presenters Jenni Falconer and Georgie Thompson, BBC Medical editor Fergus Walsh, BBC News royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell and former BBC executive Alan Yentob.
Former students in the field of science and technology include NASA astronaut Piers Sellers, Nobel Prize winner and president of the Royal Society George Porter, researcher into breast cancer and the development of cancer drug Tamoxifen V. Craig Jordan, Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold, Col Needham founder of IMDB and materials scientist Stephen Eichhorn.
Former students in sport include triathletes Alistair Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee, ocean rower and former UK MP Dan Byles, Paratriathlete Claire Cashmore, Alpine climber Kenton Cool, as well as England rugby union players Tom Palmer and Alex Lozowski.
Former students in medicine and health sciences include Harold Shipman.
Former students in religion include Christina Beardsley.
=== Nobel Prize winners ===
A number of Nobel laureates have worked or studied at the university.
Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, KBE, PRS (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915), for his services (with his son William Lawrence Bragg) in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
George Porter, OM, FRS (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967) – University of Leeds graduate – for studies of extremely fast chemical reactions (flash photolysis).
Wole Soyinka (awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986) – University of Leeds graduate – the Nigerian writer was awarded for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Archer John Porter Martin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952), was an English chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.
Richard Laurence Millington Synge (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952), was a British biochemist, and shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. It was during his time in Leeds that he worked with Archer Martin, developing …
