The Duke of Portland (1954 – 1971)
• Sir Francis Hill (1971 – 1978)
• Sir Gordon Hobday (1978 – 1993)
• Lord Dearing of Kingston-upon-Hull (1993 – 2000)
• Professor Fujia Yang (from 2000)

Vice-Chancellors

• Bertrand Hallward (1948 – 1965)
• Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors (1965 – 1970)
• Lord Butterfield of Stechford (1971 – 1975)
• Professor Basil Weedon (1976 – 1988)
• Sir Colin Campbell (1988 - Sept 2008)
• Professor David Greenaway (from Sept 2008)

Notable alumni

Academia

• Stewart Adams - Inventor of Ibuprofen
• Professor Bob Boucher - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
• Professor Arthur Carty - National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
• Sir Bernard Crossland - President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• Professor Louis Essen - physicist
• Charles Bungay Fawcett, Geographer
• Sir Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics
• Gerald Hawkins - Professor of astronomy, noted for his interest in Stonehenge
• Sir Brian Heap - Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and former Vice-President of the Royal Society
• Professor Reginald Hugh Hickling - Lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author
• Rev Dr Riad Kassis - Lebanese/Syrian theologian specializing in the Old Testament
• Professor James Kinsley - a professor of linguistics who was called as an expert witness in a case about the use of the word 'bollocks' in the Sex Pistols' album title 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'
• Lord Lewis of Newnham - chemist
• Scot McKnight - Professor of Religious Studies at North Park University, recognized for his scholarship on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus
• Sir Keith O'Nions - geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils
• Professor Deepak Pental- Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi,India
• Professor Austin Quigley - Dean, Columbia College
• Roger Tomlinson - "Father of GIS"
• Professor Ian Wilmut - embryologist who managed the team who cloned Dolly the sheep

Arts and media

• Matthew Bannister - BBC broadcaster and administrator
• Olav Bjortomt - quiz setter for The Times and notable contestant
• Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale University repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
• Chris Choi - ITV News journalist
• Michael Coren - author and broadcaster
• Ian Dickson - judge of Australian Idol
• Graham Fitkin - composer
• Daniel Gerroll - actor
• Ramsay Gilderdale - actor
• Elliott Gotkine - BBC South America correspondent
• Haydn Gwynne - actress
• Chris Hawkins - radio personality
• Jack Lucien - Pop musician
• Oliver James - Psychologist and TV presenter
• Colin Matthews - composer
• James Moir - former controller of BBC Radio 2
• Richard Northedge - business journalist
• Charlie Parrish - Music Editor, ZOO magazine
• Jeff Randall - Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and Sky television presenter
• James Robinson - The Observer media correspondent
• Tracie - pop singer
• Ruth Wilson - actress
• Helen Willetts - BBC weather presenter

Business

• Jonathan Browning - Chairman, Vauxhall Motors
• Michael Carpenter - Chairman & CEO, Citigroup Global Investments
• John Coomber - CEO, Swiss Re
• Kuok Khoon Ean - Chairman, South China Morning Post
• Anne Gunther - CEO, Standard Life
• Keith Hamill - Chairman, Moss Bros, Go Airline, Collins Stewart and Luminar
• Sir Michael Hodgkinson - Chairman, Post Office Ltd; former CEO, BAA Plc
• Baron Hollick - former owner of United News
• Roger Liddell, CEO, LCH.Clearnet
• Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
• Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons
• Oliver Pawle - Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank
• Sir Robert Phillis - Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
• Peter Rice - President, Fox Searchlight Pictures
• John Timpson - Chairman, Timpson
• Andrew Witty - CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
• John Rishton - CEO, Royal Ahold and Rolls Royce
• Steve Holliday - CEO, National Grid
• Michael Queen - CEO, 3i

International politics and royalty

• Peter Ala Adjetey - Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana between 2001 and 2005.
• Zainab Bangura - Human rights campaigner, former Sierra Leone Presidential Candidate
• Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - Prime Minister of Malaysia 2009-
• 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, Sultan of Perak
• Tengku Tan Sri Ahmad Rithaudden - former Minister of Defence of Malaysia
• Tuanku Bahiyah - the fifth Queen of Malaysia
• Tun Dato Seri Dr. Haji Hamdan Bin Sheik Tahir - Governor of Penang province, Malaysia
• Tunku Tan-Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Jaafar - Prince of Negeri Sembilan, President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia
• Zara Salim Davidson - tha Crown Princess of Perak and the grandniece of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
• Judith McHale - US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Members of UK Parliament, as of 2010

• Andrew Bridgen MP - Conservative
• Jeremy Browne MP - Liberal Democrat, Minister of State at the Foreign Office
• Neil Carmichael MP - Conservative
• John Henry Hayes MP - Conservative, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning
• 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, Minister for Women and Equality
• John Pugh MP - Liberal Democrat
• Angela Smith MP - Labour

Other

• Bob Allcock, Solicitor General, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
• Lord Best of Godmanstone - Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Andrew Colquhoun - Director-General, The Royal Horticultural Society
• Frank Halford - aircraft engine designer
• Sir Anthony Holland - Chairman of Northern Ireland Parades Commission
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Lord Hope of Thornes - former Lord Archbishop of York
• The Rt Hon. Sylvia, Baroness Jay of Ewelme - Director-General, Food and Drink Federation
• Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson - pilot, Second World War flying ace
• Mary Marsh - Director of the NSPCC
• Alexander McLean - Founder and Director of African Prisons Project
• John Monks - former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
• Dame Helen Reeves - Chief Executive of Victim Support
• Sir John Sawers - British Ambassador to the UN and Director of MI6
• Sir Richard Tilt - Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service
• Sir Mike Tomlinson - Chief Inspector of Schools
• Greville Wynne - British spy, imprisoned by the KGB
• Dr Amanda Horton-Mastin - Director of Innovation at Comic Relief

Sport

• Tim Brabants - Olympic canoeist
• Melissa-Jane Daniel - 5 World Record in archery
• Kristan Bromley - Bob Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
• Sir Denis Follows - General Secretary, The Football Association and Chairman, British Olympic Association
• Jon McCarthy - Former York City, Port Vale, Birmingham City, and Northern Ireland footballer
• Brian Moore - England rugby union representative footballer and commentator
• Deryck Murray - Former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicketkeeper
• Lynn Simpson - Former World Individual and World Series Canoe Slalom Champion
• Deng Yaping - four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
• Campbell Walsh - Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom(K1)Olympic Silver medilist, and Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004
• Keith Wyness - Former Chief Executive, Everton FC
• Matt Smith - Leicester Tigers rugby player

Writers

• 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
• John Harvey (author) - crime writer
• Michael Hirst - screenwriter, Elizabeth
• Alan Jones (priest), 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

Notable academics

• Sir John Ambrose Fleming - Pioneer of Electronics
• Viacheslav Belavkin - mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
• George Carey - Archbishop of Canterbury
• Professor Bryan Campbell Clarke FRS - Pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails.
• Hugh Gaitskell - Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition 1955-1963
• Clive Granger - Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist
• Don Grierson - geneticist
• George Garfield Hall - mathematician
• Susan Howson - first female winner of the Adams Prize (for mathematics)
• Luce Irigaray
• Sir Ian Kershaw - historian
• Sir Michael Lyons - Chairman, BBC Trust
• Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Laureate physicist
• Tom Paulin - poet and literary critic
• Martyn Poliakoff - chemist
• Sir John Cyril Smith - law
• Vivian de Sola Pinto - poet and literary critic
• Lewis Thorpe - translator of Medieval works and Professor of French
• Richard Wilkinson - public health
• Professor Xu Zhihong - President Peking University
• David Greenaway (Economist) - Economist and Vice Chancellor 2008-
• Vernon White - formerly special lecturer in theology, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester