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University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...
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Students


Politics

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Kwabena Kwakye Anti Kwabena Kwakye Anti was a lecturer and a Ghanaian politician. He was a minister of state in the Second Republic of Ghana. Early life and education Kwabena was born on 23 November 1923 at Akim Awisa near Akim Oda in the Eastern Region. His ea ...
, Ghanaian politician * John Battle, former
Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...
Member of Parliament for
Leeds West Leeds West is a borough constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of elect ...
(English, 1976) * Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin, former Conservative Minister of State for the Environment (LLB in Law) * Sir Bracewell Smith, businessman, Conservative Member of Parliament (1932–45) and
Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powe ...
(1946). * Alan Campbell, Labour Member of Parliament for
Tynemouth Tynemouth () is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, North East England. It is located on the north side of the mouth of the River Tyne, hence its name. It is 8 mi (13 km) east-northeast of Newcastle upon T ...
and former Government Whip ( PGCE) *
Mark Collett Mark Adrian Collett (; born October 1980) is a British neo-Nazi, anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and political activist. He was formerly chairman of the Young BNP, the youth division of the British National Party (BNP), and was director of ...
, former chairman of the
Young BNP BNP Youth (formerly Young BNP, BNP Crusaders, Resistance, Youth BNP, BNP Youth and YBNP) is the youth section of the far-right British National Party (BNP). History In 2002, the Young BNP chairman Mark Collett chose the Odal (rune), Odal rune as ...
, the youth division of the British National Party; Director of Publicity for the Party before being suspended from the party in early April 2010 (Business Economics, 2002) * Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of
Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...
(2000-2004) (exchange student, 1986) *
José Ángel Gurría José Ángel Gurría Treviño, also known as Ángel Gurría, (born 8 May 1950) is a Mexican economist and diplomat. From 1 June 2006 to 31 May 2021, he was the secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC ...
, economist, secretary general of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries ...
*
Ken Hind Kenneth Harvand Hind, CBE (born 15 September 1949) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for West Lancashire from 1983 until 1992, when he was defeated by Labour's Colin Pickthall. In May 1997, he was a candidate in the general election f ...
, barrister and former Conservative Member of Parliament for West Lancashire (Law, 1971) *
Eric Illsley Eric Evlyn Illsley (born 9 April 1955) is a former British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley Central from 1987 until 2011. He was a Labour Party representative until suspended from the party after being char ...
, Labour Member of Parliament for
Barnsley Central Barnsley Central is a constituency in South Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2011 by Dan Jarvis of the Labour Party. Constituency profile Barnsley Central is generally an urban seat and has a large m ...
(LLB in Law) *
Chris Leslie Christopher Michael Leslie (born 28 June 1972) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he defected to form ...
, Former Labour Member of Parliament for Shipley (1997-2005) and Nottingham East (2010–19) (Politics and Parliamentary Studies, 1994) * Andrew Leung, current President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. *
Alison Lowe Alison Natalie Kay Lowe is a British Labour politician and deputy mayor of West Yorkshire for Policing and Crime. She was the first black woman Leeds city councillor, serving from 1990 to 2019, and has served as the chief executive of Touchst ...
, first black woman
Leeds City Council Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of l ...
lor (History, matriculated 1987) *
Simba Makoni Simba is a fictional character and the protagonist of Disney's ''The Lion King'' franchise. Introduced in the 1994 film ''The Lion King'', Walt Disney Animation's 32nd animated feature, the character subsequently appears in '' The Lion King II ...
, Zimbabwean Politician and candidate for Zimbabwe elections 2008 *
Jess Phillips Jessica Rose Phillips (; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguardi ...
, Labour Member of Parliament for
Birmingham Yardley (UK Parliament constituency) Birmingham Yardley is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jess Phillips of the Labour Party. Yardley Rural District was annexed to Birmingham under the 1911 ...
(Economics and Economic History and Social Policy, 2003) *
Khalid Samad Khalid bin Abdul Samad (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: خالد بن عبدالصمد; born 14 August 1957) is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Federal Territories (Malaysia), Minister of Federal Territories in the ...
, Malaysian politician and former Minister Of Federal Territories; Current Member of Parliament for
Shah Alam Shah Alam () is a city and the state capital of Selangor, Malaysia and situated within the Petaling District and a small portion of the neighbouring Klang District. Shah Alam replaced Kuala Lumpur as the capital city of the state of Selangor in ...
*
Clare Short Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Development, Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003. Short was the Member of Parliament ...
, former Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood and
International Development Secretary The minister of state for development and Africa, formerly the minister of state for development and the secretary of state for international development, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The off ...
(Political Science, 1969) *
Jeanne Siméon Jeanne Siméon (born 28 July 1952) is a Seychellois politician who was the Minister of Habitat, Lands, Infrastructure, and Land Transport from 27 April 2018 until 3 November 2020. Previously Siméon served as Deputy Secretary for Cabinet Affairs ...
, current Minister of Habitat, Lands, Infrastructure, and Land Transport in the
Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...
(Education Management and Teacher Training) *
Alex Sobel Alexander David Sobel (born 26 April 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North West since the 2017 general election. He defeated the Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland, wh ...
,
Labour Co-op Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated Labour Co-op; cy, Llafur a'r Blaid Gydweithredol) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party and the Co-operativ ...
Member of Parliament for
Leeds North West Leeds North West is a constituency in the City of Leeds which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Alex Sobel, of Labour Co-op. Boundaries 1950–1955: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Far He ...
(Information Systems, 1997) * Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party from 2020, MP for
Holborn and St Pancras Holborn and St Pancras () is a parliamentary constituency in Greater London that was created in 1983. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2015 by Sir Keir Starmer, the current Leade ...
from 2015, Director of Public Prosecutions, 2008–2013 (LLB Law, 1985) * Jack Straw, barrister and Labour Member of Parliament for Blackburn; former
Home Secretary The secretary of state for the Home Department, otherwise known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. The home secretary leads the Home Office, and is responsible for all national ...
and
Foreign Secretary The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...
(LLB in Law, 1967) *
Paul Truswell Paul Anthony Truswell (born 17 November 1955) is an English Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Pudsey from 1997 to 2010. Born in Sheffield, Truswell moved to Leeds at 18 to study History at the University of Leed ...
, former Labour Member of Parliament for Pudsey (History, 1977) *
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi, (; born 28 March 1971) is a British lawyer, politician, and member of the House of Lords who served as co-Chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron–Clegg coaliti ...
, former Chairman of the Conservative Party and
Minister without Portfolio A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister who does not head a particular ministry. The sinecure is particularly common in countries ruled by coalition governments and a cabinet w ...
(LLB in Law)


Media

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Timothy Allen Timothy Allen (born 1971) is an English photographer and filmmaker best known for his work with indigenous people and isolated communities around the world. Early life Timothy Allen was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England, the second son of two ...
, photojournalist (Zoology, 1989) * Steve Bell, political cartoonist for ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'' (Fine Art, 1974) *
Mark Brayne Mark Lugard Brayne (born 17 April 1950) is a British psychotherapist and former journalist. After a first career as a foreign correspondent, he qualified in psychotherapy and since 2002 has specialised in working with trauma. As a therapist, h ...
, BBC
foreign correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...
(BA, Modern Languages, 1973) *
Mark Byford Mark Julian Byford (born 13 June 1958) was Deputy Director-General of the BBC and head of BBC journalism from 2004 to 2011. He chaired the BBC Journalism Board and was a member of the BBC Executive Board for thirteen years. His responsibilities ...
, deputy
Director-General A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'' ) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...
of the BBC (LLB in Law, 1979) * James Cooper, Co-host of My Dad Wrote a Porno * Martine Croxall, TV journalist and news presenter
BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...
(BA Geography, 1990) *
Barry Cryer Barry Charles Cryer (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and television, Cryer wrote for many performers including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory B ...
, comedian and scriptwriter (English, did not graduate, awarded an honorary doctorate in 2017) *
Paul Dacre Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British right-wing tabloid the ''Daily Mail''. He is also editor-in-chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Ma ...
, editor of the ''
Daily Mail The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) publish ...
'' (English, 1970) * Gavin Esler, '' Newsnight'' anchor (MA Anglo-Irish Literature, 1975) *
Polly Evans Polly Evans is a journalist, broadcaster and producer and former anchor of the BBC regional news programme ''South East Today''. Career Evans started broadcasting while studying at the University of Leeds, working early morning shifts on the camp ...
, television presenter, '' South East Today'' (English & Theatre, 1990s) *
Jenni Falconer Jenni Falconer (born 12 February 1976) is a Scottish radio and television presenter. She appears on the ITV daytime show '' This Morning'' as a regular travel reporter and was a regular presenter of the National Lottery Draws on BBC One. She w ...
, television presenter (Student, Spanish and Italian, 1990s) *
Tatiana Hambro Tatiana Katherine Hambro (born 15 October 1989) is an English writer and fashion editor. She worked at ''British Vogue'' before joining Moda Operandi as editorial director. Early life and family Hambro was born on 15 October 1989 in Westmins ...
, fashion writer and editor for
Moda Operandi Founded in 2010 by Lauren Santo Domingo and Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, Moda Operandi is an online luxury fashion retailer that allows customers to preorder looks directly from designers, immediately after their runway show. The concept, which was con ...
and '' British Vogue'' * Nancy Kacungira, Ugandan presenter and correspondent,
BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...
*
Andy Kershaw Andrew J. G. Kershaw (born 9 November 1959) is a broadcaster and disc jockey, predominantly on radio, and known for his interest in world music. Kershaw's shows feature a mix of country, blues, reggae, folk music, African music, spoken word pe ...
, DJ and broadcaster (Politics) *
Liz Kershaw Elizabeth Marguerita Mary Kershaw (born 30 July 1958) is an English radio broadcaster. She is the second longest serving female national radio DJ in the UK (after Annie Nightingale), celebrating 30 years on national BBC Radio in 2017. Career A ...
, journalist and radio DJ (Textiles, 1978) * Alice Levine, Co-host of My Dad Wrote a Porno and former
BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, ...
DJ *
Peter Morgan Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright. He is the playwright behind '' The Audience'' and '' Frost/Nixon'' and the screenwriter of ''The Queen'' (2006), '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), ''The Damned United ...
, screenwriter (Fine Art, 1985) *
Jamie Morton Jamie is a unisex name. It is a diminutive form of James (name), James or, more rarely, other names. It is also given as a name in its own right. People Female * Jamie Anne Allman (born 1977), American actress * Jamie Babbit (born 1970), Americ ...
, Co-host of My Dad Wrote a Porno *
Naga Munchetty Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah (born 25 February 1975), also known as Naga Munchetty, is a British television presenter, newsreader and journalist. She regularly presents '' BBC Breakfast''. She is also a former presenter of BBC World Ne ...
, TV presenter and journalist (English Literature and Language, 1997) * Richard Quest, reporter for
CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...
(Law, 1985) * Anita Rani, English radio and television presenter and journalist (Broadcasting) *
Jay Rayner Jason Matthew Rayner (born 14 September 1966) is an English journalist and food critic. Early life Jason Matthew Rayner was born on 14 September 1966. He is the younger son of Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner. His family is Jewish. He ...
, features writer and restaurant critic, ''
The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...
'' (Political Studies, 1987) *
Steve Rosenberg Steven Barnett Rosenberg (born 5 April 1968) is a British journalist for BBC News. He has been the BBC's Moscow correspondent almost continuously since 2003, except for a stint as Berlin correspondent between 2006 and 2010. In 2022 Rosenberg's r ...
, BBC Russia editor (Russian Studies, 1991) * Georgie Thompson, Sky Sports News presenter (Broadcast Journalism, 1999) *
Mark Wheat Mark Wheat is an English entrepreneur, known primarily for his time working at the Minnesota Public Radio station KCMP (the Current) where he provided one of the outlet's unique voices because of his background. Wheat grew up in the small town o ...
, radio DJ at The Current from Minnesota Public Radio (English, 1981) *
Nicholas Witchell Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell OStJ FRGS (born 23 September 1953) is an English journalist and news presenter. The latter half of his career has been as royal correspondent for BBC News. Early life and career Witchell was born on 23 Septembe ...
, BBC newsreader and royal and diplomatic correspondent (LLB in Law, 1976) * Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director (LLB in Law, 1968)


Arts


Music

*The members of
Alt-J Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds. Their lineup includes Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals), and formerly Gwilym Sainsbur ...
met at the university (Fine Art; English Literature, 2007) *
David Gedge David Lewis Gedge (born 23 April 1960, in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is an English musician and songwriter. Early life Gedge grew up in Middleton, Greater Manchester, in the area known as Top of Hebers. He attended Hollin High S ...
, guitarist, songwriter and vocalist in
The Wedding Present The Wedding Present are an English indie rock group originally formed in 1985 in Leeds, England, from the ashes of The Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, ...
,
Cinerama (band) Cinerama are an English indie pop band, headed up by David Gedge, the frontman for The Wedding Present. The band is known for combining rock guitar music with string and woodwind sounds. *
Alex Glasgow Alex Glasgow (14 October 1935 – 14 May 2001) was an English singer-songwriter from Low Fell, Gateshead, England. He wrote the songs and music for the musical plays ''Close the Coal House Door'' and '' On Your Way, Riley!'' by Alan Plater, and ...
, singer/songwriter (German) * Mark Knopfler, rock musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter (English, 1973) *
Little Boots Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 4 May 1984), better known by her stage name Little Boots, is an English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ. She was previously a member of the band Dead Disco. Since performing as a solo artist she has released ...
, born Victoria Hesketh, electronica musician * Corinne Bailey Rae, soul singer (English Literature, 2000) *
Simon Rix Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who formed in 2000 as Parva, releasing one studio album, ''22'', in 2003, before renaming and establishing themselves in their current name that same year. Since their formation the band h ...
, bass player for Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs (Maths and Geography, 2000) * Sigma (DJs), English drum and bass duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie *Kyle Simmons, member of Bastille * Dan Smith, member of Bastille *
Estelle White Elizabeth Estelle White (4 December 1925 – 9 February 2011) was a British composer who wrote over 160 hymns, several masses, and music for theatre. White grew up in a musical family on Tyneside, where she learned to play the piano, guitar, clarin ...
, composer *
Katie White Katie Rebecca White (born 18 January 1983) is an English musician and member of the pop duo The Ting Tings. After some success with a girl group punk trio TKO, which supported Steps and Atomic Kitten, her father David White brought in Jules De M ...
, singer and guitarist of The Ting Tings *
Joanne Yeoh Joanne Yeoh Pei Sze () is a Malaysian violinist and currently a lecturer in music at Universiti Putra Malaysia University of Putra Malaysia ( Malay: ''Universiti Putra Malaysia''), abbreviated as UPM, is a Malaysian public research unive ...
, Malaysian violinist (Music, 1999)


Theatre and Film

*
Shona Auerbach Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer. Early career Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at th ...
, award-winning director/cinematographer of ''
Dear Frankie ''Dear Frankie'' is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach and starring Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, and Sharon Small. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts h ...
'' * Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Textile Management, did not graduate due to family reason) *
Emma Mackey Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey (born 4 January 1996) is a French-born British actress. Her breakthrough performance as Maeve Wiley, a sardonic teenager, in the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Sex Education'' (2019–present), earned her a Br ...
, French-British actress *
Alistair McGowan Alistair Charles McGowan (born 24 November 1964) is an English impressionist, comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for ''The Big Impression'' (formerly ''Alistair McGowan's Big Impression''), which was, for four years ...
, actor, comedian and impressionist (English, 1986) * Kay Mellor, television actress and scriptwriter (attended Bretton Hall, 1983) *
Hannah New Hannah New (born 13 May 1984) is an English actress. She is known for her starring role on the television show '' Black Sails'' in which she plays Eleanor Guthrie, the owner of a saloon in Nassau, and also for her role as Rosalinda Fox in ''Th ...
, English model and actress *
Kate Phillips Kate Phillips (born 21 May 1989) is a British actress. She became famous for her role as Jane Seymour in the successful miniseries ''Wolf Hall'' (2015). She subsequently appeared in the miniseries '' War & Peace'' (2016), the first season of th ...
, English actress * Ronald Pickup, English actor (English 1962) * Chris Pine, American Hollywood actor, studied as a year abroad student during his junior year (English) *
Laura Rollins Laura Rollins (born 20 December) is a British-Bajan actress, known for portraying the role of Ayesha Lee on the BBC soap opera ''Doctors'', a role which she played from September 2014 to June 2020. For her portrayal of Ayesha, she won the awar ...
, English actress, studied English and Theatre *
Siddhanth Dr. Anand Gollahalli Shivaprasad, also known as Dr. G. S. Anand (born 19 October 1973), better known by stage name Siddhanth, is an Indian actor appears in Kannada cinema. He is a medical doctor by profession. Early life and education Siddha ...
, Indian
Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
actor, (studied M.H.A.)


Literary

* Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher (English and French, 1979) *
Nick Brownlee Nick Brownlee is a British journalist and crime thriller writer. His critically acclaimed debut novel, ''Bait'', published in December 2008 by Piatkus, was the first in a series featuring Kenyan crimebusting duo Jake Moore and Detective Inspecto ...
, crime thriller writer * Jonathan Clements, writer (Japanese, 1994) *
Tony Harrison Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University. He is one of Britain's foremost verse w ...
, poet (Classics with Linguistics, 1958) *
Storm Jameson Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson (8 January 1891 – 30 September 1986) was an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews and for her work as President of English PEN between 1938 and 1944. Life and career Jameson was born in W ...
, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914) *
Pamela Kola Pamela Kola was a Kenyan writer who is best known for her children's books about East African myths, legends, and fables. Biography Born in Kenya, Kola attended the University of Leeds, receiving a degree in Education. Kola ran a nursery in Nair ...
, Kenyan children's author *
Lucy Diamond Lucy Diamond is an English author of female lead fiction, whose real name is Sue Mongredien. Biography She grew up in Nottingham, and studied English Literature at Leeds University. Mongredien now lives in Bath, Somerset, Bath. Her first book, ...
, pen name of Sue Mongredien, children's author (English 1993) *
Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of childre ...
, writer, studied science for two terms in 1901 *
Herbert Read Sir Herbert Edward Read, (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read ...
, poet and
literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
(English) *
Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...
, Nigerian writer and first African winner of the
Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...
in 1986 (English, 1957) *
Greg Stekelman Greg Stekelman (born 12 February 1975 in London) is a British novelist and writer. Life Born and raised in north London, Stekelman started ''themanwhofellasleep.com'' in 2001. The website is an eclectic mix of his writing, illustrations, ani ...
, writer and illustrator, author of ''A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep'' (English and Spanish, 1998) *
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (; born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Literature of Kenya, Kenyan author and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu language, Gikuyu and who formerly wrote in English language, English. He has been described as having bee ...
, Kenyan author (English student, 1960s)


Other

* Paul Crowther, philosopher, university lecturer and author * Jeremy Dyson, screenwriter and member of ''
The League of Gentlemen ''The League of Gentlemen'' is a surreal British comedy horror sitcom that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The programme is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in northern England, originally based on Alston, Cumbria, and follows the lives o ...
'' (Philosophy, 1989) *
Jacky Fleming Jacky Fleming (born 1955, London) is an English cartoonist, whose work first became known through her pre-internet social activism postcards. Biography Fleming studied a foundation course at the Chelsea School of Art, followed by a Fine Art deg ...
, award-winning cartoonist * Barry John, theatre director and teacher *
Malcolm Neesam Malcolm George Neesam (28 June 1946 – 28 June 2022) was an English historian and writer specialising in the history of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He was also a librarian and archivist. His major works were the first two parts of a projected ...
, historian of
Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor at ...
,
North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...
*
Esther Simpson Esther Simpson OBE (31 July 1903 – 19 November 1996) was an English humanitarian who was the Assistant Secretary, later Secretary, of the Academic Assistance Council (AAC) and its successor organisations from 1933 until 1978. She worked tire ...
, organiser of academic equivalent of the kindertransport, saving refugee scholars from Nazis, campus building named after her in 2022.


Science and technology

*
Niaz Ahmad Akhtar Niaz Ahmad Akhtar (Urdu: نیاز احمد اختر ) is a Pakistani academic who is working as a vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab and the vice-chairman of the Pakistan Engineering Council. He is also working as the professor emerit ...
, Vice Chancellor of the
University of the Punjab The University of the Punjab (Urdu, pnb, ), also referred to as Punjab University, is a public, research, coeducational higher education institution located in Lahore, Pakistan. Punjab University is the oldest public university in Pakistan. ...
*
Lilias Armstrong Lilias Eveline Armstrong (29 September 1882 – 9 December 1937) was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of reader. Armstrong is most known for her work on English intonation as we ...
, phonetician (B.A., 1906) * Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist (Botany, 1973) * Robert Blackburn, aviation pioneer and founder of
Blackburn Aircraft Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north- ...
(Engineering, 1906) *
Emily Cummins Emily Jayne Cummins (born 11 February 1987) is an English inventor and entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyon ...
, Technology Woman of the Future 2006, British Female Innovator Of the Year 2007 *
Val Curtis Valerie Curtis (20 September 1958 – 19 October 2020) was a British scientist who was Director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This is a multidisciplinary group dedicated to improving hy ...
, professor in public health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine *
Rubina Gillani Rubina Gillani is a Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. She trained as a general practitioner and worked for the Pakistan Air Force for six years. Gillani was the Fred Hollows Foundation' ...
, Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist *
Edmund Happold Sir Edmund "Ted" Happold (8 November 1930 – 12 January 1996) was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold. Career Happold was the son of Frank Happold, Professor of Biochemistry at Leeds University. After an unpleasant time at Leed ...
, founder of
Buro Happold Buro Happold (previously ''BuroHappold Engineering'') is a British professional services firm that provides engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure, and the environment ...
and the Construction Industry Council (Civil Engineering, 1957) * Sir Percival Hartley (1905) Director of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research *
D. G. Hessayon David Gerald Hessayon OBE (born 1928) is a British author and botanist of Cypriot descent who is known for a best-selling series of paperback gardening manuals known as the "Expert Guides" under his title Dr. D. G. Hessayon. The series started ...
, gardening author (Botany, 1950) *
V. Craig Jordan Virgil Craig Jordan, , is a scientist with American and British citizenship specializing in drugs for breast cancer treatment and prevention. Currently, he is Professor of Breast Medical Oncology, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology a ...
, responsible for pioneering research into breast cancer and the development of the cancer drug
tamoxifen Tamoxifen, sold under the brand name Nolvadex among others, is a selective estrogen receptor modulator used to prevent breast cancer in women and treat breast cancer in women and men. It is also being studied for other types of cancer. It has b ...
(BSc and Ph.D. in pharmacology, 1969 and 1972) *
Esther Killick Esther Margaret Killick (3 May 1902 – 31 May 1960) was an English physiologist who was a professor of physiology at the London School of Medicine for Women (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine) from 1941 until her death in 1960. Her main r ...
, physiologist (MB ChB 1929, MSc 1937, DSc 1952) *
Michael Lawrie Michael Lawrie (born 17 April 1968) is a British computer security and social networking expert known for many things ranging from running MUDs to accidentally being the world's first Cybersquatter. He lives in Cambridge, England where he cre ...
, computer security and social networking expert (Computational Science, 1989) * Michael Martin, bridge engineer (Civil Engineering, 1975) *Sir
Timothy O'Shea Sir Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea (born 28 March 1949, Hamburg, Germany) is a British computer scientist and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 2002 to 2018. Biography O'Shea grew up in Lon ...
, computer scientist and Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the
University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...
* George Porter, chemist, Nobel Prize winner and President of the Royal Society (Chemistry, 1941) *
Dan Quine Daniel Nicholas Quine (formerly known as Daniel Nicholas Crow) is a computer scientist, currently VP Engineering at AltSchool. Early career Quine learned to program on a ZX81 and a BBC Micro in the 1980s. He received a BSc in Computer Sci ...
, computer scientist *
Anya Reading Anya Marie Reading is a professor of Geophysics and Associate Head of Research in the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania. Early life and education Reading completed her undergraduate education at the University of Edinburgh, UK ...
, geophysics lecturer at the
University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first pro ...
(PhD Geophysics 1997) *
Malcolm Richardson Malcolm D. Richardson is Director of the Mycology Reference Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust at Wythenshawe Hospital and an honorary Professor of Medical Mycology at the University of Manchester. He was formerly an Associate Pr ...
, mycologist * Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut (Biometeorology, 1981) *
Margot Shiner Margot Shiner (nee Last; 4 June 1923 – 31 July 1998) was a German-British gastroenterologist and medical researcher who worked in London and Israel. As a result of her development of a new technique to biopsy the small intestine in children, she ...
, gastroenterologist (Medicine, 1947) *
Karen Steel Karen Penelope Steel FRS FMedSci is a British scientist who studies the genetics of deafness, using the mouse as a model to identify the genes involved and to understand the molecular, cellular and physiological mechanisms involved. She is Profess ...
, geneticist, Principal Investigator at the
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is located on the Wellcome G ...
*
James Francis Tait James Francis Tait (1926-2014) was an English physicist and endocrinologist. He worked with his wife, Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait from 1948 until her death in 2003, a partnership described by the Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Dictionary ...
, Endocrinologist and discoverer of
aldosterone Aldosterone is the main mineralocorticoid steroid hormone produced by the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex in the adrenal gland. It is essential for sodium conservation in the kidney, salivary glands, sweat glands, and colon. It plays a c ...
. (Physics 1945) *
Hassan Ugail Professor Hassan Ugail is a mathematician and a computer scientist. He is currently working as a professor of visual computing at the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Bradford. Ugail is known to be the first Maldivian ...
, Professor of Visual Computing at the
University of Bradford The University of Bradford is a Public university, public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be creat ...
*
Jennifer Wilby Jennifer M. Wilby (born 1953) is an American and UK management scientist, and past director of the Centre for Systems Studies, and a senior lecturer and researcher in management systems and sciences in The Business School, University of Hull. Sh ...
, Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull *
Guy Alfred Wyon Guy Alfred Wyon (15 October 1883 – 2 March 1924) MD, BSc. was an English pathologist, researcher and lecturer, focusing mainly on bacterial growth and producing papers on the subject. Before the First World War he was a house physician and ...
, pathologist, researcher, lecturer * Anne Young (nurse), founder of the first Irish school of general nursing *
Robert Zachary Robert Bransby Zachary (1 March 1913 – 1 February 1999) was an English paediatric surgeon who spent the majority of his career at Sheffield Children's Hospital. He was an expert on the treatment of spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Career Robert ...
, paediatric surgeon


Other

* Abdullah Yusuf Ali, translator of the Quran * Michael Asher, desert explorer and author (English 1977) *
Alistair Brownlee Alistair Edward Brownlee MBE (born 23 April 1988) is a British triathlete. He is the only athlete to hold two Olympic titles in the triathlon event, winning gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. He is also a four-time World Champion ...
, Olympian and ITU Triathlon World Champion (Physiology and Sport 2009) *
Daniel Byles Daniel Alan Byles (born 24 June 1974) is a former British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2010 to 2015. Background Byles was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but spent his early childhood as an exp ...
, Guinness World Record-holding ocean rower and polar explorer (Economics and Management Studies 1996) *
Nancy Cruickshank Nancy Cruickshank is a British entrepreneur in beauty, fashion, and technology. She has founded three start-ups and helped launch several others. Since 2018, she is the Chief Digital Officer at Carlsberg group A/S. Early life and education Nanc ...
, British entrepreneur in beauty, fashion, and technology *
Abdul Haque Faridi Abul Faraḥ Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ḥaque Farīdī (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996) was a Bangladeshi educator and author. In recognition of his contributions in the field of linguistics, he was awarded a Bangla Academy Fellowship. Faridi was th ...
, Bangladeshi academic *
Kat Fletcher Kathryn "Kat" Jane Fletcher (born 20 December 1979) is a British Labour Party politician. In May 2016, she was sworn in as the Mayor of Islington, having served as a councillor of the borough's St George's Ward since 2013. She was previously p ...
, president of the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom, 2004-2006 (Sociology) * Bagrat Galstanyan, Armenian theologian and cleric, primate of the Diocese of Tavush * Andrew Harrison (born 1970), CEO of
Carphone Warehouse The Carphone Warehouse Limited was a mobile phone retailer based in London, United Kingdom. In August 2014 the company became a subsidiary of Currys plc (previously named "Dixons Carphone"), which was formed by the merger of its former parent Ca ...
* Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill, Chairman,
Network Rail Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. Network Rail is an "arm's leng ...
(Economics & Geography, 1975) * Richard Hoggart, sociologist and author of '' The Uses of Literacy'' (English, 1939) *
Euphemia Steele Innes Euphemia Steele Innes RRC DN (26 February 1874 – 9 May 1955) was a Scottish nurse who served for 21 years as matron at Leeds General Infirmary in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She was decorated with the Royal Red Cross 1st cla ...
, RRC, DN (1874–1955), Scottish nurse, matron of Leeds General Infirmary for 21 years, principal matron of 2nd Northern General Hospital, founder of
Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...
Nurses' League * Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs (Gender Studies) * Simon Lee, businessman, Chief Executive of
RSA Insurance Group RSA Insurance Group Limited (doing business as, trading as RSA, formerly RSA Insurance Group plc and Royal and Sun Alliance) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational general insurance company headquartered in London, England. RSA has ...
(English and French) *
Nicola Mendelsohn Nicola Mendelsohn CBE (née: Clyne; born 29 August 1971) is a British advertising executive. Active in the advertising industry since 1992, she was named vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Facebook in June 2013. In 2021, N ...
, British advertising executive (English and Theatre Studies, 1992) * Abdullah O. Nasseef, Saudi geologist, chemist and politician *
W. H. New William Herbert New (born March 28, 1938) is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at John Oliver Secondary School, where he received one of the top matriculation exam scores in British Columbi ...
, Professor of English Literature at The University of British Columbia, Officer of the
Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the ...
* Tom Palmer, Rugby Union player * David Parry, dialectologist who founded the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects *
Ivor Porter Ivor Forsyth Porter Order of St. Michael and St. George, CMG, Order of the British Empire, OBE (12 November 1913 – 29 May 2012) was a British Ambassador and author. Education Porter was brought up in the Lake District and educated at Parkvie ...
, ambassador and author of ''Operation Autonomous'' and ''King Michael'' (English, 1936) *
Richard Profit Richard (Rich) Profit (born 1974) is an English mountaineer, sailor, a former British Army officer and polar adventurer. In 2007 he took part in the Polar Race with the mother and son pair Janice Meek and Daniel Byles, successfully walking and skii ...
, polar explorer (Biology and Management Studies 1996) *
Subir Raha Subir Raha ( bn, সুবীর রাহা) (28 August 1948 – 1 February 2010) a former Director (HR) of Indian Oil Corporation and ex-chairman and MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation received global recognition as Energy Executive of t ...
, Indian business leader (MBA 1985) * Ken Robinson, educationalist (English and drama, 1972) *
Sir Christopher Rose Sir Christopher Dudley Roger Rose (born 10 February 1937) is a former judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Education Christopher Rose was educated at Morecambe Grammar Scho ...
, former head of the
Court of Appeal A court of appeals, also called a court of appeal, appellate court, appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of t ...
Criminal Division (LL.B., 1957) *
Jacob Rowan Jacob Rowan (born 14 January 1990) is a professional rugby union player for Gloucester. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School, and studied Chemistry at the University of Leeds. Rowan is a former England U18 international and went on tour ...
, former captain for the England U20 Rugby Union Team and current player for
Gloucester Rugby Gloucester Rugby are a professional rugby union club based in the West Country city of Gloucester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby, as well as in the European Rugby Champions Cup. The club was formed i ...
*
Harold Shipman Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known by the public as Doctor Death and to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolif ...
, general practitioner and convicted serial killer (Medicine, 1970) *
Reynhard Sinaga Reynhard Tambos Maruli Tua Sinaga (born 19 February 1983) is an Indonesian sex offender who was convicted of 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes of young men committed in Manchester, England, between 2015 and 2017, where he was living as a st ...
, Indonesian serial rapist and most prolific rapist in British legal history (Human geography) *
George Martin Stephen George Martin Stephen (born 1949) was High Master of St Paul's School (London), St Paul's School in London until 1 January 2011. He is an author and has been described as "one of Britain's highest profile heads". Education Stephen was educated ...
, high master of St Paul's School, London (English and History) *Brigadier Mike Stone, Chief Information Officer of the
Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in states ...
*
Marilyn Stowe Marilyn Stowe (born 1957) is an English family lawyer. She founded her firm in a converted cobbler’s shop in Halton, Leeds, in 1982. An attack by three masked men outside her office on 3 December 2003 led to the closure of her offices in Leeds ...
, divorce lawyer and the first Chief Assessor and Chief Examiner of the Law Society's Family Law Panel (Law, 1970s) *
Cec Thompson Theodore Cecil Thompson (12 July 1926 – 19 July 2011) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was born in County Durham, the son of a mother from Durham, and a Trinidadian His father wa ...
, rugby league player and co-founder of Student Rugby League *
Paul Watson Paul Franklin Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American conservation and environmental movement, environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine c ...
, Pohnpei State football team coach (Italian, 2005)


Staff

The following people have been members of staff at the university: *
Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie, (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, w ...
, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929) * William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering
X-ray diffraction X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...
studies of biological molecules (Lecturer/Reader in Textile Physics, 1928-1946, Professor of Biomolecular Physics, 1946–61) * Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist * Maurice Beresford, economic historian, Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985) * Regina Lee Blaszczyk, professor of business history and leadership chair in the history of business and society *Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1909-1915) *
Asa Briggs Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was an English historian. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. Briggs achieved international recognition during his lon ...
, historian *Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of
British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...
(University Librarian, 1997-2000) *
Selig Brodetsky Selig Brodetsky, זליג ברודצק (10 February 1888 – 18 May 1954) was a Russian-born English mathematician, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the second president of the ...
(1888–1954), mathematician, President of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
* Anthony Carrigan (lecturer in postcolonial literature and cultures, 2013–16) *
Anastasios Christodoulou Anastasios Christodoulou (1 May 1932 – 20 May 2002), often known as Chris Christodoulou, was a British-based Greek Cypriot university administrator. He was the Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Foundati ...
, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the
Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...
*
Pit Corder Stephen Pit Corder (6 October 1918 – 27 January 1990) was a professor of applied linguistics at Edinburgh University, known for his contribution to the study of error analysis. He was the first Chair of the British Association for Applied Lin ...
, professor and applied linguist (1961-1964) * David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1985) * Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor * Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980) * Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981) *
Jane Ingham Rose Marie "Jane" Ingham ( ; 15 August 189710 September 1982) was an English botanist and scientific translator. She was appointed research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley in the Botany Department at the University of Leeds, and together, ...
, botanist (Research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley, 1920-1930) *Sir
Christopher Ingold Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (28 October 1893 – 8 December 1970) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was resp ...
, chemist *
Benedikt Isserlin Benedikt Sigmund Johannes Isserlin (1916 – 2005) was a scholar of Hebrew who was Head of the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Leeds. Early life and education Isserlin was born in Munich in 1916. He left Germany in the early ...
, semitist and ancient historian *
Catherine Karkov Catherine E. Karkov is professor of History of Art and head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research centres on early medieval art, especially Anglo-Saxon art, and she has published ...
, art historian *
Susanne Karstedt Susanne Karstedt is a German criminologist. She is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Biography A native of Germany, Kartstedt trained in sociology at the University ...
, criminologist * Percy Fry Kendall, award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22) * Ursula King, scholar of religion and gender *
G. Wilson Knight George Richard Wilson Knight (1897–1985) was an English literary critic and academic, known particularly for his interpretation of mythic content in literature, and ''The Wheel of Fire'', a collection of essays on Shakespeare's plays. He was a ...
, literary critic (English) *
Owen Lattimore Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in the 1930s he was editor of ''Pacif ...
, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970) *
Irene Manton Irene Manton, FRS FLS (born Irène Manton; 17 April 1904, in Kensington – 13 May 1988) was a British botanist who was Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds. She was noted for study of ferns and algae. Biography Irene Manton was th ...
, botanist and cell biologist (Professor of Biology, 1946-1969) *
David I. Masson David Irvine Masson (6 November 1915 – 27 February 2007) was a British science-fiction writer and librarian. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Masson came from a distinguished family of academics and thinkers. His father, Sir Irvine Masson, was a ...
, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979) *
Duncan McCargo Duncan McCargo is a British academic who is serving as Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the School of Politics and Intern ...
, Professor of Political Science (twice Head of School of Politics and International Studies), 1993-2020 *
John Anthony McGuckin John Anthony McGuckin (born 1952) is a British theologian, church historian, Orthodox Christian priest and poet. Education McGuckin attended Heythrop College from 1970 to 1972, graduated from the University of London with a divinity degree in 197 ...
, former Reader in
Patristic Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin ''pater'' and Greek ''patḗr'' (father). The period is generally considered to run from ...
and Byzantine Theology *Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician * Ralph Miliband, political theorist (Professor and Head of Politics department, 1972-1978) *
David Macey David Macey (5 October 1949 – 7 October 2011) was an English translator and intellectual historian of the French left. He translated around sixty books from French to English, and wrote biographical studies of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and ...
, Intellectual historian *
Fred Orton Fred Lionel Orton (born 1945, Coventry, Warwickshire England) is an English art historian. His initial training was at Coventry College of Art in painting as a Dip.A,D student. He extended his experience in the History and Development of Art ini ...
, art historian *
Joseph Hubert Priestley Joseph Hubert Priestley (; 5 October 188331 October 1944) was a British lecturer in botany at University College, Bristol, and professor of botany and pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Leeds. He has been described as a gifted teacher w ...
, botanist (Professor of Botany, 1911-1944) *
Sheena Radford Sheena Elizabeth Radford FRS FMedSci is a British biophysicist, and Astbury Professor of Biophysics in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Leeds. Radford is the A ...
, Astbury Professor of Biophysics *
Leonard James Rogers Leonard James Rogers Royal Society, FRS (30 March 1862 – 12 September 1933) was a British mathematician who was the first to discover the Rogers–Ramanujan identity and Hölder's inequality, and who introduced Rogers polynomials. The Roger ...
, mathematician (Mathematics 1889-1919) *
James Scott James Scott may refer to: Entertainment * James Scott (composer) (1885–1938), African-American ragtime composer * James Scott (director) (born 1941), British filmmaker * James Scott (actor) (born 1979), British television actor * James Scott (Sh ...
, chair of obstetrics and gynaecology 1961–89 *
Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...
, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner *
J. I. M. Stewart John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the cr ...
, writer, often under the pen name
Michael Innes John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the cri ...
(English, 1930-1935) *
Philip Thody Philip Malcolm Waller Thody (21 March 1928 – 15 June 1999) was an English scholar of French literature who was Professor of French Literature at the University of Leeds from 1965 until 1993. Early life and education Thody was born in Lincoln in ...
, writer, editor, translator and Professor of French Literature from 1965 to 1993 *
E. P. Thompson Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is best known today for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in ...
, historian (Extramural, 1948-1965) *
J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philology, philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was ...
, writer (English, 1920-1925) * Stephen Turnbull, military historian * Philip Wilby, composer, School of Music until 2006 *
Fiona Williams Jonquil Fiona Williams, (born 22 July 1947) is a British retired academic of social policy whose research covers gender, race, ethnicity, and the welfare state. From 1996 to 2012, she was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds. S ...
, Professor of Social Policy from 1996 to 2012 *
Ian N. Wood Ian N. Wood, (born 1950) is an English scholar of early medieval history, and a professor at the University of Leeds who specializes in the history of the Merovingian dynasty and the missionary efforts on the European continent. Patrick J. Gear ...
, historian of the Middle Ages *
Verna Wright Verna Wright, MD, FRCP, (31 December 1928 – 31 January 1998) was a British evangelist, physician, professor of rheumatology at the University of Leeds and co-founder of United Beach Missions. Biography Wright was educated at Bedford School an ...
, Professor of
Rheumatology Rheumatology (Greek ''ῥεῦμα'', ''rheûma'', flowing current) is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatolog ...


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