List of University of Keele people

This is a list of notable people related to the University of Keele and its predecessor, the University College of North Staffordshire.

Presidents and Chancellors

 * John Herbert Dudley Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby (1949–55)
 * HRH Princess Margaret (1956–86)
 * Claus Moser, Baron Moser (1986–2002)
 * Sir David Weatherall (2002–2012)
 * Sir Jonathon Porritt (2012–2022)
 * James Timpson (2022-...)

Principals and Vice-Chancellors

 * Lord Lindsay of Birker (1949–52)Jonathon Porritt 2008.jpg]]
 * Sir John Lennard-Jones (1953–54)
 * Sir George Barnes (1956–60)
 * Harold McCarter Taylor (1961–67)
 * W. A. Campbell Stewart (1967–79)
 * Sir David Harrison (1979–84)
 * Sir Brian Fender (1985–95)
 * Dame Janet Finch (1995–2010)
 * Nick Foskett (2010–2015)
 * Trevor McMillan (2015– )

Academics

 * Tony Barrand – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Boston University
 * Jonathan Dollimore – English sociologist
 * Richard English – historian
 * Roy Fisher – American Studies lecturer and poet
 * Jill Gibbon – graphic artist
 * Oliver Harris – professor of American literature and expert in the works of William Burroughs
 * Sir Nick Partridge – British health care specialist
 * Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer – British political scientist

Alumni
• ;Academia and Science

• Eliathamby Ambikairajah – engineer

• Stan Beckensall – expert on prehistoric rock art

• Dame Sandra Dawson – organisational theorist

• Jonathan Dollimore – sociologist; cultural and literary theorist

• Richard English – political historian

• Charles Iain Hamilton – historian

• Pradeep Mathur – educationalist

• Des MacHale - Mathematics emeritus professor -University College Cork

• Sam Nolutshungu – political scientist

• David Richardson – Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia

• Beverley Skeggs – sociologist

• Dame Joan Stringer – political scientist

• John Thompson – sociologist

• ;Arts and Literature

• John Abram – composer

• Mark Ayres – musician, composer and audio engineer

• Tony Barrand – anthropologist and folk musician

• Francis Beckett – English author

• Carol Birch – English novelist

• Joe Beverley – English-Canadian writer

• Peter Child – composer

• Alys Clare – novelist

• Paul Darke – academic, artist and disability rights activist

• Jem Finer – founding member of The Pogues

• Janet Fitch – author

• Zulfikar Ghose – novelist, poet and essayist

• Jon Haylett – novelist

• Giles Hooper – author, lecturer and musicologist

• Liz Kessler – author

• Marina Lewycka – novelist

• Bernard Lloyd – actor

• Andy McDermott – British thriller author

• Marina Oliver – British romance novelist

• Keith Ovenden – English novelist and biographer

• Adrian Pang – Singaporean actor

• David Pownall – playwright and author

• Andy Quin – composer and jazz pianist

• Ken Rattenbury – musician

• Davide Rossi – musician, Goldfrapp; composer

• Antti Sakari Saario – composer, lecturer

• Peter Whelan – playwright

• ;Diplomacy

• Emran bin Bahar – ambassador for Brunei Darussalam

• David Cooney – Irish ambassador to the UK

• Stephen Cutts – UN Assistant Secretary-General

• John Duncan – diplomat

• Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett – patron of Prisoners Abroad

• Jim Moran – EU ambassador

• Sir Richard Mottram – chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee

• Dame Jo Williams – Chief Executive MENCAP

• Hso Khan Pha – Burmese prince also known as Tiger

• ;Law

• Sir Peter Coulson – Lord Justice of Appeal, and Deputy Head of Civil Justice

• Michael Mansfield QC – human rights lawyer

• Malcolm Shaw – legal scholar

• John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick – Member of the House of Lords and ex-Deputy District Judge

• Dame Fiona Woolf – Lord Mayor of London and ex-President of the Law Society

• ;Politics

• Abd Dhiyab al-Ajili – Iraqi minister

• Jack Brereton – Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent South

• Phillida Bunkle – New Zealand MP

• Professor John Clancy – Former Leader, Birmingham City Council

• Paul Clark – MP for Gillingham from 1997 to 2010.

• Ash Denham – MSP for Edinburgh Eastern in the Scottish Parliament

• Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath – ex-Liberal Democrat MP for Bath and Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Development

• John Golding – MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1969 to 1986.

• Eric Joyce – Independent MP for Falkirk

• Claire Kober – Labour Council leader for the London Borough of Haringey

• Alun Michael – ex-Labour MP for Cardiff South Penarth and Minister of State for Home Affairs

• Madeleine Moon – Labour MP for Bridgend

• Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah – Namibian politician

• Dame Priti Patel – Conservative MP for Witham in Essex and former Home Secretary

• Rosmawatty Abdul Mumin – Member of the Legislative Council of Brunei

• Clare Short – ex-Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood and Secretary of State for International Development

• Gareth Snell - Former Labour MP for Stoke on Trent Central

• Adelaide Tambo – anti-apartheid activist South African MP

• Ian Taylor – MP for Esher from 1987 to 2010.

• Sir John Vereker – ex-Permanent Secretary for International Development and Governor of Bermuda

• Lynda Waltho – Labour MP for Stourbridge

• Sufian Sabtu – Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Office of Brunei

• ;TV and journalism

• Phil Avery – BBC weather presenter

• Wayne Clarke – radio presenter

• Tony Elliott, founder of Time Out

• Jack Emery, British director, writer and producer for stage, TV and radio

• Terry Milewski – Canadian broadcaster and journalist

• Gerry Northam – BBC investigative journalist

• AJ Odudu – television presenter

• ;Other

• Kojo Annan – businessman; son of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

• Maggie Atkinson – Children's Commissioner, England

• Yvette Baker – champion orienteer

• Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate – Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Society of Biology

• Nataliey Bitature- social entrepreneur, Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur

• Robert Cooling – Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff

• David Edwards – second person to win Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

• Jonathan Gledhill – Bishop of Lichfield

• Steve Jackson – Game designer, co-founder of Games Workshop and Lionhead Studios

• Peter Moore – business executive

• Sir Nick Partridge – chief executive, Terence Higgins Trust

• Derek Tidball – theologian

• Sir Chris Woodhead – chief inspector of schools