This article is a list of people associated with Newcastle University as either a student or teacher.
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- Bruce Babbitt - US politician; 16th Governor of Arizona (1978âÂÂ1987); 47th United States Secretary of the Interior (1993âÂÂ2001); Democrat
- James Baddiley - biochemist, based at Newcastle University 1954âÂÂ1983; the Baddiley-Clark building is named in part after him
- Tunde Baiyewu - member of the Lighthouse Family
- John C. A. Barrett - clergyman
- G. W. S. Barrow - historian
- Neil Bartlett - chemist, creation of the first noble gas compounds (BSc and PhD at King's College, University of Durham, later Newcastle University)
- Sue Beardsmore - television presenter
- Peter Phillips Bedson - chemistry professor
- Alan Beith - politician
- Jean Benedetti - biographer, translator, director and dramatist
- Phil Bennion - politician
- Catherine Bertola - contemporary painter
- Simon Best - Captain of the Ulster Rugby team; Prop for the Ireland Team
- Andy Bird - CEO of Disney International
- Rory Jonathan Courtenay Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan - heir apparent to the earldom of Cork
- David Bradley - science writer
- Mike Brearley - professional cricketer, formerly a lecturer in philosophy at the university (1968âÂÂ1971)
- Constance Briscoe - one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK; author of the best-selling autobiography Ugly; found guilty in May 2014 on three charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice; jailed for 16 months
- Steve Brooks - entomologist; attained BSc in Zoology and MSc in Public Health Engineering from Newcastle University in 1976 and 1977 respectively
- Thom Brooks - academic, columnist
- Gavin Brown - academic
- Vicki Bruce - psychologist
- Jo Budd â textile artist
- Basil Bunting - poet; Northern Arts Poetry Fellow at Newcastle University (1968âÂÂ70); honorary DLitt in 1971
- John Burgan - documentary filmmaker
- Mark Burgess - computer scientist
- Sir John Burn - Professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University Medical School; Medical Director and Head of the Institute of Genetics; Newcastle Medical School alumnus
- John Harrison Burnett - botanist, chair of Botany at King's College, Newcastle (1960âÂÂ68)
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- Laurie Macmillan (10 May 1947 â 8 October 2001) was a BBC Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer.
- Jack Mapanje - writer and poet
- Milton Margai - first prime minister of Sierra Leone (medical degree from the Durham College of Medicine, later Newcastle University Medical School)
- Laurence Martin - war studies writer
- Murray Martin, documentary and docudrama filmmaker, co-founder of Amber Film & Photography Collective
- Adrian Martineau â medical researcher and professor of respiratory Infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London
- Carl R. May - sociologist
- Tom May - professional rugby union player, now with Northampton Saints, and capped by England
- Kate McCann â journalist and television presenter
- Ian G. McKeith â professor of Old Age Psychiatry
- John Anthony McGuckin - Orthodox Christian scholar, priest, and poet
- Wyl Menmuir - novelist
- Zia Mian - physicist
- Richard Middleton - musicologist
- Mary Midgley - moral philosopher
- G.C.J. Midgley - philosopher
- John E. M. Midgley (1935âÂÂ2023), British biochemist
- Moein Moghimi - biochemist and nanoscientist
- Hermann Moisl - linguist
- Anthony Michaels-Moore - Operatic Baritone
- Joanna Moncrieff - Critical Psychiatrist
- Theodore Morison - Principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne (1919âÂÂ24)
- Andy Morrell - footballer
- Frank Moulaert - professor
- Mo Mowlam - former British Labour Party Member of Parliament, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, lecturer at Newcastle University
- Chris Mullin - former British Labour Party Member of Parliament, author, visiting fellow
- VA Mundella - College of Physical Science, 1884âÂÂ1887; lecturer in physics at the College, 1891âÂÂ1896: Professor of Physics at Northern Polytechnic Institute and Principal of Sunderland Technical College.
- Richard Murphy - architect
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