This article is a list of people associated with Newcastle University as either a student or teacher.
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Ali Mohamed Shein, 7th President of Zanzibar Richard Adams - fairtrade businessman Kate Adie - journalist Yasmin Ahmad - Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter Prince Adewale Aladesanmi - Nigerian prince and businessman Jane Alexander - Bishop Theodosios Alexander (BSc Marine Engineering 1981) - Dean, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology of Saint Louis University William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - industrialist; in 1871 founded College of Physical Science, an early part of the University Roy Ascott - new media artist Dennis Assanis - President, University of Delaware Neil Astley - publisher, editor and writer Rodney Atkinson - eurosceptic conservative academic Rowan Atkinson - comedian and actor Kane Avellano - Guinness World Record for youngest person to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle (solo and unsupported) at the age of 23 in 2017
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Bruce Babbitt - US 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 Max Balegde - social media star 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 Peter Phillips Bedson - chemistry professor 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 Jo Budd – textile artist Basil Bunting - poet; Northern Arts Poetry Fellow at Newcastle University (1968–70); honorary DLitt in 1971Richard Caddel, ‘Bunting, Basil Cheesman (1900–1985)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 Aug 2013 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 John Harrison Burnett - botanist, chair of Botany at King's College, Newcastle (1960–68)
C Richard Caddel - poet Deborah Cameron - linguist Stuart Cameron - lecturer John Ashton Cannon - historian; Professor of Modern History; Head of Department of History from 1976 until his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1979; Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1983–1986 Ian Carr - musician Steve Chapman - Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University Dion Chen - Hong Kong educator, principal of Ying Wa College and former principal of YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College Hsing Chia-hui - author Ashraf Choudhary - scientist Jennifer A. Clack - palaeontologist George Clarke - architect Brian Clouston - landscape architect Ed Coode - Olympic gold medallist John Coulson - chemical engineering academic Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox - cross-bench member of the British House of Lords Nicola Curtin – Professor of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics Pippa Crerar - Political Editor of the Daily Mirror
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Fred D'Aguiar - author Julia Darling - poet, playwright, novelist, MA in Creative Writing Chris Day - medical academic and researcher, current (2017-) Vice-Chancellor of the University and Chair of the Russell Group Simin Davoudi - academic Richard Dawson - researcher in climate and environmental risks to infrastructure and the built environment Tom Dening - medical academic and researcher Katie Doherty - singer-songwriter Annabel Dover - artist, studied fine art 1994–1998 Alexander Downer - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1996–2007) Chloë Duckworth - archaeologist and presenter Chris Duffield - Town Clerk and Chief Executive of the City of London Corporation
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Michael Earl - academic Tom English - drummer, Maxïmo Park Princess Eugenie - a niece of King Charles III and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
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U. A. Fanthorpe - poet Frank Farmer - medical physicist; professor of medical physics at Newcastle University in 1966John Haggith, ‘Farmer, Frank Taylor (1912–2004)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008 accessed 4 Aug 2013 Terry Farrell - architect Tim Farron - former Liberal Democrat leader and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale Ian Fells - professor Andy Fenby - rugby player Bryan Ferry - singer, songwriter and musician, member of Roxy Music and solo artist; studied fine art E. J. Field - neuroscientist, director of the university's Demyelinating Disease Unit John Niemeyer Findlay - philosopher John Fitzgerald - computer scientist Vicky Forster - cancer researcher Maximilian Fosh - YouTuber and independent candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election. Rose Frain - artist
G Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster - aristocrat, billionaire, businessman and landowner Peter Gibbs - television weather presenter Ken Goodall - rugby player Peter Gooderham - British ambassador Michael Goodfellow - Professor in Microbial Systematics Robert Goodwill - politician Richard Gordon - author Thomas George Greenwell - National Conservative Member of Parliament'GREENWELL, Col. Thomas George', in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 3 December 2011 (subscription required)
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Andrew Haigh - film director Sarah Hainsworth - Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University Reginald Hall - endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine (1970–1980) Alex Halliday - Professor of Geochemistry, University of Oxford Richard Hamilton - artist Vicki L. Hanson - computer scientist; honorary doctorate in 2017 Rupert Harden - professional rugby union player Tim Head - artist Patsy Healey - professor Alastair Heathcote - rower Dorothy Heathcote - academic Adrian Henri - 'Mersey Scene' poet and painter Stephen Hepburn - politician Jack Heslop-Harrison - botanist Tony Hey - computer scientist; honorary doctorate 2007 Stuart Hill - author Jean Hillier - professor Ken Hodcroft - Chairman of Hartlepool United; founder of Increased Oil Recovery Robert Holden - landscape architect Bill Hopkins - composer David Horrobin - entrepreneur Debbie Horsfield - writer of dramas, including Cutting It John House - geographer Paul Hudson - weather presenter Philip Hunter - educationist Ronald Hunt – Art Historian who was librarian at the Art Department Anya Hurlbert - visual neuroscientist
I Charles Innes-Ker - Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford Mark Isherwood - politician Jonathan Israel - historian
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Alan J. Jamieson - marine biologist George Neil Jenkins - medical researcher Caroline Johnson - Conservative Member of Parliament Wilko Johnson - guitarist with 1970s British rhythm and blues band Dr. Feelgood Rich Johnston - comic book writer and cartoonist Anna Jones - businesswoman Cliff Jones - computer scientist Colin Jones - historian David E. H. Jones - chemist Francis R. Jones - poetry translator and Reader in Translation Studies Phil Jones - climatologist Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling - Member of the House of Lords and the Conservative Party Wilfred Josephs - dentist and composer
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Panayiotis Kalorkoti - artist; studied B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art (1976–80); Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts (1988) Jackie Kay - poet, novelist, Professor of Creative Writing Paul Kennedy - historian of international relations and grand strategy Mark Khangure - neuroradiologist Martin Luther King Jr. - civil rights leader; honorary graduate. In November 1967, MLK made a 24-hour trip to the United Kingdom to receive an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from Newcastle University, becoming the first African American the institution had recognised in this way.Ward, Brian. "A King in Newcastle; Martin Luther King Jr. and British Race Relations, 1967–1968". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 79 (3): 599–632.
L Joy Labinjo - artist Henrike Lähnemann - German medievalist Dave Leadbetter - politician Lim Boon Heng - Singapore Minister Lin Hsin Hsin - IT inventor, artist, poet and composer Anne Longfield - children's campaigner, former Children's Commissioner for England Keith Ludeman - businessman Rebecca Louise Law - artist
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Laurie Macmillan (10 May 1947 – 8 October 2001) was a BBC Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer. Jack Mapanje - writer and poet Milton Margai - first prime minister of Sierra Leone (medical degree from the Durham College of Medicine, later Newcastle University Medical School) Laurence Martin - war studies writer Murray Martin, documentary and docudrama filmmaker, co-founder of Amber Film & Photography Collective Adrian Martineau – medical researcher and professor of respiratory Infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London Carl R. May - sociologist Tom May - professional rugby union player, now with Northampton Saints, and capped by England Kate McCann – journalist and television presenter Ian G. McKeith – professor of Old Age Psychiatry John Anthony McGuckin - Orthodox Christian scholar, priest, and poet Wyl Menmuir - novelist Zia Mian - physicist Richard Middleton - musicologist Mary Midgley - moral philosopher G.C.J. Midgley - philosopher John E. M. Midgley (1935–2023), British biochemist Moein Moghimi - biochemist and nanoscientist Hermann Moisl - linguist Anthony Michaels-Moore - Operatic Baritone Joanna Moncrieff - Critical Psychiatrist Theodore Morison - Principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne (1919–24)G. R. Batho, ‘Morison, Sir Theodore (1863–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 Aug 2013 Andy Morrell - footballer Frank Moulaert - professor Mo Mowlam - former British Labour Party Member of Parliament, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, lecturer at Newcastle UniversityPaul Murphy, ‘Mowlam, Marjorie (1949–2005)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2009; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 4 Aug 2013 Chris Mullin - former British Labour Party Member of Parliament, author, visiting fellow VA Mundella - College of Physical Science, 1884—1887; lecturer in physics at the College, 1891—1896: Professor of Physics at Northern Polytechnic Institute and Principal of Sunderland Technical College. Richard Murphy - architect
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Lillian Mary Nabulime - Ugandan sculptor and lecturer Lisa Nandy - British Labour Party Member of Parliament, former Shadow Foreign Secretary Harash Narang - virologist and microbiologist Karim Nayernia - biomedical scientist Dianne Nelmes - TV producer
O Sally O'Reilly - writer Mo O'Toole - former British Labour Party Member of European Parliament
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