知名校友
Notable alumni:
Peter Atkins, physical chemist
David Blanchflower, economist, Dartmouth College professor
Sir Malcolm Bradbury, author
Justin Chadwick, actor and director
Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature
Michael Cordy, novelist
Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer
Lord Grocott, former MP, Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
Baroness Howarth of Breckland, peer, on the board of CAFCASS
Norman Lamb, MP
Pete McCarthy, writer, broadcaster, comedian
Massimiliano Neri, fashion model
Michael Nicholson, BBC famous journalist
Bob Parr MBE, multi Emmy Award-winner, television producer and former Special Air Service officer
J. H. Plumb, historian of eighteenth century Britain
Aaron Porter, President, National Union of Students (United Kingdom)
Patrick Redmond , novelist
Rick Rylance, professor of English, Exeter University, Chief Executive and Deputy Chair Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
C. P. Snow, famous author
Sir John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner and former adviser on international security issues to Gordon Brown
John Sutherland, Guardian Columnist, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University College London
Laurie Taylor, broadcaster, actor, sociologist
Philip Tew, professor of English, Brunel University
Jon Tickle, Television celebrity
Storm Thorgerson, world renowned artist
Tony Underwood, England rugby union international
Professor Sir Alan Walters, economist
Andrew Waterman, poet
Bryan R. Wilson, Oxford sociologist
Ted Wragg, world-renowned educationalist
Malik Zahoor Ahmad, Pakistan diplomat
Shriparna Sarbajna, chemist
Lord Richard - 企业家,爵士
David Attenborough - 企业家,爵士
Philip Larkin -诗人
Sue Townsend - 宇航员
Jeff Hoffman - 航天局官员
Patrick Moore -天文学家
Heather Couper - 天文科学家,科学记者,科幻小说作家
Michael Nicholson - 电视名人
Sue Cook - BBC广播电台著名主持人,资深记者
John Stevens - 爵士,警察署专员
Liam Donaldson - 政府首席医疗长官
Bob Mortimer - 知名电视喜剧演员
Nigel Henbest - 科学记者及作家
Bob Mortimer - 喜剧演员
Tony Underwood - 英格兰榄球运动员
Sir Rob Young - 英国驻印度大使
Peter Golding- 莱斯特媒介研究中心的老成员,1960S前后在中心的研究奠定了其英国传播政治经济学奠基人之一的地位.
Graham Murdock- 莱斯特媒介研究中心的老成员,Peter Golding的助手.英国传播政治经济学奠基人之一.
华人校友
Outstanding representative
曾仕强- 中国式管理大师, 全球华人中国式管理第一人, 台湾兴国管理学院校长
田静谊 - 台湾义守大学应英系助理教授
蔡仰虔 - 台湾国立中正大学经济系教授
卢琛- 中央电视台国际频道中国新闻主播, 凤凰卫视《凤凰正点播报》、《华闻大直播》和《凤凰午间特快》主持人
纪萌- 中央电视台《实话实说》执行策划, 中央电视台国际频道做新闻配音, 中央电视台国际频道《中国新闻》和《今日亚洲》新闻主播
著名学者
Notable academics:
Khurshid Ahmad, Islamic scholar
Lyman Andrews, American Studies
Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women‘s writing
Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, scholar of University of Cambridge
Richard Bonney, historian
Alan Bryman, social scientist
Nilesh Samani, medical specialist
Chris Clarkson, prominent criminal lawyer, specialising in Corporate Liability
Philip Cottrell, economic and financial historian
Heather Couper, astronomer and television presenter
Nicholas J. Cull, US historian
Gabriel Dover, geneticist
Eric Dunning, sports sociologist
Christopher Dyer, medieval historian
Colin Eaborn FRS, chemist
Norbert Elias, German sociologist
Brian J. Ford, scientist, visiting professor
G. S. Fraser, Scottish poet
Anthony Giddens, prominent sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester
Reuben Goodstein, mathematician, proponent of Goodstein’s theorem
Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition law specialist, Member of the Competition Commission
Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist
Richard Hoggart, sociologist
W. G. Hoskins, local historian, author of The Making of the English Landscape
Norman Housley, crusading historian
Leonard Huxley, physicist
Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist, inventor of genetic fingerprinting
Hans Kornberg, biochemist
Philip Larkin, librarian and poet
David Mattingly, Roman archaeologist
John McManners, former Head of History Dept., Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford
Ken Pounds, Emeritus Professor of Physics, discovered black holes were common in the universe Charles Rees, organic chemist
Lord Rees of Ludlow, the Astronomer Royal, visiting professor at Leicester
J.B. Schneewind, philosophy professor, Johns Hopkins University
Malcolm Shaw QC, prominent international lawyer & jurist
Sir Robert Jennings, professor of International Law
Brian Simon, professor of education
Sami Zubaida, political scientist