List of Durham University people

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This is a list of alumni associated with Durham University, founded in 1832 in the UK. This includes those who have taught there, done research there, taken a degree there or were involved in its founding. Durham is a collegiate university, so where known and if applicable, they are shown alongside their associated college.

1 Academia
2 Writers and journalists
3 Business
4 Media
5 Politics
6 Music
7 Religion
8 Sport
9 Miscellaneous

[edit] Academia

John Barrow (Van Mildert) - Cosmologist, winner of the 2006 Templeton Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society
David Campbell - Head of the Law Department and leading scholar on contract law.
David Grant - Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University
Chris Higgins (Grey) - Vice-Chancellor elect of Durham University
Arthur Holmes Geologist, early exponent of plate tectonics.
Harold Jeffreys (Armstrong) - mathematician and geophysicist
George Wilberforce Kakoma - professor of music, composer of Uganda's national anthem
Gordon Manley - Climatologist
Richard Ovenden (St Chad's) - Head of Special Collections, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
G. M. Trevelyan - historian
Ted Wragg (Hatfield) - Educationalist
Paul Wellings- Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
Mark Round - renowned academic and celebrated genius.

[edit] Writers and journalists

Gary Bills (St Chad's) - Poet
Bill Bryson - Writer and current University Chancellor
Hunter Davies - journalist and author of The Beatles: The Only Authorised Biography
Harold Evans (Castle) - journalist and author of The American Century
Adrian Dannatt (St Chad's)- child actor and journalist
James Kirkup - poet and author
Minette Walters - bestselling author and crime writer
Jeremy Vine (Hatfield) - journalist and early member of The Durham Revue
Catherine Fox {St John's] - novelist

[edit] Business

Richard Adams - (St John's) - pioneer of Fair Trade and founder of Traidcraft
Norman Askew, (Cuths) - Chairman of Taylor Woodrow, Chief Executive, British Nuclear Fuels
Alexander Barrie (Castle) - CEO, Danish Bacon Company
Sir Nick Scheele (Cuths) - President and Chief Operating Officer of the Ford Motor Company

[edit] Media

George Alagiah (Van Mildert) - broadcaster
Matthew Amroliwala (St Chad's) - BBC News presenter
Biddy Baxter (St Mary's) - TV Producer (Blue Peter) and inventor of the Blue Peter badge
Douglas Bell (Hild Bede) - Editor of Fat Controller Magazine
David Bellamy - botanist and environmental campaigner
David J. Bodycombe (Trevelyan) - puzzle-writer
Jonny Dymond - BBC Istanbul correspondent
Judith Hann - Previously presenter of BBC's Tomorrow's World 1974 -1994
Lorraine Heggessey (Collingwood) - controller of BBC One 2000-2004
Nina Hossain, (Cuths) - Broadcast Journalist
Gabby Logan (Hild Bede) - Commonwealth Games Gymnast and TV Presenter
Kate Silverton, (Cuths) - Broadcast Journalist
Alex Standish (St Chad's) - BBC producer and television broadcaster
Jeremy Vine (Hatfield), radio and television presenter
Tim Willcox, (St Chad's), BBC television presenter

[edit] Politics

Hilary Armstrong (Ustinov) - Labour MP
Crispin Blunt - Conservative politician
Graham Brady (St Aidan's) - Conservative MP
Jack Cunningham- former cabinet minister
Bill Etherington - Labour MP
Ruth First - anti-apartheid activist assassinated by the South African security services
Nick Gibb (Hild Bede) - Conservative MP
Jane Griffiths (St. Mary's) - politician and former member of parliament
Michael Jopling (King's) - Conservative peer and former MP for Westmorland and Westmorland and Lonsdale
Peter Kilfoyle - Labour MP
Edward Leigh (Castle) - Conservative MP
Lawrence Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough - Former MP
Malcolm MacDonald - Former UK Cabinet minister and Governor of Kenya
Shona McIsaac (Aidan's) - Labour MP
Mo Mowlam (Trevelyan) - former cabinet minister
Ossie O'Brien MP, (Cuths) Labour Member of Parliament for Darlington, 1983
Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland - nineteenth century MP
John Pugh MP (Cuths) - Liberal Democrat MP for Southport
Sheikh Abdullah Ramadan Shallah - Leader of Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad, 1995-present
Rachel Squire (Trevs) - Labour MP
Dari Taylor - Labour MP
Mike Tomlinson - Former Chief Inspector of Schools and chair of the Working Group for 14–19 Reform
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry - Former Conservative Party MP
Jenny Willott (Mary's) - Liberal Democrat MP

[edit] Music

John B - drum and bass producer and DJ
J. Michael Clarke (St Chad's) - composer and musician
50 Pence (Grey) - International comedy rapper with hits including "In Da Pub" and "P.I.N.T"
Tim "Exile" Shaw, drum and bass and IDM musician
James MacMillan a classical composer.
Will Rutter - jazz guitarist and one half of successful UK jazz act Will and Gwyn with Gwyneth Herbert
Alan Walker - musicologist and biographer of Franz Liszt
Arthur Hutchings - former professor of music in Durham, author of famous books on Mozart Piano Concertos and Jean-Philippe Rameau

[edit] Religion

Rev Canon Jane Hedges - Resident Canon of Westminster Abbey
Bishop John Inge, (St Chad's) - Bishop of Huntingdon
John Anthony McGuckin, Orthodox Christian priest, scholar, and poet
Anthony Russell (St Chad's) - Bishop of Ely
Michael Turnbull (St John's) - Bishop of Durham (1994–2003)
William Van Mildert - Former Bishop of Durham
Christopher Foster (Castle) - Bishop of Hertford
Adrian Dorber - Dean of Lichfield

[edit] Sport

Warren Bradley - Manchester United and England footballer
Will Carling (Hatfield) - former captain of the England rugby team
Tim Curtis (Hatfield)- England cricketer
Peter Dixon- former captain of the England rugby union team
Jonathan Edwards (Van Mildert) - Olympic gold medal-winning triple jumper
James Foster (Collingwood) - cricketer, Essex and England wicketkeeper
Phil de Glanville - former captain of the England rugby team
Will Greenwood (Hatfield) - England rugby player
Charlie Hodgson - England rugby player
Nasser Hussain (Hild Bede) - former captain of the England cricket team
Tracey Langlands (St Mary's) - World Championship medallist rower
Alex Loudon (Collingwood) - cricketer, [Warwickshire] all-rounder
Tim O'Gorman (St Chad's) - cricketer, former Derbyshire opening batsman
Tim Stimpson (Grey) - England rugby player
Andrew Strauss (Hatfield) - cricketer, Middlesex and England batsman

[edit] Miscellaneous

Arthur Bostrom (St Chad's) - actor and early member of The Durham Revue, played Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo!
Gareth J. Dykes (Van Mildert) - community safety consultant
Margot Fonteyn - ballet dancer
Helen Grace (Castle) - actress
Jenny Grey (Castle) - Managing Director Communications & Public Reporting, Audit Commission
Ted Harrison - artist
Paul Hawkins - inventor of the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system used in cricket, tennis and other sports
Amjad Hussain - Royal Navy Admiral (first Admiral from an ethnic-minority group and the highest ranking ethnic-minority officer in the UK armed forces)
Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland - military commander
Tim Smit - horticulturalist and creator of the Eden Project
Mike Spurr (St Chad's) - Director of Operations, HM Prison Service
Peter Ustinov - actor and former University Chancellor
James Wilby (Grey) - actor
General Sir Richard Dannatt - chief of the general staff designate