List of University of Warwick people
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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 150,000 alumni[1] and an active alumni network.[2]
Former students
Academics
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- Freda Briggs - child protection expert and 2000 Senior Australian of the Year
- 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
- Luciano Floridi - philosopher of information
- Oliver Hart - economist and former Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department
- H.A. Hellyer – policy consultant and Senior Research Fellow for Muslims in Europe
- Kampta Karran - sociologist
- 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
- 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 ACM Turing Award winner
Business
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Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director of the World Bank
- 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
- Mahmoud Mohieldin (PhD Financial Economics, 1995) - former Investment Minister of Egypt; current Managing Director of the World Bank
- Ralf Speth - CEO of Jaguar Land Rover
- Ness Wadia - Indian entrepreneur
- 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
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
- Dominic Cooke – artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre
- 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 and 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
- 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
- David Davis (Molecular Science/Computer Science, 1968–1971) – Conservative former Shadow Home Secretary
- Yakubu Gowon (PhD in Political Science) – former President of Nigeria
- Andrew Haldane (Economics) - chief economist at the Bank of England
- Kim Howells (PhD) – former Foreign Office Minister
- 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 British Civil Service
- Andrea Leadsom (Political Science) – Conservative Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire and Economic Secretary to the Treasury
- 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 British Civil Service
- Lord Brian Paddick – former Commissioner 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 – mathematician, politician, and former Vice-President of Kenya
- Valentine Strasser – former head of state of Sierra Leone; did not complete his studies at Warwick
- Ahmed Thasmeen Ali (Economics) – elected leader of the Opposition DRP in Maldives
- Aung Tun Thet, Myanmar economist and the Economic Advisor to the President of Burma
Literature
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Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler
- Nicholas Blincoe – author
- Simon Calder (Mathematics) – travel writer for The Independent
- Jonathan Coe (English Literature) - novelist and writer
- 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
- Karen Hughes (nee Saunders) (1998) - children's author
- Mal Lewis Jones (English and American literature '70) - children's author
- A. L. Kennedy (Theatre and Performance Studies) – author
- Peter Linebaugh (History '75) – author of The Magna Carta Manifesto
- Mal Peet - author, writer of popular young adult literature, "KEEPER, "TAMAR", others...
- Chip Tsao (pen name: To Kit) (English Literature) – Hong Kong cultural and political commentator
- 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.
Media
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Camila Batmanghelidjh, charity executive
- 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
- Giles Fletcher (Computer Science 1987) glam rock artist
- Leona Graham (Drama) - radio presenter and voiceover 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
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
- Fuzz - singer-songwriter of Inferno; solo artist
- 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
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
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[3]
- Maureen Freely - writer, author and translator of works by Orhan Pamuk
- Germaine Greer - former Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- A L Kennedy
- China Miéville - fiction writer
- David Vann - creative writing professor
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
- Sir John Elliott FBA - Spanish historian
- Sir J.R. 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
- 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[4]
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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–)[5]
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–present)
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