List of alumni of University College, Durham

University College, Durham is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University. The following is a list of notable people to have matriculated at the college.

Where known, degree type, subject and year of graduation are included.

Alumni



 * Walter Adams, Archbishop of Yukon
 * Lancelot Addison, Archdeacon of Dorset (1948–1955)
 * John Anthony Allan (BA Geography, 1958), geographer and winner of Stockholm Water Prize
 * Simon Ardizzone (BA, 1988), producer and director, Hacking Democracy
 * K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat
 * Tim Atkin (BA Modern Languages, 1984), journalist and Master of Wine
 * Richard Ayre, former BBC journalist
 * Nigel Badnell, physicist
 * Edward Baran, British newsreader
 * Rob Beckley, Assistant Commissioner in London Metropolitan Police
 * Henry Bell, cricketer and clergyman
 * Edward Bickersteth, clergyman
 * Crispin Blunt
 * John Henry Blunt
 * Edward Bradley, clergyman and author known for The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
 * Richard Brand, Archdeacon of Winchester
 * David Breeze, archaeologist
 * Eric Brereton, Dean of Glasgow and Galloway (1959–1962)
 * Peter Bridgewater, Australian conservationist
 * Aubrey Brocklebank, entrepreneur and aristocrat
 * George Malcolm Brown, geologist
 * Alex Burton, Royal Navy officer
 * Clare Cameron, Ministry of Defence civil servant
 * Peter Cardy, public servant
 * Allan Cartner, continuity announcer for Border Television
 * Jack Cattell
 * Richard Dickinson Chambers, Professor of Chemistry at Durham
 * Nicholas Chorley, 3rd Baron Chorley, British peer
 * Cyrus Chothia (BSc, 1965), biochemist
 * Rosemary Coogan, astronaut
 * Harry Cook, martial artist
 * Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy at Central European University
 * Neil Crompton, British diplomat, current British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
 * Mike Cunningham, Chief Executive of the College of Policing (2018–2020)
 * William Curzon-Siggers, Anglican priest and author
 * Owen Dampier Bennett
 * Charles Maurice Davies
 * Hunter Davies, author
 * Phil de Glanville, England rugby player
 * John Douglas
 * Jackie Doyle Price
 * Guy Edwards, Formula 1 racing driver
 * George Entwistle, former BBC executive
 * Harold Evans
 * John Exelby, British television executive
 * Christopher Foster
 * James Freeling
 * George Frodsham
 * Edward Frossard
 * Charles Furneaux, TV producer and Up participant
 * Chris Gibson-Smith, businessman; Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group
 * Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
 * Frank Gillingham, cricketer
 * Antony Good, cricketer
 * John Goodall, historian and Architectural Editor of Country Life
 * Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford
 * James Goss, High Court judge
 * William Greenwell, antiquarian
 * Miles Gregory, theatre director and producer
 * Bill Gunston, aviation author
 * Paul Lewis Hancock, geologist
 * Ernest Hayes
 * Samuel Heaslett
 * James Henderson
 * Allan Hill, demographer; Andelot Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 * George Hills, Anglican bishop
 * Edmund Hobhouse, Anglican bishop
 * Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford
 * George Frederick Holmes
 * Robert Hornby
 * James Horstead
 * Walsham How
 * Tessa Howard, field hockey player
 * Jules Hudson, archaeologist
 * Malcolm K. Hughes, climatologist
 * Simon Hughes, cricketer and journalist nicknamed The Analyst
 * Henry Hyde, priest
 * Kumar Iyer, Director General for Economics, Science and Technology at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
 * David Jennings, composer
 * John Jones, Anglican priest; Archdeacon of St Asaph
 * Thomas Kerr, engineer; Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment
 * Christopher Kitching, archivist
 * Gerald Knox, cricketer
 * Christopher Lamb, journalist
 * Timothy Laurence
 * Craig Lawrence, former British Army officer, author and lecturer
 * John Lawton, ecologist
 * Edward Leigh, Conservative MP
 * Andy Lines, Anglican bishop
 * Peter Liss, environmental scientist
 * Evered Lunt, Anglican bishop
 * William Herrick Macaulay, mathematician and Vice-Povost of King's College, Cambridge
 * Angus MacFarlane-Grieve
 * Baret Magarian, writer
 * Jane Marriott
 * Guy Marshall, Anglican bishop
 * Richard Massey, physicist
 * Rachel McCarthy
 * David Mercer, playwright
 * Richard Mercer, cricketer
 * Piers Merchant
 * Huw Merriman
 * Ed Mitchell, presenter for ITN
 * James Montgomery, Anglican priest
 * David Moore, botanist
 * James Morris, cricketer
 * Rory Morrison, BBC Radio 4 newsreader
 * Peter Ogden, founder of Computacenter
 * George Ornsby, antiquarian
 * Denis Osborne, physicist and diplomat
 * Chris Oti, England rugby player
 * James Palmes, Archdeacon of the East Riding (1892–1898)
 * Frank Pasquill, meteorologist
 * Robin Pedley, educationist
 * Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, clergyman and arachnologist
 * Maurice Berkeley Portman
 * Arthur Prowse, physicist and academic administrator; founding Master of Van Mildert College
 * James Raine, antiquarian and Chancellor of York Minster
 * Sir Thomas Richardson-Bunbury, 6th Baronet
 * Andrew Ritchie, British Army officer; Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (2003–2006)
 * Dan Rivers, correspondent at ITV News
 * Charles Robertson, priest
 * Jonathan Rougier, Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Bristol
 * David Sadler, Professor of Human Geography
 * Brian Scarlett, particle technologist
 * Caleb Scharf, physicist
 * Robert Senior, advertising executive
 * John Sewel, Baron Sewel, member of the House of Lords
 * Graeme Shimmin, science fiction novelist
 * Edward Shortt, lawyer and politician; Home Secretary (1919–1922)
 * Gareth Sibson, writer and broadcaster
 * Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Kensington (1932–1942)
 * Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician
 * Ian Smail, physicist
 * Peter Snowdon, historian and journalist
 * Martin St Quinton, horse racing entrepreneur
 * Howard Stableford, television and radio presenter
 * Ben Starr, actor
 * Philip Steele, author of children's non-fiction
 * Joseph Stevenson, antiquarian
 * Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Hong Kong cricketer
 * Paul Sutcliffe, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Durham
 * Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford (2002–2021)
 * Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (MA, 1984), Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
 * Thomas Charles Thompson, Liberal Party politician
 * Maurice Tucker, Professor of Geology and Master of University College, Durham (1998–2011)
 * Mike Tuffrey, Liberal Democrat politician
 * Garry Tunnicliffe, Royal Air Force officer; Defence Services Secretary (2016–2019)
 * James Turner, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale (1869–1893)
 * Lily van den Broecke, British Paralympic rower
 * Annabel Venning, journalist and author; Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (2005)
 * Fitzpatrick Vernon, 2nd Baron Lyveden, British peer and Liberal Party politician
 * Henry Villiers-Stuart, Egyptologist and Liberal Party politician
 * Terence Wade, Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde (1987–1995)
 * Stephen Warner, evangelical preacher
 * Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK (2016–2021)
 * Peter Watson, journalist and author
 * L. P. Wenham, archaeologist
 * James Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm, Conservative Party politician
 * Thomas Wilkinson, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (1889–1909)
 * Jonathan Wilks, diplomat
 * Jim Williams (BA, Law and Sociology), author
 * Hugh Willmott, archaeologist
 * Thomas Woodcock, Garter Principal King of Arms (2010–2021)
 * Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford (BA, 1846), soldier, writer and clergyman