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词条 List of University of Kent people
释义

  1. Officers

     Chancellors  Vice-Chancellors  Pro Chancellors  Chair of the Council  Visitors 

  2. Notable staff

  3. Famous alumni

     Academia  Acting  Literature  Media  Music  Politics and administration  Sports  Military  Miscellaneous 

  4. References

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A list of people related to the University of Kent.

{{See also|:Category:People associated with the University of Kent}}

Officers

Several positions did not technically exist prior to the formal incorporation of the University by approval of its Charter on 4 January 1965. However several were appointed beforehand as nominal "officer designates", performing the same duties. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent was not formally installed as Chancellor until 30 March 1966.[1]

Chancellors

  • 1963-1968 Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
  • 1970-1990 Jo Grimond (later Baron Grimond) - see University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, 1970
  • 1990-1995 Sir Robert Horton
  • 1996-2006 Sir Crispin Tickell
  • 2006-2014 Sir Robert Worcester
  • 2014- Gavin Esler

Vice-Chancellors

  • 1963-1980 Geoffrey Templeman
  • 1980-1994 D J E Ingram
  • 1994-2001 Robin Sibson
  • 2001-2007 Sir David Melville
  • 2007-2017 Dame Julia Goodfellow
  • 2017-present Professor Karen Cox

Pro Chancellors

  • 1960-1971 Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
  • 1971-1977 Sir Paul Chambers
  • 1977-1984 Robin Leigh-Pemberton
  • 1984-1993 Rt Rev David Say
  • 1993-1999 John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne
  • 1999-2005 Sir Geoffrey Chipperfield

Title changed to:

Chair of the Council

  • 2005 - 2011 Valerie Marshall
  • 2011 - 2014 John Simmonds
  • 2014 - present Sir David Warren

Visitors

The Visitor of the university is the Archbishop of Canterbury ex officio. The following Archbishops have served:

  • 1965-1974 Michael Ramsey (appointed Archbishop 1961)
  • 1974-1980 Donald Coggan
  • 1980-1991 Robert Runcie
  • 1991-2002 George Carey
  • 2002-2012 Rowan Williams
  • 2013-present Justin Welby

Notable staff

{{See also|:Category:Academics of the University of Kent}}
  • Harry Bloom - South African former political activist, author
  • Upamanyu Chatterjee - author
  • Elizabeth Cowie - professor of film studies at the University of Kent[2]
  • Frank Furedi - founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), Professor of Sociology
  • Robin Gill - Anglican priest and theologian
  • Roy Goodman - freelance conductor, violinist and organist
  • Matthew Goodwin - professor and researcher of British politics
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah - writer
  • Rosalyn Higgins - President of the International Court of Justice
  • Michael J. L. Kirby - former Canadian Senator
  • Bill MacMillan - Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia
  • Molly Mahood - literary scholar
  • Hamish Swanston, the first Catholic to head a Department of Theology at a British university since the Reformation
  • Sarah Turner - filmmaker, and Director of Research, School of Music and Fine Art[3]
  • Glenn White - astronomer
  • John Zarnecki - space scientist and principal on the Huygens probe

Famous alumni

{{See also|:Category:Alumni of the University of Kent}}

Academia

  • Anuwar Ali - economist; exponent of higher education; second Vice-Chancellor and President of Open University Malaysia
  • Adrian Franklin - Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania
  • Homa Katouzian - Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oxford
  • Robert Lethbridge - professor, Master of Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge
  • Ralph Townsend - Headmaster of Winchester College
  • Patrick Collinson - Notable Elizabethan historian; Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge

Acting

  • Andrew Burt - actor
  • Alan Davies - comedian and actor
  • Kim Ismay - actor and singer
  • Paul Telfer - actor
  • Ramon Tikaram - actor
  • Tom Wilkinson OBE - actor

Literature

  • Kazuo Ishiguro - novelist, Man Booker Prize winner and Nobel Prize winner.
  • Michael Baigent - co-author of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
  • Valerie Bloom - poet
  • Debjani Chatterjee - poet
  • Fred D'Aguiar - novelist, playwright, and poet
  • E. L. James - author
  • David Mitchell - novelist
  • Sarah Waters - novelist
  • David Wingrove - novelist
  • Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie - novelist
  • Musaemura Zimunya - Zimbabwean contemporary author and poet

Media

  • Kate Blewett - documentary filmmaker
  • Rosie Boycott - journalist, former editor of The Independent
  • Paul J. Bradley - film producer for Merchant Ivory Productions
  • Ian Collins - talkSPORT radio presenter
  • Gavin Esler - BBC Newsnight presenter
  • Shiulie Ghosh - ITV news presenter
  • Fi Glover - BBC radio presenter
  • Charlotte Green - BBC radio presenter, voted "Most Attractive Female Voice on National Radio"
  • David Horsey - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
  • Mark Mardell - BBC presenter
  • Nick Piercey - BBC Local Radio presenter
  • Carolyn Quinn - BBC Radio 4 political presenter
  • Paul Ross - journalist and presenter
  • Mike Shaw - writer, BBC radio presenter and editor of Mobile Choice
  • Robert Wade - screenwriter
  • Patrick Wright - journalist and author

Music

  • YolanDa Brown - saxophonist and composer; double MOBO "Best Jazz" winner
  • Ellie Goulding - singer/songwriter (did not graduate)
  • Steve Hillage - guitarist (did not graduate)
  • Tiwa Savage - Nigerian singer/songwriter

Politics and administration

  • Abdullah Md Zin - minister in the Malaysian government
  • Sir David Akers-Jones - former acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1986/87
  • Azizan Abdul Razak - Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of the Malaysian state of Kedah
  • Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton - former Government Whip in the House of Lords
  • Ronald D. Coleman -former United States Representative for Texas
  • Chris Davies - former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for North West England; former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament; former Member of Parliament for Littleborough and Saddleworth
  • Mark Drakeford- First Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government
  • Tamsin Dunwoody - former Labour Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire; former minister in the Welsh Assembly Government
  • Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine - Liberal Democrat peer
  • Stephen Gethins - SNP Member of Parliament for North East Fife
  • Dame Ann Hercus DCMG - New Zealand politician and diplomat
  • David Lepper - former Labour Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion
  • Chris Mole - former Labour Member of Parliament for Ipswich
  • Shan Morgan - British Ambassador to the Argentine Republic and to the Republic of Paraguay
  • Emily Thornberry - Labour Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Shadow Foreign Secretary
  • Robin Tilbrook - leader and founder of the English Democrats
  • Peter Whittle – Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party
  • Fu Ying - Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom; former Ambassador to Australia

Sports

  • Paul Ackford - former England rugby player, The Sunday Telegraph sports journalist
  • David Fulton - cricketer, former captain of Kent County Cricket Club
  • Jamie Reeves - semi-professional footballer who won the FA Vase twice; pundit on the ESPN Star Sports coverage of the Premier League
  • Susannah Townsend - GB, England and Canterbury field hockey player

Military

  • Joshua Leakey - known for courageous actions in the Afghanistan campaign in 2015; recipient of the Victoria Cross

Miscellaneous

  • Jackie Clune - comedian
  • Tom Frame - Australian Christian minister of religion, historian, academic, author, and social commentator
  • Akaliza Keza Gara - Rwandan IT activist
  • Rachael House - artist
  • Sir Hugh Orde OBE - former Chief Constable of Northern Ireland
  • Stephen Shaw - Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales
  • Charles Wigoder - telecommunications entrepreneur
  • Johnny Yeo - artist

References

1. ^Graham Martin, From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) page 32 {{ISBN|0-904938-03-4}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Prof Elizabeth Cowie|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff/cowie.html|website=University of Kent|accessdate=1 August 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808050755/http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff/cowie.html|archivedate=8 August 2014|df=}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Sarah Turner: Director of Research|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/staff/staff-profiles/school/5Turner.html|website=University of Kent|accessdate=26 July 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140806012555/http://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/staff/staff-profiles/school/5Turner.html|archivedate=6 August 2014|df=}}
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