- Tony Underwood
Tony Underwood (born 17 February 1969 Ipoh, Malaysia) is a former English rugby union footballer who played as a wing three-quarter back. He is of Chinese-English parentage. Following his elder brother Rory, he played for Leicester Tigers and England. He made his England debut in October 1992 against Canada, and went on to win a total of 27 English caps.
- Ted Wragg
Edward Conrad Wragg (June 26, 1938 - November 10, 2005) was a British educationalist and academic known for his advocacy of the cause of education and opposition to political interference in the field. He was Professor of Education at Exeter University from 1978 to 2003 and a regular columnist in the Times Educational Supplement and The Guardian. In the UK, the Ted Wragg Teaching Award for Lifetime Achievement honours his memory, …
- Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury (September 7, 1932 - November 27, 2000) was a British author and academic.
- John Sutherland
John Sutherland (born 1938) is an English lecturer, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author. Now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, John Sutherland began his academic career after graduating from the University of Leicester as an assistant lecturer in Edinburgh in 1964. He specialises in Victorian fiction, 20th century literature, and the history of publishing.
- David Edwards
David Edwards (born 1962) is a British political writer who specializes in the analysis of corporate media. Born in Maidstone, Kent, Edwards took a degree in Politics at the University of Leicester. He later worked in sales and marketing management for several large corporations. Profoundly dissatisfied with the corporate working environment, in 1991 he left the business world completely, and began his career as a writer, earning his living as a teacher of English.
- Laurie Taylor
Laurence "Laurie" Taylor (born August 1, 1936) is a British sociologist and radio presenter from Liverpool.
- David Blanchflower
David Graham Blanchflower (born March 2, 1952) is a leading labour economist, currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He is also a current Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, …
- Heather Couper
Heather Anita Couper CBE (born June 2 1949) is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television in competition with Patrick Moore. She was president of the British Astronomical Association 1984-1986. She graduated from the University of Leicester and did research at the Department of Astrophysics at Oxford University. Couper has written and co-written several books on astronomy and space, …
- Jon Tickle
Jonathan Tickle (born 8 May 1974 in Staines) is a television presenter in the UK, who initially rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth series of the British "Big Brother". He appeared before this, however, as a contestant on the gameshow Blockbusters in 1991. A clip of his appearance was featured on ITV's Gameshow Marathon.
- Michael Nicholson
Michael Nicholson OBE (born 9 January, 1937) is an English journalist and former ITN Senior Foreign Correspondent.
- Peter Atkins
Peter William Atkins (b. August 10, 1940) is a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford, England. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including "Physical Chemistry", "Inorganic Chemistry" and "Molecular Quantum Mechanics", three of the world's most popular chemistry textbooks. Atkins' "Physical Chemistry" which he co wrote with Julio de Paula of Haverford College, …
- Storm Thorgerson
Storm Thorgerson (born 1944 in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire) is an English graphic designer. He was a key member of the British graphic art group Hipgnosis, and designed many of their most famous single and album covers. Perhaps his most famous designs are those for Pink Floyd. His design for "Dark Side of the Moon" has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time. Many of his designs are notable for their surreal elements.
- Bryan R. Wilson
Bryan Ronald Wilson, D.Litt. (Oxon), F.B.A. (25 June 1926, Leeds – 9 October 2004, Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire), was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion 1971-75.
- Adele Parks
Adele Parks is one the biggest selling women’s fiction authors in the UK. Parks was born in north-east England and studied English at the University of Leicester. She has sold over a million copies of her novels in the UK and her books have been translated into over fifteen languages. "Husbands" alone has sold over a quarter of a million copies. Her other six novels, including "Playing Away" and "The Other Woman’s Shoes", …
- C. P. Snow Baron Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905-1 July 1980) was a scientist and novelist.
- Pete McCarthy
Pete McCarthy (born "Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson") (9 November 1951 - 6 October 2004), was a British broadcaster and successful travel writer. Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson was born on 9 November 1951 at Warrington, Cheshire in the north-west of England. His mother moved to England from her native Ireland during the Second World War to work as a nurse. It was during this time she met her future husband, at a dance.
- Andrew Waterman
Andrew Waterman (born 1940) is an English poet. Born in London, Waterman was educated at the universities of Leicester and Oxford, then lectured in English at the University of Ulster, before retiring to Norfolk. Andrew Waterman's collections of poetry include Living Room (1974, Poetry Book Society Choice), From the Other Country (1977), Over the Wall (1980), Out for the Elements (1981, Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Selected Poems (1986, …
- Alan Walters
Professor Sir Alan Arthur Walters (June 17, 1926) is a British economist, best known as the former Chief Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1984 and again in 1989 after he had returned from America. His differences with the policies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, led to the resignation of both men in 1989.
- Malik Zahoor Ahmad
Malik Zahoor Ahmad is a Pakistan diplomat and Middle East expert. His career has included two posts in the United States, most recently as Minister of Information and Spokesman at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington D.C (1997 -1999). He has made a special study of the worldwide rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the phenomenon of terrorism. He is widely respected for his erudition and scholarly insight, …
- Patrick Redmond
Patrick Redmond (born 1966, England) went to school in England and the Channel Islands, and studied law at the University of Leicester, as well as the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He worked as a solicitor in London for 8 years, before retiring to write full-time. His novels include "The Wishing Game" and "The Puppet Show". These books deal with themes of secrets, and feature death.
- Liam Donaldson
Sir Liam Donaldson As Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Sir Liam Donaldson, is the UK Government's principal medical adviser and leads key areas of the Department’s work.
- John McVicar
John McVicar (born 1940) is a British journalist. In the 1960s, he was an armed robber who was tagged 'Public Enemy No. 1' by Scotland Yard with a 'dead or alive' reward on his head. He was apprehended and given a 26 year jail sentence, escaping from prison on several occasions. He was released in 1978. He obtained a degree from the University of London and wrote "McVicar by Himself" while still in prison and scripted the 1980 biographical film "McVicar", …
- Norman Rosenthal
Sir Norman Rosenthal (born 1944) is a British curator. The child of Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied Europe, Rosenthal grew up in North London. After studying history at the University of Leicester he took a job for an art dealer and for a time was Exhibitions Officer at the Institute of Contemporary Arts where he promoted new work from Germany. In 1979 he was appointed Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy.
- Sue Cook
Sue Cook (born Susan Lorraine Thomas, in Ruislip Middlesex March 30 1949) is a British broadcaster and author. She lives in North London with her husband, film director Ian Sharp. She has two children, Charlie Williams, son to former husband John Williams, the classical guitarist, and Megan Macqueen, daughter to children's television producer Billy Macqueen. Her career began as a producer and DJ for London's Capital Radio, and over the next twenty years, …
- Bob Mortimer
Robert "Bob" Renwick Mortimer (born May 23, 1959 in Middlesbrough, England), is an English comedian and actor who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves (see Vic and Bob).
- George Panagiotou
George Panagiotou is the co-creator of the Telescopic Observations Strategic Framework He has carried out and held a wide range of duties and responsibilities in a variety of organizations at senior management level both in the UK and abroad and has a strong background in education and commerce (service sector). Changed career in 1993 to become an academic and has a PhD in business strategy from Nottingham University, …
- Bruce Grocott Baron Grocott
Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott, PC (born 1 November 1940) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was first elected as Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth in October 1974, but lost his seat at the 1979 general election. He was re-elected for The Wrekin in 1987 and transferred to Telford in 1997 when The Wrekin was divided. He served this seat until the 2001 general election, when he stepped down from the Commons and was made a life peer.
- Richard Pearson
Richard Pearson is a visiting professor at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester. He was the Director of the independent Institute for Employment Studies from 1992 to 2004 until he retired from that position and was succeeded by Nigel Meager.
- Norman Lamb
Norman Peter Lamb (born 16 September 1957, Watford, Hertfordshire) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Norfolk and the Liberal Democrat Health spokesman.
- John H. Plumb
Sir John Harold Plumb, known as Jack, was a British historian, known for his books on British eighteenth century history. He is seen as mentor to a school of historians, having in common a wish to write accessible, broad-based work for the public: a generation of scholars that includes Roy Porter, Simon Schama, Linda Colley, David Cannadine and others, who came to prominence in the 1990s.
- Asghar Bukhari
Asghar Bukhari is a founding member and Chief Executive of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain's largest Muslim civil rights group. He has a BSc degree in Information Technology from the University of Leicester and has worked as a Design Consultant and freelance journalist. He has said that he believes that it is his duty as a Muslim to be politically active, "I don’t see religion as a set of rituals.
- Carol Galley
Carol Galley is a businesswoman who was regarded as the most powerful woman in the City in the 1990s. She no longer actively makes fund management decisions. Although she is a very sought after public speaker, she is pursuing many other interests including travel, and golf. She features on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List with a personal wealth of £80 million.
- Paul Hirst
Paul Hirst (1947-2003) was a British sociologist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. He studied at the University of Leicester and the University of Sussex before taking up a lectureship at Birkbeck College in 1969. In 1972, he was one of the founding members of the Department of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck. During the 1970s he became well known (along with Barry Hindess) as the main figure in British Althusserianism.
- Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor became the Chairman of Leicester City F.C. on 1 June 2006, replacing Jim McCahill. He resigned on 1 February 2007, and will be replaced by McCahill until a more permanent Chairman is found. Andrew was previously Chairman and CEO of McDonalds UK. He attended the University of Leicester.
- Michael Jack
John Michael Jack (born September 17, 1946 in Folkestone, Kent, England) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Member of Parliament for Fylde since the 1987 election, and served at various junior ministerial posts during the John Major administration.
- Anirudh Singh
Dr Anirudh Singh is a Fiji Indian academic who has undertaken research on muon implantation in solids but is best known for the stand he has taken on national issues, in particular those relating to social inequities in Fiji, resulting from the 1987 military take-over of the Fiji Government.
- Phil Sawford
Philip Andrew Sawford, known as Phil Sawford, (born 26 June 1950) is an English politician and former Member of Parliament for Kettering. He is on the left of the Labour Party, and a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. He is a sworn republican, an outspoken campaigner for the abolition of hunting, and was an opponent of the US/British invasion of Iraq in 2003. His background is in local government, as a Councillor from 1977 to 1997, …
- Nigel Henbest
Nigel Henbest was born in 1951 and is a British astronomer educated in Northern Ireland and at Leicester University where he studied physics, chemistry and astronomy. He did postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge but left to become a science writer. He has written 36 books and over 1,000 articles on astronomy and space many of them in collaboration with Heather Couper. Previously he has been Astronomy Consultant to New Scientist magazine, …
- John Peters
Flight Lieutenant John Peters is a former pilot of the British Royal Air Force captured by the military of Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991. After capture he was shown, bruised, on Iraqi television. He co-authored a book, "Tornado Down", with John Nicol his navigator. As of 2007 he works as a motivational speaker.
- Michael Jabez Foster
Michael Jabez Foster (born February 26, 1946) British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye Michael Foster was born in Hastings, East Sussex and attended the local Hastings Secondary School for Boys and the Hastings Grammar School before attending the University of Leicester where he received a Master of Laws degree. From 1963 to 1972 he worked as a litigation clerk.