# List of alumni of University College, Durham

University College, Durham is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University. The following is a list of notable people to have matriculated at the college.
Where known, degree type, subject and year of graduation are included.

## Alumni

* Walter Adams, Archbishop of Yukon
* Lancelot Addison, Archdeacon of Dorset (1948–1955)
* John Anthony Allan (BA Geography, 1958), geographer and winner of Stockholm Water Prize
* Simon Ardizzone (BA, 1988), producer and director, Hacking Democracy
* K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat
* Tim Atkin (BA Modern Languages, 1984), journalist and Master of Wine
* Richard Ayre, former BBC journalist
* Nigel Badnell, physicist
* Edward Baran, British newsreader
* Rob Beckley, Assistant Commissioner in London Metropolitan Police
* Henry Bell, cricketer and clergyman
* Edward Bickersteth, clergyman
* Crispin Blunt
* John Henry Blunt
* Edward Bradley, clergyman and author known for The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
* Richard Brand, Archdeacon of Winchester
* David Breeze, archaeologist
* Eric Brereton, Dean of Glasgow and Galloway (1959–1962)
* Peter Bridgewater, Australian conservationist
* Aubrey Brocklebank, entrepreneur and aristocrat
* George Malcolm Brown, geologist
* Alex Burton, Royal Navy officer
* Clare Cameron, Ministry of Defence civil servant
* Peter Cardy, public servant
* Allan Cartner, continuity announcer for Border Television
* Jack Cattell
* Richard Dickinson Chambers, Professor of Chemistry at Durham
* Nicholas Chorley, 3rd Baron Chorley, British peer
* Cyrus Chothia (BSc, 1965), biochemist
* Frank Colquhoun, Church of England priest and author
* Rosemary Coogan, astronaut
* Harry Cook, martial artist
* Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy at Central European University
* Mike Cunningham, Chief Executive of the College of Policing (2018–2020)
* William Curzon-Siggers, Anglican priest and author
* Owen Dampier Bennett
* Charles Maurice Davies
* Hunter Davies, author
* Phil de Glanville, England rugby player
* John Douglas
* Jackie Doyle Price
* Guy Edwards, Formula 1 racing driver
* George Entwistle, former BBC executive
* Harold Evans
* John Exelby, British television executive
* Christopher Foster
* James Freeling
* George Frodsham
* Edward Frossard
* Charles Furneaux, TV producer and Up participant
* Chris Gibson-Smith, businessman; Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group
* Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
* Frank Gillingham, cricketer
* Antony Good, cricketer
* John Goodall, historian and Architectural Editor of Country Life
* Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford
* James Goss, High Court judge
* William Greenwell, antiquarian
* Miles Gregory, theatre director and producer
* Bill Gunston, aviation author
* Paul Lewis Hancock, geologist
* Ernest Hayes
* Samuel Heaslett
* James Henderson
* Allan Hill, demographer; Andelot Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
* George Hills, Anglican bishop
* Edmund Hobhouse, Anglican bishop
* Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford
* George Frederick Holmes
* Robert Hornby
* James Horstead
* Walsham How
* Tessa Howard, field hockey player
* Jules Hudson, archaeologist
* Malcolm K. Hughes, climatologist
* Simon Hughes, cricketer and journalist nicknamed The Analyst
* Henry Hyde, priest
* Kumar Iyer, Director General for Economics, Science and Technology at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
* David Jennings, composer
* John Jones, Anglican priest; Archdeacon of St Asaph
* Thomas Kerr, engineer; Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment
* Christopher Kitching, archivist
* Gerald Knox, cricketer
* Christopher Lamb, journalist
* Timothy Laurence
* Craig Lawrence, former British Army officer, author and lecturer
* John Lawton, ecologist
* Edward Leigh, Conservative MP
* Andy Lines, Anglican bishop
* Peter Liss, environmental scientist
* Evered Lunt, Anglican bishop
* William Herrick Macaulay, mathematician and Vice-Povost of King's College, Cambridge
* Angus MacFarlane-Grieve
* Baret Magarian, writer
* Jane Marriott
* Guy Marshall, Anglican bishop
* Richard Massey, physicist
* Rachel McCarthy
* David Mercer, playwright
* Richard Mercer, cricketer
* Piers Merchant
* Huw Merriman
* Ed Mitchell, presenter for ITN
* James Montgomery, Anglican priest
* David Moore, botanist
* James Morris, cricketer
* Rory Morrison, BBC Radio 4 newsreader
* Peter Ogden, founder of Computacenter
* George Ornsby, antiquarian
* Denis Osborne, physicist and diplomat
* Chris Oti, England rugby player
* James Palmes, Archdeacon of the East Riding (1892–1898)
* Frank Pasquill, meteorologist
* Robin Pedley, educationist
* Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, clergyman and arachnologist
* Maurice Berkeley Portman
* Arthur Prowse, physicist and academic administrator; founding Master of Van Mildert College
* James Raine, antiquarian and Chancellor of York Minster
* Sir Thomas Richardson-Bunbury, 6th Baronet
* Andrew Ritchie, British Army officer; Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (2003–2006)
* Dan Rivers, correspondent at ITV News
* Charles Robertson, priest
* Jonathan Rougier, Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Bristol
* David Sadler, Professor of Human Geography
* Brian Scarlett, particle technologist
* Caleb Scharf, physicist
* Robert Senior, advertising executive
* John Sewel, Baron Sewel, member of the House of Lords
* Graeme Shimmin, science fiction novelist
* Edward Shortt, lawyer and politician; Home Secretary (1919–1922)
* Gareth Sibson, writer and broadcaster
* Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Kensington (1932–1942)
* Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician
* Ian Smail, physicist
* Peter Snowdon, historian and journalist
* Martin St Quinton, horse racing entrepreneur
* Howard Stableford, television and radio presenter
* Ben Starr, actor
* Philip Steele, author of children's non-fiction
* Joseph Stevenson, antiquarian
* Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Hong Kong cricketer
* Paul Sutcliffe, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Durham
* Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford (2002–2021)
* Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (MA, 1984), Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
* Thomas Charles Thompson, Liberal Party politician
* Maurice Tucker, Professor of Geology and Master of University College, Durham (1998–2011)
* Mike Tuffrey, Liberal Democrat politician
* Garry Tunnicliffe, Royal Air Force officer; Defence Services Secretary (2016–2019)
* James Turner, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale (1869–1893)
* Lily van den Broecke, British Paralympic rower
* Annabel Venning, journalist and author; Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (2005)
* Fitzpatrick Vernon, 2nd Baron Lyveden, British peer and Liberal Party politician
* Henry Villiers-Stuart, Egyptologist and Liberal Party politician
* Terence Wade, Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde (1987–1995)
* Stephen Warner, evangelical preacher
* Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK (2016–2021)
* Peter Watson, journalist and author
* L. P. Wenham, archaeologist
* James Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm, Conservative Party politician
* Thomas Wilkinson, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (1889–1909)
* Jonathan Wilks, diplomat
* Jim Williams (BA, Law and Sociology), author
* Hugh Willmott, archaeologist
* Thomas Woodcock, Garter Principal King of Arms (2010–2021)
* Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford (BA, 1846), soldier, writer and clergyman