# List of Birmingham City University people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff of Birmingham City University, in Birmingham, England, and its predecessor institutions:
* Anstey College of Physical Education
* Birmingham and Solihull College of Nursing and Midwifery
* Birmingham College of Commerce
* Birmingham School of Acting
* Birmingham School of Art
* Birmingham School of Jewellery
* Birmingham School of Music (now Birmingham Conservatoire)
* Bordesley College of Education
* Bournville College of Art (now the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts)
* City of Birmingham College of Education
* Defence School of Health Care Studies
* North Birmingham Technical College
* South Birmingham Technical College
* West Midlands School of Radiography

## Staff

* Mark Addis
* Chris Baines — environmentalist
* Charles Bateman — architect
* William Bidlake
* William Bloye
* Jonathan Bowen — computer scientist
* Paul Bradshaw — journalist
* John Bridgeman — sculptor
* Paul Clarkson
* Benjamin Creswick
* Trevor Denning
* Elizabeth Fradd
* Arthur Gaskin
* Bruce George
* Charles March Gere
* Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott
* Albert Herbert
* Islam Issa
* Zhiming Liu — computer scientist
* Sylvani Merilion
* Sidney Meteyard
* Nicola Monaghan
* David Prentice
* Roy Priest — musician (formerly of Sweet Jesus)
* Marius Romme
* Jeffrey Skidmore
* Edward R. Taylor
* Philip Tew
* George Wallis
* David Wilson — criminologist
* Simon M. Woods

## Alumni
### Armed forces

* Harry Price — Royal Navy seaman

### Art and design

* Samira Abbassy
* Martin Aitchison
* Maxwell Armfield
* Grace Barnsley
* Alfred Bestall
* Stephen Biesty
* Richard Billingham — photographer
* William Bloye
* Emmy Bridgwater
* Gerald Brockhurst
* Herbert Tudor Buckland
* Kate Bunce
* Edward Burne-Jones
* Joseph Finnemore
* Arthur Gaskin (also staff)
* Georgie Gaskin
* Frederick Gibberd
* Bunny Guinness
* Edwin Harris
* William Alexander Harvey
* William Haywood — architect
* Gordon Herickx
* Roger Hiorns — artist
* Robert van 't Hoff
* Alex Hughes — Tribune cartoonist
* Betty Jackson — fashion designer
* Robert Furneaux Jordan
* David McFall
* Danie Mellor
* Oscar Mellor
* Sidney Meteyard (also staff)
* H. R. Millar
* William Jabez Muckley
* Edmund Hort New
* Dorrie Nossiter
* Hugh O'Donnell — artist
* Henry Payne — artist
* Peter Phillips — artist
* George Phoenix
* John Poole — sculptor
* Donald Rodney — artist
* Henry Rushbury
* John Salt
* Percy Shakespeare
* John Shelley — illustrator
* Bernard Sleigh
* Joseph Southall
* Marty St. James — video artist
* David Tremlett
* Ian Walters
* Harry Weedon
* Robert Welch — designer
* Phil Winslade
* Graham Winteringham
* A. H. Woodfull
* John Skirrow Wright
* Tang Da Wu

### Media

* Smitthi Bhiraleus
* Marverine Cole — broadcast journalist
* Kirsten O'Brien — children's television presenter
* Fiona Phillips — TV presenter
* Mary Rhodes — sports TV presenter
* Bob Rickard
* Charlie Stayt — BBC newsreader
* Margherita Taylor — radio and TV presenter

### Medicine and science

* Bethann Siviter — nurse-author
* Kevin Warwick — scientist

### Performing arts

* Carole Boyd
* James Bradshaw — actor (of the Birmingham School of Acting)
* Anna Brewster
* Nicola Coughlan — actress
* Krzysztof Czerwiński
* Nick Duffy — musician
* Stephen Duffy — singer-songwriter
* Jeremy Filsell
* Nicholas Gledhill
* Ainsley Howard
* Barbara Keogh
* Tom Lister
* Luke Mably
* Jimi Mistry — actor (of the Birmingham School of Acting)
* Horace Panter
* Rhydian Roberts — singer and The X Factor contestant
* Jack Rubinacci
* Jinny Sandhú — professional wrestler
* Frank Skinner — comedian
* John Taylor — bass guitarist, founder of Duran Duran
* Catherine Tyldesley
* William Villiers, 10th Earl of Jersey
* Nicol Williamson — actor (of the Birmingham School of Acting)
* Marjorie Yates — actress

### Politics

* Mike Amesbury — Labour MP
* Paul Goggins
* David Hallam MEP
* Lynne Jones — politician, former MP for Selly Oak
* Khalid Mahmood — politician, MP for Perry Barr
* Gloria De Piero

### Writing

* Jim Crace — novelist
* Charles Wood — playwright

## Honours award holders

* Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale
* Laurie Baker
* Stephen Bright
* Andy Hamilton — saxophonist
* Karl Johnson
* Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
* David Nicholson — civil servant
* T. R. Pachamuthu
* Jenny Uglow
* Gillian Weir
* Benjamin Zephaniah