List of University of Leeds people
This list of University of Leeds people is a selected list of notable past staff and students of the University of Leeds.
Students
Politics
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia
- John Battle, former Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds West (English, 1976)
- Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin, former Conservative Minister of State for the Environment (LLB in Law)
- Alan Campbell, Labour Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and former Government Whip (PGCE)
- Mark Collett, former chairman of the Young BNP, the youth division of the British National Party; Director of Publicity for the Party before being suspended from the party in early April 2010 (Economics, 1986)
- Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of Mongolia (2000-2004) (exchange student, 1986)
- José Ángel Gurría, Mexican economist, secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Ken Hind, barrister and former Conservative Member of Parliament for West Lancashire (Law, 1971)
- Eric Illsley, Labour Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central (LLB in Law)
- Chris Leslie, Labour Member of Parliament formerly for Shipley and now Nottm East (Politics and Parliamentary Studies, 1994)
- Simba Makoni, Zimbabwean Politician and candidate for Zimbabwe elections 2008
- Clare Short, former Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood and International Development Secretary (Political Science, 1969)
- Jack Straw, barrister and Labour Member of Parliament for Blackburn; former Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary (LLB in Law, 1967)
- Paul Truswell, former Labour Member of Parliament for Pudsey (History, 1977)
- Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, current Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio from 2010 (LLB in Law)
Media
Andy Kershaw, journalist and radio D.J.
- Timothy Allen, photojournalist (Zoology, 1989)
- Steve Bell, political cartoonist for The Guardian (Fine Art, 1974)
- Mark Brayne, BBC foreign correspondent (BA, Modern Languages, 1973)
- Mark Byford, deputy Director-General of the BBC (LLB in Law, 1979)
- Barry Cryer, comedian and scriptwriter (English, did not graduate)
- Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail (English, 1970)
- Gavin Esler, Newsnight anchor (MA Anglo-Irish Literature, 1975)
- Polly Evans, television presenter, South East Today (English & Theatre, 1990s)
- Jenni Falconer, television presenter (Student, Spanish and Italian, 1990s)
- Thomas Hedley, President of Hedley Media Group
- Andy Kershaw, DJ and broadcaster (Politics)
- Liz Kershaw, journalist and radio DJ (textiles, 1978)
- Peter Morgan, screenwriter (Fine Art, 1980s)
- Richard Quest, reporter for CNN (Law, 1985)
- Anita Rani, English radio and television presenter and journalist (Broadcasting)
- Jay Rayner, features writer and restaurant critic, The Observer (Political Studies, 1987)
- Georgie Thompson, Sky Sports News presenter (Broadcast Journalism, 1999)
- Mark Wheat, radio DJ at The Current from Minnesota Public Radio (English, 1981)
- Nicholas Witchell, BBC newsreader and royal and diplomatic correspondent (LLB in Law, 1976)
- Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director (LLB in Law, 1968)
Arts
Mark Knopfler, musician
Music
- The members of Alt-J met at the university (Fine Art; English Literature, 2007)
- Bastille members Daniel Smith and Kyle Simmons
- Geoff Downes, keyboardist formerly of The Buggles, currently of Asia, yes
- Alex Glasgow, singer/songwriter (German)
- Mark Knopfler, OBE, rock musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter (English, 1973)
- Little Boots, born Victoria Hesketh, electronica musician[1]
- Corinne Bailey Rae, soul singer (English Literature, 2000)
- Simon Rix, bass player for Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs (Maths and Geography, 2000)
- Rusko, born Christopher Mercer, dubstep producer
- Katie White, singer and guitarist of The Ting Tings
- Joanne Yeoh, Malaysian violinist (Music, 1999)
- Sigma, English drum and bass duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie
Visual
- Shona Auerbach, award-winning director/cinematograper of Dear Frankie
- Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Textile Management, did not graduate)
- Alistair McGowan, actor, comedian and impressionist (English, 1986)
- Kay Mellor, television actress and scriptwriter (attended Bretton Hall, 1983)
- Chris Pine, American Hollywood actor, studied as a year abroad student during his junior year (English)
Literary
- Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher (English and French, 1979)
- Nick Brownlee, crime thriller writer
- Jonathan Clements, writer (Japanese, 1994)
- Tony Harrison, poet (Classics with Linguistics, 1958)
- Storm Jameson, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914)
- Hannah New [2] TV and movie actress
- Arthur Ransome, writer, studied science for two terms in 1901
- Herbert Read, poet and literary critic (English)
- Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 (English, 1957)
- Greg Stekelman, writer and illustrator, author of A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep (English and Spanish, 1998)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author (English student, 1960s)
Other
- Paul Crowther, philosopher, university lecturer and author
- Jeremy Dyson, screenwriter and member of The League of Gentlemen (Philosophy, 1989)
- Barry John, theatre director and teacher, based in India since 1968
Science and technology
Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut
- Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist (Botany, 1973)
- Robert Blackburn, aviation pioneer and founder of Blackburn Aircraft (Engineering, 1906)
- Nancy Cruickshank, British entrepreneur in beauty, fashion, and technology
- Emily Cummins, Technology Woman of the Future 2006, British Female Innovator Of the Year 2007
- Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold and the Construction Industry Council (Civil Engineering, 1957)
- Sir Percival Hartley (1905) Director of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research
- D. G. Hessayon, gardening author (Botany, 1949)
- V. Craig Jordan, OBE, responsible for pioneering research into breast cancer and the development of the cancer drug Tamoxifen (BSc and Ph.D. in pharmacology, 1969 and 1972)
- Michael Lawrie, computer security and social networking expert (Computational Science, 1989)
- Jennifer Ross Meiring, architect director with BDP (B.A., English, 1979)
- Nicola Mendelsohn, British advertising executive (English and Theatre Studies, 1992)
- George Porter, chemist, Nobel Prize winner and President of the Royal Society (Chemistry, 1941)
- Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut (Biometeorology, 1981)
- Karen Steel FRS FMedSci, geneticist, Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- James Francis Tait, Endocrinologist and discoverer of aldosterone. (Physics 1945)
- Hassan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford
- Jennifer Wilby, Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
Other
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali, one of the world's most famous translators of the Quran
- Michael Asher, desert explorer and author (English 1977)
- Alistair Brownlee, Olympian and ITU Triathlon World Champion (Physiology and Sport 2009)
- Daniel Byles, Guinness World Record-holding ocean rower and polar explorer (Economics and Management Studies 1996)
- Kat Fletcher, president of the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom, 2004-2006 (Sociology)
- Sir Peter Hendy, Chairman, Network Rail (Economics & Geography, 1975)
- David Hessayon, gardening author; biggest-selling nonfiction author in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records (Botany, 1950)
- Richard Hoggart, sociologist and author of The Uses of Literacy (English, 1939)
- Simon Lee, businessman, Chief Executive of RSA Insurance Group (English and French)
- Abdullah O. Nasseef, Saudi geologist, chemist and politician
- Tom Palmer, Rugby Union player
- David Parry, dialectologist who founded the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects
- Ivor Porter, ambassador and author of Operation Autonomous and King Michael (English, 1936)
- Richard Profit, polar explorer (Biology and Management Studies 1996)
- Subir Raha, Indian business leader (MBA 1985)
- Ken Robinson, educationalist (English and drama, 1972)
- Sir Christopher Rose, former head of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division (LL.B., 1957)
- Jacob Rowan, former captain for the England U20 Rugby Union Team and current player for Leeds Carnegie
- Dr Harold Shipman, general practitioner and convicted serial killer (Medicine, 1970)
- George Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's School, London (English and History)
- Brigadier Mike Stone, Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Defence
- Marilyn Stowe, divorce lawyer and the first Chief Assessor and Chief Examiner of the Law Society's Family Law Panel (Law, 1970s)
- Cec Thompson, rugby league player and co-founder of Student Rugby League
- Paul Watson, Pohnpei State football team coach (Italian, 2005)
Staff
The following people have been members of staff at the University:
Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
- Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929)
- William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Textile Physics, 1928-1961)
- Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
- Maurice Beresford, economic historian, Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985)
- Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Physics, 1909-1915)
- Asa Briggs, historian
- Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University Librarian, 1997-2000)
- Anthony Carrigan (lecturer in postcolonial literature and cultures, 2013-16)
- Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University
- David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1986)
- Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor
- Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980)
- Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981)
- Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist
- Benedikt Isserlin, semitist and ancient historian
- Catherine Karkov, art historian
- Percy Fry Kendall, award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22)
- G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English)
- Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970)
- Irene Manton, botanist and cell biologist
- David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979)
- John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology
- Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician[3]
- Ralph Miliband, political theorist
- Fred Orton, art historian
- Sheena Radford, Astbury Professor of Biophysics
- Leonard James Rogers, mathematician (Mathematics 1889-1919)
- Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner
- J. I. M. Stewart, writer, often under the pen name Michael Innes (English, 1930-1935)
- E. P. Thompson, historian (Extramural, 1948-1965)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (English, 1920-1925)
- Stephen Turnbull, military historian
- Philip Wilby, composer, School of Music until 2006
- Ian S. Wood, historian of the Middle Ages
- Verna Wright, Professor of Rheumatology
References
- University of Leeds. "Who's been here". Archived from the original on 2007-01-04. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
- ↑ Lester, Paul (2008-11-24). "Synths, glitter and a cosmic disco vibe". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ↑ ""El tiempo entre costuras" interview" (PDF). Vanity Fair Magazine ES. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ↑ BBC profile: Sir Roy Meadow
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