List of Newcastle University People - A

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• Richard Adams - Fair-trade businessman.
• Kate Adie - Journalist.
• Yasmin Ahmad - A critically acclaimed multi-award winning film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia.
• Jane Alexander - Bishop.
• Theodosios Alexander - (BSc Marine Engineering 1981). Dean, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology of Saint Louis University. Also, Professor and Chair of Energy Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London. Previously James Watt Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Mechanical Engineering Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
• William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - Industrialist, in 1871 founded College of Physical Science, later Armstrong College, an early part of the University.
• Roy Ascott - New media artist.
• Dennis Assanis - Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University; Vice-President of Brookhaven Affairs at Stony Brook.
• Neil Astley - British publisher, editor and writer.
• Rodney Atkinson - British eurosceptic conservative academic.
• Rowan Atkinson - Comedian/Actor.

• William Armstrong

• Rowan Atkinson