List of Cardiff University people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff of Cardiff University and its predecessor institutions

Heads of state and government

 * Lord Jenkins, former Chancellor of the Exchequer – Home Secretary, President of the European Commission and Chancellor of the University of Oxford (did not graduate)
 * Barham Salih – Former president of Iraq, former prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and former deputy prime minister of the Iraqi federal government
 * Faisal Al-Fayez – Prime Minister of Jordan

Politics

 * David Bahati – State Minister of Finance for Planning in the Cabinet of Uganda
 * Christine Chapman – MS for Cynon Valley
 * Jeffrey Cuthbert – Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner, MS for Caerphilly and Welsh Government Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
 * Hefin David – MS for Caerphilly
 * Wayne David – MP for Caerphilly and UK Shadow Minister for Europe, Shadow Minister for Defence Procurement and Shadow Minister for the Armed Forces
 * S. O. Davies – miner, trade union official and Labour Party MP
 * Guto Harri – broadcaster, Communications Director for the Mayor of London
 * Elin Jones – MS for Ceredigion, Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales and Welsh Government Minister for Rural Affairs
 * Fatou Sanyang Kinteh – Gambian Minister for Women's Affairs, Children and Social Welfare
 * Sir Emyr Jones Parry – British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
 * Glenys Kinnock – MEP and UK Foreign Office Minister
 * Neil Kinnock – MP for Bedwellty and for Islwyn, Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of the Opposition
 * Mike Hedges – MS for Swansea East
 * Hilary Marquand – MP for Cardiff East and Minister for Health.
 * Robert Minhinnick – co-founder of Friends of the Earth (Cymru)
 * Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley – advisor to Margaret Thatcher
 * Craig Oliver – Conservative Party Director of Communications
 * Adam Price – MS and leader of Plaid Cymru
 * Bill Rammell – MP for Harlow
 * David Rees – MS for Aberavon and Deputy Presiding Officer of the Senedd Cymru.
 * Lord Richards – Chief of the Defence Staff
 * Michael Shrimpton – barrister, politician, and conspiracy theorist
 * John Smith – MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, member of the Defence Select Committee
 * Victoria Starmer – Wife of Sir Keir Starmer, solicitor, and NHS occpuational health worker.
 * Brian Wilson – MP for Cunninghame North and Minister of State
 * Mike Wood – MP for Dudley South

University administrators

 * C. W. L. Bevan – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1966–1972; Principal of University College Cardiff 1972–1987
 * Leszek Borysiewicz – Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
 * David Grant – Vice Chancellor of University of Wales Cardiff 2001–2005; Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University 2005–2012
 * Ernest Howard Griffiths – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1901–1918
 * John Viriamu Jones – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1883–1901
 * Frederick Rees – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1929–1949
 * Colin Riordan – Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University since 2012
 * Brian Smith – Principal of University of Wales College Cardiff 1988–1996; Vice Chancellor of University of Wales Cardiff 1996–2001
 * Anthony Steel – Principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmounthshire 1949–1966
 * Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson – Principal of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 1968–1988; Principal of University of Wales College Cardiff 1988–1993

Academics

 * Abedelnasser Abulrob – medical researcher
 * Miguel Alcubierre – Mexican theoretical physicist
 * Rudolf K. Allemann – Swiss biochemist
 * Gabrielle Allen – computer scientist
 * Robin Attfield – philosopher
 * Martin J. Ball – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, Cymru/Wales
 * Paul E. A. Barbier – Professor of French at the University of Leeds
 * Jason Barker – professor
 * Yehuda Bauer – Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Archie Cochrane – pioneer of scientific method in medicine
 * Peter Coles – Professor of Astrophysics
 * David Crouch – historian
 * Alun Davies – bioscientist
 * Huw Dixon – economist
 * Stephen Dunnett – neuroscientist
 * Alice Laura Embleton – biologist, zoologist and suffragist.
 * Martin Evans – Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007
 * Mahmoud Ezzamel – professorial fellow
 * Dimitra Fimi – writer
 * Brian J. Ford – Honorary fellow of Cardiff University (1986), honorary fellow of the Linnean Society, honorary fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society.
 * John S. Fossey – Professor of synthetic chemistry at the University of Birmingham
 * Burt Goldberg – university professor, microbiologist
 * Karen Holford – engineer
 * Robert Huber – Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1988
 * John Loughlin – Professor of Politics
 * Vaughan Lowe – Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford
 * Ursula Masson – women's history and feminism
 * Patrick Minford – Professor of Applied Economics
 * John Warwick Montgomery – American lawyer and theologian; Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at Patrick Henry College
 * Christopher Norris – literary critic
 * Keith Peters – Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge
 * Leighton Durham Reynolds – Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
 * Alice Roberts – clinical anatomist and osteoarchaeologist
 * Wendy Sadler – physicist and science communicator
 * H. W. Lloyd Tanner – Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy (1883–1909)
 * Pamela Taylor – Professor of Forensic Psychiatry since 2004
 * Meena Upadhyaya – medical geneticist
 * Keith Ward – philosopher, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Gresham College
 * Chandra Wickramasinghe – mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist, Professor of Applied Mathematics
 * Rheinallt Nantlais Williams – professor of the philosophy of religion, principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth
 * Emma Yhnell – biomedical research scientist

Business

 * Spencer Dale – Chief economist, Bank of England
 * Andrew Gould – chairman and former CEO, Schlumberger
 * Philip Jansen - former CEO of BT and Worldpay
 * Martin Lewis – personal finance journalist, television presenter and website entrepreneur
 * Dame Mary Perkins – co-founder, Specsavers
 * Ceri Powell – senior Royal Dutch Shell executive
 * John Pettigrew (businessman) – CEO, National Grid plc
 * Lorenzo Simonelli – CEO, Baker Hughes Company
 * Terry Smith – British Fund Manager, Fundsmith

Religion

 * Gregory Cameron – Bishop of St Asaph
 * Sheila Cameron – lawyer and ecclesiastical judge
 * Paul Colton – Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
 * Dominic Walker – Bishop of Monmouth

Sport

 * Nathan Cleverly – professional boxer and former WBO light heavyweight world champion
 * Gareth Davies – former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player, and current chief executive of Cardiff Rugby Football Club
 * Gerald Davies – former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player
 * Mike Hall – former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player
 * Heather Knight – English cricketer
 * Steven Outerbridge – Bermudian cricketer
 * Jamie Roberts – Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player
 * James Tomlinson – English cricketer
 * Bradley Wadlan – Welsh cricketer
 * Alex Gough – Squash player

Arts and journalism

 * Paul Atherton – television and film producer and director
 * Matt Barbet – journalist
 * Manish Bhasin – journalist and television presenter
 * Nick Broomfield – documentary filmmaker and receiver of the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Documentary
 * Philip Cashian – composer
 * Suw Charman-Anderson – journalist and social software consultant.
 * Adrian Chiles – television presenter
 * Gillian Clarke – poet and receiver of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
 * Huw Edwards – journalist
 * Ken Elias – artist/painter
 * Max Foster – CNN anchor, CNN Today
 * Shihab Ghanem - poet
 * M. A. Griffiths – poet
 * Julia Hartley-Brewer – journalist and television presenter
 * Jiang Heping – executive director of the CCTV Sports Programming Centre and Controller of CCTV-5
 * Tim Hetherington – photo-journalist and co-director of Academy Award-nominated Restrepo
 * Elis James – stand-up comedian and actor
 * Alun Hoddinott – composer
 * Sioned James – choral conductor
 * Karl Jenkins – composer
 * Alan Johnston – journalist
 * Riz Khan – journalist and television interviewer
 * Bernard Knight – crime writer
 * Simon Lane – co-founder and Creative director of The Yogscast Ltd
 * Gwilym Lee – actor.
 * Siân Lloyd – television presenter
 * Los Campesinos! – six piece indie pop band
 * Philip Madoc – actor
 * Andrew Matthews-Owen (pianist and accompanist, professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Drama, London)
 * Paul Moorcraft – writer
 * Sharon Morgan – actress
 * Joanna Natasegara – documentary producer, Academy Award winner for Netflix documentary The White Helmets
 * Siân Phillips – actress
 * Susanna Reid – television presenter
 * James Righton – musician
 * Leo Rowlands – Welsh musical composer, Catholic priest
 * Arlene Sierra – composer
 * Mari Strachan – novelist and librarian
 * Richard Tait – former BBC governor and BBC trustee
 * Craig Thomas – author
 * Alex Thomson – journalist & television presenter
 * Vedhicka – Indian actress
 * Grace Williams – composer
 * Ron Smerczak – actor