and scriptwriter (attended Bretton Hall, 1983) Hannah New, English model and actress Kate Phillips, English actress Ronald Pickup, English actor (English 1962) Chris Pine, American Hollywood actor, studied as a year abroad student during his junior year (English) Laura Rollins, English actress, studied English and Theatre Siddhanth, Indian Kannada actor, (studied M.H.A.) Literary Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher (English and French, 1979) Nick Brownlee, crime thriller writer Jonathan Clements, writer (Japanese, 1994) Tony Harrison, poet (Classics with Linguistics, 1958) Storm Jameson, writer (English, 1912; MA 1914) Pamela Kola, Kenyan children's author Lucy Diamond, pen name of Sue Mongredien, children's author (English 1993) Arthur Ransome, writer, studied science for two terms in 1901 Herbert Read, poet and literary critic (English) Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 (English, 1957) Greg Stekelman, writer and illustrator, author of A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep (English and Spanish, 1998) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author (English student, 1960s) Other Paul Crowther, philosopher, university lecturer and author Jeremy Dyson, screenwriter and member of The League of Gentlemen (Philosophy, 1989) Jacky Fleming, award-winning cartoonist Barry John, theatre director and teacher Malcolm Neesam, historian of Harrogate, North Yorkshire Esther Simpson, organiser of academic equivalent of the kindertransport, saving refugee scholars from Nazis, campus building named after her in 2022. Science and technology Niaz Ahmad Akhtar, Vice Chancellor of the University of the Punjab Lilias Armstrong, phonetician (B.A., 1906) Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist (Botany, 1973) Robert Blackburn, aviation pioneer and founder of Blackburn Aircraft (Engineering, 1906) Dave Cliff, Professor of Computer Science, University of Bristol (Computational Science, 1987) Emily Cummins, Technology Woman of the Future 2006, British Female Innovator Of the Year 2007 Val Curtis, professor in public health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Rubina Gillani, Pakistani medical doctor and public health specialist Edmund Happold, founder of Buro Happold and the Construction Industry Council (Civil Engineering, 1957) Sir Percival Hartley (1905) Director of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research D. G. Hessayon, gardening author (Botany, 1950) V. Craig Jordan, responsible for pioneering research into breast cancer and the development of the cancer drug tamoxifen (BSc and Ph.D. in pharmacology, 1969 and 1972) Esther Killick, physiologist (MB ChB 1929, MSc 1937, DSc 1952) Michael Lawrie, computer security and social networking expert (Computational Science, 1989) Michael Martin, bridge engineer (Civil Engineering, 1975) Sir Timothy O'Shea, computer