- Edzard Ernst
Professor Edzard Ernst is notable for being the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the United Kingdom. He was attracted from his chair in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at the University of Vienna to set up the department of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter in 1993 and became director of complementary medicine of the Peninsula Medical School (PMS) in 2002. He is the first occupant of the Laing chair in Complementary Medicine.
- Steve Smith
Professor Steve Smith, MSc, PhD, AcSS, (born 1952-02-04), is a prominent international relations theorist and senior university manager. In 2002 he succeeded Geoffrey Holland as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, and since 2006 has been Chair of the Board of the 1994 Group. Steve Smith has a BSc in Politics and International Studies, an MSc in International Studies and a PhD in International Relations, all from the University of Southampton.
- Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black (born 30 October, 1955) MBE is British historian and a Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of over seventy books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations.
- Alex Haslam
Stephen Alexander Haslam (Alex Haslam) is a Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter. His research is in the area of social and organisational psychology, and he famously collaborated with Professor Stephen Reicher of the University of St Andrews on the BBC television programme "The Experiment", which examined conflict, order, …
- Philip Payton
Philip Payton is professor of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Tremough, just outside Penryn. He obtained his first degree from the University of Bristol in 1975 and returned to Australia (where he had lived as a child) to read for a doctorate at the University of Adelaide, choosing as his theme the Cornish in Australia. In 1979 he joined the Royal Navy as an officer in the education specialisation, …
- Paul Webley
Professor Paul Webley is Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Economic Psychology" and former President of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology. He received his BSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. After a brief period at the University of Southampton he moved to the University of Exeter, …
- Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin OBE, Hon D.Litt (Exon) (born September 23 1949) is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and Chancellor of the University of Exeter. She is particularly well-known as the energetic presenter of popular children's programmes such as "Play School" and "Play Away". She was the first woman permitted to appear fully pregnant on British television.
- Peter Smith
Peter Smith (born October 21, 1943) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, currently serving as Archbishop of Cardiff. Peter Smith was born in Battersea, and studied at Clapham College, Exeter University (from where he earned his bachelor's in laws), St. John's Seminary in Wonersh, and the Angelicum in Rome (earning his doctorate in canon law). He was ordained to the priesthood on July 5, 1972. After doing pastoral work from 1972 to 1974, …
- Roy Sambles
Professor John Roy Sambles FRS BSc PhD, is an English experimental physicist. Sambles studied physics at Imperial College, London, gaining his BSc and PhD there, and has since published over 400 papers in international journals. Sambles is currently Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Exeter, he has a long and distinguished career researching the interaction of light with matter.
- Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian who used to teach at Haifa University. He has now taken a position at the University of Exeter in Britain. He is one of the "New Historians" who have re-examined and hold controversial views of the history of Israel and of Zionism.
- 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, …
- Michael Duffy
Dr. Michael Duffy is a naval historian, specialising in the Napoleonic war period. He is Reader in British History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter.
- Sir Geoffrey Holland
Sir Geoffrey Holland KCB (born 1938) is a career civil servant who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 1994 to 2002, when he was succeeded by Professor Steve Smith. In August 2003, he was appointed Chair of the Learning and Skills Development Agency. In 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Quality Insurance Agency. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and spent two years in the Tank Regiment for National Service.
- Barry Barnes
Barry Barnes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Barnes worked at the 'Science Studies Unit' at the University of Edinburgh with David Bloor in the 1980s and early 1990s, where they developed the strong programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.
- Nicholas Rodger
Professor Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger (born 12 November 1949) is professor of naval history at the University of Exeter, England.
- Nicholas Orme
Nicholas Orme is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor periods, with a particular interest in the history of children, and ecclesiastical history, in the South West of England. Orme is an Emeritus Professor of history at Exeter University. He earned his degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford, and has worked as a visiting scholar at, among others, Merton College, Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford, and the University of Arizona.
- Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award
- Terence Copley
Terence Copley is a British academic and author. Terence Copley is Professor of Educational Studies (Religious Education) at the University of Oxford, England and also Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at the University of Exeter, England. He was Professor of Religious Education at the University of Exeter from 1997 until 2007. Before that, he was a Religious Education teacher and then deputy headteacher of a comprehensive school.
- Timothy Gorringe
The Reverend Professor Timothy Jervis Gorringe is St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies in the University of Exeter. Born in 1946, Gorringe was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA 1969, MPhil 1975) and Sarum Theological College (1969-72). He was ordained deacon in 1972 and priest in 1973 and served as Assistant Curate at Chapel Allerton (1972-75) and Oxford St Mary the Virgin with St Cross and St Peter (1976-78).
- Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas PhD (born 9 December 1960 in Malvern, Worcestershire) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England Region. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales and has been an MEP since 1999. She is one of two Green MEPs from the UK: the other is Jean Lambert MEP. She is noted for campaigning and writing on Green economics, localisation, alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, …
- Andrew Thorpe
Andrew Thorpe (b.1962) is a British historian. He is Professor of Modern History and (from 2004) Head of History at the University of Exeter. He is a noted historian on the British Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain particularly in the era of the Communist International, having been one of the few foreign, non-party historians to have had access to archives at Moscow following the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Martyn Amos
Martyn Amos is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and an expert on natural computation and DNA computing. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993, before earning a Ph.D. in DNA computing in 1997, from the University of Warwick. He then held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, …
- Philip Hensher
Philip Michael Hensher (born February 20 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist. Hensher was born in South London, although spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Sheffield, attending Tapton Comprehensive School. He has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD for work on 18th century painting and satire. Early in his career he worked as a clerk in the House of Commons. He has published a number of successful novels, …
- Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith (born Christopher Robin Smith, 1959) is an American actor, director and improviser, best known for his improv workshops and his handful of appearances on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". Raised in Parma, Ohio and a Graduate of Valley Forge High School (Class of 1977),Chris began performing at an early age.
- Jack Clemo
Reginald John Clemo (Jack Clemo was a British poet and writer, strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his Christian belief. His work is visionary and inspired by the Cornish landscape. He was the son of a clay-kiln worker, and his mother, Eveline Clemo (née Polmounter, died 1977), was a dogmatic Nonconformist. He was born near St Austell, and had no formal schooling after age 13. He became deaf around age 20, …
- Ian Cook
Ian Cook is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter in the UK, and formerly senior lecturer in geography at the University of Birmingham. After gaining a teaching position at University of Wales, Lampeter in 1994, Cook finally achieved his PhD in human geography from the University of Bristol in 1997, the end result of a controversial process (some of the PhD deals with the failure of his original PhD project in the Carribean).
- Mick Aston
Michael (Mick) Aston (born July 1 1946) is a British archaeologist. He is a passionate educator and popularizer of archaeology, particularly through the Channel 4 television series "Time Team". Aston is known to the viewing public for his colourful sweaters.
- Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn (born 1930) is a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology who is known for his controversial views on racial and ethnic differences. Lynn claims there exists race differences and sex differences in intelligence. Lynn was educated at Cambridge University. Lynn has worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, and as professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine.
- Tim Kendall
Tim Kendall (born 1970) is an English poet, editor and critic. In 1994 he founded the magazine "Thumbscrew", which published work by poets including Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Miroslav Holub, and which ran under his editorship until 2003. In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Prize for his poetry.. His latest book of poems, "Strange Land", appeared in 2005. In 2006 he became Professor at the University of Exeter. He has published critical studies of Paul Muldoon, …
- Ewan Anderson
Professor Ewan William Anderson (b 28 March 1938), is a British academic expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography. His work has focused upon geopolitics: the application of all facets of geography in political decision-making and development studies. His particular emphasis has been on applied research in the arid and semi-arid zone, with special reference to the Middle East, on water and minerals resources issues, and on international boundary disputes.
- Emma B
Emma Boughton BA (Exon.) (born 27 November, 1970 in Oxford), grew up in Canada and as a teenager in Birmingham, Great Britain. Better known as Emma B, she is a radio presenter in the UK. She became known as "Emma B" when she worked for Creation Records (her maiden name was Boughton). Emma graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA in English and Drama, …
- Suzi Leather
Dame Suzi Leather is the current chairwoman of the Charity Commission. She is also a graduate of Exeter University.
- Adrian Bailey
Adrian Edward Bailey (born December 11, 1949) is a British politician, and Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for West Bromwich West.
- Richard Gendall
Richard Gendall is an expert on the Cornish language. He is the founder of "Modern Cornish"/"Curnoack Nowedga", which split off during the 1980s. Whereas Ken George mainly went to Medieval Cornish as the inspiration for his revival, Gendall went to the last surviving records of Cornish, such as John and Nicholas Boson, in the eighteenth-century. He is involved with University of Exeter He is a folk musician, and has made several recordings with Brenda Wootton, …
- Malcolm Todd
Malcolm Todd is a British historian and archaeologist with an interest in the interaction between the Roman Empire and Western Europe. He graduated from the University of Wales and Brasenose College, Oxford and became Reader in Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter from 1979 until 1996, when he took a Chair at the University of Durham and became Principal of Trevelyan College.
- Frank Gardner
Frank Rolleston Gardner, OBE (born July 31 1961) is a British journalist. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent, a post he has held since 2002. Educated at Marlborough College, a boys' independent school in Wiltshire, England, and at the University of Exeter, Gardner cites a meeting with the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in his youth, which led to a life of fascination with the Arab world and a degree in the Arabic language from University of Exeter.
- Jeremy Wright
Jeremy Wright (born October 24, 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician, and current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Rugby & Kenilworth. He was first elected at the 2005 general election, when he won the seat from Andy King, the Labour MP since 1997. Born in Taunton, Wright's parents were both teachers and both his brother and sister-in-law are Lieutenant Commanders in the Royal Navy. He was educated at Taunton School, Trinity School (New York City), …
- Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is a Tony Award-winning British actor.
- Jonathon Band
Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, BSc (Exon), KCB, ADC (born 1950), since 2006, is the First Sea Lord of the United Kingdom, the most senior serving officer in the Royal Navy. Before serving as First Sea Lord he was Commander-in-Chief Fleet. Since becoming First Sea Lord, Band has been a firm advocate of the creation of new ships to meet new threats and maintain the status of the Royal Navy as one of the world's leading naval forces.
- Rex Richards
Sir Rex Edward Richards MA, DPhil, DSc, FRS, FRSC, Hon DSc (Exon), FBA (born 1922) is a British scientist and academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and a director of the Leverhulme Trust. After graduating from Oxford, Richards stayed at the University as a Fellow in Chemistry first at Lincoln College from 1947-64, then at Exeter College, later becoming Warden of Merton College.