Blue Plaque: University of Birmingham Blue Plaque Scheme

The University of Birmingham has been a home to pioneers who have effected change in the world in which we live. From the sciences to the arts, their groundbreaking achievements have been recognised and honoured at national and international level,  including the Nobel Prize. 

The University’s Blue Plaque Trail celebrates those who have helped  shape its heritage as a research university and showcases the University’s broad cultural offer and range of unique museum artefacts and archives. 

The scope and scale of individual and collective achievements at the University of Birmingham are remarkable, and the blue plaques around its campus serve as reminders of the immense accomplishments of men and women who have worked here in the past. 

UoB has awarded Blue Plaques to:

• Dame Hilda Lloyd
• Leon Abrams and Ray Lightwood
• Sir Norman Haworth
• Sir Peter Medawar 
• Charles Lapworth
• Frederick Shotton 
• Sir Edward Elgar
• Sir Granville Bantock 
• Otto Robert Frisch and Sir Rudolf E Peierls 
• John Randall and Harry Boot 
• Sir Mark Oliphant 
• John Henry Poynting 
• Margery Fry 
• Sir William Ashley
• George Neville Watson 
• Louis MacNeice 
• Sir Nikolaus Pevsner 
• David Lodge 
• Francois Lafitte  
• The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 
• John Sutton Nettlefold 
• John Sinclair 
• Marie Corelli