List of University of Birmingham people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of Birmingham:

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*The Rt. Hon.Joseph Chamberlain - Former and First Chancellor who helped set up the University of Birmingham, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and father of Sir Austen Chamberlain and former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
*Sir Robert Aitken - Former Vice-Chancellor who helped set up the University of Warwick
*Sir Melville Arnott - Former William Withering Chair in Medicine
*George Augustus Auden - Former School Medical Officer and Lecturer in Public Health
*Professor Mark Beeson - Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies
*Professor Rupert E. Billingham - Former Chair in Zoology
*Dr Stewart Brown - Reader in African Literature and Director of the Centre of West African Studies
*Anthony Burgess - British novelist who lectured on phonetics in the late 1940s
*Sir Alexander Jarratt CB - Former Chancellor.
*Sir Dominic Cadbury - Current Chancellor
*Professor John Churton Collins - Former Professor of English Literature
*Dr Reginald Cline-Cole - Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies
*Professor Thomas Diez - Professor of International Relations Theory
*Sir Edward Elgar - Former Professor of Music
*Professor Richard Hoggart - Founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO
*Professor Stuart Hall - Former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
*Mervyn King - Former Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and current Governor of the Bank of England
*Sir Michael Lyons - Professor of Public Policy from 2001 to 2006
*Professor Anand Menon - Professor of West European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute
*Professor Allardyce Nicoll - Head of the English Department and founding director of the Shakespeare Institute
*Sir Marcus Oliphant - Former Professor of Physics, played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb and radar
*Arthur Peacocke was a lecturer in chemistry and biophysical chemistry, before he went to Oxford University in 1959
*Professor Rudolf Peierls - Former Professor of Physics
*Sir Nikolaus Pevsner - Art historian who held a research post at the university for a number of years
*Canon Dr Terry Slater - Reader in Historical Geography
*Professor Aaron Sloman - Former Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
*Professor Ninian Smart - Former Professor of Religious Studies
*Professor Michael Sterling - Current Vice-Chancellor and Principal
*Professor Stanley Wells - Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies and former Director of the Shakespeare Institute
*Dr Tony Wright was a lecturer in politics from 1975 until 1992, before being elected Labour Member of Parliament for Cannock and Burntwood
*Professor John Henry Poynting - Former Professor of Physics at (Mason Science College) now the University of Birmingham, first calculated the weight of the earth.
*Lord Gordon Borrie QC - Former Law Professor and current Advertising Standards Authority's Chairman .
*Professor David Eastwood - Successor of current Vice-Chancellor and currently Chief Executive at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

Alumni

Academia

*Dr Robert Beckford - leading UK theologian, academic, and film-maker, completed his PhD at Birmingham and was also a research fellow at the university
*Dr Harry Boot - co-developer of the war-winning cavity magnetron
*Dr Desmond Morris - leading zoologist, author and TV presenter
*Sir Ernest Titterton - nuclear physicist involved in the development of the atomic bomb
*Professor Margaret Mullett OBE - Professor of Byzantine studies and director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast
*Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick - activist for higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College and sister of a British Prime minister
* Dr Moira Bruce - leading expert on BSE
*Rev Dr Lynn de Silva - Sri Lankan theologian, former director of the Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, Methodist minister, and a pioneer in promoting Buddhist-Christian dialogue, completed his Master of Arts at Birmingham
*Professor Paul Gilroy - Sociologist and Cultural Theorist, author of "Ain't no Black in the Union Jack

Actors/directors

*Madeleine Carroll - actress
*Tim Curry - actor and musician
*Matthew Goode - actor
*Phyllida Lloyd - director
*Tamsin Greig - actress (star of "Green Wing", "Black Books" and "Love Soup", "Debbie Aldridge" in "The Archers"), studied drama and theatre arts
*Norman Painting - actor ("Phil Archer" in radio series "The Archers")
*Jane Wymark - actress, studied drama and theatre arts
*Fielder Cook - Emmy Award-winning director and producer
*Victoria Wood - comedienne and actress

Armed forces

* General Sir Mike Jackson KCB CBE - former Chief of the General Staff, the most senior officer in the British Army
* Captain Adrian Nance OBE - Commanding Officer, HMS "Ark Royal"

Entrepreneurs and business

*Tony Hayward - chief executive of BP
*Matthew Key - chief executive of O2
*Dr Adam Osborne - founder of the Osborne Computer Corporation
*George Davis - founder of Next and creator of George at Asda

Law and order

*Sir Michael Davies - one of the first judges to specifically handle defamation cases
*Professor David Pearl - lawyer and member of the judicial appointments commission
*Justice Michelle Arana - first female Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize
*Justice Geoffrey Ma Tao-Li - Chief Judge of the High Court in Hong Kong
*Mr Govind Narayan Sinha - Director, State Forest Research Institute, Department of Environment and Forests Government of Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar, India.

Media and journalism

*Kay Alexander - TV presenter [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/midlandstoday/profiles/kay_alexander.shtml BBC - Midlands Today - Kay Alexander profile ] ]
*Professor Michael Aston - TV archaeologist (as "Mick Aston")
*Ellie Crisell - journalist, TV presenter
*Alex Deakin - BBC weatherman
*Philippa Forrester - TV presenter
*Saima Mohsin - Dawn News Senior Journalist, News Eye.
*Lizo Mzimba - journalist, TV presenter and former editor of "Redbrick" [ [http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gtv.html People of GTV - The Homepage of Jason Wood ] ]
*Fiona Philips - GMTV presenter
*Ben Shephard - TV presenter
*Chris Tarrant OBE - TV presenter
*Brian Whitaker - journalist

Musicians

*Simon Le Bon - lead singer of Duran Duran
*Neil Arthur - lead singer and guitarist of the synthpop group Blancmange
*Ayalah Bentovim, a.k.a Sister Bliss - founder member of the band Faithless
*Spencer Davis - 1960s pop star
*Wally Francis - deputy chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Nobel Prize recipients

*Francis Aston FRS - chemist and physicist: 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Norman Haworth FRS - chemist : 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Maurice Wilkins CBE FRS - physicist: 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (discovery of DNA)
* Sir John Vane FRS - pharmacologist and: 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Sir Paul Nurse FRS - biochemist: 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Politicians

* The Rt Hon Baroness Amos - first black woman to sit in the British Cabinet
* Dr Kenny Anthony - Prime Minister of St. Lucia
* The Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP - former cabinet minister
* Baron Bhattacharyya - sits on the Labour bench of the House of Lords
* Bob Blizzard - Labour MP
* John Butcher - former MP
* Neville Chamberlain - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1937-1940
* David Drew - Labour MP
* Richard Edwards - Welsh Labour Party politician
* Patrick Hall - Labour MP
* Dr Richard Hu - former Singapore Minister of Finance
* Lynne Jones - Labour MP
* Chen Liangyu - former CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary
* Basil McCrea, UUP member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
* Jessica Morden - Labour MP
* Andrew Turner - Conservative MP
* The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP - former government minister
* The Hon Perry Gladstone Christie - Prime Minister of the Bahamas

Royalty

*Prince Seeiso of Lesotho - Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso of Lesotho

port

*Joey Barrington - squash player, son of Jonah Barrington
*Tom Bertram - England hockey player
*Lisa Clayton - first British woman to sail single-handed around the world
*Julie Crane - Commonwealth Games silver medalist in the high jump
*Allison Curbishley - Olympic 400m athlete
*Naomi Folkard - British archer
*David Gill - Chief Executive of Manchester United Football Club
*Patrick Head - Co-founder and Engineering Director of the Williams Formula One team
*Rachel Heal - racing cyclist
*David Hemp - Cricketer who represented Bermuda in the Cricket World Cup and also represented England Lions
*Paul Manning - professional track cyclist [cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7570978.stm|title=Local heroes: Mapping GB's gold medallists|last=Hand|first=John|date=2008-08-22|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2008-08-23]
*Simon Mantell - England hockey player
*Baz Moffat - rower
*Shelley Newman - retired discus thrower
*Phil Pask - rugby union player and physiotherapist
*Adam Pengilly - British skeleton racer
*Nick Smith - Olympic canoeist
*Frank Tickner - cross country runner
*Victor Ubogu - former Bath and England rugby union player
*Chrissie Wellington - first British athlete to win the Ironman Triathlon World Championship

Writers and artists

*Chris Addison - writer/comedian
*Professor Walter Allen - novelist and literary critic
*James Clavell - novelist and screenwriter
*Roy Fisher - poet
*Dr David Lodge - novelist
*Dr C. J. Sansom - crime novelist
*William P. McGivern - crime novelist and scriptwriter
*Henry Treece - poet and novelist
*Victoria Wood OBE - writer/comedian
*Francis Brett Young - novelist and poet

Health

*Professor Sir Liam Donaldson - Chief Medical Officer for England
*Barry Cockcroft - Chief Dental Officer for England
*Professor Lawrence Young - Head for College of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences for University of Birmingham and Head of the Division of Cancer Studies and Director of the Cancer Research UK Institute for Cancer Studies.

Others

*David Kelly CMG - UN weapons inspector
*Dr Rodolfo Neri Vela - Mexican astronaut

References