The following people spent time at the

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

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

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

Nobel Laureates

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

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

. Notable names include

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

(Hon. DSc),

Shirin Ebadi Shirin Ebadi ( fa, شيرين عبادى, Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian political activist, lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was ...

(Hon. LLD),

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

(Hon. DSc),

Robert Mundell Robert Alexander Mundell (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences i ...

(Hon. DSc),

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...

(Hon. DSc)

Politicians and Heads of State

Monarchs and Royalty

Tuanku Jaafar Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman ( Jawi: ; 19 July 1922 – 27 December 2008) was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia from 26 April 1994 until 25 April 1999 and the tenth Yang Di-Pertuan Besar (Ruler) of Negeri ...

– King of Malaysia, 1994–1999 (LSE) *

Letsie III of Lesotho Letsie III (born Seeiso Bereng; 17 July 1963) is King of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Moshoeshoe II, who was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but died in a car crash in early 1996, and Letsie became king ag ...

– King of Lesotho *

Margrethe II of Denmark Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is Queen of Denmark. Having reigned as Denmark's monarch for over 50 years, she is Europe's longest-serving current head of state and the world's only incumbent femal ...

– Queen of Denmark, 1972–present (LSE) *

Sultan Salahuddin Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj ( Jawi: ; 8 March 1926 – 21 November 2001) was the 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and eighth Sultan of Selangor. Early life Born on at 3:30 pm. ...

– King of Malaysia 1999–2001 (SOAS) *

Princess Beatrice of York Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988) is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is a niece of Charle ...

- Member of British royal family (Goldsmiths) * Princess Laurentien - Wife of Prince Constantijn (QMUL) * Napoléon, Prince Imperial – son of Emperor Napoleon III (KCL) *

Haakon Magnus Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (; Haakon Magnus; born 20 July 1973) is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Haakon represents the fourth generation of the sitting Norwegian royal fam ...

– Crown Prince of Norway (LSE) * Mette-Marit – Crown Princess of Norway (SOAS) *

Abdulaziz bin Turki al Faisal Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Saud (born 4 June 1983), also known as Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, is a former Saudi racing driver and businessman as well as a member of the House of Saud. Prince Abdulaziz is the minister of sports appointed by King S ...

– Grandson of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (SOAS) * Prince Prisdang – member of the Thai royal family (KCL)

Presidents and prime ministers

Hossein Ala' Hosein Alā ( fa, حسین علاء; 13 December 1881 – 12 July 1964) was an Iranian politician who served as Prime Minister in 1951 and from 1955 to 1957. Background He was born in 1882 in Tehran and spent his early years in London. He was ed ...

– Prime Minister of Iran * A.N.R. Robinson – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1986–1981, and President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997–2003 * Natalia Gherman – Acting Prime Minister of Moldova, 2015 (KCL) *

Harmodio Arias Harmodio Arias Madrid (3 July 1886 – 23 December 1962) was a Panamanian politician. He served as acting President of Panama in January 1931 and again from June 5, 1932, to October 1, 1936, after winning the 1932 presidential election. Fa ...

– President of Panama, 1932–1936 (LSE) *

Óscar Arias Óscar Arias Sánchez (; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 198 ...

– President of Costa Rica, 1986–1990, 2006–Present (LSE) * Marouf al-Bakhit – Prime Minister of Jordan, 2005–2007 (KCL) *

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

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

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

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

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

– Prime Minister of Iraq, 1965–1966 (KCL) *

Marek Belka Marek Marian Belka (; born 9 January 1952 in Lódź) is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments. He is a former Director of the International M ...

– Prime Minister of Poland, 2004–2005 (LSE) *

Godfrey Binaisa Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa QC (30 May 1920 – 5 August 2010) was a Ugandan lawyer who was Attorney General of Uganda from 1962 to 1968 and later served as the fifth president of Uganda from June 1979 to May 1980. At his death he was Uganda's onl ...

– President of Uganda, 1979–1980 (KCL) *

Heinrich Brüning Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning (; 26 November 1885 – 30 March 1970) was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932. A political scienti ...

– Chancellor of Germany, 1930–1932 (LSE) *

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

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

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

– Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980–1995 (LSE) *

Ellis Clarke Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke (28 December 191730 December 2010) was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and the second and last Governor-General. He was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitu ...

– Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1976–1987 (UCL) *

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

– Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964–1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February–July 1979 & 1982–1996 (LSE) *

Sher Bahadur Deuba Sher Bahadur Deuba ( ne, शेरबहादुर देउवा, ; born 13 June 1946) is a Nepali politician and former prime minister of Nepal. He has also been serving as the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016. Deuba has served ...

– Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995–1997, 2001–2002, 2004–2005 (LSE) *

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

– Prime Minister of

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

, 1991–1992 (SOAS) *

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

– former Prime Minister of Turkey (SOAS) *

Robert Fico 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) ...

– current Prime Minister of

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

(UCL) *

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

– Prime Minister of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

1984–1989 (ICL) *

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

– President of

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

1983–1993 (UCL) * Hirobumi Ito –

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

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

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

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

– Icelandic politician; President of Iceland (2016-) (QMUL) * John F. Kennedy – President of

the United States of America The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

1961–1963 (LSE) *

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

– first President of

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

, 1964–1978 (LSE) *

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

– President of Kenya, 2002–present (LSE) *

Glafcos Klerides Glafcos Ioannou Clerides ( el, Γλαύκος Ιωάννου Κληρίδης; 24 April 1919 – 15 November 2013) was a Cypriot politician and barrister who served as the fourth president of Cyprus from 1993 to 2003. At the time of his death, h ...

– President of Cyprus, 1993–2003 (KCL) *

Junichiro Koizumi Junichiro Koizumi (; , ''Koizumi Jun'ichirō'' ; born 8 January 1942) is a former Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009. He is ...

– Prime Minister of Japan, 2001–2006 ( UCL) * Thanin Kraivichien – Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976–1977 (LSE) *

Yu Kuo-Hwa Yu Kuo-hwa () (January 10, 1914 – October 4, 2000) was the Premier of the Republic of China from 1984 to 1989. Biography He was born on 10 January 1914 in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang, Republic of China, China. He studied for degrees at Harvard ...

– Premier of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

, 1984–1989 (LSE) *

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

– President of

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

, 1979–1981 (LSE) * Alfonso López Pumarejo – President of

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

, 1934–1938, 1942–1945 (LSE) *

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

– Prime Minister of the

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

, 1924, 1929–1935 (BBK) *

Michael Manley Michael Norman Manley (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been ...

– Prime Minister of

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

, 1972–1980, 1989–1992 (LSE) *

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

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

Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud "Silanyo" ( so, Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud Siilaanyo, ar, احمد محمد محمود سيلانيو) (born 1938) is a Somaliland politician who was President of Somaliland from 2010–2017. He is a long-time member of the g ...

– President of

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

(LSE) * Sir Lee Moore – Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1979–1980 (KCL) *

Robert Mugabe Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the ...

– President of Zimbabwe (ULIP) * Kocheril Raman Narayanan – President of India, 1997–2002 (LSE) *

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

– President of Ghana, 1960–1966 (LSE) *

Basdeo Panday Basdeo Panday (; born 25 May 1933) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, actor, and former civil servant who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first ...

– Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1995–2001 * Tassos Papadopoulos – President of Cyprus, 2003–2008 (KCL) *

Percival Patterson Percival Noel James Patterson, popularly known as P.J. Patterson (born 10 April 1935), is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years, making him the longe ...

– Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992–2006 (LSE) *

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

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

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

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

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

, 1999–2004 (LSE) * Navinchandra Ramgoolam – Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995–2000 (LSE) * France-Albert René – Prime Minister of Seychelles 1976–1977, and President of Seychelles 1977–2004 (KCL) *

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

– first President of Mauritius, March–June 1992 (LSE) *

Moshe Sharett Moshe Sharett ( he, משה שרת, born Moshe Chertok (Hebrew: )‎ 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was a Russian-born Israeli politician who served as Israel's second prime minister from 1954 to 1955. A member of Mapai, Sharett's term was b ...

– Prime Minister of

, 1953–1955 (LSE) * Constantine Simitis – Prime Minister of

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

, 1996–2004 (LSE) *

Anote Tong Anote Tong (; born 11 June 1952 in Tabuaeran, Line Islands) is an I-Kiribati politician for the Pillars of Truth party and environmental activist with half Chinese heritage, who served as President of Kiribati, from 2003 to 2016. He won the elect ...

– President of

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

, 2003–present (LSE) *

Pierre Trudeau Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and ...

– Prime Minister of

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

, 1968–1979, 1980–1984 (LSE) *

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...

– incumbent State Counsellor of

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

Htin Kyaw Htin Kyaw ( my, ထင်ကျော်, or ; born 20 July 1946) is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as the ninth president of Myanmar from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the off ...

– 9th and incumbent

President of Myanmar The president of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar () is the head of state and constitutional head of government of Myanmar. The president leads the Cabinet of Myanmar, the executive branch of the Burmese government. The current preside ...

Other prominent political figures

* Masidi Manjun - State Minister of Local Government and Housing. Sabah, Malaysia * V. K. Krishna Menon - 3rd

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

of India (UCL, LSE) *

Achim Steiner Achim Steiner (born 17 May 1961) is a Brazilian-born environmentalist who currently serves as the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chairman of United Nations Sustainable Development Group. Before joining UNDP, he w ...

- Administrator of the

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

* Kemal Derviş - Administrator of the

(2005 to 2009) *

David Nabarro Sir David Nunes Nabarro (born 26 August 1949) is a Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization. He has made his career in the international civil service, working for either the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Di ...

- Special Adviser to 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 harmoni ...

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

on the

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

and Climate Change *

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

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

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

Under-Secretary-General *

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

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator *

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

Assistant Secretary-General * Julian Harston -

Assistant Secretary-General *

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

– American politician (LSE) *

Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, (19 June 1869 – 11 December 1951), was a British medical doctor and politician. A member of the Liberal and Labour parties, he served as Minister of Munitions during the First World War and was la ...

– British minister (QMUL) * B. R. Ambedkar – architect of the Indian Constitution, Indian independence leader, minister and anti-caste system activist (LSE) *

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

– Ghanaian Foreign Minister (KCL) *

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin Ziad Ahmed Bahaa-Eldin (born 30 August 1964) is an Egyptian economist, commercial lawyer and politician. Biography Ziad Bahaa-Eldin was born on 30 August 1964 and is the son of the journalist and writer Ahmad Baha-Eldin. He was educated at Cair ...

– Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt (KCL) *

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

– wife of British Prime Minister

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

(LSE) * Martin Bourke – Governor of The Turks and Caicos Islands (KCL) *

Ed Broadbent John Edward "Ed" Broadbent (born March 21, 1936) is a Canadian social-democratic politician, political scientist, and chair of the Broadbent Institute, a policy thinktank. He was leader of the New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. In the 200 ...

– Canadian political leader (LSE) * Dame Lois Browne-Evans – Bermudian opposition leader (KCL) *

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 ...

– Leader of the Opposition of the Commonwealth of Trinidad and Tobago *

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

– Indian Cabinet Minister (KCL) *

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

–

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

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

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

– Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL) *

Sir Stafford Cripps Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, he first entered Parliament at a by-election in 1931, and was one of a handful of La ...

– former Chancellor of the Exchequer (UCL) *

David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone David Anthony Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone (born 9 December 1946) is a British economist specialising in regulation, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. Currie was the inaugural Chairman of the Competition and Markets Authorit ...

– British politician, member of the House of Lords (QMUL) * Edwina Currie – British minister (LSE) *

Hugh Dalton Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, (16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party economist and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. He shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 19 ...

–

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

(LSE) * Joseph B. Dauda – Sierra Leonean Finance Minister (KCL) * Kemal Derviş – Turkish politician and senior UN administrator * Frank Dobson – British minister (LSE) * Marlene Malahoo Forte – Jamaican Foreign Minister (KCL) * Natalia Gherman – Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova (KCL) *

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

– Indian Independence Leader (UCL) *

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

– American

Under Secretary of State Under Secretary of State (U/S) is a title used by senior officials of the United States Department of State who rank above the Assistant Secretaries and below the Deputy Secretary. From 1919 to 1972, the Under Secretary was the second-ranking off ...

* Sir Sydney Gun-Munro – Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (KCL) *

Peter Hain Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain (born 16 February 1950), is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State ...

, Baron Hain – British minister and anti-

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

campaigner (QMUL) *

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

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

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

–

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

(UCL) *

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

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

Ruth Kelly Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1997 until she stood down in 2010. Previously, she served as the Secretary of State for Transport, ...

– British minister (LSE) *

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

– Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL) *

Tessa Jowell Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, (; 18 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from ...

– British minister (GCUL) *

William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, ...

– wartime propagandist (BBK) *

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

– Pakistani Foreign Minister (KCL) * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – son of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, nephew of LSE graduate President John F. Kennedy, and environmental activist (LSE) *

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

– British minister (SOAS) *

Emily Lau Emily may refer to: * Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name Music * "Emily" (1964 song), title song by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer to the film ''The Americanization of Emily'' * "Emily" (Dave Koz song), a 1990 song ...

–

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

political leader (LSE) *

Ambrose Lau Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen, GBS JP () (born 16 July 1947) was the chairman of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA), a pro-business and pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), el ...

– Hong Kong political leader * William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel – Governor General of Ghana (KCL) *

James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, (1 April 1855 – 27 March 1949), was a British Conservative politician. He was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921. He was the longest-serving Speaker of the 20th century. Bac ...

– Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL) *

John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market John Roddick Russell MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, (born 14 February 1937), is a politician from the United Kingdom. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Norfolk from 1974 to 2001. He ...

– Leader of the House of Commons (KCL) * Ann Dore McLaughlin – U.S. Secretary of Labor *

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

– Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (KCL) *

Ken Michael Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. * Ken Masters, a main character in ...

– governor of

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

(ICL) *

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s. From D ...

– British Cabinet Minister (KCL) *

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

– Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL) *

Nickolay Mladenov Nikolay Evtimov Mladenov ( bg, Николай Евтимов Младенов; born 5 May 1972) is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat who served as Bulgaria's Minister of Defense from 27 July 2009 to 27 January 2010 and as the minister of forei ...

– Bulgarian Foreign Minister (KCL) * James Nyamweya – Kenyan Foreign Minister (KCL) * David Owen, Baron Owen of Plymouth – British Foreign Secretary (KCL) *

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

– American

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

(LSE) *

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

– Premier of

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

(LSE) *

Richard Perle Richard Norman Perle (born September 16, 1941) is an American political advisor who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He began his political career as a senior staff member to ...

– American political advisor (LSE) *

Enoch Powell John Enoch Powell, (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (1950–1974) and was Minister of Health (1 ...

– British minister and right-wing politician (SOAS) *

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

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

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

– Commonwealth Secretary-General and Guyanese Foreign Minister (KCL) *

Paul Robeson Paul Leroy Robeson ( ; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, stage and film actor, professional American football, football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplish ...

– American athlete, actor, singer and civil rights activist (SOAS) *

Walter Rodney Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include '' How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'', first published in 1972. Rodney was assassinated in Georgeto ...

– Guyanese activist (SOAS) *

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

– U.S. Treasury Secretary *

Sir Ernest Satow Sir Ernest Mason Satow, (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist. Satow is better known in Japan than in Britain or the other countries in which he served, where he was known as . He was a key figu ...

– British diplomat (UCL) * Stephen Smith – Australian politician *

Robert Sobukwe Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (5 December 1924 – 27 February 1978) was a prominent South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), serving as the first president of the organization. Sobukwe w ...

– South African political dissident *

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

–

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

and

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

campaigner (UCL) *

Gisela Stuart Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (''née'' Gschaider; born 26 November 1955) is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Lab ...

– Member of Parliament, England (

Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour and Co-operative MP. The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamber ...

) (ULIP) *

Goh Keng Swee Goh Keng Swee (; 6 October 1918 – 14 May 2010), born Robert Goh Keng Swee, was a Singaporean politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1985. Goh is widely recognised as one of the founding fathers of Singa ...

– deputy Prime Minister of

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

(LSE) * Hayashi Tadasu – Japanese Foreign Minister (KCL) *

Teo Chee Hean Teo Chee Hean ( zh, s=张志贤, poj=Tiuⁿ Chì-hiân, p=Zhāng Zhìxián; born 27 December 1954) is a Singaporean politician and former two-star rear-admiral who has been serving as Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 and Coordinating Mini ...

– Singaporean minister (ICL) *

Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, (25 January 1910, in Walton on Thames – 19 December 1995, in Bosham) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation between 19 ...

– Minister of Defence (KCL) * David Welch – American

Assistant Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) is a title used for many executive positions in the United States Department of State, ranking below the under secretaries. A set of six assistant secretaries reporting to the under secretary for political affairs ...

* Frederick Wills – Guyanese Foreign Minister (KCL) * David Wilson – Governor of Hong Kong *

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

– Chief Justice of England and Wales (UCL) * Abdi Yusuf Hassan – Somali politician and diplomat *

Rais Yatim Tan Sri Dato' Seri Utama Dr. Rais bin Yatim ( Jawi: رئيس بن يتيم; born 15 April 1942) is a Malaysian politician who is now serving as the 18th President of the Dewan Negara since September 2020. He was a Cabinet Minister in multi ...

– Malaysian Foreign Minister (KCL) * Winston Set Aung –

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

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

and

management consultant Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultants ...

, incumbent Deputy Governor of the

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

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

– Indian politician *

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

– Governor of

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

Grace Mugabe Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe (' Marufu; born 23 July 1965) is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur, politician and the widow of the late President Robert Mugabe. She served as the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1996 until her husband's resignation in November 201 ...

- Former First Lady of Zimbabwe & Spouse to

. * Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Araneta Marcos III - Member of the Philippine House of Representatives, eldest son of President

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

and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos. (CITY)

Armed Forces and Military

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

(1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes *

John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton Field Marshal Allan Francis Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, (10 February 1896 – 20 January 1989), known as John Harding, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War, served in the ...

–

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

and

Chief of the Imperial General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) has been the title of the professional head of the British Army since 1964. The CGS is a member of both the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Army Board. Prior to 1964, the title was Chief of the Imperial G ...

(KCL) * Jonathon Riley -

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

in the

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

(UCL) *

Ben Key Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key, (born 7 November 1965) is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord since November 2021. He has commanded HM Ships ''Sandown'', and , and deployed on operations to Kosovo and Iraq. He was ap ...

- Vice Admiral in the

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

(Royal Holloway) * Syed Ata Hasnain -

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

in the

Indian Army The Indian Army is the Land warfare, land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Arm ...

(KCL) *

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

in the

(KCL) *

Robert Fry Lieutenant General Sir Robert Alan Fry, (born 6 April 1951)Debrett's''Lt-Gen Sir Robert Fry, KCB, CBE''Retrieved 15 August 2013 served as a Royal Marine for over 30 years and was involved in military operations in Northern Ireland, the Gulf, ...

in the

Royal Marines The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious warfare, amphibious light infantry and also one of the :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, five fighti ...

(KCL) * Julian Thompson -

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

in the

(KCL) *

in the

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

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

in the

* Emmanuel Karenzi Karake -

Rwandan Defence Forces french: Forces rwandaises de défense sw, Nguvu ya Ulinzi ya Watu wa Rwanda , image = Rwanda Defense Force emblem.png , alt = , caption = , image2 = , alt2 = , caption2 ...

Clergy and Religious Figures

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

– Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Addis Abeba *

Mirza Tahir Ahmad Mirza Tahir Ahmad ( ur, ) (18 December 1928 – 19 April 2003) was the fourth caliph ( ar, خليفة المسيح الرابع, ''khalīfatul masīh al-rābi'') and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Community. He was elected as the fourt ...

– Khalifatul Masih IV, Caliph(Imam)IV of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community * Alan Campbell – controversial Pentecostal pastor * George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton –

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

(KCL) *

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

– Nonconformist church leader *

Mark Elvins Mark Turnham Elvins OFMCap (26 November 1939 – 1 May 2014) was Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford, until its closure in 2008. Life Mark Turnham Elvins was born on 26 November 1939 in Whitstable, the son of an Anglican priest who had been rector of ...

–

Capuchin friar The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM ...

(HEY) *

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

– New Testament scholar, Professor at

Westminster Theological Seminary Westminster Theological Seminary is a Protestant theological seminary in the Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary in 1929 after Princeton chose to ...

Bernard Lonergan Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Lonergan's works include ''Insight: A ...

– theologian, philosopher and economist (HEY) * Michael Anthony Moxon – Dean of

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

(HEY) * John Anthony McGuckin – Orthodox priest and poet (HEY) *

Njongonkulu Ndungane Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane (born 2 April 1941) is a retired South African Anglican bishop and a former prisoner on Robben Island. He was the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman and Archbishop of Cape Town. Early life Ndungane was born in ...

– Archbishop of Cape Town (KCL) *

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

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

Lindsay Urwin Lindsay Goodall Urwin OGS (born 13 March 1956) is an Australian Anglican bishop. Urwin was the area Bishop of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester, in southern England, from 1993 to 2009, and was also the principal organiser of the annual Caist ...

–

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

(HEY) * Oliver D. Crisp (KCL)

Other religious figures

Heidi Baker Heidi Gayle Baker''Long-time resident had a love of teaching'', https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-cpt-1022-farrell-obit-20101021-story.html (born August 29, 1959) is a Christian missionary, itinerant speaker, and the CEO of Iris ...

– Christian missionary (KCL) *

Muhammad Abdul Bari Muhammad Abdul Bari ( bn, মুহাম্মাদ আব্দুল বারি; born October 1953), is a Bangladeshi-born British physicist, writer, teacher, and community leader. He is a former secretary of Muslim Aid, a former chairm ...

– Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (KCL) *

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

– General of The Salvation Army (KCL) *

Francis Lyon Cohen Francis Lyon Cohen VD (14 November 1862 – 26 April 1934) was an English Orthodox rabbi, author and expert on Hebrew music, being the music editor of ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'' (1901–06). The Jewish Lads' Brigade was his brainchild. Will ...

- rabbi and Army chaplain (KCL) *

Richard Coles Richard Keith Robert Coles (born 26 March 1962) is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England clergyman who was the vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire from 2011 to 2022. He first came to prominence as the multi-instrumentalis ...

– priest, musician and journalist (KCL) *

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

– Chaplain of the Fleet (KCL) * Frank Curtis – Provost of Sheffield (KCL) * Thomas Pelham Dale – Ritualist clergyman (KCL) * Rob Frost – Methodist evangelist (KCL) *

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

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

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

– rabbi (KCL) * Donald Howard – Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen (KCL) *

Lawrence Jackson Lawrence Christopher Jackson (born August 30, 1985) is a former American football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played colleg ...

– Provost of Blackburn (KCL) * Eric James – Chaplain Extraordinary to HM the Queen (KCL) * George Jack Kinnell – Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen (KCL) *

Kenneth Leech Kenneth Leech (15 June 1939 – 12 September 2015), also known as Ken Leech, was an English Anglican priest and Christian socialist in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Life and career Leech was born into a secular working-class family in Ashton-und ...

– priest (KCL) * Peter Mallett – Chaplain-General to the Forces (KCL) * Michael Nott – Provost of Portsmouth (KCL) * Hugh Smith – Chaplain-General of Prisons (KCL) *

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

– priest and archaeologist (KCL)

Nobel Peace Prize

(LSE) *

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

(LSE) *

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...

(ULIP) *

Philip Noel-Baker Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a ...

(LSE) *

(SOAS) *

Joseph Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became ...

(QMUL) *

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbisho ...

(KCL)

Nobel Prize for Literature

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

(LSE) *

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

(LSE) *

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

(UCL) * T. S. Eliot (BBK) *

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

(CSSD) *

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

(ULIP) *

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

(ULIP) *

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

(KCL/QMUL)

Scientists and Mathematicians

Biologists and Botanists

David Bellamy David James Bellamy (18 January 1933 – 11 December 2019) was an English botanist, television presenter, author and environmental campaigner. Early and personal life Bellamy was born in London to parents Winifred May (née Green) and Thoma ...

(KCL & RHUL) *

Qui-Lim Choo Qui-Lim Choo is a Singapore-born scientist, who along with Michael Houghton, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, co-discovered and cloned Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of Hepatitis C led ...

- co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome (KCL) *

Soraya Dhillon Soraya Dhillon MBE holds the title professor emeritus at the University of Hertfordshire known for her work in the field of clinical pharmacokinetics, drug handling, patient safety, and the evaluation of the role of the pharmacist in health care. ...

MBE - pharmacologist (KCL) * Michael Houghton - co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome (KCL) * Keith Campbell - led team that cloned Dolly the sheep (KCL) *

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

(LSE) *

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

(ICL) *

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

(QMUL) *

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

* Katherine Warington (RHUL)

Chemists

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

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

(KCL) *

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

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

Sir William Crookes Sir William Crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing t ...

(ICL) *

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

(KCL) *

John Frederic Daniell John Frederic Daniell FRS (12 March 1790 – 13 March 1845) was an English chemist and physicist. Biography Daniell was born in London. In 1831 he became the first professor of chemistry at the newly founded King's College London; and in 18 ...

(KCL) * Richard Dixon (KCL) *

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

- President of the

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

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

(QMUL & ICL) *

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

(KCL & BBK) * Victor Gold (KCL) * Leticia González (KCL) *

Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner ...

(UCL) *

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

(ICL) *

Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský () (December 20, 1890 – March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his ...

(UCL) * Sir Graham Hills (BBK) *

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

(ICL) * Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (ICL) * Sir Herbert Jackson (KCL) *

Sir Aaron Klug Sir Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of bio ...

(BBK) * Michael Levitt (KCL) * Nick Lane (UCL) * Catherine Nobes (UCL) * Augustine Ong (KCL) *

Geoffrey Ozin Geoffrey Alan Stuart Ozin Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC is a British chemist, currently Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto. Ozin is the recipient ...

(KCL) *

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

, pioneer in water quality testing *

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

(ICL) * William Henry Perkin, Jr. (ICL) * Raymond Peters (KCL) * Sir George Porter (ICL/UCL) * Juda Hirsch Quastel (ICL) *

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

(UCL) * Sir Robert Robinson (UCL) *

Eric Scerri Eric R. Scerri is a chemist, writer and philosopher of science of Maltese origin. He is a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles; and the founder and editor-in-chief of '' Foundations of Chemistry'', an international peer reviewed ...

(KCL) * Sir Frederick Soddy (UCL) *

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

(LI) * Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe (KCL) * Alexander Robertus Todd (LI) *

Matthew H. Todd Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (ship), the replica of the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the C ...

(QMUL & UCL) *

Vincent du Vigneaud Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He was recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypep ...

(UCL) * Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (ICL) * Rob Williams

Computer Scientists

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

(KCL) * Ian H. S. Cullimore (KCL) * Darren Dalcher (KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

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

(KCL)

Engineers and Inventors

* Sir William Anderson (KCL) *

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

* Ayodele Awojobi (ICL) *

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways. He became a household name in Britain in the e ...

(ICL) *

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

(UCL) * Henry Brogden (KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

William Clark William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Miss ...

(KCL) * Donald Watts Davies (ICL) * Henry Deane (KCL) * James H. Ellis (ICL) *

Tommy Flowers Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help ...

* Sir Douglas Fox (KCL) *

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

(ICL) *

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

(ULIP) * Walter Katte (KCL) *

Frederick William Lanchester Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations ...

(ICL) * Sir William Henry Preece (KCL) * Alec Reeves (ICL) * Bill Strang (KCL) * Thomas Walker (KCL) *

Sir Charles Wheatstone Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS FRSE DCL LLD (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for dis ...

(KCL) *

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

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

Geologists, Environmental Scientists and Physical Geographers

* George Barrow (KCL) * Henry William Bristow (KCL) * Robert Ashington Bullen (KCL) * David Edgar Cartwright (KCL) * Sir George Deacon (KCL) * Archibald Thomas John Dollar (KCL) * William Fyfe (ICL) *

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

(ICL) *

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

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

(KCL) * David Lary (KCL) * David Linton (KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

Halford John Mackinder Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. He was the first Principal of University Ext ...

(LSE) * Grant Mossop (ICL) *

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

* Sir Dudley Stamp (KCL) * Sir Gilbert Walker (ICL) * Sidney Wooldridge (KCL) * John Anthony Allan (SOAS and KCL) *

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

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

Immunologists

Anne O'Garra Anne O'Garra FRS FMedSci (born 1954) is a British immunologist who has made important discoveries on the mechanism of action of Interleukin 10. O'Garra was born in Gibraltar. Biography She was born to Fred O,Garra and Isaac Wimett in 1954, ...

(UCL) *

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

– molecular geneticist who helped develop a vaccine against Hepatitis B (KCL) *

Max Theiler Max Theiler (30 January 1899 – 11 August 1972) was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first ...

– 1951 Nobel laureate who developed a vaccine against yellow fever (KCL)

Mathematicians

* Sir David Cox (BBK & ICL) * Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (LSE) *

Simon Donaldson Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. H ...

(ICL) *

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 ...

(ULIP) *

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

(BBK) *

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 ...

(UCL & ICL) * Tom Willmore (KCL) * David Acheson (KCL) * Colin Bushnell (KCL) *

Keith Devlin Keith J. Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship.

(KCL) * Graham Everest (KCL) * Aubrey William Ingleton (KCL) *

Leon Mirsky Leonid Mirsky (19 December 1918 – 1 December 1983) was a Russian-British mathematician who worked in number theory, linear algebra, and combinatorics.... Mirsky's theorem is named after him. Biography Mirsky was born in Russia on 19 December 1 ...

(KCL) * Sir Martin Taylor (KCL) * Henry William Watson (KCL)

Psychologists, Sociologists and Anthropologists

Havelock Ellis Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality i ...

(KCL) * Dame Uta Frith (KCL) *

Dinesh Bhugra Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lal Bhugra is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is forme ...

(KCL) *

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

(SOAS) *

Fei Xiaotong Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study o ...

(LSE) *

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

(LSE) * David Hirsh *

Satoshi Kanazawa Satoshi Kanazawa (born 16 November 1962) is an American-born British evolutionary psychologist and writer. He is currently Reader in Management at the London School of Economics. Kanazawa's comments and research on race and intelligence, heal ...

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

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

(LSE) * Z.K. Mathews (LSE) *

Humphry Osmond Humphry Fortescue Osmond (1 July 1917 – 6 February 2004) was an English psychiatrist who expatriated to Canada, then moved to work in the United States. He is known for inventing the word ''psychedelic'' and for his research into interesting a ...

(KCL) *

Talcott Parsons Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in soci ...

(LSE) * J. Philippe Rushton (BBK) * Jane Stewart *

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

(SOAS) * Ulrike Schmidt (KCL) *

Raymond Cattell Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 – 2 February 1998) was a British-American psychologist, known for his psychometric research into intrapersonal psychological structure.Gillis, J. (2014). ''Psychology's Secret Genius: The Lives and Works ...

(KCL)

Physicians

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

(LSHTM), 8th Director-General of the

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

Edgar Adrian Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons ...

(QMUL) * Francis Anstie (KCL) *

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

(KCL) * Thomas Gregor Brodie (KCL) * Edgar Crookshank (KCL) *

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

(QMUL) *

Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham ARA may refer to: Media and the arts * American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences * '' Artistička Radna Akcija'', compilation album released in former Yugoslavia * Associate of the Royal Academy, denoting membership in the British Royal Acad ...

(ICL) * David Blow (ICL) * Dr Thomas Bond (KCL) * Michael Foster (UCL) *

Henry Gray Henry Gray (1827 – 13 June 1861) was a British anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book ''Gray's Anatomy''. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25. Biography Gray was born in Belgrav ...

(SGUL) *

Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hodgkin RMS (17 August 1798 – 5 April 1866) was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, ...

(KCL) * John Hunter (SGUL) * William Hunter (SGUL) *

Edward Jenner Edward Jenner, (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines, and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms ''vaccine'' and ''vaccination'' are derived f ...

(SGUL) *

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

(KCL) *

Peter Mansfield Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfi ...

(QMUL) * J. F. O. Mustapha * Sir Victor Ewings Negus (KCL) *

Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the ...

(QMUL) *

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

(SGUL) *

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

(QMUL) * Robert Winston, Baron Winston (ICL/QMUL) *

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

Nurses

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

(KCL) *

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

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

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

(KCL) * Henny Tscherning (KCL) * Theodora Turner (KCL) * Kofoworola Abeni Pratt (KCL)

Physicists and Astronomers

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

(KCL) *

Charles Barkla Charles Glover Barkla FRS FRSE (7 June 1877 – 23 October 1944) was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays ( Roentgen rays). Lif ...

(KCL) *

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

(BBK) *

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 19 ...

(ICL) *

Sir William Henry Bragg Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquelyThis is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel ...

(UCL) * Jocelyn Burnell (UCL) *

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

* Sir John Ambrose Fleming (UCL) *

Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor ( ; hu, Gábor Dénes, ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He obtained ...

(ICL) *

Raymond Gosling Raymond George Gosling (15 July 1926 – 18 May 2015) was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Frankli ...

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) * Charles K. Kao (UCL/ICL) *

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

* Kathleen Lonsdale (RHUL & UCL) *

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Syd ...

(ICL) *

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

(KCL) *

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

(ICL) * Sir Owen Richardson (KCL) *

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

(ICL) * Keith Shine (ICL) *

Simon Singh Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include ''Fermat's Last Theorem'' (in the United States titled ''Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve th ...

(ICL) * Duncan Steel *

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 ...

(UCL) *

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

(ICL) * Edward James Stone (KCL) * Michael Fisher (KCL) * Thomas Young (SGUL) *

Andrew Fabian Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institu ...

(KCL) * Claudio Maccone (KCL) *

Marcelo Gleiser Marcelo Gleiser (born March 19, 1959) is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College and was the 2019 recipient of the Templeton Prize. Early life and education Gleiser received ...

(KCL) * Louis Slotin (KCL) *

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 ...

(KCL)

The arts

Novelists, Poets and Playwrights

Dannie Abse Daniel Abse CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the young ...

(KCL) *

John Adair John Adair (January 9, 1757 – May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, slave trader, soldier, and politician. He was the eighth Governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both the U.S. House and Senate. A native of South Carolina, Ada ...

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

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

(UCL) *

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

(UCL) *

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

J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist known for provocative works of fiction which explored the relations between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass med ...

(QMUL) *

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

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

(KCL) *

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

(QMUL) *

Raymond Briggs Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...

(UCL) *

Anita Brookner Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She ...

(KCL) *

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

(UCL) * G. K. Chesterton (UCL) *

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

(KCL) * Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (RHUL) *

Bernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written ''The Saxon ...

Richmal Crompton Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was a popular English writer, best known for her ''Just William'' series of books, humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books. Life Richmal Crompton Lambu ...

(RHUL) *

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

(RHUL) * T. S. Eliot (BBK) *

Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian Poetry in English. He ...

(BBK) * C. S. Forester (KCL) * Sir W. S. Gilbert (KCL) *

Ann Granger Patricia Ann Granger (born 1939) is a British crime writer. Granger was born in Portsmouth, England. She took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the visa ...

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

(CITY) *

Radclyffe Hall Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the novel ''The Well of Loneliness'', a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. In adulthood, Hall often went by the name Jo ...

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

Susan Hill Dame Susan Hill, Lady Wells, (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include ''The Woman in Black'', '' The Mist in the Mirror'', and '' I'm the King of the Castle'', for which she received t ...

(KCL) *

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

(QMUL) *

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

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of South Asian and English descent. In 2008, ''The Times'' included Kureishi in its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Early l ...

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

Natyaguru Nurul Momen (25 November 1908 – 16 February 1990) was a Bangladeshi playwright, educator, director, broadcast personality, academician, satirist, essayist, translator and poet.Bangla Natyashahitter Itihash, the most authoritative reference boo ...

Nurul Momen Nurul Momen (25 November 1908 – 16 February 1990) was a Bangladeshi playwright, educator, director, broadcast personality, academician, satirist, essayist, translator and poet.Bangla Natyashahitter Itihash, the most authoritative reference boo ...

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

(KCL) *

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

(RHUL) *

China Miéville China Tom Miéville ( ; born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as '' weird fiction'' and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called '' New Weird''. M ...

(LSE) *

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

(GCUL) *

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

(KCL) *

Lao She Shu Qingchun (3 February 189924 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature, and is best known for his novel '' Rickshaw Boy'' ...

(SOAS) * Sir Leslie Stephen (KCL) * H. G. Wells (ICL & ULIP) *

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

(KCL) *

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

Actors, Comedians and TV Stars

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (, ; born 22 August 1967) is an English actor, director, and former fashion model known for his roles as Lock-Nah in ''The Mummy Returns'', Nykwana Wombosi in '' The Bourne Identity'', Heavy Duty in '' G.I. Joe: The R ...

(KCL) *

Sir David Attenborough Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural histor ...

(LSE) *

Rory Bremner Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner,"Rory Bremner". '' Who Do You Think You Are?''. Wall to Wall for BBC One. 2 February 2009. No. 1, series 6. (born 6 April 1961) is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political sati ...

(KCL) *

Graham Chapman Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two P ...

(QMUL) *

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

(GCUL) *

Nazia Hassan Nazia Hassan (3 April 1965 – 13 August 2000) was a Pakistani singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist. Referred to as the Queen of South Asian pop, she is considered one of the most influential singers in the subcontinent. Starting in ...

(GCUL) * Zoheb Hassan (GCUL) *

Greer Garson Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was an English-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the hom ...

(KCL) *

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

(UCL) * Lloyd Grossman (LSE) *

Harry Hill Matthew Keith Hall (born 1 October 1964), known professionally as Harry Hill, is an English comedian, presenter and writer. He pursued a career in stand-up following years working as a medical doctor, developing an off-beat, energetic performan ...

(SGUL) * Emma Freud (RHUL) *

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

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

(SOAS) *

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

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

(LSE) * Bill O'Reilly (QMUL) *

Devika Rani Devika Rani Choudhuri (30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), usually known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani ha ...

(RAM) * Mark Strong (RHUL) *

Bree Turner Bree Nicole Turner (born March 10, 1977) is an American actress and dancer; she is best known for her role as Rosalee Calvert on ''Grimm''. Early life Turner was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Alamo, California. Her father is fo ...

(KCL) * Sir Charles Wyndham (KCL)

Directors and Film-Makers

Herbert Brenon Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through the 1930s. Brenon was among the early film ...

(KCL) *

Derek Jarman Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, gardener and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Home ...

(KCL) *

Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught at Bulmershe ...

(BBK) *

Christopher Nolan Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his lucrative Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. His films have grossed $5&nb ...

(UCL)

Musicians, Composers and Conductors

– singer (KCL) *

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

– pianist and musicologist (KCL) *

Peter Asher Peter Asher, (born 22 June 1944) is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and r ...

– musician and record producer (KCL) *

Sir John Barbirolli Sir John Barbirolli ( Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 189929 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 194 ...

– conductor (RAM) *

Arnold Bax Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral musi ...

– composer (RAM) *

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

– composer (RAM) *

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

– composer (RAM & KCL) *

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

– violinist (KCL) *

Dennis Brain Dennis Brain (17 May 19211 September 1957) was a British horn player. From a musical family – his father and grandfather were horn players – he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the Second World War he served in the Roya ...

– French hornist (RAM) * Ming Bridges – singer (KCL) * David Bruce – composer (KCL) * Steven Burke – video game music composer and sound designer (KCL) *

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

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Suede Suede (pronounced ) is a type of leather with a fuzzy, napped finish, commonly used for jackets, shoes, fabrics, purses, furniture, and other items. The term comes from the French , which literally means "gloves from Sweden". The term was firs ...

(QMUL) *

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

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

(GCUL) *

Coldplay Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1997. They consist of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer Will Champion and creative director Phil Harvey. They met at University ...

members

Chris Martin Christopher Anthony John Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist, pianist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Born in Exeter, Devon, he went to Uni ...

Will Champion William Champion (born 31 July 1978) is an English musician and songwriter best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the rock band Coldplay. Raised in Southampton, he learned various instruments during his childhood, being influenced b ...

, and

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

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

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

– jazz composer (RAM) *

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

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

(KCL) *

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

– conductor and musician (KCL) *

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

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

(QMUL) * Adam Dick – Two Crown King (LSE) *

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

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

(QMUL) *

John Evan John Evan (born John Spencer Evans; born 28 March 1948, in Derby, Derbyshire.) is a British musician and composer. He is best known for having played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. Evans' father was headmaster at a De ...

– keyboardist for Jethro Tull (KCL) *

Lesley Garrett Lesley Garrett, CBE (born 10 April 1955) is an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality. She is noted for being at home in opera and "crossover music". Early life Garrett was born in the town of Thorne, near Donc ...

– soprano (RAM) *

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

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

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

(KCL) *

Evelyn Glennie Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Early life Glennie was born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. The in ...

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

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

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

(LSE) * Alex James – Blur (GCUL) *

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

(RAM) *

Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His p ...

(GCUL) *

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

– trance DJ, BBC Radio 1 (LSE) *

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

– soprano (RHUL & RAM) *

Brian May Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and astrophysicist, who achieved worldwide fame as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. May was a co-founder of Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and ...

– Queen (ICL) * Brian Molko –

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

(GCUL) *

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Gre ...

– composer (KCL & RAM) *

Kele Okereke Rowland Kelechukwu Okereke (born 13 October 1981), also known mononymously as Kele, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party. Early life Okere ...

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

(KCL) *

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

– music hall singer (RAM) * Mat Osman – Suede (LSE) * Sir Simon Rattle – conductor (RAM) *

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

– one half of

(RAM) * Howard Talbot – composer and conductor (KCL) * Jody Talbot – composer (RHUL) *

Jeffrey Tate Sir Jeffrey Philip Tate (28 April 19432 June 2017) was an English conductor of classical music. Tate was born with spina bifida and had an associated spinal curvature. After studying medicine at the University of Cambridge and beginning a me ...

– conductor (KCL) *

Adnan Sami Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer and pianist. He performs Indian and Western music, including for Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil movies. He has been awarded with Padma Shri (India's fourth hi ...

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

– musician who performed with

Gong A gongFrom Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs ...

amongst others (KCL) *

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

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

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

– violinist (RAM) *

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

– conductor (RAM) *

Dido (singer) Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong when asked to say her real name. (born 25 December 1971), known professionally as Dido ( ), is an English singer and songwriter. She attained international success with her debut album '' No Ange ...

– singer and songwriter (BBK) *

Yiruma Lee Ru-ma ( ko, 이루마; born 15 February 1978), better known by his stage name Yiruma ( ko, 이루마, links=no), is a South Korean pianist and composer. Biography Yiruma was born in Seoul to a pastor. At age five, he began learning the pia ...

– pianist (KCL) * Justin Hayward Young – lead singer of

The Vaccines The Vaccines are an English indie rock band, formed in West London in 2010. Band members Justin Hayward-Young (lead vocals, guitar), Freddie Cowan (lead guitar, vocals), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals) and ...

(KCL)

Artists

* Pegaret Anthony (KCL) * Bernd Behr (GCUL) *

Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). Early life and education Vanessa Stephen was the eld ...

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) *

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

(KCL) * Ian Davenport (GCUL) * Grenville Davey (GCUL) * Tristram Ellis (KCL) * Peter Henry Emerson (KCL) * Tracey Emin (GCUL) * Anya Gallaccio (GCUL) * Cyril Wiseman Herbert (KCL) * Damien Hirst (GCUL) * Gary Hume (GCUL) * Michael Landy (GCUL) * Sarah Lucas (GCUL) * Wendy McMurdo (GCUL) * Ross McNicol (KCL) * Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen (GCUL) * Cathy de Monchaux (GCUL) * Ronald Moody (KCL) * Richard Mosse (KCL) * Robyn O'Neil (KCL) * Simon Patterson (artist), Simon Patterson (GCUL) * Mary Quant – fashion designer (GCUL) * Bridget Riley (GCUL) * Mark Wallinger (GCUL) * Sophia Wellbeloved (KCL) * Gillian Wearing (GCUL) * Catherine Yass (GCUL)

Businesspeople

* Lim Kok Thay — Malaysia Billionaire, Chairman & CEO of Genting Group * Rakesh Aggarwal (KCL) * Sir David Arculus – chairman of the Board O2 (UK), O2 (LBS) * Delphine Arnault – billionaire French businesswoman (LSE) * W. O. Bentley, Walter Owen Bentley – founder of Bentley, Bentley Motors (KCL) * Kumar Mangalam Birla – Chairman of Aditya Birla Group (LBS) * Michael Cowpland – founder of Corel (ICL) * Isabel dos Santos – Africa's richest woman and its first female billionaire (KCL) * Clara Furse – Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) * Calouste Gulbenkian – Armenian oil magnate (KCL) * Sir Richard Greenbury – former chairman and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer (LBS) * Stelios Haji-Ioannou – founder of EasyGroup (LSE) * Klaus Heymann – entrepreneur & founder of Naxos Records (KCL) * Omar Ishrak – Chairman & CEO of Medtronic (KCL) * Huw Jenkins – CEO of UBS AG, UBS Investment Bank (LBS) * Ronald Norman (businessman), Sir Ronald Norman (KCL) * Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843), Sir Edward Packard (KCL) * Moez Kassam – Founder of Anson Group (LBS) * Spiro Latsis – billionaire (LSE) * Charles Lee (Hong Kong politician), Charles Lee – Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (LSE) * Deryck Maughan, Sir Deryck Maughan – CEO and Chairman of Salomon Brothers (KCL) * Eric Nicoli – CEO of EMI (KCL) * Jorma Ollila – Former CEO of Nokia (LSE) * Gary Tanaka – founder of Amerindo(ICL) * David E. Potter – founder and Chairman of Psion (computers), Psion, Chairman of Symbian (ICL) * Danny Lui – founder of Lenovo (ICL) * Sir Ralph Robins (CEO of Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce) (ICL) * Alliott Verdon Roe, Sir Alliott Verdon Roe (KCL) * Chew Choon Seng – CEO of Singapore Airlines (ICL) * David Rockefeller – American billionaire and business tycoon (LSE) * Iain Conn – Group Managing Director of BP (ICL) * Tim Pryce – CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners (KCL) * David Sullivan (publisher), David Sullivan – billionaire businessman; media magnate, West Ham United football club owner (QMUL) * Colin Dyer – CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle (ICL) * Maurice Saatchi – founder of Saatchi and Saatchi (LSE) * Winston Wong – businessman (ICL) * Richard Sykes (biochemist), Sir Richard Sykes – chairman of GlaxoSmithKline (KCL) * Keith Duckworth – founder of Cosworth, Cosworth Engineering (ICL) * Michael Birch (businessman), Michael Birch – founder of Bebo (ICL) * Koh Boon Hwee – Chairman of DBS Bank, Singapore(ICL) * George Soros – financial speculator and philanthropist (LSE) * Stephen B. Streater, Stephen Bernard Streater – founder of Eidos Interactive, Eidos (KCL) * David Tang, Sir David Tang – businessman and founder of Shanghai Tang fashion chain (KCL) * Tony Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet (LBS) * Naveen Selvadurai – co-founder of Foursquare (company), Foursquare (KCL)

Economists

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

(LSE) * Mark Pennington (LSE & KCL) * Christopher Pissarides (LSE) * Lionel Robbins (LSE) *

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

Historians

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

Journalists

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

Judges and lawyers

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

Philosophers

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

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

Sportspersons

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

Others

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

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

Honorary degrees

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

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

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

References

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