- Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick is professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK. He was born on 9th February 1954 in Coventry, UK. He carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. He is also Director of the Reading University Knowledge Transfer Centre, which links the University with Companies and raises £2.5Million each year in research income for the University.
- Gordon Marshall
Gordon Marshall is a sociologist and the current Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading. He was formerly the Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Before joining Nuffield College, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath, and previously taught at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics.
- Brian Hoskins
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, FRS, is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the University of Reading.
- James Anderson
James Anderson is an academic staff member in the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading. Currently, he is teaching compilers and computer graphics and has taught mathematics, computer algebra, and programming in the past. Anderson quickly gained publicity in December 2006 when the regional BBC South Today reported his claim of "having solved a 1200 year old problem", namely that of division by zero.
- Keith Shine
Keith Shine is the head of the Atmospheric Radiation and Climate group and head of department at the University of Reading's meteorology department. He was a lead author of "Climate Change 1995", the 1995 IPCC report on global warming. He is married with two children and has residence in Reading. His nephew, Ian Shine, co-founded the independent UK-based arts magazine On.... His son goes to Reading School.
- Jonathan Dancy
Jonathan Peter Dancy (born 8 May 1946) is a British philosopher, working on epistemology and on ethics. He is currently professor at the University of Reading and at University of Texas at Austin. Dancy, after having worked on problems of epistemology, and more particularly on the nature of perception (argument from illusion), emerged as the leading proponent in ethics of moral particularism (also: ethical particularism). He also defends what he calls the holism of reasons, …
- Michael Fulford
Michael Fulford is a Professor of Archaeology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading. He specialises in the archaeology of the Roman world with interests in its economy, urbanism and technology. At Silchester he has worked on the amphitheatre, defences and forum basilica. With Amanda Clarke, he has been directing the current excavation of insula IX since 1997. He is collaborating with Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of the British School at Rome, …
- Otto Neurath
Otto Neurath (born December 10 1882 in Vienna, died December 22 1945 in Oxford) was an Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. Before he was forced to flee his native country for Great Britain in the wake of the Nazi occupation, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.
- Michael Twyman
Michael Twyman (born 1934) is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He joined the university staff in 1959. He established a BA (Hons) course in Typography & Graphic Communication which eventually grew into its own department in 1974. According to Prof. Twyman both the program and the department were the first of their kind in the world.
- Galen Strawson
Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), Locke, Hume and Kant. Strawson taught at the University of Oxford for many years, as Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College Oxford. He is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Reading and at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
- Andrew Gurr
Andrew John Gurr (born December 23, 1936) is a contemporary literary scholar who specializes in William Shakespeare and English Renaissance theatre. Born in Leicester, Gurr was raised in New Zealand, and educated at the University of Auckland and at Cambridge University. He has taught at the Universities of Wellington, Leeds, and Nairobi (1959-73); at the latter institution he was also head of his department. He taught at the University of Reading before his retirement.
- Helen King
Dr Helen King is professor of the History of Classical Medicine and head of the department of Classics at the University of Reading, England. Her first degree, at University College London, was in Ancient History and Social Anthropology; she then held research fellowships in Cambridge and Newcastle, taught in Liverpool for 8 years, and came to Reading on a Wellcome Trust University Award in 1996.
- Heston Blumenthal
Heston Blumenthal OBE (born May 27, 1966, in High Wycombe, near London) is the chef and owner of The Fat Duck, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in the village of Bray in Berkshire. Blumenthal's fame is based upon his scientific approach to cooking which is often referred to as "molecular gastronomy" or "culinary alchemy".
- Malcolm Barber
Malcolm Barber is a scholar of medieval history, described as the world's leading expert on the Knights Templar. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, "The Trial of the Templars" (1978) and "The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple" (1994). He has been an editor for "The Journal of Medieval History" and written many articles on the Templars, the Cathars, various elements of the Crusades, …
- John Madejski
John Robert Madejski OBE DL, born Robert John Hurst on April 28 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is a British businessman, mainly active in publishing and the hotel industry. As of 2007, he is in the top 200 wealthiest people in the UK, with a net worth said to be in the region of £400 million ("see" Sunday Times Rich List 2007). He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, …
- David Crystal
Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England where he attended St Mary's College from 1951. He grew up bilingual in Welsh and English, which influenced his approach to language education. Crystal studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962. He was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, …
- Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire. With the exception of five years, he grew up in Liverpool. He graduated from the University of York in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine "Perfect Bound" and helped organize several Cambridge International Poetry Festivals. He was awarded a doctorate in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of Donald Davie, Roy Fisher and Charles Tomlinson.
- Rob Wilson
Robert Wilson (born January 4, 1965 in south Oxfordshire) is a United Kingdom politician and entrepreneur. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election. =Biography= Wilson was born and brought up in south Oxfordshire and moved to Reading in 1984. Between 1984 and 1988 he attended Reading University, the final year of which he spent as the President of the Reading University Students' Union.
- Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi is Professor and Washburn Research Fellow in General and Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, USA. He has published over fifty refereed journal articles and six books on the multinational strategies of entrepreneurial firms; the location and research and development strategies of multinational firms, and the politics of international business. Dr.
- Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson (born 1953) is a British installation artist. Wilson was born in Islington, London and studied at Hornsey College of Art and the University of Reading. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won). Wilson often works on an architectural scale, often changing large spaces in some dramatic way. One of his best known pieces, "20:50" (1987), …
- Terry Frost
Sir Terry Frost (born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost was an English artist noted for his abstracts. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. During his army service in World War II, he met and was taught by Adrian Heath while a prisoner of war. Subsequently, he attended Camberwell School of Art and the St Ives School of Art. In 1951, he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth.
- David Karoly
David John Karoly (b. 1955) is an Australian scientist and academic. Currently he is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 and a member of the faculty of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He was the Professor of Meteorology and Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oklahoma before his current position at the University of Melbourne.
- Peter Crane
Professor Sir Peter Crane is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded a knighthood on June 12, 2004. Professor Crane is an alumnus of the University of Reading. His own research interests involve the integration of studies of living and fossil plants, …
- Keith Browning
Keith Browning is a British meteorologist who worked at Imperial College London, the Met Office and University of Reading department of meteorology. His work with Frank Ludlam on the supercell thunderstorm at Wokingham, UK in 1962 was the first detailed study of such a storm. His well-regarded research covered many areas of [mesoscale meteorology|mesoscale meteorology.
- Peter Trudgill
Professor Peter Trudgill (born 1943 in Norwich, England) is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955. Trudgill studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. He was later awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught in the Department of linguistic science at the University of Reading from 1970 to 1986, …
- John Simpson
John (Andrew) Simpson is a British lexicographer and senior editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary (OED)". Simpson was co-editor of the second edition, which ran to 20 volumes published in 1989, a combination of the original text with several supplemental volumes that had followed. He also directed the conversion of the "OED"’s vast printed resources into a streamlined electronic database, bringing the entire second edition on-line in March 2000.
- John Collins
Sir John Collins (born 1941) is a British business executive and director for several corporations. He was born in Rhodesia and graduated from the University of Reading in England in 1964. He worked for the Shell Group for nearly thirty years, starting in their Agribusiness in Africa and rising to be their Chief Executive for Shell, UK from 1990 to 1993. Since then he has held a number of positions, including the chairman of the U.K's National Power from 1998 to 2000.
- Boris Divjak
Boris Divjak is an economist by profession. He has been affiliated with Transparency International since late 2000 as a founder and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Rosemary Sassoon
Dr. Rosemary Sassoon (born 1931 in the United Kingdom) is the creator of the Sassoon series of typefaces. She is an expert in handwriting, particularly that of children. Sassoon has a Ph.D. from the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
- Joan Smith
Joan Alison Smith (born August 27, 1953 in London) is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN. Smith read Latin at the University of Reading in the early 1970s. After a spell as a journalist in local radio in Manchester, she joined the staff of the "Sunday Times" in 1979 and stayed at the newspaper until 1984, …
- Gerald Finzi
Gerald Raphael Finzi (July 14, 1901 - September 27, 1956) was a British composer, whose popularity has increased considerably in the years since his death.
- Tom Harris
Tom Harris was a distinguished paleobotanist and keen gardener. He would often say to students: "If you're not prepared to die for botany, you'd better be prepared to kill for it!" The Harris Garden, a part of University of Reading campus, was named after him.
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill OBE (born 1951, Oxford, England) is the director of the British School at Rome and a professor of the University of Reading. Born in Oxford, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is the son of the Mediaeval historian John Michael Wallace-Hadrill. An expert on Pompeii, Professor Wallace-Hadrill was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's James R. Wiseman Award in 1995 for his book, "Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum" (1994).
- Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming, OBE (May 31 1907 – August 18 1971) was a British adventurer and travel writer.
- Richard Holmes
Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances. Holmes was educated at the University of Cambridge, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Reading. In 1964, he enlisted in the Territorial Army, the part-time volunteer reserve organisation of the British Army.
- Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (born October 21, 1931 in Windsor), is a British historian. Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book "The Spanish Civil War" won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was released in 1977.
- Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford (born July 25, 1948) is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 50 novels. He has used the pseudonym Brian Craig. Born at Shipley, Yorkshire, Stableford graduated with a degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 before going on to do postgraduate research in biology and later in sociology. In 1979 he received a Ph.D. with a doctoral thesis on "The Sociology of Science Fiction".
- Alfred Palmer
Alfred Palmer (1852-cir 1936) was a member of the Palmer family, proprietors of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit manufacturers of Reading in England. He was the son of George Palmer. Palmer spent over fifty years working for the Huntley & Palmers biscuit company, chiefly as the head of the engineering department where he was responsible for the building and maintenance of the biscuit machinery.
- Frank Stenton
Sir Frank Merry Stenton (1880-September 15, 1967) was a noted 20th century historian of Anglo-Saxon England. Stenton was a professor of history at the University of Reading (1926-1946) and subsequently the university's vice-chancellor (1946-1950). He was the author of "Anglo-Saxon England", a volume of the Oxford History of England, first published in 1943 and widely considered a classic history of the period.
- Michael Drew
Professor Michael Drew is a chemistry professor at the University of Reading. He currently holds the position of head of physical chemistry. His main area of study centres on computational chemistry. He is referenced by at least 598 papers (Web of Science).