A list of notable alumni of the University of Nottingham.

Academia

• Professor Bob Boucher - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield
• Professor Arthur Carty - National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
• Sir Bernard Crossland - President of the Institute of Mechanical Enginners
• Professor Louis Essen - physicist
• Sir Clive Granger - 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics
• Sir Brian Heap - Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and former Vice-President of the Royal Society
• Sir Keith O'Nions - geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils
• Professor Ian Wilmut - cloned Dolly the sheep

Arts and Media

• Matthew Bannister - BBC broadcaster and administrator
• Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
• Ian Dickson - judge of Australian Idol
• Graham Fitkin - composer
• Daniel Gerroll - actor
• Elliott Gotkine - BBC South America correspondent
• James Moir - Controller of BBC Radio 2

Business

• Jonathan Browning - Managing Director, Jaguar Cars
• Michael Carpenter - Chairman & CEO, Citigroup Global Investments
• John Coomber - CEO, Swiss Re
• Kuok Khoon Ean - Chairman, South China Morning Post
• Keith Hamill - Chairman, Moss Bros, Go Airline, Collins Stewart and Luminar
• Sir Michael Hodgkinson - Chairman, Post Office Ltd; former CEO, BAA Plc
• The Lord Hollick - former owner of United News
• Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
• Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons
• Oliver Pawle - Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank
• Sir Robert Phillis - Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
• Peter Rice - President, Fox Searchlight Pictures
• John Timpson - Chairman, Timpson

International Politics and Royalty

• Rt. Hon Peter Ala Adjetey - Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament
• Zainab Bangura - Human rights campaigner, former Sierra Leone Presidential Candidate
• Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
• His Majesty Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar - former King of Malaysia
• His Majesty Sultan Raja Azlan Shah - former King of Malaysia
• Tengku Tan Sri Ahmad Rithaudden - former Minister of Defence of Malaysia
• Tuanku Hajjah Bahiyah - Sultanah of Kedah
• Tun Dato Seri Dr. Haji Hamdan Bin Sheik Tahir - Governor of Penang province, Malaysia
• Tunku Tan-Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Jaafar - Crown Prince of Malaysia, President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia

Current Members of UK Parliament

• Parmjit Dhanda MP - Labour
• David Drew MP - Labour
• John Hayes MP - Conservative
• Jimmy Hood MP - Labour
• Kelvin Hopkins MP - Labour
• Tony Lloyd MP - Labour, former Minister of State at the Foreign Office
• Meg Munn MP - Labour
• John Pugh MP - Liberal Democrat

Other

• Andrew Colquhoun - Director-General, The Royal Horticultural Society
• Sir Anthony Holland - Chairman of Northern Ireland Parades Commission
• The Most Rev. and Rt Hon. David Hope - Lord Archbishop of York
• Lady Sylvia Jay - Director-General, Food and Drink Federation
• Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson - pilot, Second World War flying ace
• John Monks - former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
• Dame Helen Reeves - Chief Executive of Victim Support
• John Sawers - diplomat
• Sir Richard Tilt - Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service
• Sir Mike Tomlinson - Chief Inspector of Schools

Sport

• Kristan Bromley - Bob Skeleton World Cup winner 2003/2004
• Sir Denis Follows - General Secretary, Football Association and Chairman, British Olympic Association
• Brian Moore - England rugby player
• Lynn Simpson - Former world champion canoeist
• Deng Yaping - four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century

Staff Alumni

• Sir John Ambrose Fleming - Pioneer of Electronics
• Hugh Gaitskell - Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition 1955-63
• Luce Irigaray
• Sir Peter Mansfield - Nobel Laureate
• Tom Paulin - poet and literary critic
• Vivian de Sola Pinto - poet and literary critic
• Professor Xu Zhihong - President Peking University

Writers

• Meena Alexander - writer and poet
• Peter Boardman - author of The Shining Mountain, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature
• Michael Bracewell - novelist
• Idris Davies - poet
• Jill Dawson - novelist
• John Harvey - crime writer
• Bert Keizer - Dutch author of Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
• D. H. Lawrence - novelist
• Stanley Middleton - novelist, winner of the Booker Prize
• Blake Morrison - novelist, poet, critic and journalist
• Michael Scammell - biographer, translator, Professor of Writing at Columbia University