热门学者
Notable academics：
Khurshid Ahmad, Islamic scholar
Lyman Andrews, American Studies
Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women's writing
Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, scholar of University of Cambridge
Richard Bonney, historian
Alan Bryman, social scientist
Nilesh Samani, medical specialist
Chris Clarkson, prominent criminal lawyer, specialising in Corporate Liability
Philip Cottrell, economic and financial historian
Heather Couper, astronomer and television presenter
Nicholas J. Cull, US historian
Gabriel Dover, geneticist
Eric Dunning, sports sociologist
Christopher Dyer, medieval historian
Colin Eaborn FRS, chemist
Norbert Elias, German sociologist
Brian J. Ford, scientist, visiting professor
G. S. Fraser, Scottish poet
Anthony Giddens, prominent sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester
Reuben Goodstein, mathematician, proponent of Goodstein's theorem
Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition law specialist, Member of the Competition Commission
Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist
Richard Hoggart, sociologist
W. G. Hoskins, local historian, author of The Making of the English Landscape
Norman Housley, crusading historian
Leonard Huxley, physicist
Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist, inventor of genetic fingerprinting
Hans Kornberg, biochemist
Philip Larkin, librarian and poet
David Mattingly, Roman archaeologist
John McManners, former Head of History Dept., Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford
Ken Pounds, Emeritus Professor of Physics, discovered black holes were common in the universe Charles Rees, organic chemist
Lord Rees of Ludlow, the Astronomer Royal, visiting professor at Leicester
J.B. Schneewind, philosophy professor, Johns Hopkins University
Malcolm Shaw QC, prominent international lawyer & jurist
Sir Robert Jennings, professor of International Law
Brian Simon, professor of education
Sami Zubaida, political scientist
