This is a list of University of Manchester people. Many famous or notable people have worked or studied at the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology institutions, which combined in 2004 to form the University of Manchester.
The following list includes the names of all 25 Nobel prize laureates among them (in bold print).
Alumni
Fine and applied arts
Architecture
Patrick Garnett (1932–2006), Swinging Sixties architect
Stephen Hodder, English architect, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 1996
Dalibor Vesely, architect (RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education 2006) Paul Waterhouse, son of Alfred Waterhouse. He designed Girton College at Cambridge University as well as the Manchester Museum, Refuge Assurance Building, the Christie Library and the Whitworth Hall in Manchester.
Literature
Music
Martin Butler, composer
John Casken, composer and professor of composition
Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
Ed O'Brien, Member of Radiohead
Theatre, cinema and broadcasting
Others
G. Howell-Baker (1871-1919), artist and illustrator (at Owen's College) Natalia Fuchs, art critic, new media researcher, international curator and cultural producer. Tessa Jackson, contemporary art curator, writer and administrator Pat McDonagh (fashion designer), fashion designer Tom Palin, painter Johnny Rozsa, photographer
Natural and applied sciences
William Boyd Dawkins, geologist
James Lovelock, independent scientist and prominent environmentalist. Proposed the Gaia hypothesis. Graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1941. Sir John Maddox, Editor of Nature for 22 years Gordon Manley, climatologist
Psychology
C. E. M. Hansel
Adrian Wells
Biology and chemistry
Computer science
Engineering
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
The University of Manchester currently has 28 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Present and historical University of Manchester people notable for their contributions to medicine and physiology include:
Social sciences and education
Business
Economics
Education
Law, public administration and social welfare
Politics
Social anthropology
Richard T. Antoun, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University, stabbed to death by student in 2009 Max Gluckman, Rhodes Scholar who became Manchester's first professor of social anthropology in 1949 Norman Long, known for his work on the sociology of international development J. P. S. Uberoi, retired sociology professor at the Delhi School of Economics
Sociology
James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology
Others
History
Religion and philosophy
Sport
Crime
Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian serial rapist and most prolific rapist in British legal history