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Founders and supporters


Founders

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named (in Latin) on the Foundation Stone. * James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), Scottish peer and British statesman *
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, (27 January 1773 – 21 April 1843) was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III and his queen consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the only surviving son of George III who did not ...
(1773–1843), Grand Master of English Freemasons (the
United Grand Lodge of England The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the governing Masonic lodge for the majority of freemasons in England, Wales and the Commonwealth of Nations. Claiming descent from the Masonic grand lodge formed 24 June 1717 at the Goose & Gridiron ...
), 1813–1843, supporter of UCL; he laid the foundation stone of the new university on 30 April 1827 *
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 177412 May 1848), of The Grange in Hampshire, of Ashburton in Devon and of Buckenham Tofts near Thetford in Norfolk, was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring famil ...
(1774–1848), British politician and financier *
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(1748–1832), English philosopher; a leading advocate for the foundation of UCL *
George Birkbeck George Birkbeck FRS (; 10 January 1776 – 1 December 1841) was a British physician, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and a professor of natural philosophy at the Andersonian Institute. He is the founder of Birkbeck, Univers ...
(1776–1841), British Quaker, doctor, academic, philanthropist, and early *pioneer in adult education; founder of Birkbeck College. * Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), Scottish-born British statesman and slavery abolitionist, leading advocate in Parliament for the foundation of UCL * Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet, founding father of UCL * Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853), Baptist Minister, active supporter of the foundation of UCL *
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English Whig politician and colonial administrator. He was thrice First Lord of the Admiralty and also served as Governor-General of India between 1836 and 1842 ...
, British statesman * Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor *
Olinthus Gregory Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 17742 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author, and editor. Biography He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire, the son of Robert, a shoemaker, and Ann, who also had three you ...
(1774–1841), English mathematician, author and editor *
George Grote George Grote (; 17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous ''History of Greece''. Early life George Grote was born at Clay Hill near B ...
(1794–1871), English classical historian *
Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, (12 August 179118 February 1856), styled Earl of Surrey between 1815 and 1842, was a British Whig politician and peer. Background Norfolk was the son of Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, ...
(1791–1856), Catholic peer, and advocate for the foundation of UCL *
Joseph Hume Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish surgeon and Radical MP.Ronald K. Huch, Paul R. Ziegler 1985 Joseph Hume, the People's M.P.: DIANE Publishing. Early life He was born the son of a shipmaster James Hume ...
(1777–1855), Scottish doctor and politician *
Zachary Macaulay Zachary Macaulay ( gd, Sgàire MacAmhlaoibh; 2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a Scottish statistician and abolitionist who was a founder of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and a Governor of British Sierra Leone ...
(1768–1838), Scottish-born slavery abolitionist, Governor of
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierr ...
, and active supporter of the foundation of UCL * Sir
James Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE (24 October 1765 – 30 May 1832) was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a jo ...
(1765–1832), Scottish jurist, politician and historian *
James Mill James Mill (born James Milne; 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote ''The History of Brit ...
(1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher; advocate for the foundation of UCL *
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and a ...
(1792–1878), British statesman *
Henry Warburton Henry Warburton (12 November 1784 – 16 September 1858) was an English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist. Elected as Member of Parliament for Bridport, Dorset, in the 1826 general election, he held the seat f ...
(1784–1858), English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist * John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833), British statesman * William Wilkins (1778–1839), original architect of the main campus * Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825. A translation of the Latin text engraved on a metal plate that was buried with the foundation stone reads as follows:
To God's favour the greatest and best, eternal architect of the universe may it bring you happiness and good fortune at the beginning of the eighth year of the reign of King George IV of Britain the most highest prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex patron of all the fine arts the oldest order of architecture the highest among the English the foundation stone of the London University between city state .e. citizensand brothers standing around will be placed by his hand to applause. Day before the day before the Kalends of May The work of God desired by the most fortunate citizens of this town has begun at last in the year of human greeting 1827 and in the year of light 5827. In the name of these most illustrious men who are present and with the guidance of Henry Duke of Norfolk, Henry Marquis of Lansdown, Lord John Russell, John, Viscount Dudley and Ward, George, Baron Auckland, the Hon. James Abercrombie and Sir James Macintosh, Alexander Baring, Henry Bougham, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, George Grote, Zachary Macaulay, Benjamin Shaw, William Tooke, Henry Waymouth, George Birkbeck, Thomas Campbell, Olinthus Gregory, Joseph Hume, James Mill, John Smith, Henry Warburton, John Wishaw, Thomas Wilson, and William Wilkins, architect.


Supporters


Benefactors

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


Council members

* Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (1949–) *
Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather Deputy Lieutenant, DL (born 13 February 1934) is a British Indians, British-Indian politician, teacher and life peer. Politics Flather served as a Councillor from 1976 to 1991; as Deputy Mayor and as Mayor for ...
(1934–), British politician, UCL alumna, and the first South Asian woman to receive a peerage * Sir Stephen Wall, British diplomat, leading Catholic layman, chairman of Council (2008–) * Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825. *
Thomas Field Gibson Thomas Field Gibson FGS (3 March 1803 – 12 December 1889) was a Unitarian silk manufacturer and philanthropist. He supported several novel initiatives to enhance British manufacturing quality and international trade while improving life fo ...
(1803-1889), Manufacturer and benefactor – on Council 1851–68 *
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf, (born 2 May 1933) is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional R ...
, UCL alumnus; variously Visitor, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Council (2005–08), and Chairman of the UCL Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.


Nobel laureates


Fields Medallists

The Fields Medal is often described as the "''Nobel Prize in Mathematics''". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medallists, 1998:
Timothy Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Col ...
*Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics (1991–1995) 1970: Alan Baker *BSc (1961), Professor (1964–1965) 1958:
Klaus Roth Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Mo ...
*MSc (1948), PhD (1950), Professor (1948–1966)


Former staff


Art, architecture, and design

* Dame
Phyllida Barlow Dame Phyllida Barlow (born 4 April 1944) is a British artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty y ...
, Sculptor *
Tancred Borenius Carl Tancred Borenius (14 July 1885, Vyborg – 2 September 1948, Coombe Bisset) was a Finnish art historian working in England, who became the first professor of the history of art at University College London. He was a prolific author, and recog ...
(1885–1948), art historian, diplomat and British wartime spy * Sir
Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, comedian, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishme ...
(1936–), architect,
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Professor of Architecture * Stuart Brisley, performance artist *
Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow directo ...
(1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies *
Thomas Leverton Donaldson Thomas Leverton Donaldson (19 October 1795 – 1 August 1885) was a British architect, notable as a pioneer in architectural education, as a co-founder and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a winner of the RIBA Royal Gold ...
(1795–1885), architect, first UCL Professor of Architecture *
Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...
(1922–2011), painter *
Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developme ...
(1866–1934), painter, art critic * John Hooper Harvey (1911–97), architectural historian, Bartlett School of Architecture, 1950–59. * Tim Head, artist * John Hilliard, artist * Otto Königsberger (1908–1999), architect * Michael (Edward) Parsons (1938–), avant-garde composer, and lecturer in fine art *
Cameron Sinclair Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He currently serves as pro bono executive director of Armory of Harmony, a US-based organization focused on smelting dow ...
(1973–), co-founder of Architecture for Humanity


Engineering sciences

*
Eric Ash Sir Eric Albert Ash (31 January 1928 – 22 August 2021) was a British electrical engineer, past Rector of Imperial College and President of IEE, UK. He was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for i ...
(1928-2021), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering ,
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from 1979 to 1986 *
Harold Barlow Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow FRS (15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989) was a British engineer. He was born in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow, an electrical engineer. He entered University College, London where, apart from ...
, staff then
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in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1950–1966) *
Thomas Hudson Beare Sir Thomas Hudson Beare FRSE RSSA (30 June 1859 – 10 June 1940) was an eminent British engineer. He was successively Professor of Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, at University College, London (where he was a colleague of ...
(1859–1940), chair of engineering from 1889 to 1901 * Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69 * Wellesley Curram Clinton (1871-1934),
Pender Chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London. John Pender (pictured in the caricature on the right), the founder of Cable and Wireless ...
from 1926 to 1934 * Jon Crowcroft, Professor of Networked Systems in Computer Science *
Alexander Lamb Cullen Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer. Career and research Cullen served as the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London where he hel ...
, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
Pender Chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London. John Pender (pictured in the caricature on the right), the founder of Cable and Wireless ...
from 1967 to 1980 * Sir David Davies, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1985–1988) * John William Draper - pioneer astro-photographer who also took the oldest surviving picture of a woman *
Anthony Finkelstein Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein (born 28 July 1959 ) is a British engineer and computer scientist. He is the President of City, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021. E ...
, Head of Computer Science and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences until 2015 * John Fleming (1849–1945) *
William Edward Gibbs William Edward Gibbs (1890 – 18 January 1934) was the second Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London. He was the second head of the department replacing the first, E. C. Williams. Career Gibbs completed ...
(1890-1934), Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering *
Eaton Hodgkinson Eaton A. Hodgkinson FRS (26 February 1789 – 18 June 1861) was an English engineer, a pioneer of the application of mathematics to problems of structural design. Early life Hodgkinson was born in the village of Anderton, near Northwich, ...
, Professor of the mechanical principles of engineering (appointed in 1847) *
Reginald Otto Kapp Reginald Otto Kapp (2 August 1885-20 February 1966) was a professor of electrical engineering at UCL. He was appointed to the Pender chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Ele ...
(1885-1966), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering ,
Pender Chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London. John Pender (pictured in the caricature on the right), the founder of Cable and Wireless ...
from 1935 to 1945 *
Peter T. Kirstein Peter Thomas Kirstein (20 June 1933 – 8 January 2020) was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He put the first computer on the ARPANET outside of the US and was instrumental in defining and implem ...
(1933-2020), Head of Computer Science department from 1980 to 1994 *
John Edwin Midwinter John Edwin Midwinter OBE FRS FREng (8 March 1938 – 13 November 2021) was a British electrical engineer and professor, who was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET) from 2000 to 2001. Education He was educated at St ...
(1938-2021), Pender Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 2004, Vice Provost from 1994-1999 * John Millington (1779-1868), the UK's first Civil Engineering Professor, appointed in 1827 * Sir John O'Reilly, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1997–2001) * William Pole (1813–1900), 1859–76 *
William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous element ...
(1852-1916), Chair of Chemistry (appointed 1887) *
H. E. Watson Herbert Edmeston Watson (FRIC FIChemE) (17 May 1886 - 24 September 1980) was Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London and the inventor of the low voltage neon glow lamp. Education Watson attended Marlboroug ...
(1886-1980), Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering * E. C. Williams, first Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering (1923-1927)


Languages and literature

*
Chimen Abramsky Chimen Abramsky ( he, שמעון אברמסקי; 12 September 1916 – 14 March 2010) was emeritus professor of Jewish studies at University College London. His first name is pronounced ''Shimon''. Biography Abramsky was born in Minsk to a Li ...
– Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies * Celia Britton – Emeritus Professor of French * A. S. Byatt – Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (1972–83); winner of the 1990 Booker Prize * Sir
Hermann Gollancz Sir Hermann Gollancz (30 November 1852 – 15 October 1930) was a British rabbi and Hebrew scholar. Gollancz was the first Jew to earn a doctor of literature degree from London University and the first holder of the degree to be ordained as a ra ...
– Professor of Hebrew; British Rabbi (1902–24) *
Alan Hollinghurst Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize. Early life and education H ...
– Lecturer in English; deputy editor, ''
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''; later winner of the 2004 Booker Prize *
A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by pub ...
– Professor of Latin; poet most famous as author of '' A Shropshire Lad'' *
Dan Jacobson Dan Jacobson (7 March 1929 – 12 June 2014) was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Early life and career Dan Jacobson was born 7 March 1929, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his p ...
– Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious
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* Sir
Frank Kermode Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA (29 November 1919 – 17 August 2010) was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work '' The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction'' and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing. He was ...
– Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature (1967–74); literary critic *
Tomáš Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 185014 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist, and philosopher. Until 1914, he advocated restructuring the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federal state. With the help of ...
– Inaugurated the London
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(SSEES), now part of UCL; later became the first President of
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*
David Masson David Mather Masson LLD DLitt (2 December 18226 October 1907), was a Scottish academic, supporter of women's suffrage, literary critic and historian. Biography He was born in Aberdeen, the son of William Masson, a stone-cutter, and his wi ...
– Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer * Karl Miller – Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature (1976–92); first editor, ''
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'' *
Arnaldo Momigliano Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (5 September 1908 – 1 September 1987) was an Italian historian of classical antiquity, known for his work in historiography, and characterised by Donald Kagan as "the world's leading student of the writing of history i ...
– Professor of History (1951–75) *
Henry Morley Henry Morley (15 September 1822 – 14 May 1894) was an English academic who was one of the earliest professors of English literature in Great Britain. Morley wrote a popular book containing biographies of famous English writers. Life The son o ...
– Professor of English Literature * Dadabhai Naoroji – Professor of Gujarati (1856–1865) credited as the first
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, also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" * Sir
Anthony Panizzi Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (16 September 1797 – 8 April 1879), better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth, and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian, becoming the Principal Librarian (i.e. head ...
– Professor of Italian *
Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by th ...
– Lecturer in English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet * John Sutherland – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for ''
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'' *
Jeremy Treglown The biographer, cultural historian and critic Jeremy Treglown (born 24 May 1946) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. He was editor of ''The Times Literary Supplement'' through the 1980s and Chair of the Arvon Foundation, 2017-2 ...
– Professor of English; editor, ''
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''; author * D. P. Walker – Reader in French, musicologist, composer (1945–61) * Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust *
Moira Yip Moira Yip (b. 1949) is a British-American linguist. She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 1980 at MIT as a student of Morris Halle. She retired from her position as Professor of Linguistics at University College London (UCL) in 2009. While at UCL ...
– Professor of Linguistics


Law


Mathematical, physical, and space sciences

*
Jim Al-Khalili Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili ( ar, جميل صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in scien ...
– post-doctoral Fellow * Alan Baker, (mathematics) – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal * Charles Bungay Fawcett – Professor of Geography * Jocelyn Burnell, (astronomy) – discovered radio pulsars *
Paul Cohn Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutat ...
– Astor Professor of Mathematics * Marianna Csörnyei – Professor of Mathematics *
Harold Davenport Harold Davenport FRS (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Early life Born on 30 October 1907 in Huncoat, Lancashire, Davenport was educated at Accrington Grammar Scho ...
– Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory * Philip Dawid – Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis * Augustus DeMorgan – Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets *
Sir Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, prot ...
– 'Father of fingerprinting' * Tim Gowers – Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal *
Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize ...
– Theoretical Physicist and winner of the 2004
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* James Joseph Sylvester – Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory * Norman Lloyd Johnson – Reader in Statistics * Sir
James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence. Biography J ...
– Lecturer; predecessor to Stephen Hawking as
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at Cambridge University *
Dennis Lindley Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Biography Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child an ...
, statistician * Sir
Harrie Massey Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Cambridge Unive ...
– Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic and molecular collisions * Egon Pearson – Professor of Statistics * Karl Pearson – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics *
Eugene Rabinowitch Eugene Rabinowitch (1901–1973) was a Russian-born American biophysicist who is known for his work in photosynthesis and nuclear energy. He was a co-author of the Franck Report and a co-founder in 1945 of the '' Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...
– worked in the
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and co-founded the ''
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'' * Klaus F. Roth – Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal *
Edward Teller Edward Teller ( hu, Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care for ...
– 'Father of the Hydrogen Bomb' *
Patrick du Val Patrick du Val (March 26, 1903 – January 22, 1987) was a British mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named aft ...
* Alfred North Whitehead – Professor of Physics


Life sciences

* Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician known for his research on infantile
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('' Barlow's disease'') * Dame Carol Black, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the
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*
Patricia H. Clarke Patricia Hannah Clarke FRS (née Green) (29 July 1919 – 28 January 2010) was a British biochemist. Education and early life Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, befor ...
née Greene, FRS, (1919–2010), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry * David Clary, FRS, Director of the UCL Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009- *
Alex Comfort Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist ...
, Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, ''
The Joy of Sex ''The Joy of Sex'' is a 1972 illustrated sex manual by British author Alex Comfort. An updated edition was released in September 2008. Overview ''The Joy of Sex'' spent eleven weeks at the top of the ''New York Times'' bestseller list and more ...
'' * George Viner Ellis, prominent anatomist. He studied Medicine at
UCL Medical School UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. The School provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical educatio ...
and later became a Professor of Anatomy * Sir Martin Evans,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...
-winning biologist for his work with
stem cells In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type of ...
*
Lesley Fallowfield Professor Dame Lesley Jean Fallowfield DBE (born October 1949) is a British cancer psychologist and a professor of psycho-oncology at the University of Sussex. The main outcomes of her research have been the establishment of assessment tools to m ...
, Professor of Psycho-Oncology (1997–2001) * Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger * C. Robin Ganellin, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of cimetidine * Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery * J. B. S. Haldane, Professor of Genetics (1933–57). He was one of the founders of
population genetics Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology. Studies in this branch of biology examine such phenomena as Adaptation (biology), adaptation, ...
. *
Victor Horsley Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) was a British scientist and professor. He was born in Kensington, London. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, he studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, G ...
, Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley–Clarke apparatus * Ian Jacobs, Dean of Medicine * Roland Levinsky, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology. * Avrion Mitchison, Professor of Zoology *
Santa Ono Santa Jeremy Ono ( ja, 小野 三太; born November 23, 1962) is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator, currently serving as the 15th president of the University of Michigan since October 2022. Ono previously served as ...
, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Biomedical Sciences * Richard Quain, Chair of Anatomy (?–1850), having also studied Medicine at
UCL Medical School UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. The School provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical educatio ...
, and later physician-extraordinary to
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
* Dunkinfield Henry Scott, Botanist * Anthony Segal, Professor of Medicine *
John Maynard-Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics und ...
, Lecturer in Zoology (1952–65) * David Morley, Professor of child health, a pioneer in child healthcare *
Bert Sakmann Bert Sakmann (; born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch cl ...
, Nobel Prize-winning cell physiologist and former researcher at UCL Department of Biophysics (1970–1973) * Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, former Physician Extraordinary to
King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...
*
Charles Spearman Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (10 September 1863 – 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He also did seminal work on mod ...
, Professor of Psychology; noted for
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient In statistics, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient or Spearman's ''ρ'', named after Charles Spearman and often denoted by the Greek letter \rho (rho) or as r_s, is a nonparametric measure of rank correlation ( statistical dependence betwee ...
*
Bernard Spilsbury Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury (16 May 1877 – 17 December 1947) was a British pathologist. His cases include Hawley Crippen, the Seddon case, the Major Armstrong poisoning, the "Brides in the Bath" murders by George Joseph Smith, the Crumbles ...
, Britain's first forensic scientist. *
Ernest Starling Ernest Henry Starling (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology, which at that time led the world ...
, Physiologist, noted for the Frank–Starling law of the heart, producing the
Starling equation The Starling equation describes the net Fluid dynamics, flow of fluid across a semipermeable membrane. It is named after Ernest Starling. It describes the balance between capillary pressure, interstitial pressure, and osmotic pressure. The classi ...
, and for the discovery of hormones at UCL alongside his brother-in-law
William Bayliss Sir William Maddock Bayliss (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist. Life He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to a ...
* Patrick Wall, Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential gate theory of pain with
Ronald Melzack Ronald Melzack (July 19, 1929 – December 22, 2019) was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965, he and Patrick David Wall revolutionized pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain. ...
at McGill University * David J Werring, Professor of Clinical
Neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...
, noted for influental research in stroke * Alexander Williamson – noted for the chemical synthesis of ether * Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology * John (J-Z)Young, Professor of Anatomy


Philosophy

* A. J. Ayer, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic (1946–59) * Myles Burnyeat, Lecturer in Philosophy *
Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan Cohen, ( ; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Sou ...
, Reader in Philosophy; later
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory Chichele is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Henry Chichele ( 1364–1443), English religious leader **Chichele Professorship The Chichele Professorships are statutory professorships at the University of Oxford named in honou ...
at Oxford University * S.V. Keeling, Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy, scholar of
J. M. E. McTaggart John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the phi ...
and Descartes (after whom the annual Keeling lectures on Ancient Philosophy at UCL are named). * Stuart Hampshire, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic * W. D. Hart *
Ted Honderich Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London. Biography Honderich was born Edgar Dawn Ross Honderich o ...
, Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic * John Macmurray, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic; BBC broadcaster * John Stuart Mill, studied with John Austin at UCL. * Carveth Read, Professor of Moral Philosophy *
Bernard Williams Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include ''Problems of the Self'' (1973), ''Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'' (1985), ''Shame and Necessity'' ...
, Lecturer in Philosophy; later
Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy The Knightbridge Professorship of Philosophy is the senior professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. There have been 22 Knightbridge professors, the incumbent being Rae Langton. One of the oldest professorships in Cambridge, the ...
at Cambridge University *
Richard Wollheim Richard Arthur Wollheim (5 May 1923 − 4 November 2003) was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting. Wollheim served as the president of the British ...
, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic


Social sciences, geography, and history

*
Michael Crawford Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English tenor, actor and comedian. Crawford is best known for playing both the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'' a ...
, Professor of Ancient History *
Wendy Davies Wendy Elizabeth Davies (born 1942) is an emeritus professor of history at University College London, England. Her research focuses on rural societies in early medieval Europe, focusing on the regions of Wales, Brittany and Iberia. Career Da ...
, Professor of Medieval Celtic History * Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত)), student and later Professor of Indian History who translated the ''
Ramayana The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th ...
'' and ''
Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...
''. He served as
President of the Indian National Congress The President of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members ...
in 1899. * G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Marxist historian of Greek Antiquity, author of ''
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World ''The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests'' is a 1981 book by the British classical historian G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, a fellow of New College, Oxford. The book became a classic of Marxist historiog ...
'' *Sir
Andrew Dilnot Sir Andrew William Dilnot, (born 19 June 1960) is a Welsh economist and broadcaster. He was formerly the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, and was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford between 2002 and 2012. As o ...
, Economist; Principal, St. Hugh's College Oxford; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Oxford * Dame Mary Douglas, Professor of Anthropology; noted for her Cultural Theory of Risk * Hugh Gaitskell, lecturer in Political Economy (1928–1939), former leader of the Labour Party * Georgina Herrmann, Reader in the Archaeology of Western Asia (1994-2002) *
Albert Pollard Albert Frederick Pollard, FBA (16 December 1869 – 3 August 1948) was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Life and career Pollard was born in Ryde o ...
, Professor of Constitutional History; major contributor to the '' Dictionary of National Biography'' *
Conrad Russell Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his third wife Patricia Russell. He was al ...
, Professor of Early Modern British History * Sir Eric Turner, Professor of Papyrology *
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985) was an economist of Jewish origin born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian tradition under in Vienna. His early contributions to economics were in pure economic theory – on marginal utility, ...
, taught Economics at UCL, authored the "Big Push" Theory, later Assistant Director of the Economic Department in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1947-1953.


Current staff

For the main listing see


Art, architecture, and design

* Kate Bright * David Burrows * Susan Alexis Collins *
Melanie Counsell Melanie Counsell (born 25 January 1964) is a Welsh filmmaker, installation artist and sculptor. She works with a multitude of media such as 16 mm film, drawing, printed matter, sculpture and sound for context. Counsell has been resident at a rang ...
* Peter Davies * Benedict Drew * Simon Faithfull * Lilah Fowler *
Judith Goddard Judith Goddard (born 1956) is a British video artist. She has lived in London since 1980. Her works include single channel works, large-scale installation, photography, print and drawing. Initially working with 16mm film installation and stills ...
* Larne Abse Gogarty * Dryden Goodwin * Graham Gussin * Nadia Hebson * Holly Hendry * Kristen Kreider * Brighid Lowe * Alastair Mackinven * Onya McCausland * Lisa Milroy * Katrina Palmer * Jayne Parker * Sarah Pickering * Liz Rideal * Karin Ruggaber * Joy Sleeman * Andrew Stahl * Gary Stevens * Jack Strange * Estelle Thompson *
Jon Thomson Jon Thomson (born 1969) and Alison Craighead (born 1971) are London-based visual artists, who work with video, sound and the internet. Life and work Jon Thomson was born in London, England and Alison Craighead in Aberdeen, Scotland. They have ...
* Phoebe Unwin * Jo Volley *
Carey Young Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist whose work is often inspired by law, politics and economics. The tools, language and architectures of these fields act as material for her videos, text works, performances and photographs, often develo ...


Engineering sciences

*
Polina Bayvel Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (russian: link=no, Полина Леопольдовна Байвель; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Elec ...
, Professor of Optical Communications & Networks * Ann Blandford, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction * Helen Czerski, Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering * George Danezis, Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering * Mark Handley, Professor of Networked Systems, Computer Science * Zoe Laughlin, Materials Engineer and co-founder of the Institute of Making * Paola Lettieri, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of UCL East *
Mark Miodownik Mark Andrew Miodownik () is a British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer at University College London. Previously, he was the head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, and a co-founder of Materials Lib ...
, Professor of Materials & Society, co-founder of the Institute of Making * Peter O'Hearn, Professor of Computer Science *
Michael Pepper Sir Michael Pepper (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures. Early life Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby Pepper. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, a ...
,
Pender Chair The Pender Chair is the post that is generally held by the head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London. John Pender (pictured in the caricature on the right), the founder of Cable and Wireless ...
of Nanoelectronics (2009-) *
Yvonne Rogers Yvonne Rogers is a British psychologist and computer scientist. She serves as director of the Interaction Centre at University College London. She has authored or contributed to more than 250 publications. Her book ''Interaction Design: Beyond ...
, Professor of Interaction Design and director of UCLIC *
Angela Sasse Martina Angela Sasse is a German psychologist whose research spans the areas of human–computer interaction and computer security. She is Horst Görtz Endowed Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum. and has a part-time po ...
, Professor of Human-Centred Technology * John Shawe-Taylor, Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics * Rebecca Shipley, Professor of Healthcare Engineering * David Silver, Professor of Computer Science * Eva Sorensen, 11th Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering * Sarah Spurgeon, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering * Jose L. Torero, Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering


History, languages and literature

* Rosemary Ashton, OBE, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature * John Dickie, Professor in Italian Studies * Mark Ford, Professor of English *
Mary Fulbrook Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook, (née Wilson; born 28 November 1951) is a British academic and historian. Since 1995, she has been Professor of German History at University College London. She is a noted researcher in a wide range of fields, incl ...
, Professor of German History *
Philip Horne Philip Horne (born 1957) is a teacher and literary critic specializing in 19th century literature, particularly Henry James and Charles Dickens. Educated at King's College School and Cambridge University, he is currently Professor of English at Uni ...
, Professor of English * John Mullan, Professor of English * Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics


Mathematical, physical and space sciences

* Tim Broyd, Professor of Built Environment Foresight and Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering *
Alan Sokal Alan David Sokal (; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmo ...
, Professor of Mathematics


Life sciences

* Peter Butler, Professor of Surgery *
David Colquhoun David Colquhoun (born 19 July 1936) is a British pharmacologist at University College London (UCL). He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms, and in particular the theory and practice of single ion channel ...
, notable for predicting the single Ion channel function, later verified by Bert Sakmann * Martin Elliott, Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery *
Rob Horne Rob Horne (born 15 August 1989) is an Australian former rugby union footballer who played at centre for the Waratahs, Northampton Saints, and Australia. Early life Horne attended Lugarno Public School and Georges River College, Oatley Campus ...
, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, School of Pharmacy * Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics * Nick Lane, Winner of the 2015 biochemical society award and influential science writer * Sammy Lee, expert in ''in vitro'' fertilisation * Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy *
Martin Raff Martin Charles Raff (born 15 January 1938) is a Canadian/British biologist and researcher who is an Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB) at University College London (UCL). His research has been in immunolog ...
, Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology *
Sarah Tabrizi Sarah Joanna Tabrizi FMedSci is a British neurology, neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of neurodegeneration, particularly Huntington's disease. She is a Professor and Joint Head of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the UC ...
, Professor of Neuroscience *
Robin Weiss Robert Anthony "Robin" Weiss (born 20 February 1940) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Research His research has focussed on retroviruses, ...
, Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that CD4 is the co-receptor for HIV *
Semir Zeki Semir Zeki FMedSci FRS is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are ge ...
, Professor of Neurology, proponent for the role of Visual area 4 in cognitive colour construction


Social sciences, geography, and history

*
John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...
, Professor of geography and authority on risk compensation *
Richard Blundell Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and ...
, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director,
Institute for Fiscal Studies The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is an economic research institute based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy. It produces both academic and policy-related findings. The institute's aim is to "ad ...
* Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History * Gordon Hillman, Honorary Visiting Professor in Archaeobotany ( Palaeoethnobotany) *
Simon Hornblower Simon Hornblower, FBA (born 1949) is an English classicist and academic. He is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Biography Born in 1949, he was educate ...
, Grote Professor of ancient history and editor of the
Oxford Classical Dictionary The ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' (''OCD'') is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity," an encyclopædic work in English consisting of articles relating to classical antiquity and its civilizations. It was first pub ...
* Amélie Kuhrt, Historian of the ancient Near East. *
Martyn Rady Martyn Rady (born 1955) is Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. He was from 1995 to 2009 Warden of Hughes Parry Hall, an intercollegiate h ...
, Professor of Central European History * John Reid, Chairman of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at UCL, and a member of the UK Parliament. *
Christopher Tilley __NOTOC__ Chris Tilley is a British archaeologist known for his contributions to postprocessualist archaeological theory. He is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London. Tilley obtained his PhD in Anth ...
, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, he is known as one of the pioneers of the
post-processual archaeology Post-processual archaeology, which is sometimes alternately referred to as the interpretative archaeologies by its adherents, is a movement in archaeological theory that emphasizes the subjectivity of archaeological interpretations. Despite having ...
movement.


Alumni


Academics

* Roy Clive Abraham (Certificate in Anthropology, 1927), scholar of African languages *
Israel Abrahams Israel Abrahams, MA ''( honoris causa)'' (b. London, 26 November 1858; d. Cambridge, 6 October 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, ''Jewish Life in th ...
(MA), Jewish scholar *
Sir Walter Adams Sir Walter Adams (16 December 1906'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 5. – 21 May 1975) was a British historian and educationalist. Adams was educated at University College London ...
(History and later lecturer), historian and former Director of the
London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...
*
Hutton Ayikwei Addy Hutton Ayikwei Addy, was a Ghanaian academic and physician (paediatrician). He was a founding member of the School of Medical Sciences (now a constituent faculty of the College of Health Sciences) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science a ...
, Professor of Public Health, first dean of the
University for Development Studies The University for Development Studies, Tamale was established in 1992 by the government of Ghana with a view to accelerating the development of the then 3 Northern Regions of Ghana (the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions). The late Pr ...
Medical School *
Momtazuddin Ahmed Momtazuddin Ahmed ( bn, মমতাজউদ্দিন আহমেদ; 24 December 1903 – 12 September 1971) was a Bangladeshi philosopher and educationist. Early life and education Ahmed was born to a Bengali Muslim family from Brahma ...
(PhD Philosophy, 1937),
Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
i philosopher and academic * Mark Allinson (PhD in German history), academic and historian of German history * Ali Ansari (BA), historian and founder of the Institute for Iranian Studies *
Emmanuel Quaye Archampong Professor Emmanuel Quaye Archampong, was a Ghanaian surgeon and academic. He was an emeritus professor of the College of Health Sciences University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Legon. He was an honorary fellow of the American C ...
, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the
University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...
* Robert Arnott, medical archaeologist * John Baker, UCL (LLB, PhD): Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge * Trevor J. Barnes, Professor of Economic Geography at the
University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...
*
Peter Birks Peter Brian Herrenden Birks (3 October 1941 – 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He also became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989, and an honorary Queen's counsel in ...
, former Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford *
Edith Clara Batho Dr Edith Clara Batho (21 September 1895 – 21 January 1986) was Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHC) from 1945 to 1962. Education She was educated at Highbury Hill High School, now Highbury Fields School in Isling ...
(English, 1915), Principal of
Royal Holloway College Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...
*
Bernard Crick Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as ...
, British political theorist *
David Crystal David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic, and prolific author best known for his works on linguistics and the English language. Family Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on 6 July 1941 after his mother had ...
, Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist * Stephen Daniels (PhD), Professor of Cultural Geography at
University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...
*
Stephen Guest Stephen Guest, Barrister (Inner Temple) and Barrister and Solicitor (N.Z. High Court), is the Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University College London Faculty of Laws. Education Guest obtained his BA in Philosophy (1971) and his LLB at the ...
, Professor of Legal Philosophy, UCL *
Noreena Hertz Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and author, and has hosted her show, "MegaHertz: London Calling," on Sirius XM's Insight channel since 28 August 2017. She has been Honorary Professor at the Institute for ...
, associate director,
Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school. The School is considered to be pa ...
at
Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III of England, Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world' ...
* David Gwilym James, Vice-Chancellor 1952-1965
University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
* Eleanor Janega (PhD), American mediaeval historian, author and broadcaster *
William Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 183513 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in eco ...
, Professor of Political Economy, UCL * Timothy L. Killeen (BSc, PhD), President of the
University of Illinois system The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign. Across its three universities, the University of Illinois System enrolls more than ...
* R.J.B. Knight, naval historian * Victoria Lemieux, Associate Professor at
University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...
* David Llewellyn, Vice-Chancellor of
Harper Adams University Harper Adams University, founded in 1901 as Harper Adams College, is a public university located close to the village of Edgmond, near Newport, in Shropshire, England. Established in 1901, the college is a specialist provider of higher educa ...
*
Julie Maxton Dame Julie Katharine Maxton (born 31 August 1955) is a British barrister, legal scholar, and academic administrator. Since 2011, she has been executive director of the Royal Society. She spent most of her career working at the University of A ...
, Registrar at
Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to th ...
*
Lillian Penson Dame Lillian Margery Penson, DBE (18 July 1896 – 17 April 1963) was a professor of modern history at the University of London, and the first woman to serve as Vice-Chancellor of the university. Early life She was born in Islington, London, the ...
, first woman Vice-Chancellor of London University * Chung-Kwong Poon (潘宗光), GBS, JP, President of
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...
since 1991 *
Henry Enfield Roscoe Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (7 January 1833 – 18 December 1915) was a British chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium, photochemical studies, and his assistance in creating Oxo (food), in its earlier liquid form. Life a ...
, former Vice-Chancellor of the
University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
(1896-1902) * Lord
Randolph Quirk Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, CBE, FBA (12 July 1920 – 20 December 2017) was a British linguist and life peer. He was the Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1968 to 1981. He sat as ...
, Quain Professor of English Literature *
Stefan Reif Stefan Clive Reif (born 21 January 1944) is professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He was born in Edinburgh. He has a PhD from University College London and a Doctor of Literature from Cambridge. Education Stefan Reif graduated a ...
, studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the
University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
* William Scoresby Routledge (Medicine), ethnographer * Sir Adrian Smith (UCL Mathematics, PhD), FRS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 2012- * Jonathan Wolff (MPhil), Professor of Philosophy and
Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ...
of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL


Economists

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Edith Abbott Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educationa ...
(Carnegie Scholarship), American economist, social reformer, academic and author. Abbott was the first women to become a Dean of an American Graduate School at the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...
. * Sophia N. Antonopoulou (PhD Economics), economist and academic *
Süleyman Başak Süleyman Başak (born c. 1964) is a financial economist of Turkish Cypriot origin. He is Professor at the Institute of Finance and Accounting of the London Business School, an MBA-granting part of the University of London and has previously ta ...
(BSc Civil Engineering), financial economist *
Roger Bate Roger Bate is a British educated economist who has held a variety of positions in free market oriented organizations. His work focuses on solving the problem of counterfeit and substandard medicines, particularly those in the developing world. ...
, economist formerly of the
Institute of Economic Affairs The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a right-wing pressure group and think tank registered as a UK charity Associated with the New Right, the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute", and says that it seeks to "further ...
and other free market-orientated organisations * John Stuart Mill attended UCL to study with John Austin, major political philosopher. *
Philip Wicksteed Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844 – 18 March 1927) is known primarily as an economist. He was also a Georgist, Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic. Family background He was the son of Charles Wicksteed ...
, economist and theologian


Engineers

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William Edward Ayrton William Edward Ayrton, FRS (14 September 18478 November 1908) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. Life Early life and education Ayrton was born in London, the son of Edward Nugent Ayrton, a barrister, and educated at Universit ...
, co-developer the first spiral-spring
ammeter An ammeter (abbreviation of ''Ampere meter'') is an instrument used to measure the current in a circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes (A), hence the name. For direct measurement, the ammeter is connected in series with the circuit ...
,
wattmeter The wattmeter is an instrument for measuring the electric active power (or the average of the rate of flow of electrical energy) in watts of any given circuit. Electromagnetic wattmeters are used for measurement of utility frequency and audio ...
and electric tricycle *
Harold Barlow Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow FRS (15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989) was a British engineer. He was born in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow, an electrical engineer. He entered University College, London where, apart from ...
, engineer and UCL academic * Arnold Beck, Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge *
Ian McDonald Campbell Ian MacDonald Campbell, CVO, FREng, FICE, FCIT (13 July 1922 – 1 April 1994) was a British civil engineer. He served as chief executive of the British Railways Board (1978–80) and chairman of the Scottish Board of British Railways ( ...
, civil engineer and vice-chairman of British Rail *
Colin Chapman Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. Chapman ...
,
Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
designer and founder of Lotus Cars *
Demetrius Comino Demetrius Comino OBE (4 September 1902 – 27 September 1988)Darbyshire, Anthony, and Duckworth, Eric (2011), ''Demetrius Comino: A life and legacy of achievement'', Comino Foundation. – (accessed: 22 February 2012) was an Australian engineer, ...
OBE, engineer, inventor of Dexion steel slotted angle system * Edward Dobson (1816/17?–1908), Provincial Engineer for the Canterbury Province in New Zealand *
John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic ra ...
, inventor of the
thermionic valve A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America), is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied. The type known as a ...
and the diode *
Oliver Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his ...
, involved in the development of wireless telegraph * Colin Robbins, software engineer, co-inventor of LDAP * Bruce Woodgate, Principal investigator and designer of the
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a spectrograph, also with a camera mode, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Aerospace engineer Bruce Woodgate of the Goddard Space Flight Center was the principal investigator and crea ...
on the
Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most vers ...


Life scientists

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Agnes Arber Agnes Robertson Arber FRS (23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the las ...
(BSc, DSc, 1905), botanist *
Alec Bangham Alec Douglas Bangham FRS (10 November 1921 Manchester – 9 March 2010 Great Shelford) was a British biophysicist who first studied blood clotting mechanisms but became well known for his research on liposomes and his invention of clinically u ...
(Medicine), biophysicist researching
liposome A liposome is a small artificial Vesicle (biology and chemistry), vesicle, spherical in shape, having at least one lipid bilayer. Due to their hydrophobicity and/or hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, particle size and many other properties, lipo ...
s and inventing clinically-useful artificial lung surfactants * Anne Beloff-Chain, biochemist * Margaret Jane Benson, (1859-1936) paleobotanist *
Alfred William Bennett Alfred William Bennett (24 June 1833 – 23 January 1902) was a British botanist and publisher. He was best known for his work on the flora of the Swiss Alps, cryptogams, and the Polygalaceae or Milkwort plant family, as well as his years in th ...
(1833–1902), British botanist and publisher of The Friend * Katie Bentley, computer scientist, builds computational software to understand communication between cells * G. Marius Clore FRS (Biochemistry, UCL, 1976; Medicine, University College Medical School, 1979), biophysicist and structural biologist; pioneer of multidimensional
macromolecular A macromolecule is a very large molecule important to biophysical processes, such as a protein or nucleic acid. It is composed of thousands of covalently bonded atoms. Many macromolecules are polymers of smaller molecules called monomers. The ...
NMR spectroscopy Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique to observe local magnetic fields around atomic nuclei. The sample is placed in a magnetic fie ...
laying foundations of 3D structure determination of proteins in solution; member of the
United States National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...
* Sir Philip Cohen (BSc, PhD, 1969), Royal Medal-winning biochemist * Gillian Griffiths, cell biologist and immunologist *
Allan Octavian Hume Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British civil servant, political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India. He was the founder of the Indian National Congress. A notable ornithologist, Hum ...
(Medicine), political reformer, ornithologist and botanist, one of the founders of the
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...
*
John Maynard-Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics und ...
, theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist *
Ralph Kekwick Professor Ralph Ambrose Kekwick (11 November 1908 Leytonstone Essex – 17 January 2000 Woodford). was a British biochemist who did pioneering work on human plasma fractionation, including the first production of Factor VIII. Early life and e ...
, biochemist *
Raphael Weldon Walter Frank Raphael Weldon FRS (15 March 1860 – 13 April 1906), was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. He was the joint founding editor of ''Biometrika'', with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Family Weldon was th ...
(Medicine, left 1877), evolutionary biologist and a founder of
biometry Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...


Mathematicians, scientists and statisticians

* Alan Baker, winner of the 1970 Fields Medal * D.J. Bartholomew (BSc, PhD Mathematics), statistician and
President of the Royal Statistical Society The president of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), elected biennially by the Fellows of the Society. (The time-period between elections has varied in the past, and in fact elections only rarely occur ...
(1993-1995) * Laurence Baxter, professor of statistics * Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone * Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – one of the founders of radio telecommunication. * George E. P. Box (1919–2013), (UCL Mathematics and Statistics, PhD, 1953), Vilas Research Professor of Statistics,
University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...
*
Margaret Burbidge Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis and was first author of the influentia ...
, astrophysicist, former American Astronomical Society President, former Royal Greenwich Observatory Director * Ian Crawford – Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck University of London *
Florence Nightingale David Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David (23 August 1909 – 23 July 1993) was an English statistician. She was head of the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside between 1970 – 77 and her research inte ...
(1909–1993), statistician *
Roland Dobbs (Edwin) Roland Dobbs (2 December 1924 – 24 October 2016) was a British physicist, best known for his work in physical acoustics. Education He was educated at Ilford County High School, Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet and University Col ...
, physicist *
Thomas Eckersley Thomas Lydwell Eckersley FRS (27 December 1886 – 15 February 1959) was an English theoretical physicist and engineer. Biography Eckersley was born in St John's Wood, London, the second of three sons of William Alfred, a civil engineer, and ...
, theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves * Thomas Elger, selenographer famous for his lunar map * John Fox, statistician * Cecilie French, chemist specialising in
magnetochemistry Magnetochemistry is concerned with the magnetic properties of chemical compounds. Magnetic properties arise from the spin and orbital angular momentum of the electrons contained in a compound. Compounds are diamagnetic when they contain no unpaire ...
. * William Gowers, winner of the 1998 Fields Medal * Cyril Hilsum, pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices * Hermann Arthur Jahn, chemist, with Edward Teller he identified the
Jahn–Teller effect The Jahn–Teller effect (JT effect or JTE) is an important mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in molecular and solid-state systems which has far-reaching consequences in different fields, and is responsible for a variety of phenomena in sp ...
*
William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 183513 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in ec ...
, economist and logician * Norman Lloyd Johnson, professor of statistics and author *
Chris Lintott Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Lintott is involved in a number of popular scie ...
, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford *
Kathleen Lonsdale Dame Kathleen Lonsdale ( Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was an Irish-born British pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate t ...
, discovered the structure of
benzene Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C6H6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar ring with one hydrogen atom attached to each. Because it contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms ...
* Karl Pearson, statistician, founder of statistics department at UCL. * Sir Roger Penrose, mathematician and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. * Suzanna Randall, astrophysicist and private astronaut candidate *
Hans Reck Hans Gottfried Reck (24 January 1886 – 4 August 1937) was a German volcanologist and paleontologist. In 1913 he was the first to discover an ancient skeleton of a human in the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. He collaborated with ...
,
volcanologist A volcanologist, or volcano scientist, is a geologist who focuses on understanding the formation and eruptive activity of volcanoes. Volcanologists frequently visit volcanoes, sometimes active ones, to observe and monitor volcanic eruptions, col ...
and
paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
*
Klaus Roth Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Mo ...
, mathematician, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal * Walter Rouse-Ball, mathematician * R.J.G. Savage (PhD Paleontology), palaeontologist known as Britain's leading expert on fossil mammals * M. J. Seaton, British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer * Ian Sloan, Australian applied mathematician *
Kirstine Smith Kirstine Smith (April 12, 1878 – November 11, 1939) was a Danish statistician. She is credited with the creation of the field of optimal design of experiments. Background Smith grew up in the town of Nykøbing Mors, Denmark. In 1903, she grad ...
, statistician, creator of
optimal design In the design of experiments, optimal designs (or optimum designs) are a class of design of experiments, experimental designs that are Optimization (mathematics), optimal with respect to some statistical theory, statistical objective function, ...
of experiments *
David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the Un ...
, statistician, Professor at Cambridge * Russell Stannard, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the
Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...
, winner of the 1999 Bragg Medal * Tan Tin Wee (陈定炜), Singaporean scientist, 2012 Inaugural Internet Hall of Fame, inventor of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) (1998), bioinformatics pioneer in Asia, Director, National Supercomputing Centre Singapore. * Percy White (Chemical Engineering),
British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...
chemist and nuclear scientist *
Heinz Wolff Heinz Siegfried Wolff, (29 April 1928 – 15 December 2017) was a German-born British scientist as well as a television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series '' The Great Egg Race''. Early life Wolff was born ...
, scientist, television and radio presenter *
Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University Colleg ...
, Polish mathematician and statistician that first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and co-revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing


Medical figures

* Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983–91. * Judy Armitage (PhD, 1976), professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at the University of Oxford *
Tipu Aziz Tipu Zahed Aziz, FMedSci ( bn, টিপু আজিজ জাহেদ; born 9 November 1956) is a Bangladeshi-born British professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Aarhus Denmark and Porto, Portugal. He specialises ...
(Neurophysiology), professor of
neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and pe ...
and
neurophysiology Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that studies nervous system function rather than nervous system architecture. This area aids in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases. Historically, it has been dominated b ...
*
Alan Baddeley Alan David Baddeley CBE FRS, is a British psychologist. He is known for his research on memory and for developing the three-component model of working memory. He is a professor of psychology at the University of York. Biography Baddeley was ...
, psychologist known for his work on
working memory Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily. It is important for reasoning and the guidance of decision-making and behavior. Working memory is often used synonymously with short-term memory, ...
, including his multiple components model * Edward Ballard (Medicine), physician and social commentator on living conditions in
Victorian Britain In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ...
*
Erasmus Darwin Barlow Erasmus Darwin Barlow, FRCPsych, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, FZS (15 April 1915 – 2 August 2005) was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman. Born in London in 1915, he was the second son of Sir Alan Barlow, son of S ...
, psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman * Sir Thomas Barlow (Medicine),
British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...
royal physician known for his research on infantile
scurvy Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, feeling tired and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, decreased red blood cells, gum disease, changes to hair, and bleeding ...
('' Barlow's disease'') * Dame Josephine Barnes (Medicine), obstetrician and gynaecologist *
Ann Barrett Ann Barrett OBE (born 27 February 1943), is Emeritus Professor of Oncology in the University of East Anglia, England, and formerly deputy dean of the School of Medicine and lead clinician for oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospi ...
, Emeritus Professor of Oncology at the
University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...
* Allon Barsam, ophthalmologist and medical researcher, who pioneered the use of microwave keratoplasty in humans * Herbert Barrie, neonatologist *
William Bayliss Sir William Maddock Bayliss (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist. Life He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to a ...
, physiologist who, along with his brother-in-law
Ernest Starling Ernest Henry Starling (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology, which at that time led the world ...
, first discovered the existence and function of hormones while working at University College London *
Wilfred Bion Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Early life and military service Bion was born in M ...
, psychoanalyst * Charles Bolton (MD), physician and pathologist *
John Bowlby Edward John Mostyn Bowlby, CBE, FBA, FRCP, FRCPsych (; 26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attach ...
(Medicine), psychologist, psychiatrist, pioneer of
attachment theory Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans. The most important tenet is that young children need to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for normal ...
* Karim Brohi, (BSc computer science, MB BS medicine), surgeon, international trauma science expert, and academic * Michael Brown, Director of Army Medicine and former Physician to the Queen * Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt FBA (1883-1971). Professor and Chair of Psychology (1931–51), pioneering child psychologist, now discredited. * Walter Carr (BS MD), physician and surgeon * William Carpenter, physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist * Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing,
University of Wales, Swansea Swansea University ( cy, Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. ...
* Oscar Clayton, surgeon *
Archie Cochrane Archibald Leman Cochrane (12 January 1909 – 18 June 1988) was a Scottish doctor noted for his book ''Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services''. This book advocated the use of randomized control trials to make med ...
, epidemiologist, Professor of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases,
Welsh National School of Medicine The Cardiff University School of Medicine ( cy, Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd) is the medical school of Cardiff University and is located in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Founded in 1893 as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouth ...
, pioneer of evidence-based medicine * Leslie Collier, virologist who helped to create the first heat stable smallpox vaccine key in the eventual eradication of the disease. * Edward Treacher Collins, ophthalmologist and first described
Treacher Collins Syndrome Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is a genetic disorder characterized by deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones, and chin. The degree to which a person is affected, however, may vary from mild to severe. Complications may include breathing prob ...
* Henry Radcliffe Crocker, dermatologist * Jane Dacre (Medicine), President of the
Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...
(2014–incumbent), only the third female President in its nearly 500-year history * Viscount Bertrand Dawson, doctor to the British Royal Family *
Deborah Doniach Deborah Doniach MD FRCP ( Abileah; 6 April 1912 – 1 January 2004) was a British clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases. Early and personal life Deborah Abileah was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6 April 1912 ...
, leading expert on auto-immune diseases * George Viner Ellis (Medicine and later Professor of Anatomy), prominent anatomist * Sir John Erichsen (Medicine and later lecturer), prominent surgeon and surgeon-extraordinary to
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
* Sir Martin Evans (PhD, 1969, and later lecturer), 2007
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...
-winning scientist *
Jeremy Farrar Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher who has served as director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013 and will serve as chief scientist at the World Health Organization in 2023. He was previously a profess ...
(BSc, MBBS), director of the
Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glaxo ...
2014- * Sir
William Henry Flower Sir William Henry Flower (30 November 18311 July 1899) was an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an imp ...
(MB), comparative anatomist and 2nd director of the
Natural History Museum, London The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...
* William Tilbury Fox, dermatologist *
Eva Frommer Eva Ann Frommer (6 September 1927 – 8 August 2004) was a German-born British consultant child psychiatrist, working at St Thomas' Hospital in South London. Her specialism was to apply the arts and eurythmy to the treatment of pre-school chil ...
. Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, child psychiatrist and pioneer of arts therapies in hospital, for children *
Clare Gerada Dame Clare Mary Louise Francis Gerada, Lady Wessely, (born November 1959) is a London-based general practitioner who is President of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and a former chairperson of the RCGP Council (2010–2013) ...
(Medicine), former Chair of the
Royal College of General Practitioners The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is the professional body for general (medical) practitioners (GPs/ Family Physicians/ Primary Care Physicians) in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including ...
(2010–13), the first female Chair for 50 years *
Ben Goldacre Ben Michael Goldacre (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. He is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford ...
(MB BS), academic and science writer * Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon * Rainer Guillery, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School; formerly Dr Lee's Professor of Human Anatomy,
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
* Anita Harding, neurologist who co-authored the first paper which identified pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease (in Kearn-Sayre syndrome) * John Ivor Pulsford James, known as J.I.P. James, president and honorary fellow of the
British Orthopaedic Association The British Orthopaedic Association is a professional association in Britain for doctors who specialize in orthopaedic surgery. History The British Orthopaedic Association was founded in 1918. One of the founders was Harry Platt, who went on t ...
* Donald Jeffries, virologist, expert on
HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...
* Sir William Jenner, was the first doctor to identify between
typhus Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure. ...
and
typhoid Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a disease caused by ''Salmonella'' serotype Typhi bacteria. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several d ...
* Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter best known ''
Embarrassing Bodies ''Embarrassing Bodies'' (formerly ''Embarrassing Illnesses'') is a British BAFTA Award-winning medical reality television programme broadcast by Channel 4 and made by Maverick Television since 2007. In 2011, an hour-long live show was introduc ...
'' *
Edwin Lankester Edwin Lankester FRS, FRMS, MRCS (23 April 1814 – 30 October 1874) was an English surgeon and naturalist who made a major contribution to the control of cholera in London: he was the first public analyst in England. Life Edwin Lankester ...
, founder of the ''
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science The ''Journal of Cell Science'' (formerly the ''Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science'') is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of cell biology. The journal is published by The Company of Biologists. The journal is partnered wit ...
'' (QJMS) * Thomas Lewis (MB BS), cardiologist *
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of su ...
, associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine * Kalman Mann (MB BS), Israeli physician, 8th director general of
Hadassah Medical Organization Hadassah Medical Center ( he, הָמֶרְכָּז הָרְפוּאִי הֲדַסָּה) is an Israeli medical organization established in 1934 that operates two university hospitals in Jerusalem – one in Ein Karem and one in Mount Scopus –, ...
* Barrie Marmion, microbiologist * Henry Marsh (Medicine), neurosurgeon * Clare Marx (MB BS), first female president elected at the
Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales. T ...
(2014-incumbent) * Jan McLelland, (Medicine), dermatologist and medical researcher *
Max Pemberton Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular English novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres.LeRoy Lad Panek, ''After Sherlock Holmes: The Evolution of British and American Detective Stories, 1891– ...
, medical doctor, author and journalist * Raj Persaud, Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult and Community Psychiatry, Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Teaching Hospitals and Clinical Tutor to Bethlem & Maudsley Senior House Officers, since 1994 * Sir Richard Powell (Medicine), physician and Physician Royal to
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
,
King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...
and
King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Qu ...
* Richard Quain (Medicine, 1840, and later Chair of Anatomy), physician who also served as physician-extraordinary to
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
* Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome, Pioneer ophthalmologist in
Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
* Sir Philip Randle, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975 * Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, former President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales. T ...
(2005–08) * Sydney Ringer (MB), British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist, best known for inventing
Ringer's solution Ringer's solution is a solution of several salts dissolved in water for the purpose of creating an isotonic solution relative to the body fluids of an animal. Ringer's solution typically contains sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chl ...
* Rosemary Rue, physician and civil servant * Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer, physiologist * Elizabeth Joan Stokes (MB BS), clinical bacteriologist * Sir Rodney Sweetnam, President,
Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales. T ...
, 1995–98; formerly Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Middlesex and University College Hospitals 1960–92; Orthopaedic Surgeon to
The Queen In the English-speaking world, The Queen most commonly refers to: * Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 until her death The Queen may also refer to: * Camilla, Queen Consort (born 1947), ...
1982–92. * Susan Swindells (MB BS), infectious disease expert, AIDS researcher, Scientist Laureate at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a public academic health science center in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1869 and chartered as a private medical college in 1881, UNMC became part of the University of Nebraska System in 1902. R ...
, and member of the NIH Covid-19 Treatments Guidelines Panel. *
Hugh Owen Thomas Hugh Owen Thomas (23 August 1834 – 6 January 1891) was a Welsh orthopaedic surgeon. He and his nephew Robert Jones have been called "the Fathers of orthopaedic surgery". Thomas was descended from a line of Welsh bone setters and placed great i ...
, father of
orthopaedic surgery Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...
in Britain * Richard Turner-Warwick, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons * Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989–92 * Kenneth Walton, pathologist * W. Roger Williams, pathologist, surgeon, cancer researcher and medical writer * Dame Albertine Winner (BSc, MB BS, MD), physician and medical administrator * R. A. Young (MB MD), physician and tuberculosis specialist


Architects, artists, and designers

* Corinne Bennett (Bartlett, 1957), conservation architect *
David Bomberg David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henr ...
(1890–1957), Slade School of Fine Art (1913) * Teresa Borsuk (Bartlett, 1981), architect * Martin John Callanan * Sir
William Coldstream Sir William Menzies Coldstream, CBE (28 February 1908 – 18 February 1987) was an English realist painter and a long-standing art teacher. Biography Coldstream was born at Belford, Northumberland, in northern England, the second son of co ...
*
Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 22 ...
, conceptual artist; winner of the 2001
Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
*
James Stevens Curl James Stevens Curl (born 26 March 1937)Contemporary Authors, vols. 37–40, ed. Ann Every, Gale/Cengage Learning, 1979, p. 110 is an architectural historian, architect, and author with an extensive range of publications to his name. Early life an ...
(History of Art), architectural historian, conservation consultant and critic * Antony Gormley, sculptor; winner of the 1994
Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
; creator of the ''
Angel of the North The ''Angel of the North'' is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is believed to be the largest sculpture of an angel in the world and is viewed by an estimated 33 m ...
'' *
Eileen Gray Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 187831 October 1976) was an Irish architect and furniture designer who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, she was associated with many notable Euro ...
(Slade, 1898), lacquer artist and furniture designer *
Gerry Judah Gerry Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces. Early life Gerry Judah's maternal and paternal grandparents came from Baghdad to settle in the already e ...
(Slade, 1977), artist, sculptor and designer *
Augustus John Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sarge ...
, painter * Sir
Osbert Lancaster Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general p ...
, cartoonist, author, critic * Gertrude Leverkus (B.A., 1919), architect *
Wyndham Lewis Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited ''BLAST,'' the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His novels include ''Tarr'' ( ...
, co-founder of the
Vorticist Vorticism was a London-based Modernism, modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. The movement was partially inspired by Cubism and was introduced to the public by means of the publication of the Vorticist mani ...
movement * David Mlinaric, architect, interior designer *
Evelyn De Morgan Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919), née Pickering, was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symboli ...
(Slade, 1877), painter *
Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Background and training Nicholson was born on 10 April 1894 in De ...
, abstract painter * Sir
Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Early years Eduardo Paolozzi was born on 7 March ...
, sculptor and artist * Stuart Pearson Wright, painter * Monica Pidgeon, interior designer and journalist * Patricio Pouchulu, architect and academic *
Paula Rego Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game '' EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a s ...
, painter (Slade, 1952–56) * Jenny Saville, prominent Young British Artist * Sir Stanley Spencer, painter *
Sir John Summerson Sir John Newenham Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. Early life John Summerson was born at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. His grandfather wo ...
, leading
British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...
architectural historian and
Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...
at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
(1958–59) * Tomoko Takahashi, installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000
Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
*
Rachel Whiteread Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British Ar ...
, sculptor; winner of the 1993
Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
* Sir
Rex Whistler Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (24 June 190518 July 1944) was a British artist, who painted murals and society portraits, and designed theatrical costumes. He was killed in action in Normandy in World War II. Whistler was the brother of poet and ...
, artist, designer and illustrator * Sir Colin St John Wilson (Architecture, 1949), architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new
British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...
in London.


Banking, business and commercial figures

*
Andreas Antonopoulos Andreas M. Antonopoulos (born 1972 in London) is a British-Greek Bitcoin advocate, tech entrepreneur, and author. He is a host on the ''Speaking of Bitcoin'' podcast (formerly called ''Let's Talk Bitcoin!'') and a teaching fellow for the M.Sc ...
(Computer Science), technology entrepreneur * Dominic Blakemore (French), CEO of
Compass Group Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company in the world employing over 500,000 people. It serves meals in locations including o ...
* Richard Brown (MPhil Town and Transport Planning), current Chairman of Eurostar International and former chief executive of Eurostar UK *
Colin Chapman Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. Chapman ...
, founder of Lotus Cars * Paul Donovan, current CEO of Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and former CEO of
Vodafone Vodafone Group plc () is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vod ...
Ireland and eircom * Lewis Evans, scientific instrument collector and businessman * Lord Digby Jones (LLB), former Director-General of the
Confederation of British Industry The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is a UK business organisation, which in total claims to speak for 190,000 businesses, this is made up of around 1,500 direct members and 188,500 non-members. The non members are represented through the 1 ...
and Minister of State for Trade and Investment * John Kenny, BSc, founder and Chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992.
995 Year 995 ( CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Japan * 17 May - Fujiwara no Michitaka (imperial regent) dies. * 3 June: Fujiwara no Michikane gain ...
*
Ian Luder Ian David Luder (born 1951) was the 681st Lord Mayor of London, serving from 2008 to 2009. Biography Born into a Jewish family as the son of a mathematics teacher, Luder attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree before reading Ec ...
, Taxation specialist, and
Lord Mayor of the City of London Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...
2008–2009 *
Roger Lyons Roger Lyons (born 14 September 1942) was the General Secretary of the MSF trade union from 1992 and re-elected leader of the union in 1997. When the union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union to form Amicus in 2002 he s ...
, Joint General Secretary, AMICUS since 2001; President,
Trades Union Congress The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions. There are 48 affiliated unions, with a total of about 5.5 million members. Frances ...
, 2003–04. 996 * Susan Ma, managing director of Tropic Skin Care; finalist on ''
The Apprentice ''The Apprentice'' is a reality talent game show franchise originally aired in 2004 in the United States. Created by U.S.-based British producer Mark Burnett, the show depicts contestants from around the country with various professional backg ...
'' series seven (2011). * Richard Martell, Creator of the controversial social network " FitFinder". * Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, Longleat Enterprises *
Roger Tomlinson Roger F. Tomlinson, (17 November 1933 – 7 February 2014) was an English-Canadian geographer and the primary originator of modern geographic information systems (GIS), and has been acknowledged as the "father of GIS." Biography Dr. Tomlinso ...
, founder of Geographic Information Systems President, Tomlinson Associates Ltd, Consulting Geographers. 003 * Marjorie Wallace, Countess Skarbek, Chief Executive, SANE, since 1990.
004 004, 0O4, O04, OO4 may refer to: * 004, fictional British 00 Agent * 0O4, Corning Municipal Airport (California) * O04, the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation * Abdul Haq Wasiq, Guantanamo detainee 004 * Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engine * Lauda Ai ...
* Edwin Waterhouse, founding partner of
PricewaterhouseCoopers PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounti ...
* Dame Sharon White, Chairman of the
John Lewis Partnership The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company which operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities. The privately-held pu ...
; former Chief Executive of Ofcom * Farhad Moshiri, billionaire and stakeholder in Everton F.C.


Charity sector figures

* Baroness Delyth Morgan (Physiology), Chief Executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and former UK government minister *
Jeremy Farrar Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher who has served as director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013 and will serve as chief scientist at the World Health Organization in 2023. He was previously a profess ...
(University College Medical School, 1986), Director of the Wellcome Institute, 2014-


Government and public officials, heads of state and politicians

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


Heads of state and intergovernmental organisations

*
Nicos Anastasiades Nicos Anastasiades ( el, Νίκος Αναστασιάδης ; born 27 September 1946) is a Cypriot politician who is the current president of Cyprus since 2013. He was re-elected in 2018. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally bet ...
(Shipping Law), current
President of Cyprus The president of Cyprus, officially the president of the Republic of Cyprus, is the head of state and the head of government of Cyprus. The office was created in 1960, after Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom. Currently, t ...
(2013-) * Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, first Prime Minister of Nigeria (1960-1966) * Sir Elliott Belgrave (LLB), former
Governor-General of Barbados The governor-general of Barbados was the representative of the Barbadian monarch from independence in 1966 until the establishment of a republic in 2021. Under the government's Table of Precedence for Barbados, the governor-general of Barbados ...
(2012-2017) * Martin Bourke (BA, 1969),
Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands The Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's British Overseas Territory of Turks and Caicos Islands. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British gove ...
(1993-1996) *
Angie Brooks Angie Elizabeth Brooks (August 24, 1928 – September 9, 2007) was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N. bo ...
(International Law, 1953), first African woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (24th Session, 1969-1970) and the second woman to head the
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...
* Terry Davis (LLB, 1962), former Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2004-2009) * Sir Ellis Clarke (LLB), Governor-General then first
President of Trinidad and Tobago The president of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the head of state of Trinidad and Tobago and the commander-in-chief of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1976, before ...
(1972-1987) *
Robert Fico Robert Fico (; born 15 September 1964) is a Slovak politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018 (when he resigned). He has been the first leader of the Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD) ...
(postgraduate studies at SSEES),
Prime Minister of Slovakia The prime minister of Slovakia, officially the Chairman of the government of the Slovak Republic ( Slovak: ''Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky''), commonly referred to in Slovakia as ''Predseda vlády'' or informally as ''Premiér'', is the ...
(2006-2010, 2012-2018) * Sir Vincent Floissac (LLB),
Governor-General of Saint Lucia The governor-general of Saint Lucia is the representative of the Saint Lucian monarch, currently Charles III. The official residence of the governor-general is Government House. The position of governor-general was established when Saint Luci ...
(1987-1988) * Chaim Herzog (חיים הרצוג) (LLB), sixth
President of Israel The president of the State of Israel ( he, נְשִׂיא מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or he, נְשִׂיא הַמְדִינָה, Nesi HaMedina, President of the State) is the head of state of Israel. The posi ...
(1983-1993) * Hirobumi Itō (伊藤 博文) (one of the " Chōshū Five"), first Prime Minister of Imperial Japan (1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901), known as ‘the Father of the Japanese Constitution’ having drafted the 1890 Meiji Constitution of the
Imperial Japan The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent forma ...
UCL. Retrieved on August 10, 2015.
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Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...
, first
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 i ...
then President of Kenya (1963-1978) * Benedicto Kiwanuka (LLB, 1956), Chief Minister of the
Uganda Protectorate The Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962. In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the Bri ...
then first
Prime Minister of Uganda The prime minister of Uganda chairs the Cabinet of Uganda, although the president is the effective head of government. Robinah Nabbanja has been the prime minister since 21 June 2021. The post of Prime Minister was created for the first time in ...
(1961-1962) * Junichiro Koizumi (小泉 純一郎) (Economics, 1969), former
Prime Minister of Japan The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of Sta ...
(2001-2006) * Sir Charles Lilley (Law),
Premier of Queensland The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland. By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is ap ...
(1868-1870) * Kwame Nkrumah (Philosophy), considered "The Father of
African Nationalism African nationalism is an umbrella term which refers to a group of political ideologies in sub-Saharan Africa, which are based on the idea of national self-determination and the creation of nation states.Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G ...
, then first
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 i ...
and then first
President of Ghana The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The current president of Ghana is Nana Akufo-Addo, who won the 2020 presidential el ...
(1952-1966) *
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (in traditional Hindi: Shivsagar Ram Gulam) (18 September 1900 – 15 December 1985; often referred to as ''Chacha Ramgoolam'' or ''SSR'') was a Mauritian physician, politician, and statesman. He served as the island's ...
, considered the "Founding Father" of
Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...
, Chief Minister of
British Mauritius Mauritius was a Crown colony off the Southeast coast of Africa. Formerly part of the French colonial empire, British rule in Mauritius was established de facto with the Invasion of Isle de France in November 1810, and de jure by the subsequen ...
, then first
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 i ...
(1961-1982) and then
Governor-General of Mauritius The governor-general of Mauritius (french: gouverneur général de Maurice) was the representative of the Mauritian monarch in Mauritius from the country's independence in 1968 until it became a Commonwealth republic in 1992.Baroness Patricia Scotland (LLB), current Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations (2016-) and former Attorney General of England and Wales (2007-2010) * Sir Bernard St. John, former
Prime Minister of Barbados The prime minister of Barbados is the head of government of Barbados. The prime minister is appointed by the president under the terms of the Constitution. As the nominal holder of executive authority, the president holds responsibility for co ...
(1985-1986) * Tingfang Wu (伍廷芳), also Ng Choy (伍才), one of the first
Premiers of the Republic of China Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
(1917)


Other politicians and public officials

* William Kwasi Aboah (LLM), Ghanaian politician and former Interior Minister *
Kwame Addo-Kufuor Kwame Addo-Kufuor (born 14 July 1940) is a Ghanaian politician and physician. Addo-Kufuor was a member of parliament for Manhyia, and from 2001 to 2007, he was the Minister for Defence under President John Kufuor, his brother. Between June 20 ...
(Medicine), former
Minister for the Interior Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of governme ...
and Minister for Defence of Ghana * Sir Ryland Adkins (BA), former UK Liberal Party politician * Solomon Adler (Economics), identified
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
spy Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...
and economist at the
US Treasury Department The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ...
* Richard Alexander (LLB), former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi (غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي) (PhD Law, 1970), former
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
n Ambassador to Great Britain and Minister for Labor * Sir Alex Allan (MSc Statistics, 1973), former Chairman of the
UK Joint Intelligence Committee The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) is an interagency deliberative body of the United Kingdom responsible for intelligence assessment, coordination, and oversight of the Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, GCHQ, and Defence Intel ...
*
Heidi Allen Heidi Suzanne Allen (' Bancroft; born 18 January 1975) is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 2015 to 2019. Initially elected as a Conservative, she resigned from the party in Fe ...
(Astrophysics),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Baroness Ros Altmann (Economics and later lecturer), UK pensions expert and former government minister * Peter Archer (LLB), former UK Labour Party politician and
Solicitor General for England and Wales His Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, known informally as the Solicitor General, is one of the law officers of the Crown in the government of the United Kingdom. They are the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to ad ...
*
Edward Aveling Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism and socialism. He was also a playwright and actor. Aveling was the author of numer ...
(BSc Zoology, 1870), prominent UK
socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...
and founding member of the UK Socialist League and
Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates ...
* Barbara Ayrton-Gould, former UK Labour Party politician * Baey Yam Keng (MSc,
Economic Development Board The Economic Development Board (EDB) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Government of Singapore that plans and executes strategies to sustain Singapore as a leading global hub for business and investment. Hi ...
scholarship), Singaporean People's Action Party politician * Alan Baker (אלן בייקר) (LLB, 1969),
international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...
expert and former
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 ...
i Ambassador to
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 ...
* Robin Baker (BA), former Deputy Director-General of
The British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh la ...
and Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University * Millie Banerjee (BSc Zoology), public official and current Chairman of the British Transport Police Authority * Sir Thomas Barclay, former UK Liberal Party politician, economic and international law expert and head of the
British Chamber of Commerce British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...
* Sir William Barton, former British government official and diplomat of the Indian Political Service * Evangelos Bassiakos (LLM), former
Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
politician who served as government minister and MP of
New Democracy New Democracy, or the New Democratic Revolution, is a concept based on Mao Zedong's Bloc of Four Social Classes theory in post-revolutionary China which argued originally that democracy in China would take a path that was decisively distinc ...
* James Berry (LLB),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter, UK Liberal Democrat Party politician * John Albert Bright (BSc, 1867), former Liberal Unionist Party and UK Liberal Party politician * Lord Richard Briginshaw (Diploma), former General Secretary of NATSOPA and trade unionist *
Rudranath Capildeo Rudranath Capildeo (; 2 February 1920 – 12 May 1970) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, mathematician and barrister. He was a member of the prominent Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family. Capildeo was the leader of the Democrati ...
(BSc, MSc, PhD Mathematical Physics, 1948, and later lecturer), former Leader of the Opposition in the
Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago is the legislative branch of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. The Parliament is bicameral. Besides the President of Trinidad and Tobago, it is composed of the House of Representatives, which is compose ...
and leader of the Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago * Tao-fan Chang (張道藩) (
Fine Art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...
), former President of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China * Tien-Hsi Cheng (鄭天錫) (LLB, LLD, 1915), former
Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
politician, World Court judge and the last Ambassador of the Republic of China to the UK before the creation of the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. He was the first Chinese student to gain a doctorate in law from a British university. * Thérèse Coffey (BSc, PhD Chemistry),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK Deputy Prime Minister * Arthur Cohen (politician), Arthur Cohen, former UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Arthur Colegate, Sir Arthur Colegate, former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Petrus Compton, Petrus "Papo" Compton (LLM), former Minister of Foreign and External Affairs of Saint Lucia * Edward Rider Cook (Chemistry), former UK Liberal Party politician * Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet, first Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and first President of the Royal Philatelic Society London * Freda Corbet, former UK Labour Party politician * George Courtauld (MP), George Courtauld, former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Sir Stafford Cripps (Chemistry), former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer * Charles Crompton, former UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Valerie Davey (PGCE, 1963), former UK Labour Party politician * Baron Davies of Oldham, Bryan Davies (BA History, PGCE, 1962), UK Labour Party politician * Geoffrey Dear (LLB, 1962), former Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales * Frances D'Souza, Baroness Frances D'Souza (BSc Anthropology, 1970), second Lord Speaker, Lord Speaker of the UK House of Lords and scientist * Evan Durbin (Economics, Ricardo Scholarship, 1930?), former UK Labour Party politician * Endō Kinsuke, Kinsuke Endō (遠藤 謹助) (one of the " Chōshū Five"), regarded as 'the Father of the modern Japanese mint’ as former head of the Japan Mint, Imperial Japanese Mint * Shreela Flather, Baroness Shreela Flather, first Asian women member of the House of Lords, UK House of Lords * Vincent Floissac (LLB), former President of the Politics of Saint Lucia, Saint Lucian Senate * Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi ( મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ) (Law), preeminent leader of the Indian Independence Movement * Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, Lord Peter Goldsmith (LLM), former Attorney General for England and Wales and Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, Lord Arnold Goodman (LLB), former lawyer, former Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and political advisor to politicians including Harold Wilson * Rupert Harrison, former Chief of Staff to Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (2006-2015) * Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, Lord Garry Hart, former Special advisers (UK government), Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor, UK Lord Chancellor * Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, Lord Farrer Herschell (BA, 1857), former Lord Chancellor, UK Lord Chancellor * Lin Homer (LLB), former Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs, UK HM Revenue and Customs * Bola Ige (LLB, 1959), former Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria (2000–2001) * Annuar Musa, former Ministry of Youth and Sports (Malaysia), Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (1990–1993), former Minister of Rural Development (1993–1999), former Minister of Federal Territories (2020–2021), Minister of Communications and Multimedia (2021–) * Khairy Jamaluddin (MA Legal and Political Theory, 1998), former Ministry of Youth and Sports (Malaysia), Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (2013-2018), former Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation (2020-2021), Minister of Health (2021-) * Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, "J.B." Jeyaretnam (LLB), former leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore and Secretary-General of the Reform Party (Singapore), Reform Party * David Jones (MP for Clwyd West), David Jones (LLB),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and government minister. Former Secretary of State for Wales * Helen Jones (BA), UK Labour Party politician * Inoue Kaoru, Kaoru Inoue (井上 馨) (one of the " Chōshū Five"), first Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Foreign Minister of Imperial Japan credited as ‘the Father of modern Japanese diplomacy' * Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat), Masaru Inoue (井上 勝) (Civil engineering and mining, as one of the " Chōshū Five"), credited as 'the Father of the Japanese railway' having been the first Director of the Railway Board of
Imperial Japan The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent forma ...
* Prince Philip of Yugoslavia, Prince Philip Karađorđević of Yugoslavia and Serbia (BA) * James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale, James Kitson (Chemistry and Natural Sciences), former President of the Liberal Party, President of the UK Liberal Party and first Lord Mayor of Leeds * Sylvia Lim (LLM, 1989), chairman of the Workers' Party of Singapore *
Ian Luder Ian David Luder (born 1951) was the 681st Lord Mayor of London, serving from 2008 to 2009. Biography Born into a Jewish family as the son of a mathematics teacher, Luder attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree before reading Ec ...
(BA Economics and Economic History), UK tax expert and former
Lord Mayor of the City of London Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...
* Nicholas Macpherson, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Permanent Secretary to the UK Treasury * Stavros Malas (BSc, PhD Genetics), former List of Ministers of Health of the Republic of Cyprus, Minister of Health of Cyprus and Progressive Party of Working People, Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) politician * Augustus Raymond Margary, Augustus Margary, former UK diplomat, and whose murder caused the Margary Affair, 1875 "Margary Affair" * Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney, Brian Mawhinney (PhD Radiation Physics, 1969), former Chairman of the Conservative Party, Chairman of the UK Conservative Party and Secretary of State for Transport * Alison McGovern (Philosophy), UK Labour Party politician * Fiona Mactaggart (PGCE), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister * Steve Dick Tennyson Matenje, Steve Matenje, Malawian civil servant and Permanent Representative to the United Nations * Tom McNally, Baron McNally, Lord Tom McNally (LLB), Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Leader of the House of Lords, Deputy Leader of the UK House of Lords. He was President of the University College London Union * William Stevenson Meyer, Sir William Meyer, first High Commission of India to the United Kingdom, High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (1920-1922) * Amanda Milling (Economics and Statistics, 1997),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Edwin Samuel Montagu, Edwin Montagu, former Secretary of State for India, UK Secretary of State for India, Minister of Munitions and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Anil Moonesinghe (LLB), Sri Lankan government minister and Trotskyism, Trotskyist politician * Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton, Baroness Sally Morgan (MA Education), UK Labour Party politician and former Chair of Ofsted * Mori Arinori, Arinori Mori (森有礼), first Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Japanese Ambassador to the USA and founder of Japan's modern educational system as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Minister of Education * Paul Myners, Baron Myners, Lord Paul Myners (BA Education, PGCE), UK businessman and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury ("City Minister") * Stan Newens, Labour Co-operative, UK Labour Co-operative politician and chair of the European Parliamentary Labour Party * Jesse Norman (MPhil, PhD Philosophy, 2003, and later lecturer),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and government minister * Harry Nkumbula (Diploma), Northern Rhodesian/Zambian nationalist leader * John Olumba (Law), United States, American Independent Democratic Party (USA), Democratic politician and Michigan House of Representatives, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives * Stephen Owen (politician), Stephen Owen (LLM, 1974), Minister of Western Economic Diversification (Canada), Minister of Western Economic Diversification of Canada and Minister of State (Canada), Minister of State for Sport * Aziz Pahad (Diploma in International Relations, 1966), South African African National Congress, ANC Party politician and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999-2008) * Michael Palmer (politician), Michael Palmer (LLB, 1992), former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore * Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet, Sir Walter Palmer, former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and biscuit manufacturer * Pambos Papageorgiou (PhD Political Philosophy), Progressive Party of Working People, AKEL Party of Cyprus politician * Michalis Papapetrou, Cypriot politician and former President of the United Democrats, United Democrat Party of Cyprus * Muhammad Ali Pate, former Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria), Minister of State for Health of Nigeria (2011-2013) and now Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University's Global Health Institute * Andrew Pattulo, Canadians, Canadian former Ontario Liberal Party politician Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario * Bernard Peiris (LLB), former Cabinet Secretary of Ceylon, who drafted the 'Ceylon Order in Council', the first constitution of independent Ceylon * Colin Phipps (BSc Geology, 1955), former UK Labour Party and Social Democratic Party (UK), UK Social Democratic Party politician * Thomas Bayley Potter, former UK Liberal Party politician * Robert John Price, Sir Robert John Price (Medicine, 1876), former UK Liberal Party politician * William Edwin Price (BA, 1959), former UK Liberal Party politician * Murad Qureshi (MSc Environmental Economics), UK Labour Party politician and former Member of the London Assembly * Yasmin Qureshi (LLM), UK Labour Party politician * John Randall (British politician), Sir John Randall (Serbo-Croat Language and Literature, 1979), former Deputy Chief Whip, Government Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons * Kulveer Ranger (Architecture, 1996), former advisor, Director of Transport Policy and then Environment for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson * Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings, Baroness Patricia Rawlings,
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Andrew Reid (lawyer), Andrew Reid (LLB), lawyer, horse racing trainer and current treasurer of the UK Independence Party * Winston Roddick (LLB), current Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales Police (2012-) * William Anderson Rose, Sir William Rose, former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and Lord Mayor of London (1862) * Christos Rozakis (LLM, 1970), former Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece), Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe and first Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights * Sydney Russell-Wells, Sir Sydney Russell-Wells (BSc, 1889), former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London * James Rutherford (Canadian politician), James Rutherford, former Canadians, Canadian Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party politician * John Salmond (judge), Sir John Salmond (LLB, Gilchrist Educational Trust, Gilchrist scholarship), former Solicitor-General of New Zealand (1910-1920). He represented New Zealand at the Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922). * Ernest Satow, Sir Ernest Satow, former British Ambassador to Japan and British Ambassador to China, the UCL Faculty of Laws, UCL Chair of Japanese Law is named after him * John Edward Sears (Architecture), former UK Liberal Party politician and architect * Navin Shah, UK Labour Party politician and Member of the London Assembly * Tulip Siddiq (BA English Literature), UK Labour Party politician * Sarup Singh (PhD English Literature, 1953), former Governor of Gujarat (1990-1995) and Governor of Kerala (1990) * Henry Smith (British politician), Henry Smith (Philosophy),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Arthur Snelling, Sir Arthur Snelling, former List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa, UK Ambassador to South Africa (1970-1973) and List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Ghana, UK High Commissioner to Ghana (1959-1961) * Anthony Steen (LLB),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, Lord William Strang, former Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign Office (1949-1953) and diplomat. He sat on the UCL college committee. * Frederick William Strange, F.W. Strange (Medicine), former Canadians, Canadian Liberal-Conservative Party politician * Dudley Stewart-Smith, Sir Dudley Stewart-Smith (LLB), former UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Colin Sutton (LLB, 1970), former Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Assistant Commissioner (Personnel and Training) of the London Metropolitan Police (1987-1988) and Director of the Police Scientific Development Branch at the Home Office, UK Home Office (1991-1993) * Sir Charles Swann, 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Swann, former UK Liberal Party politician * Manuela Sykes, former UK Liberal Party, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and dementia campaigner * Ernest Symons, former Director-General of the Board of the Inland Revenue, UK Inland Revenue * William Ngartse Thomas Tam (LLB, 1923), former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and judge * Sarah Teather (PhD, did not graduate), UK Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Department for Education, Minister of State for Children and Families (2010-2012) * Tan Boon Teik (LLB, LLM, 1953), former Attorney-General of Singapore (1967-1992) * Terashima Munenori, Munenori Terashima (寺島宗則), former Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese diplomat * Stephen Terrell, former President of the Liberal Party, President of the UK Liberal Party (1971-1972) * Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenny Tonge (MB BS, 1964), independent (former UK Liberal Democrat Party) politician * Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe, Lord Denis Tunnicliffe (BSc Mathematics, 1965), UK Labour Party politician and Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in House of Lords * Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Public Policy and Economics), Greeks, Greek politician and Governor of Central Macedonia (2013-) * Jan Vincent-Rostowski (BSc, MA Economy and History, 1964), Poles, Polish politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and Ministry of Finance (Poland), Finance Minister * V. Viswanathan, Governor of Kerala, India (1967-1973) * Makis Voridis, Makis Voridis (Μαυρουδής (Μάκης) Χρήστου Βορίδης) (LLM), Greeks, Greek politician and former Ministry of Health and Social Security (Greece), Minister for Health * William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, William Wedgwood-Benn, Viscount Stansgate, former Secretary of State for India, UK Secretary of State for India and Secretary of State for Air * George Hammond Whalley (Metaphysics and Rhetoric), former UK Liberal Party politician * John Whittingdale (Economics, 1982),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport * Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan, Lord Michael Williams (BSc, 1971), former Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process * Henry Wilson-Fox, former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician, businessman and associate of Cecil Rhodes * Henry Winterbotham (BA, LLB, 1959, Hume Scholar and University Law Scholar), former UK Liberal Party politician and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department * Thomas McKinnon Wood, former UK Liberal Party politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary for Scotland and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Sidney Woolf, former UK Liberal Party politician * Iain Wright (BA, MA History, 1995), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister * Durmuş Yılmaz (MA), Turkish people, Turkish Nationalist Movement Party politician and former List of Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey, Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey (2006-2011) * David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham, Lord David Young (LLB), former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Secretary of State for Employment. He was Chairman of the UCL Council from 1995 to 2005. * Yamao Yōzō, Yamao Yōzō (尾 庸三) (Science and industry, as one of the " Chōshū Five"), former Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese government minister credited as 'the Father of Japanese engineering' * Nadhim Zahawi (BSc Chemical Engineering),
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer


Explorers

* Pen Hadow – British polar explorer and author


Royalty

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


Lawyers and judges


Literary figures and authors

* Gabriela Aguileta (PhD Genetics), author and scientist * Karim Alrawi, playwright and writer * Mulk Raj Anand, M. R. Anand, writer and pioneer of the English novel in India * Kofi Awoonor (MA), Ghanaian poet, academic and politician * Julian Baggini (PhD Philosophy, 1996), philosopher and author * Antonia Barber, author of books for children and adults * Pat Barr (writer) * Raymond Briggs * Robert Browning * G. K. Chesterton * Paul Cornell (did not graduate) * Bernard Cornwell (BA History, 1966), author of historical fiction *
David Crystal David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic, and prolific author best known for his works on linguistics and the English language. Family Crystal was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on 6 July 1941 after his mother had ...
* Nigel Davies (historian), Nigel Davies (PhD Archaeology), historian of pre-Columbian America and former
UK Conservative Party The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, ...
politician * Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত)) (later Professor of Indian History), Indian people, Indian civil servant and writer who translated the ''
Ramayana The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th ...
'' and ''
Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...
''. He also served as
President of the Indian National Congress The President of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members ...
(1899). * Geoffrey Elton, Sir Geoffrey Elton (PhD History, 1949), prominent political historian of the Tudor period * Ken Follett * Clare Francis * Stella Gibbons * David Irving (Political Economy), Holocaust denial, Holocaust denier and author * Laila Lalami * David Lodge (author), David Lodge, author * Dimitris Lyacos * David Magarshack, biographer and translator of Russian authors * Jon de Burgh Miller * Jonathan Miller * Gladys Mitchell * Bel Mooney * Blake Morrison * Ian Mortimer (historian), Ian Mortimer (MA), historian and historical fiction author * Jim Smith (writer), Jim Smith, writer * Michael Smith (writer), Michael Smith, author of The Giro Playboy etc. * Natsume Sōseki, Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912) * Marie Stopes, writer, scientist and activist * Rabindranath Tagore (Law, did not graduate), Bengalis, Bengali poet and polymath. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913). *Tom Knox (author), Sean Thomas journalist and novelist * Ken Wiwa * Jerrold Yam, Singaporean poet and lawyer


Film, television, theatre and radio

* Ken Adam, Sir Ken Adam (Architecture), Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning film production designer famous for designing the sets for various James Bond films (including the first Dr. No (film), ''Dr. No'') and the famous car for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film), ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' * Jassa Ahluwalia (Spanish and Russian), actor * Babar Ahmed (director), Babar Ahmed, film director * Franny Armstrong (Zoology), documentary film director * Ikenna Azuike (LLB with French Law), TV broadcaster and presenter of ''What’s Up Africa'' * David Baddiel, comedian and television presenter * Guy de la Bédoyère (MA Archaeology, 1987), historian, TV personality and ''Time Team'' historical expert * Brooke Burfitt, actress and radio presenter * George Clarke (architect), George Clarke (Postgraduate Diploma), architect and TV presenter of shows including ''George Clarke's Amazing Spaces'' * Nat Coombs, presenter, writer & comedian * Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the ''Teletubbies'' * Andrew Davies (writer), Andrew Davies (BA English, 1957), novelist and screenplay writer. His famous works include ''Mr Selfridge'', ''House of Cards (UK TV series), House of Cards (UK)'' and a 1995 adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Pride and Prejudice''. * Ptolemy Dean (Architecture), architect and TV presenter * Naamua Delaney (LLB), news presenter * Felix Dexter (LLB), actor and comedian * Clarissa Dickson-Wright (LLB), celebrity chef, writer and TV personality * Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter * Frank Dunlop (director), Frank Dunlop, former Director of the Edinburgh International Festival; founder and former Director, The Young Vic. [1979] * Jane Fallon, English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series ''Teachers'', ''20 Things To Do Before You're 30'', ''EastEnders'' and ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life''. * Trey Farley, television presenter. * Honey G (rapper), Honey G, Rap music artist, X Factor 2016 Debut * Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of ''The Office (UK TV series), The Office'' (studied biology and philosophy) * Peter Ginn, archaeologist, historian, author and presenter of " Victorian Farm", "Edwardian Farm", "Wartime Farm" * Rachel Hurd-Wood, actress; best known for playing Wendy Darling at the 2003 film ''Peter Pan (2003 film), Peter Pan'' * Amy Jenkins, creator of ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life'' * Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter * Griffith Jones (actor), Griffith Jones, actor * James Robertson Justice, actor * Dominic Keating, actor, including in ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' * Trevor Lock, comedian and actor * Philip Mackie, film and television writer * Jeremy Marre, film director * Steph McGovern, ''BBC Breakfast'' television presenter * Oliver Messel, influential leading stage designer * Fiona Millar, journalist and campaigner on Education in the United Kingdom, education and parenting issues * Karen Mok, Hong Kong diva and movie star * Michael J. Mosley, psychiatrist and TV presenter * Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader * Mary Nighy, actress * Christopher Nolan (English, 1993), Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated director of films including ''Inception'', ''Interstellar (film), Interstellar'', ''Memento (film), Memento'' and ''The Dark Knight Trilogy'' * Sean O'Connor (producer), Sean O'Connor, television and radio producer * Raj Persaud, psychiatrist and broadcaster * Mark Porter (general practitioner), Mark Porter, doctor, journalist and TV presenter * Jonathan Ross (television presenter), Jonathan Ross (Modern European History), TV presenter * Adam Rutherford, TV presenter and editor for the journal ''Nature'' * Irene Shubik, television producer * Michael Smith (writer), Michael Smith, writer and broadcaster * Suzie Templeton, Academy Award, Academy Award-winning writer, director and animator, including ''Peter and the Wolf (2006 film), Peter and the Wolf'' * Fagun Thakrar, actor and writer-director * Emma Thomas (UCL History 1993), producer at Warner Brothers * Matthew Vaughn (Anthropology and Ancient History), producer and director of films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake (film), Layer Cake X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service * Arthur Wimperis, Academy Award-winning screenwriter * Patrick Wymark, actor * Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian


Editors, journalists and publishers

* Fiona Armstrong (German literature), journalist * Walter Bagehot, former editor of ''The Economist'' * Christopher Paul Baker, travel writer, photographer, and adventure motorcyclist * Victoria Barnsley, Editor-in-Chief at HarperCollins * Jeremy Bowen, journalist, BBC Middle East editor * Sarah Cullen (BA English, 1972), radio and TV journalist * John Derbyshire, essayist, novelist, popularizer of mathematics history * Sara Edwards (BA Medieval and Modern History), journalist and former presenter of ''BBC Wales Today'' * Nicholas Garland, first and current political cartoonist, ''The Daily Telegraph'' * A. A. Gill, columnist, ''The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times'' (Slade School of Fine Art) * Jeanne Hoban, ''The Ceylon Observer'', ''Jana'', ''The Patriot'', ''The Nation'' (all Sri Lanka); Anglo-Sri Lankan Trotskyist trade unionist and political activist * Richard Holt Hutton, Richard Hutton, former editor of ''The Economist'' * Nicholas de Jongh, drama critic, ''The London Evening Standard'' * Mark Lawson, columnist, ''
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''; radio and television presenter * Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton, former editor of ''The Economist'' * Vivienne Parry, journalist, ''The Times'' and BBC * Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor, ''The Sunday Times'' * Nick Paton Walsh, 34th News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Emmy award-winning Senior International correspondent at CNN * L. J. K. Setright: writer and journalist * Carol Thatcher (LLB), journalist, author, media personality and daughter of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher * Michael White (journalist), Michael White, political editor, ''
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'' * Petronella Wyatt, writer, ''The Spectator''


Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators

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


Philanthropists, cultural, educational, military and religious figures

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


Sporting figures

* Donald Barrell (Anthropology), rugby union player formerly of Saracens F.C. *
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, founder of Lotus Cars * Samuel Azu Crabbe (LLB), former Chief Justice of Ghana and President of the National Olympic Committee of Ghana * Ewan Davies (LLB), former Wales national rugby union team, Welsh rugby union international * David Gower, cricketer and former England Captain * Isa Guha, cricketer, England Women's * Patrick Head, co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1 * Christine Ohuruogu, sprinter and World Athletics Championships, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games 400 metres champion * Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent, cricketer, England Women's * Gayatri Reddy (socialite), Gayatri Reddy (BSc Construction Management), former owner of now-defunct Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League * Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Nathaniel "Noddy" Reilly-O'Donnell, rower, 2006 World Junior Champion and silver medallist at the 2011 World Rowing Championships * Peter Short (field hockey), Peter Short (Master's in International Planning), Canadians, Canadian international and Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Olympic field hockey player * Andrew Simpson (sailor), Andrew Simpson (Economics),
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Olympic Games Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Star, Men's Star sailing gold medalist (2008) * Dawson Turner (rugby union), Dawson Turner (Medicine), rugby union international who represented England (1871–75). * Demetrius Vikelas (Botany), first President of the International Olympic Committee (1894-1896) * Maurice Watkins (solicitor), Maurice Watkins (LLB, LLM), Director of Manchester United's football board and club's solicitor * Robin Williams (rowing coach), Robin Williams, professional rowing (sport), rowing coach for Team GB and former competitive World Championships rower * Melanie Wilson (rower), Melanie Wilson (Master's in Biochemical Engineering),
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rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls, Women's quadruple sculls


Fictional figures


Fictional alumni and students

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


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