This is a list of people associated with University College London, including notable staff and alumni associated with the institution.

Founders and supporters

Founders

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named (in Latin) on the Foundation Stone. *

James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline FRSE (7 November 177617 April 1858), was a British barrister and Whig politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1835 and 1839. Background and education Abercromby was the third ...

(1776–1858), Scottish peer and British statesman *

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, (27 January 1773 – 21 April 1843) was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III and his queen consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the only surviving son of George III who did not ...

(1773–1843), Grand Master of English Freemasons (the

United Grand Lodge of England The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the governing Masonic lodge for the majority of freemasons in England, Wales and the Commonwealth of Nations. Claiming descent from the Masonic grand lodge formed 24 June 1717 at the Goose & Gridiron T ...

), 1813–1843, supporter of UCL; he laid the foundation stone of the new university on 30 April 1827 *

Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 177412 May 1848), of The Grange in Hampshire, of Ashburton in Devon and of Buckenham Tofts near Thetford in Norfolk, was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring famil ...

(1774–1848), British politician and financier *

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(1748–1832), English philosopher; a leading advocate for the foundation of UCL *

George Birkbeck George Birkbeck Royal Society of London, FRS (; 10 January 1776 – 1 December 1841) was a British physician, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Strathclyde, Andersonia ...

(1776–1841), British Quaker, doctor, academic, philanthropist, and early *pioneer in adult education; founder of

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. *

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, (; 19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. ...

(1778–1868), Scottish-born British statesman and slavery abolitionist, leading advocate in Parliament for the foundation of UCL *

Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Thomas Campbell (poet) (1777–1844), Scottish poet * Thomas Campbell (sculptor) (1790–1858), Scottish sculptor * Thomas Campbell (visual artist) (born 1969), California-based visual artist ...

(1777–1844), Scottish poet, founding father of UCL * Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853), Baptist Minister, active supporter of the foundation of UCL *

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English Whig politician and colonial administrator. He was thrice First Lord of the Admiralty and also served as Governor-General of India between 1836 and 1842 ...

, British statesman * Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor *

Olinthus Gregory Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 17742 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author, and editor. Biography He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire, the son of Robert, a shoemaker, and Ann, who also had three you ...

(1774–1841), English mathematician, author and editor *

George Grote George Grote (; 17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous ''History of Greece''. Early life George Grote was born at Clay Hill near Be ...

(1794–1871), English classical historian *

Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, (12 August 179118 February 1856), styled Earl of Surrey between 1815 and 1842, was a British Whig politician and peer. Background Norfolk was the son of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, ...

(1791–1856), Catholic peer, and advocate for the foundation of UCL *

Joseph Hume Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish surgeon and Radical MP.Ronald K. Huch, Paul R. Ziegler 1985 Joseph Hume, the People's M.P.: DIANE Publishing. Early life He was born the son of a shipmaster James Hume ...

(1777–1855), Scottish doctor and politician *

Zachary Macaulay Zachary Macaulay ( gd, Sgàire MacAmhlaoibh; 2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a Scottish statistician and abolitionist who was a founder of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and a Governor of British Sierra Leone. ...

(1768–1838), Scottish-born slavery abolitionist, Governor of

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

, and active supporter of the foundation of UCL * Sir

James Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE (24 October 1765 – 30 May 1832) was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a jour ...

(1765–1832), Scottish jurist, politician and historian *

James Mill James Mill (born James Milne; 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote ''The History of British ...

(1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher; advocate for the foundation of UCL *

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and a ...

(1792–1878), British statesman *

Henry Warburton Henry Warburton (12 November 1784 – 16 September 1858) was an English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist. Elected as Member of Parliament for Bridport, Dorset, in the 1826 general election, he held the seat fo ...

(1784–1858), English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist *

John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS (9 August 1781 – 6 March 1833), known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician and slave holder. He serve ...

(1781–1833), British statesman * William Wilkins (1778–1839), original architect of the main campus * Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825. A translation of the Latin text engraved on a metal plate that was buried with the foundation stone reads as follows:

To God's favour the greatest and best, eternal architect of the universe may it bring you happiness and good fortune at the beginning of the eighth year of the reign of King George IV of Britain the most highest prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex patron of all the fine arts the oldest order of architecture the highest among the English the foundation stone of the London University between city state .e. citizensand brothers standing around will be placed by his hand to applause. Day before the day before the Kalends of May The work of God desired by the most fortunate citizens of this town has begun at last in the year of human greeting 1827 and in the year of light 5827. In the name of these most illustrious men who are present and with the guidance of Henry Duke of Norfolk, Henry Marquis of Lansdown, Lord John Russell, John, Viscount Dudley and Ward, George, Baron Auckland, the Hon. James Abercrombie and Sir James Macintosh, Alexander Baring, Henry Bougham, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, George Grote, Zachary Macaulay, Benjamin Shaw,
William Tooke William Tooke (1744 – 17 November 1820) was a British clergyman and historian of Russia. Life Tooke was the second son of Thomas Tooke (1705–1773) of St. John's, Clerkenwell, by his wife Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Mann of St. James's, ...
, Henry Waymouth, George Birkbeck, Thomas Campbell, Olinthus Gregory, Joseph Hume, James Mill, John Smith, Henry Warburton, John Wishaw, Thomas Wilson, and William Wilkins, architect.

Supporters

Benefactors

* Sir Herbert Bartlett (1842–1921), civil engineer, enabled the establishment of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture * Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor

Council members

Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones Timothy Francis Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (born 26 October 1949) is a Liberal Democrat Peer and spokesman for the digital economy in the House of Lords. Lord Clement-Jones is a consultant of the global law firm DLA Piper, and form ...

, (1949–) *

Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather DL (born 13 February 1934) is a British-Indian politician, teacher and life peer. Politics Flather served as a Councillor from 1976 to 1991; as Deputy Mayor and as Mayor for the Royal Borough of Windsor and M ...

(1934–), British politician, UCL alumna, and the first South Asian woman to receive a peerage * Sir Stephen Wall, British diplomat, leading Catholic layman, chairman of Council (2008–) * Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825. *

Thomas Field Gibson Thomas Field Gibson FGS (3 March 1803 – 12 December 1889) was a Unitarian silk manufacturer and philanthropist. He supported several novel initiatives to enhance British manufacturing quality and international trade while improving life fo ...

(1803-1889), Manufacturer and benefactor – on Council 1851–68 *

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf, (born 2 May 1933) is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional R ...

, UCL alumnus; variously Visitor, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Council (2005–08), and Chairman of the UCL Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Nobel laureates

Fields Medallists

The

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...

is often described as the "''Nobel Prize in Mathematics''". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medallists, 1998:

Timothy Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Col ...

*Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics (1991–1995) 1970: Alan Baker *BSc (1961), Professor (1964–1965) 1958:

Klaus Roth Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De M ...

*MSc (1948), PhD (1950), Professor (1948–1966)

Former staff

Art, architecture, and design

* Dame

Phyllida Barlow Dame Phyllida Barlow (born 4 April 1944) is a British artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty y ...

, Sculptor *

Tancred Borenius Carl Tancred Borenius (14 July 1885, Vyborg – 2 September 1948, Coombe Bisset) was a Finnish art historian working in England, who became the first professor of the history of art at University College London. He was a prolific author, and recog ...

(1885–1948), art historian, diplomat and British wartime spy * Sir

Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishme ...

(1936–), architect,

The Bartlett ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

Professor of Architecture *

Stuart Brisley Stuart Brisley (born 1933) is a British artist. Education Brisley studied at Guildford School of Art from 1949 to 1954 and at the Royal College of Art from 1956 to 1959. In 1959–60 he attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Ger ...

, performance artist *

Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow directo ...

(1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies *

Thomas Leverton Donaldson Thomas Leverton Donaldson (19 October 1795 – 1 August 1885) was a British architect, notable as a pioneer in architectural education, as a co-founder and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a winner of the RIBA Royal Gold ...

(1795–1885), architect, first UCL Professor of Architecture *

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...

(1922–2011), painter *

Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developme ...

(1866–1934), painter, art critic * John Hooper Harvey (1911–97), architectural historian, Bartlett School of Architecture, 1950–59. *

Tim Head Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist. Biography Born in London, Head studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. His contemporary students included Roxy ...

, artist * John Hilliard, artist *

Otto Königsberger Otto H. Königsberger (13 October 1908 – 3 January 1999) was a German architect who worked mainly in urban development planning in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with the United Nations. Early life Königsberger was born in Berlin in 1908 ...

(1908–1999), architect * Michael (Edward) Parsons (1938–), avant-garde composer, and lecturer in fine art *

Cameron Sinclair Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He currently serves as pro bono executive director of Armory of Harmony, a US-based organization focused on smelting dow ...

(1973–), co-founder of

Architecture for Humanity Architecture for Humanity was a US-based charitable organization that sought architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brought professional design services to clients (often communities in need). Founded in 1999, it laid off its staff and ...

Engineering sciences

Eric Ash Sir Eric Albert Ash (31 January 1928 – 22 August 2021) was a British electrical engineer, past Rector of Imperial College and President of IEE, UK. He was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for i ...

(1928-2021), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering ,

Pender Chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London. John Pender (pictured in the caricature on the right), the founder of Cable and Wireless ...

from 1979 to 1986 *

Harold Barlow Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow FRS (15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989) was a British engineer. He was born in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow, an electrical engineer. He entered University College, London where, apart from ...

, staff then

in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1950–1966) *

Thomas Hudson Beare Sir Thomas Hudson Beare FRSE RSSA (30 June 1859 – 10 June 1940) was an eminent British engineer. He was successively Professor of Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, at University College, London (where he was a colleague of K ...

(1859–1940), chair of engineering from 1889 to 1901 *

Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (Amos) Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver Royal Society, FRS Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng (30 October 1926 – 8 July 2012) was a British engineer and politician. Early life and career Chilver was born in Barking, London, Barking, Essex, to Am ...

(1926–), 1961–69 * Wellesley Curram Clinton (1871-1934),

from 1926 to 1934 *

Jon Crowcroft Jonathan Andrew Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957) is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge and the chair of the programme committee at the Alan Turing Insti ...

, Professor of Networked Systems in Computer Science *

Alexander Lamb Cullen Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer. Career and research Cullen served as the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London where he hel ...

, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,

from 1967 to 1980 * Sir David Davies, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1985–1988) *

John William Draper John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English-born American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with producing the first clear photograph of a female face (1839–40) and ...

- pioneer astro-photographer who also took the oldest surviving picture of a woman *

Anthony Finkelstein Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein (born 28 July 1959 ) is a British engineer and computer scientist. He is the President of City, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021. Ed ...

, Head of Computer Science and Dean of the

UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences The UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL). The Faculty, the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the UCL Faculty of the Built Envirornment (The Bartlett) ...

until 2015 * John Fleming (1849–1945) *

William Edward Gibbs William Edward Gibbs (1890 – 18 January 1934) was the second Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London. He was the second head of the department replacing the first, E. C. Williams. Career Gibbs completed h ...

(1890-1934),

Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering The Ramsay Memorial Chair of Chemical Engineering is a named professorship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, established along with the department and the Ramsay Memorial Laboratory in 1923. The chair was the first created for Chem ...

Eaton Hodgkinson Eaton A. Hodgkinson FRS (26 February 1789 – 18 June 1861) was an English engineer, a pioneer of the application of mathematics to problems of structural design. Early life Hodgkinson was born in the village of Anderton, near Northwich, Ch ...

, Professor of the mechanical principles of engineering (appointed in 1847) *

Reginald Otto Kapp Reginald Otto Kapp (2 August 1885-20 February 1966) was a professor of electrical engineering at UCL. He was appointed to the Pender chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Ele ...

(1885-1966), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering ,

from 1935 to 1945 *

Peter T. Kirstein Peter Thomas Kirstein (20 June 1933 – 8 January 2020) was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He put the first computer on the ARPANET outside of the US and was instrumental in defining and implem ...

(1933-2020), Head of Computer Science department from 1980 to 1994 *

John Edwin Midwinter John Edwin Midwinter OBE FRS FREng (8 March 1938 – 13 November 2021) was a British electrical engineer and professor, who was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET) from 2000 to 2001. Education He was educated at St ...

(1938-2021), Pender Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 2004, Vice Provost from 1994-1999 * John Millington (1779-1868), the UK's first Civil Engineering Professor, appointed in 1827 * Sir John O'Reilly, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1997–2001) *

William Pole William Pole FRS FRSE MICE (22 April 181430 December 1900) was an English engineer, astronomer, musician and an authority on Whist. Life He was born in Birmingham on 22 April 1814, the son of Thomas Pole. Pole was apprenticed as an engineer t ...

(1813–1900), 1859–76 *

William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements ...

(1852-1916), Chair of Chemistry (appointed 1887) *

H. E. Watson Herbert Edmeston Watson (FRIC FIChemE) (17 May 1886 - 24 September 1980) was Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London and the inventor of the low voltage neon glow lamp. Education Watson attended Marlboroug ...

(1886-1980),

* E. C. Williams, first

(1923-1927)

Languages and literature

Chimen Abramsky Chimen Abramsky ( he, שמעון אברמסקי; 12 September 1916 – 14 March 2010) was emeritus professor of Jewish studies at University College London. His first name is pronounced ''Shimon''. Biography Abramsky was born in Minsk to a Li ...

– Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies * Celia Britton – Emeritus Professor of French *

A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy ( Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer. Her books have been widely translated, into more than t ...

– Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (1972–83); winner of the 1990

Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United King ...

* Sir

Hermann Gollancz Sir Hermann Gollancz (30 November 1852 – 15 October 1930) was a British rabbi and Hebrew scholar. Gollancz was the first Jew to earn a doctor of literature degree from London University and the first holder of the degree to be ordained as a ra ...

– Professor of Hebrew; British Rabbi (1902–24) *

Alan Hollinghurst Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize. Early life and education H ...

– Lecturer in English; deputy editor, ''

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''; later winner of the 2004

A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by pub ...

– Professor of Latin; poet most famous as author of ''

A Shropshire Lad ''A Shropshire Lad'' is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. Composers began setting the ...

'' *

Dan Jacobson Dan Jacobson (7 March 1929 – 12 June 2014) was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Early life and career Dan Jacobson was born 7 March 1929, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his p ...

– Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious

Somerset Maugham Award The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awa ...

* Sir

Frank Kermode Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA (29 November 1919 – 17 August 2010) was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work '' The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction'' and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing. He was ...

– Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature (1967–74); literary critic *

Tomáš Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 185014 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist, and philosopher. Until 1914, he advocated restructuring the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federal state. With the help of t ...

– Inaugurated the London

School of Slavonic and East European Studies The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES ) is a school of University College London (UCL) specializing in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. It teaches a range of subjects, including the history, ...

(SSEES), now part of UCL; later became the first President of

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David Masson David Mather Masson LLD DLitt (2 December 18226 October 1907), was a Scottish academic, supporter of women's suffrage, literary critic and historian. Biography He was born in Aberdeen, the son of William Masson, a stone-cutter, and his wi ...

– Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer *

Karl Miller Karl Fergus Connor Miller FRSL (2 August 1931 – 24 September 2014) was a Scottish literary editor, critic and writer. Miller was born in the village of Loanhead, Midlothian, and was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and Down ...

– Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature (1976–92); first editor, ''

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'' *

Arnaldo Momigliano Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (5 September 1908 – 1 September 1987) was an Italian historian of classical antiquity, known for his work in historiography, and characterised by Donald Kagan as "the world's leading student of the writing of history i ...

– Professor of History (1951–75) *

Henry Morley Henry Morley (15 September 1822 – 14 May 1894) was an English academic who was one of the earliest professors of English literature in Great Britain. Morley wrote a popular book containing biographies of famous English writers. Life The son o ...

– Professor of English Literature *

Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India", was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of t ...

– Professor of Gujarati (1856–1865) credited as the first

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, also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" * Sir

Anthony Panizzi Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (16 September 1797 – 8 April 1879), better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth, and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian, becoming the Principal Librarian (i.e. head ...

– Professor of Italian *

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the ...

– Lecturer in English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet * John Sutherland – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'' *

Jeremy Treglown The biographer, cultural historian and critic Jeremy Treglown (born 24 May 1946) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. He was editor of ''The Times Literary Supplement'' through the 1980s and Chair of the Arvon Foundation, 2017-2 ...

– Professor of English; editor, ''

''; author * D. P. Walker – Reader in French, musicologist, composer (1945–61) *

Stanley Wells Sir Stanley William Wells, (born 21 May 1930) is a Shakespearean scholar, writer, professor and editor who has been honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, professor emeritus at Birmingham University, and author of many books a ...

– Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust *

Moira Yip Moira Yip (b. 1949) is a British-American linguist. She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 1980 at MIT as a student of Morris Halle. She retired from her position as Professor of Linguistics at University College London (UCL) in 2009. While at UCL s ...

– Professor of Linguistics

Law

Mathematical, physical, and space sciences

Jim Al-Khalili Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili ( ar, جميل صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in scien ...

– post-doctoral Fellow * Alan Baker, (mathematics) – winner of the 1970

Charles Bungay Fawcett Charles Bungay Fawcett (25 August 1883 – 21 September 1952)Jocelyn Burnell, (astronomy) – discovered radio

pulsar A pulsar (from ''pulsating radio source'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Ea ...

s *

Paul Cohn Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commuta ...

– Astor Professor of Mathematics *

Marianna Csörnyei Marianna Csörnyei (born October 8, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Chicago. She does research in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional anal ...

– Professor of Mathematics *

Harold Davenport Harold Davenport FRS (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Early life Born on 30 October 1907 in Huncoat, Lancashire, Davenport was educated at Accrington Grammar Schoo ...

– Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory * Philip Dawid – Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis * Augustus DeMorgan – Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets *

Sir Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- ...

– 'Father of fingerprinting' *

Tim Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Co ...

– Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal *

Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize ...

– Theoretical Physicist and winner of the 2004

Wolf Prize in Physics The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. The ...

James Joseph Sylvester James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership ro ...

– Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory *

Norman Lloyd Johnson Norman Lloyd Johnson (9 January 1917, Ilford, Essex, England – 18 November 2004, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics and probabil ...

– Reader in Statistics * Sir

James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence. Biography J ...

– Lecturer; predecessor to Stephen Hawking as

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics () is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. The post was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, who was Cambridge University's Member of Pa ...

at Cambridge University *

Dennis Lindley Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Biography Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...

, statistician * Sir

Harrie Massey Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Cambridge Univer ...

– Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic and molecular collisions *

Egon Pearson Egon Sharpe Pearson (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children of Karl Pearson and Maria, née Sharpe, and, like his father, a leading British statistician. Career He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, ...

– Professor of Statistics *

Karl Pearson Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university st ...

– Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics *

Eugene Rabinowitch Eugene Rabinowitch (1901–1973) was a Russian-born American biophysicist who is known for his work in photosynthesis and nuclear energy. He was a co-author of the Franck Report and a co-founder in 1945 of the ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' ...

– worked in the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

and co-founded the ''

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'' is a nonprofit organization concerning science and global security issues resulting from accelerating technological advances that have negative consequences for humanity. The ''Bulletin'' publishes conte ...

'' * Klaus F. Roth – Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 1958

Edward Teller Edward Teller ( hu, Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care fo ...

– 'Father of the

Hydrogen Bomb A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lowe ...

' *

Patrick du Val Patrick du Val (March 26, 1903 – January 22, 1987) was a British mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named afte ...

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found applicat ...

– Professor of Physics

Life sciences

* Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician known for his research on infantile

scurvy Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, feeling tired and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, decreased red blood cells, gum disease, changes to hair, and bleeding ...

('' Barlow's disease'') * Dame Carol Black, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the

Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...

Patricia H. Clarke Patricia Hannah Clarke FRS (née Green) (29 July 1919 – 28 January 2010) was a British biochemist. Education and early life Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, befor ...

née Greene, FRS, (1919–2010), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry *

David Clary Sir David Charles Clary, FRS (born 14 January 1953) is a British theoretical chemist. He was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2005 to 2020. He was the first chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 200 ...

, FRS, Director of the UCL Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009- *

Alex Comfort Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, ...

, Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, ''

The Joy of Sex ''The Joy of Sex'' is a 1972 illustrated sex manual by British author Alex Comfort. An updated edition was released in September 2008. Overview ''The Joy of Sex'' spent eleven weeks at the top of the ''New York Times'' bestseller list and more ...

'' *

George Viner Ellis George Viner Ellis FRS (25 September 1812 Minsterworth - 25 April 1900 Minsterworth) was Professor of Anatomy at University College London and one of the foremost anatomists of his time. George Viner was the second son of Viner Ellis of Duni Hous ...

, prominent anatomist. He studied Medicine at

UCL Medical School UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. The School provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical educatio ...

and later became a Professor of Anatomy *

Sir Martin Evans Sir Martin John Evans (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliv ...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...

-winning biologist for his work with

stem cells In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type o ...

Lesley Fallowfield Professor Dame Lesley Jean Fallowfield DBE (born October 1949) is a British cancer psychologist and a professor of psycho-oncology at the University of Sussex. The main outcomes of her research have been the establishment of assessment tools to m ...

, Professor of Psycho-Oncology (1997–2001) * Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger *

C. Robin Ganellin Charon Robin Ganellin FRS (25 January 1934 – ) is a British medicinal chemist, and Emeritus Smith Kline and French Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, at University College London. He has contributed much to the field of drug discovery and dev ...

, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of

cimetidine Cimetidine, sold under the brand name Tagamet among others, is a histamine H2 receptor antagonist that inhibits stomach acid production. It is mainly used in the treatment of heartburn and peptic ulcers. The development of longer-acting H2 rec ...

* Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery *

J. B. S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

, Professor of Genetics (1933–57). He was one of the founders of

population genetics Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology. Studies in this branch of biology examine such phenomena as adaptation, speciation, and pop ...

. *

Victor Horsley Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) was a British scientist and professor. He was born in Kensington, London. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, he studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Ge ...

, Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley–Clarke apparatus *

Ian Jacobs Ian "Powerhouse" Jacobs is an Australian kickboxer and former 3 time World Kickboxing Champion. He has had victories over other former World Champions, such as Gurkan Ozkan by Unanimous points decision, and 'Diamond' Dale Westerman by Kn ...

, Dean of Medicine *

Roland Levinsky Professor Roland Levinsky (16 October 1943 – 1 January 2007) was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as vice-chancellor of the University of Ply ...

, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology. *

Avrion Mitchison (Nicholas) Avrion Mitchison (born 5 May 1928) is a British zoologist and immunologist. Biography Mitchison was born in 1928, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison (Baron Mitchison of Carradale in the County of Argyll, who died 197 ...

, Professor of Zoology *

Santa Ono Santa Jeremy Ono ( ja, 小野三太; born November 23, 1962) is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator, currently serving as the 15th president of the University of Michigan since October 2022. Ono previously served as th ...

, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Biomedical Sciences * Richard Quain, Chair of Anatomy (?–1850), having also studied Medicine at

, and later physician-extraordinary to

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...

Dunkinfield Henry Scott Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS HFRSE LLD (28 November 1854 – 29 January 1934) was a British botanist. Biography Scott was born in London on 28 November 1854, the fifth and youngest son of architect Sir George Gilbert Scott and his wife Caro ...

, Botanist *

Anthony Segal Anthony Walter Segal FRS FMedSci (born 24 February 1944) is a British physician/scientist. Education He was educated at the University of Cape Town (MB ChB, MD) and University of London (MSc, DSc, PhD). Career and research Tony Segal was born i ...

, Professor of Medicine *

John Maynard-Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British mathematical and theoretical biology, theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he ...

, Lecturer in Zoology (1952–65) * David Morley, Professor of child health, a pioneer in child healthcare *

Bert Sakmann Bert Sakmann (; born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch cla ...

, Nobel Prize-winning cell

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical a ...

and former researcher at UCL Department of Biophysics (1970–1973) * Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, former

Physician Extraordinary A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...

Charles Spearman Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (10 September 1863 – 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on mod ...

, Professor of Psychology; noted for

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient In statistics, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient or Spearman's ''ρ'', named after Charles Spearman and often denoted by the Greek letter \rho (rho) or as r_s, is a nonparametric measure of rank correlation ( statistical dependence between ...

Bernard Spilsbury Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury (16 May 1877 – 17 December 1947) was a British pathologist. His cases include Hawley Crippen, the Seddon case, the Major Armstrong poisoning, the "Brides in the Bath" murders by George Joseph Smith, the Crumbles ...

, Britain's first forensic scientist. *

Ernest Starling Ernest Henry Starling (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology, which at that time led the world. ...

, Physiologist, noted for the Frank–Starling law of the heart, producing the

Starling equation The Starling equation describes the net flow of fluid across a semipermeable membrane. It is named after Ernest Starling. It describes the balance between capillary pressure, interstitial pressure, and osmotic pressure. The classic Starling e ...

, and for the discovery of hormones at UCL alongside his brother-in-law

William Bayliss Sir William Maddock Bayliss (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist. Life He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to a ...

Patrick Wall Sir Patrick Henry Bligh Wall, (14 October 1916 – 15 May 1998) was a British commando in the Royal Marines during the Second World War and later a Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Haltemprice in the Eas ...

, Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential gate theory of pain with

Ronald Melzack Ronald Melzack (July 19, 1929 – December 22, 2019) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall revolutionized pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain. ...

at McGill University * David J Werring, Professor of Clinical

Neurology Neurology (from el, wikt:νεῦρον, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine), medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of co ...

, noted for influental research in

stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functionin ...

* Alexander Williamson – noted for the chemical synthesis of ether *

Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert was best known for his French flag model of embryonic development, where he used the French flag a ...

, Professor of Biology * John (J-Z)Young, Professor of Anatomy

Philosophy

A. J. Ayer Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books '' Language, Truth, and Logic'' (1936) ...

Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic The Grote Chair of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic is an endowed chair at University College London's Department of Philosophy. Origin Along with Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Logic (originally called Logic and the Philosophy of the H ...

(1946–59) *

Myles Burnyeat Myles Fredric Burnyeat (1 January 1939 – 20 September 2019) was an English scholar of ancient philosophy. Early life and education Myles Burnyeat was born on 1 January 1939 to Peter James Anthony Burnyeat and Cynthia Cherry Warburg. He rece ...

, Lecturer in Philosophy *

Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan Cohen, ( ; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Sou ...

, Reader in Philosophy; later

Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory Chichele is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Henry Chichele ( 1364–1443), English religious leader **Chichele Professorship *Thomas Chichele Sir Thomas Chicheley (25 March 1614 – 1 February 1699) of Wimpole Hall, Cambridg ...

at Oxford University * S.V. Keeling, Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy, scholar of

J. M. E. McTaggart John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the phi ...

and Descartes (after whom the annual Keeling lectures on Ancient Philosophy at UCL are named). *

Stuart Hampshire Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (1 October 1914 – 13 June 2004) was an English philosopher, literary critic and university administrator. He was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers who gave a new direction to moral and political thought ...

W. D. Hart Wilbur Dyre Hart (born 1943) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1974, the University College London from 1974 to 1991, and ...

Ted Honderich Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London. Biography Honderich was born Edgar Dawn Ross Honderich on ...

, Emeritus

John Macmurray John MacMurray (16 February 1891 – 21 June 1976) was a Scottish philosopher. His thought both moved beyond and was critical of the modern tradition, whether rationalist or empiricist. His thought may be classified as personalist, as his wri ...

; BBC broadcaster *

John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to ...

, studied with John Austin at UCL. *

Carveth Read Carveth Read (1848–1931) was a 19th- and 20th-century British philosopher and logician. Life He was born 16 March 1848 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England. He was the third son of Edward Read and Elizabeth Truscott. He attended the University o ...

, Professor of Moral Philosophy *

Bernard Williams Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include ''Problems of the Self'' (1973), ''Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'' (1985), ''Shame and Necessity'' ...

, Lecturer in Philosophy; later

Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy The Knightbridge Professorship of Philosophy is the senior professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. There have been 22 Knightbridge professors, the incumbent being Rae Langton. One of the oldest professorships in Cambridge, the ...

at Cambridge University *

Richard Wollheim Richard Arthur Wollheim (5 May 1923 − 4 November 2003) was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting. Wollheim served as the president of the British So ...

Social sciences, geography, and history

Michael Crawford Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English tenor, actor and comedian. Crawford is best known for playing both the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom ''Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'' an ...

, Professor of Ancient History *

Wendy Davies Wendy Elizabeth Davies (born 1942) is an emeritus professor of history at University College London, England. Her research focuses on rural societies in early medieval Europe, focusing on the regions of Wales, Brittany and Iberia. Career Da ...

, Professor of Medieval Celtic History * Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত)), student and later Professor of Indian History who translated the ''

Ramayana The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th ...

'' and ''

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kuruk ...

''. He served as

President of the Indian National Congress The President of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members ...

in 1899. * G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Marxist historian of Greek Antiquity, author of ''

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World ''The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests'' is a 1981 book by the British classical historian G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, a fellow of New College, Oxford. The book became a classic of Marxist historiog ...

'' *Sir

Andrew Dilnot Sir Andrew William Dilnot, (born 19 June 1960) is a Welsh economist and broadcaster. He was formerly the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, and was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford between 2002 and 2012. As o ...

, Economist; Principal, St. Hugh's College Oxford; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Oxford * Dame

Mary Douglas Dame Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkhei ...

, Professor of Anthropology; noted for her Cultural Theory of Risk *

Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, h ...

, lecturer in Political Economy (1928–1939), former leader of the Labour Party *

Georgina Herrmann Georgina Herrmann, (born 20 October 1937) is a British retired archaeologist and academic, specialising in Near Eastern archaeology. Having worked as a civil servant, she later studied archaeology and spent the rest of her career as an active f ...

, Reader in the Archaeology of Western Asia (1994-2002) *

Albert Pollard Albert Frederick Pollard, FBA (16 December 1869 – 3 August 1948) was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Life and career Pollard was born in Ryde o ...

, Professor of Constitutional History; major contributor to the ''

Dictionary of National Biography The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September ...

'' *

Conrad Russell Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was al ...

, Professor of Early Modern British History * Sir Eric Turner, Professor of Papyrology *

Paul Rosenstein-Rodan Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985) was an economist of Jewish origin born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian School, Austrian tradition under in University of Vienna, Vienna. His early contributions to economics were in pure eco ...

, taught Economics at UCL, authored the "Big Push" Theory, later Assistant Director of the Economic Department in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1947-1953.

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* Kate Bright * David Burrows *

Susan Alexis Collins Susan Alexis Collins (born 1964, London) is a British artist and academic. She is currently Slade Professor and Director of the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Biographical notes Collins studied Fine Art at Slade School where sh ...

Melanie Counsell Melanie Counsell (born 25 January 1964) is a Welsh filmmaker, installation artist and sculptor. She works with a multitude of media such as 16 mm film, drawing, printed matter, sculpture and sound for context. Counsell has been resident at a rang ...

* Peter Davies * Benedict Drew *

Simon Faithfull Simon Faithfull (born 1966 in Ipsden, Oxfordshire) is an English artist based in Berlin and London. His work has been widely exhibited in both international solo and group exhibitions, including Musee des Beaux Arts (Calais), Fabrica (Brighton, ...

* Lilah Fowler *

Judith Goddard Judith Goddard (born 1956) is a British video artist. She has lived in London since 1980. Her works include single channel works, large-scale installation, photography, print and drawing. Initially working with 16mm film installation and stills ...

* Larne Abse Gogarty * Dryden Goodwin * Graham Gussin * Nadia Hebson * Holly Hendry * Kristen Kreider * Brighid Lowe * Alastair Mackinven * Onya McCausland *

Lisa Milroy Lisa Milroy (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white back ...

* Katrina Palmer * Jayne Parker * Sarah Pickering *

Liz Rideal Marie Elisabeth Chichester Rideal (born 1954 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist, art historian, educator and author. She is a Professor in Fine Art in the Painting Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College Lo ...

* Karin Ruggaber * Joy Sleeman * Andrew Stahl * Gary Stevens * Jack Strange * Estelle Thompson *

Jon Thomson Jon Thomson (born 1969) and Alison Craighead (born 1971) are London-based visual artists, who work with video, sound and the internet. Life and work Jon Thomson was born in London, England and Alison Craighead in Aberdeen, Scotland. They have ...

* Phoebe Unwin * Jo Volley *

Carey Young Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist whose work is often inspired by law, politics and economics. The tools, language and architectures of these fields act as material for her videos, text works, performances and photographs, often develo ...

Engineering sciences

Polina Bayvel Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (russian: link=no, Полина Леопольдовна Байвель; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Elec ...

, Professor of Optical Communications & Networks * Ann Blandford, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction *

Helen Czerski Helen Czerski is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is a research fellow in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Resea ...

, Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering * George Danezis, Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering *

Mark Handley Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter. In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves. He is best known for his play ''Idioglossia An idioglossia (from ...

, Professor of Networked Systems, Computer Science *

Zoe Laughlin Zoe Laughlin () is a British artist, maker and materials engineer. She is the co-founder and Director of the Institute of Making at University College London. She is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 show The Kitchen Cabinet. Laughlin was ...

, Materials Engineer and co-founder of the Institute of Making * Paola Lettieri, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of UCL East *

Mark Miodownik Mark Andrew Miodownik () is a British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer at University College London. Previously, he was the head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, and a co-founder of Materials Libr ...

, Professor of Materials & Society, co-founder of the Institute of Making *

Peter O'Hearn Peter William O'Hearn One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 13 July 1963 in Halifax, Nova Scotia), formerly a research scientist at Meta, is a Distinguished Engineer at Lacewor ...

, Professor of Computer Science *

Michael Pepper Sir Michael Pepper (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures. Early life Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby Pepper. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, a g ...

of Nanoelectronics (2009-) *

Yvonne Rogers Yvonne Rogers is a British psychologist and computer scientist. She serves as director of the Interaction Centre at University College London. She has authored or contributed to more than 250 publications. Her book ''Interaction Design: Beyond ...

, Professor of Interaction Design and director of UCLIC *

Angela Sasse Martina Angela Sasse is a German psychologist whose research spans the areas of human–computer interaction and computer security. She is Horst Görtz Endowed Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum. and has a part-time po ...

, Professor of Human-Centred Technology *

John Shawe-Taylor John Stewart Shawe-Taylor (born 1953) is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London (UK). His main research area is statistical learning theory. He has contributed to a number of f ...

, Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics *

Rebecca Shipley Rebecca Julia Shipley is a British mathematician and professor of healthcare engineering at University College London (UCL). She is director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, co-director of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering and ...

, Professor of Healthcare Engineering *

David Silver David Silver may refer to: * David Silver (Beverly Hills, 90210), a character on the TV series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' * David Silver (drummer), American musician, drummer of Season to Risk and Offworld * David Silver (programmer) (born 1976), re ...

, Professor of Computer Science *

Eva Sorensen Eva Sorensen is a British chemical engineer. She was appointed in 2020 as the 11th Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at UCL, where she was the first woman to head the Department of Chemical Engineering. She was an interim appoint ...

, 11th

Sarah Spurgeon Sarah Katherine Spurgeon (born 4 December 1963) is the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She served as President of the Engineering Professors' Council from 2017 to 2019. She has previously ...

, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering *

Jose L. Torero José Luis Torero FREng FTSE FRSE FRSN (born in Lima, Peru) is the Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. He took this appointment after two years (2017-2019) as the John L. Bryan Cha ...

, Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

History, languages and literature

Rosemary Ashton Rosemary Doreen Ashton, (''née'' Thomson; born 11 April 1947) is a Scottish literary scholar. From 2002 to 2012, she was the Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London. Her reviews appear in the '' London Re ...

, OBE, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature * John Dickie, Professor in Italian Studies * Mark Ford, Professor of English *

Mary Fulbrook Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook, (née Wilson; born 28 November 1951) is a British academic and historian. Since 1995, she has been Professor of German History at University College London. She is a noted researcher in a wide range of fields, incl ...

, Professor of German History *

Philip Horne Philip Horne (born 1957) is a teacher and literary critic specializing in 19th century literature, particularly Henry James and Charles Dickens. Educated at King's College School and Cambridge University, he is currently Professor of English at Uni ...

, Professor of English * John Mullan, Professor of English * Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics

Mathematical, physical and space sciences

* Tim Broyd, Professor of Built Environment Foresight and Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering *

Alan Sokal Alan David Sokal (; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmo ...

, Professor of Mathematics

Life sciences

Peter Butler Peter or Pete Butler may refer to: * Pete Butler (coach) (1909–1983), American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator * Peter Butler (politician) (born 1951), Conservative Member of Parliament * Peter Butler ...

, Professor of Surgery *

David Colquhoun David Colquhoun (born 19 July 1936) is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL). He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms, and in particular the theory and practice of single ion channel f ...

, notable for predicting the single

Ion channel Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore. Their functions include establishing a resting membrane potential, shaping action potentials and other electrical signals by gating the flow of io ...

function, later verified by Bert Sakmann * Martin Elliott, Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery *

Rob Horne Rob Horne (born 15 August 1989) is an Australian former rugby union footballer who played at centre for the Waratahs, Northampton Saints, and Australia. Early life Horne attended Lugarno Public School and Georges River College, Oatley Campus. ...

, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, School of Pharmacy *

Steve Jones Steve or Steven Jones may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Steve Jones (English presenter) (born 1945), English musician, disk jockey, television presenter, and voice-over artist *Steve Jones (musician) (born 1955), English rock and roll guita ...

, Professor of Genetics *

Nick Lane Nick Lane (born 1967) is a British biochemist and writer. He is a professor in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published five books to date which have won several awards. Career Educated at Imperial College, Lon ...

, Winner of the 2015 biochemical society award and influential science writer * Sammy Lee, expert in ''in vitro'' fertilisation * Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy *

Martin Raff Martin Charles Raff (born 15 January 1938) is a Canadian/British biologist and researcher who is an Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB) at University College London (UCL). His research has been in immunolog ...

, Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology *

Sarah Tabrizi Sarah Joanna Tabrizi FMedSci is a British neurology, neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of neurodegeneration, particularly Huntington's disease. She is a Professor and Joint Head of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the UC ...

, Professor of Neuroscience *

Robin Weiss Robert Anthony "Robin" Weiss (born 20 February 1940) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Research His research has focussed on retroviruses, ...

, Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that

CD4 In molecular biology, CD4 (cluster of differentiation 4) is a glycoprotein that serves as a co-receptor for the T-cell receptor (TCR). CD4 is found on the surface of immune cells such as T helper cells, monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic ...

is the co-receptor for HIV *

Semir Zeki Semir Zeki FMedSci FRS is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are ge ...

, Professor of Neurology, proponent for the role of

Visual area 4 The visual cortex of the brain is the area of the cerebral cortex that processes visual perception, visual information. It is located in the occipital lobe. Sensory input originating from the eyes travels through the lateral geniculate nucleus in ...

in cognitive colour construction

Social sciences, geography, and history

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...

, Professor of geography and authority on risk compensation *

Richard Blundell Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and t ...

, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director,

Institute for Fiscal Studies The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is an economic research institute based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy. It produces both academic and policy-related findings. The institute's aim is to "a ...

Catherine Hall Catherine Hall (born 1946) is a British academic. She is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of Britis ...

, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History *

Gordon Hillman Gordon Hillman (20 July 1943 – 1 July 2018) was a British archaeobotanist and academic at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been described as "a pivotal figure in the development of archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology at Univer ...

, Honorary Visiting Professor in Archaeobotany ( Palaeoethnobotany) *

Simon Hornblower Simon Hornblower, FBA (born 1949) is an English classicist and academic. He is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Biography Born in 1949, he was educate ...

, Grote Professor of ancient history and editor of the

Oxford Classical Dictionary The ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' (''OCD'') is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity," an encyclopædic work in English consisting of articles relating to classical antiquity and its civilizations. It was first pub ...

Amélie Kuhrt Amélie Kuhrt FBA (23 September 1944 - 2 January 2023) was a British historian and specialist in the history of the ancient Near East. She was educated at King's College London, University College London and SOAS. Professor Emerita at University ...

, Historian of the ancient Near East. *

Martyn Rady Martyn Rady (born 1955) is Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. He was from 1995 to 2009 Warden of Hughes Parry Hall, an intercollegiate ha ...

, Professor of Central European History * John Reid, Chairman of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at UCL, and a member of the UK Parliament. *

Christopher Tilley __NOTOC__ Chris Tilley is a British archaeologist known for his contributions to postprocessualist archaeological theory. He is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London. Tilley obtained his PhD in An ...

, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, he is known as one of the pioneers of the

post-processual archaeology Post-processual archaeology, which is sometimes alternately referred to as the interpretative archaeologies by its adherents, is a movement in archaeological theory that emphasizes the subjectivity of archaeological interpretations. Despite having ...

movement.

Alumni

Academics

* Roy Clive Abraham (Certificate in Anthropology, 1927), scholar of African languages *

Israel Abrahams Israel Abrahams, MA ''(honoris causa)'' (b. London, 26 November 1858; d. Cambridge, 6 October 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, ''Jewish Life in the ...

(MA), Jewish scholar *

Sir Walter Adams Sir Walter Adams (16 December 1906'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 5. – 21 May 1975) was a British historian and educationalist. Adams was educated at University College London ...

(History and later lecturer), historian and former Director of the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

Hutton Ayikwei Addy Hutton Ayikwei Addy, was a Ghanaian academic and physician (paediatrician). He was a founding member of the School of Medical Sciences (now a constituent faculty of the College of Health Sciences) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science a ...

, Professor of Public Health, first dean of the

University for Development Studies The University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Tamale was established in 1992 by the government of Ghana with a view to accelerating the development of the then 3 Northern Regions of Ghana (the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions ...

Medical School *

Momtazuddin Ahmed Momtazuddin Ahmed ( bn, মমতাজউদ্দিন আহমেদ; 24 December 1903 – 12 September 1971) was a Bangladeshi philosopher and educationist. Early life and education Ahmed was born to a Bengali Muslim family from Brahma ...

(PhD Philosophy, 1937),

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

i philosopher and academic * Mark Allinson (PhD in German history), academic and historian of German history *

Ali Ansari Ali Massoud Ansari FRSE ( fa, علی مسعود انصاری, born 24 November 1967 in Rome) is the Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is also the founding directo ...

(BA), historian and founder of the Institute for Iranian Studies *

Emmanuel Quaye Archampong Professor Emmanuel Quaye Archampong, was a Ghanaian surgeon and academic. He was an emeritus professor of the College of Health Sciences University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Legon. He was an honorary fellow of the American C ...

, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

* Robert Arnott, medical archaeologist *

John Baker John Baker or Jon Baker may refer to: Military figures *John Baker (American Revolutionary War) (1731–1787), American Revolutionary War hero, for whom Baker County, Georgia was named *John Baker (RAF officer) (1897–1978), British air marshal ...

, UCL (LLB, PhD): Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge *

Trevor J. Barnes Trevor John Barnes, FBA (born 14 July 1956, London, England) is a British geographer and Professor of Economic geography at the University of British Columbia. Background Trevor Barnes received his Ph.D. in 1983 at University of Minnesota with a ...

, Professor of Economic Geography at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

Peter Birks Peter Brian Herrenden Birks (3 October 1941 – 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He also became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989, and an honorary Queen's counsel in ...

, former Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford *

Edith Clara Batho Dr Edith Clara Batho (21 September 1895 – 21 January 1986) was Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHC) from 1945 to 1962. Education She was educated at Highbury Hill High School, now Highbury Fields School in Islingto ...

(English, 1915), Principal of

Royal Holloway College Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...

Bernard Crick Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as ...

, British political theorist *

David Crystal David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic, and prolific author best known for his works on linguistics and the English language. Family Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on 6 July 1941 after his mother had ...

, Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist *

Stephen Daniels Stephen Daniels (born 20 July 1990) is an Irish hurler who currently plays as a left corner-back for the Waterford "Waterford remains the untaken city" , mapsize = 220px , pushpin_map = Ireland#Europe , pu ...

(PhD), Professor of Cultural Geography at

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

Stephen Guest Stephen Guest, Barrister (Inner Temple) and Barrister and Solicitor (N.Z. High Court), is the Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University College London Faculty of Laws. Education Guest obtained his BA in Philosophy (1971) and his LLB at the ...

, Professor of Legal Philosophy, UCL *

Noreena Hertz Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and author, and has hosted her show, "MegaHertz: London Calling," on Sirius XM's Insight channel since 28 August 2017. She has been Honorary Professor at the Institute for ...

, associate director,

Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school. The School is considered to be par ...

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

David Gwilym James David Gwilym James (25 September 1905 – 10 December 1968) was the second vice-chancellor (education), vice chancellor of the University of Southampton joining in October 1952 and remaining till 1965, the year being marked by university expansion i ...

, Vice-Chancellor 1952-1965

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

Eleanor Janega Eleanor Janega is an American medieval historian, author and broadcaster. Her scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality; apocalyptic thought; propaganda; and the urban experience, in the late mediaeval period. Biography She gained her under ...

(PhD), American mediaeval historian, author and broadcaster *

William Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 183513 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in eco ...

, Professor of Political Economy, UCL * Timothy L. Killeen (BSc, PhD), President of the

University of Illinois system The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign. Across its three universities, the University of Illinois System enrolls more than 9 ...

R.J.B. Knight ''For the English cricketer, administrator, and schoolmaster, see Roger Knight '' Roger John Beckett Knight (born 11 April 1944) is a British naval historian of the 18th century, a former Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwi ...

, naval historian *

Victoria Lemieux Victoria Louise Lemieux (born 27 March 1963) is a Canadian specialist in records management and Associate Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is known for her research into financial information manageme ...

, Associate Professor at

* David Llewellyn, Vice-Chancellor of

Harper Adams University Harper Adams University, founded in 1901 as Harper Adams College, is a public university located close to the village of Edgmond, near Newport, in Shropshire, England. Established in 1901, the college is a specialist provider of higher educat ...

Julie Maxton Dame Julie Katharine Maxton (born 31 August 1955) is a British barrister, legal scholar, and academic administrator. Since 2011, she has been executive director of the Royal Society. She spent most of her career working at the University of A ...

, Registrar at

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

Lillian Penson Dame Lillian Margery Penson, DBE (18 July 1896 – 17 April 1963) was a professor of modern history at the University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public r ...

, first woman Vice-Chancellor of London University * Chung-Kwong Poon (潘宗光), GBS, JP, President of

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...

since 1991 *

Henry Enfield Roscoe Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (7 January 1833 – 18 December 1915) was a British chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium, photochemical studies, and his assistance in creating Oxo (food), in its earlier liquid form. Life an ...

, former Vice-Chancellor of the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

(1896-1902) * Lord

Randolph Quirk Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, CBE, FBA (12 July 1920 – 20 December 2017) was a British linguist and life peer. He was the Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1968 to 1981. He sat as ...

, Quain Professor of English Literature *

Stefan Reif Stefan Clive Reif (born 21 January 1944) is professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He was born in Edinburgh. He has a PhD from University College London and a Doctor of Literature from Cambridge. Education Stefan Reif graduated ...

, studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

William Scoresby Routledge William Scoresby Routledge, FRGS (1859–1939) was a British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer. With his wife, Katherine Routledge, he completed the first ethnographies of the Kikuyu ( East Africa) and the people of Rapa Nui (Easter ...

(Medicine), ethnographer * Sir Adrian Smith (UCL Mathematics, PhD), FRS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 2012- * Jonathan Wolff (MPhil), Professor of Philosophy and

Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ...

of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL

Economists

Edith Abbott Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educationa ...

(Carnegie Scholarship), American economist, social reformer, academic and author. Abbott was the first women to become a Dean of an American Graduate School at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. * Sophia N. Antonopoulou (PhD Economics), economist and academic *

Süleyman Başak Süleyman Başak (born c. 1964) is a financial economist of Turkish Cypriot origin. He is Professor at the Institute of Finance and Accounting of the London Business School, an MBA-granting part of the University of London and has previously taught ...

(BSc Civil Engineering), financial economist *

Roger Bate Roger Bate is a British educated economist who has held a variety of positions in free market oriented organizations. His work focuses on solving the problem of counterfeit and substandard medicines, particularly those in the developing world. ...

, economist formerly of the

Institute of Economic Affairs The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a right-wing pressure group and think tank registered as a UK charity Associated with the New Right, the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute", and says that it seeks to "further t ...

and other free market-orientated organisations *

attended UCL to study with John Austin, major political philosopher. *

Philip Wicksteed Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844 – 18 March 1927) is known primarily as an economist. He was also a Georgist, Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic. Family background He was the son of Charles Wicksteed ...

, economist and theologian

Engineers

William Edward Ayrton William Edward Ayrton, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (14 September 18478 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. Life Early life and education Ayrton was born in London, the son of Edward Nugent Ayrton, a barrister, ...

, co-developer the first spiral-spring

ammeter An ammeter (abbreviation of ''Ampere meter'') is an instrument used to measure the current in a circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes (A), hence the name. For direct measurement, the ammeter is connected in series with the circuit ...

wattmeter The wattmeter is an instrument for measuring the electric active power (or the average of the rate of flow of electrical energy) in watts of any given circuit. Electromagnetic wattmeters are used for measurement of utility frequency and audio ...

and electric tricycle *

, engineer and UCL academic *

Arnold Beck Arnold Hugh William Beck (7 August 1916 – 11 October 1997) was a British scientist and electrical engineer, a specialist in plasma and microwaves, Professor of Engineering in the University of Cambridge. Early life and education The you ...

, Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge *

Ian McDonald Campbell Ian MacDonald Campbell, CVO, FREng, FICE, FCIT (13 July 1922 – 1 April 1994) was a British civil engineer. He served as chief executive of the British Railways Board (1978–80) and chairman of the Scottish Board of British Railways ( ...

, civil engineer and vice-chairman of

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

Colin Chapman Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. Chapman ...

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

designer and founder of

Lotus Cars Lotus Cars Limited is a British automotive company headquartered in Norfolk, England which manufactures sports cars and racing cars noted for their light weight and fine handling characteristics. Lotus was previously involved in Formula One r ...

Demetrius Comino Demetrius Comino OBE (4 September 1902 – 27 September 1988)Darbyshire, Anthony, and Duckworth, Eric (2011), ''Demetrius Comino: A life and legacy of achievement'', Comino Foundation. – (accessed: 22 February 2012) was an Australian engineer, ...

OBE, engineer, inventor of Dexion steel slotted angle system *

Edward Dobson Edward Dobson (1816/17? – 19 September 1908) was Provincial Engineer for Canterbury Province, New Zealand from 1854 to 1868. Early life Edward Dobson was born in London, probably in 1816 or 1817. His parents were John Dobson, a merchant, and E ...

(1816/17?–1908), Provincial Engineer for the Canterbury Province in New Zealand *

John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic rad ...

, inventor of the

thermionic valve A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America), is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied. The type known as a ...

and the

diode A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance); it has low (ideally zero) resistance in one direction, and high (ideally infinite) resistance in the other. A diode ...

Oliver Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, H ...

, involved in the development of wireless telegraph * Colin Robbins, software engineer, co-inventor of LDAP *

Bruce Woodgate Bruce E. Woodgate (1939 – April 28, 2014) was a British-born American aerospace engineer, inventor and astronomer, who worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for forty years. He was the principal investigator of the Space Telescope Imagi ...

, Principal investigator and designer of the

Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a spectrograph, also with a camera mode, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Aerospace engineer Bruce Woodgate of the Goddard Space Flight Center was the principal investigator and creat ...

on the

Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versa ...

Life scientists

Agnes Arber Agnes Robertson Arber FRS (23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the las ...

(BSc, DSc, 1905), botanist *

Alec Bangham Alec Douglas Bangham FRS (10 November 1921 Manchester – 9 March 2010 Great Shelford) was a British biophysicist who first studied blood clotting mechanisms but became well known for his research on liposomes and his invention of clinically us ...

(Medicine), biophysicist researching

liposome A liposome is a small artificial vesicle, spherical in shape, having at least one lipid bilayer. Due to their hydrophobicity and/or hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, particle size and many other properties, liposomes can be used as drug deliver ...

s and inventing clinically-useful artificial lung surfactants *

Anne Beloff-Chain Anne Ethel Beloff-Chain, Lady Chain (26 June 1921 – 2 December 1991) was a British biochemist. She worked at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (1948–1964), Imperial College London (1964–1986) and the University of Buckingham (1986–1991). He ...

, biochemist *

Margaret Jane Benson Margaret Jane Benson (20 October 1859 – 20 June 1936) was an English botanist specialising in paleobotany, and one of the first female members of the Linnean Society of London. Most of her career was spent as the head of the Department of Bo ...

, (1859-1936) paleobotanist *

Alfred William Bennett Alfred William Bennett (24 June 1833 – 23 January 1902) was a British botanist and publisher. He was best known for his work on the flora of the Swiss Alps, cryptogams, and the Polygalaceae or Milkwort plant family, as well as his years in th ...

(1833–1902), British botanist and publisher of The Friend * Katie Bentley, computer scientist, builds computational software to understand communication between cells *

G. Marius Clore G. Marius Clore MAE, FRSC, FRS is a British-born, Anglo-American molecular biophysicist and structural biologist. He was born in London, U.K. and is a dual US/U.K. Citizen. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the ...

FRS (Biochemistry, UCL, 1976; Medicine, University College Medical School, 1979), biophysicist and structural biologist; pioneer of multidimensional

macromolecular A macromolecule is a very large molecule important to biophysical processes, such as a protein or nucleic acid. It is composed of thousands of covalently bonded atoms. Many macromolecules are polymers of smaller molecules called monomers. The ...

NMR spectroscopy Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique to observe local magnetic fields around atomic nuclei. The sample is placed in a magnetic fiel ...

laying foundations of 3D structure determination of

proteins Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including catalysing metabolic reactions, DNA replication, respo ...

in solution; member of the

United States National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

* Sir Philip Cohen (BSc, PhD, 1969),

Royal Medal The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important ...

-winning biochemist * Gillian Griffiths, cell biologist and immunologist *

Allan Octavian Hume Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British civil servant, political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India. He was the founder of the Indian National Congress. A notable ornithologist, Hum ...

(Medicine), political reformer, ornithologist and botanist, one of the founders of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

, theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist *

Ralph Kekwick Professor Ralph Ambrose Kekwick (11 November 1908 Leytonstone Essex – 17 January 2000 Woodford). was a British biochemist who did pioneering work on human plasma fractionation, including the first production of Factor VIII. Early life and e ...

, biochemist *

Raphael Weldon Walter Frank Raphael Weldon Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (15 March 1860 – 13 April 1906), was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. He was the joint founding editor of ''Biometrika'', with Francis Galton and Karl Pea ...

(Medicine, left 1877), evolutionary biologist and a founder of

biometry Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

Mathematicians, scientists and statisticians

* Alan Baker, winner of the 1970

D.J. Bartholomew David John Bartholomew (6 August 1931 – 16 October 2017) was a British statistician who was Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society, president of the Royal Statistical Society between 1993 and 1995.''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black ...

(BSc, PhD Mathematics), statistician and

President of the Royal Statistical Society The president of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), elected biennially by the Fellows of the Society. (The time-period between elections has varied in the past, and in fact elections only rarely occur ...

(1993-1995) * Laurence Baxter, professor of statistics *

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Te ...

, inventor of telephone *

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (;, ; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contribution ...

– one of the founders of radio telecommunication. *

George E. P. Box George Edward Pelham Box (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the gre ...

(1919–2013), (UCL Mathematics and Statistics, PhD, 1953), Vilas Research Professor of Statistics,

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

Margaret Burbidge Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis and was first author of the influenti ...

, astrophysicist, former

American Astronomical Society The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The primary objective of the AAS is to promote the adv ...

President, former

Royal Greenwich Observatory The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in G ...

Director * Ian Crawford – Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck University of London *

Florence Nightingale David Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David (23 August 1909 – 23 July 1993) was an English statistician. She was head of the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside between 1970 – 77 and her research inte ...

(1909–1993), statistician *

Roland Dobbs (Edwin) Roland Dobbs (2 December 1924 – 24 October 2016) was a British physicist, best known for his work in physical acoustics. Education He was educated at Ilford County High School, Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet and University Coll ...

, physicist *

Thomas Eckersley Thomas Lydwell Eckersley FRS (27 December 1886 – 15 February 1959) was an English theoretical physicist and engineer. Biography Eckersley was born in St John's Wood, London, the second of three sons of William Alfred, a civil engineer, and ...

, theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves * Thomas Elger,

selenographer Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy). Like geography and areography, selenography is a subdiscipline within the field of planetary science. Historica ...

famous for his lunar map * John Fox, statistician * Cecilie French, chemist specialising in

magnetochemistry Magnetochemistry is concerned with the magnetic properties of chemical compounds. Magnetic properties arise from the spin and orbital angular momentum of the electrons contained in a compound. Compounds are diamagnetic when they contain no unpaire ...

. * William Gowers, winner of the 1998

Cyril Hilsum Cyril Hilsum (born 17 May 1925) is a British physicist and academic. Hilsum was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for the inventiveness and leadership in introducing III-V semiconductors into electronic technology ...

, pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices *

Hermann Arthur Jahn Hermann Arthur Jahn (born 31 May 1907, Colchester, England; d. 24 October 1979 Southampton) was a British scientist of German descent. With Edward Teller, he identified the Jahn–Teller effect. Early life He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Herm ...

, chemist, with Edward Teller he identified the

Jahn–Teller effect The Jahn–Teller effect (JT effect or JTE) is an important mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in molecular and solid-state systems which has far-reaching consequences in different fields, and is responsible for a variety of phenomena in sp ...

William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 183513 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in ec ...

, economist and logician *

, professor of statistics and author *

Chris Lintott Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Lintott is involved in a number of popular scien ...

, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford *

Kathleen Lonsdale Dame Kathleen Lonsdale ( Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was an Irish-born British pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate t ...

, discovered the structure of

benzene Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C6H6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar ring with one hydrogen atom attached to each. Because it contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms, ...

, statistician, founder of statistics department at UCL. *

Sir Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fel ...

, mathematician and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. * Suzanna Randall, astrophysicist and private astronaut candidate *

Hans Reck Hans Gottfried Reck (24 January 1886 – 4 August 1937) was a German volcanologist and paleontologist. In 1913 he was the first to discover an ancient skeleton of a human in the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. He collaborated with Lo ...

volcanologist A volcanologist, or volcano scientist, is a geologist who focuses on understanding the formation and eruptive activity of volcanoes. Volcanologists frequently visit volcanoes, sometimes active ones, to observe and monitor volcanic eruptions, col ...

and

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

, mathematician, winner of the 1958

* Walter Rouse-Ball, mathematician Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer 2

* R.J.G. Savage (PhD Paleontology), palaeontologist known as Britain's leading expert on fossil mammals *

M. J. Seaton Michael John Seaton (16 January 1923 – 29 May 2007) was an influential British mathematician, atomic physicist, and astronomer. He was born in Bristol, and educated at Wallington County Grammar School (WCGS), a grammar school in Surrey, ...

, British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer * Ian Sloan, Australian applied mathematician *

Kirstine Smith Kirstine Smith (April 12, 1878 – November 11, 1939) was a Danish statistician. She is credited with the creation of the field of optimal design of experiments. Background Smith grew up in the town of Nykøbing Mors, Denmark. In 1903, she gradu ...

, statistician, creator of

optimal design In the design of experiments, optimal designs (or optimum designs) are a class of experimental designs that are optimal with respect to some statistical criterion. The creation of this field of statistics has been credited to Danish statist ...

of experiments *

David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the U ...

, statistician, Professor at Cambridge *

Russell Stannard Russell Stannard, (December 24.5 1931 – 4 July 2022) was a British high-energy particle physicist. Stannard was born in London, England, on December 24.5 1931. He held the position of Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Open University. I ...

, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the

Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...

, winner of the 1999 Bragg Medal * Tan Tin Wee (陈定炜), Singaporean scientist, 2012 Inaugural Internet Hall of Fame, inventor of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) (1998), bioinformatics pioneer in Asia, Director, National Supercomputing Centre Singapore. *

Percy White Percy Rowett White (1888–1918) was an Australian pioneer rugby league player. He played in the New South Wales Rugby League competition at the time of the code's Australian foundation in 1908, and won a premiership with Sydney's Sydney Roost ...

(Chemical Engineering),

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

chemist and nuclear scientist *

Heinz Wolff Heinz Siegfried Wolff, (29 April 1928 – 15 December 2017) was a German-born British scientist as well as a television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series ''The Great Egg Race''. Early life Wolff was born i ...

, scientist, television and radio presenter *

Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University College ...

, Polish mathematician and statistician that first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and co-revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing

Medical figures

* Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983–91. *

Judy Armitage Judith Patricia Armitage (born 1951) is a British molecular and cellular biochemist at the University of Oxford. Early life and education Armitage was born on 21 February 1951 in Shelley, Yorkshire, England. She attended Selby Girls' High Sc ...

(PhD, 1976), professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at the University of Oxford *

Tipu Aziz Tipu Zahed Aziz, Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, FMedSci ( bn, টিপু আজিজ জাহেদ; born 9 November 1956) is a Bangladeshi-born United Kingdom, British professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital i ...

(Neurophysiology), professor of

neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peri ...

and

neurophysiology Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that studies nervous system function rather than nervous system architecture. This area aids in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases. Historically, it has been dominated b ...

Alan Baddeley Alan David Baddeley CBE FRS, is a British psychologist. He is known for his research on memory and for developing the three-component model of working memory. He is a professor of psychology at the University of York. Biography Baddeley was ...

, psychologist known for his work on

working memory Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily. It is important for reasoning and the guidance of decision-making and behavior. Working memory is often used synonymously with short-term memory, ...

, including his multiple components model *

Edward Ballard Edward Ballard (15 April 1820 – 19 January 1897) was a 19th-century English physician, best known for his reports on the unsanitary conditions in which most of Victorian England lived. Ballard was born in Islington, Middlesex, the son Edward ...

(Medicine), physician and social commentator on living conditions in

Victorian Britain In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ...

Erasmus Darwin Barlow Erasmus Darwin Barlow, FRCPsych, FZS (15 April 1915 – 2 August 2005) was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman. Born in London in 1915, he was the second son of Sir Alan Barlow, son of Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician. His ...

, psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman * Sir Thomas Barlow (Medicine),

royal physician known for his research on infantile

('' Barlow's disease'') * Dame Josephine Barnes (Medicine), obstetrician and gynaecologist *

Ann Barrett Ann Barrett OBE (born 27 February 1943), is Emeritus Professor of Oncology in the University of East Anglia, England, and formerly deputy dean of the School of Medicine and lead clinician for oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospi ...

, Emeritus Professor of Oncology at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

* Allon Barsam, ophthalmologist and medical researcher, who pioneered the use of microwave keratoplasty in humans *

Herbert Barrie Herbert Barrie (9 October 1927 – 20 March 2017), was a British consultant paediatrician and a leading figure in neonatology. He was a pioneer in the emerging specialty of paediatrics and neonatal medicine; and he developed one of the first ne ...

, neonatologist *

, physiologist who, along with his brother-in-law

, first discovered the existence and function of hormones while working at University College London *

Wilfred Bion Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Early life and military service Bion was born in Ma ...

, psychoanalyst * Charles Bolton (MD), physician and pathologist *

John Bowlby Edward John Mostyn Bowlby, CBE, FBA, FRCP, FRCPsych (; 26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachmen ...

(Medicine), psychologist, psychiatrist, pioneer of

attachment theory Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans. The most important tenet is that young children need to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for normal ...

* Karim Brohi, (BSc computer science, MB BS medicine), surgeon, international trauma science expert, and academic * Michael Brown, Director of Army Medicine and former

Physician to the Queen Physician to the King (or Queen, as appropriate) is a title held by physicians of the Medical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Part of the Royal Household, the Medical Household includes physicians, who treat general conditions ...

* Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt FBA (1883-1971). Professor and Chair of Psychology (1931–51), pioneering child psychologist, now discredited. * Walter Carr (BS MD), physician and surgeon * William Carpenter, physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist * Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing,

University of Wales, Swansea , former_names=University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea , motto= cy, Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn , mottoeng="Technical skill is bereft without culture" , established=1920 – University College of Swansea 1996 – University of Wa ...

* Oscar Clayton, surgeon *

Archie Cochrane Archibald Leman Cochrane (12 January 1909 – 18 June 1988) was a Scottish doctor noted for his book ''Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services''. This book advocated the use of randomized control trials to make med ...

, epidemiologist, Professor of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases,

Welsh National School of Medicine The Cardiff University School of Medicine ( cy, Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd) is the medical school of Cardiff University and is located in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Founded in 1893 as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouth ...

, pioneer of

evidence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients". The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of t ...

Leslie Collier Leslie Harold Collier (9 February 1921 – 14 March 2011) was a scientist responsible for developing a freeze-drying method to produce a more heat stable smallpox vaccine in the late 1940s. Collier added a key component, Peptide#Classes, pepton ...

, virologist who helped to create the first heat stable smallpox vaccine key in the eventual eradication of the disease. *

Edward Treacher Collins Edward Treacher Collins (28 May 1862 – 13 December 1932) was a British surgeon and ophthalmologist. He is best known for describing the Treacher Collins syndrome. Biography He was the son of Dr. William Job Collins and Miss Treacher. Treache ...

, ophthalmologist and first described

Treacher Collins Syndrome Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is a genetic disorder characterized by deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones, and chin. The degree to which a person is affected, however, may vary from mild to severe. Complications may include breathing prob ...

Henry Radcliffe Crocker Henry Radcliffe Crocker, FRCP (6 March 1846 – 22 August 1909) was an English dermatologist. Originally from Hove in Sussex, England, Crocker started his working life as an apprentice to a general practitioner before going to London to at ...

, dermatologist *

Jane Dacre Dame Jane Elizabeth Dacre, is a British rheumatologist and medical scholar. She is Professor of Medical Education at University College London, former director of UCL Medical School, and past medical director of the MRCP(UK) exam. In April 2014, ...

(Medicine), President of the

(2014–incumbent), only the third female President in its nearly 500-year history * Viscount Bertrand Dawson, doctor to the British Royal Family *

Deborah Doniach Deborah Doniach MD FRCP ( Abileah; 6 April 1912 – 1 January 2004) was a British clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases. Early and personal life Deborah Abileah was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6 April 1912 ...

, leading expert on auto-immune diseases *

(Medicine and later Professor of Anatomy), prominent anatomist * Sir John Erichsen (Medicine and later lecturer), prominent surgeon and surgeon-extraordinary to

(PhD, 1969, and later lecturer), 2007

-winning scientist *

Jeremy Farrar Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher who has served as director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013 and will serve as chief scientist at the World Health Organization in 2023. He was previously a professo ...

(BSc, MBBS), director of the

Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glaxo ...

2014- * Sir

William Henry Flower Sir William Henry Flower (30 November 18311 July 1899) was an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an impo ...

(MB), comparative anatomist and 2nd director of the

Natural History Museum, London The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

William Tilbury Fox William Tilbury Fox, MD, FRCP (1836 – 7 June 1879) was an English dermatologist. He was born in Broughton, Hampshire the son of physician Luther Owen Fox and Mary (née Tilbury) Fox, and the brother of Thomas Colcott Fox, also a derma ...

, dermatologist *

Eva Frommer Eva Ann Frommer (6 September 1927 – 8 August 2004) was a German-born British consultant child psychiatrist, working at St Thomas' Hospital in South London. Her specialism was to apply the arts and eurythmy to the treatment of pre-school ch ...

. Fellow of the

Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health ...

, child psychiatrist and pioneer of arts therapies in hospital, for children *

Clare Gerada Dame Clare Mary Louise Francis Gerada, Lady Wessely, (born November 1959) is a London-based general practitioner who is President of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and a former chairperson of the RCGP Council (2010–2013). ...

(Medicine), former Chair of the

Royal College of General Practitioners The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is the professional body for general (medical) practitioners (GPs/Family Physicians/Primary Care Physicians) in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including l ...

(2010–13), the first female Chair for 50 years *

Ben Goldacre Ben Michael Goldacre (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. He is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford ...

(MB BS), academic and science writer * Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon * Rainer Guillery, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy,

University of Wisconsin Medical School A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

; formerly Dr Lee's Professor of Human Anatomy,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Anita Harding Anita Elizabeth Harding (17 September 1952 – 11 September 1995) was an Irish-British neurologist, and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology of the University of London. She is known for the discovery with Ian Holt a ...

, neurologist who co-authored the first paper which identified pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease (in Kearn-Sayre syndrome) * John Ivor Pulsford James, known as J.I.P. James, president and honorary fellow of the

British Orthopaedic Association The British Orthopaedic Association is a professional association in Britain for doctors who specialize in orthopaedic surgery. History The British Orthopaedic Association was founded in 1918. One of the founders was Harry Platt, who went on to s ...

* Donald Jeffries, virologist, expert on

HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...

Sir William Jenner Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet, Order of the Bath, GCB, Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty, QHP, Royal College of Physicians, FRCP, Royal Society, FRS (30 January 181511 December 1898) was a significant English physician primarily known fo ...

, was the first doctor to identify between

typhus Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure. ...

and

typhoid Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a disease caused by '' Salmonella'' serotype Typhi bacteria. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several ...

Christian Jessen Christian Spencer Jessen (born 4 March 1977) is a British celebrity doctor, television personality, and writer. He is best known for appearing in the Channel 4 programmes ''Embarrassing Bodies'' (2007–2015) and '' Supersize vs Superskinny'' (2 ...

, medical doctor and television presenter best known ''

Embarrassing Bodies ''Embarrassing Bodies'' (formerly ''Embarrassing Illnesses'') is a British BAFTA Award-winning medical reality television programme broadcast by Channel 4 and made by Maverick Television since 2007. In 2011, an hour-long live show was introduc ...

'' *

Edwin Lankester Edwin Lankester FRS, FRMS, MRCS (23 April 1814 – 30 October 1874) was an English surgeon and naturalist who made a major contribution to the control of cholera in London: he was the first public analyst in England. Life Edwin Lankester ...

, founder of the ''

Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science The ''Journal of Cell Science'' (formerly the ''Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science'') is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of cell biology. The journal is published by The Company of Biologists. The journal is partnered with P ...

'' (QJMS) * Thomas Lewis (MB BS), cardiologist *

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of su ...

, associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine *

Kalman Mann Kalman Jacob Mann ( he, קלמן יעקב מן) (5 July 1912 – 14 March 1997) was an Israeli physician specializing in pulmonology, and the eighth and longest-serving director general of the Hadassah Medical Organization. During his three decad ...

(MB BS), Israeli physician, 8th director general of

Hadassah Medical Organization Hadassah Medical Center ( he, הָמֶרְכָּז הָרְפוּאִי הֲדַסָּה) is an Israeli medical organization established in 1934 that operates two university hospitals in Jerusalem – one in Ein Karem and one in Mount Scopus –, ...

* Barrie Marmion, microbiologist * Henry Marsh (Medicine), neurosurgeon *

Clare Marx Dame Clare Lucy Marx (15 March 1954 – 27 November 2022) was a British surgeon who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017, the first woman to hold the position, and former chair of the Faculty of ...

(MB BS), first female president elected at the

Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales. The ...

(2014-incumbent) * Jan McLelland, (Medicine), dermatologist and medical researcher *

Max Pemberton Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular English novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres.LeRoy Lad Panek, ''After Sherlock Holmes: The Evolution of British and American Detective Stories, 1891– ...

, medical doctor, author and journalist *

Raj Persaud Rajendra 'Raj' Persaud FRCPsych (born 13 May 1963) is an English consultant psychiatrist, broadcaster and author of books about psychiatry. He is known for raising public awareness of psychiatric and mental health issues in the general media, ...

, Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult and Community Psychiatry, Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Teaching Hospitals and Clinical Tutor to Bethlem & Maudsley Senior House Officers, since 1994 * Sir Richard Powell (Medicine), physician and Physician Royal to

and

King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...

* Richard Quain (Medicine, 1840, and later Chair of Anatomy), physician who also served as physician-extraordinary to

Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome, (6 July 1924-2003) was a Ghanaian physician and academic. He was an ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Ghana Medical School. He and others have been described as pioneers of the medical profession ...

, Pioneer ophthalmologist in

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

* Sir Philip Randle, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975 *

Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, (born 20 January 1944) is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 to 2008. He was created a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords on th ...

, former President of the

(2005–08) *

Sydney Ringer Sydney Ringer FRS (March 1835 – 14 October 1910) was a British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist, best known for inventing Ringer's solution. He was born in 1835 in Norwich, England and died following a stroke in 1910 in Lastingham, Y ...

(MB), British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist, best known for inventing

Ringer's solution Ringer's solution is a solution of several salts dissolved in water for the purpose of creating an isotonic solution relative to the body fluids of an animal. Ringer's solution typically contains sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chlor ...

Rosemary Rue Dr Dame Rosemary Rue, DBE, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCPsych, FRCGP FRCS (14 June 1928 – 24 December 2004) was a British physician and civil servant, most notable as the one-time regional general manager/medical officer of the Oxford Regional Health Au ...

, physician and civil servant * Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer, physiologist * Elizabeth Joan Stokes (MB BS), clinical bacteriologist * Sir Rodney Sweetnam, President,

, 1995–98; formerly Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Middlesex and University College Hospitals 1960–92; Orthopaedic Surgeon to

The Queen In the English-speaking world, The Queen most commonly refers to: * Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 until her death The Queen may also refer to: * Camilla, Queen Consort (born 1947), ...

1982–92. * Susan Swindells (MB BS), infectious disease expert, AIDS researcher, Scientist Laureate at the

University of Nebraska Medical Center The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a public academic health science center in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1869 and chartered as a private medical college in 1881, UNMC became part of the University of Nebraska System in 1902. R ...

, and member of the NIH Covid-19 Treatments Guidelines Panel. *

Hugh Owen Thomas Hugh Owen Thomas (23 August 1834 – 6 January 1891) was a Welsh orthopaedic surgeon. He and his nephew Robert Jones have been called "the Fathers of orthopaedic surgery". Thomas was descended from a line of Welsh bone setters and placed great i ...

, father of

orthopaedic surgery Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...

in Britain *

Richard Turner-Warwick Richard Trevor Turner-Warwick (21 February 1925 – 19 September 2020) was a British urologist who was internationally known for his work on the surgical restoration of the structure and function of the genitourinary tract. He introduced vid ...

, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons * Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989–92 * Kenneth Walton (pathologist), Kenneth Walton, pathologist * W. Roger Williams, pathologist, surgeon, cancer researcher and medical writer * Albertine Winner, Dame Albertine Winner (BSc, MB BS, MD), physician and medical administrator * R. A. Young (MB MD), physician and tuberculosis specialist

Architects, artists, and designers

* Corinne Bennett (Bartlett, 1957), conservation architect * David Bomberg (1890–1957), Slade School of Fine Art (1913) * Teresa Borsuk (Bartlett, 1981), architect * Martin John Callanan * Sir William Coldstream * Martin Creed, conceptual artist; winner of the 2001 Turner Prize * James Stevens Curl (History of Art), architectural historian, conservation consultant and critic * Antony Gormley, sculptor; winner of the 1994 Turner Prize; creator of the ''Angel of the North'' * Eileen Gray (Slade, 1898), lacquer artist and furniture designer * Gerry Judah (Slade, 1977), artist, sculptor and designer * Augustus John, painter * Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist, author, critic * Gertrude Leverkus (B.A., 1919), architect * Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist movement * David Mlinaric, architect, interior designer * Evelyn De Morgan (Slade, 1877), painter * Ben Nicholson, abstract painter * Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and artist * Stuart Pearson Wright, painter * Monica Pidgeon, interior designer and journalist * Patricio Pouchulu, architect and academic * Paula Rego, painter (Slade, 1952–56) * Jenny Saville, prominent Young British Artist * Stanley Spencer, Sir Stanley Spencer, painter * John Summerson, Sir John Summerson, leading

architectural historian and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the

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(1958–59) * Tomoko Takahashi, installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000 Turner Prize * Rachel Whiteread, sculptor; winner of the 1993 Turner Prize * Sir Rex Whistler, artist, designer and illustrator * Colin St John Wilson, Sir Colin St John Wilson (Architecture, 1949), architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London.

Banking, business and commercial figures

* Andreas Antonopoulos (Computer Science), technology entrepreneur * Dominic Blakemore (French), CEO of Compass Group * Richard Brown (transport), Richard Brown (MPhil Town and Transport Planning), current Chairman of Eurostar International Limited, Eurostar International and former chief executive of Eurostar UK *

, founder of

* Paul Donovan (businessman), Paul Donovan, current CEO of Odeon Cinemas, Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and former CEO of Vodafone Ireland and eircom * Lewis Evans (collector), Lewis Evans, scientific instrument collector and businessman * Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, Lord Digby Jones (LLB), former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry and Minister of State for Trade, Minister of State for Trade and Investment * John Patrick Kenny, John Kenny, BSc, founder and Chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992. [1995]. * Ian Luder, Taxation specialist, and Lord Mayor of the City of London 2008–2009 * Roger Lyons, Joint General Secretary, Amicus (trade union), AMICUS since 2001; President, Trades Union Congress, 2003–04. [1996]. * Susan Ma, managing director of Tropic Skin Care; finalist on ''The Apprentice (UK TV series), The Apprentice'' series seven (2011). * Richard Martell, Creator of the controversial social network "FitFinder". * Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, Longleat Enterprises * Roger Tomlinson, founder of Geographic Information Systems President, Tomlinson Associates Ltd, Consulting Geographers. [2003]. * Marjorie Wallace (SANE), Marjorie Wallace, Countess Skarbek, Chief Executive, SANE (charity), SANE, since 1990. [2004]. * Edwin Waterhouse, founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers * Sharon White (businesswoman), Dame Sharon White, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership; former Chief Executive of Ofcom * Farhad Moshiri, billionaire and stakeholder in Everton F.C.

Charity sector figures

* Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, Baroness Delyth Morgan (Physiology), Chief Executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and former UK government minister *

(University College Medical School, 1986), Director of the Wellcome Institute, 2014-

Government and public officials, heads of state and politicians

UCL has had a long and distinguished history in producing many prominent politicians for countries home and abroad. Notable alumni include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria among others. Jomo Kenyatta

Heads of state and intergovernmental organisations

*Nicos Anastasiades (Shipping Law), current President of Cyprus (2013-) * Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of Nigeria (1960-1966) * Elliott Belgrave, Sir Elliott Belgrave (LLB), former Governor-General of Barbados (2012-2017) * Martin Bourke (diplomat), Martin Bourke (BA, 1969), Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1993-1996) * Angie Brooks (International Law, 1953), first African woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (24th Session, 1969-1970) and the second woman to head the United Nations * Terry Davis (politician), Terry Davis (LLB, 1962), former Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2004-2009) * Ellis Clarke, Sir Ellis Clarke (LLB), Governor-General then first President of Trinidad and Tobago (1972-1987) * Robert Fico (postgraduate studies at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, SSEES), Prime Minister of Slovakia (2006-2010, 2012-2018) * Vincent Floissac, Sir Vincent Floissac (LLB), Governor-General of Saint Lucia (1987-1988) * Chaim Herzog, Chaim Herzog (חיים הרצוג) (LLB), sixth President of Israel (1983-1993) * Itō Hirobumi, Hirobumi Itō (伊藤博文) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), first Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister of Imperial Japan (1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901), known as ‘the Father of the Japanese Constitution’ having drafted the Meiji Constitution, 1890 Meiji Constitution of the Empire of Japan, Imperial JapanUCL. Retrieved on August 10, 2015.
/ref> * Jomo Kenyatta, considered the Father of the Nation, "Founding Father" of Kenya, first Prime Minister then President of Kenya (1963-1978) * Benedicto Kiwanuka (LLB, 1956), Chief Minister of the Uganda Protectorate then first Prime Minister of Uganda (1961-1962) * Junichiro Koizumi, Junichiro Koizumi (小泉純一郎) (Economics, 1969), former Prime Minister of Japan (2001-2006) * Charles Lilley, Sir Charles Lilley (Law), Premier of Queensland (1868-1870) * Kwame Nkrumah (Philosophy), considered "The Father of African Nationalism", first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast, then first Prime Minister of Ghana, Prime Minister and then first President of Ghana (1952-1966) * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, considered the Father of the Nation, "Founding Father" of Mauritius, Chief Minister of British Mauritius, then first Prime Minister of Mauritius, Prime Minister (1961-1982) and then Governor-General of Mauritius (1983–1985) *Patricia Scotland, Baroness Patricia Scotland (LLB), current Commonwealth Secretary General, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations (2016-) and former Attorney General of England and Wales (2007-2010) * Harold Bernard St. John, Sir Bernard St. John, former Prime Minister of Barbados (1985-1986) * Wu Tingfang, Tingfang Wu (伍廷芳), also Ng Choy (伍才), one of the first Premier of the Republic of China, Premiers of the Republic of China (1917)

Other politicians and public officials

* William Kwasi Aboah (LLM), Ghanaian politician and former Minister for the Interior (Ghana), Interior Minister * Kwame Addo-Kufuor (Medicine), former Minister for the Interior (Ghana), Minister for the Interior and Minister for Defence (Ghana), Minister for Defence of Ghana * Ryland Adkins, Sir Ryland Adkins (BA), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Solomon Adler (Economics), identified Soviet Union, Soviet Espionage, spy and economist at the United States Department of the Treasury, US Treasury Department * Richard Alexander (British politician), Richard Alexander (LLB), former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi (غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي) (PhD Law, 1970), former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Great Britain and Minister for Labor * Alex Allan, Sir Alex Allan (MSc Statistics, 1973), former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom), UK Joint Intelligence Committee * Heidi Allen (Astrophysics), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Ros Altmann, Baroness Ros Altmann (Economics and later lecturer), UK pensions expert and former government minister * Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, Peter Archer (LLB), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and Solicitor General for England and Wales * Edward Aveling (BSc Zoology, 1870), prominent UK socialist and founding member of the Socialist League (UK, 1885), UK Socialist League and Independent Labour Party * Barbara Ayrton-Gould, former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Baey Yam Keng (MSc, Economic Development Board scholarship), People's Action Party, Singaporean People's Action Party politician * Alan Baker (diplomat), Alan Baker (אלן בייקר) (LLB, 1969), international law expert and former Israeli Ambassador to Canada * Robin Baker (academic), Robin Baker (BA), former Deputy Director-General of The British Council and Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University * Millie Banerjee (BSc Zoology), public official and current Chairman of the British Transport Police Authority * Thomas Barclay (economic writer), Sir Thomas Barclay, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician, economic and international law expert and head of the British Chamber of Commerce * William Pell Barton, Sir William Barton, former British government official and diplomat of the Indian Political Service * Evangelos Basiakos, Evangelos Bassiakos (LLM), former Greece, Greek politician who served as government minister and MP of New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy * James Berry (politician), James Berry (LLB), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter, Liberal Democrats (UK), UK Liberal Democrat Party politician * John Albert Bright (BSc, 1867), former Liberal Unionist Party and Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Richard Briginshaw, Baron Briginshaw, Lord Richard Briginshaw (Diploma), former General Secretary of National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, NATSOPA and trade unionist * Rudranath Capildeo (BSc, MSc, PhD Mathematical Physics, 1948, and later lecturer), former Leader of the Opposition (Trinidad and Tobago), Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and leader of the Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago), Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago * Chang Tao-fan, Tao-fan Chang (張道藩) (Slade School of Fine Art, Fine Art), former President of the Legislative Yuan, President of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China * Cheng Tien-Hsi, Tien-Hsi Cheng (鄭天錫) (LLB, LLD, 1915), former Republic of China (1912–49), Chinese politician, Permanent Court of International Justice, World Court judge and the Republic of China (1912–49), last Ambassador of the Republic of China to the UK before the creation of the People's Republic of China. He was the first Chinese student to gain a doctorate in law from a British university. * Thérèse Coffey (BSc, PhD Chemistry), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK Deputy Prime Minister * Arthur Cohen (politician), Arthur Cohen, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Arthur Colegate, Sir Arthur Colegate, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Petrus Compton, Petrus "Papo" Compton (LLM), former Minister of Foreign and External Affairs of Saint Lucia * Edward Rider Cook (Chemistry), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet, first Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and first President of the Royal Philatelic Society London * Freda Corbet, former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * George Courtauld (MP), George Courtauld, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Sir Stafford Cripps (Chemistry), former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer * Charles Crompton, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Valerie Davey (PGCE, 1963), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Baron Davies of Oldham, Bryan Davies (BA History, PGCE, 1962), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Geoffrey Dear (LLB, 1962), former Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales * Frances D'Souza, Baroness Frances D'Souza (BSc Anthropology, 1970), second Lord Speaker, Lord Speaker of the UK House of Lords and scientist * Evan Durbin (Economics, Ricardo Scholarship, 1930?), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Endō Kinsuke, Kinsuke Endō (遠藤謹助) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), regarded as 'the Father of the modern Japanese mint’ as former head of the Japan Mint, Imperial Japanese Mint * Shreela Flather, Baroness Shreela Flather, first Asian women member of the House of Lords, UK House of Lords * Vincent Floissac (LLB), former President of the Politics of Saint Lucia, Saint Lucian Senate * Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi ( મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ) (Law), preeminent leader of the Indian Independence Movement * Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, Lord Peter Goldsmith (LLM), former Attorney General for England and Wales and Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, Lord Arnold Goodman (LLB), former lawyer, former Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and political advisor to politicians including Harold Wilson * Rupert Harrison, former Chief of Staff to Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (2006-2015) * Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, Lord Garry Hart, former Special advisers (UK government), Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor, UK Lord Chancellor * Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, Lord Farrer Herschell (BA, 1857), former Lord Chancellor, UK Lord Chancellor * Lin Homer (LLB), former Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs, UK HM Revenue and Customs * Bola Ige (LLB, 1959), former Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria (2000–2001) * Annuar Musa, former Ministry of Youth and Sports (Malaysia), Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (1990–1993), former Minister of Rural Development (1993–1999), former Minister of Federal Territories (2020–2021), Minister of Communications and Multimedia (2021–) * Khairy Jamaluddin (MA Legal and Political Theory, 1998), former Ministry of Youth and Sports (Malaysia), Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (2013-2018), former Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation (2020-2021), Minister of Health (2021-) * Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, "J.B." Jeyaretnam (LLB), former leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore and Secretary-General of the Reform Party (Singapore), Reform Party * David Jones (MP for Clwyd West), David Jones (LLB), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and government minister. Former Secretary of State for Wales * Helen Jones (BA), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Inoue Kaoru, Kaoru Inoue (井上馨) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), first Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Foreign Minister of Imperial Japan credited as ‘the Father of modern Japanese diplomacy' * Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat), Masaru Inoue (井上勝) (Civil engineering and mining, as one of the "Chōshū Five"), credited as 'the Father of the Japanese railway' having been the first Director of the Railway Board of Empire of Japan, Imperial Japan * Prince Philip of Yugoslavia, Prince Philip Karađorđević of Yugoslavia and Serbia (BA) * James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale, James Kitson (Chemistry and Natural Sciences), former President of the Liberal Party, President of the UK Liberal Party and first Lord Mayor of Leeds * Sylvia Lim (LLM, 1989), chairman of the Workers' Party of Singapore * Ian Luder (BA Economics and Economic History), UK tax expert and former Lord Mayor of the City of London * Nicholas Macpherson, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Permanent Secretary to the UK Treasury * Stavros Malas (BSc, PhD Genetics), former List of Ministers of Health of the Republic of Cyprus, Minister of Health of Cyprus and Progressive Party of Working People, Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) politician * Augustus Raymond Margary, Augustus Margary, former UK diplomat, and whose murder caused the Margary Affair, 1875 "Margary Affair" * Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney, Brian Mawhinney (PhD Radiation Physics, 1969), former Chairman of the Conservative Party, Chairman of the UK Conservative Party and Secretary of State for Transport * Alison McGovern (Philosophy), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Fiona Mactaggart (PGCE), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister * Steve Dick Tennyson Matenje, Steve Matenje, Malawian civil servant and Permanent Representative to the United Nations * Tom McNally, Baron McNally, Lord Tom McNally (LLB), Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Leader of the House of Lords, Deputy Leader of the UK House of Lords. He was President of the University College London Union * William Stevenson Meyer, Sir William Meyer, first High Commission of India to the United Kingdom, High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (1920-1922) * Amanda Milling (Economics and Statistics, 1997), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Edwin Samuel Montagu, Edwin Montagu, former Secretary of State for India, UK Secretary of State for India, Minister of Munitions and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Anil Moonesinghe (LLB), Sri Lankan government minister and Trotskyism, Trotskyist politician * Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton, Baroness Sally Morgan (MA Education), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former Chair of Ofsted * Mori Arinori, Arinori Mori (森有礼), first Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Japanese Ambassador to the USA and founder of Japan's modern educational system as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Minister of Education * Paul Myners, Baron Myners, Lord Paul Myners (BA Education, PGCE), UK businessman and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury ("City Minister") * Stan Newens, Labour Co-operative, UK Labour Co-operative politician and chair of the European Parliamentary Labour Party * Jesse Norman (MPhil, PhD Philosophy, 2003, and later lecturer), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and government minister * Harry Nkumbula (Diploma), Northern Rhodesian/Zambian nationalist leader * John Olumba (Law), United States, American Independent Democratic Party (USA), Democratic politician and Michigan House of Representatives, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives * Stephen Owen (politician), Stephen Owen (LLM, 1974), Minister of Western Economic Diversification (Canada), Minister of Western Economic Diversification of Canada and Minister of State (Canada), Minister of State for Sport * Aziz Pahad (Diploma in International Relations, 1966), South African African National Congress, ANC Party politician and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999-2008) * Michael Palmer (politician), Michael Palmer (LLB, 1992), former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore * Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet, Sir Walter Palmer, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and biscuit manufacturer * Pambos Papageorgiou (PhD Political Philosophy), Progressive Party of Working People, AKEL Party of Cyprus politician * Michalis Papapetrou, Cypriot politician and former President of the United Democrats, United Democrat Party of Cyprus * Muhammad Ali Pate, former Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria), Minister of State for Health of Nigeria (2011-2013) and now Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University's Global Health Institute * Andrew Pattulo, Canadians, Canadian former Ontario Liberal Party politician Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario * Bernard Peiris (LLB), former Cabinet Secretary of Ceylon, who drafted the 'Ceylon Order in Council', the first constitution of independent Ceylon * Colin Phipps (BSc Geology, 1955), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party and Social Democratic Party (UK), UK Social Democratic Party politician * Thomas Bayley Potter, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Robert John Price, Sir Robert John Price (Medicine, 1876), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * William Edwin Price (BA, 1959), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Murad Qureshi (MSc Environmental Economics), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former Member of the London Assembly * Yasmin Qureshi (LLM), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * John Randall (British politician), Sir John Randall (Serbo-Croat Language and Literature, 1979), former Deputy Chief Whip, Government Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons * Kulveer Ranger (Architecture, 1996), former advisor, Director of Transport Policy and then Environment for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson * Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings, Baroness Patricia Rawlings, Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Andrew Reid (lawyer), Andrew Reid (LLB), lawyer, horse racing trainer and current treasurer of the UK Independence Party * Winston Roddick (LLB), current Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales Police (2012-) * William Anderson Rose, Sir William Rose, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and Lord Mayor of London (1862) * Christos Rozakis (LLM, 1970), former Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece), Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe and first Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights * Sydney Russell-Wells, Sir Sydney Russell-Wells (BSc, 1889), former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London * James Rutherford (Canadian politician), James Rutherford, former Canadians, Canadian Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party politician * John Salmond (judge), Sir John Salmond (LLB, Gilchrist Educational Trust, Gilchrist scholarship), former Solicitor-General of New Zealand (1910-1920). He represented New Zealand at the Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922). * Ernest Satow, Sir Ernest Satow, former British Ambassador to Japan and British Ambassador to China, the UCL Faculty of Laws, UCL Chair of Japanese Law is named after him * John Edward Sears (Architecture), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and architect * Navin Shah, Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and Member of the London Assembly * Tulip Siddiq (BA English Literature), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Sarup Singh (PhD English Literature, 1953), former Governor of Gujarat (1990-1995) and Governor of Kerala (1990) * Henry Smith (British politician), Henry Smith (Philosophy), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Arthur Snelling, Sir Arthur Snelling, former List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa, UK Ambassador to South Africa (1970-1973) and List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Ghana, UK High Commissioner to Ghana (1959-1961) * Anthony Steen (LLB), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, Lord William Strang, former Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign Office (1949-1953) and diplomat. He sat on the UCL college committee. * Frederick William Strange, F.W. Strange (Medicine), former Canadians, Canadian Liberal-Conservative Party politician * Dudley Stewart-Smith, Sir Dudley Stewart-Smith (LLB), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Colin Sutton (LLB, 1970), former Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Assistant Commissioner (Personnel and Training) of the London Metropolitan Police (1987-1988) and Director of the Police Scientific Development Branch at the Home Office, UK Home Office (1991-1993) * Sir Charles Swann, 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Swann, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Manuela Sykes, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and dementia campaigner * Ernest Symons, former Director-General of the Board of the Inland Revenue, UK Inland Revenue * William Ngartse Thomas Tam (LLB, 1923), former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and judge * Sarah Teather (PhD, did not graduate), Liberal Democrats (UK), UK Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Department for Education, Minister of State for Children and Families (2010-2012) * Tan Boon Teik (LLB, LLM, 1953), former Attorney-General of Singapore (1967-1992) * Terashima Munenori, Munenori Terashima (寺島宗則), former Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese diplomat * Stephen Terrell, former President of the Liberal Party, President of the UK Liberal Party (1971-1972) * Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenny Tonge (MB BS, 1964), independent (former Liberal Democrats (UK), UK Liberal Democrat Party) politician * Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe, Lord Denis Tunnicliffe (BSc Mathematics, 1965), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in House of Lords * Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Public Policy and Economics), Greeks, Greek politician and Governor of Central Macedonia (2013-) * Jan Vincent-Rostowski (BSc, MA Economy and History, 1964), Poles, Polish politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Ministry of Finance (Poland), Finance Minister * V. Viswanathan, Governor of Kerala, India (1967-1973) * Makis Voridis, Makis Voridis (Μαυρουδής (Μάκης) Χρήστου Βορίδης) (LLM), Greeks, Greek politician and former Ministry of Health and Social Security (Greece), Minister for Health * William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, William Wedgwood-Benn, Viscount Stansgate, former Secretary of State for India, UK Secretary of State for India and Secretary of State for Air * George Hammond Whalley (Metaphysics and Rhetoric), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * John Whittingdale (Economics, 1982), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport * Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan, Lord Michael Williams (BSc, 1971), former Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process * Henry Wilson-Fox, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician, businessman and associate of Cecil Rhodes * Henry Winterbotham (BA, LLB, 1959, Hume Scholar and University Law Scholar), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department * Thomas McKinnon Wood, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary for Scotland and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Sidney Woolf, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Iain Wright (BA, MA History, 1995), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister * Durmuş Yılmaz (MA), Turkish people, Turkish Nationalist Movement Party politician and former List of Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey, Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey (2006-2011) * David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham, Lord David Young (LLB), former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Secretary of State for Employment. He was Chairman of the UCL Council from 1995 to 2005. * Yamao Yōzō, Yamao Yōzō (尾庸三) (Science and industry, as one of the "Chōshū Five"), former Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese government minister credited as 'the Father of Japanese engineering' * Nadhim Zahawi (BSc Chemical Engineering), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer

Explorers

* Pen Hadow – British polar explorer and author

Royalty

* Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra (PhD History) - Current Crown Prince of Kelantan, one of the Crown Princes of Malaysia, as a federal constitutional monarchy

Lawyers and judges

Literary figures and authors

* Gabriela Aguileta (PhD Genetics), author and scientist * Karim Alrawi, playwright and writer * Mulk Raj Anand, M. R. Anand, writer and pioneer of the English novel in India * Kofi Awoonor (MA), Ghanaian poet, academic and politician * Julian Baggini (PhD Philosophy, 1996), philosopher and author * Antonia Barber, author of books for children and adults * Pat Barr (writer) * Raymond Briggs * Robert Browning * G. K. Chesterton * Paul Cornell (did not graduate) * Bernard Cornwell (BA History, 1966), author of historical fiction *

* Nigel Davies (historian), Nigel Davies (PhD Archaeology), historian of pre-Columbian America and former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত)) (later Professor of Indian History), Indian people, Indian civil servant and writer who translated the ''

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(1899). * Geoffrey Elton, Sir Geoffrey Elton (PhD History, 1949), prominent political historian of the Tudor period * Ken Follett * Clare Francis * Stella Gibbons * David Irving (Political Economy), Holocaust denial, Holocaust denier and author * Laila Lalami * David Lodge (author), David Lodge, author * Dimitris Lyacos * David Magarshack, biographer and translator of Russian authors * Jon de Burgh Miller * Jonathan Miller * Gladys Mitchell * Bel Mooney * Blake Morrison * Ian Mortimer (historian), Ian Mortimer (MA), historian and historical fiction author * Jim Smith (writer), Jim Smith, writer * Michael Smith (writer), Michael Smith, author of The Giro Playboy etc. * Natsume Sōseki, Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912) * Marie Stopes, writer, scientist and activist * Rabindranath Tagore (Law, did not graduate), Bengalis, Bengali poet and polymath. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913). *Tom Knox (author), Sean Thomas journalist and novelist * Ken Wiwa * Jerrold Yam, Singaporean poet and lawyer

Film, television, theatre and radio

* Ken Adam, Sir Ken Adam (Architecture), Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning film production designer famous for designing the sets for various James Bond films (including the first Dr. No (film), ''Dr. No'') and the famous car for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film), ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' * Jassa Ahluwalia (Spanish and Russian), actor * Babar Ahmed (director), Babar Ahmed, film director * Franny Armstrong (Zoology), documentary film director * Ikenna Azuike (LLB with French Law), TV broadcaster and presenter of ''What’s Up Africa'' * David Baddiel, comedian and television presenter * Guy de la Bédoyère (MA Archaeology, 1987), historian, TV personality and ''Time Team'' historical expert * Brooke Burfitt, actress and radio presenter * George Clarke (architect), George Clarke (Postgraduate Diploma), architect and TV presenter of shows including ''George Clarke's Amazing Spaces'' * Nat Coombs, presenter, writer & comedian * Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the ''Teletubbies'' * Andrew Davies (writer), Andrew Davies (BA English, 1957), novelist and screenplay writer. His famous works include ''Mr Selfridge'', ''House of Cards (UK TV series), House of Cards (UK)'' and a 1995 adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Pride and Prejudice''. * Ptolemy Dean (Architecture), architect and TV presenter * Naamua Delaney (LLB), news presenter * Felix Dexter (LLB), actor and comedian * Clarissa Dickson-Wright (LLB), celebrity chef, writer and TV personality * Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter * Frank Dunlop (director), Frank Dunlop, former Director of the Edinburgh International Festival; founder and former Director, The Young Vic. [1979] * Jane Fallon, English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series ''Teachers'', ''20 Things To Do Before You're 30'', ''EastEnders'' and ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life''. * Trey Farley, television presenter. * Honey G (rapper), Honey G, Rap music artist, X Factor 2016 Debut * Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of ''The Office (UK TV series), The Office'' (studied biology and philosophy) * Peter Ginn, archaeologist, historian, author and presenter of " Victorian Farm", "Edwardian Farm", "Wartime Farm" * Rachel Hurd-Wood, actress; best known for playing Wendy Darling at the 2003 film ''Peter Pan (2003 film), Peter Pan'' * Amy Jenkins, creator of ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life'' *

, medical doctor and television presenter * Griffith Jones (actor), Griffith Jones, actor * James Robertson Justice, actor * Dominic Keating, actor, including in ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' * Trevor Lock, comedian and actor * Philip Mackie, film and television writer * Jeremy Marre, film director * Steph McGovern, ''BBC Breakfast'' television presenter * Oliver Messel, influential leading stage designer * Fiona Millar, journalist and campaigner on Education in the United Kingdom, education and parenting issues * Karen Mok, Hong Kong diva and movie star * Michael J. Mosley, psychiatrist and TV presenter * Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader * Mary Nighy, actress * Christopher Nolan (English, 1993), Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated director of films including ''Inception'', ''Interstellar (film), Interstellar'', ''Memento (film), Memento'' and ''The Dark Knight Trilogy'' * Sean O'Connor (producer), Sean O'Connor, television and radio producer *

, psychiatrist and broadcaster * Mark Porter (general practitioner), Mark Porter, doctor, journalist and TV presenter * Jonathan Ross (television presenter), Jonathan Ross (Modern European History), TV presenter * Adam Rutherford, TV presenter and editor for the journal ''Nature'' * Irene Shubik, television producer * Michael Smith (writer), Michael Smith, writer and broadcaster * Suzie Templeton, Academy Award, Academy Award-winning writer, director and animator, including ''Peter and the Wolf (2006 film), Peter and the Wolf'' * Fagun Thakrar, actor and writer-director * Emma Thomas (UCL History 1993), producer at Warner Brothers * Matthew Vaughn (Anthropology and Ancient History), producer and director of films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake (film), Layer Cake X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service * Arthur Wimperis, Academy Award-winning screenwriter * Patrick Wymark, actor * Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian

Editors, journalists and publishers

* Fiona Armstrong (German literature), journalist * Walter Bagehot, former editor of ''The Economist'' * Christopher Paul Baker, travel writer, photographer, and adventure motorcyclist * Victoria Barnsley, Editor-in-Chief at HarperCollins * Jeremy Bowen, journalist, BBC Middle East editor * Sarah Cullen (BA English, 1972), radio and TV journalist * John Derbyshire, essayist, novelist, popularizer of mathematics history * Sara Edwards (BA Medieval and Modern History), journalist and former presenter of ''BBC Wales Today'' * Nicholas Garland, first and current political cartoonist, ''The Daily Telegraph'' * A. A. Gill, columnist, ''The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times'' (Slade School of Fine Art) * Jeanne Hoban, ''The Ceylon Observer'', ''Jana'', ''The Patriot'', ''The Nation'' (all Sri Lanka); Anglo-Sri Lankan Trotskyist trade unionist and political activist * Richard Holt Hutton, Richard Hutton, former editor of ''The Economist'' * Nicholas de Jongh, drama critic, ''The London Evening Standard'' * Mark Lawson, columnist, ''

''; radio and television presenter * Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton, former editor of ''The Economist'' * Vivienne Parry, journalist, ''The Times'' and BBC * Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor, ''The Sunday Times'' * Nick Paton Walsh, 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Emmy award-winning Senior International correspondent at CNN * L. J. K. Setright: writer and journalist * Carol Thatcher (LLB), journalist, author, media personality and daughter of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher * Michael White (journalist), Michael White, political editor, ''

'' * Petronella Wyatt, writer, ''The Spectator''

Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators

* Brett Anderson, Suede (band), Suede * Sophie Barker, singer, occasional vocalist for Zero 7 and Groove Armada (did not graduate) * Guy Berryman, Coldplay * Jonny Buckland, Coldplay * Will Champion, Coldplay * David Conway (music historian) * John Curwen, proponent of tonic sol-fa * Kathleen Dale née Richards, translator, musicologist, composer and pianist (Swedish: 1926–8) * Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif (singer), Zarif * Justine Frischmann, Elastica * Leonard Feather, jazz musician, composer, and writer (1932) * Joshua Hayward, The Horrors * Philip Heseltine ''aka'' Peter Warlock, composer and music critic (English) * Gustav Holst, composer and teacher (Sanskrit, 1909) * Ravi Kesavaram, My Vitriol * Chris Martin, Coldplay * Jack Peñate, singer-songwriter * Tim Rice-Oxley, Keane (band), Keane * Harold Rosenthal, music critic * Som Wardner, My Vitriol *Mary Louisa White, composer * Benjamin Zander, conductor, Boston Philharmonic * Charlotte Emma Aitchison (Charli XCX), hyperpop musician

Philanthropists, cultural, educational, military and religious figures

* Barnett Abrahams (BA), former Principal of the London School of Jewish Studies and the first English Jewish minister to hold a British university degree * Kaniz Ali (LLB, 2007), entrepreneur, makeup artist and columnist * Zaki Badawi, Sheikh Zaki Badawi (BSc Psychology, 1954), Egyptians, Egyptian Islamic scholar, interfaith-dialogue activist and founder of the Muslim College in London * Ben Barkow, writer and director of the Wiener Library * Lynne Brindley, former Chief Executive of the British Library * George Cassidy (bishop), George Cassidy (MPhil, 1967), former Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham * Brian Castle, current Bishop of Tonbridge * Isaac Cohen, former Chief Rabbi#Ireland, Chief Rabbi of Ireland * Altheia Jones-LeCointe, activist and leader of Black Panther Party in the UK in 1960s and 1970s * Barry Morgan (bishop), Barry Morgan, current Archbishop of Wales * Hugh Price Hughes, Hugh Price-Hughes, Methodist theologian * Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake (Medicine), soldier who received both the Victoria Cross and the Medal bar, Bar * Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley (British Army officer), Jonathon Riley (Geography), former Master of the Royal Armouries (2009-2012) and Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (2008-2009) * Jackie Tabick (BA Medieval History), the first British woman Rabbi * F. Sherwood Taylor (PhD History of Science), former Director of the Science Museum, London (1950-1956) * Sonia Solicari, Director of the Museum of the Home * Henry Solly, founder of Working Men's Club and Institute Union; an important advocate for the extension of working class political rights, and helping to set up the Charity Organisation Society * Samuel Taylor (bishop), Samuel Bishop, former Bishop of Kingston (1915-1921) and Dean and Canons of Windsor, Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (1921-1929) * Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth

Sporting figures

* Donald Barrell (Anthropology), rugby union player formerly of Saracens F.C. *

, founder of

* Samuel Azu Crabbe (LLB), former Chief Justice of Ghana and President of the National Olympic Committee of Ghana * Ewan Davies (LLB), former Wales national rugby union team, Welsh rugby union international * David Gower, cricketer and former England Captain * Isa Guha, cricketer, England Women's * Patrick Head, co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1 * Christine Ohuruogu, sprinter and World Athletics Championships, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games 400 metres champion * Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent, cricketer, England Women's * Gayatri Reddy (socialite), Gayatri Reddy (BSc Construction Management), former owner of now-defunct Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League * Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Nathaniel "Noddy" Reilly-O'Donnell, rower, 2006 World Junior Champion and silver medallist at the 2011 World Rowing Championships * Peter Short (field hockey), Peter Short (Master's in International Planning), Canadians, Canadian international and Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Olympic field hockey player * Andrew Simpson (sailor), Andrew Simpson (Economics),

Olympic Games Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star, Men's Star sailing gold medalist (2008) * Dawson Turner (rugby union), Dawson Turner (Medicine), rugby union international who represented England (1871–75). * Demetrius Vikelas (Botany), first President of the International Olympic Committee (1894-1896) * Maurice Watkins (solicitor), Maurice Watkins (LLB, LLM), Director of Manchester United's football board and club's solicitor * Robin Williams (rowing coach), Robin Williams, professional rowing (sport), rowing coach for Team GB and former competitive World Championships rower * Melanie Wilson (rower), Melanie Wilson (Master's in Biochemical Engineering),

rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls, Women's quadruple sculls

Fictional figures

Fictional alumni and students

* Pat Barker, Pat Barker's novels, ''Life Class'' and ''Toby's Room'', follows students and teachers at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Slade School of Fine Art * Protagonist/s in Gilbert Cannan's ''Mendel'' * Lara Croft, protagonist of the Square Enix (previously Eidos Interactive) video game franchise ''Tomb Raider'' * Molly MacDonald in ''Monarch of the Glen (TV series), Monarch of the Glen'' is a former Slade School of Fine Art, Slade School student

References

External links

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