Joyce Sparer Adler, American critic, playwright, and teacher, as well as a founding faculty of the university in 1963 Derek Bickerton, former lecturer, now Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at University of Hawai'i, Honolulu Horace B. Davis, United States Marxian economist Michael Gilkes, Guyanese writer and academic Stanley Greaves, Guyanese painter, former head of Creative Arts at the university Richard Hart, Jamaican lawyer and politician Lancelot Hogben, English zoologist and geneticist Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson, Guyanese writer and professor at the university (1966–68) Ali Mazrui, African and Islamic studies academic Clem Seecharan, Guyanese writer Bertrand Ramcharan, former Chancellor of the university Shridath Ramphal, former Guyanese foreign minister (1972–75) and the second Commonwealth Secretary General (1975–90) Walter Rodney, Pan-African writer and political theorist Rupert Roopnaraine, Guyanese writer, politician and academic Clive Y. Thomas, retired Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Development Studies