A list of people related to the University of Nottingham or to its predecessor, University College, Nottingham. Office holders Chancellors John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent (1949 - 1954) William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1954 - 1971) Sir Francis Hill (1971 - 1978) Sir Gordon Hobday (1978 - 1993) Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing (1993 - 2000) Fujia Yang (2000 - 2012) Sir Andrew Witty (2013–2017) Baroness Young of Hornsey (2020–present) Vice-Chancellors Bertrand Hallward (1948 - 1965) Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton (1965 - 1970) John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1971 - 1975) Basil Weedon (1976 - 1988) Sir Colin Campbell (1988 - 2008) Sir David Greenaway (2008 - September 2017) Shearer West (October 2017 – present) Notable alumni Academia Bob Boucher – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield Arthur Carty – National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada Sir Bernard Crossland – President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Paul Dibb - Australian defence intelligence official and Head of the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Louis Essen – physicist Charles Bungay Fawcett - geographer Pamela Gillies - Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University Sir Clive Granger – 2003 Nobel Laureate, Economics Gerald Hawkins – Professor of Astronomy, noted for his interest in Stonehenge Harriet Hawkins - Professor of Human Geography, noted in the field of geohumanities Nigel Healey - Vice-Chancellor of Fiji National University Sir Brian Heap – Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and former Vice-President of the Royal Society Reginald Hugh Hickling – lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author John Pilkington Hudson – the university's first Professor of Horticulture Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham – chemist Scot McKnight – Professor of Religious Studies at North Park University, recognised for his scholarship on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus Victor Mundella — Physicist; Professor of Physics, Northern Polytechnic Institute; Principal of Sunderland Technical College Sir Keith O'Nions – geologist, Director-General UK Research Councils Brian Norton – solar energy technologist, President, Dublin Institute of Technology Austin Quigley – Dean, Columbia College Nigel Shadbolt -Principal of Jesus College, Oxford and Chairman of the Open Data Institute Roger Tomlinson – "father of GIS" Carl Trueman – author, Presbyterian theologian, and Professor of Historical Theology and Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary. Graham Twelftree – Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Regent University School of Divinity, renowned for his contribution to the Third Quest for the Historical Jesus and