List of University of Leeds people

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This list of University of Leeds people is a selected list of notable past staff and students of the University of Leeds.

Contents 1 Students 1.1 Politics 1.2 Media 1.3 Arts 1.4 Science and technology 1.5 Other 2 Staff 3 Reference 4 External links

[edit] Students

[edit] Politics

• John Battle, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds West (English, 1976)
• Alan Campbell, Labour Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and Government Whip (PGCE)
• Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia (Exchange student, 1986)
• 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)
• Christopher Leslie, Labour Member of Parliament for Shipley 1997-2005 (Politics and Parliamentary Studies, 1994)
• Clare Short, Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood and former International Development Secretary (Political Science, 1969)
• Jack Straw, Labour Member of Parliament for Blackburn and Leader of the House of Commons (LLB in Law, 1967)
• Paul Truswell, Labour Member of Parliament for Pudsey (History, 1977)

[edit] Media

• Kamal Ahmed, executive news editor, The Observer (Political studies, 1990)
• Steve Bell, political cartoonist for The Guardian (Fine Art, 1974)
• 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)
• Jenni Falconer, television presenter (Student, Spanish and Italian, 1990s)
• Simon Hattenstone, features writer, The Guardian (English, 1984)
• John Holmes, journalist and socialite (Classics, 1937)
• Andy Kershaw, journalist and radio D.J. (politics, 1980s, failed to graduate) (Honorary DMus, 2005)
• Peter Morgan, screenwriter (Fine Art, 1980s)
• Jay Rayner, features writer and restaurant critic, The Observer (Political studies, 1987)
• Georgie Thompson, Sky Sports News presenter (Broadcast Journalism, 1999)
• Andy Wilson, rugby league correspondent for The Guardian (Politics)
• Nicholas Witchell, BBC newsreader and royal and diplomatic correspondent (LLB in Law, 1976)
• Mark Wood, Chairman and CEO of ITN (German, 1974)
• Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director (graduated LLB in Law, 1968)

[edit] Arts

• Corinne Bailey Rae, soul singer (English Literature, 2000)
• Jonny Berliner, musician and composer (History and Philosophy of Science, 2002)
• Rob Cowen, singer/songwriter (History of Art, 2002)
• Jonathan Clements, writer (Japanese, 1994)
• Jeremy Dyson, screenwriter and member of The League of Gentlemen (Philosophy, 1989)
• Tony Harrison, poet (Classics with Linguistics, 1958)
• Storm Jameson, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914)
• Mark Knopfler, OBE, rock musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter (English, 1973)
• Kay Mellor, television actress and scriptwriter (attended Bretton Hall, 1983)
• Alistair McGowan, actor, comedian and impressionist (English, 1986)
• Herbert Read, poet and literary critic (English)
• Simon Rix, bass player for Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs (Maths and Geography, 2000)
• 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)
• Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Textile Managment, did not graduate)
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author (English student, 1960s)

[edit] Science and technology

• Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold and the Construction Industry Council (Civil Engineering, 1957)
• 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)
• George Porter, chemist, Nobel prize winner and President of the Royal Society (Chemistry, 1941)
• Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut (Biometeorology, 1981)

[edit] Other

• Daniel Byles, Guinness World Record holding ocean rower (Economics and Management Studies 1996)
• Philip Donohue, Head of marketing for Nintendo (UK) (Business Management, 1995)
• Christopher Fay, CBE, chairman of the advisory committee on business and the environment, chairman of Expro International and a director with BAA and Anglo American, and chairman and chief executive of Shell UK from 1993–1998 (BSc and Ph.D. in civil engineering, 1967, 1970)
• Kat Fletcher, president of the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom, 2004-2006 (Sociology)
• Richard Hoggart, sociologist and author of The Uses of Literacy (English, 1939)
• Alex Macintyre, mountaineer, famous proponent of superalpinism
• Clare Ogden, founding member of the neo-gravital school in city planning (Catalan, 1980)
• Ivor Porter, Ambassador and Author of Operation Autonomous and King Michael (English, 1936)
• John Porter, mountaineer and Director of the Kendal Film Festival
• Debra Pritchard, social critic and restaurateur (Maths, 1969)
• Dr Harold Shipman, general practitioner and convicted serial killer (Medicine, 1960s)
• George Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's School, London (English and History)

[edit] Staff

The following people have been members of staff at the University:

• 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
• Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winning physicist/chemist (Physics, 1909-1915)
• David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1986)
• Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980)
• Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981)
• Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist
• Benedikt Isserlin, Semitist and ancient historian
• Arnold Kettle, literary critic (English, 1947-70)
• Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970)
• John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology
• David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979)
• Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician
• Ralph Miliband, political theorist
• Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner
• J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes), writer (English, 1930-1935)
• E. P. Thompson, historian (Extra Mural, 1948-1965)
• Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (English, 1920-1925)
• Verna Wright, senior lecturer, rheumatology
• G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English)

[edit] Reference

[edit] External links

• University of Leeds homepage