This is a list of University of Southampton people, including famous officers, staff (past and present) and student alumni from the University of Southampton or historical institutions from which the current university derives.

Officers

Chancellors

Hartley Institution and Hartley College

Chancellors were known as principals before the formation of University College

University College

Chancellors were known as presidents before the formation of university

University

Vice-chancellors

University College

Vice-chancellors were known as principals before the formation of University

University

Other

Selected past and current pro-chancellors

Staff

Current and former notable members of academic staff by subject field:

Arts

• José Antonio Bowen, jazz musician and President of Goucher College • Pam Cook, author on cinema history • William Crozier, contemporary still-life and landscape artist • Michael Finnissy, composer, pianist and former president of the International Society of Contemporary Music • Michael Zev Gordon, composer • Heinz Henghes, modernist sculptor • Aamer Hussein, short story writer and literary critic • Mark Kermode, film critic • Nell Leyshon, dramatist and novelist • Richard Marlow, conductor and former Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge • Ray Monk, biographer and philosophy author • Frank Prince, poet known for the 1942 poem "Soldiers Bathing" • Ken Russell, director of Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969) and The Who's Tommy (1975)

Sciences

Chemistry

• Maurice Brookhart, member of National Academy of Sciences • Ian Croudace, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Radioactivity and Environmental Geochemistry. • Alan Carrington CBE, winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal, Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences • Martin Fleischmann, electrochemist famous for the claimed discovery of cold fusion; past President of the International Society of Electrochemistry • David James, Bishop of Bradford • Stanley Pons, electrochemist famous for the claimed discovery of cold fusion

Electronics and computer science

• Bashir Al-Hashimi, co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre, and current dean • Sir Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor • Michael Butler, expert in formal methods for software engineering • Christopher Gutteridge, Open Data innovator • Dame Wendy Hall, President of the British Computer Society; co-founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative • Stevan Harnad Cognitive scientist and external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences • Tony Hey CBE, Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft UK • Nick Jennings, Regius Professor of Computer Science • Kirk Martinez, computer scientist; digital imaging and wireless sensor network pioneer • Luc Moreau, expert in digital provenance • Kieron O'Hara, philosopher, computer scientist and political writer • David Payne CBE, member of the team that invented the erbium-doped fibre amplifier EDFA used in fiber optic cables • Philip Russell, Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group • Sir Nigel Shadbolt, computer scientist; co-founder and Director of the Web Science Research Initiative • Erich Zepler, pioneering contributor to radio receiver development

Mathematics

• Brian Bowditch, Geometric group theorist and topologist and winner of the LMS Whitehead Prize • Ian Diamond, noted statistician, head of the Office for National Statistics and appointed UK National Statistician in 2019. • Martin Dunwoody, made major contributions in combinatorial and geometric group theory especially in the field of group splittings • Roy C. Geary, founder of the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute • David Guest, Communist British mathematician and philosopher; volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War; was killed in Spain in 1938 • Hans Hamburger, formulated the Hamburger moment problem • Daniel Pedoe, author of several influential books on geometry

Ocean and earth science

Physics and astronomy

Engineering

Medicine

• Sir Donald Acheson, former Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom • Michael Arthur, Provost and President of University College London; former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds • David Barlow, Honorary Research Fellow in Neurophysiology and Emmy Award-winning film-maker • Terry Hamblin, haematology and immunology expert • Gerald Kerkut, zoologist and physiologist • Robert Read, professor of infectious diseases • Sir Eric Thomas, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol; chair of the Worldwide Universities Network

Nursing and midwifery

Social sciences

• Sir Alan Budd, economist, founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee • Nitin Desai, economist and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs • Sir Ian Diamond, UK National Statistician, formerly Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and Chief Executive of Economic and Social Research Council • Clive Gamble, archaeologist and anthropologist specialising in human origins, and a trustee of the British Museum • Paul Geroski, economist and former member of Monopolies and Mergers Commission • Jan Haaland, Rector of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration • Tim Holt, former President of the Royal Statistical Society and Office for National Statistics • Christopher Janaway, philosopher specialising in the work of Nietzsche; publishing through OUP Oxford, his most recent work is Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy • Maurice Kugler, Colombian economist; CIGI Chair in International Public Policy;Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government • Harold Lawton, former Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Sheffield; thought to have been the last surviving Allied soldier captured on the Western Front • Jakob Broechner Madsen, economist, professor, former financial analyst, deputy chief economist at the Bank of Jutland • David Pearce, pioneer of environmental economics; chief environmental adviser to the UK Secretaries of State, 1989-1992; a convening lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate in Economics • Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, archaeologist • Howard Root, Professor of Theology • Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield, Labour peer; Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London • Steve Smith, Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter; Chair of the Board of the 1994 Group • T. M. Fred Smith, former President of the Royal Statistical Society • Donald Tyerman, former editor of The Economist • Peter Ucko, founder of the World Archaeological Congress • Paul Webley, Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London • Richard Werner, Professor of Finance, known for his theory of quantitative easing

Geography

History

• David Cesarani, historian specialising in Jewish history • Sir Barry Cunliffe, former President of Council for British Archaeology (1976–79); interim chair of English Heritage • Anne Curry, historian, Dean of Faculty of Humanities • Miriam Daly, Irish republican activist and historian • David Quinn, historian who specialised in the discovery and colonisation of America • Robert Young, post-colonial theorist and historian

Law

Students

Former notable students at Southampton include:

Academia

Arts

Business

Politics and public life

Media

Military

Religion

Sport

Other

Fictional characters