List of University of Leicester people

Notable academics

Khurshid Ahmad, Islamic scholar
Chris Allen, British sociologist and associate professor at the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester
Penelope Allison, Professor of Archaeology
Lyman Andrews, American Studies
Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women's writing
Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Martin Barstow, astronomer and former President of the Royal Astronomical Society
Andrew Blain, astronomer
Richard Bonney, historian
Alan Bryman, social scientist
Grace Burrows, violinist and orchestra conductor
Neil Christie, Reader in Archaeology
Nicholas T. Clerk, Ghanaian academic, public administrator and Presbyterian minister
John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern history.
Heather Couper, astronomer and television presenter
Rosemary Crompton, sociologist
Nicholas J. Cull, US historian
Panicos Demetriades, economist and Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus
Gabriel Dover, geneticist
Eric Dunning, sports sociologist
Christopher Dyer, medieval historian
Colin Eaborn FRS, chemist
Norbert Elias, German sociologist
Brian J. Ford, scientist, visiting professor
G. S. Fraser, Scottish poet
Ali A. F. Al-Furaih, professor of geology
Yair Galily, Behavioral Scientist
Anthony Giddens, prominent sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester
Reuben Goodstein, mathematician, proponent of Goodstein's theorem
Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition law specialist, member of the Competition Commission
Sarah Hainsworth, Professor of Materials and Forensic Engineering, involved in analysing the wounds on the skeleton of Richard III
Rosalind Hill, historian
Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist
Richard Hoggart, sociologist
W. G. Hoskins, (1931–1952) (1965–1968), local historian, author of The Making of the English Landscape
Norman Housley, crusading historian
Jeremy Howick, director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare and inaugural Professor of Empathic Healthcare
Arthur Humphreys, inaugural Professor of English and first Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Leonard Huxley, physicist
Suzanne Imber, planetary scientist and winner of the 2017 BBC Two television programme Astronauts, Do You Have What It Takes?
Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist, discoverer of genetic fingerprinting
Hans Kornberg, biochemist
Philip Larkin, librarian and poet
Loretta Lees, Urban Geographer
David Mattingly, Roman archaeologist
John McManners, former Head of History Dept., Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford until retirement
Marilyn Palmer, archaeologist and landscape historian, Professor of Industrial Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History (2000–2006)
Ken Pounds, Emeritus Professor of Physics, discovered black holes were common in the universe
Charles Rees, organic chemist
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, the Astronomer Royal, visiting professor at Leicester
Adrian Henry Wardle Robinson, geographer and historian of maritime surveying
J.B. Schneewind, philosophy professor, Johns Hopkins University
Malcolm Shaw QC, The Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, prominent international lawyer and jurist
Jack Simmons, Professor of History 1947–1975
Brian Simon, Professor of Education 1966–1980
Nial Tanvir, astronomer
Abraham Wasserstein, Professor of Classics 1960–1969 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Sami Zubaida, political scientist

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List of University of Leicester people

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Vice-Chancellors

Notable academics

Notable alumni

Public figures

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