The following people spent time at 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 ...

as either teaching staff or students. In 2015 there were a total of around 2 million University of London alumni across the world. Until year 2008, all colleges within the federal collegiate system, solely awarded

degree. From 2003 onwards some colleges received their own degree-awarding powers. However, these were held in abeyance until 2008, when a number of colleges began to award their own degrees.

Nobel Laureates

There are a total of 84 Nobel Laureates who were either students or staff members at the University of London. Their respective college or colleges is shown in the parenthesis. The following table shows the number of Nobel Laureates from each college: There are also many non-formal graduates of the University of London who have been awarded honorary degrees and doctorates to

Nobel Laureates The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make ou ...

. Notable names include

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

(Hon. DSc), Shirin Ebadi (Hon. LLD),

George Akerlof George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

(Hon. DSc), Robert Mundell (Hon. DSc), Muhammad Yunus (Hon. DSc)

Politicians and Heads of State

Monarchs and Royalty

* Tuanku Jaafar – King of Malaysia, 1994–1999 (LSE) * Letsie III of Lesotho – King of Lesotho * Margrethe II of Denmark – Queen of Denmark, 1972–present (LSE) * Sultan Salahuddin – King of Malaysia 1999–2001 (SOAS) * Princess Beatrice of York - Member of British royal family (Goldsmiths) *

Princess Laurentien Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (née Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst; born 25 May 1966) is the wife of Prince Constantijn and sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. Early life Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst was born in ...

- Wife of

Prince Constantijn Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (''Constantijn Christof Frederik Aschwin''; born 11 October 1969) is the third and youngest son of the former Dutch queen, Beatrix, and her husband, Claus von Amsberg, and is the younger brother of the reig ...

(QMUL) * Napoléon, Prince Imperial – son of Emperor Napoleon III (KCL) * Haakon Magnus – Crown Prince of Norway (LSE) * Mette-Marit – Crown Princess of Norway (SOAS) * Abdulaziz bin Turki al Faisal – Grandson of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (SOAS) *

Prince Prisdang Prince Prisdang ( th, พระวรวงศ์เธอ พระองค์เจ้าปฤษฎางค์; ; 23 February 1851 – 16 March 1935) was a member of the family of the Chakri Dynasty of Siam and a Thai diplomat. Early life ...

– member of the

Thai Thai or THAI may refer to: * Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia ** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand ** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand *** Thai script *** Thai (Unicode block ...

royal family (KCL)

Presidents and prime ministers

* Hossein Ala' – Prime Minister of Iran *

A.N.R. Robinson Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson (16 December 1926 – 9 April 2014; known as A. N. R. or "Ray" Robinson), was the third President of Trinidad and Tobago, serving from 19 March 1997 to 17 March 2003. He was also Trinidad and Tobago's third Prime ...

– Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1986–1981, and President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997–2003 *

Natalia Gherman Natalia Gherman (; born 20 March 1969) is a Moldovan politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration and Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova from May 2013 to January 2016. She has served as Special Representative of th ...

– Acting Prime Minister of Moldova, 2015 (KCL) * Harmodio Arias – President of Panama, 1932–1936 (LSE) * Óscar Arias – President of Costa Rica, 1986–1990, 2006–Present (LSE) * Marouf al-Bakhit – Prime Minister of Jordan, 2005–2007 (KCL) *

Errol Walton Barrow Errol Walton Barrow (21 January 1920 – 1 June 1987) was a Barbadian statesman and the first prime minister of Barbados. Born into a family of political and civic activists in the parish of Saint Lucy, he became a WWII aviator, combat vete ...

– Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962–1966, 1966–1976, 1986–1987 (LSE) *

Sükhbaataryn Batbold Sükhbaataryn Batbold ( mn, Сүхбаатарын Батболд, born June 24, 1963) is a prominent Mongolian political figure and leader, who was Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2009 to 2012, as well as Chairman of the Mongolian People's Part ...

– Prime Minister of Mongolia, 2009–present (LBS) *

Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz (Arabic: عبد الرحمن البزاز; 20 February 1913 – 28 June 1973) was an Iraqi politician, reformist and writer. He was a pan-Arab nationalist and served as the Dean of Baghdad Law College and later as Prime ...

– Prime Minister of Iraq, 1965–1966 (KCL) * Marek Belka – Prime Minister of Poland, 2004–2005 (LSE) * Godfrey Binaisa – President of Uganda, 1979–1980 (KCL) * Heinrich Brüning – Chancellor of Germany, 1930–1932 (LSE) *

Kim Campbell Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and so far only female p ...

– Prime Minister of Canada, June–November 1993 (LSE) *

Eugenia Charles Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. The first female lawyer in Dominica, she was Dominica's first, and to date only, fe ...

– Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980–1995 (LSE) * Ellis Clarke – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1976–1987 (UCL) *

John Compton Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first Prime Minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...

– Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964–1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February–July 1979 & 1982–1996 (LSE) * Sher Bahadur Deuba – Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995–1997, 2001–2002, 2004–2005 (LSE) *

Luisa Diogo Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa (Portuguese) or Louise ( French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlod ...

– Prime Minister of

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

, 1991–1992 (SOAS) *

Bülent Ecevit Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in ...

– former Prime Minister of Turkey (SOAS) * Robert Fico – current Prime Minister of

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

(UCL) *

Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to beco ...

– Prime Minister of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

1984–1989 (ICL) *

Chaim Herzog Major-General Chaim Herzog ( he, חיים הרצוג; 17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) was an Irish-born Israeli politician, general, lawyer and author who served as the sixth President of Israel between 1983 and 1993. Born in Belfast and ...

– President of

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

1983–1993 (UCL) * Hirobumi Ito –

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, 1885–1888, 1892–1896, 1898, 1900–1901 (UCL) *

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (; born 26 June 1968) is an Icelandic historian and politician serving as the sixth and current president of Iceland. He took office in 2016 after winning the most votes in the 2016 election, 71,356 (39.1%). He wa ...

– Icelandic politician; President of Iceland (2016-) (QMUL) *

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...

– President of the United States of America 1961–1963 (LSE) *

Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta (22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous ...

– first President of

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

, 1964–1978 (LSE) *

Mwai Kibaki Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013 and is regarded as one of Kenya's founding fathers. He had previously ser ...

– President of Kenya, 2002–present (LSE) * Glafcos Klerides – President of Cyprus, 1993–2003 (KCL) * Junichiro Koizumi – Prime Minister of Japan, 2001–2006 ( UCL) *

Thanin Kraivichien Thanin Kraivichien (first name also spelled ''Tanin'', last name ''Kraivixien'' or ''Kraivichian''; th, ธานินทร์ กรัยวิเชียร, , ; born 5 April 1927) is a Thai former judge, politician and law professor. He ...

– Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976–1977 (LSE) * Yu Kuo-Hwa – Premier of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, 1984–1989 (LSE) *

Hilla Limann Hilla Limann, (12 December 1934 – 23 January 1998) was a Ghanaian diplomat and politician who served the President of Ghana from 24 September 1979 to 31 December 1981. He served as a diplomat in Lome, Togo and Geneva, Switzerland. Education ...

– President of

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 ...

, 1979–1981 (LSE) *

Alfonso López Pumarejo Alfonso López Pumarejo (31 January 1886 – 20 November 1959) was a Colombian political figure, who twice served as President of Colombia, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as President of Colombia for the first time between ...

– President of

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, 1934–1938, 1942–1945 (LSE) *

Ramsay MacDonald James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...

– Prime Minister of the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

, 1924, 1929–1935 (BBK) * Michael Manley – Prime Minister of

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

, 1972–1980, 1989–1992 (LSE) *

Kamisese Mara Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) was a Fijian politician, who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the fi ...

– Prime Minister of Fiji 1970–1992, President of Fiji 1994–2000 (LSE) * Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud – President of

Somaliland Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a ''de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still conside ...

(LSE) *

Sir Lee Moore Sir Lee Llewellyn Moore (15 February 1939 – 6 May 2000) served as Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 20 May 1979 to 21 February 1980. He was a member of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party. He graduated with an LLB from King's Colleg ...

– Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1979–1980 (KCL) * Robert Mugabe – President of Zimbabwe (ULIP) *

Kocheril Raman Narayanan Kocheril Raman Narayanan (27 October 1921 – 9 November 2005) was an Indian statesman, diplomat, academic, and politician who served as the 9th Vice President of India from 1992 to 1997 and 10th President of India from 1997 to 2002 . Born i ...

– President of India, 1997–2002 (LSE) *

Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah (born 21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An in ...

– President of Ghana, 1960–1966 (LSE) * Basdeo Panday – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1995–2001 *

Tassos Papadopoulos Efstathios "Tassos" Nikolaou Papadopoulos ( el, Ευστάθιος (Τάσσος) Νικολάου Παπαδόπουλος; 7 January 1934 – 12 December 2008) was a Cypriot politician and barrister who served as the fifth president of Cyp ...

– President of Cyprus, 2003–2008 (KCL) * Percival Patterson – Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992–2006 (LSE) *

Sir Lynden Pindling Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, NH, KCMG, PC, JP (22 March 193026 August 2000) was a Bahamian politician who is regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to majority rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 Jul ...

– Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 1969–1992 (KCL) *

Romano Prodi Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prim ...

– Prime Minister of Italy, 1996–1998, 2006–present, President of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

, 1999–2004 (LSE) *

Navinchandra Ramgoolam Navinchandra Ramgoolam, GCSK, FRCP (born 14 July 1947) is a Mauritian politician who was former Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2005 to 2014 and leader of the Labour Party (Mauritius). He was Leader of the Opposition from 1991 to 1995. He ser ...

– Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995–2000 (LSE) *

France-Albert René France-Albert René (; 16 November 1934 – 27 February 2019) was a Seychellois lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the second President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He also served as the country's 2nd Prime Minister from its in ...

– Prime Minister of Seychelles 1976–1977, and President of Seychelles 1977–2004 (KCL) *

Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, GCMG, GCSK, QC, (born Vīracāmi Riṅkāṭu; 20 October 1920 – 9 September 2000) was a Mauritian politician, minister, the sixth and last governor-general of Mauritius from 1986 to 1992, and then the first presid ...

– first President of Mauritius, March–June 1992 (LSE) * Moshe Sharett – Prime Minister of

, 1953–1955 (LSE) *

Constantine Simitis Konstantinos G. Simitis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Σημίτης; born 23 June 1936), usually referred to as Costas Simitis or Kostas Simitis (Κώστας Σημίτης), is a Greece, Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of ...

– Prime Minister of

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

, 1996–2004 (LSE) * Anote Tong – President of

Kiribati Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...

, 2003–present (LSE) *

Pierre Trudeau Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada The prime mini ...

– Prime Minister of

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

, 1968–1979, 1980–1984 (LSE) *

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...

– incumbent State Counsellor of

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

* Htin Kyaw –

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and incumbent President of Myanmar

Other prominent political figures

Masidi Manjun Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun (born 1 June 1951) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the State Minister of Local Government and Housing from 2020 to 2023 and State Minister of Finance since January 2023 in the Gabungan Rakyat Saba ...

- State Minister of Local Government and Housing. Sabah, Malaysia *

V. K. Krishna Menon Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, politician, and non-career diplomat. He was described by some as the second most powerful man in India, after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawa ...

- 3rd

Defence Minister A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...

of India (UCL, LSE) * Achim Steiner - Administrator of the

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

Kemal Derviş Kemal Derviş (; born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development ass ...

- Administrator of the

(2005 to 2009) * David Nabarro - Special Adviser to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

Secretary-General Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

on the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked objectives designed to serve as a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future".United Nations (2017) R ...

and Climate Change *

Nitin Desai Nitin Desai is an Indian economist and international civil servant. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003. Early life and academic career He was born to Dayalji M. and Shantab ...

Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (1992 to 2003) *

Jamal Benomar Jamal Benomar ( ar, جمال بنعمر; born c. April 1957) is a former UN diplomat. He worked at the UN for 25 years, including as a special envoy for Yemen and a special adviser to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Early life and educat ...

Under-Secretary-General *

Mark Lowcock Sir Mark Andrew Lowcock (born 25 July 1962) is a British economist and accountant who served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (the head of the United Nations Office for the ...

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator is a high-level position in the United Nations that heads the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The current holder is Martin Griffiths of th ...

John Hocking John Hocking (born 6 August 1957) of Australia is the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He served concurrently as the Registrar of the Mechanism for I ...

Assistant Secretary-General *

Julian Harston Julian Harston (born 20 October 1942 in Nairobi, Kenya), son of Colonel Clive Harston, King's African Rifles, is an independent consultant on International Peace and Security matters. He retired as an Assistant Secretary-General in the United N ...

Assistant Secretary-General *

Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is currently ...

– American politician (LSE) * Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison – British minister (QMUL) *

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...

– architect of the Indian Constitution, Indian independence leader, minister and anti-caste system activist (LSE) *

Obed Asamoah Obed Yao Asamoah (born 6 February 1936) is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic and politician. Asamoah was the longest serving foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana under Jerry Rawlings from 1981 to 1997. Asamoah was educated at King's Coll ...

– Ghanaian Foreign Minister (KCL) * Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt (KCL) *

Cherie Booth Cherie, Lady Blair, (; born 23 September 1954), also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is an English barrister and writer. She is married to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Tony Blair. Early life and education Booth ...

– wife of British Prime Minister

Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...

(LSE) * Martin Bourke – Governor of The Turks and Caicos Islands (KCL) * Ed Broadbent – Canadian political leader (LSE) * Dame Lois Browne-Evans – Bermudian opposition leader (KCL) * Rudranath Capildeo – Leader of the Opposition of the Commonwealth of Trinidad and Tobago *

Maragatham Chandrasekhar Maragatham Chandrasekar (11 November 1917 – 26 October 2001) was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Personal life Maragatham Chandrasekar was born Maragatham Muniswami to Vidwan Kalathur Mun ...

– Indian Cabinet Minister (KCL) *

Michael Collins Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to: * Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician * Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Ge ...

– Irish independence leader (KCL) * Sir John Cockburn – Premier of South Australia *

Abdulai Conteh Abdulai Osman Conteh (born 5 August 1945) is a lawyer and politician from Sierra Leone. He is a former vice president of Sierra Leone, who served under President Joseph Saidu Momoh before he was ousted by the military junta in 1992. Conteh later ...

– Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL) * Sir Stafford Cripps – former Chancellor of the Exchequer (UCL) * David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone – British politician, member of the House of Lords (QMUL) *

Edwina Currie Edwina Currie (' Cohen; born 13 October 1946) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two year ...

– British minister (LSE) *

Hugh Dalton Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, (16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party economist and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. He shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 1 ...

–

Chancellor of the Exchequer The chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the Chancellor is ...

(LSE) * Joseph B. Dauda – Sierra Leonean Finance Minister (KCL) *

–

Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

politician and senior UN administrator *

Frank Dobson Frank Gordon Dobson (15 March 1940 – 11 November 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015, he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 ...

– British minister (LSE) *

Marlene Malahoo Forte Marlene Patricia Malahoo Forte is a Jamaican politician. She currently serves as Jamaica's Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs and was the Attorney General of Jamaica from 7 March 2016 to 10 January 2022. She served as a Senator for ...

– Jamaican Foreign Minister (KCL) *

– Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova (KCL) *

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

– Indian Independence Leader (UCL) *

Marc Grossman Marc Isaiah Grossman (born September 23, 1951) is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Politica ...

– American Under Secretary of State * Sir Sydney Gun-Munro – Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (KCL) * Peter Hain, Baron Hain – British minister and anti-

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

campaigner (QMUL) *

Peter Hennessy Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, (born 28 March 1947) is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary Unive ...

, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield – British politician, member of the House of Lords (QMUL) *

Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, (2 November 1837 – 1 March 1899), was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895. Life Childhood and education Herschell was born on 2 November 1837 in Brampton, Hampsh ...

–

Lord Chancellor The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The ...

(UCL) *

Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar Ajay Kumar Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, (born 28 April 1964) is professor of surgery at University College London. Early life and education Ajay Kakkar was born in 1964 in Dartford, to professor of vascular surgery Vijay Kakkar and his wife, a consul ...

– British surgeon, Professor of Surgery at University College London, member of the House of Lords (QMUL) * Ruth Kelly – British minister (LSE) *

Horace Maybray King, Baron Maybray-King Horace Maybray King, Baron Maybray-King, PC (25 May 1901 – 3 September 1986) was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1950 until 1971 before becoming a life peer. For most of his time in Parliament, he sat as ...

– Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL) * Tessa Jowell – British minister (GCUL) * William Joyce – wartime propagandist (BBK) *

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan ( ur, ‎; 6 February 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Pakistani jurist and diplomat who served as the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan. After serving as foreign minister he continued his internation ...

– Pakistani Foreign Minister (KCL) *

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental lawyer and author known for promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and conspiracy theories. Kennedy is a son of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President ...

– son of U.S. Senator

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...

, nephew of LSE graduate President

, and environmental activist (LSE) *

David Lammy David Lindon Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is an English politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenh ...

– British minister (SOAS) * Emily Lau –

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

political leader (LSE) * Ambrose Lau – Hong Kong political leader *

William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, (28 September 1906 – 12 March 1997), styled Viscount Ennismore between 1924 and 1931, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Labour politician. He was the last Secretary of State for India as well as the last ...

– Governor General of Ghana (KCL) * James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater – Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL) * John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market – Leader of the House of Commons (KCL) * Ann Dore McLaughlin – U.S. Secretary of Labor *

Anne McLellan A. Anne McLellan (born August 31, 1950) is a Canadian politician and academic who served as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, ...

– Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (KCL) *

Ken Michael Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. * Ken Masters, a main character in t ...

– governor of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

(ICL) * Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner – British Cabinet Minister (KCL) *

Francis Minah Francis Misheck Minah (19 August 1929 – 1989) was a Sierra Leonean statesman, lawyer and politician who served as First Vice President of Sierra Leone from 1985 to 1987 under President Siaka Stevens. An ethnic Mende from the Pujehun Distr ...

– Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL) * Nickolay Mladenov – Bulgarian Foreign Minister (KCL) * James Nyamweya – Kenyan Foreign Minister (KCL) * David Owen, Baron Owen of Plymouth – British Foreign Secretary (KCL) *

Alice Paul Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...

– American suffragist (LSE) *

Jacques Parizeau Jacques Parizeau (; August 9, 1930June 1, 2015) was a Canadian politician and Québécois economist who was a noted Quebec sovereigntist and the 26th premier of Quebec from September 26, 1994, to January 29, 1996. Early life and career Pariz ...

– Premier of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

(LSE) * Richard Perle – American political advisor (LSE) * Enoch Powell – British minister and right-wing politician (SOAS) *

S. Rajaratnam Sinnathamby Rajaratnam ( ta, சின்னத்தம்பி ராஜரத்னம்; 25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), better known as S. Rajaratnam, was a Singaporean politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapo ...

– Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Cabinet minister (KCL) *

Sir Shridath Ramphal Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal (born 3 October 1928), often known as Sir Sonny Ramphal, is a Guyanese politician who was the second Commonwealth Secretary-General, holding the position from 1975 to 1990. He was also the foreign minister of ...

– Commonwealth Secretary-General and Guyanese Foreign Minister (KCL) * Paul Robeson – American athlete, actor, singer and civil rights activist (SOAS) * Walter Rodney – Guyanese activist (SOAS) *

Robert Rubin Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) is an American retired banking executive, lawyer, and former government official. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government s ...

– U.S.

Treasury Secretary The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

* Sir Ernest Satow – British diplomat (UCL) * Stephen Smith – Australian politician * Robert Sobukwe – South African political dissident *

Marie Stopes Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, ...

–

family planning Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marita ...

and

eugenics Eugenics ( ; ) is a fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or ...

campaigner (UCL) * Gisela Stuart – Member of Parliament, England ( Birmingham Edgbaston) (ULIP) * Goh Keng Swee – deputy Prime Minister of

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

(LSE) *

Hayashi Tadasu was a Japanese career diplomat and cabinet minister of Meiji-era Japan. Early life He was born Satō Shingoro in Sakura city, Shimōsa Province (present-day Chiba prefecture),Kowner, '' Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War'', p. ...

– Japanese Foreign Minister (KCL) * Teo Chee Hean – Singaporean minister (ICL) * Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson – Minister of Defence (KCL) * David Welch – American Assistant Secretary of State * Frederick Wills – Guyanese Foreign Minister (KCL) * David Wilson – Governor of Hong Kong *

Lord 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 ...

– Chief Justice of England and Wales (UCL) *

Abdi Yusuf Hassan Yusuf Hassan Abdi ( so, Yuusuf Xasan Cabdi, ar, يوسف حسن عبدي) (born March 9, 1953) is a Kenyan politician, diplomat, social activist and former journalist. After working many years with the United Nations, he joined the Kenya parl ...

– Somali politician and diplomat *

Rais Yatim Tan Sri The Malay language has a complex system of styles, titles and honorifics which are used extensively in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the southern Philippines. Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and several provinces in ...

– Malaysian Foreign Minister (KCL) *

Winston Set Aung Dr. Set Aung ( my, ဆက်အောင်) who is also known as Dr. Winston Set Aung is former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry. He also had multiple roles as Chairperson of Thilawa Special Economic Zone's Mana ...

–

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and management consultant, incumbent Deputy Governor of the

Central Bank of Myanmar The Central Bank of Myanmar (; ; abbreviated CBM) is the central bank of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Organisation Its headquarter located in Naypyidaw, and it has branches in Yangon and Mandalay. The Governor is Kyaw Kyaw Maung and three V ...

Rafiq Zakaria Rafiq Zakaria (5 April 1920 – 9 July 2005) was an Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric. He was closely associated with the Indian independence movement and Indian National Congress party. He was known for his advocacy of tradition ...

– Indian politician *

Tom Wolf Thomas Westerman Wolf (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 47th governor of Pennsylvania since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in the 2014 guber ...

– Governor of

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

* Grace Mugabe - Former First Lady of Zimbabwe & Spouse to Robert Mugabe. * Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Araneta Marcos III - Member of the Philippine House of Representatives, eldest son of President

Bongbong Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. ( , , ; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the initials PBBM or BBM, is a Filipino politician who is the 17th and current president of the Philippines. He previously served as a senat ...

and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos. (CITY)

Armed Forces and Military

Ernst Boepple '' SS-Oberführer'' Ernst Boepple (30 November 1887 – 15 December 1950) was a Nazi official and SS officer, serving as deputy to Josef Bühler in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust, who was executed for war crimes. Life Boeppl ...

(1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes * John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton –

Field Marshal Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks. Usually, it is the highest rank in an army and as such few persons are appointed to it. It is considered as ...

and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (KCL) * Jonathon Riley -

Lieutenant-General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

in the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

(UCL) * Ben Key - Vice Admiral in the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

(Royal Holloway) *

Syed Ata Hasnain Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM & Bar is a retired General of the Indian Army. His last assignment in service was as the Military Secretary of the Indian Army. Prior to that, he commanded the Indian Army's 15 ...

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

in the

Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...

(KCL) *

Richard Nugee Lieutenant General Richard Edward Nugee, CB, CVO, CBE (born 3 June 1963) is a retired senior British Army officer. He served in several senior roles including Defence Services Secretary (2015–2016) and Chief of Defence People (2016–2020), ...

in the

(KCL) * Robert Fry -

in the

Royal Marines The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious light infantry and also one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy. The Corps of Royal Marine ...

(KCL) * Julian Thompson -

Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

in the

(KCL) *

in the

and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (People) (KCL) *

James Fitzgerald Martin Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin (12 June 1876 – 14 February 1958) was a distinguished officer of the British Army who served as Surgeon to George VI, and to the Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten. Birth and family Martin was the son ...

in the

Emmanuel Karenzi Karake Emmanuel Karenzi Karake is a Rwandan Lieutenant-General who is the former Secretary General of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). Early years Karake grew up in Uganda as a refugee from the former Rwandan government. He stud ...

in Rwandan Defence Forces

Clergy and Religious Figures

Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, CM (born 14 July 1948) is an Ethiopian prelate of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, which he has headed since his election as Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Abeba in 1999. He is also the chancellor of the ...

– Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Addis Abeba * Mirza Tahir Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih IV, Caliph(Imam)IV of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community * Alan Campbell – controversial Pentecostal pastor *

George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton (born 13 November 1935) is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells. During his time as archbishop the Ch ...

–

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...

(KCL) *

Robert William Dale Robert William Dale (1 December 1829 – 13 March 1895) was an English Congregational church leader based in Birmingham. Life Dale was born in London and educated at Spring Hill College, Birmingham, for the Congregational ministry. In 1853 ...

– Nonconformist church leader * Mark Elvins – Capuchin friar (HEY) *

Philip Edgecumbe Hughes Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (1915–1990) was an Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar whose life spanned four continents: Australia, where he was born; South Africa, where he spent his formative years; England, where he was ordained; and the ...

– New Testament scholar, Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary * Bernard Lonergan – theologian, philosopher and economist (HEY) * Michael Anthony Moxon – Dean of

Truro Cathedral The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Truro, Cornwall. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary. It i ...

(HEY) *

John Anthony McGuckin John Anthony McGuckin (born 1952) is a British theologian, church historian, Orthodox Christian priest and poet. Education McGuckin attended Heythrop College from 1970 to 1972, graduated from the University of London with a divinity degree in 197 ...

– Orthodox priest and poet (HEY) * Njongonkulu Ndungane – Archbishop of Cape Town (KCL) *

Keith Riglin Keith Graham Riglin is an Anglican bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Having ministered from 1983 within Baptist and Reformed churches, he took holy orders in the Church of England in 2008. In January 2021 he was elected Bishop of Argy ...

– Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (HEY) (KCL) * Sir Jonathan Sacks – Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (KCL) * Lindsay Urwin –

Bishop of Horsham The Bishop of Horsham is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop (area bishop from 1984 to 2013) of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the market town of Horsha ...

(HEY) * Oliver D. Crisp (KCL)

Other religious figures

* Heidi Baker – Christian missionary (KCL) * Muhammad Abdul Bari – Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (KCL) *

Shaw Clifton Shaw Clifton (born 21 September 1945) is a former General of The Salvation Army. He succeeded John Larsson as the 18th General on 2 April 2006. Career Shaw Clifton was born on 21 September 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Clifton was commis ...

– General of The Salvation Army (KCL) * Francis Lyon Cohen - rabbi and Army chaplain (KCL) * Richard Coles – priest, musician and journalist (KCL) *

Leonard Coulshaw Leonard Coulshaw (24 February 1896 – 22 July 1988) was Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1952. Born on 24 February 1896 and educated at Southend High School for Boys and King's College London, he served in ...

– Chaplain of the Fleet (KCL) * Frank Curtis – Provost of Sheffield (KCL) *

Thomas Pelham Dale Thomas Pelham Dale (1821–1892) was an English Anglo-Catholic ritualist priest, most notable for being prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist practices. Biography Thomas Pelham Dale was born at Greenwich on 3 April 1821 and grew up in Beckenham ...

– Ritualist clergyman (KCL) * Rob Frost – Methodist evangelist (KCL) *

Robert Gandell Robert Gandell (1818 – 24 October 1887) was a British academic and biblical scholar, who was Laudian Professor of Arabic from 1861 until his death. Life Gandell, from London, was educated at Mill Hill School and King's College London. He then m ...

– biblical scholar (KCL) * Donald Clifford Gray – clergyman (KCL) *

Walter Homolka Walter Homolka (born 21 May 1964 in Landau an der Isar) is a German rabbi. Homolka studied in Munich, London, Lampeter and Leipzig and has a PhD from King's College London. He is an adjunct full professor at the University of Potsdam and rector ...

– rabbi (KCL) * Donald Howard – Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen (KCL) * Lawrence Jackson – Provost of Blackburn (KCL) * Eric James – Chaplain Extraordinary to HM the Queen (KCL) * George Jack Kinnell – Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen (KCL) * Kenneth Leech – priest (KCL) * Peter Mallett – Chaplain-General to the Forces (KCL) *

Michael Nott Michael John Nott (9 November 1916 – 3 February 1988) was an Anglican priest. Nott was born in 1916, educated at St Paul's and King's College London and ordained in 1939. His first posts were at Abington, Reading and Kettering. Following thi ...

– Provost of Portsmouth (KCL) * Hugh Smith – Chaplain-General of Prisons (KCL) *

Frederick Spurrell Frederick Spurrell (2 August 1824 – 23 February 1902) was an Anglican priest and archaeologist. Early life and education Frederick Spurrell was born at 23, Park Street in Southwark at a time when his father, Charles Spurrell (1783–1866), was ...

– priest and archaeologist (KCL)

Nobel Peace Prize

* Óscar Arias (LSE) *

Ralph Bunche Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize f ...

(LSE) *

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...

(ULIP) * Philip Noel-Baker (LSE) *

(SOAS) * Joseph Rotblat (QMUL) * Archbishop Desmond Tutu (KCL)

Nobel Prize for Literature

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

(LSE) *

George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...

(LSE) *

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

(UCL) *

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

(BBK) *

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...

(CSSD) *

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...

(ULIP) *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

(ULIP) *

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

(KCL/QMUL)

Scientists and Mathematicians

Biologists and Botanists

* David Bellamy (KCL & RHUL) * Qui-Lim Choo - co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome (KCL) * Soraya Dhillon MBE - pharmacologist (KCL) * Michael Houghton - co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome (KCL) * Keith Campbell - led team that cloned Dolly the sheep (KCL) *

W.D. Hamilton William Donald Hamilton (1 August 1936 – 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Hamilton became known for his theoretical work expounding a ...

(LSE) *

Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The storie ...

(ICL) *

Richard Owen Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. Owe ...

(QMUL) *

Robert Swinhoe Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him. Bio ...

Katherine Warington Katherine Warington (5 September 1897 – 3 July 1993) was a botanist and the first person to show that boron, as boric acid, was essential for the healthy growth of plants.Warington, K. (1923) "The effect of boric acid and borax on the broad ...

(RHUL)

Chemists

* Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (ICL & BBK) * Michael Barnett (KCL) *

William Boon William Robert Boon FRS FRSC (20 March 1911 – 28 October 1994) was a British chemist, known for developing the herbicide paraquat. Early life He was educated at St Dunstan's College and King's College London (BSc; PhD). Career ICI He dev ...

(KCL) *

John Eddowes Bowman the Younger John Eddowes Bowman the Younger (1819–1854) was an English chemist. Life Bowman was the son of John Eddowes Bowman the elder, and brother of Sir William Bowman, physiologist and oculist, born at Welchpool on 7 July 1819. He was a pupil of John ...

(KCL) * Sir John Cadogan (KCL) * Sir Arthur Herbert Church (KCL) * G Marius Clore (UCL) *

Leslie Crombie Leslie Crombie Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (10 June 1923 – 3 August 1999) was a British chemist. He was educated at King's College London, where he completed his PhD.‘CROMBIE, Prof. Leslie� ...

(KCL) * Sir William Crookes (ICL) *

Charles Frederick Cross Charles Frederick Cross FRS (11 December 1855 – 15 April 1935) was a British chemist. Born in Brentford, Middlesex, his fatherCharles James Cross (14 October 1827 - 19 November 1910) was a schoolmaster turned soap manufacturer. After graduatin ...

(KCL) * John Frederic Daniell (KCL) * Richard Dixon (KCL) *

Sir Arthur Duckham Sir Arthur McDougall Duckham (8 July 1879 – 14 February 1932) was one of the founders of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and its first president. Duckham was born in Blackheath, London, the second son of a Falmouth-born mechanical a ...

- President of the

Institution of Chemical Engineers The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is a global professional engineering institution with over 33,000 members worldwide. It was founded in 1922 and awarded a Royal Charter in 1957. It has offices in Rugby, London, Melbourne, Wellingto ...

Sir Edward Frankland Sir Edward Frankland, (18 January 18259 August 1899) was an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence. An expert in water quality and analysis, he was ...

(QMUL & ICL) *

Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, co ...

(KCL & BBK) * Victor Gold (KCL) * Leticia González (KCL) * Otto Hahn (UCL) *

Sir Walter Haworth Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemis ...

(ICL) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (UCL) * Sir Graham Hills (BBK) *

August Wilhelm von Hofmann August Wilhelm von Hofmann (8 April 18185 May 1892) was a German chemist who made considerable contributions to organic chemistry. His research on aniline helped lay the basis of the aniline-dye industry, and his research on coal tar laid the g ...

(ICL) * Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (ICL) * Sir Herbert Jackson (KCL) * Sir Aaron Klug (BBK) *

Michael Levitt Michael Levitt, ( he, מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistr ...

(KCL) *

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 ...

(UCL) * Catherine Nobes (UCL) *

Augustine Ong Augustine Ong Soon Hock is a Malaysian scientist, academic, and board member. He is internationally recognized in the field of lipid chemistry. Education Hock graduated from the University of Malaya (BSc Hons, MSc) and King's College London (P ...

(KCL) *

Geoffrey Ozin Geoffrey Alan Stuart Ozin FRSC is a British chemist, currently Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto. Ozin is the recipient of numerous awards for his research on n ...

(KCL) *

Arthur Thomas Palin Arthur Thomas Palin (b. 16 October 1916 - 2006) was a British chemist and bacteriologist. As well as inventing the DPD method of detecting chlorine in water and working as an official advisor to the American Water Works Association (AWWA), Pali ...

, pioneer in water quality testing *

Sir William Henry Perkin Sir William Henry Perkin (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying ...

(ICL) *

William Henry Perkin, Jr. William Henry Perkin Jr., FRS FRSE (17 June 1860 – 17 September 1929) was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the degradation of naturally occurring organic compounds. Early life He was ...

(ICL) * Raymond Peters (KCL) * Sir George Porter (ICL/UCL) *

Juda Hirsch Quastel Juda Hirsch Quastel, (October 2, 1899 – October 15, 1987) was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer. Biography Quastel, also known as "Harry" or " ...

(ICL) *

Sir 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 ...

(UCL) * Sir Robert Robinson (UCL) * Eric Scerri (KCL) * Sir Frederick Soddy (UCL) *

Richard Laurence Millington Synge Richard Laurence Millington Synge FRS FRSE FRIC FRSC MRIA (Liverpool, 28 October 1914 – Norwich, 18 August 1994) was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer ...

(LI) * Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe (KCL) *

Alexander Robertus Todd Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British people, British biochemist whose research on the structure and biosynthesis, synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the N ...

(LI) * Matthew H. Todd (QMUL & UCL) * Vincent du Vigneaud (UCL) *

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Education and early life Wilkinson was born at Springside, Todm ...

(ICL) * Rob Williams

Computer Scientists

Steve Bourne Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-li ...

(KCL) *

Ian H. S. Cullimore Ian H. S. Cullimore is an English-born mathematician and computer scientist who has been influential in the pocket PC arena. Biography Cullimore has a degree in mathematics from King's College London, and a PhD in cognitive and computer science ...

(KCL) * Darren Dalcher (KCL) *

Dora Metcalf Dora Stuart Primrose Metcalf (11 March 1892 – 17 October 1982) was an entrepreneur, mathematician and computing pioneer. During World War I she was a comptometer operator in a munitions factory during which time she realised the potential in ...

(KCL) *

Hassan Ugail Professor Hassan Ugail is a mathematician and a computer scientist. He is currently working as a professor of visual computing at the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Bradford. Ugail is known to be the first Maldivian ...

(KCL)

Engineers and Inventors

* Sir William Anderson (KCL) *

Rutherford Aris Rutherford "Gus" Aris (September 15, 1929 – November 2, 2005) was a chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005). Early ...

Ayodele Awojobi Ayodele Oluwatumininu Awojobi (12 March 1937 – 23 September 1984), also known by the nicknames "Dead Easy", "The Akoka Giant", and "Macbeth", was a Nigerian academic, author, inventor, social crusader and activist. He was considered a scholarl ...

(ICL) * Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (ICL) *

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 ...

(UCL) * Henry Brogden (KCL) *

Henry Marc Brunel Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel. Henry Marc Brunel was born in Westminster, Lo ...

(KCL) * William Clark (KCL) * Donald Watts Davies (ICL) * Henry Deane (KCL) *

James H. Ellis James Henry Ellis (25 September 1924 – 25 November 1997) was a British engineer and cryptographer. In 1970, while working at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, he conceived of the possibility of "non-secret encr ...

(ICL) * Tommy Flowers * Sir Douglas Fox (KCL) *

Sir Stanley Hooker Sir Stanley George Hooker, CBE, FRS, DPhil, BSc, FRAeS, MIMechE, FAAAS, (30 September 1907 – 24 May 1984) was a mathematician and jet engine engineer. He was employed first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as th ...

(ICL) *

Sir Alec Issigonis Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second Car of the Century, most i ...

(ULIP) *

Walter Katte Colonel Walter Katte (November 14, 1830 – March 4, 1917) was a British-born American civil engineer. Katte led design and construction of Eads Bridge at St. Louis, Park Avenue Viaduct, and construction of the Weehawken Tunnel in New Jersey, was ...

(KCL) * Frederick William Lanchester (ICL) * Sir William Henry Preece (KCL) *

Alec Reeves Alec Harley Reeves (10 March 1902 – 13 October 1971) was a British scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation (PCM). He was awarded 82 patents. Early life Alec Reeves was born in Redhill, Surrey in 1902 and was educated at ...

(ICL) * Bill Strang (KCL) * Thomas Walker (KCL) * Sir Charles Wheatstone (KCL) *

Mark Whitby Mark Whitby, BSc, FICE, FREng, Hon FRIBA, (born 29 January 1950) is a British structural engineer, and a past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2001-2002). He co-founded the multi-disciplinary engineering practices Whitby & Bird (la ...

(KCL) * Sir John Wolfe-Barry (KCL)

Geologists, Environmental Scientists and Physical Geographers

* George Barrow (KCL) * Henry William Bristow (KCL) *

Robert Ashington Bullen Reverend Robert Ashington Bullen FLS, FGS, FZS, FRAS (11 June 1850 – 14 August 1912) was an Anglican priest, a geologist and an authority on mollusca. Early years R. A. Bullen was born in St. George's in Bermuda, the son of Robert Gaze Bulle ...

(KCL) * David Edgar Cartwright (KCL) * Sir George Deacon (KCL) *

Archibald Thomas John Dollar Dr Archibald Thomas John Dollar FRSE FGS MIMM (18 May 1908 – 24 November 1981) was an English geologist and seismologist. He was Head of Geology at Birkbeck College in London and had a particular interest in both vulcanology and seismology. In ...

(KCL) * William Fyfe (ICL) *

Arthur Holmes Arthur Holmes (14 January 1890 – 20 September 1965) was an English geologist who made two major contributions to the understanding of geology. He pioneered the use of radiometric dating of minerals, and was the first earth scientist to grasp ...

(ICL) *

Rosemary Hutton Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton FInstP FRSE FRAS (22 October 1925 – 1 April 2004), known to her peers as Rosemary, was a Scottish geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics. Her research focused on the use of electromagnetic methods to dete ...

Mike Hulme Michael Hulme (born 23 July 1960) is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and also a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was formerly professor of Climate and Culture at King's Colleg ...

(KCL) *

David Lary David J. Lary (born 7 December 1965) is a British-American atmospheric scientist interested in applying computational and information systems to facilitate discovery and decision support in Earth system science. His main contributions have been t ...

(KCL) * David Linton (KCL) *

Sir Charles Lyell Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known as the author of ''Principles of Geolo ...

(KCL) * Halford John Mackinder (LSE) *

Grant Mossop Grant Mossop (1948 - 7 October 2005) was a geologist from Canada. He earned a B.Sc. in 1970 and an M.Sc. in 1971 from the University of Calgary followed by a Ph.D. in geology from the University of London. He served as the Director of the Institut ...

(ICL) *

Charles F. Newcombe Charles Frederick Newcombe (15 September 1851 – 19 October 1924) was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher. He is known for his studies of the First Nations or native people of Canada. Biography Newcombe was born in Newcastle-upon- ...

* Sir Dudley Stamp (KCL) *

Sir Gilbert Walker Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker (14 June 1868 – 4 November 1958) was an English physicist and statistician of the 20th century. Walker studied mathematics and applied it to a variety of fields including aerodynamics, electromagnetism and the ...

(ICL) * Sidney Wooldridge (KCL) *

John Anthony Allan John Anthony Allan (27 January 1937 – 15 April 2021), sometime cited as Tony Allan, was a British geographer. He was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 for his revolutionary virtual water concept. Although being an emeritus of the School ...

(SOAS and KCL) *

John Milne John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Biography Milne was born in Liverpool, England, the only child of John Milne of Milnrow, and at first raised in ...

– inventor of the seismometer (KCL) * James Haward Taylor (KCL) *

Errol White Errol Ivor White CBE FRS FLS FGS (30 June 1901 – 11 January 1985) was a British geologist. He was President of the Ray Society from 1956 to 1959 and President of the Linnean Society of London from 1964 to 1967. He was educated at Highgate Sc ...

(KCL)

Immunologists

* Anne O'Garra (UCL) *

Noreen Murray Noreen Elizabeth, Lady Murray (; 26 February 1935 – 12 May 2011) was an English molecular geneticist who helped pioneer recombinant DNA technology (genetic engineering) by creating a series of bacteriophage lambda vectors into which gene ...

– molecular geneticist who helped develop a vaccine against Hepatitis B (KCL) * Max Theiler – 1951 Nobel laureate who developed a vaccine against yellow fever (KCL)

Mathematicians

* Sir David Cox (BBK & ICL) * Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (LSE) * Simon Donaldson (ICL) * Patrick du Val (ULIP) *

Louis Mordell Louis Joel Mordell (28 January 1888 – 12 March 1972) was an American-born British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction. Educatio ...

(BBK) * Klaus Roth (UCL & ICL) * Tom Willmore (KCL) * David Acheson (KCL) * Colin Bushnell (KCL) * Keith Devlin (KCL) *

Graham Everest Graham Robert Everest (14 December 1957 in Southwick, West Sussex – 30 July 2010) was a British mathematician working on arithmetic dynamics and Recurrence relation, recursive equations in number theory. Life Everest studied at Bedford College ...

(KCL) * Aubrey William Ingleton (KCL) * Leon Mirsky (KCL) * Sir Martin Taylor (KCL) *

Henry William Watson Rev. Henry William Watson Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (25 February 1827, Marylebone, London11 January 1903, Berkswell near Coventry) was a mathematician and author of a number of mathematics books. He was an ordained priest and Cambridge Apo ...

(KCL)

Psychologists, Sociologists and Anthropologists

* Havelock Ellis (KCL) * Dame Uta Frith (KCL) * Dinesh Bhugra (KCL) *

Akbar S. Ahmed Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He currently is a professor of International Relations and holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American Universi ...

(SOAS) * Fei Xiaotong (LSE) *

Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...

(LSE) *

David Hirsh David Hirsh (born 29 September 1967) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-founder of Engage, a campaign against the academic boycott of Israel. Early life and education Hirsh was raised in a Jewish fam ...

* Satoshi Kanazawa (LSE) *

Ernest Krausz Ernest (Kopul) Krausz (ארנסט קראוס; August 13, 1931 - December 10, 2018) was an Israeli professor of sociology who served as rector and Acting President of Bar Ilan University. He also taught at Netanya Academic College. Biography Ernes ...

(1931-2018) * Bronislaw Malinowski (LSE) *

Karl Mannheim Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was an influential Hungarian sociologist during the first half of the 20th century. He is a key figure in classical sociology, as well as one of the founders of the sociolo ...

(LSE) * Z.K. Mathews (LSE) * Humphry Osmond (KCL) * Talcott Parsons (LSE) *

J. Philippe Rushton John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for resea ...

(BBK) * Jane Stewart *

Arthur Waley Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Among his honours were th ...

(SOAS) *

Ulrike Schmidt Ulrike Hermine Schmidt is a British psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London in London, where she is Professor of Eating Disorders as well as the Head of the Section of Eating Disorders. ...

(KCL) * Raymond Cattell (KCL)

Physicians

Tedros Adhanom Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ( ti, ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelt ti, ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ, label=none; born 3 March 1965) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, and ...

(LSHTM), 8th Director-General of the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...

* Edgar Adrian (QMUL) * Francis Anstie (KCL) *

Simon Baron-Cohen Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen (born 15 August 1958) is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the director of the university's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of ...

(KCL) *

Thomas Gregor Brodie Thomas Gregor Brodie FRS FCS (8 February 1866–20 August 1916) was a British physiologist. He was educated at King's College School, St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in medicine from King's College London. He was made a Fellow ...

(KCL) *

Edgar Crookshank Edgar March Crookshank (2 October 1858 – 1 July 1928) was an English physician and microbiologist. Biography Crookshank studied at King's College London and qualified for medicine in 1881. He served briefly as an assistant to Joseph Lister, a ...

(KCL) *

Henry Hallett Dale Sir Henry Hallett Dale (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Ph ...

(QMUL) * Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (ICL) * David Blow (ICL) * Dr Thomas Bond (KCL) * Michael Foster (UCL) * Henry Gray (SGUL) * Thomas Hodgkin (KCL) * John Hunter (SGUL) * William Hunter (SGUL) * Edward Jenner (SGUL) *

Joseph 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 s ...

(KCL) * Peter Mansfield (QMUL) *

J. F. O. Mustapha James Franklin Osman Adewale Ishola Mustaffah, was a Ghanaian academic and neurosurgeon. He is credited for introducing neurosurgery in Ghana. Mustaffah was one of the earliest African neurosurgeons practising in Sub-Saharan Africa, he was the f ...

* Sir Victor Ewings Negus (KCL) * Ronald Ross (QMUL) *

Patrick Steptoe Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913 – 21 March 1988) was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards and the nurse Jean ...

(SGUL) *

John Vane Sir John Robert Vane (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and ...

(QMUL) *

Robert Winston, Baron Winston Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston, (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour Party politician. Early life Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Rut ...

(ICL/QMUL) *

Guy Alfred Wyon Guy Alfred Wyon (15 October 1883 – 2 March 1924) MD, BSc. was an English pathologist, researcher and lecturer, focusing mainly on bacterial growth and producing papers on the subject. Before the First World War he was a house physician and ...

Nurses

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during t ...

(KCL) *

Cicely Saunders Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the i ...

(KCL) * Alice Fisher (KCL) * Lucy Osburn (KCL) *

Emmy Rappe Emmy Carolina Rappe (14 February 1835 – 19 October 1896) was a Swedish nurse and principal for a nursing school. She was the pioneer and founder of the Swedish nursing education. She was the first trained professional nurse and the first princip ...

(KCL) *

Henny Tscherning Henriette (Henny) Tscherning, née Schultz, (1853–1932) was a pioneering Danish nurse and trade unionist who headed the Danish Nurses' Organization for 28 years (1899–1927). She introduced a three-year nurses training programme culminating in a ...

(KCL) *

Theodora Turner Theodora Turner, (5 August 1907 – 24 August 1999) was a British nurse and hospital matron. Early years and education Theodora Turner was born on 5 August 1907 in Congleton, Cheshire, one of five children. Her father later became Conservativ ...

(KCL) * Kofoworola Abeni Pratt (KCL)

Physicists and Astronomers

Sir Edward Appleton Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He w ...

(KCL) * Charles Barkla (KCL) *

J. D. Bernal John Desmond Bernal (; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular boo ...

(BBK) *

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. ...

(ICL) * Sir William Henry Bragg (UCL) * Jocelyn Burnell (UCL) *

Louis Essen Louis Essen FRS O.B.E. (6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was a critic of Albert Einstein' ...

Sir 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 radi ...

(UCL) * Dennis Gabor (ICL) * Raymond Gosling (KCL) *

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 ...

(KCL) *

Charles K. Kao Sir Charles Kao Kuen Charles K. Kao was elected in 1990
as a memb ...

(UCL/ICL) *

Geraint F. Lewis Geraint Francis Lewis (born 14 March 1969) is a Welsh astrophysicist, who is best known for his work on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic cannibalism. Lewis is a Professor of Astrophysics (Teaching and Research) at the Sydney I ...

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 ...

(RHUL & UCL) * Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (ICL) *

James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and ligh ...

(KCL) *

William George Penney William George Penney, Baron Penney, (24 June 19093 March 1991) was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the de ...

(ICL) * Sir Owen Richardson (KCL) *

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

(ICL) *

Keith Shine Keith Peter Shine (born 19 April 1958) Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS is the Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate, Climate Science at the University of Reading. He is the first holder of this post, which was awarded to the university by E ...

(ICL) * Simon Singh (ICL) *

Duncan Steel Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist. He has discoverer of minor planets, discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, which lists him as working a ...

* Edward Teller (UCL) *

Sir George Paget Thomson Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (; 3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Education and early life Thomson ...

(ICL) *

Edward James Stone Edward James Stone (28 February 18316 May 1897) was an England, English astronomer. He was born in Notting Hill, London to Edward and Sarah Stone. Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College London, and i ...

(KCL) *

Michael Fisher Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase t ...

(KCL) * Thomas Young (SGUL) * Andrew Fabian (KCL) *

Claudio Maccone Claudio Maccone (born 6 February 1948, Torino, Italy) is an Italian SETI astronomer, space scientist and mathematician. In 2002 he was awarded the " Giordano Bruno Award" by the SETI League, "for his efforts to establish a radio observatory on ...

(KCL) * Marcelo Gleiser (KCL) *

Louis Slotin Louis Alexander Slotin (1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and M ...

(KCL) * John Edwin Midwinter (KCL)

The arts

Novelists, Poets and Playwrights

* Dannie Abse (KCL) * John Adair (KCL) *

Alfred Ainger Alfred Ainger (9 February 18378 February 1904) was an English biographer and critic. Biography The son of an architect in London, he was educated at University College School, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he ...

(KCL) *

Richard Aldington Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) from 1911 to 1938. His 50-year w ...

(UCL) *

Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, togethe ...

(UCL) *

Alfred Austin Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was cl ...

* J. G. Ballard (QMUL) *

Arnold Bennett Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboratio ...

Alain de Botton Alain de Botton (; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and philosopher. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published ''Essays in Love'' (1993), w ...

(KCL) *

Sir Malcolm Bradbury Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. Life Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with ...

(QMUL) * Raymond Briggs (UCL) * Anita Brookner (KCL) *

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings ...

(UCL) *

G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, ''Time'' observed: "Wh ...

(UCL) *

Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Spac ...

(KCL) * Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (RHUL) * Bernard Cornwell * Richmal Crompton (RHUL) * George Eliot (RHUL) *

(BBK) * Nissim Ezekiel (BBK) *

C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Roya ...

(KCL) * Sir W. S. Gilbert (KCL) * Ann Granger *

Michael Grothaus Michael Grothaus (born 1977) is an American novelist and journalist. He is best known for the novel ''Epiphany Jones'' and for his writing about internet subcultures in the digital age. Biography Michael Grothaus was born in Saint Louis, Mi ...

(CITY) * Radclyffe Hall (KCL) *

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...

(KCL) * Susan Hill (KCL) *

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (; 7 May 19273 April 2013) was a British author and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. In 1951, Jhabvala ma ...

(QMUL) *

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculo ...

(KCL) *

Charles Kingsley Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working ...

(KCL) * Hanif Kureishi (KCL) *

W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

(KCL) * Natyaguru Nurul Momen *

Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (''né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytellin ...

(KCL) *

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio reco ...

(RHUL) * China Miéville (LSE) *

Gladys Mitchell Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English writer best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie. Fête ...

(GCUL) *

John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and politi ...

(KCL) * Lao She (SOAS) *

Sir Leslie Stephen Sir Leslie Stephen (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Life Sir Leslie Stephen came from a distinguished intellectua ...

(KCL) *

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells"Wells, H. G."
Revised 18 May 2015. ''

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

(KCL) *

Samir El-Youssef Samir El-Youssef ( ar, سمير اليوسف) (born 1965) is a Palestinian-British writer and critic, who was born in Rashidieh, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon. El-Youssef's ...

Actors, Comedians and TV Stars

* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (KCL) * Sir David Attenborough (LSE) * Rory Bremner (KCL) * Graham Chapman (QMUL) *

Julian Clary Julian Peter McDonald Clary (born 25 May 1959) is an English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter. He began appearing on television in the mid-1980s. Since then he has also acted in films, television and stage productions, numerous pantomim ...

(GCUL) * Nazia Hassan (GCUL) *

Zoheb Hassan Zoheb Hassan (born November 18, 1966) is a Pakistani pop icon, singer, songwriter, producer, and was a part of the superduo Nazia and Zoheb. Early career and breakthrough Zoheb and his sister Nazia spent their childhood in Karachi as well as L ...

(GCUL) * Greer Garson (KCL) *

Ricky Gervais Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, and acted in the British television sitcoms ''The Office'' (2001–2003), '' Extras'' (2005–2007), and '' An Idiot Abroad' ...

(UCL) *

Lloyd Grossman Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman (born 16 September 1950) is an American-British author, broadcaster and cultural campaigner who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He is well known for presenting the BBC programme ''MasterChef'' from 1990 to 20 ...

(LSE) * Harry Hill (SGUL) *

Emma Freud Emma Vallencey Freud (born 25 January 1962) is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator. Early life Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud (1924–2009) and June ...

(RHUL) *

Cairns James Lewis Cairns James (23 September 1865–7 October 1946) was a Scottish-born baritone, actor, educator and opera producer most prominent during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. From 1887 to 1891 he performed with a D'Oyly Carte Opera Compa ...

Dom Joly Dominic John Romulus Joly (; born 15 November 1967) is an English comedian and writer. He is best known as the star of ''Trigger Happy TV'' (2000–2003), a hidden camera prank show that was broadcast in over 70 countries worldwide. Early life ...

(SOAS) *

Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff (), was an English actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film ''Frankenstein'' (1931) (his 82nd film) established h ...

Robert Kilroy-Silk Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk; 19 May 1942) is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer, he served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1986. He left the H ...

(LSE) * Bill O'Reilly (QMUL) * Devika Rani (RAM) *

Mark Strong Mark Strong (born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia; 5 August 1963), is a British actor, best known for his film roles such as Prince Septimus in '' Stardust'' (2007), Archibald in ''RocknRolla'' (2008), Lord Henry Blackwood in ''Sherlock Holmes'' (20 ...

(RHUL) * Bree Turner (KCL) * Sir Charles Wyndham (KCL)

Directors and Film-Makers

* Herbert Brenon (KCL) * Derek Jarman (KCL) * Natyaguru Nurul Momen * Laura Mulvey (BBK) * Christopher Nolan (UCL)

Musicians, Composers and Conductors

* Nazia Hassan – singer (KCL) *

Filiz Ali Filiz Ali (born 30 September 1937) is a Turkish pianist and musicologist. She studied piano at the State Conservatory of Music in Ankara. Graduating from Ferhunde Erkin's class in 1958, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the Unite ...

– pianist and musicologist (KCL) * Peter Asher – musician and record producer (KCL) * Sir John Barbirolli – conductor (RAM) * Arnold Bax – composer (RAM) *

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.Zachary Woo ...

– composer (RAM) *

Sir Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his List of compositions by Harrison Birtwistle, many compo ...

– composer (RAM & KCL) *

Fiona Brice Fiona Brice is an English composer, orchestral arranger and violinist. Brice writes orchestral arrangements for various artists and has toured and recorded with several major pop and rock acts, including Placebo, Kanye West, Sugababes, Boy Geo ...

– violinist (KCL) * Dennis Brain – French hornist (RAM) *

Ming Bridges Yee Ming Innes Bridges () (born 5 November 1992) is a British-Singaporean singer-songwriter, actress and model. Early life and education Ming was born in Australia to a British father and a Chinese Singaporean mother. They moved to Singapore wh ...

– singer (KCL) * David Bruce – composer (KCL) *

Steven Burke Steven James Burke (born 4 March 1988) is a former English track and road cyclist, who rode for the now disbanded cycling team.

– video game music composer and sound designer (KCL) *

Bernard Butler Bernard Joseph Butler (born 1 May 1970) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the first guitarist with Suede, until his departure in 1994. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his ...

– Suede (QMUL) *

John Cale John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styl ...

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The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964. The original line-up consisted of singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise. MacLise w ...

(GCUL) * Coldplay members Chris Martin, Will Champion, and

Jon Buckland Jonathan Mark Buckland (born 11 September 1977) is an English-born Welsh musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Raised in Pantymwyn, he began to play guitar from an early age, being in ...

(UCL) * Sir Clifford Curzon – pianist (RAM) *

John Dankworth Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he ...

– jazz composer (RAM) *

John Deacon John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits " You're My Best Friend", " Another One Bit ...

–

Queen Queen or QUEEN may refer to: Monarchy * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom ** List of queens regnant * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, the widow of a king * Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother ...

(KCL) *

Suzi Digby Susan Elizabeth "Suzi" Digby, Baroness Eatwell OBE (née Watts; born 1 July 1958) is a British choral conductor and music educator. She is an internationally renowned choral conductor and music educator. Digby founded the influential national ...

– conductor and musician (KCL) *

Pete Doherty Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist. He is best known for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997. His other musical projects are indie b ...

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The Libertines The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar). The band, centred on the songwriting partnership of Barât and Doherty, has also included John Hassall ...

(QMUL) * Adam Dick –

Two Crown King Two Crown King was a London, Ontario, Canada based alternative rock and alternative hip hop band. History Formation and ''Is A Demo'' The band was originally formed in the summer of 2009 by Adam Dick and Sean Goodchild who met while studying a ...

(LSE) *

Bruce Dickinson Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer who has been the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1981 to 1993 and 1999–present. He is known for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage ...

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Iron Maiden Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harri ...

(QMUL) * John Evan – keyboardist for Jethro Tull (KCL) * Lesley Garrett – soprano (RAM) *

Sir John Eliot Gardiner Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life and career Born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, son of Rolf Gardiner and Marabel Hodgkin, Gard ...

– conductor (KCL) * Sir W. S. Gilbert – one half of

Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian era, Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which ...

(KCL) * Evelyn Glennie – percussionist (RAM) * Dame Myra Hess – pianist (RAM) * Joe Jackson (RAM) *

Mick Jagger Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer and songwriter who has achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and one of the founder members of the rock band the Rolling Stones. His ongoing songwriting partnershi ...

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The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, rhythmically d ...

(LSE) * Alex James – Blur (GCUL) *

Sir Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Rocket Man" after his 1972 hit single of the same name, John has led a commercially successful career a ...

(RAM) * Linton Kwesi Johnson (GCUL) *

Judge Jules Julius O'Riordan (born 1966), better known by his stage name Judge Jules, is a British dance music DJ, record producer and entertainment lawyer. He is known for his DJ activities, music production and long-running radio show which achieved glob ...

– trance DJ, BBC Radio 1 (LSE) *

Dame Felicity Lott Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, (born 8 May 1947) is an English soprano. Education Lott was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and bega ...

– soprano (RHUL & RAM) * Brian May – Queen (ICL) *

Brian Molko Brian Molko (born 10 December 1972) is a Belgian-born Scottish-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo. He is known in particular for his distinctive nasal, high-pitche ...

–

Placebo A placebo ( ) is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value. Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like Saline (medicine), saline), sham surgery, and other procedures. In general ...

(GCUL) *

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...

– composer (KCL & RAM) * Kele Okereke –

Bloc Party Bloc Party are an English Rock music, rock band, composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, sampler), Russell Lissack (lead guitar, keyboards), Justin Harris (bass guitar, keyboards, saxophones, backing vocals) and Loui ...

(KCL) *

Denise Orme Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster (25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960),Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd (2003), p. 2300 known by her stage name Denise Orme, was a ...

– music hall singer (RAM) *

Mat Osman Mathew David Osman (born 9 October 1967) is an English musician and author, best known as the bassist in the rock band Suede. Osman and singer Brett Anderson are the only remaining founding members left in Suede, and along with the drummer Sim ...

– Suede (LSE) *

Sir Simon Rattle Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal ...

– conductor (RAM) *

Sir Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', ''The Pirates of Penzance' ...

– one half of

(RAM) *

Howard Talbot Richard Lansdale Munkittrick, better known as Howard Talbot (9 March 1865 – 12 September 1928), was an American-born, English-raised conductor and composer of Irish descent. He was best known for writing the music to several hit Edwardian musi ...

– composer and conductor (KCL) * Jody Talbot – composer (RHUL) * Jeffrey Tate – conductor (KCL) * Adnan Sami (KCL) *

Gilli Smyth Gillian Mary Smyth (1 June 1933 – 22 August 2016) was an English musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong, and Planet Gong and released several solo albums and albums in collaboration with other members of Gong. In Gong, she ...

– musician who performed with Gong amongst others (KCL) *

KT Tunstall Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall (born 23 June 1975) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained attention with a 2004 live solo performance of her song " Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on '' Later... with Jools Holland''. Th ...

– singer-songwriter (RHUL) * Dame Eva Turner – opera singer (RAM) *

Maxim Vengerov Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (russian: Максим Александрович Венгеров, , mɐkˈsʲim ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnˈɡʲerəf; he, מקסים ונגרוב; born 20 August 1974) is a Russian-born Israeli violinist, v ...

– violinist (RAM) *

Sir Henry Wood Sir Henry Joseph Wood (3 March 186919 August 1944) was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the The Proms, Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introd ...

– conductor (RAM) * Dido (singer) – singer and songwriter (BBK) * Yiruma – pianist (KCL) *

Justin Hayward Young Justin James Hayward-Young (born 2 May 1987) is an English musician. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist of indie rock band The Vaccines. Early life Young was born in Hampshire, England, and grew up in the New Forest. He attended ...

– lead singer of The Vaccines (KCL)

Artists

* Pegaret Anthony (KCL) *

Bernd Behr Bernd Behr (born 1976) is a Taiwanese artist based in London. Biography Born in Hamburg in 1976 and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths, University of London, London. Behr was shortlisted for ...

(GCUL) * Vanessa Bell (KCL) *

Albert Bruce-Joy Albert Bruce-Joy (21 August 1842 – 22 July 1924) was an Irish sculptor working in England. His original surname was Joy but he became known under his hyphenated name Bruce-Joy later in life. He was the brother of the painter George W. Joy. ...

(KCL) *

Joseph Crawhall III Joseph Crawhall (20 August 1861 – 24 May 1913) was an English artist born in Morpeth, Northumberland. Life Crawhall was the fourth child and second son of Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. Crawhall specialised in painting animals and b ...

(KCL) *

Ian Davenport Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee. Life and work Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire and then at Goldsmiths C ...

(GCUL) *

Grenville Davey Grenville Davey (28 April 1961 – 28 February 2022) was a British sculptor and winner of the 1992 Turner Prize. Davey was a visiting professor of the University of the Arts London and programme leader, MA Fine Art at the University of Eas ...

(GCUL) *

Tristram Ellis Tristram James Ellis (2 July 1844 – 25 July 1922) was an English artist who was known for his paintings of the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Early life Ellis was the son of the mathematician and philologist Alexander John Ellis. He ...

(KCL) * Peter Henry Emerson (KCL) * Tracey Emin (GCUL) *

Anya Gallaccio Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice). Her use of organic materials results in natural processes ...

(GCUL) * Cyril Wiseman Herbert (KCL) * Damien Hirst (GCUL) * Gary Hume (GCUL) *

Michael Landy Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation '' Break Down'' (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the ''Art Bin'' project (2010) at the ...

(GCUL) * Sarah Lucas (GCUL) *

Wendy McMurdo Wendy McMurdo (born 1962) specialises in photography and digital media. In 2018 she was named as one of the Hundred Heroines, an award created by the Royal Photographic Society to showcase global female photographic practice. Early life and ed ...

(GCUL) * Ross McNicol (KCL) *

Steve McQueen Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1 ...

(GCUL) *

Cathy de Monchaux Cathy de Monchaux (born 1960) is a British sculptor. Early life and education Born in London, de Monchaux earned her BA at the Camberwell School of Art (1980–1983) and an MA at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1985–1987). Style a ...

(GCUL) *

Ronald Moody Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in collections including the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain in London, as well as the National Gallery ...

(KCL) *

Richard Mosse Richard Mosse (born 1980) is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. Early life and education Mosse was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He lives and works in New York and Berlin. He received a first class BA in English literature from King' ...

(KCL) *

Robyn O'Neil Robyn O'Neil (born 1977) is an American artist known for her large-scale graphite on paper drawings. She is also the host of the podcast "ME READING STUFF". Early life and education Robyn O'Neil was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1977. She lives an ...

(KCL) * Simon Patterson (GCUL) * Mary Quant – fashion designer (GCUL) * Bridget Riley (GCUL) * Mark Wallinger (GCUL) *

Sophia Wellbeloved Sophia Wellbeloved was born in Dublin, Ireland, and is a historian of Western Esotericism, with special reference to 1920s and 1930s Paris, focusing on the life and writings of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866? – 1949). Education She received her educa ...

(KCL) * Gillian Wearing (GCUL) * Catherine Yass (GCUL)

Businesspeople

Lim Kok Thay Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay (; born 16 August 1951) is a Malaysian Chinese billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of Genting Group, a casinos, resorts and palm oil conglomerate with a market capitalization of almost MYR40 billion, and the secon ...

— Malaysia Billionaire, Chairman & CEO of

Genting Group The Genting Group is a company headquartered in the Wisma Genting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It comprises the holding company Genting Berhad (), its listed subsidiaries Genting Malaysia Berhad (), Genting Plantations Berhad (), Genting Singapore ...

* Rakesh Aggarwal (KCL) * Sir

David Arculus Sir David Arculus (born 2 June 1946), is a British media figure, businessman and advisor to Government who has appeared several times in ''The Sunday Times'' Power 100, ranked at number 39 in 2005. Education Educated at Bromsgrove School (Wen ...

– chairman of the Board O2 (LBS) *

Delphine Arnault Delphine Arnault (born 4 April 1975) is a French businesswoman, director and executive vice president of Louis Vuitton ( LVMH Group). Early life Arnault is the oldest child of Bernard Arnault from his first wife, Anne Dewavrin. She has a younger ...

– billionaire French businesswoman (LSE) *

Walter Owen Bentley Walter Owen Bentley, MBE (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971) was an English engineer who founded Bentley Motors Limited in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraft an ...

– founder of

Bentley Motors Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs. Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded as Bentley Motors Limited by W. O. Bentley (1888–1971) in 1919 in Cricklewood, North ...

(KCL) * Kumar Mangalam Birla – Chairman of

Aditya Birla Group Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai. It operates in 100 countries with more than 1,40,000 employees directly and indirectly. The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The group ha ...

(LBS) *

Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943 in Bexhill-on-Sea) is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Career Mitel Cowpland worked for Bell Northern ...

– founder of

Corel Cascade Parent Limited, doing business as Alludo (pronounced like "all you do"), is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. Formerly called the Corel Corporation ( ; from the abbreviation ...

(ICL) * Isabel dos Santos – Africa's richest woman and its first female billionaire (KCL) *

Clara Furse Dame Clara Hedwig Frances Furse Order of the British Empire, DBE () (born 16 September 1957) was the Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange between January 2001 and May 2009, and was the first woman to occupy the position. In 2005, she was ...

– Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) * Calouste Gulbenkian – Armenian oil magnate (KCL) *

Sir Richard Greenbury Sir Richard Greenbury (31 July 1936 – 27 September 2017) was an English businessman, and chairman and chief executive of the British retailer Marks and Spencer from 1988 to 1999. During his tenure, the company continued to grow until its profi ...

– former chairman and Chief Executive of

Marks & Spencer Marks and Spencer Group plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks's or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer with headquarters in Paddington, London that specialises in selling clothing, beauty, home ...

(LBS) * Stelios Haji-Ioannou – founder of EasyGroup (LSE) *

Klaus Heymann Klaus Heymann (born 22 October 1936) is a German entrepreneur and the founder and head of the Naxos record label. Biography and career Heymann was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and studied Romance languages and English at the Universities of Frank ...

– entrepreneur & founder of

Naxos Records Naxos comprises numerous companies, divisions, imprints, and labels specializing in classical music but also audiobooks and other genres. The premier label is Naxos Records which focuses on classical music. Naxos Musical Group encompasses about 1 ...

(KCL) *

Omar Ishrak Omar S. Ishrak (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi-American business executive, serving as the chairman of the board for Intel, since January 2020. He was previously the CEO and chairman of the board of Medtronic from June 2011 to April 2020, and remain ...

– Chairman & CEO of

Medtronic Medtronic plc is an American medical device company. The company's operational and executive headquarters are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and its legal headquarters are in Ireland due to its acquisition of Irish-based Covidien in 2015. While it ...

(KCL) *

Huw Jenkins Huw Jenkins is vice chairman of the board of BTG Pactual, based in London. He is a managing partner of the firm as well as a member of the Global Management Committee. Jenkins is also chairman of Engelhart Commodities Trading Partners (ECTP), ...

– CEO of UBS Investment Bank (LBS) * Sir Ronald Norman (KCL) * Sir Edward Packard (KCL) * Moez Kassam – Founder of Anson Group (LBS) *

Spiro Latsis Spiros J. Latsis ( el, Σπύρος Λάτσης; born 1946) is a Greek billionaire, and business magnate. He is the son of the late tycoon Yiannis Latsis, who died in 2003. In 2018, Spiros Latsis ranked #729 on the ''Forbes'' World's Billionaire ...

– billionaire (LSE) * Charles Lee – Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (LSE) * Sir Deryck Maughan – CEO and Chairman of Salomon Brothers (KCL) *

Eric Nicoli Eric Luciano Nicoli, CBE (born 5 August 1950) is a British businessman who has been the Chairman of Centtrip since 2015. He was Chairman of YO! Sushi from 2007 to 2021. He was CEO of EMI Group plc between 12 January 2007 and August 2007, having pre ...

– CEO of

EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 201 ...

(KCL) * Jorma Ollila – Former CEO of

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

(LSE) * Gary Tanaka – founder of Amerindo(ICL) *

David E. Potter David Edwin Potter (born 1943) is the founder and chairman of the microcomputer systems company Psion PLC., and Psion Teklogix after Psion's acquisition of Teklogix in the year 2000. Early life Potter was born in East London, South Africa, in ...

– founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of

Symbian Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system A mobile operating system is an operating system for mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typic ...

(ICL) *

Danny Lui Danny Lui (; 7 January 1957 – 1 July 2012Startup Capital Ventures- In memoriam http://startupcv.com/member/danny-lui/) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Computer Scien ...

– founder of

Lenovo Lenovo Group Limited, often shortened to Lenovo ( , ), is a Chinese Multinational corporation, multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, Personal computer, personal computers, ...

(ICL) * Sir

Ralph Robins Sir Ralph Harry Robins FREng (born 16 June 1932), was the CEO of Rolls-Royce. He served 20 years on the board of Rolls-Royce, retiring in 2003 after 10 years as chairman. After retiring from Rolls-Royce, he was appointed a non-executive direct ...

(CEO of Rolls-Royce) (ICL) * Sir Alliott Verdon Roe (KCL) *

Chew Choon Seng Chew Choon Seng () is the former chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines (SIA), the former Chairman of the Singapore Exchange and Singapore Tourism Board. Education After completing his degree in mechanical engineering from the University ...

– CEO of

Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines (abbreviation: SIA) is the flag carrier airline of the Republic of Singapore with its Airline hub, hub located at Singapore Changi Airport. The airline is notable for highlighting the Singapore Girl as its central figure in ...

(ICL) * David Rockefeller – American billionaire and business tycoon (LSE) *

Iain Conn Iain Cameron Conn (born 22 October 1962) is a British businessman. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Centrica from 2015 to 2019. Early life Iain Cameron Conn was born in October 1962 in Edinburgh and grew up in Galashiels. The elder of two s ...

– Group Managing Director of BP (ICL) * Tim Pryce – CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners (KCL) * David Sullivan – billionaire businessman; media magnate, West Ham United football club owner (QMUL) * Colin Dyer – CEO of

Jones Lang LaSalle Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) is a global commercial real estate services company, founded in the United Kingdom with offices in 80 countries. The company also provides investment management services worldwide, including services to insti ...

(ICL) *

Maurice Saatchi Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi ( ar, موريس ساعتجي ; born 21 June 1946) is a British-Iraqi businessman, and with his brother, Charles, co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. Early life Mauric ...

– founder of Saatchi and Saatchi (LSE) *

Winston Wong Winston Wen-Yang Wong OBE (; born 2 April 1951 in Taipei County (now New Taipei City), Taiwan) is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), by his second wife. Wong is now a widower with a son and a daughter aft ...

– businessman (ICL) * Richard Sykes (biochemist), Sir Richard Sykes – chairman of GlaxoSmithKline (KCL) * Keith Duckworth – founder of Cosworth, Cosworth Engineering (ICL) * Michael Birch (businessman), Michael Birch – founder of Bebo (ICL) * Koh Boon Hwee – Chairman of DBS Bank, Singapore(ICL) * George Soros – financial speculator and philanthropist (LSE) * Stephen B. Streater, Stephen Bernard Streater – founder of Eidos Interactive, Eidos (KCL) * David Tang, Sir David Tang – businessman and founder of Shanghai Tang fashion chain (KCL) * Tony Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet (LBS) * Naveen Selvadurai – co-founder of Foursquare (company), Foursquare (KCL)

Economists

(LSE) * R G D Allen, Sir Roy Allen (LSE) * Eurfyl ap Gwilym (KCL) * Kenneth Binmore (ICL) * Ronald Coase (ULIP & LSE) * William Cunningham (economist), William Cunningham (KCL) * Robert F. Engle III (LSE) * Friedrich von Hayek (LSE) * James Heckman (UCL) * Sir John Hicks (LSE) * Leonid Hurwicz (LSE) * William Stanley Jevons (UCL) * Richard Jones (economist), Richard Jones (KCL) * Charles Kennedy (economist), Charles Kennedy (ICL) * Israel Kirzner (ULIP) * Mervyn King (economist), Mervyn King (LSE) * Paul Krugman (LSE) * Arthur Lewis (economist), Sir Arthur Lewis (LSE) * James Meade (LSE) * Merton Miller (LSE) * Robert Mundell (LSE) * Mark Pennington (LSE & KCL) * Christopher Pissarides (LSE) * Lionel Robbins (LSE) *

(LSE) * Nicholas Stern (LSE) * Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (BBK & KCL) * Janet Yellen (LSE)

Historians

* Ali Ansari (KCL) * Ram Sharan Sharma eminent Historian of History of India, Ancient India * Raymond Beazley, Sir Raymond Beazley (KCL) * Antony Beevor (BBK) * Matthew Bennett (historian), Matthew Bennett (KCL) * Brian Bond (KCL) * Asa Briggs, Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (ULIP) * William Laird Clowes, Sir William Laird Clowes (KCL) * Sebastian Cox (KCL) * Paul K. Davis (historian), Paul Davis (KCL) * Richard J. Evans (BBK) * Orlando Figes (BBK) * Katherine Elizabeth Fleming (KCL) * Ian Gooderson (KCL) * Andrew Gordon (naval historian), Andrew Gordon (KCL) * Judith Green (historian), Judith Green (KCL) * Mark Grimsley (KCL) * Eric Grove (KCL) * Richard Grunberger (KCL) * D. G. E. Hall (KCL) * Christopher Harper-Bill (KCL) * Eric Hobsbawm (BBK) * David Irving (ICL) * Robert Knecht (KCL) * Amélie Kuhrt (KCL) * Andrew Lambert (KCL) * Bernard Lewis (SOAS) * Desmond Morton (historian), Desmond Morton (LSE) * Percy Newberry (KCL) * Peter Paret (KCL) * Nikolaus Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (BBK) * Ben Pimlott (BBK) * David Rohl (UCL) * Philip Sabin (KCL) * George Albert Wells (BBK) * Conrad Russell (UCL) * David Cannadine (UL) * Arnaldo Momigliano (UCL) * Gary Sheffield (historian), Gary Sheffield (KCL) * Anne Somerset (historian), Anne Somerset (KCL) * Geoffrey Till (KCL) * Colin White (historian), Colin White (KCL) * Donald Wiseman (KCL)

Journalists

* Anita Anand (KCL) * Ruaridh Arrow (KCL) * Martin Bashir (KCL) * Fougasse (cartoonist), Cyril Kenneth Bird (KCL) * Lisa Brennan-Jobs (KCL) * Sana Bucha (KCL) * Daniel Ford (KCL) * Edward Greenspon (LSE) * Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson (KCL) * Ellie Harrison (journalist), Ellie Harrison (KCL) * Charles Franklin Hildebrand * Bernard Levin (LSE) * Michael Lewis (author), Michael Lewis (LSE) * Sophie Long (KCL) * Jonathan Maitland (KCL) * Ira Mathur (KCL) * Hargreaves Parkinson (KCL) * Trevor Phillips (ICL) * Chapman Pincher (KCL) * Richard Sambrook (BBK) * Laurie Taylor (sociologist), Laurie Taylor (BBK) * Xiao Qian (SOAS) * Claire Rayner (KCL) * Tom Rogan (KCL) * Roger Royle (KCL) * John Sandes (KCL) * Nicholas Stuart (KCL)

Judges and lawyers

* Dixon Kwame Afreh, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2002–2003) * Christopher Weeramantry, Judge and vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ULIP) * Bola Ajibola, Judge of the International Court of Justice (ULIP) * William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher - Master of the Rolls (KCL). * Philippe Couvreur – Registrar at the International Court of Justice (KCL) * Abdul Koroma – Judge of the International Court of Justice (KCL) * Patrick Lipton Robinson – Judge of the International Court of Justice (KCL) * Meir Shamgar – President/Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Israel), Israel Supreme Court (ULIP) * Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche – Nigerian Attorney General (KCL) * Salahuddin Ahmad – Attorney General of Bangladesh (LSE) * Edward Williams (judge), Edward Williams, Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia (ULIP)Website Commemorating the Life of Edward Williams http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/library/exhibition/williams/uni_london.htm * Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed – former Attorney General of Bangladesh (LSE) * Geraldine Andrews, Dame Geraldine Andrews (KCL) * Robin Auld, Sir Robin Auld – Lord Justice of Appeal (KCL) * Horace Avory, Sir Horace Avory – Judge and criminal lawyer (KCL) * Harry Dias Bandaranaike, Sir Harry Dias Bandaranaike – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon (KCL) * Harold Bollers, Sir Harold Bollers – Chief Justice of Guyana (KCL) * Kofi Adumua Bossman – Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (KCL) * Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers, Sir Mackenzie Chalmers (KCL) * Francis Chang-Sam – Seychellois Attorney General (KCL) * Bobbie Cheema-Grubb, Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb – High Court Judge (KCL) * Fielding Clarke, Sir Fielding Clarke – Chief Justice of Fiji, Hong Kong and Jamaica (KCL) * Segun Toyin Dawodu – physician, entrepreneur, journalist, attorney and founder Dawodu.com (KCL/ULIP) * Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies – Lord Justice of Appeal and Law Lord (KCL) * Albert Venn Dicey – English jurist (ICL) * David Foskett, Sir David Foskett – High Court judge (KCL) * Cyril Fountain, Sir Cyril Fountain – Chief Justice of The Bahamas (KCL) * Brian Hayes (lawyer), Brian Hayes - South Australian lawyer and former National Chairman of the Australia India Business Council. * Robert John Hayfron-Benjamin – Botswana#Judiciary, Chief Justice of Botswana (1977–1981) * Chukwunweike Idigbe – Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (KCL) * K. C. Kamalasabayson – Sri Lankan Attorney General (KCL) * Neil Trevor Kaplan, Neil Kaplan – Judge and arbitrator (KCL) * Gilbert Walter King – Judge of the British Supreme Court for China * Frances Kirkham – Judge(KCL) * Leonard Knowles, Sir Leonard Knowles – Chief Justice of The Bahamas (KCL) * George Jessel (jurist), Sir George Jessel – English jurist (UCL) * Mustafa Kamal (judge), Mustafa Kamal – former Chief Justice of Bangladesh (LSE) * Anthony Kennedy – American Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court justice (LSE) * Nii Ashie Kotey – A Ghanaian academic and active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2018–) * Wayne Martin (judge), Wayne Martin – former Chief Justice of Western Australia (KCL) * Trevor Moniz – Bermudan Attorney General (KCL) * Thomas Mesereau – American Defence Attorney (LSE) * Janine Pritchard – Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. * Shabtai Rosenne – International Law professor * David Penry-Davey, Sir David Penry-Davey – High Court judge (KCL) * Choor Singh, Judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore#List of judges of the Supreme Court, Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore (ULIP) * Babatunji Olowofoyeku, Attorney General of Western Region, Nigeria (ULIP) * Ilana Rovner – Judge (KCL) * Jenny Rowe – Chief Executive of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (KCL) * J. Sarkodee-Addo – Chief Justice of Ghana (KCL) * Kobina Sekyi – Ghanaian lawyer, poet and politician * Frederic N. Smalkin, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (ULIP)Maryland & the Federal Government, url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/39fed/02usd/former/html/msa12038.html, * John Taylor (Nigerian judge), John Taylor – Chief Justice of Lagos (KCL) * Sir Skinner Turner – Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China * William Bedford Van Lare – Ghanaian jurist and diplomat, former justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (UCL) * Thomas Webb (Australian judge), Thomas Webb – Judge (KCL) * Michael Whitley, Sir Michael Whitley – Singaporean Attorney General (KCL)

Philosophers

* A. J. Ayer (UCL) * William Warren Bartley (LSE) * Helen Beebee (KCL) * Nick Bostrom (LSE) * Harry Brighouse (KCL) * Elizabeth Burns (philosopher), Elizabeth Burns (KCL) * Nancy Cartwright (philosopher), Nancy Cartwright (LSE) * Brian Davies (philosopher), Brian Davies (KCL) * Daniel Dennett (LSE) * Paul Feyerabend (LSE) * Raimond Gaita (KCL) * Ernest Gellner (LSE) * Jonathan Glover (KCL) * John Gray (LSE), John Gray (LSE) * A. C. Grayling (BBK) * C. E. M. Joad (BBK) * Imre Lakatos (LSE) * Alasdair MacIntyre (QMUL) * David Miller (philosopher), David Miller (LSE) * Alan Musgrave (LSE) * Michael Oakeshott (LSE) * Karl Popper, Sir Karl Popper (LSE) * Stathis Psillos (KCL) * John Ralston Saul (KCL) * Simon Saunders (KCL) * Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (SOAS) *

(LSE) * Mark Sainsbury (philosopher), Mark Sainsbury (KCL) * Roger Scruton (BBK) * Jeremy Shearmur (LSE) * Elliott Sober (LSE) * Nicla Vassallo (KCL) * Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 4th Baronet (KCL)

Sportspersons

* Jo Ankier athlete (KCL) * Dina Asher-Smith – Olympic Games, Olympic winning athlete (KCL) * Louis Attrill – Olympic Games, Olympic gold medallist, Rowing (sport), rowing (ICL) * Roger Bannister – first to run the four-minute mile (ICL) * Paul Bennett (rower), Paul Bennett – Olympic gold medal-winning rower (KCL) * Simon Dennis (rower), Simon Dennis – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (ICL) * Harry Gem – inventor of lawn tennis (KCL) * Hugh Lindsay (footballer), Hugh Lindsay – English amateur footballer who played for Southampton F.C., Southampton and appeared in the Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics * Katherine Grainger – Olympic gold medalist, rowing (KCL) * Frances Houghton – Olympic medal-winning rower (KCL) * Zoe Lee – Olympic medal-winning rower (KCL) * Kieran West – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (KCL) * Annabel Vernon – Olympic medal-winning rower (KCL) * Thomas Hollingdale – Welsh international rugby player (KCL) * Adam Khan – racing driver (KCL) * Corinna Lawrence – fencer (KCL) * Gary Lineker – England footballer and television pundit (KCL) * Edward Pegge – Welsh international rugby player (KCL) * Leigh Richmond Roose – Welsh international footballer (KCL) * Chris Sheasby – England rugby player (KCL)

Others

* Abdalla Uba Adamu, professor, media scholar, vice chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria * Thomas Armitage – founder of the Royal National Institute of Blind People, RNIB (KCL) * James Barrett (academic) – academic (KCL) * Thomas John Barnardo – philanthropist (QMUL) * Hedley Bull – International Relations academic (LSE) * Urvashi Butalia –

n feminist writer, publisher, and activist * Alex Comfort – writer of "The Joy of Sex" (UCL) * William Coxen, Sir William Coxen, 1st Baronet – Lord Mayor of London (KCL) * Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri – International Relations academic (LSE), (ICwS) * Quentin Crisp – writer, actor and raconteur (KCL) * James Cuno – director of the Courtauld Institute of Art (2003-2004) * Christopher Geidt, Sir Christopher Geidt – Private Secretary to the Sovereign, Private Secretary to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II (KCL) * Harry Golombek – chess International Grandmaster, grandmaster (KCL) * Devendra Prasad Gupta – academic (KCL) * Michael Halliday – linguist * Harold Jenkins (Shakespeare scholar), Harold Jenkins – William Shakespeare, Shakespeare scholar * Reginald Johnston – teacher of Puyi (SOAS) * Ivison Macadam, Sir Ivison Macadam – first President of National Union of Students (United Kingdom), NUS and Director-General of Chatham House (KCL) * David Livingstone – explorer (ICL) * Ram Charan Mehrotra - Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi and University of Allahabad * Linda Norgrove – kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and killed in rescue effort * Carlos the Jackal, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – criminal and terrorist (LSE) * José Graziano da Silva – agronomist, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (Institute of Latin American Studies, ILAS) * Nancy Rothwell – academic (KCL) * Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott – Lord Mayor of London (KCL) * Marianne Winder - linguist, author, Buddhist and Librarian at the Wellcome Library * Korean Englishman, Josh Carrott - Youtuber

Honorary degrees

The University of London presented its first honorary degrees in June 1903. This accolade has been bestowed on several members of British royal family and a wide range of distinguished individuals from both the academic and non-academic worlds. Honorary degrees are approved by the Collegiate Council, part of the university's governance structure. * George V (Hon. 1903), King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India * Edward VIII (Hon. M.Com. 1921, D.Sc. 1921), King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India * Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (Hon. D.Litt. 1937), Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Dominion, British Dominions * Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1933), member of the British royal family * Queen Elizabeth II (Hon. BMus, Hon. LLD), Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms * Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Hon. LLD) Consort of the British monarch * Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Princess Margaret (Hon. D.Mus. 1957), Member of British royal family * Albert Einstein (1936), Theoretical physicist and Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 * René Cassin (1969), Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 * Lars Ahlfors (1978), Finland, Finnish mathematician Recipient of Fields Medal in 1936. * Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941; conferred in 1945), List of Presidents of the United States, 32nd President of the United States * Winston Churchill (Hon. LLD 1948), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * Stanley Baldwin (1933), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Helena Kennedy (2015), Principal (academia), Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford * John Beddington (2015), UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser * Rolph Payet (Hon. D.Sc. 2016),

Executive Secretary for the Basel Convention, Basel, Rotterdam Convention, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, Stockholm Convention * Cosmo Gordon Lang (1933),

(1928–1942) * Eliza Manningham-Buller (2019), Director General of MI5, Director General of MI5 (2002 to 2007) * Jack Higgins, British writer * David Cannadine (Hon. D.Litt. 2017), President of the British Academy * Sue Black (anthropologist), Sue Black (Hon. D.Sc. 2018), Pro Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University

References

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External links

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