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

• John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent (1949–1954)
• William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1954–1971)
• Sir Francis Hill (1971–1978)
• Sir Gordon Hobday (1978–1993)
• Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing (1993–2000)
• Fujia Yang (2000–2012)
• Sir Andrew Witty (from 2013)

Vice-Chancellors

• Bertrand Hallward (1948–1965)
• Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton (1965–1970)
• John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1971–1975)
• Basil Weedon (1976–1988)
• Sir Colin Campbell (1988 – September 2008)
• Sir David Greenaway (from September 2008)

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
• 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
• 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, recognized for his scholarship on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Robert Brustein – Harvard English professor, founder of Yale University repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
• Liz Carr – comedian and disabled rights activist
• Michael Coren – author and broadcaster
• Ian Dickson – judge of Australian Idol
• Mike Dilger – nature presenter on The One Show
• Elliott Gotkine – BBC South America correspondent
• Haydn Gwynne – actress
• Chris Hawkins – radio personality
• Oliver James – psychologist and TV presenter
• Theo James – actor
• Colin Matthews – composer
• David Matthews – composer
• James Moir – former controller of BBC Radio 2
• Jeff Randall – Daily Telegraph editor-at-large and Sky television presenter
• Katie Rowley Jones – actress
• Clive Tyldesley – lead football commentator for ITV
• Ruth Wilson – actress
• Helen Willetts – BBC weather presenter
• Tracie Young – pop singer

Business

• Jonathan Browning – Chairman, Vauxhall Motors
• Leo Stan Ekeh – CEO, Zinox
• Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick – former owner of United News
• Steve Holliday – CEO, National Grid plc
• Tim Martin – Chairman of Wetherspoons
• Judith McHale – President and CEO, Discovery Communications
• Sir Robert Phillis – Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
• John Rishton – CEO, Royal Ahold and Rolls-Royce
• John Timpson – Chairman, Timpson
• Andrew Witty – CEO, GlaxoSmithKline

International politics and royalty

• Peter Ala Adjetey – Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana between 2001 and 2005
• Tuanku Bahiyah – fifth Sultanah (Queen) of Malaysia
• Zainab Bangura – Sierra Leone Foreign Minister, human rights campaigner, former Presidential Candidate
• Zara Salim Davidson – wife of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak and grandniece of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman
• Lateefa Al Gaood – first female Member of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain
• Judith McHale – US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
• Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak – Prime Minister of Malaysia 2009–present
• 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
• Tun Dato Seri Haji Hamdan Bin Sheik Tahir – former Governor of Penang, Malaysia
• Tunku Tan-Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Jaafar – former Malaysian ambassador and Sultan of Negeri Sembilan

UK politicians

• 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
• Michael Dugher MP, Labour, PPS
• Charlie Elphicke 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, former Minister for Women and Equality
• John Pugh MP – Liberal Democrat
• Angela Smith MP – Labour

Other

• Kweku Adoboli - former UBS employee known for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal
• Richard Best, Baron Best – Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• 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
• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes – former Lord Archbishop of York
• Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson – pilot, Second World War flying ace
• Mary Marsh – Director of the NSPCC
• Akierra Missick – Deputy Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands^[1][2]
• John Monks – former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
• Adam Powell – game designer and co-founder of Neopets
• Dame Helen Reeves – Chief Executive of Victim Support
• Sir John Sawers – former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and current Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
• David Sharp - mountaineer
• Sir Nigel Sweeney – High Court Judge
• 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

Sport

• Tim Baillie – London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic gold medallist
• Chris Bartley – London 2012 Men's Four Rowing Olympic silver medallist
• Tim Brabants – Olympic canoeist
• Kristan Bromley – Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
• Melissa-Jane Daniel – 5 world records in archery
• David Florence – Beijing 2008 Canoe Slalom(C1) and London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic Silver medallist
• Sir Denis Follows – General Secretary, The Football Association; Chairman, British Olympic Association
• David Mercer – sports broadcaster ^[3]
• Brian Moore – England rugby union representative footballer and commentator
• Deryck Murray – former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies wicket-keeper
• Lynn Simpson – former World Individual and World Series Canoe Slalom Champion ^[4]
• Matt Smith – Leicester Tigers rugby player
• Etienne Stott – London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic gold medallist
• Campbell Walsh – Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom (K1) Olympic silver medallist; Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004
• Keith Wyness – former Chief Executive, Everton FC
• Deng Yaping – four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
• Dr. Eva Carneiro – British Physician, Chelsea FC Team Doctor (2009-2015)

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
• Jonathan Emmett – children's author
• John Harvey – crime writer
• Michael Hirst – screenwriter, Elizabeth
• Alan Jones – 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
• Rajesh Talwar - Indian writer

Notable academics

• Viacheslav Belavkin – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
• George Carey – Archbishop of Canterbury
• Bryan Campbell Clarke – pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails
• 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
• 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
• Sir Michael Lyons – Chairman, BBC Trust
• Sir Peter Mansfield – Nobel Laureate physicist
• David H.H. Metcalfe – President, Royal College of General Practitioners
• Tom Paulin – poet and literary critic
• 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. "Election 2012: Akierra Missick". Radio Turks and Caicos 107 FM. 2012-08-11. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
2. "PNP Cabinet Sworn, PDM Challenges 4 District Results". Turks & Caicos Free Press. 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
3. David Mercer
4. Lynn Simpson