# List of University of Keele people

This is a list of notable people related to the University of Keele and its predecessor, the University College of North Staffordshire.

## Presidents and Chancellors

* John Herbert Dudley Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby (1949–55)
* HRH Princess Margaret (1956–86)
* Claus Moser, Baron Moser (1986–2002)
* Sir David Weatherall (2002–2012)
* Sir Jonathon Porritt (2012–2022)
* James Timpson (2022-...)

## Principals and Vice-Chancellors

* Lord Lindsay of Birker (1949–52)Sir Jonathon Porritt
* Sir John Lennard-Jones (1953–54)
* Sir George Barnes (1956–60)
* Harold McCarter Taylor (1961–67)
* W. A. Campbell Stewart (1967–79)
* Sir David Harrison (1979–84)
* Sir Brian Fender (1985–95)
* Dame Janet Finch (1995–2010)
* Nick Foskett (2010–2015)
* Trevor McMillan (2015– )

## Academics

* Tony Barrand – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Boston University
* Patricia Clavin - historian
* Jonathan Dollimore – English sociologist
* Richard English – historian
* Roy Fisher – American Studies lecturer and poet
* Jill Gibbon – graphic artist
* Oliver Harris – professor of American literature and expert in the works of William Burroughs
* Sir Nick Partridge – British health care specialist
* Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer – British political scientist

## Alumni
### Academia and Science

* Eliathamby Ambikairajah – engineer
* Stan Beckensall – expert on prehistoric rock art
* Dame Sandra Dawson – organisational theorist
* Jonathan Dollimore – sociologist; cultural and literary theorist
* Richard English – political historian
* Charles Iain Hamilton – historian
* Pradeep Mathur – educationalist
* Des MacHale - Mathematics emeritus professor -University College Cork
* Sam Nolutshungu – political scientist
* David Richardson – Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia
* Beverley Skeggs – sociologist
* Dame Joan Stringer – political scientist
* John Thompson – sociologist

### Arts and Literature

* John Abram – composer
* Mark Ayres – musician, composer and audio engineer
* Tony Barrand – anthropologist and folk musician
* Francis Beckett – English author
* Carol Birch – English novelist
* Joe Beverley – English-Canadian writer
* Peter Child – composer
* Alys Clare – novelist
* Paul Darke – academic, artist and disability rights activist
* Jem Finer – founding member of The Pogues
* Janet Fitch – author
* Helen Sarah Thomas- British poet and writer
* Zulfikar Ghose – novelist, poet and essayist
* Jon Haylett – novelist
* Giles Hooper – author, lecturer and musicologist
* Liz Kessler – author
* Marina Lewycka – novelist
* Bernard Lloyd – actor
* Andy McDermott – British thriller author
* Marina Oliver – British romance novelist
* Keith Ovenden – English novelist and biographer
* Adrian Pang – Singaporean actor
* David Pownall – playwright and author
* Andy Quin – composer and jazz pianist
* Ken Rattenbury – musician
* Davide Rossi – musician, Goldfrapp; composer
* Antti Sakari Saario – composer, lecturer
* Peter Whelan – playwright

### Diplomacy

* Emran bin Bahar – ambassador for Brunei Darussalam
* David Cooney – Irish ambassador to the UK
* Stephen Cutts – UN Assistant Secretary-General
* John Duncan – diplomat
* Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett – patron of Prisoners Abroad
* Jim Moran – EU ambassador
* Sir Richard Mottram – chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
* Dame Jo Williams – Chief Executive MENCAP
* Hso Khan Pha – Burmese prince also known as Tiger

### Law

* Sir Peter Coulson – Lord Justice of Appeal, and Deputy Head of Civil Justice
* Michael Mansfield KC – human rights lawyer
* Malcolm Shaw – legal scholar
* John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick – Member of the House of Lords and ex-Deputy District Judge
* Dame Fiona Woolf – Lord Mayor of London and ex-President of the Law Society

### Politics

* Abd Dhiyab al-Ajili – Iraqi minister
* Judin Asar – Clerk of the Legislative Council of Brunei
* Jack Brereton – Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent South
* Phillida Bunkle – New Zealand MP
* Professor John Clancy – Former Leader, Birmingham City Council
* Paul Clark – MP for Gillingham from 1997 to 2010
* Ash Denham – MSP for Edinburgh Eastern in the Scottish Parliament
* Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath – MP for Bath 1992 to 2015, Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Development 2012 to 2013
* John Golding – MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1969 to 1986
* Eric Joyce – MP for Falkirk from 2000 to 2015
* Claire Kober – Labour Council leader for the London Borough of Haringey
* Alun Michael – ex-Labour MP for Cardiff South Penarth and Minister of State for Home Affairs
* Madeleine Moon – Labour MP for Bridgend
* Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah – Namibian politician
* Dame Priti Patel – Conservative MP for Witham in Essex and former Home Secretary
* Rosmawatty Abdul Mumin – Member of the Legislative Council of Brunei
* Clare Short – ex-Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood and Secretary of State for International Development
* Gareth Snell - Former Labour MP for Stoke on Trent Central
* Adelaide Tambo – anti-apartheid activist South African MP
* Ian Taylor – MP for Esher from 1987 to 2010
* Sir John Vereker – ex-Permanent Secretary for International Development and Governor of Bermuda
* Lynda Waltho – Labour MP for Stourbridge
* Sufian Sabtu – Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Office of Brunei

### TV and journalism

* Phil Avery – BBC weather presenter
* Wayne Clarke – radio presenter
* Tony Elliott, founder of Time Out
* Jack Emery, British director, writer and producer for stage, TV and radio
* Terry Milewski – Canadian broadcaster and journalist
* Gerry Northam – BBC investigative journalist
* AJ Odudu – television presenter

### Other

* Kojo Annan – businessman; son of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
* Maggie Atkinson – Children's Commissioner, England
* Yvette Baker – champion orienteer
* Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate – Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Society of Biology
* Nataliey Bitature- social entrepreneur, Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur
* Robert Cooling – Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff
* David Edwards – second person to win Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
* Jonathan Gledhill – Bishop of Lichfield
* Steve Jackson – Game designer, co-founder of Games Workshop and Lionhead Studios
* Peter Moore – business executive
* Sir Nick Partridge – chief executive, Terence Higgins Trust
* Derek Tidball – theologian
* Sir Chris Woodhead – chief inspector of schools