Notable Academics
- Sir John Ambrose Fleming - Pioneer of Electronics
- William Askew - Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- Viacheslav Belavkin - mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
- George Carey - Archbishop of Canterbury
- Professor Bryan Campbell Clarke FRS - Pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails.
- Hugh Gaitskell - Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition 1955-1963
- Andre Geim - Nobel prize winning physicist
- Clive Granger - Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist
- Don Grierson - geneticist
- George Garfield Hall - mathematician
- Susan Howson - first female winner of the Adams Prize (for mathematics)
- Luce Irigaray
- Sir Ian Kershaw - historian
- Sir Michael Lyons - Chairman, BBC Trust
- Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Laureate physicist
- Tom Paulin - poet and literary critic
- Ivy Pinchbeck - economic historian
- Martyn Poliakoff - chemist
- Sir John Cyril Smith - law
- Vivian de Sola Pinto - poet and literary critic
- Lewis Thorpe - translator of Medieval works and Professor of French
- Richard G. Wilkinson - public health
- Professor Xu Zhihong - President Peking University
- David Greenaway (Economist) - Economist and Vice Chancellor 2008-
- Vernon White - formerly special lecturer in theology, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
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