This is a list of notable alumni and staff of Cardiff University and its predecessor institutions
David Richards , Chief of the Defence Staff
David Bahati – State Minister of Finance for Planning in the Cabinet of Uganda
Christine Chapman – MS for Cynon Valley
Jeffrey Cuthbert – Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner , MS for Caerphilly and Welsh Government Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
Hefin David – MS for Caerphilly
Wayne David – MP for Caerphilly and UK Shadow Minister for Europe , Shadow Minister for Defence Procurement and Shadow Minister for the Armed Forces
S. O. Davies – miner, trade union official and Labour Party MP[2]
Guto Harri – broadcaster, Communications Director for the Mayor of London
Mike Hedges – MS for Swansea East
Lord Jenkins , former Chancellor of the Exchequer – Home Secretary , President of the European Commission and Chancellor of the University of Oxford (did not graduate)
Elin Jones – MS for Ceredigion , Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales and Welsh Government Minister for Rural Affairs
Fatou Sanyang Kinteh – Gambian Minister for Women's Affairs, Children and Social Welfare
Sir Emyr Jones Parry – British Permanent Representative to the United Nations [3]
Glenys Kinnock – MEP and UK Foreign Office Minister
Neil Kinnock – MP for Bedwellty and for Islwyn , Leader of the Labour Party , Leader of the Opposition
Hilary Marquand – MP for Cardiff East and Minister for Health.
Robert Minhinnick – co-founder of Friends of the Earth (Cymru)[4]
Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley – advisor to Margaret Thatcher
Craig Oliver – Conservative Party Director of Communications
Adam Price – MS and leader of Plaid Cymru
Bill Rammell – MP for Harlow
David Rees – MS for Aberavon and Deputy Presiding Officer of the Senedd Cymru.
Lord Richards – Chief of the Defence Staff
Michael Shrimpton – barrister, politician, and conspiracy theorist
John Smith – MP for the Vale of Glamorgan , member of the Defence Select Committee
Victoria Starmer – Wife of Sir Keir Starmer , solicitor, and NHS occpuational health worker.[5]
Brian Wilson – MP for Cunninghame North and Minister of State
Mike Wood – MP for Dudley South
C. W. L. Bevan – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1966–1972; Principal of University College Cardiff 1972–1987
Leszek Borysiewicz – Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
David Grant – Vice Chancellor of University of Wales Cardiff 2001–2005; Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University 2005–2012
Ernest Howard Griffiths – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1901–1918
John Viriamu Jones – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1883–1901
Frederick Rees – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1929–1949
Colin Riordan – Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University since 2012
Brian Smith – Principal of University of Wales College Cardiff 1988–1996; Vice Chancellor of University of Wales Cardiff 1996–2001
Anthony Steel – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1949–1966
Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson – Principal of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 1968–1988; Principal of University of Wales College Cardiff 1988–1993
Martin Evans , Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Robert Huber , Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Abedelnasser Abulrob – medical researcher
Miguel Alcubierre – Mexican theoretical physicist
Rudolf K. Allemann – Swiss biochemist
Gabrielle Allen – computer scientist
Robin Attfield – philosopher
Martin J. Ball – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University , Cymru/Wales
Paul E. A. Barbier – Professor of French at the University of Leeds
Jason Barker – professor
Yehuda Bauer – Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Archie Cochrane – pioneer of scientific method in medicine
Peter Coles – Professor of Astrophysics
David Crouch – historian
Alun Davies – bioscientist
Huw Dixon – economist
Stephen Dunnett – neuroscientist
Alice Laura Embleton – biologist , zoologist and suffragist .
Martin Evans – Nobel Prize for Medicine [6] 2007
Mahmoud Ezzamel – professorial fellow
Dimitra Fimi – writer
Brian J. Ford – Honorary fellow of Cardiff University (1986), honorary fellow of the Linnean Society , honorary fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society .
John S. Fossey – Professor of synthetic chemistry at the University of Birmingham
Burt Goldberg – university professor, microbiologist
Karen Holford – engineer
Robert Huber – Professor of Chemistry , Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1988[7] [8]
John Loughlin – Professor of Politics
Vaughan Lowe – Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford
Ursula Masson – women's history and feminism
Patrick Minford – Professor of Applied Economics
John Warwick Montgomery – American lawyer and theologian; Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at Patrick Henry College [9]
Christopher Norris – literary critic
Keith Peters – Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge
Leighton Durham Reynolds – Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
Alice Roberts – clinical anatomist and osteoarchaeologist
Wendy Sadler – physicist and science communicator
H. W. Lloyd Tanner – Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy (1883–1909)
Pamela Taylor – Professor of Forensic Psychiatry since 2004
Meena Upadhyaya – medical geneticist
Keith Ward – philosopher, Gresham Professor of Divinity , Gresham College
Chandra Wickramasinghe – mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist, Professor of Applied Mathematics
Rheinallt Nantlais Williams – professor of the philosophy of religion, principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth
Emma Yhnell – biomedical research scientist