University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. It was founded in 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and is thus the earliest of the "Redbrick" universities. A major research-led institution, it currently has nearly 17,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students.

Alumni

A full list can be seen under :Category:University of Birmingham alumni.

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• Walter Allen - novelist and literary critic
• The Rt Hon Baroness Amos - first black woman to sit in the British Cabinet
• Kenny Anthony - Prime Minister of St. Lucia
• The Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP - Chief Whip for the Government and Parliamentary Secretary at the Treasury
• Francis Aston - Nobel Prize winner
• Professor Michael Aston - television archaeologist (as "Mick Aston").
• Madeleine Carroll - film star
• James Clavell - novelist and screenwriter
• Lisa Clayton - first British woman to sail single-handed around the world
• Tim Curry - actor and musician
• Spencer Davis - 1960s Pop Star
• Alex Deakin - BBC weatherman
• Roy Fisher - poet
• Philippa Forrester - television presenter
• Dr Liam Herringshaw - palaeontologist
• Dr Richard Hu - Singapore Minister of Finance from 1985-2001
• General Sir Mike Jackson KCB CBE - Chief of the General Staff, the most senior officer in the British Army.
• David Kelly - UN weapons inspector
• Simon Le Bon - lead singer of Duran Duran
• David Lodge - novelist
• Desmond Morris - zoologist
• Captain Adrian Nance OBE - Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal
• Sir Paul Nurse - Nobel Prize winner
• Adam Osborne - founder of the Osborne Computer Corporation
• C. J. Sansom - crime novelist
• Chris Tarrant - TV presenter
• Sir Ernest Titterton - nuclear physicist involved in the development of the atomic bomb
• Henry Treece - poet and novelist
• Sir John Vane, FRS - Nobel Prize winner
• Rodolfo Neri Vela - Mexican astronaut
• The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP - former cabinet minister
• Victoria Wood - comedian
• Maurice Wilkins - physicist who helped discover DNA
• Francis Brett Young - novelist and poet