- Alec Jeffreys
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS (born 9 January 1950 at Oxford in Oxfordshire) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he moved to the University of Leicester in 1977, where he developed genetic fingerprinting. DNA fingerprinting uses variations in the genetic code to identify individuals. The technique has been applied in forensics for law enforcement, …
- Gilly Salmon
Gilly Salmon is Professor of e-learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, where she is responsible for the academic development and co-ordination of the University's distance learning programmes, providing leadership for research into e-learning, guidance to senior staff and committees throughout the University on the development of e-learning. Her research is in areas of e-learning, distance learning and learning technologies, …
- Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born August 29 1923) is a English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won an Academy Award, BAFTA and three Golden Globes.
- Peter Williams
Sir Peter Michael Williams, CBE, FRS (born 1945) is a British physicist. Williams completed his first degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, and began an academic career at Selwyn College. He then moved to industry and worked first at VG Instruments and later Oxford Instruments. He was chairman of Oxford Instruments from 1991 until his retirement in 1999. Sir Peter is currently Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory.
- Ken Pounds
Kenneth Alwyne Pounds, CBE, FRS (born 17 November 1934) is Emeritus Professor of physics at the University of Leicester. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, then attended University College London where he gained his BSc and PhD. He then moved to Leicester as Assistant Lecturer in 1960. He became Deputy Director of Space Research in 1967, and was one of the pioneers of using rockets and satellites for research in the UK.
- David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on 8 May 1926 in London, England) is one of the world's best known broadcasters and naturalists. Widely considered one of the pioneers of the nature documentary, his career as the respected face and voice of British natural history programmes has endured more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the eight "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, …
- Graeme Barker
Graeme W. W. Barker (born October 23, 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology. Barker was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He began lecturing in archaeology at the University of Sheffield in 1972, moving to become Director of the British School at Rome in 1984.
- Gianni de Fraja
Gianni De Fraja is the William Tyler Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester and Research Fellow (CEPR). Between 1999 and 2005, he was Managing Editor of Bulletin of Economic Research. His research interests lie in the areas of Public economics, Economics of Education, Regulation, and Game Theory. He is very prolific and has published high quality papers in, among others, "Journal of Public Economics", …
- Richard Bonney
Richard Bonney (born 1947) is an English historian and priest. Bonney's first degree was at Oxford. He submitted his D.Phil. on the intendants of Richelieu and Mazarin (1624-1661) in 1973, which was subsequently revised and published as "Political Change in France under Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624-1661" by Oxford in 1978. Numerous other publications on French history and European fiscal history followed.
- Michael Atiyah
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. His path-breaking work with Isadore Singer led to the proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem in the 1960s, a result that has helped to pave the way for the development of several branches of mathematics since that time. He had also founded, earlier and together with Friedrich Hirzebruch, …
- Eric Dunning
Eric Dunning is Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, UK.
- Alan Bryman
Alan Bryman is currently Professor of Organisational and Social Research at the University of Leicester. He is best known for three main areas of work. Bryman has long been associated with research methods and in particular the use of mixed methods; this led to him publishing the book "Social Research Methods" and "Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS 12 and 13: A Guide for Social Scientists" with Duncan Cramer.
- George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (December 6, 1920 - August 31, 2002) was a British chemist. Porter was born in Stainforth, Yorkshire. He won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry. He then served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. Porter then went on to do research at Cambridge under Norrish where he began the work that ultimately led to them becoming Nobel Laureates.
- Christopher Dyer
Professor Christopher Dyer F.B.A. (b. 1944) is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.
- Malcolm Shaw
Malcolm Shaw, QC (born 1947) is the Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester and teaches international law, human rights and equity and trusts. He is a practising barrister and jurist and is the author of a best selling book on International Law.
- Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. In 2003 Larkin was chosen as the "nation's best-loved poet" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society.
- James Chapman
James Chapman (born September 11, 1968) is a British media historian who has written a number of books on cinema and television. Chapman is Director of Film Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Leicester.<P> <P> James Chapman took his BA (History) and MA (Film Studies) at the University of East Anglia and then undertook his doctoral research at Lancaster University, …
- Cosmo Graham
Cosmo Graham is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Leicester. He specialises in the field of law relating to the regulation of public utilities and is co-editor of the Utilities Law Review. He also specialises in competition law and teaches company law. Professor Graham is a member of the UK's competition commission giving him similar status to a High Court Judge.
- 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.
- Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury (September 7, 1932 - November 27, 2000) was a British author and academic.
- 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.
- James Stirling
Sir James Frazer Stirling was among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known as one of a number of young architects in various countries who from the 1950s on, questioned and subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the first Modern Movement. Stirling's development of an agitated, mannered reinterpretation of those precepts - much influenced by his friend and teacher, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Richard Sykes
Sir Richard Sykes, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, (born 1942) is the current Rector of Imperial College. He is a trustee of the Natural History Museum (London) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was formerly chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He is perhaps best known for leading Glaxo's introduction of the drug Zantac.
- Martin Harris
Professor Sir Martin Harris KBE MA PhD LLD is a British academic and Professor of Linguistics. Sir Martin replaces Sir Walter Bodmer as the Chancellor of the University of Salford, the ceremonial head of the University, having taken office on 4 April 2005. Sir Martin Harris began his academic career at the University of Leicester in 1967, where he lectured in French Linguistics.
- Rosemary Sage
Dr. Rosemary Sage is an expert in the field of education, in particular the area of special needs. Her work is recognised in her homeland, the United Kingdom, and internationally. Sage is currently a lecturer at the University of Leicester.
- Chris Willmott
Dr Chris Willmott is a Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Leicester. He was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship by the University in 2003 for promoting student-centred teaching.
- 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.
- 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", …
- Norman Housley
Professor Norman Housley is Professor of History and head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester.
- Tom McKillop
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop, born March 19, 1943, is a chemist and pharmaceutical company CEO. McKillop was born in Dreghorn, a small village near the town or Irvine in Ayrshire and educated at Irvine Royal Academy and then Glasgow University, where he took a BSc Hons and PhD in Chemistry. He joined ICI's Corporate Research Laboratory at Runcorn in 1969 after post-doctoral research work in Paris. He moved to ICI Pharmaceuticals Division in 1975 and, …
- Frederick Attenborough
Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887-1973) was a British academic. Attenborough was principal of University College, Leicester from 1931 to 1951, and lived with his family on campus in College House (which now houses the University's careers service). He was married to Mary Clegg (died 1961). They had three children: *Richard Samuel, Lord Attenborough *Sir David Frederick Attenborough *John Michael Attenborough During the Second World War, …
- 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, …
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (born February 5, 1914, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; died December 20, 1998) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Andrew Fielding Huxley on the basis of nerve "action potentials," the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system.
- 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, …
- Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture. He is widely known for his 1957 book "The Uses of Literacy". This book was differently interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic popular culture and as denouncing the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
- Simon Green
Simon Richard Green, born 1955 in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, is a British science fiction and fantasy-author. He holds a degree in Modern English and American Literature from the University of Leicester. His first publication was in 1979. His "Deathstalker" series is partly a parody of the usual space-opera of the 1950s, told with sovereign disregard of the rules of probability, while being at the same time extremely bloodthirsty.
- Brian J. Ford
Brian J. Ford (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire) is an English independent scientist, prolific author and popular interpreter of scientific issues for the general populace, whose scientific papers and numerous books have been published internationally. He is also a TV celebrity and lecturer in many countries. Professor Ford is a Fellow of Cardiff University, Member of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Honorary member of Keynes College, University of Kent, …
- Michael Festing
Michael Festing is a British research scientist best known for his interest in research using laboratory animals. He is one of 19 members of the UK Animal Procedures Committee, which advises the Home Secretary on matters related to animal experimentation, one of five trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME), which funds and promotes research into the use of animal alternatives.