List of University of Birmingham people
This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of Birmingham:
Staff
- The Rt. Hon.Joseph Chamberlain – Former and First Chancellor who helped set up the University of Birmingham, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and father of Sir Austen Chamberlain and former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
- Sir Robert Aitken – Former Vice-Chancellor who helped set up the University of Warwick
- Sir Melville Arnott – Former William Withering Chair in Medicine
- George Augustus Auden – Former School Medical Officer and Lecturer in Public Health & Father of W. H. Auden
- Professor Mark Beeson – Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies
- Professor Rupert E. Billingham – Former Chair in Zoology
- Dr Stewart Brown – Reader in African Literature and Director of the Centre of West African Studies
- Anthony Burgess – British novelist who lectured on phonetics in the late 1940s
- Professor Peter Burnham – Professor of Political Science and International Studies
- Sir Alexander Jarratt CB – Former Chancellor.
- Sir Dominic Cadbury – Current Chancellor
- Professor John Churton Collins – Former Professor of English Literature
- Dr Reginald Cline-Cole – Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies
- Professor Thomas Diez – Professor of International Relations Theory
- Sir Edward Elgar – Former Professor of Music
- Professor John Fage – Former Professor of African History, founder of Birmingham's Centre for West African Studies
- David F. Ford, lecturer and senior lecturer of theology, 1976–1991[1]
- Professor Stuart Hall – Former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- Professor Richard Hoggart – Founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO
- Professor John Hick – emeritus H.G. Wood Professor of Theology
- Professor Rodney Hilton – former Professor of Medieval History
- Mervyn King – Former Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and current Governor of the Bank of England
- Sir Michael Lyons – Professor of Public Policy from 2001 to 2006
- Professor Anand Menon – Professor of West European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute
- Professor Allardyce Nicoll – Head of the English Department and founding director of the Shakespeare Institute
- Sir Marcus Oliphant – Former Professor of Physics, played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb and radar
- Professor Roy Pascal – former Professor of German
- Arthur Peacocke was a lecturer in chemistry and biophysical chemistry, before he went to Oxford University in 1959
- Professor Rudolf Peierls – Former Professor of Physics
- Sir Nikolaus Pevsner – Art historian who held a research post at the university for a number of years
- Canon Dr Terry Slater – Reader in Historical Geography
- Professor Aaron Sloman – Former Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
- Professor Ninian Smart – Former Professor of Religious Studies
- Professor Michael Sterling – Former Vice-Chancellor and Principal
- Professor Colin Thain – Professor of Political Science
- Professor Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies and former Director of the Shakespeare Institute
- Dr Tony Wright was a lecturer in politics from 1975 until 1992, before being elected Labour Member of Parliament for Cannock and Burntwood
- Professor John Henry Poynting – Former Professor of Physics at (Mason Science College) now the University of Birmingham, first calculated the weight of the earth.
- Professor David Eastwood – Successor of current Vice-Chancellor and currently Chief Executive at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
- Baron Zuckerman – Professor of Anatomy at Birmingham, 1946–68 and chief scientific adviser to the British government 1964–71
- Sir Alan Cottrell – Professor of Metallurgy 1949–55
- Lancelot Hogben – Professor of Zoology 1941–47 + Professor of Medical Statistics 1947–61
- Alan S C Ross – Professor of English Language 1948–51 + Professor of Linuistics 1951–74
- Sir John Randall (physicist) – Royal Society Fellow who worked on the cavity magnetron valve 1937–43
- Sir William James Ashley- First Dean and Founder of Business School
- Professor Maureen Perrie – Professor Emeritus in Russian History
- Jerzy Lukowski – Historian
- Professor John Knott, OBE – Professor of Metallurgy and Materials
- Dr Sue Blackwell – Lecturer in English Language
- Tahir Abbas – Reader in Sociology and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham
- Professor Ronen Palan – Professor of International Political Economy
- Dr Gordon Warwick – Reader in Geomorphology
- Daniel Pedoe – Mathematics (1942–46)
- Professor Brinley Rees – Lecturer in Classics (1970–75)
- Major Kenneth Walton (pathologist) – 1947–52
- Professor David Edgar (playwright) – Professor of Playwrighting Studies
- Sir Ellis Waterhouse – Former Barber Professor of Fine Art (1952–70)
- Sir Louis Matheson – Civil Engineering
- Ian Brockington – Expert in Psychiatry
- Bill Hopkins (musician) – Taught music at the University
- Professor Sir Alan Walters – Former Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
- G. N. Watson - Professor of mathematics from 1918 to 1951
- Thomas Summers West – Analytical Chemistry
- William Brunsdon Yapp – Zoologist and author
- Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman – Former Professor of Anatomy
Alumni
Academia
- Dr Robert Beckford – leading UK theologian, academic, and film-maker, completed his PhD at Birmingham and was also a research fellow at the university
- Dr Harry Boot – co-developer of the war-winning cavity magnetron
- Professor Gavin D'Costa – Professor of Theology, University of Bristol
- Professor Leroy (Lee) Cronin - Gardiner Professor, Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK
- Rev Dr Lynn de Silva – Sri Lankan theologian, former director of the Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, Methodist minister, and a pioneer in promoting Buddhist-Christian dialogue, completed his Master of Arts at Birmingham
- Dr. Fawzia Fahim – Egyptian biochemist and environmental biologist
- Professor Paul Gilroy – Sociologist and Cultural Theorist, author of Ain't no Black in the Union Jack
- Dr Desmond Morris – leading zoologist, author and TV presenter
- Professor Margaret Mullett OBE – Professor of Byzantine studies and director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast
- Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick – activist for higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College and sister of a British Prime minister
- Vincent Watts – Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1997–2002)
- Sir Ernest Titterton – nuclear physicist involved in the development of the atomic bomb
- Professor Leslie Brent – Professor Emeritus, University of London
- Dr John Brian Harley – Geographer and Map Historian
- Professor Arnold Tustin – Professor of Engineering (1947–1955)
- Bernard Mayo – English Philosopher
- Rosemary Waring – Reader in Toxicology
- Professor Adrian John Brown – Original Professor of Malting and Brewing (1900–1928)
- Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers – British Physicist
- Dr Marco Rito-Palomares – Professor of Bioprocess Engineering at the Centre for Biotechnology at Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Dr George Isaak – Physicist and an important figure in the development of helio- and asteroseismology.
- Louis MacNeice – Lecturer in Classics 1930–36, Poet and Playwright
- Dr Damian J. Smith - Associate Professor of History, St. Louis University
- E. R. Dodds – Professor of Greek 1924–36
- Dr William Arbuckle Reid – British Curriculum Theorist
- Lawrence Grossberg – Renowned Cultural Studies theorist
- Dr Halil Berktay – Turkish Historian
- David Blanchflower CBE – Labour Economist
- Lorna Sage – Award winning literary critic
- Professor Stanley Salmons – Research Fellowship in the Department of Anatomy and Stothert Research Fellowship of the Royal Society
- Dr John Stewart Bell – Physicist and originator of Bell's Theorem
- Dr Homa Katouzian – Economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies
- Dr Noor Muhammad Butt – Pakistani research physicist
- Professor Robert Roland Pennington- Former Chair of Commercial Law and Former Dean of Birmingham University Law School[2]
Actors/directors
Armed forces
Entrepreneurs and business
Law and order
- Sir Michael Davies – one of the first judges to specifically handle defamation cases
- David Allen Green - lawyer
- Professor David Pearl – lawyer and member of the judicial appointments commission
- Justice Michelle Arana – first female Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize
- Justice Geoffrey Ma – Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
Media and journalism
Musicians
Nobel Prize recipients
Politicians
Royalty
Sport
Writers and artists
Health
Others
References