Talk:List of University of Bristol people

Comment
I'm pretty sure Winston Churchill wasn't actually educated at Bristol, despite being Chancellor, and so have removed him from the list. Does anyone know differently?


 * Churchill wasn't. Alfred Marshall wasn't either, he taught at Bristol, but was educated at Cambridge.

Naming
Do we have to call this article List of University of Bristol people just to appease convention?

It is a list of alumni. People has other connotations - academics for example or staff such as the Chancellor

I would alter it but I am apprehensive some admin would go crazy Francium12 (talk) 18:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I note that there is already an alumni page, I suspect this may be dupe. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I have effectively swapped the pages. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:22, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Misleading
This list contains a lot of people who aren't alumni and were only very tenuosly linked to the universtiy. In a way it is misleading. The word alumni is in most dictionaries defined as former students, not people who are tenuosly linked to an institution. Disregarding conventional meaning is bad language, in that it makes language unreadable. If writers gave a different meaning to standard words, or use words in a secondary obscure sense in contexts where the primary common meaning will be interpreted, no one would understand anyone else. Few years ago Bristol had only produced 2 Nobel prize winning alumni (i.e. actual students: Dirac and Clezio, though it was accepted a few laureates had taught at the Uni (Ramsay,Powell, and Mott)). Suddenly this list of Noble Prize winning alumni has become 9. While some of these extra laureates are linked to the university having spent some time as research workers or as academics, listing others such Harold Pinter as alumnus because he received an honorary degree doesn't seem correct. Dorothy Hodgkin another extra laureate was a Chancellor, which is purely a honorary post, and hence not an 'alumni'. Suggesting that these people were 'produced' by or taught in Bristol is incorrect and should be redressed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.223.176 (talk) 23:23, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Jeremy Wade?
Conspicuously absent. Dfoofnik (talk) 14:12, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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Luke Hall
Although the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Housing Luke Hall is listed as a University of Bristol person, there is no mention of any course of study he followed or any qualification he obtained there. His website at https://www.lukehall.org.uk/ makes no mention of him having attended university at all. He appears to have entered employment at the age of 18 and worked his way up to management in the retail trade. If he did attend Bristol University part time while employed there should be some evidence to back this up.Helmardine (talk) 18:51, 3 June 2020 (UTC)