1. Students
    Politics  Media  Arts  Music  Visual  Literary  Other  Science and technology  Other 

2. Staff

3. References

4. External links

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

Students

Politics

• John Battle, former Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds West (English, 1976)^[1]
• Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin, former Conservative Minister of State for the Environment (LLB in Law)^[2]
• Sir Bracewell Smith, businessman, Conservative Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London
• Alan Campbell, Labour Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and former Government Whip (PGCE)^[3]
• Mark Collett, former chairman of the Young BNP, the youth division of the British National Party; Director of Publicity for the Party before being suspended from the party in early April 2010 (Economics, 1986)
• Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of Mongolia (2000-2004) (exchange student, 1986)
• José Ángel Gurría, economist, secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• 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)
• Chris Leslie, Labour Member of Parliament formerly for Shipley and now Nottingham East (Politics and Parliamentary Studies, 1994)
• Andrew Leung, current President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
• Alison Lowe, first black woman Leeds City Councillor (History, matriculated 1987)
• Simba Makoni, Zimbabwean Politician and candidate for Zimbabwe elections 2008
• Clare Short, former Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood and International Development Secretary (Political Science, 1969)
• Jeanne Siméon, current Minister of Habitat, Lands, Infrastructure, and Land Transport in the Seychelles (Education Management and Teacher Training)^[4][5]
• Alex Sobel, Labour Co-op Member of Parliament for Leeds North West (Information Systems, 1997)
• Keir Starmer, barrister and current Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (LLB Law, 1985)
• Jack Straw, barrister and Labour Member of Parliament for Blackburn; former Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary (LLB in Law, 1967)
• Paul Truswell, former Labour Member of Parliament for Pudsey (History, 1977)
• Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, former Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio (LLB in Law)

Media

• Timothy Allen, photojournalist (Zoology, 1989)^[6]
• Steve Bell, political cartoonist for The Guardian (Fine Art, 1974)^[7]
• Mark Brayne, BBC foreign correspondent (BA, Modern Languages, 1973)^[8]
• Mark Byford, deputy Director-General of the BBC (LLB in Law, 1979)^[9]
• Barry Cryer, comedian and scriptwriter (English, did not graduate,^[10] awarded an honorary doctorate in 2017)
• Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail (English, 1970)^[7]
• Gavin Esler, Newsnight anchor (MA Anglo-Irish Literature, 1975)^[7]
• Polly Evans, television presenter, South East Today (English & Theatre, 1990s)
• Jenni Falconer, television presenter (Student, Spanish and Italian, 1990s)^[11]
• Thomas Hedley, President of Hedley Media Group
• Andy Kershaw, DJ and broadcaster (Politics)
• Liz Kershaw, journalist and radio DJ (Textiles, 1978)^[10]
• Peter Morgan, screenwriter (Fine Art, 1985)^[15]
• Richard Quest, reporter for CNN (Law, 1985)^[7]
• Anita Rani, English radio and television presenter and journalist (Broadcasting)^[10]
• Jay Rayner, features writer and restaurant critic, The Observer (Political Studies, 1987)^[7]
• Georgie Thompson, Sky Sports News presenter (Broadcast Journalism, 1999)^[7]
• Mark Wheat, radio DJ at The Current from Minnesota Public Radio (English, 1981)^[12]
• Nicholas Witchell, BBC newsreader and royal and diplomatic correspondent (LLB in Law, 1976)^[7]
• Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director (LLB in Law, 1968)^[10]

Arts

Music

• The members of Alt-J met at the university (Fine Art; English Literature, 2007)^[12]
• Bastille member Kyle Simmons
• David Gedge, guitarist, songwriter and vocalist in The Wedding Present, Cinerama (band) (Mathematics, 1981)^[13]
• Alex Glasgow, singer/songwriter (German)
• Mark Knopfler, rock musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter (English, 1973)^[13]
• Little Boots, born Victoria Hesketh, electronica musician^[14]
• Corinne Bailey Rae, soul singer (English Literature, 2000)^[13]
• Simon Rix, bass player for Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs (Maths and Geography, 2000)^[13]
• Sigma (DJs), English drum and bass duo consisting of Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie
• Dan Smith, singer of Bastille^[13]
• Katie White, singer and guitarist of The Ting Tings^[15]
• Joanne Yeoh, Malaysian violinist (Music, 1999)^[16]

Visual

• Shona Auerbach, award-winning director/cinematographer of Dear Frankie
• Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Textile Management, did not graduate)
• Emma Mackey, French-British actress
• Alistair McGowan, actor, comedian and impressionist (English, 1986)^[10]
• Kay Mellor, television actress and scriptwriter (attended Bretton Hall, 1983)
• Hannah New, English model and actress
• Chris Pine, American Hollywood actor, studied as a year abroad student during his junior year (English)^[10]
• Siddhanth, Indian Kannada actor, (studied M.H.A.)^[17]

Literary

• Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher (English and French, 1979)
• Nick Brownlee, crime thriller writer
• Jonathan Clements, writer (Japanese, 1994)
• Tony Harrison, poet (Classics with Linguistics, 1958)^[15]
• Storm Jameson, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914)^[36]
• Arthur Ransome, writer,^[36] studied science for two terms in 1901
• Herbert Read, poet and literary critic (English)^[36]
• Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 (English, 1957)^[15]
• Greg Stekelman, writer and illustrator, author of A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep (English and Spanish, 1998)
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author (English student, 1960s)^[18]

Other

• Paul Crowther, philosopher, university lecturer and author
• Jeremy Dyson, screenwriter and member of The League of Gentlemen (Philosophy, 1989)^[15]
• Jacky Fleming, award-winning cartoonist
• Barry John, theatre director and teacher

Science and technology

• Lilias Armstrong, phonetician (B.A., 1906)^[19]
• Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist (Botany, 1973)
• Robert Blackburn, aviation pioneer and founder of Blackburn Aircraft^[36] (Engineering, 1906)
• Emily Cummins, Technology Woman of the Future 2006, British Female Innovator Of the Year 2007
• Rubina Gillani, Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist
• Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold and the Construction Industry Council (Civil Engineering, 1957)^[36]
• Sir Percival Hartley (1905) Director of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research
• D. G. Hessayon, gardening author (Botany, 1950)^[15]
• V. Craig Jordan, responsible for pioneering research into breast cancer and the development of the cancer drug tamoxifen (BSc and Ph.D. in pharmacology, 1969 and 1972)^[20]
• Michael Lawrie, computer security and social networking expert (Computational Science, 1989)
• Michael Martin, bridge engineer (Civil Engineering, 1975)^[21]
• Jennifer Ross Meiring, architect director with BDP (B.A., English, 1979)
• Sir Timothy O'Shea, computer scientist and Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• George Porter, chemist, Nobel Prize winner and President of the Royal Society (Chemistry, 1941)
• Anya Reading, geophysics lecturer at the University of Tasmania (PhD Geophysics 1997)
• Malcolm Richardson, mycologist
• Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut (Biometeorology, 1981)
• Margot Shiner, gastroenterologist (Medicine, 1947)
• Karen Steel, geneticist, Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• James Francis Tait, Endocrinologist and discoverer of aldosterone. (Physics 1945)
• Hassan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford
• Jennifer Wilby, Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull

Other

• Abdullah Yusuf Ali, translator of the Quran
• Michael Asher, desert explorer and author (English 1977)^[22]
• Alistair Brownlee, Olympian and ITU Triathlon World Champion (Physiology and Sport 2009)^[23]
• Daniel Byles, Guinness World Record-holding ocean rower and polar explorer (Economics and Management Studies 1996)
• Nancy Cruickshank, British entrepreneur in beauty, fashion, and technology^[24]
• Kat Fletcher, 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
• Sir Peter Hendy, Chairman, Network Rail (Economics & Geography, 1975)^[25]
• Richard Hoggart, sociologist and author of The Uses of Literacy (English, 1939)^[36]
• Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs (Gender Studies)^[26]
• Simon Lee, businessman, Chief Executive of RSA Insurance Group (English and French)
• Nicola Mendelsohn, British advertising executive (English and Theatre Studies, 1992)^[25]
• Abdullah O. Nasseef, Saudi geologist, chemist and politician
• Tom Palmer, Rugby Union player
• David Parry, dialectologist who founded the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects
• Ivor Porter, ambassador and author of Operation Autonomous and King Michael (English, 1936)
• Richard Profit, polar explorer (Biology and Management Studies 1996)
• Subir Raha, Indian business leader (MBA 1985)
• Ken Robinson, educationalist (English and drama, 1972)
• Sir Christopher Rose, former head of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division (LL.B., 1957)^[27]
• Jacob Rowan, former captain for the England U20 Rugby Union Team and current player for Gloucester Rugby^[23]
• Harold Shipman, general practitioner and convicted serial killer (Medicine, 1970)
• George Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's School, London (English and History)
• Brigadier Mike Stone, Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Defence
• Marilyn Stowe, divorce lawyer and the first Chief Assessor and Chief Examiner of the Law Society's Family Law Panel (Law, 1970s)
• Cec Thompson, rugby league player and co-founder of Student Rugby League
• Paul Watson, Pohnpei State football team coach (Italian, 2005)

Staff

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

• Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929)^[28]
• William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Lecturer/Reader in Textile Physics, 1928-1946, Professor of Biomolecular Physics, 1946–61)^[28]
• Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
• Maurice Beresford, economic historian, Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985)
• Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1909-1915)^[28]
• Asa Briggs, historian
• Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University Librarian, 1997-2000)
• Anthony Carrigan (lecturer in postcolonial literature and cultures, 2013–16)
• Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University
• Pit Corder, professor and applied linguist (1961-1964)
• David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1985)^[28]
• Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor
• Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980)
• Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981)
• Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist
• Benedikt Isserlin, semitist and ancient historian
• Catherine Karkov, art historian
• Percy Fry Kendall, award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22)
• G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English)
• Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970)^[28]
• Irene Manton, botanist and cell biologist (Professor of Biology, 1946-1969)
• David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979)
• John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology
• Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician^[29]
• Ralph Miliband, political theorist (Professor and Head of Politics department, 1972-1978)^[28]
• Fred Orton, art historian
• Sheena Radford, Astbury Professor of Biophysics
• Leonard James Rogers, mathematician (Mathematics 1889-1919)
• Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner
• J. I. M. Stewart, writer, often under the pen name Michael Innes (English, 1930-1935)
• E. P. Thompson, historian (Extramural, 1948-1965)^[28]
• J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (English, 1920-1925)^[28]
• Stephen Turnbull, military historian
• Philip Wilby, composer, School of Music until 2006
• Fiona Williams, Professor of Social Policy from 1996 to 2012
• Ian N. Wood, historian of the Middle Ages
• Verna Wright, Professor of Rheumatology

References

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