Academics , philosopher •
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE English lecturer •
Andrew R Barron, Ser Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment; director and founder of ESRI •
Amy Brown, professor of child health • Dame
June Clark, professor of nursing •
Siwan Davies, professor of climate science •
Leighton Evans, professor of media theory •
Ralph A. Griffiths, emeritus professor of medieval history •
C. E. M. Hansel, emeritus professor of
experimental psychology •
A. E. Heath, professor of philosophy •
Julian Hopkin CBE, founder of medical school; awarded CBE in 2011 for service to medicine •
Christine James, professor of Welsh •
Gareth Jenkins, director of research of the medical school; a "Research Leader" for
Health and Care Research Wales •
Matt Jones, human–computer interaction. •
Hilary Lappin-Scott, chair in microbiology and pro-vice chancellor for strategic development and external relations •
Jon Latimer, historian •
Keith Lloyd, dean and head of medical school; chair of Welsh Psychiatric Society •
Ronan Lyons, clinical professor of public health; director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research; director of the Farr Institute Centre for the Improvement of Population Health •
Robin Milner, computer scientist • pioneer in medieval literature
Florence Annie Mockeridge, botanist, dean of science 1933–35 •
Tavi Murray, glacioloigist •
Yamni Nigam, entomologist and professor for anatomy & physiology •
James G. Oldroyd, mathematician and noted rheologist •
David Olive, physicist •
Gyan Pande, emeritus professor •
Clive Ponting, reader in international relations •
Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, prominent Wittgenstinian philosopher of religion •
Valerie Randle, professor in metallurgy •
Rush Rhees, philosopher •
Penny Sartori, British Medical/Nursing Researcher on Near-death studies •
Martin Sheldon, Professor of Reproductive Immunobiology; Editor of
American Journal of Reproductive Immunology; Fellow of the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons •
Andrew Tettenborn, professor of law •
John Williams CBE, led establishment of Postgraduate Medical School; founding president of Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy •
Mary Williams, Chair of Modern Languages •
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher; spent six months in 1941 writing and teaching at Swansea University •
Olgierd Zienkiewicz, pioneer of computational methods for engineering
Alumni Academia •
Peter Cottrell, novelist and historian •
Tom Crick, Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the
University of Bristol and
Chief Ccientific Adviser to the UK Government's
Department for Culture, Media and Sport •
Paul Dolan, behavioural scientist •
Geraint Jones (educator), Professor in Education, Founder & CEO of National Institute of Teaching & Education (NITE) •
Paul Moorcraft, Professor in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at
Cardiff University •
D.Z. Phillips, philosopher •
Maggie Telfer, health activist •
Kenneth Tew, pharmacologist, academic and author •
Geoffrey Thomas, President of
Kellogg College, Oxford • Dame
Jean Thomas, first female Master at
St Catharine's College, Cambridge •
Colin H. Williams, sociolinguist • Sir
Glanmor Williams, religious historian
Arts , presenter •
Annabelle Apsion, television and film actress •
Richey Edwards, member of rock group
Manic Street Preachers •
Stuart Forster, travel journalist and photographer •
John Greening, poet, editor and critic •
Jonathan Hill, presenter of
Wales Tonight on
ITV Wales •
Jason Mohammad, television/radio presenter for BBC Wales •
Mavis Nicholson, writer and television broadcaster •
Jonny Owen, Welsh actor,
Shameless and
Svengali Internet series •
Charlie Williams, author of
The Mangel Trilogy •
Urien Wiliam, Welsh language novelist and playwright •
Nicky Wire, member of rock group Manic Street Preachers •
Ralph Leonard Internationalist British Nigerian journalist, film critic, author and commentator
Business •
Ron Jones, Director of
Tinopolis •
Paul Pindar, Chief Executive of
Capita •
Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons who serves as its chairman emeritus.
Law •
Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ghana •
Olga Sánchez Cordero, former Justice of the Mexican
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and former
Secretary of the Interior of Mexico
Politics Welsh Parliament (Senedd) •
Peter Black, MS for South Wales West •
Andrew Davies, former MS for Swansea West; former minister for finance and public service delivery,
Welsh Government •
Mike Hedges, MS for Swansea East •
Val Lloyd, former MS for Swansea East
Houses of Parliament •
Lord Anderson of Swansea, former MP •
Mims Davies, MP for Eastleigh and Wales Office Minister •
Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport and
Minister for Care •
Nigel Evans, MP for Ribble Valley •
Hywel Francis, former MP for Aberavon •
Sylvia Heal, former MP and former
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons •
Sian James, former MP for Swansea East •
Anne Main, former MP for St Albans •
Rod Richards, former MP for North West Clwyd; former AM for North Wales •
John Sewel, Baron Sewel, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords •
Mark Tami, MP for Alyn and Deeside
International •
Shekhar Dutt, former governor of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh •
Stanislaus A. James, Governor-general of Saint Lucia, 1988–1996 •
Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice President of
The Gambia •
Wictor Sajeni, Deputy Minister of Primary Education in the
Malawian government •
Dhirendra Nath Buragohain, founder director of
IIT Guwahati Science, engineering and technology , Welsh physicist • Sir
Jonathan Asbridge, former president of the
Nursing and Midwifery Council •
Anne Borsay Chair in Medical Humanities •
Edward George Bowen CBE FRS, radiophysicist •
Alan Cox (shared with
University of Wales, Aberystwyth),
Linux pioneer •
Beris Cox,
biostratigrapher and
palaeontologist. •
Jonathan Elphick, ornithologist and zoologist •
Lyn Evans, CBE, Project Leader,
Large Hadron Collider, CERN •
Andy Hopper CBE FRS, co-founder of
Acorn Computers Ltd •
Lionel Kelleway, natural history broadcaster • Sir
Terry Matthews KBE, technological entrepreneur •
Colin Pillinger CBE, planetary scientist •
Graham Ryder, geologist, lunar scientist, posthumous winner of the
Barringer Medal in 2003 • Sir
John Meurig Thomas, chemist •
Evan James Williams, physicist
Sports , Welsh rugby union international •
Guillem Bauzà, football player for
Swansea City •
Daniel Caines, athlete •
Jazmin Carlin, British Olympic swimmer •
Mike Hooper, former Liverpool goalkeeper •
Rob Howley,
Wales and
British Lions rugby union international •
Liz Johnson, gold medal winner at Beijing Paralympics in swimming •
Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby union international •
Simon Jones, Glamorgan and England cricketer •
John McFall, Paralympic sprinter •
Fen Paw – Wales international rugby union player. Played in
Wales' first women's international match in 1987 whilst at the university. •
Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union international •
Rhys Priestland, Welsh rugby union international •
James Roberts, Paralympic rower and sitting volleyball •
David Smith, boccia •
Chris White, English international rugby referee •
Marcus Wyatt,
World Cup skeleton racer ==See also==