– scored the first goal for the Nottingham Reds, the UK's oldest football league team. Lynn Simpson – former World Individual and World Series Canoe Slalom Champion Matt Smith – Leicester Tigers rugby player Etienne Stott – London 2012 Canoe Slalom (C2) Olympic gold medallist Campbell Walsh – Athens 2004 Canoe Slalom (K1) Olympic silver medallist; Canoe Slalom World Cup Champion 2004 Keith Wyness – former Chief Executive, Everton FC Deng Yaping – four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century Michael Gill – professional cyclist riding for UCI Continental team Saint Piran Writers and literature Meena Alexander – writer and poet Christopher Bigsby – novelist and literary critic Peter Boardman – mountaineer and writer Michael Bracewell – novelist Idris Davies – poet Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal – novelist Jonathan Emmett – children's author John Harvey – crime writer Michael Hirst – screenwriter, Elizabeth Alan Jones – author and Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Bert Keizer – author of Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death D.H. Lawrence – novelist Stanley Middleton – novelist, winner of the Booker Prize Blake Morrison – novelist, poet, critic and journalist Michael Scammell – biographer, translator, Professor of Writing at Columbia University Rajesh Talwar - Indian writer Notable academics Gwen Alston - aerodynamicist and educationalist Viacheslav Belavkin – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability Wilfrid Butt – biochemist and endocrinologist Kenneth Cameron - toponymist of English place-names George Carey – Archbishop of Canterbury George Checkley – modernist architect Bryan Campbell Clarke – pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails Stephen Daniels – cultural geographer Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone - first Lady Trent professor of chemical engineering Esther Eidinow – ancient historian Ivan Fesenko – mathematician Sir John Ambrose Fleming – pioneer of electronics Hugh Gaitskell – Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition 1955-1963 Andre Geim – Nobel Prize–winning physicist Clive Granger – Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist David Greenaway – economist and Vice Chancellor (2008–) Don Grierson – geneticist George Garfield Hall – mathematician F. B. Hinsley - founder of the School of Mining Engineering Susan Howson – first female winner of the Adams Prize (for mathematics) Robin Lyth Hudson – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability Luce Irigaray Sir Ian Kershaw – historian, one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich Graham Kendall - Professor of Computer