List of University of Manchester people

This is a list of University of Manchester people.

Many famous or notable people have worked or studied at the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology institutions, which combined in 2004 to form the University of Manchester.

The following list includes the names of all 25 Nobel Prize laureates among them (in bold print).

The University of Manchester currently has 28 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

[15] Present and historical University of Manchester people notable for their contributions to medicine and physiology include: Victoria University of Manchester

Francis Thompson , poet
John Dalton , founder of modern chemistry and atomic theory
Statue of Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park , commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney E. Frank [ 11 ]
Osborne Reynolds
Paul Erdős
Sir Horace Lamb
Niels Bohr
Andre Geim , awarded 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering work on graphene
Sir Bernard Lovell , radio-astronomer
Bibha Chowdhuri Ph.D. cosmic rays 1949
Ernest Rutherford , "the Father of Nuclear Physics" discovered the structure of the atom at the University of Manchester
William Stanley Jevons , father of neoclassical economics
The Rt Hon Margaret Beckett , former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Ian Livingston, Baron Livingston of Parkhead , former Group CEO of BT