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[edit]

Chancellors[edit]

Vice-Chancellors[edit]

Notable alumni[edit]

Academia[edit]

• 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, Presbyterian 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[edit]

Business[edit]

Government and politics[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

International politics[edit]

Royalty[edit]

Government[edit]

Military[edit]

Natural sciences, engineering and medicine[edit]

Engineering[edit]

Natural sciences[edit]

Medicine[edit]

Religion[edit]

Other[edit]

Sport[edit]

Writers and literature[edit]

Notable academics[edit]

• 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
• George Checkley – modernist architect
• 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

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