Harkness Fellowship - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Professor Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, British botanist and educator
• Professor Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at Oxford University
• Professor Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare scholar and biographer
• Professor Patrick Bateson, emeritus professor of ethology at Cambridge University
• Professor Tim Beaglehole, chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington
• Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer
• Professor Colin Blakemore, neurobiologist and former chief executive of the Medical Research Council
• Sir Ronald Bottrall, Cornish poet
• Professor Hugh Brogan, historian and biographer
• Sir George Malcolm Brown, geologist
• Professor Sir Roy Calne British surgeon who performed the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant
• Sir Graeme Catto, president of the General Medical Council
• Reverend Professor Sarah Coakley, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School
• Alistair Cooke KBE, journalist and broadcaster of Letter from America
• Dr Nigel H Croft, Chairman of ISO Technical Committee TC176/SC2 for Quality Systems (ISO 9001)
• Professor Nicholas J. Cull, historian
• Professor Marcus Cunliffe, former visiting professor of American studies at Harvard University
• Mark Damazer, controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7
• Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
• Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer, conductor and Master of the Queen's Music
• Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne
• Stuart Devlin, goldsmith and jeweller to Her Majesty the Queen
• Professor John Montfort Dunn, emeritus professor of political theory at King's College, Cambridge
• Professor John Dupré, philosopher
• Sir Harold Evans, former editor of the Sunday Times
• Sir Terry Farrell, architect of the MI6 Building
• Professor Pamela Gillies, principal and vice-chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University
• Lawrence Goldman, historian and editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Anthony Green RA, painter
• Professor Jonathan Harvey (composer)
• Tom Hayhoe, chairman of West Middlesex University Hospital
• Alastair Hetherington, editor of The Guardian, 1956–1975
• Tony Hey CBE, academic and corporate vice-president of technical computing at Microsoft
• Dame Rosalyn Higgins, president of the International Court of Justice
• Ronald Hilton, British-American academic who helped uncover the CIA’s clandestine preparations for the Bay of Pigs invasion
• The Hon. Shane Jones, New Zealand politician
• Professor Ralph Kekwick FRS Biochemist
• Bridget Kendall MBE, diplomatic correspondent for the BBC
• Graeme Koehne, Australian composer and chair of the Australia Council's music board
• Professor Nicola LeFanu, composer
• Professor Koen Lenaerts, professor of European Law and judge at the European Court of Justice
• Sue Lenier, English poet and playwright
• Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, politician
• Michael L'Estrange AO, Australian public servant and former Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Gwyneth Lewis, Welsh poet, the first National Poet for Wales
• Professor David Lodge, British author
• Piers Mackesy, military historian
• Sir Deryck Maughan, former Chairman and CEO of Salomon Brothers
• Keith Milow, artist
• Jan Morris CBE, historian and travel writer
• Professor Geoff Mulgan, former director of policy at 10 Downing Street and director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
• Baron Murray of Newhaven, British academic
• Sara Nathan OBE, Broadcast Journalist and regulator
• Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, rabbi and social reformer
• Peter Nicholls (writer), Australian literary scholar and critic
• John Nicolson (journalist and broadcaster)
• Professor Claus Offe, political sociologist
• Professor Derek Parfit, philosopher
• Baron Penney, physicist responsible for the development of British nuclear technology
• Peter Phillips, artist and pioneer of pop art
• Professor Randolph Quirk, British linguist, former Quain Professor at University College, London
• Professor Anne Marie Rafferty CBE, British nurse, currently Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London
• Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered plc
• Malcolm Singer, composer, conductor and Director of Music, Yehudi Menuhin School
• Randolph Stow, Australian writer
• Andrew Sullivan, writer, blogger and gay rights activist
• Professor Barry Trimmer, biologist and creator of the world's first soft-bodied robot
• Professor Rudolf G. Wagner, sinologist
• Professor Sir David Wallace, director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge
• Professor Denis Weaire, Irish physicist
• Brett Whiteley, Australian artist
• Tony Woods, Australian artist
• Professor Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Professor Jonathan Wolff, former chair of philosophy at University College, London
• Adrian Wooldridge, Washington bureau chief and "Lexington" columnist for The Economist
• Professor Esmond Wright, historian
• Hugo Young, British journalist
• Professor Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, mathematician