page_title: List of Newcastle University people
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of Newcastle University people / B
context_section_description: Bruce Babbitt - U.S. politician; 16th Governor of Arizona (1978–1987); 47th United States Secretary of the Interior (1993–2001); Democrat
  James Baddiley - biochemist, based at Newcastle University 1954–1983; the Baddiley-Clark building is named in part after him
  Tunde Baiyewu - member of the Lighthouse Family
  John C. A. Barrett - clergyman
  G. W. S. Barrow - historian
  Neil Bartlett - chemist, creation of the first noble gas compounds (BSc and PhD at King's College, University of Durham, later Newcastle University)
  Sue Beardsmore - television presenter
  Alan Beith - politician
  Jean Benedetti - biographer, translator, director and dramatist
  Phil Bennion - politician
  Catherine Bertola - contemporary painter
  Simon Best - Captain of the Ulster Rugby team; Prop for the Ireland Team
  Andy Bird - CEO of Disney International
  Rory Jonathan Courtenay Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan - heir apparent to the earldom of Cork
  David Bradley - science writer
  Mike Brearley - professional cricketer, formerly a lecturer in philosophy at the university (1968–1971)
  Constance Briscoe - one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK; author of the best-selling autobiography Ugly; found guilty in May 2014 on three charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice; jailed for 16 months
  Steve Brooks - entomologist; attained BSc in Zoology and MSc in Public Health Engineering from Newcastle University in 1976 and 1977 respectively
  Thom Brooks - academic, columnist
  Gavin Brown - academic
  Vicki Bruce - psychologist
  Basil Bunting - poet; Northern Arts Poetry Fellow at Newcastle University (1968–70); honorary DLitt in 1971
  John Burgan - documentary filmmaker
  Mark Burgess - computer scientist
  Sir John Burn - Professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University Medical School; Medical Director and Head of the Institute of Genetics; Newcastle Medical School alumnus
  William Lawrence Burn - historian and lawyer, history chair at King's College, Newcastle (1944–66)
  John Harrison Burnett - botanist, chair of Botany at King's College, Newcastle (1960–68)
caption: Bruce Babbitt
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