page_title: List of University of Leicester people
section_title: Notable academics
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Leicester people / Notable academics
caption_attribution_description: English: Anthony Giddens at the Progressive Governance Converence, Budapest, Hungary, 13 October, 2004
context_page_description: This list of University of Leicester people is a selected list of notable past staff and students of the University of Leicester.
context_section_description: Khurshid Ahmad, Islamic scholar
  Penelope Allison, Professor of Archaeology
  Lyman Andrews, American Studies
  Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women's writing
  Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
  Richard Bonney, historian
  Alan Bryman, social scientist
  Grace Burrows, violinist and orchestra conductor
  Neil Christie, Reader in Archaeology
  Nicholas T. Clerk, Ghanaian academic, public administrator and Presbyterian minister
  John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern history.
  Heather Couper, astronomer and television presenter
  Rosemary Crompton, sociologist
  Nicholas J. Cull, US historian
  Panicos Demetriades, economist and Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus
  Gabriel Dover, geneticist
  Eric Dunning, sports sociologist
  Christopher Dyer, medieval historian
  Colin Eaborn FRS, chemist
  Norbert Elias, German sociologist
  Brian J. Ford, scientist, visiting professor
  G. S. Fraser, Scottish poet
  Anthony Giddens, prominent sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester
  Reuben Goodstein, mathematician, proponent of Goodstein's theorem
  Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition law specialist. Member of the Competition Commission
  Sarah Hainsworth, Professor of Materials and Forensic Engineering, involved in analysing the wounds on the skeleton of Richard III
  Rosalind Hill, historian
  Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist
  Richard Hoggart, sociologist
  W. G. Hoskins, (1931–1952) (1965–1968), local historian, author of The Making of the English Landscape
  Norman Housley, crusading historian
  Arthur Humphreys, inaugural Professor of English and first Dean of the Faculty of Arts
  Leonard Huxley, physicist
  Suzanne Imber, astrophysicist
  Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist, inventor of genetic fingerprinting
  Hans Kornberg, biochemist
  Philip Larkin, librarian and poet
  David Mattingly, Roman archaeologist
  John McManners, former Head of History Dept., Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford until retirement
  Ken Pounds, Emeritus Professor of Physics, discovered black holes were common in the universe
  Charles Rees, organic chemist
  Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, the Astronomer Royal, visiting professor at Leicester
  J.B. Schneewind, philosophy professor, Johns Hopkins University
  Malcolm Shaw QC, The Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, prominent international lawyer and jurist
  Jack Simmons, professor of history 1947–1975
  Brian Simon, professor of education 1966-1980
  Sami Zubaida, political scientist
caption: Anthony Giddens, sociologist
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