Staff
The following people have been members of staff at the University:
- Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929)
- William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Textile physics, 1928-1961)
- Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
- Emeritus Professor Maurice Beresford, Economic historian/ Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985)
- Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winning physicist/chemist (Physics, 1909-1915)
- Asa Briggs, historian
- Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University Librarian, 1997-2000)
- Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University
- David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1986)
- Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor
- Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980)
- Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981)
- Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist
- Benedikt Isserlin, Semitist and ancient historian
- Percy Fry Kendall, Award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22)
- Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970)
- John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology
- Irene Manton, botanist and cell biologist
- David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979)
- Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician
- Ralph Miliband, political theorist
- Leonard James Rogers, mathematician (Mathematics 1889-1919)
- Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner
- J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes), writer (English, 1930-1935)
- E. P. Thompson, historian (Extra Mural, 1948-1965)
- Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (English, 1920-1925)
- Stephen Turnbull, military historian
- Professor Philip Wilby, composer, School of Music until 2006
- Verna Wright, Professor of Rheumatology
- G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English)
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