University of Birmingham

and Primate of the Anglican Church in South East Asia Bolly Lapok; Anglican Bishops Paul Bayes, Alan Smith, Stephen Venner, Michael Langrish, and Eber Priestley; Anglican Suffragan Bishops Brian Castle and Colin Docker; Catholic Archbishop Kevin McDonald; and Catholic bishop Philip Egan.
Alumni in the field of healthcare include: chair of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence David Haslam; the first woman to be elected as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Dame Hilda Lloyd; Chief Scientific Officer in the NHS Sue Hill; Chief Dental Officer for England Barry Cockcroft; and Chief Medical Officer for England Sir Liam Donaldson.
Alumni in the creative industries include: actors Madeleine Carroll, Tim Curry, Tamsin Greig, Geoffrey Hutchings, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Norman Painting; actors and comedians Victoria Wood and Chris Addison; dancer/choreographer and co-creator of 'Riverdance' Jean Butler, musicians Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, and founder of the Vagina Museum Florence Schechter.
Alumni in academia include: University Vice-Chancellors Frank Horton, Sir Louis Matheson, Sir Alex Jarratt, Sir Philip Baxter, Berrick Saul, and Wahid Omar; neurobiologist Sir Gabriel Horn, physicians Sir Alexander Markham, Sir Gilbert Barling, and Sir Arthur Thomson; physicists John Stewart Bell, Sir Alan Cottrell, Lord Flowers, Harry Boot, Elliott H. Lieb (recipient of the 2003 Henri Poincaré Prize), Edwin Ernest Salpeter (recipient of the 1997 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy), Sir Ernest William Titterton, and Raymond Wilson (recipient of the 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics); statistician Peter McCullagh; chemist Sir Robert Howson Pickard; biologists Sir Kenneth Murray and Lady Noreen Murray; zoologists Desmond Morris and Karl Shuker; behavioural neuroscientist Barry Everitt; palaeontologist Harry B. Whittington; literary critich Lorna Sage; philosopher John Lewis; theologian and biochemist Arthur Peacocke; labour economist David Blanchflower; ninth President …