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


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- 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[1]
 - 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[2]
 - Rob Beckley, Assistant Commissioner in London Metropolitan Police[3]
 - Henry Bell, cricketer and clergyman[4]
 - Edward Bickersteth, clergyman[5]
 - Crispin Blunt
 - John Henry Blunt
 - Edward Bradley, clergyman and author known for The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
 - Richard Brand, Archdeacon of Winchester[6]
 - David Breeze, archaeologist
 - Eric Brereton, Dean of Glasgow and Galloway (1959–1962)
 - Peter Bridgewater, Australian conservationist[7]
 - 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[8]
 - Nicholas Chorley, 3rd Baron Chorley, British peer
 - Cyrus Chothia (BSc, 1965), biochemist[9]
 - Frank Colquhoun, Church of England priest and author[10]
 - Rosemary Coogan, astronaut
 - Harry Cook, martial artist[11]
 - Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy at Central European University[12]
 - 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[13]
 - 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[14]
 - 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[15]
 - Christopher Kitching, archivist[16]
 - 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[17]
 - Robin Pedley, educationist[18]
 - Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, clergyman and arachnologist
 - Maurice Berkeley Portman
 - Arthur Prowse, physicist and academic administrator; founding Master of Van Mildert College[19]
 - James Raine, antiquarian and Chancellor of York Minster[20]
 - 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[21]
 - David Sadler, Professor of Human Geography
 - Brian Scarlett, particle technologist[22]
 - Caleb Scharf, physicist[23]
 - Robert Senior, advertising executive
 - John Sewel, Baron Sewel, member of the House of Lords[24]
 - Graeme Shimmin, science fiction novelist
 - Edward Shortt, lawyer and politician; Home Secretary (1919–1922)[25]
 - Gareth Sibson, writer and broadcaster
 - Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Kensington (1932–1942)[26]
 - Sir John Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician[27]
 - Ian Smail, physicist[28]
 - 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[29]
 - Thomas Charles Thompson, Liberal Party politician[30]
 - 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)[31]
 - Lily van den Broecke, British Paralympic rower[32]
 - 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[33]
 - Henry Villiers-Stuart, Egyptologist and Liberal Party politician[34]
 - Terence Wade, Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde (1987–1995)[35]
 - Stephen Warner, evangelical preacher
 - Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK (2016–2021)[36]
 - Peter Watson, journalist and author[37]
 - L. P. Wenham, archaeologist
 - James Wharton, Baron Wharton of Yarm, Conservative Party politician[38]
 - Thomas Wilkinson, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (1889–1909)
 - Jonathan Wilks, diplomat[39]
 - 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
 
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