This is a list of University of Bristol people, including a brief description of their notability. This list includes not just former students but persons who are or have been associated with the university, including former academics, Chancellors, and recipients of honorary degrees.

Staff and academics

Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors

Alumni

Government and politics

United Kingdom

International

The Law

* Alexander Cameron, English Barrister * Eve Cornwell,

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*Sir Richard Field, English High Court Judge, Academic of

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* Louisa Ghevaert, British family law lawyer *

Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, (born 31 January 1945), is a British judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020. In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as a ...

, English judge and first woman to be appointed as the President of the

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, Chancellor of university (2004–2016) * Sir Stephen Laws, British lawyer and civil servant who served as the First Parliamentary Counsel (2006–2012) * Victoria Sharp, English Lady Justice of Appeal and

Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts. It hears appeals on point ...

Kathryn Thirlwall Dame Kathryn Mary Thirlwall, DBE (born 21 November 1957), styled The Rt Hon Lady Justice Thirlwall, is an English judge of the Court of Appeal, and from January 2020 to September 2021 was the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales. She p ...

, English Lady Justice of Appeal and Deputy Senior Presiding Judge

Academia

Literature

Economics and business

Journalism

Science

* Tom Avery, explorer *

David Bohm David Joseph Bohm (; 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American scientist who has been described as one of the most significant Theoretical physics, theoretical physicists of the 20th centuryDavid Peat Who's Afraid of Schrödinger' ...

, physicist * Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief, ''

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'' * Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield, engineer *

Max Delbrück Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical science, physical scientist ...

, Nobel laureate, Medicine *

Keith Devlin Keith James Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship.

, logician *

Paul Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac ( ; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematician and Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for bot ...

, Nobel laureate, Physics * Peter Dunn, paediatrician *

Klaus Fuchs Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly a ...

, physicist; Soviet spy * Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger *

Dorothy Hodgkin Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for ...

, Nobel laureate, Chemistry * Kun Huang, physicist * Judith Kingston, paediatrician * Rob Leslie-Carter, engineer * Chris MacMahon, mechanical engineer *

Nevill Mott Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductor ...

, Nobel laureate, Physics *

Jenny Nelson Jenny Nelson is Professor of Physics in the Blackett Laboratory and Head of the Climate change mitigation team at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London. Education Nelson was educated at the Univ ...

, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London *

Cecil Frank Powell Cecil Frank Powell (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was an English particle physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the result ...

, Nobel laureate, Physics *Sir

William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements ...

, Nobel laureate, Chemistry * Debby Reynolds, Chief Veterinary Officer for the UK *Dame Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the

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* Millicent Taylor, chemist who petitioned the

Chemical Society The Chemical Society was a scientific society formed in 1841 (then named the Chemical Society of London) by 77 scientists as a result of increased interest in scientific matters. Chemist Robert Warington was the driving force behind its creation. ...

Geoffrey Tovey Geoffrey Harold Tovey (29 May 1916 – 19 December 2001) was a medical doctor whose scientific contributions in the field of haematology brought him an international reputation. He was also an expert in serology and founder and Director of the UK ...

, serologist who founded the UK Transplant service * Linda Tyfield, clinical scientist and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists

TV, film, radio and theatre

Sports

Music

James Blunt James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is known for his songs "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover". As a British Army captain in the aftermath of the Kosovo War, Blunt ...

, musician, singer-songwriter * Kerensa Briggs, composer *

Hugh Cornwell Hugh Alan Cornwell (born 28 August 1949) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and writer, best known for being the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the punk rock and new wave band the Stranglers The Stranglers are an English ro ...

, lead singer of The Stranglers * Julian Grant, classical music composer * Jamie Lidell, musician and soul singer, signed to

Warp Records Warp Records is a British independent record label that specialises in Electronic music, electronic, indie rock and experimental music. It was founded in Sheffield in 1989 by Steve Beckett, Robert Mitchell and Robert Gordon. It has released recor ...

* Will Todd, classical and jazz composer; jazz pianist * Harriet Wheeler, musician, singer for

The Sundays The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in Bristol. The band's lineup consisted of lead vocalist Harriet Wheeler, guitarist David Gavurin, bassist Paul Brindley, and drummer Patrick Hannan. Percussionist Lindsay Jamieson was ...

* Jonathan Whitehead, film and television composer

Others

* Roly Bain, clown-priest * Mark Hewitt, potter * Rob Munro, Bishop of Ebbsfleet * Mary Talbot, naval officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service * Malcolm Wood, British-Chinese entrepreneur and restaurateur

References

External links

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