List of Birmingham City University people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff of Birmingham City University, in Birmingham, England, and its predecessor institutions:

• Anstey College of Physical Education
• Birmingham and Solihull College of Nursing and Midwifery
• Birmingham College of Commerce
• Birmingham School of Acting
• Birmingham School of Art
• Birmingham School of Jewellery
• Birmingham School of Music (now Birmingham Conservatoire)
• Bordesley College of Education
• Bournville College of Art (now the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts)
• City of Birmingham College of Education
• Defence School of Health Care Studies
• North Birmingham Technical College
• South Birmingham Technical College
• West Midlands School of Radiography

Staff

• Mark Addis
• Chris Baines — environmentalist
• Charles Bateman — architect
• William Bidlake
• William Bloye
• Jonathan Bowen — computer scientist
• Paul Bradshaw — journalist^[1]
• John Bridgeman — sculptor
• Paul Clarkson
• Benjamin Creswick
• Trevor Denning
• Elizabeth Fradd
• Arthur Gaskin
• Bruce George
• Charles March Gere
• Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott
• Albert Herbert
• Islam Issa
• Zhiming Liu — computer scientist
• Sylvani Merilion
• Sidney Meteyard
• Nicola Monaghan
• David Prentice
• Roy Priest — musician (formerly of Sweet Jesus)
• Marius Romme
• Jeffrey Skidmore
• Edward R. Taylor
• Philip Tew
• George Wallis
• David Wilson — criminologist
• Simon M. Woods

Alumni

Armed forces

• Harry Price — Royal Navy seaman

Art and design

• Samira Abbassy^[2]
• Martin Aitchison
• Maxwell Armfield
• Grace Barnsley
• Alfred Bestall
• Stephen Biesty
• Richard Billingham^[3] — photographer
• William Bloye
• Emmy Bridgwater
• Gerald Brockhurst
• Herbert Tudor Buckland
• Kate Bunce
• Edward Burne-Jones
• Joseph Finnemore
• Arthur Gaskin (also staff)
• Georgie Gaskin
• Frederick Gibberd
• Bunny Guinness
• Edwin Harris
• William Alexander Harvey
• William Haywood — architect
• Gordon Herickx
• Roger Hiorns^[4] — artist
• Robert van 't Hoff
• Alex Hughes — Tribune cartoonist^[5]
• Betty Jackson — fashion designer
• Robert Furneaux Jordan
• David McFall
• Danie Mellor
• Oscar Mellor
• Sidney Meteyard (also staff)
• H. R. Millar
• William Jabez Muckley
• Edmund Hort New
• Dorrie Nossiter
• Hugh O'Donnell — artist
• Henry Payne — artist
• Peter Phillips — artist
• George Phoenix
• John Poole — sculptor
• Donald Rodney^[6] — artist
• Henry Rushbury
• John Salt
• Percy Shakespeare
• John Shelley^[7] — illustrator
• Bernard Sleigh
• Joseph Southall
• Marty St. James^[8] — video artist
• David Tremlett
• Ian Walters
• Harry Weedon
• Robert Welch — designer
• Phil Winslade
• Graham Winteringham
• A. H. Woodfull
• John Skirrow Wright
• Tang Da Wu

Media

• Smitthi Bhiraleus
• Marverine Cole — broadcast journalist
• Kirsten O'Brien — children's television presenter
• Fiona Phillips — TV presenter
• Mary Rhodes — sports TV presenter
• Bob Rickard
• Charlie Stayt — BBC newsreader
• Margherita Taylor — radio and TV presenter

Medicine and science

• Bethann Siviter — nurse-author
• Kevin Warwick — scientist

Performing arts

• Carole Boyd
• James Bradshaw — actor (of the Birmingham School of Acting)
• Fecko — hip hop artist
• Anna Brewster
• Nicola Coughlan — actress
• Krzysztof Czerwiński
• Nick Duffy — musician
• Stephen Duffy — singer-songwriter
• Jeremy Filsell
• Nicholas Gledhill
• Ainsley Howard^[9]
• Barbara Keogh
• Tom Lister
• Luke Mably
• Jimi Mistry — actor (of the Birmingham School of Acting)
• Horace Panter
• Rhydian Roberts — singer and The X Factor contestant^[10]
• Jack Rubinacci
• Jinny Sandhú — professional wrestler
• Frank Skinner — comedian^[11]
• John Taylor — bass guitarist, founder of Duran Duran
• Catherine Tyldesley
• William Villiers, 10th Earl of Jersey
• Nicol Williamson — actor (of the Birmingham School of Acting)
• Marjorie Yates^[12] — actress

Politics

• Mike Amesbury — Labour MP
• Paul Goggins
• David Hallam MEP
• Lynne Jones — politician, former MP for Selly Oak
• Khalid Mahmood — politician, MP for Perry Barr
• Gloria De Piero

Writing

• Jim Crace — novelist^[13]
• Charles Wood — playwright

Honours award holders

• Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale
• Laurie Baker
• Stephen Bright
• Andy Hamilton — saxophonist
• Karl Johnson
• Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
• David Nicholson — civil servant
• T. R. Pachamuthu
• Jenny Uglow
• Gillian Weir
• Benjamin Zephaniah