University of Leeds
- United Kingdom
- Founded 1904
Overview
The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science.
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Key facts
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Scholarships for international students
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People who studied here
- Keir Starmer (opens in a new tab)Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026
- Chris Pine (opens in a new tab)American actor (born 1980)
- Wole Soyinka (opens in a new tab)Nigerian writer and playwright (born 1934)
- William Lawrence Bragg (opens in a new tab)Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (opens in a new tab)Kenyan writer (1938–2025)
- Stephen Jay Gould (opens in a new tab)American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
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