This is a list of University of Warwick people, including office holders, current and former academics and alumni of the University of Warwick, including a brief description of their notability.
Warwick has over 283,000 alumni and an active alumni network.
Former students
Academics
Janet Beer - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
Robert Calderbank - former Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke University and winner of the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the Claude E. Shannon Award David Cardwell FREng - superconducting engineer and head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department Colin Cooper - Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of East Anglia John Fauvel - historian of mathematics at the Open University Luciano Floridi - philosopher of information Oliver Hart - economist and former Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2016 H.A. Hellyer - policy consultant and Senior Research Fellow for Muslims in Europe Alan Hywel Jones - Principal Research Fellow and senior consultant at Sheffield Hallam University, materials scientist and inventor Maris Martinsons - Professor of Management; international business consultant Moeletsi Mbeki - Deputy Chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs; brother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki Patricia McFadden - Swazi author; Professor of Sociology; African radical feminist Stuart Neil - professor of virology at King's College London Pippa Norris - political scientist and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Ian Stewart FRS - popular science author; Professor of Mathematics Leslie Valiant FRS - British computer scientist and Turing Award winner
Art
Benjamin Hope (Mathematics and Physics 1996) - painter
Business
Ian Gorham - CEO of Hargreaves Lansdown
Bernardo Hees - CEO of the Heinz Company; former CEO of Burger King
Linda Jackson - CEO of Citroën
Nick Landau - co-owner and founder of Titan Entertainment Group and Forbidden Planet sci-fi, fantasy and horror bookstores Margaret Milan - founder and owner of Eveil & Jeux Mahmoud Mohieldin (PhD Financial Economics, 1995) - former Investment Minister of Egypt; current Managing Director of the World Bank Phil O'Donovan - Bluetooth engineer & CSR plc co-founder Ada Osakwe - economist, entrepreneur and corporate executive Ralf Speth - CEO of Jaguar Land Rover Mary Turner - CEO of Koovs Jehangir Wadia - Indian Businessman, Managing Director of Go First, Bombay Dyeing and Bombay Realty, Director on the Boards of Britannia Industries Ness Wadia - Indian Businessman, managing director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Punjab Kings Tony Wheeler - founder of Lonely Planet travel guides Nigel Wilson - CEO of Legal & General Group plc George Yankey - CEO of Ghana Gas Company & former Minister of Health in Ghana Rajiv Bajaj - Managing director and CEO of Bajaj Auto Sanjiv Bajaj - Managing director of Bajaj Finserv Lakshmi Venu - Director at TVS Motor Company, daughter of Venu Srinivasan
Cinema and theatre
Paul W. S. Anderson (Film and Literature) – film director
Adam Buxton (dropped out after two terms) – comedian and actor, best known as part of Adam and Joe Angus Castle-Doughty, actor who has starred in Showtrial and Hollyoaks, co-founded theatre company Incognito Dominic Cooke – artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre Paul Darke (PhD in Film) - academic, artist and disability rights activist, creator of the ''normality drama' theory Brett Goldstein (Film & Feminism) – actor and comedian Vadim Jean (History) – film director Alex Jennings (English and Theatre Studies 1978) – actor who has performed in many lead roles at the RSC Ruth Jones (Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts 1988) – actress known as Myfanwy in Little Britain and Nessa in Gavin & Stacey Lloyd Langford – comedian (film and television) Stephen Merchant (Film and Literature 1996) – wrote, directed and acted in the British television series The Office and Extras, in such roles as the 'Oggmonster' and 'Darren Lamb' respectively. Julian Rhind-Tutt (English) – actor, known from the award-winning comedy series Green Wing Frank Skinner, then Chris Collins (MA in English Literature 1981) – comedian, actor, writer Hannah Waterman – actress