List of University of Manchester alumni
This is a list of notable alumni related to the University of Manchester and its predecessors the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology . It excludes those who only have an honorary degree .
Fine and applied arts
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank , famous architect
Architecture
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank , British architect, (Pritzker Prize 1999, Stirling Prize 1998, 2004), designed among others the Swiss Re Building , Millennium Bridge , HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building , Commerzbank Tower , Millau Viaduct , Reichstag dome and the (proposed) Tower 2 of the World Trade Center
Rod Hackney , British architect, past president of Royal Institute of British Architects
Stephen Hodder , English architect, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 1996
Edward Hubbard , English architectural historian
Leslie Martin , leading advocate of the International Style
Alfred Waterhouse , English architect associated with the Victorian Gothic revival and probably best known for his design for the Natural History Museum in London and the Town Hall in Manchester
Literature
George Gissing , novelist
Louis de Bernières , born 1954. Writer whose novels include The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (1990), Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord (1991), The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (1992), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994) (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book) and Red Dog (2001)
Malcolm Bradbury , PhD, American Studies, 1955-62. Lecturer in English Literature at the university from 1955 to 1958. Academic and author best known for his novel The History Man (1975)
Anthony Burgess , BA, English Literature, 1937–40. Writer and critic whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, the Enderby cycle, A Clockwork Orange , Nothing Like the Sun , Earthly Powers and The Kingdom of the Wicked . He produced acclaimed critical works on Joyce, Lawrence, Hemingway and Shakespeare, and studies of language and of pornography
Miguel Esteves Cardoso , Portuguese writer and journalist[ 1]
Daniel Ford , American author and journalist
Alex Garland , born 1970, BA, History of Art. Novelist and script-writer. Author of The Beach (1996), The Tesseract (1998), The Coma (2004) and Sunshine (2007)
George Gissing , novelist
Sophie Hannah , award-winning poet and novelist
A. J. Hartley , Shakespeare professor and novelist
A.M. Howell , children's writer
Grevel Lindop , poet, academic and literary critic
Ruth Manning-Sanders , Welsh poet and author
Stephen Mitchell , Head of News Programmes, BBC
Francis Thompson , English poet
Barry Unsworth , British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes, Booker Prize winner with Sacred Hunger
Alison Uttley , children's writer
Music
Edward Barton , songwriter and poet
Martin Butler , composer
Members of The Longcut , English rock band who all attended the university
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies , composer, Master of the Queen's Music
Paul McCreesh , conductor
Ed O'Brien , musician in Radiohead
Mark Radcliffe , DJ on Radio 1 and Radio 2 and musician: Shirehorses and The Family Mahone
Ed Simmons and Tom Rowlands, musicians, The Chemical Brothers
Jasmin Kent Rodgman , composer and co-artistic director of the Manchester Collective
Tim Booth , lead singer of James
Religion
Science and engineering
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