List of University of Manchester people

This is a list of University of Manchester people. Many famous or notable people have worked or studied at the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology institutions, which combined in 2004 to form the University of Manchester.

The following list includes the names of all 25 Nobel Prize laureates among them (in bold print).

Alumni

Fine and applied arts

Architecture

• Stephen Hodder, English architect, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 1996
• Dalibor Vesely, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Manchester School of Architecture, architect (RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education 2006)
• Paul Waterhouse, son of Alfred Waterhouse. He designed Girton College at Cambridge University as well as the Manchester Museum, Refuge Assurance Building, the Christie Library and the Whitworth Hall in Manchester.

Literature

Others

• John Casken, composer and professor of composition
• Anna Ford, broadcaster, former university chancellor
• G. Howell-Baker (1871–1919), artist and illustrator (at Owen's College)

Natural and applied sciences

• William Boyd Dawkins, geologist
• James Lovelock, independent scientist and prominent environmentalist. Proposed the Gaia hypothesis. Graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1941.
• Sir John Maddox, Editor of Nature for 22 years
• Gordon Manley, climatologist

Psychology

• C. E. M. Hansel
• Adrian Wells

Biology and chemistry

Computer science

Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Physiology and medicine

The University of Manchester currently has 28 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Present and historical University of Manchester people notable for their contributions to medicine and physiology include:

Social sciences and education

Economics

Education

• Catherine Isabella Dodd, educational theorist, first woman on the academic staff of the Victoria University of Manchester
• Kathleen Tattersall, first chief regulator at Ofqual

Law, public administration and social welfare

Politics

Social anthropology

• Richard T. Antoun, professor emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University, stabbed to death by student in 2009
• Max Gluckman, Rhodes Scholar who became Manchester's first professor of social anthropology in 1949
• Norman Long, known for his work on the sociology of international development
• J. P. S. Uberoi, retired sociology professor at the Delhi School of Economics

Sociology

• James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology

Others

• Daniel Everett, anthropologist and linguist best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their language
• Edward Harper Parker, barrister and sinologist, became first chair professor in the field of Chinese studies in 1901.

History

Religion and philosophy

• Samuel Alexander, philosopher, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college
• Helen Beebee, philosopher, former Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy
• F. F. Bruce, Biblical scholar, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis
• Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (1974–1980)
• Hubert Cunliffe-Jones, Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales and professor
• Alasdair MacIntyre, known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy
• Owen Prys, minister and academic
• Barry Smith, philosopher

Chancellors

Vice-Chancellors

See also

• Natives of Manchester

References