Notable Current and Former Academics
See also: :Category:Academics of the Open University- Jocelyn Bell Burnell – astronomer
- Tim Benton – art historian
- Gordon Brown – former Prime Minister and OU tutor
- Catherine Cooke – architect and Russian scholar
- David Edmonds – philosopher, broadcaster
- Brian J. Ford – author
- Monica Grady – meteoricist
- Brian Goodwin – biologist
- Oswald Hanfling – philosopher and interpreter of Wittgenstein
- Stuart Hall – social scientist
- Arthur Marwick – historian
- Doreen Massey – geographer
- Oliver Penrose – mathematician
- Mike Pentz – physicist
- Colin Pillinger – planetary scientist
- Steven Rose – biologist
- Russell Stannard – physicist
- Hilary Wainwright – editor of Red Pepper magazine
- Nigel Warburton – philosopher, author
- Margaret Wetherell – discourse analyst, social psychologist
- Glenn White – astronomer
- Robin Wilson – mathematician
- John Zarnecki – space scientist
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