# List of University of Warwick people

This is a list of University of Warwick people, including office holders, current and former academics and alumni of the University of Warwick, including a brief description of their notability.
Warwick has over 290,000 alumni and an active alumni network.

## Former students
### Academics

* Janet Beer – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
* Robert Calderbank – former Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke University and winner of the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the Claude E. Shannon Award
* David Cardwell – superconducting engineer and head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department
* Colin Cooper – Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of East Anglia
* John Fauvel – historian of mathematics at the Open University
* Luciano Floridi – philosopher of information
* Oliver Hart – economist and former chairman of the Harvard Economics Department, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2016
* H.A. Hellyer – policy consultant and senior research fellow for Muslims in Europe
* Alan Hywel Jones – principal research fellow and senior consultant at Sheffield Hallam University, materials scientist and inventor
* Maris Martinsons – professor of management; international business consultant
* Moeletsi Mbeki – deputy chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs; brother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki
* Patricia McFadden – Swazi author; professor of sociology; African radical feminist
* Stuart Neil – professor of virology at King's College London
* Pippa Norris – political scientist and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
* Ian Stewart – popular science author; Professor of Mathematics
* Leslie Valiant – British computer scientist and Turing Award winner

### Art

* Benjamin Hope (Mathematics and Physics 1996) – painter

### Business

* Rajiv Bajaj – Managing director and CEO of Bajaj Auto
* Sanjiv Bajaj – Managing director of Bajaj Finserv
* Ian Gorham – CEO of Hargreaves Lansdown
* Bernardo Hees – CEO of the Heinz Company; former CEO of Burger King
* Linda Jackson – CEO of Citroën
* Jyoti Jeetun – Minister of Financial Services; former CEO of Mont Choisy Group
* Nick Landau – co–owner and founder of Titan Entertainment Group and Forbidden Planet sci-fi, fantasy and horror bookstores
* Margaret Milan – founder and owner of Eveil & Jeux
* Mahmoud Mohieldin (PhD Financial Economics, 1995) – former Investment Minister of Egypt; current Managing Director of the World Bank
* Phil O'Donovan – Bluetooth engineer & CSR plc co-founder
* Ada Osakwe – economist, entrepreneur and corporate executive
* Ralf Speth – CEO of Jaguar Land Rover
* Mary Turner – CEO of Koovs
* Lakshmi Venu – Director at TVS Motor Company, daughter of Venu Srinivasan
* Jehangir Wadia – Indian Businessman, Managing Director of Go First, Bombay Dyeing and Bombay Realty, Director on the Boards of Britannia Industries
* Ness Wadia – Indian Businessman, managing director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Punjab Kings
* Tony Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet travel guides
* Nigel Wilson – CEO of Legal & General Group plc
* George Yankey – CEO of Ghana Gas Company & former Minister of Health in Ghana

### Cinema and theatre

* Paul W. S. Anderson (Film and Literature) – film director
* Adam Buxton (dropped out after two terms) – comedian and actor, best known as part of Adam and Joe
* Angus Castle–Doughty, actor who has starred in Showtrial and Hollyoaks, co-founded theatre company Incognito
* Dominic Cooke – artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre
* Paul Darke (PhD in Film) – academic, artist and disability rights activist, creator of the ''normality drama' theory
* Brett Goldstein (Film & Feminism) – actor and comedian
* Vadim Jean (History) – film director
* Alex Jennings (English and Theatre Studies 1978) – actor who has performed in many lead roles at the RSC
* Ruth Jones (Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts 1988) – actress known as Myfanwy in Little Britain and Nessa in Gavin & Stacey
* Lloyd Langford – comedian (film and television)
* Stephen Merchant (Film and Literature 1996) – wrote, directed and acted in the British television series The Office and Extras, in such roles as the 'Oggmonster' and 'Darren Lamb' respectively.
* Julian Rhind-Tutt (English) – actor, known from the award-winning comedy series Green Wing
* Frank Skinner, then Chris Collins (MA in English Literature 1981) – comedian, actor, writer
* Hannah Waterman – actress

### Government and politics

* Wendy Alexander (MA, Industrial Relations) – former Labour Leader in the Scottish Parliament
* Luis Arce (Master's in Economics, 1997) – President of Bolivia, former Minister of Economy and Public Finance in Bolivia
* Joseph Ngute – Prime Minister, Head of Government of the Republic of Cameroon
* Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos (Sociology 1976) – Britain's first female black Cabinet Minister, formerly Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and British High Commissioner to Australia; and now Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN
* Tim Barrow – diplomat and British Ambassador to Russia since 2011
* Yunus Carrim – Minister of Communications of South Africa
* Chan Yuen Han - active female unionists in Hong Kong
* Vernon Coaker (BA (Hons) Politics and Economics) – Member of Parliament for Gedling and Government Minister until 2010
* Jon Cruddas (PhD in philosophy, 1990) – Member of Parliament for Dagenham and formerly a candidate for deputy leadership of the Labour Party
* Sir David Davis (Molecular Science/Computer Science, 1968–1971) – Conservative MP and former secretary of state for exiting the EU
* Claire Darke, (Certificate of Social Work) – 161st mayor of Wolverhampton
* Becky Gittins – Labour Member of Parliament for Clwyd East
* Yakubu Gowon (PhD in Political Science) – former president of Nigeria
* Andy Haldane (Economics) – chief economist at the Bank of England
* Kim Howells (PhD) – former Foreign Office minister
* Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson – President of Iceland
* George Chouliarakis – Academic and Greek Alternate Minister of Finance
* George W. Kanyeihamba – Member of the Supreme Court of Uganda and African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights; Legal Advisor to the President of Uganda on Human Rights and International Affairs
* Sir Bob Kerslake – Head of the Home Civil Service
* Andrea Leadsom (Political Science) – Conservative Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire and Secretary of State for the Environment
* Sir Richard Leese – Leader of Manchester City Council
* Sir David Li - Chairman and Chief Executive of the Bank of East Asia; member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong; former member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
* Tim Loughton (Classical Civilisation) – Conservative former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
* Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley – Privy Counsellor; former Labour Secretary of State for Education; graduated from Coventry College of Education
* Lord Gus O'Donnell (Economics 1973) – former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
* Lord Brian Paddick – former Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police and London Mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats in 2008 and 2012
* José Fernando Franco González Salas – Ministry of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico
* George Saitoti – Former vice-president of Kenya, former Executive Chairman of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and former president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
* Dan Stoenescu – Romanian diplomat and former Minister for Romanians Abroad
* Valentine Strasser – former head of state of Sierra Leone; did not complete his studies at Warwick
* Aung Tun Thet – Burmese economist and the Economic Advisor to the president of Burma
* Carrie Symonds – British political activist, conservationist and Partner of Boris Johnson

### History

* David Englander – historian and author

### Literature

* Nicholas Blincoe – author
* Simon Calder (Mathematics) – travel writer for The Independent
* Jonathan Coe (English Literature) – novelist and writer
* Sarah Crossan – Irish author.
* Anne Fine (History '68) – children's author
* James Franklin (Mathematics) – historian of ideas; philosopher
* Sam Gillespie – philosopher and early translator and commentator of Alain Badiou, crucial to Badiou's initial reception in the English-speaking world
* Mal Lewis Jones (English and American literature '70) – children's author
* Kaiser Haq – Bangladeshi writer and translator
* A. L. Kennedy (Theatre and Performance Studies) – author
* Peter Linebaugh (History '75) – author of The Magna Carta Manifesto
* Sally Nicholls (Philosophy and Literature '05) – children's and young adult author
* Mal Peet – author, writer of popular young adult literature, Keeper, Tamar, others...
* Robin Stevens, children's author
* Chip Tsao (pen name: To Kit) (English Literature) – Hong Kong cultural and political commentator
* Patrick M. Vollmer – House of Lords Librarian
* Tony Wheeler (Engineering '68) – co-founder of Lonely Planet (LP) travel guides
* Yilin Zhong (Cultural Studies '05) – journalist and author of 8 books, novel "Chinatown" released in 2011.
* Anmol Malik (Computer Science and Business) - prominent Indian Author, Singer, Songwriter

### Law

* Yomi Adegoke – journalist, known for writing the Slay in Your Lane book series
* Princess Azemah Ni'matul Bolkiah (LLB '08) – Bruneian princess
* Constance Briscoe – disgraced barrister convicted of perverting the course of justice
* Phil Shiner (LLM '85) – lawyer struck off for misconduct

### Media

* Camila Batmanghelidjh – charity executive
* Jennie Bond (French and European Literature 1968) – former BBC Royal correspondent
* Brian Deer (Philosophy) – The Sunday Times; Channel 4
* Tom Dunmore (Film & Literature) – Editor In Chief, Stuff Magazine
* George Eaton – political editor of the New Statesman
* Giles Fletcher (Computer Science 1987) – glam rock artist
* Michelle Fleury (Literature & French Language 1991) – BBC US business correspondent
* Janan Ganesh (Politics) – Financial Times journalist
* Leona Graham (Drama) – radio presenter and voice–over artist
* Merfyn Jones – Governor BBC and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor
* James King (Film and Literature) – BBC Radio 1 film critic
* Timmy Mallett (History 1977) – 1980s children's television presenter
* Simon Mayo (History and Politics 1981) – broadcaster
* Peter Salmon (European Literature 1977) – BBC television executive
* Tim Vickery (History and Politics) – South American football correspondent for BBC Sport, ESPN and an analyst on SporTV's main morning programme, Redação SporTV.
* Christian Wolmar (1971) – writer on transport and social issues
* Dawn Foster (English 2009) – British journalist, broadcaster and author

### Music

* DJ Yoda (English and American Literature 1998) – Hip hop turntablist
* Gareth Emery – DJ and founder of electronic label Garuda, rated world's no.14 DJ in 2012
* Roxanne Emery – solo singer/songwriter artist, founder of LATE records
* Adem Ilhan (studied Mathematics) – solo artist; member of Fridge
* Kode9 (PhD in Philosophy) – dubstep producer, DJ and owner of the Hyperdub record label
* Sting (left after one term) – lead singer of The Police and solo artist
* Robert Willis – Dean of Canterbury, composer of hymns
* Nissi Ogulu (Mechanical Engineering) - singer/songwriter

### Sport

* Kevin Blackwell (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
* Aidy Boothroyd (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
* Steve Heighway (Economics) – Liverpool F.C. footballer
* Mark Hughes (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
* Yasmin Liverpool (Economics) – 200m and 400m sprinter
* Stuart Pearce (Certificate in Applied Management in Football) – football manager
* Princess Azemah (Laws) – polo player

## Notable faculty and staff

Notable current and former faculty and staff at Warwick include:

### Biological sciences

* Sir Howard Dalton - Chief Scientific Advisor to Defra
* Sir Brian Follett – also formerly Warwick University's vice-chancellor (1993–2001)

### Chemistry

* Keith Jennings – known for work in mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation

### Classics and Ancient History

* Alison E. Cooley – Roman historian
* James Davidson – social historian of Ancient Greece
* Michael Scott – ancient historian and broadcaster
* Zahra Newby – historian of Ancient art and the visual culture of festivals
* Victoria Rimell – latinist
* Simon Swain – scholar of Greek culture under Rome

### English

* Susan Bassnett – translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature
* Jonathan Bate
* Andrew Davies – television screenwriter
* Sir Michael Edwards – first Briton to be voted into the Académie Française
* Maureen Freely – writer, author and translator of works by Orhan Pamuk
* K. W. Gransden – poet and critic; one of the founders of the English Department
* Germaine Greer – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature
* A. L. Kennedy
* China Miéville – fiction writer
* David Vann – creative writing professor
* John Fletcher – literary theorist

### Engineering and computer science

* Lord Bhattacharyya – founder and Director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group
* Mike Cowlishaw – creator of the REXX programming language
* Hugh Darwen – creator of Tutorial D database language
* Mike Paterson – former director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications
* Kevin Warwick – cyborg researcher

### History

* David Arnold – Indian historian
* J. H. Elliott – Spanish historian
* John Rigby Hale – Renaissance historian and first Professor of History at Warwick University
* E. P. Thompson – Marxist historian and founding member of the CND

### Law

* Shaheen Sardar Ali – Professor of Law
* Patrick Atiyah – barrister and legal writer
* Upendra Baxi – Professor of Law
* John McEldowney – Professor of Public Law
* Paul Raffield – Professor of Law; actor in Joking Apart

### Mathematics and statistics

* Brian Bowditch – mathematician known for contributions to geometry and topology, and for solving the angel problem
* Jack Cohen – developmental biologist; xenobiologist; honorary professor
* David Epstein – mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry; co-founder of the University of Warwick mathematics department
* Martin Hairer – expert in stochastic partial differential equations; winner of the Fields Medal, Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Royal Society Wolfson Award and the LMS Whitehead Prize
* Wilfrid Kendall – probabalist and president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (2013 – 2015)
* Robert Sinclair MacKay – mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems; current president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
* David Preiss – winner of the 2008 Pólya Prize for his contributions to analysis and geometric measure theory
* Miles Reid – mathematician known for work in algebraic geometry
* Gareth Roberts, statistician known for work on Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology; winner of the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver and Bronze; an ISI highly cited researcher
* Ian Stewart – mathematician, popular science author and an ISI highly cited researcher
* Andrew M. Stuart – mathematician known for his contributions to numerical analysis and computational mathematics; winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis
* Sir Christopher Zeeman – topologist; exponent of catastrophe theory; founding professor of mathematics; former president of the London Mathematical Society; namesake of the Mathematics and Statistics building; principal of Hertford College, Oxford

### Philosophy

* Quassim Cassam – Professor of Philosophy
* Angie Hobbs – Lecturer
* Nick Land – Former lecturer, known as the father of accelerationism
* David Miller – Emeritus Reader of Philosophy
* Peter Poellner – Professor of Philosophy

### Social sciences

* Lady Margaret Archer – theorist in critical realism; former president of International Sociological Association; current president of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
* Sir George Bain – former chairman of the School of Industrial and Business Studies
* Söhnke M. Bartram – Professor of Finance
* James A. Beckford – Professor Emeritus of Sociology
* Jim Bulpitt – Professor of Politics
* Simon Clarke – professor of sociology
* Robin Cohen – honorary professor
* Nicholas Crafts – professor of economics and economic history
* Avinash Dixit – economist
* Robert Fine – Professor Emeritus, theorist of cosmopolitanism
* Steve Fuller – Professor of Sociology, theorist in science and technology studies
* Wyn Grant – former chair of the British Political Studies Association (2002–2005); President of the PSA (2005–2008) Political scientist with interest in comparative public policy
* Peter J. Hammond – Professor of Economics
* H. A. Hellyer – senior research Fellow; specialist on Muslims in Europe and West–Muslim world relations
* Richard Higgott – Director of the Warwick Commission to the World Bank
* Elena Korosteleva – political scientist, Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development
* Abhinay Muthoo – Professor of Economics and Dean of Warwick in London
* Andrew Oswald – Professor of Economics
* Tobias Preis – Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Finance
* John Rex – Professor Emeritus
* Sir Ken Robinson – Professor Emeritus of Education
* Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky – Professor Emeritus of Political Economy
* Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford – former Chief Economist of the World Bank
* Susan Strange – political economist and former chair of International Relations
* Mark P. Taylor – Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of International Finance
* John Williamson – English economist who coined the term Washington Consensus
* Sarah D. Goode – Former lecturer in child health at Warwick Medical School

### Other

* The Coull String Quartet – quartet-in-residence since 1977
* Koen Lamberts – psychologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of York
* Mark Smith – physicist, Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University
* Nigel Thrift – geographer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick

## Administration
### Chancellors

* William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes – Chancellor-designate (died in December 1964 before taking office)
* Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1965–1977)
* Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (1977–1989)
* Sir Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal (1989–2002)
* Sir Nicholas Scheele (2003–2008)
* Sir Richard Lambert (2008–2016)
* Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (2017–present)

### Vice-chancellors

* Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth (1965–1985)
* Clark L. Brundin (1985–1992)
* Sir Brian K. Follett (1993–2001)
* David VandeLinde (2001–2006)
* Nigel Thrift (2006–2016)
* Stuart Croft (2016–present)