- Brian Randell
Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability. He is also interested in, and a noted authority on, the early (prior to 1950) history of computers; he was a co-founder of the "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" journal. Randell's initial work, during 1957–1964 while he was employed at English Electric was on compilers; his work on Algol 60 is particularly known.
- Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology.
- George Alberti
Sir (Kurt) George (Matthew Mayer) Alberti (born 27 September 1937) is the British Government's National Clinical Director for Emergency Access. He has been Professor and Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and President of the Royal College of Physicians.
- Ian Fells
Ian Fells C.B.E., Ph.D., FEng, F.R.I.C., F.Inst.E., F.I.Chem.E., F.R.S.E. is Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and former chairman of the "New and Renewable Energy Centre" at Blyth, Northumberland, England. Fells was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, then carried out national service in the British army, before studying at Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained a Ph.D. in Reaction Kinetics.
- Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley, née Scrutton, (b. 13 September 1919) is a British moral philosopher. She was a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is best known for her popular works on religion, science and ethics. She strongly opposes reductionist and scientistic philosophies and is especially concerned with attempts, as she sees it, to make science function as a substitute for the humanities, a role for which she claims it is wholly inadequate.
- Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona.
- James Shapiro
James Shapiro, MD was born in Leeds, England and obtained his medical degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently a Canadian Research Chair in transplantation and the Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Shapiro is known for developing the Edmonton protocol, an islet transplantation technique which has allowed many severe diabetics to stop taking insulin entirely, …
- Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown AO (27 February 1942) is a Scottish-born mathematician, and the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. His academic career began at the University of Liverpool, where he became a senior lecturer in mathematics. He accepted the Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in 1975 when he and his family emigrated to Australia.
- Kate Adie
Kate Adie OBE (born September 19 1945) is a British journalist. Her most high-profile role was that of chief news reporter for BBC News during which time she became well-known for reporting from war zones around the world. Adie was born in Northumberland, within sight of St Mary's Island. She was, however, adopted by a Sunderland couple and grew up in the city. She is an avid fan of the city's football team, Sunderland A.F.C..
- Ed Coode
Ed Coode, MBE (born June 19, 1975 in Indian Queens, Cornwall) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Educated at Papplewick School, Ascot, Eton College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (studying marine biology) and Oxford University, he rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race. Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, …
- Dorothy Heathcote
Dorothy Heathcote (29 August 1926-) is a self-taught creator of a unique methodology based on the use of drama as a tool to stimulate holistic learning. This method can be used in unlimited applications at all levels from the elementary classroom to the corporate training.
- Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys (22 April 1891 - 18 March 1989) was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. He was born in Fatfield, County Durham, England. He studied at Armstrong College in Newcastle upon Tyne, then part of the University of Durham. He then went to St John's College, Cambridge and became a fellow in 1914. At Cambridge University he taught mathematics, then geophysics and finally became the Plumian Professor of Astronomy.
- Alan Beith
Alan James Beith (born April 20, 1943) British politician, and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Eric Thomas
Eric Jackson Thomas, born 24 March 1953 in Hartlepool, County Durham, is an academic who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol since 2001. He is also the current chair of the Worldwide Universities Network.
- John Local
John Local, BA, Ph.D. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) (born 1947), is a British phonetician and Professor of Phonetics at the University of York. He was one of the creators of the experimental Yorktalk non-segmental speech synthesis system which employed techniques of Firthian Prosodic Analysis (FPA), an approach to phonology developed by J.R. Firth and members of the London School of linguistics.
- David E. H. Jones
David E. H. Jones is best known as Daedalus, the fictional inventor for DREADCO. Jones' columns as Daedalus were published weekly in the New Scientist starting in the mid-sixties. He then moved on to the journal Nature, and continued to publish for many years. He published two books with columns from these magazines, along with additional comments and implementation sketches.
- Wilko Johnson
Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson, 12 July, 1947, Canvey Island) is a guitarist particularly associated with 1970s British rhythm and blues band, Dr. Feelgood.
- John Anthony McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin (born 1952) is an Orthodox Christian scholar, priest, and poet. McGuckin attended Heythrop College from 1970 to 1972, graduated from the University of London with a Divinity degree in 1975, and received a Certificate in Education from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, his PhD from Durham University in 1980, and an MA in Educational Studies from the University of Southampton in 1986.
- Di Stewart
Di Stewart (born January 18 1979 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English television presenter. She currently appears on Sky Sports News and Sky Sports' golf show, "Golf Night". Stewart was educated at Stockport Grammar School from the age of five to eighteen. She then went to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she studied for a German degree.
- Mark Burgess
Mark Burgess is a researcher and writer at Oslo University College in Norway, who is well known for work in computer science in the field of policy-based configuration management. Mark Burgess was born in Maghull in the United Kingdom to English parents on February 19th 1966. He grew up in Bloxham, a small village in Oxfordshire from the age of 5-18, attending Bloxham Primary School, Warriner Secondary School and Banbury Upper School.
- David Horrobin
Dr David Frederick Horrobin (6 October 1939 - 1 April 2003) was a medical researcher, entrepreneur, author and editor. A pioneering resaarcher in the field of fatty acids and a strong supporter of the benefits of fish oils and Evening Primrose Oil. He attended Balliol College, Oxford, during this time he was influenced by the nutritionist Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. He was appointed Professor and chairman of medical physiology at Nairobi University in 1969.
- Andrew D. Gordon
Andrew D. Gordon is a British computer scientist. Gordon is the co-designer of Spi Calculus (with Martin Abadi), Ambient calculus (Luca Cardelli), and other various programming languages. Until 1997 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, after which he became Senior Researcher in Programming Principles and Tools for Microsoft.
- Robert Holden
Robert Holden is a British landscape architect born in Preston and educated at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Later a director of Brian Clouston and Partners, and director of the MA Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Greenwich. From 2004 he served as Secretary General of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture.
- Riton
Riton (pronounced "Ree-ton") is electronica DJ / musician Henry Smithson (born 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne). The name "Riton" is French slang for "Henry". After graduating from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he started the Switch Recordings label, upon which he released his first two 12" singles. He began DJing at Newcastle's "Shindig" nightclub. There, he was discovered by Mark Rae and signed to Grand Central Records independent record label.
- Michael Earl
Michael John Earl is Dean of Templeton College, Oxford and Professor of Information Management in the University of Oxford. Earl was educated at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (BA) and the University of Warwick (MSc). He is also a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford. From 1974 until 1976 he was Lecturer in Management Control at Manchester Business School. From 1976 until 1990 he was a Fellow of Templeton College, …
- Ashraf Choudhary
Ashraf Choudhary, QSO, (born 15 February 1949) is a member of Parliament in New Zealand. He is a member of the Labour Party, and is New Zealand's first MP from the Indian sub-continent. He and his wife Samina (born in Lahore, Pakistan) have three children. Choudhary was born in the Pakistani half of the Punjab region. His family, who were farmers, were not poor. He attended high school in the town of Sialkot, …
- Sue Beardsmore
Sue Beardsmore was a long-term BBC television presenter who fronted the local news and current affairs programme "BBC Midlands Today", broadcast from Birmingham, England. Born in 1955 in Bedford she attended the Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedford, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Luton College of Higher Education. She joined the BBC in 1977 as secretary to the Manager of Operations and started presenting "Midlands Today" in 1987.
- Bill Hopkins
G.W. (Bill) Hopkins was a British composer, pianist and music critic. Hopkins was born in Prestbury, Cheshire and educated at Rossall School, Lancashire; his mother was educationally subnormal and unable to look after him, and he was raised by aunts. An encounter with Luigi Nono at Dartington consolidated his interest in serialism; subsequently he studied at Oxford University with Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz.
- Biddy Baxter
Biddy Baxter MBE was born in Leicester and educated at Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School, Leicester and St Mary's College, Durham University. She was the first graduate from Durham to join the BBC. She is best known as the editor of the long-running popular BBC One children’s magazine show "Blue Peter", a position she held from 1965 to 1988. She was also its producer from 1962 to 1965.
- Harry Marsh
Harry Marsh is a leading figure in the world of carbon science. Born on the 17th April 1926 in the north east of England, Marsh spent much of his career at the Northern Carbon Research Laboratories of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is known for his work on the structure and adsorptive properties of carbons.
- Sarah Smith-Voysey
Sarah Smith-Voysey is the Ordnance Survey Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has a Ph.D in Analysis of End-User Post-Processing Errors in Airborne Laser Scanning Data (Lidar) from University College London (awarded 2005), a MSc in Geographical Information Science from the University of Edinburgh (awarded 2000) and a MA (Hons) First Class in Geography from the University of St Andrews.
- Roy McWeeny
Roy McWeeny was born May 19, 1924 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. His first degree is in Physics from the University of Leeds. He then obtained a D.Phil in mathematical physics and quantum theory under the supervision of Charles Coulson at University College, University of Oxford. From 1948 to 1957 he was lecturer in Physical Chemistry at King's College, University of Durham (King's College is now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne).
- Jeremy Hoad
Jeremy Hoad is best known as co-author of the BBC Doctor Who novel, "The Blue Angel" (with partner, Paul Magrs). The Blue Angel has been adapted to script form by Piers Britton and will be used as the basis of a course at the University of Redlands in Southern California in 2007. Hoad has built a career managing representative organisations within the education sector.
- Jennifer A. Clack
Jennifer A. Clack is an English paleontologist, an expert in the science of evolution. She studies the "fish to tetrapod" transition- the origin, evolutionary development and radiation of early tetrapods and their relatives among the lobe-finned fishes. She is best-known for her book "Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods", published in 2002 and written with the layman in mind.
- Alick Walker
Alick Walker (October 26, 1925 - December 4, 1999) was a British palaeontologist, after whom the Alwalkeria genus of dinosaurs are named. He was born in Skirpenbeck, near York and attended Pocklington School from 1936 to 1943. He began a degree course in engineering at Cambridge, but dropped out in 1944. In 1948 he returned to university after national service, reading Geology at the University of Bristol.
- Robert Goodwill
Robert Goodwill (born December 31, 1956) is a British politician and farmer. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby. Robert Goodwill was born in North Yorkshire and was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in York, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1979. He is a farmer of 250 acres of mainly arable land near Malton which has been in his family since 1850.
- Charles Innes-Ker Marquess of Bowmont and Cessfo
Charles Robert George Innes Ker, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford (born 18 February 1981) is the eldest son of the 10th Duke of Roxburghe and his first wife, the former Lady Jane Grosvenor, daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster. Lord Bowmont was educated at Eton College and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, passed out in December 2004, and is currently serving with the Blues and Royals in Windsor.
- Marcus Reichert
Marcus Reichert (1948-) is an American artist, author, photographer, and film writer/director. He was given his first exhibition of paintings at the age of twenty-one at the legendary Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery, New York, home to the Surrealists during WWII. In 1990, he was honored with a retrospective organised by the Hatton Gallery of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne which toured in various forms to Glasgow, London, Paris, and the United States.
- John C. A. Barrett
Rev Dr John C.A. Barrett, is an Englishman who is the chairman of the World Methodist Council and elected president as well. He is also the current principal of Anglo-Chinese School (International) in Singapore, and is the former headmaster of The Leys School, Cambridge, where he was the headmaster from 1990 to 2004.
- Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton (born 24 September 1980) is an English track cyclist. Born in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, she was awarded a degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Pendleton won four silver medals in the UK national championships in 2001, whilst still a student. In 2002, she qualified for the England Commonwealth Games team, finishing fourth in the sprint.