List of University of Warwick people

This is a list of University of Warwick people, including office holders, current and former academics and alumni of the University of Warwick, including a brief description of their notability.

Warwick has over 283,000 alumni^[1] and an active alumni network.^[2]

Former students

Academics

• Janet Beer – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
• Robert Calderbank – former Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke University and winner of the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the Claude E. Shannon Award
• David Cardwell FREng – superconducting engineer and head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department
• Colin Cooper – Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of East Anglia
• John Fauvel – historian of mathematics at the Open University
• Luciano Floridi – philosopher of information
• Oliver Hart – economist and former Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2016
• H.A. Hellyer – policy consultant and Senior Research Fellow for Muslims in Europe
• Alan Hywel Jones – Principal Research Fellow and senior consultant at Sheffield Hallam University, materials scientist and inventor
• Maris Martinsons – Professor of Management; international business consultant
• Moeletsi Mbeki – Deputy Chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs; brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki
• Patricia McFadden – Swazi author; Professor of Sociology; African radical feminist
• Stuart Neil – professor of virology at King's College London
• Pippa Norris – political scientist and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Ian Stewart FRS – popular science author; Professor of Mathematics
• Leslie Valiant FRS – British computer scientist and Turing Award winner

Art

• Benjamin Hope (Mathematics and Physics 1996) – painter

Business

• Ian Gorham – CEO of Hargreaves Lansdown
• Bernardo Hees – CEO of the Heinz Company; former CEO of Burger King
• Linda Jackson – CEO of Citroën
• Nick Landau – co–owner and founder of Titan Entertainment Group and Forbidden Planet sci-fi, fantasy and horror bookstores
• Margaret Milan – founder and owner of Eveil & Jeux
• Mahmoud Mohieldin (PhD Financial Economics, 1995) – former Investment Minister of Egypt; current Managing Director of the World Bank
• Phil O'Donovan – Bluetooth engineer & CSR plc co-founder
• Ada Osakwe – economist, entrepreneur and corporate executive
• Ralf Speth – CEO of Jaguar Land Rover
• Mary Turner – CEO of Koovs
• Jehangir Wadia – Indian Businessman, Managing Director of Go First, Bombay Dyeing and Bombay Realty, Director on the Boards of Britannia Industries
• Ness Wadia – Indian Businessman, managing director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Punjab Kings
• Tony Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet travel guides
• Nigel Wilson – CEO of Legal & General Group plc
• George Yankey – CEO of Ghana Gas Company & former Minister of Health in Ghana
• Rajiv Bajaj – Managing director and CEO of Bajaj Auto
• Sanjiv Bajaj – Managing director of Bajaj Finserv
• Lakshmi Venu – Director at TVS Motor Company, daughter of Venu Srinivasan

Cinema and theatre

• Paul W. S. Anderson (Film and Literature) – film director
• Adam Buxton (dropped out after two terms) – comedian and actor, best known as part of Adam and Joe
• Angus Castle–Doughty, actor who has starred in Showtrial and Hollyoaks, co-founded theatre company Incognito
• Dominic Cooke – artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre
• Paul Darke (PhD in Film) – academic, artist and disability rights activist, creator of the ''normality drama' theory
• Brett Goldstein (Film & Feminism) – actor and comedian
• Vadim Jean (History) – film director
• Alex Jennings (English and Theatre Studies 1978) – actor who has performed in many lead roles at the RSC
• Ruth Jones (Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts 1988) – actress known as Myfanwy in Little Britain and Nessa in Gavin & Stacey
• Lloyd Langford – comedian (film and television)
• Stephen Merchant (Film and Literature 1996) – wrote, directed and acted in the British television series The Office and Extras, in such roles as the 'Oggmonster' and 'Darren Lamb' respectively.
• Julian Rhind-Tutt (English) – actor, known from the award-winning comedy series Green Wing
• Frank Skinner, then Chris Collins (MA in English Literature 1981) – comedian, actor, writer
• Hannah Waterman – actress

Government and politics

• Wendy Alexander MSP (MA, Industrial Relations) – former Labour Leader in the Scottish Parliament
• Luis Arce (Master's in Economics, 1997) – President of Bolivia, former Minister of Economy and Public Finance in Bolivia^[3]
• Joseph Ngute – Prime Minister, Head of Government of the Republic of Cameroon
• Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos (Sociology 1976) – Britain's first female black Cabinet Minister, formerly Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and British High Commissioner to Australia; and now Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN
• Tim Barrow – diplomat and British Ambassador to Russia since 2011
• Yunus Carrim – Minister of Communications of South Africa
• Chan Yuen Han SBS – JP; active female unionists in Hong Kong
• Vernon Coaker (BA (Hons) Politics and Economics) – Member of Parliament for Gedling and Government Minister until 2010
• Jon Cruddas (PhD in Philosophy, 1990) – Member of Parliament for Dagenham and formerly a candidate for deputy leadership of the Labour Party
• Sir David Davis (Molecular Science/Computer Science, 1968–1971) – Conservative MP and former Secretary of State for Exiting the EU
• Claire Darke, (Certificate of Social Work) – 161st Mayor of Wolverhampton
• Yakubu Gowon (PhD in Political Science) – former President of Nigeria
• Andy Haldane (Economics) – chief economist at the Bank of England
• Kim Howells (PhD) – former Foreign Office Minister
• Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson – President of Iceland
• George Chouliarakis – Academic and Greek Alternate Minister of Finance
• George W. Kanyeihamba – Member of the Supreme Court of Uganda and African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights; Legal Advisor to the President of Uganda on Human Rights and International Affairs
• Sir Bob Kerslake – Head of the Home Civil Service
• Andrea Leadsom (Political Science) – Conservative Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire and Secretary of State for the Environment
• Sir Richard Leese – Leader of Manchester City Council
• David Li GBM, GBS, OBE – JP, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Bank of East Asia; member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong; former member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
• Tim Loughton (Classical Civilisation) – Conservative former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
• Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley – Privy Counsellor; former Labour Secretary of State for Education; graduated from Coventry College of Education
• Lord Gus O'Donnell (Economics 1973) – former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
• Lord Brian Paddick – former Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police and London Mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats in 2008 and 2012
• José Fernando Franco González Salas – Ministry of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico
• George Saitoti – Former Vice-President of Kenya, former Executive Chairman of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and former President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• Dan Stoenescu – Romanian diplomat and Former Minister for Romanians Abroad
• Valentine Strasser – former head of state of Sierra Leone; did not complete his studies at Warwick
• Aung Tun Thet – Myanmar economist and the Economic Advisor to the President of Burma
• Carrie Symonds – British political activist, conservationist and Partner of Boris Johnson

History

• David Englander – historian and author

Literature

• Nicholas Blincoe – author
• Simon Calder (Mathematics) – travel writer for The Independent
• Jonathan Coe (English Literature) – novelist and writer
• Sarah Crossan – Irish author.
• Anne Fine (History '68) FRSL – children's author
• James Franklin (Mathematics) – historian of ideas; philosopher
• Sam Gillespie – philosopher and early translator and commentator of Alain Badiou, crucial to Badiou's initial reception in the English-speaking world
• Mal Lewis Jones (English and American literature '70) – children's author
• Kaiser Haq – Bangladeshi writer and translator
• A. L. Kennedy (Theatre and Performance Studies) – author
• Peter Linebaugh (History '75) – author of The Magna Carta Manifesto
• Sally Nicholls (Philosophy and Literature '05) – children's and young adult author
• Mal Peet – author, writer of popular young adult literature, Keeper, Tamar, others...
• Robin Stevens, children's author
• Chip Tsao (pen name: To Kit) (English Literature) – Hong Kong cultural and political commentator
• Patrick M. Vollmer – House of Lords Librarian
• Tony Wheeler (Engineering '68) – co-founder of Lonely Planet (LP) travel guides
• Yilin Zhong (Cultural Studies '05) – journalist and author of 8 books, novel "Chinatown" released in 2011.

Law

• Yomi Adegoke – journalist, known for writing the Slay in Your Lane book series^[4]
• Constance Briscoe – disgraced barrister convicted of perverting the course of justice^[5]
• Phil Shiner (LLM '85) – lawyer struck off for misconduct
• Princess Azemah Ni'matul Bolkiah (LLB '08) – Bruneian princess^[6]

Media

• Camila Batmanghelidjh – charity executive
• Jennie Bond (French and European Literature 1968) – former BBC Royal correspondent
• Brian Deer (Philosophy) – The Sunday Times; Channel 4
• Tom Dunmore (Film & Literature) – Editor In Chief, Stuff Magazine
• George Eaton – political editor of the New Statesman
• Giles Fletcher (Computer Science 1987) – glam rock artist
• Michelle Fleury (Literature & French Language 1991) – BBC US business correspondent
• Janan Ganesh (Politics) – Financial Times journalist
• Leona Graham (Drama) – radio presenter and voice–over artist
• Merfyn Jones – Governor BBC and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor
• James King (Film and Literature) – BBC Radio 1 film critic
• Timmy Mallett (History 1977) – 1980s children's television presenter
• Simon Mayo (History and Politics 1981) – broadcaster
• Peter Salmon (European Literature 1977) – BBC television executive
• Tim Vickery (History and Politics) – South American football correspondent for BBC Sport, ESPN and an analyst on SporTV's main morning programme, Redação SporTV.
• Christian Wolmar (1971) – writer on transport and social issues
• Dawn Foster (English 2009) – British journalist, broadcaster and author

Music

• DJ Yoda (English and American Literature 1998) – Hip hop turntablist
• Gareth Emery – DJ and founder of electronic label Garuda, rated world's no.14 DJ in 2012
• Roxanne Emery – solo singer/songwriter artist, founder of LATE records
• Adem Ilhan (studied Mathematics) – solo artist; member of Fridge
• Kode9 (PhD in Philosophy) – dubstep producer, DJ and owner of the Hyperdub record label
• Sting (left after one term) – lead singer of The Police and solo artist
• Very Rev Robert Willis – Dean of Canterbury, composer of hymns

Sport

• Kevin Blackwell (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
• Aidy Boothroyd (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
• Steve Heighway (Economics) – Liverpool F.C. footballer
• Mark Hughes (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
• Stuart Pearce MBE (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
• Princess Azemah (Laws) – polo player

Notable faculty and staff

Notable current and former faculty and staff at Warwick include:

Biological sciences

• Sir Howard Dalton FRS
• Sir Brian Follett – also formerly Warwick University's vice-chancellor (1993–2001)

Chemistry

• Keith Jennings – known for work in mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation

Classics and Ancient History

• Alison E. Cooley – Roman historian
• James Davidson – social historian of Ancient Greece
• Michael Scott – ancient historian and broadcaster
• Zahra Newby – historian of Ancient art and the visual culture of festivals
• Victoria Rimell – latinist
• Simon Swain – scholar of Greek culture under Rome

English

• Susan Bassnett – translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature
• Jonathan Bate
• Andrew Davies – television screenwriter
• Sir Michael Edwards OBE – first Briton to be voted into the Académie Française^[7]
• Maureen Freely – writer, author and translator of works by Orhan Pamuk
• K. W. Gransden – poet and critic; one of the founders of the English Department^[8]
• Germaine Greer – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature^[8]
• A L Kennedy
• China Miéville – fiction writer
• David Vann – creative writing professor
• John Fletcher – literary theorist

Engineering and computer science

• Lord Bhattacharyya – founder and Director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group
• Mike Cowlishaw – creator of the REXX programming language
• Hugh Darwen – creator of Tutorial D database language
• Mike Paterson FRS – former director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications
• Kevin Warwick – cyborg researcher

History

• David Arnold FBA – Indian historian
• J. H. Elliott FBA – Spanish historian
• John Rigby Hale – Renaissance historian and first Professor of History at Warwick University
• E. P. Thompson – Marxist historian and founding member of the CND

Law

• Shaheen Sardar Ali – Professor of Law
• Patrick Atiyah – barrister and legal writer
• Upendra Baxi – Professor of Law
• John McEldowney – Professor of Public Law
• Paul Raffield – Professor of Law; actor in Joking Apart

Mathematics and statistics

• Brian Bowditch – mathematician known for contributions to geometry and topology, and for solving the angel problem
• Jack Cohen – developmental biologist; xenobiologist; honorary professor
• David Epstein FRS – mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry; co-founder of the University of Warwick mathematics department
• Martin Hairer FRS – expert in stochastic partial differential equations; winner of the Fields Medal, Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Royal Society Wolfson Award and the LMS Whitehead Prize
• Wilfrid Kendall – probabalist and president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (2013 – 2015)
• Robert Sinclair MacKay FRS – mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems; current president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• David Preiss FRS – winner of the 2008 Pólya Prize for his contributions to analysis and geometric measure theory
• Miles Reid FRS – mathematician known for work in algebraic geometry
• Gareth Roberts FRS, statistician known for work on Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology; winner of the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver and Bronze; an ISI highly cited researcher
• Ian Stewart FRS – mathematician, popular science author and an ISI highly cited researcher
• Andrew M. Stuart – mathematician known for his contributions to numerical analysis and computational mathematics; winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis
• Sir Christopher Zeeman FRS – topologist; exponent of catastrophe theory; founding professor of mathematics; former President of the London Mathematical Society; namesake of the Mathematics and Statistics building; Principal of Hertford College, Oxford

Philosophy

• Quassim Cassam – Professor of Philosophy
• Angie Hobbs – Lecturer
• Nick Land – Former lecturer, known as the father of accelerationism
• David Miller – Emeritus Reader of Philosophy
• Peter Poellner – Professor of Philosophy

Social sciences

• Lady Margaret Archer – theorist in critical realism; former President of International Sociological Association; current president of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences^[9]
• Sir George Bain – former Chairman of the School of Industrial and Business Studies
• Söhnke M. Bartram – Professor of Finance
• James A. Beckford – Professor Emeritus of Sociology
• Jim Bulpitt – Professor of Politics
• Simon Clarke – professor of sociology
• Robin Cohen – honorary professor
• Nicholas Crafts – professor of economics and economic history
• Avinash Dixit – economist
• Robert Fine – Professor Emeritus, theorist of cosmopolitanism
• Steve Fuller – Professor of Sociology, theorist in science and technology studies
• Wyn Grant – former Chair of the British Political Studies Association (2002–2005); President of the PSA (2005–2008) Political scientist with interest in comparative public policy
• Peter J. Hammond – Professor of Economics
• H. A. Hellyer – senior research Fellow; specialist on Muslims in Europe and West–Muslim world relations
• Richard Higgott – Director of the Warwick Commission to the World Bank
• Abhinay Muthoo – Professor of Economics and Dean of Warwick in London
• Andrew Oswald – Professor of Economics
• Tobias Preis – Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Finance
• John Rex – Professor Emeritus
• Sir Ken Robinson – Professor Emeritus of Education
• Leonard Seabrooke – Professor of International Political Economy
• Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky – Professor Emeritus of Political Economy
• Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford FBA – former Chief Economist of the World Bank
• Susan Strange – political economist and former chair of International Relations
• Mark P. Taylor – Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of International Finance
• John Williamson – English economist who coined the term Washington Consensus
• Sarah D. Goode – Former lecturer in child health at Warwick Medical School

Other

• The Coull String Quartet – quartet-in-residence since 1977
• Koen Lamberts – psychologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of York
• Mark Smith, – physicist, Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
• Nigel Thrift – geographer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick

Administration

Chancellors

• William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes – Chancellor-designate (died in December 1964 before taking office)
• Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1965–1977)
• Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (1977–1989)
• Sir Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal (1989–2002)
• Sir Nicholas Scheele (2003–2008)
• Sir Richard Lambert (2008–2016)^[10]
• Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (2017–present)^[11]

Vice-chancellors

• Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth (1965–1985)
• Clark L. Brundin (1985–1992)
• Sir Brian K. Follett (1993–2001)
• David VandeLinde (2001–2006)
• Nigel Thrift (2006–2016)
• Stuart Croft (2016–present)

References