Alumni of The University of Birmingham - Staff

Staff

• The Rt. Hon.Joseph Chamberlain – Former and First Chancellor who helped set up the University of Birmingham, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and father of Sir Austen Chamberlain and former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
• Sir Robert Aitken – Former Vice-Chancellor who helped set up the University of Warwick
• Sir Melville Arnott – Former William Withering Chair in Medicine
• George Augustus Auden – Former School Medical Officer and Lecturer in Public Health & Father of W. H. Auden
• Professor Mark Beeson – Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies
• Professor Rupert E. Billingham – Former Chair in Zoology
• Dr Stewart Brown – Reader in African Literature and Director of the Centre of West African Studies
• Anthony Burgess – British novelist who lectured on phonetics in the late 1940s
• Professor Peter Burnham – Professor of Political Science and International Studies
• Sir Alexander Jarratt CB – Former Chancellor.
• Sir Dominic Cadbury – Current Chancellor
• Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958), lawyer, politician and diplomat. Nobel Peace Prize,1937 (University Chancellor)
• Professor John Churton Collins – Former Professor of English Literature
• Dr Reginald Cline-Cole – Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies
• Professor Thomas Diez – Professor of International Relations Theory
• Sir Edward Elgar – Former Professor of Music
• Professor John Fage – Former Professor of African History, founder of Birmingham's Centre for West African Studies
• David F. Ford, lecturer and senior lecturer of theology, 1976–1991
• Professor Stuart Hall – Former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
• Professor Richard Hoggart – Founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO
• Professor John Hick – emeritus H.G. Wood Professor of Theology
• Professor Rodney Hilton – former Professor of Medieval History
• Mervyn King – Former Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and current Governor of the Bank of England
• Sir Michael Lyons – Professor of Public Policy from 2001 to 2006
• Professor Sir Peter Medawar FRS (1915–1987), biologist: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine,1960 : (Professor of Zoology)
• Professor Anand Menon – Professor of West European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute
• Professor Allardyce Nicoll – Head of the English Department and founding director of the Shakespeare Institute
• Sir Marcus Oliphant – Former Professor of Physics, played a key role in the development of the atomic bomb and radar
• Professor Roy Pascal – former Professor of German
• Arthur Peacocke was a lecturer in chemistry and biophysical chemistry, before he went to Oxford University in 1959
• Professor Rudolf Peierls – Former Professor of Physics
• Sir Nikolaus Pevsner – Art historian who held a research post at the university for a number of years
• Canon Dr Terry Slater – Reader in Historical Geography
• Professor Aaron Sloman – Former Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
• Professor Ninian Smart – Former Professor of Religious Studies
• Professor Michael Sterling – Former Vice-Chancellor and Principal
• Professor Colin Thain – Professor of Political Science
• Professor Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies and former Director of the Shakespeare Institute
• Dr Tony Wright was a lecturer in politics from 1975 until 1992, before being elected Labour Member of Parliament for Cannock and Burntwood
• Professor John Henry Poynting – Former Professor of Physics at (Mason Science College) now the University of Birmingham.
• Professor David Eastwood – Successor of current Vice-Chancellor and currently Chief Executive at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Baron Zuckerman – Professor of Anatomy at Birmingham, 1946–68 and chief scientific adviser to the British government 1964–71
• Sir Alan Cottrell – Professor of Metallurgy 1949–55
• Lancelot Hogben – Professor of Zoology 1941–47 + Professor of Medical Statistics 1947–61
• Alan S C Ross – Professor of English Language 1948–51 + Professor of Linuistics 1951–74
• Sir John Randall (physicist) – Royal Society Fellow who worked on the cavity magnetron valve 1937–43
• Sir William James Ashley- First Dean and Founder of Business School
• Professor Maureen Perrie – Professor Emeritus in Russian History
• Jerzy Lukowski – Historian
• Professor John Knott, OBE – Professor of Metallurgy and Materials
• Dr Sue Blackwell – Lecturer in English Language
• Dr Tahir Abbas – Reader in Sociology and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, 2003-2009 University of Birmingham
• Professor Ronen Palan – Professor of International Political Economy
• Dr Gordon Warwick – Reader in Geomorphology
• Daniel Pedoe – Mathematics (1942–46)
• Professor Brinley Rees – Lecturer in Classics (1970–75)
• Major Kenneth Walton (pathologist) – 1947–52
• Professor David Edgar (playwright) – Professor of Playwrighting Studies
• Sir Ellis Waterhouse – Former Barber Professor of Fine Art (1952–70)
• Sir Louis Matheson – Civil Engineering
• Ian Brockington – Expert in Psychiatry
• Bill Hopkins (musician) – Taught music at the University
• Professor Sir Alan Walters – Former Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
• G. N. Watson - Professor of mathematics from 1918 to 1951
• Thomas Summers West – Analytical Chemistry : President of the Society for Analytical Chemistry
• William Brunsdon Yapp – Zoologist and author
• Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman – Former Professor of Anatomy