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

Founders and supporters

Founders

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named (in Latin) on the Foundation Stone. * James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), Scottish peer and British statesman *

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (27 January 1773 – 21 April 1843), was the sixth son and ninth child of George III, King George III and his queen consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the only surviving son of George III ...

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

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

), 1813–1843, supporter of UCL; he laid the foundation stone of the new university on 30 April 1827 * Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), British politician and financier *

Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham (; 4 February Dual dating, 1747/8 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.

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– 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of mo ...

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

George Birkbeck George Birkbeck (; 10 January 1776 – 1 December 1841) was an English physician, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and a professor of natural philosophy at the Andersonian Institute. He is the founder of Birkbeck, Universit ...

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

Birkbeck College Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' ...

. *

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

(1778–1868), Scottish-born British statesman and slavery abolitionist, leading advocate in Parliament for the foundation of UCL * Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet, founding father of UCL * Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853), Baptist Minister, active supporter of the foundation of UCL *

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English people, English Whig (British political faction), Whig politician and colonial administrator. He was thrice First Lord of the Admiralty and also served a ...

, British statesman * Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor * Olinthus Gregory (1774–1841), English mathematician, author and editor *

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

(1794–1871), English classical historian * Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk (1791–1856), Catholic peer, and advocate for the foundation of UCL *

Joseph Hume Joseph Hume Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish surgeon and Radicals (UK), Radical Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP.Ronald K. Huch, Paul R. Ziegler 1985 Joseph Hume, the People's M.P ...

(1777–1855), Scottish doctor and politician *

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

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

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...

, and active supporter of the foundation of UCL * Sir

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

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

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

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

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United K ...

(1792–1878), British statesman * Henry Warburton (1784–1858), English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist *

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

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

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

Supporters

Benefactors

* Sir Herbert Bartlett (1842–1921), civil engineer, enabled the establishment of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture * Sir

Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics. Galton produced over 340 papers and b ...

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

Council members

Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones Timothy Francis Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (born 26October 1949) is a Liberal Democrat peer and spokesman for the digital economy in the House of Lords. Career Clement-Jones is a consultant of the multinational law firm DLA Pipe ...

, (1949–) * Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather (1934–), British politician, UCL alumna, and the first South Asian woman to receive a peerage * Sir Stephen Wall, British diplomat, leading Catholic layman, chairman of Council (2008–) * Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825. * Thomas Field Gibson (1803-1889), Manufacturer and benefactor – on Council 1851–68 *

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

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

Fields Medallists

The

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former staff

Art, architecture, and design

* Dame

Phyllida Barlow Dame Phyllida Barlow (4 April 1944 – 12 March 2023) was a British visual artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–1963) and the Slade School of Art (1963–1966). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught th ...

, Sculptor *

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

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

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

(1936–), architect,

The Bartlett The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, also known as The Bartlett, is the academic centre for the study of the built environment at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. It is home to thirteen departments, with specialisms incl ...

Professor of Architecture *

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

, performance artist *

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

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

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

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

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

(1922–2011), painter *

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

(1866–1934), painter, art critic * Christine Hawley, architect, first female Head of the Barlett * John Hooper Harvey (1911–97), architectural historian, Bartlett School of Architecture, 1950–59. *

Tim Head Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist. A painter, photographer and sculptor, he employs mixed media. Biography Born in London, Head was brought up in Yorkshire. He studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969. There the ...

, artist * John Hilliard, artist *

Otto Königsberger Otto H. Königsberger (13 October 1908 – 3 January 1999) was a German-Indian architect who worked mainly in urban development planning in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with the United Nations. He also proposed plans for developing new cit ...

(1908–1999), architect * Michael (Edward) Parsons (1938–), avant-garde composer, and lecturer in fine art * Cameron Sinclair (1973–), co-founder of Architecture for Humanity

Engineering sciences

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

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from 1979 to 1986 * Harold Barlow, staff then

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

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

(1859–1940), chair of engineering from 1889 to 1901 * Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69 * Wellesley Curram Clinton (1871-1934),

from 1926 to 1934 * Jon Crowcroft, Professor of Networked Systems in Computer Science *

Alexander Lamb Cullen Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer and academic who was a professor at University College London. Career and research In 1955, Cullen was appointed as the first Professor of Elec ...

, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,

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

John William Draper John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English polymath: a scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with pioneering portrait photography (1839–40) and producing the first deta ...

- pioneer astro-photographer who also took the oldest surviving picture of a woman * Anthony Finkelstein, Head of Computer Science and Dean of the

UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences UCL may refer to: Education Universities * University College London, a public university in England * Université catholique de Louvain, a private university in Belgium * UCL University College, a public university in Denmark University ...

until 2015 * John Fleming (1849–1945) * William Edward Gibbs (1890-1934), Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering *

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

, Professor of the mechanical principles of engineering (appointed in 1847) * Reginald Otto Kapp (1885-1966), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering ,

from 1935 to 1945 * Peter T. Kirstein (1933-2020), Head of Computer Science department from 1980 to 1994 *

John Edwin Midwinter John Edwin Midwinter (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 Bartholomew's S ...

(1938-2021), Pender Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 2004, Vice Provost from 1994-1999 *

John Millington John Millington may refer to: *John Millington (professor) (1779–1868), professor of mechanics at the Royal Institution, 1817–1829 *John Millington (rugby league) (born 1949), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s *Jo ...

(1779-1868), the UK's first Civil Engineering Professor, appointed in 1827 * Sir John O'Reilly, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1997–2001) *

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

(1813–1900), 1859–76 *

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

(1852-1916), Chair of Chemistry (appointed 1887) * H. E. Watson (1886-1980), Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering * E. C. Williams, first Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering (1923-1927)

Interdisciplinary studies

* Carl Gombrich – founding programme director of the UCL Arts and Sciences programme and co-founder of the

London Interdisciplinary School The London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) is a private university in Whitechapel, London. LIS was founded in 2017 and was the first new institution in the United Kingdom since the 1960s to hold degree-awarding powers from its opening. The ...

Languages and literature

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

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

A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A.S. Byatt ( ), was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirt ...

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

Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...

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

Alan Hollinghurst Sir Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel ...

– Lecturer in English; deputy editor, ''

The Times Literary Supplement ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (''TLS'') is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. History The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication ...

''; later winner of the 2004

A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classics, classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in ''literae humaniores'' and t ...

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

A Shropshire Lad ''A Shropshire Lad'' is a collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. Composers began setting the poems to ...

'' * Dan Jacobson – Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious

Somerset Maugham Award The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to ...

* Sir

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

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

David Masson David Mather Masson (2 December 18226 October 1907), was a Scotland, Scottish academic, supporter of women's suffrage, literary critic and historian. Biography Masson was born in Aberdeen, the son of Sarah Mather and William Masson, a sto ...

– Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer *

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

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

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'' *

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

– Professor of History (1951–75) *

Henry Morley Henry Morley (15 September 1822 – 14 May 1894) was an English academic who was one of the earliest professors of English literature in Great Britain. He also authored a popular book featuring biographies of notable English writers. Life The ...

– Professor of English Literature *

Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917), also known as the ''"Grand Old Man of India"'' and "Unofficial Ambassador of India", was an Indian independence activist, political leader, merchant, scholar and writer. He was one of the f ...

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

British Asian British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) are British people of Asian people, Asian descent. They constitute a significant and growing minority of the people living in the United Kingdom, with a population of 5.76 million people or 8.6 ...

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

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

– Professor of Italian *

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

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

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'' *

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

– Professor of English; editor, ''

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

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

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

Law

Mathematical, physical, and space sciences

Jim Al-Khalili Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili (; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. He is a ...

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

William Henry Bragg Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist and X-ray crystallographer who uniquelyThis is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel Prize (in any fiel ...

inventor of

x-ray crystallography X-ray crystallography is the experimental science of determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to Diffraction, diffract in specific directions. By measuring th ...

and Nobel laureate *

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish physicist who, as a doctoral student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not ...

, (astronomy) – discovered radio

pulsar A pulsar (''pulsating star, on the model of quasar'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its Poles of astronomical bodies#Magnetic poles, magnetic poles. This radiation can be obse ...

s *

Charles Bungay Fawcett Charles Bungay Fawcett (25 August 1883 – 21 September 1952)Paul Cohn – Astor Professor of Mathematics * Marianna Csörnyei – Professor of Mathematics *

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

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

Sir Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics. Galton produced over 340 papers and b ...

– 'Father of fingerprinting' * Tim Gowers – Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal *

Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and ...

– pioneer of

nuclear chemistry Nuclear chemistry is the sub-field of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes, and transformations in the nuclei of atoms, such as nuclear transmutation and nuclear properties. It is the chemistry of radioactive elements such as t ...

, discoverer of

nuclear fusion Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction, reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nuclei, nuclei/neutrons, neutron by-products. The difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the rele ...

and Nobel laureate *

Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel ...

– theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate *

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

– Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory *

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

– Reader in Statistics * Sir

James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report in 1973, which pessimistically stated t ...

– Lecturer; predecessor to

Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking (8January 194214March 2018) was an English theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between ...

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

at Cambridge University *

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

, statistician * Sir

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

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

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

– Professor of Statistics *

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

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

Eugene Rabinowitch Eugene Rabinowitch (April 27, 1901 – May 15, 1973) was a Russian-born American biophysicist who is known for his work in photosynthesis and nuclear energy. He was a co-author of the Franck Report and a co-founder in 1945 of the ''Bulletin of t ...

– worked in the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the ...

and co-founded the ''

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

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

Edward Teller Edward Teller (; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian and American Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of ...

– 'Father of the

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

' *

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 af ...

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, inclu ...

– Professor of Physics

Life sciences

* Caroline Austin, British

molecular biologist Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

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

scurvy Scurvy is a deficiency disease (state of malnutrition) resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, fatigue, and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, anemia, decreased red blood cells, gum d ...

('' Barlow's disease'') *

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

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

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

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

Carol Black Carol Black may refer to: * Carol Black (rheumatologist) (born 1939), British physician and academic * Carol Black (writer) (born ), American writer and filmmaker {{hndis, Black, Carol ...

, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the

Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of ph ...

* Patricia H. Clarke née Greene, FRS, (1919–2010), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry * David Clary, FRS, Director of the UCL Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009- *

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

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

The Joy of Sex ''The Joy of Sex'' is a 1972 illustrated sex manual by British author Alex Comfort. An updated edition was released in September 2008. Overview ''The Joy of Sex'' was at the top of ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list for 11 weeks and for ...

'' * Jack Drummond, biochemist known for his work on nutrition * George Viner Ellis, prominent anatomist. He studied Medicine at

UCL Medical School UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL), a public research university in London, England. The school provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical ...

and later became a Professor of Anatomy * Sir Martin Evans,

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

-winning biologist for his work with

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

* Lesley Fallowfield, Professor of Psycho-Oncology (1997–2001) * Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger * C. Robin Ganellin, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of

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

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

J. B. S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-born scientist who later moved to India and acquired Indian citizenship. He worked in the fields of physiology, genetics, evolutionary ...

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

population genetics Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and among populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology. Studies in this branch of biology examine such phenomena as Adaptation (biology), adaptation, s ...

Archibald Hill Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 192 ...

, Professor of Physiology (1922–51), winner of the 1922

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

, Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of

Horsley–Clarke apparatus Stereotactic surgery is a minimally invasive form of surgical intervention that makes use of a three-dimensional coordinate system to locate small targets inside the body and to perform on them some action such as ablation, biopsy, lesion, injec ...

Andrew Huxley Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 191730 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, ...

, Nobel laureate * Ian Jacobs, Dean of Medicine *

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

, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology. * Avrion Mitchison, Professor of Zoology *

Santa Ono Santa Jeremy Ono (; born November 23, 1962) is a Canadian-born American immunologist. He served in a variety of roles, including as the 15th president of the University of Michigan from October 2022 to May 2025, as the 15th president of the U ...

, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Biomedical Sciences *

Richard Quain Richard Quain may refer to: * Richard Quain (Irish physician) (1816–1898) * Richard Quain (English surgeon) (1800–1887), English anatomist and surgeon {{hndis, Quain, Richard ...

, Chair of Anatomy (?–1850), having also studied Medicine at

, and later physician-extraordinary to

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

* Dunkinfield Henry Scott, Botanist * Anthony Segal, Professor of Medicine *

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

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

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

, Nobel Prize-winning cell

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

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

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

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

, Professor of Psychology; noted for

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient In statistics, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient or Spearman's ''ρ'' is a number ranging from -1 to 1 that indicates how strongly two sets of ranks are correlated. It could be used in a situation where one only has ranked data, such as a ...

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

, Britain's first forensic scientist. *

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

Starling equation The Starling principle holds that fluid movement across a semi-permeable blood vessel such as a capillary or small venule is determined by the hydrostatic pressures and colloid osmotic pressures ( oncotic pressure) on either side of a semiperm ...

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

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

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

at McGill University * David J Werring, Professor of Clinical

Neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...

, noted for influential research in

stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...

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

Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag ...

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

Philosophy

* A. J. Ayer,

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

(1946–59) *

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

, Lecturer in Philosophy *

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

, Reader in Philosophy; later

Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory Henry Chichele ( ; also Checheley; – 12 April 1443) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1414–1443) and founded All Souls College, Oxford. Early life Chichele was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364; Chichele told Pope Eu ...

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

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

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

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

* W. D. Hart *

Ted Honderich Edgar Dawn Ross "Ted" Honderich (30 January 1933 – 12 October 2024) was a Canadian-born British philosopher, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London. Biography Honderich was born on ...

, Emeritus

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

; BBC broadcaster * Carveth Read, Professor of Moral Philosophy *

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

, Lecturer in Philosophy; later

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

at Cambridge University *

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

Social sciences, geography, and history

* Diane Koenker, In 2018 she was appointed as Director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.2018 CITATION RECIPIENT / Diane P. Koenker
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Michael Crawford Michael Patrick Smith (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer. Crawford is best known for playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'', Cornel ...

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

Ramayana The ''Ramayana'' (; ), also known as ''Valmiki Ramayana'', as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics ...

'' and ''

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...

''. He served as

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

in 1899. *

John Connell (geographer) John H. Connell (born 1946) is Professor Emeritus, Geography, University of Sydney. Background John Connell grew up in west London and studied Geography at University of Leeds with research in Bermuda. He completed his PhD in Geography at Univers ...

, Professor at University of Sydney (PhD 1973) *

G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, (; 8 February 1910 – 5 February 2000), known informally as Croicks, was a British historian who specialised in examining Ancient Greece from a Marxist perspective. He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Histo ...

, Marxist historian of Greek Antiquity, author of ''

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

'' *Sir

Andrew Dilnot Sir Andrew William Dilnot, (born 19 June 1960) is a British economist and broadcaster. He was director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, and principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford from 2002 to 2012, and Warden of Nuffield ...

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

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

, Professor of Anthropology; noted for her

Cultural Theory of Risk The cultural theory of risk, often referred to simply as Cultural Theory (with capital letters; not to be confused with culture theory), consists of a conceptual framework and an associated body of empirical studies that seek to explain societal c ...

Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

'' *

Conrad Russell Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. As an academic historian, he worked primarily on 17th-century English history, having extensively written and l ...

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

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

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

Philip Wicksteed Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844 – 18 March 1927) was an English scholar and Unitarian theologian known for his contributions to classics, medieval studies and economics. He was also a Georgist and literary critic. Family background ...

, economist and theologian

Current staff

Art, architecture, and design

* Iain Borden * David Burrows *

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

Melanie Counsell Melanie Counsell (born in 1964) is a British artist. She works with a multitude of media such as, sculpture, installation, 16 mm film, drawing, printed matter. Counsell has been resident at a range of art institutions, has undertaken roles in tea ...

* Peter Davies *

Tom Dyckhoff Tom Dyckhoff is a British writer, broadcaster and historian on architecture, design and cities. He has worked in television, radio, exhibitions, print and online media. He is best known for being a BBC TV presenter of '' The Great Interior Des ...

, broadcaster and teaching fellow at

* Simon Faithfull * Murray Fraser (architect) * Judith Goddard * Dryden Goodwin * Nadia Hebson *

Jonathan Hill (architect) Jonathan Hill (17 June 1958 – 1 November 2023) was an English architect, architectural historian, editor, and author. Biography Jonathan Hill received a Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1983, a Master of S ...

* C.J. Lim *

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

* Jayne Parker * Barbara Penner * Sarah Pickering * Jane Rendell * Liz Rideal *

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

* Carey Young

Engineering sciences

Polina Bayvel Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has ...

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

Helen Czerski Helen Czerski (born 1 November 1978) is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at the Institute f ...

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

Mark Handley Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter. Personal life In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves. Career He is best known for his play ''Idioglos ...

, Professor of Networked Systems, Computer Science *

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

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

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

, Professor of Materials & Society, co-founder of the Institute of Making * Peter O'Hearn, Professor of Computer Science * Michael Pepper,

of Nanoelectronics (2009-) * Yvonne Rogers, Professor of Interaction Design and director of UCLIC *

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

, Professor of Human-Centred Technology * John Shawe-Taylor, Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics * Rebecca Shipley, Professor of Healthcare Engineering * David Silver, Professor of Computer Science * Eva Sorensen, 11th Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering * Sarah Spurgeon, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering * Jose L. Torero, Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

History, languages and literature

* Rosemary Ashton, OBE, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature * John Dickie, Professor in Italian Studies * John Fletcher, Laplanche scholar, literary theorist * Mark Ford, Professor of English * Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History * Julian Hoppit FBA, Astor Professor of British History *

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

, Professor of English * John Mullan, Professor of English *

Matthew Sperling Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic. His first novel, ''Astroturf'', was published in 2018. It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in ''The Guardian'' and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamá ...

, Associate Professor of Creative and Critical Writing * Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics

Mathematical, physical and space sciences

* Tim Broyd, Professor of Built Environment Foresight and Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering * Hannah Fry, Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis * David Kemp, physicist at the

UCL Ear Institute The UCL Ear Institute is an academic department of the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London (UCL) located in Gray's Inn Road in the Bloomsbury district of Central London, England, previously next to the Royal National Throat, ...

who discovered

otoacoustic emission An otoacoustic emission (OAE) is a sound that is generated from within the inner ear. Having been predicted by Austrian astrophysicist Thomas Gold in 1948, its existence was first demonstrated experimentally by British physicist David Kemp in 19 ...

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

, Professor of Mathematics * Helen Wilson, Professor of Mathematics

Life sciences

* Peter Butler, Professor of Surgery *

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

, notable for predicting the single

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

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

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

, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, School of Pharmacy * Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics * Nick Lane, Winner of the 2015 biochemical society award and influential science writer * Sammy Lee, expert in ''in vitro'' fertilisation *

John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) John O'Keefe (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London. O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding i ...

, winner of the 2014

Sarah Pett Sarah L. Pett is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at University College London. Pett is interested in the immunopathology of infections and the development of optimised treatment pathways for infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pett led a ...

, Professor of Infectious Diseases and

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...

researcher * Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy *

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

, Professor of Zoology, former director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology *

Sarah Tabrizi Sarah Joanna Tabrizi FMedSci Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS is a British neurology, neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of neurodegeneration, particularly Huntington's disease. She is a Professor and Joint Head of the Department of Neu ...

, Professor of Neuroscience * Klara Valko, Honorary professor at University College London School of Pharmacy *

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

, Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that

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

is the co-receptor for HIV *

Semir Zeki Semir Zeki FMedSci Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born 8 November 1940) is a British and French Neuroscientist, neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective stat ...

, Professor of Neurology, proponent for the role of Visual area 4 in cognitive colour construction

Social sciences, geography, and history

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

, Professor of geography and authority on risk compensation *

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

, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director,

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

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

, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History * Gordon Hillman, Honorary Visiting Professor in Archaeobotany ( Palaeoethnobotany) *

Simon Hornblower Simon Hornblower, FBA (born 29 May 1949) is an English classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and, before retiring, was most recently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, O ...

, Grote Professor of ancient history and editor of the

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

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

, Historian of the ancient Near East. *

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

, Professor of Central European History * John Reid, chairman of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at UCL, and a member of the UK Parliament. * Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, he is known as one of the pioneers of the

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

movement. * Mark Maslin, Professor of

Earth System Science Earth system science (ESS) is the application of systems science to the Earth. In particular, it considers interactions and 'feedbacks', through material and energy fluxes, between the Earth's sub-systems' cycles, processes and "spheres"—atmosp ...

David Wengrow David Wengrow Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA (born 25 July 1972) is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He co-authored ...

, Professor of Comparative Archeology

Alumni

Academics

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

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

(MA), Jewish scholar * Sir Walter Adams (History and later lecturer), historian and former director of the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

* Hutton Ayikwei Addy, Professor of Public Health, first dean of the

University for Development Studies The University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Tamale was established in 1992 as a multi-campus institution. It is the fifth public university to be established in Ghana. This deviates from the usual practice of having universities with c ...

Medical School * Momtazuddin Ahmed (PhD Philosophy, 1937),

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

i philosopher and academic * Mark Allinson (PhD in German history), academic and historian of German history * Ali M. Ansari (BA), historian and founder of the Institute for Iranian Studies * Emmanuel Quaye Archampong, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...

* Robert Arnott, medical archaeologist *

John Baker John Baker or Jon Baker may refer to: Military figures *John Baker (American Revolutionary War) (1731–1787), American Revolutionary War hero, for whom Baker County, Georgia was named *John Baker (general) (1936–2007), Australian Chief of the ...

, UCL (LLB, PhD): Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge * Trevor J. Barnes, Professor of Economic Geography at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

Peter Birks Peter Brian Herrenden Birks (3 October 1941 – 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford), Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He also became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1 ...

, former Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford * Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra (MA Ancient History and MPhil/PhD History),

Kelantan Kelantan (; Kelantan-Pattani Malay, Kelantanese Malay: ''Klate''; ) is a state in Malaysia. The capital, Kota Bharu, includes the royal seat of Kubang Kerian. The honorific, honorific name of the state is ''Darul Naim'' ("The Blissful Abode"). ...

Royal Family * Edith Clara Batho (English, 1915), principal of

Royal Holloway College Royal Holloway, University of London (RH), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departmen ...

Arthur Blok Arthur Blok (; March 19, 1882 – October 14, 1974) was the British-born first administrative head (or Principal, as he was then called) of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel (then Mandatory Palestine), from 1924 ...

, first administrative head of the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...

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

, British political theorist *

David Crystal David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist who works on the linguistics of the English language. Crystal studied English at University College London and has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading. He was aw ...

, Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist * Stephen Daniels (PhD), Professor of Cultural Geography at

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

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

, Professor of Legal Philosophy, UCL * Noreena Hertz, associate director,

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

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

* David Gwilym James, Vice-Chancellor 1952-1965

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

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

William Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method i ...

, Professor of Political Economy, UCL * Timothy L. Killeen (BSc, PhD), president of the University of Illinois system * R.J.B. Knight, naval historian *

Marc Tessier-Lavigne Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne (born December 18, 1959) is a Canadian-American neuroscientist. He served as the 11th president of Stanford University from 2016 to 2023 and the 10th president of Rockefeller University in New York City from 2011 to ...

(president of

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

); * Victoria Lemieux, associate professor at

* David Llewellyn, vice-chancellor of

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

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

, Registrar at

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

* Lillian Penson, first woman vice-chancellor of London University * Chung-Kwong Poon (潘宗光), GBS, JP, president of

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU or HKPU) is a public university, public research university in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university is one of the eight University Grants Committee (Hong Kong), government-funded degree-grant ...

since 1991 *

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

, former vice-chancellor of the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

(1896-1902) * Lord

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

, Quain Professor of English Literature * Stefan Reif, studentship, later professor of Hebrew at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

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

(Medicine), ethnographer * Sir Adrian Smith (UCL Mathematics, PhD), FRS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 2012- * Jonathan Wolff (MPhil), Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL * Nicholas Bloom (PhD Economics), William Eberle Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, a Courtesy Professor at Stanford Business School and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. * Lorraine Dearden (PhD Economics), Professor of economics and social statistics at the Department of Social Science of the Institute of Education, University College London * Noreena Hertz (BA Philosophy and Economics), academic, economist and author. Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, Sirius XM's chief Europe correspondent and ITV News Economics Editor. * Sandra McNally (PhD Economics and MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics), economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), at the London School of Economics and Political Science * Benjamin Moll (BSc Economics), macroeconomist and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science * John Pencavel (BSs and MSc Economics), economist and Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Stanford University * John Van Reenen (economist) (PhD Economics), Ronald Coase School Professor and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science * Lady Mary Wellesley, historian and author

Economists

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

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

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

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

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

(BSc Civil Engineering), financial economist * Ian Crawford (economist) (PhD Economics), economist and academic *

William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book ''A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy'' (1862) as the start of the mathematical method i ...

(BA and MA Chemistry and Botany), economist and logician * Barbara Sianesi (PhD Economics), economist, senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London

Engineers

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

, co-developer the first spiral-spring

ammeter An ammeter (abbreviation of ''ampere meter'') is an measuring instrument, instrument used to measure the electric current, current in a Electrical circuit, circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes (A), hence the name. For direct measure ...

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

and electric tricycle *

Kevin Ashton Kevin Ashton (born 1968) is a British technology pioneer who cofounded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which created a global standard system for RFID and other sensors. He is known for coining the term "th ...

, Internet of Things pioneer * Ronald Hugh Barker, a physicist, mathematician and pioneer of digital technology who invented

Barker code In telecommunication technology, a Barker code or Barker sequence is a finite sequence of digital values with the ideal autocorrelation property. It is used as a synchronising pattern between the sender and receiver of a stream of bits. Explanat ...

* Harold Barlow, engineer and UCL academic *

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

, Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge *

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

, inventor of telephone (1868–1870; dropped out without completing studies) * Ian McDonald Campbell, civil engineer and vice-chairman of

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...

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

Formula One Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one ...

designer and founder of

Lotus Cars Lotus Group (also known as Lotus Cars) is a British multinational automotive manufacturer of luxury sports cars and electric vehicles. Lotus Group is composed of three primary entities. Lotus Cars, a high-performance sports car company, is ba ...

* Edgar Claxton, part of the 1960s team which electrified sections of the British mainline railway network * Demetrius Comino OBE, engineer, inventor of Dexion steel slotted angle system * Edward Dobson (1816/17?–1908), Provincial Engineer for the Canterbury Province in New Zealand *

John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer who invented the vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established ...

, inventor of the

thermionic valve Thermionic emission is the liberation of charged particles from a hot electrode whose thermal energy gives some particles enough kinetic energy to escape the material's surface. The particles, sometimes called ''thermions'' in early literature, ar ...

and the

diode A diode is a two-Terminal (electronics), terminal electronic component that conducts electric current primarily in One-way traffic, one direction (asymmetric electrical conductance, conductance). It has low (ideally zero) Electrical resistance ...

Patrick Head Sir Patrick Michael Head (born 5 June 1946) is a British motorsport executive who is the co-founder and former Engineering Director of the Williams Formula One team. For 27 years starting from the season, Head was technical director at Willia ...

, co-founder of the Williams Formula One team *

Oliver Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was an English physicist whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation contributed to the development of Radio, radio communication. He identified electromagnetic radiation indepe ...

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

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

, Principal investigator and designer of the

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

on the

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

Life scientists and medics

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

Agnes Arber Agnes Arber Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS ( Robertson; 23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British people, British plant morphology, plant morphologist and plant anatomy, anatomist, History of botany, historian of botany and philosophe ...

(BSc, DSc, 1905), botanist *

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

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

Tipu Aziz Tipu Zahed Aziz (; 9 November 1956 – 25 October 2024) was a Bangladeshi-born British professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Aarhus Denmark and Porto, Portugal. He specialised in the study and treatment of Parkinso ...

(Neurophysiology), professor of

neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system ...

and

neurophysiology Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience concerned with the functions of the nervous system and their mechanisms. The term ''neurophysiology'' originates from the Greek word ''νεῦρον'' ("nerve") and ''physiology'' (whic ...

Alan Baddeley Alan David Baddeley CBE Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born 23 March 1934) is a British psychologist. He is known for his research on memory and for developing the three-component model of working memory. He is a professor of psychology at th ...

, psychologist known for his work on

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

, including his multiple components model * Edward Ballard (Medicine), physician and social commentator on living conditions in

Victorian Britain In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed th ...

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

(Medicine), biophysicist researching

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

s and inventing clinically useful artificial lung surfactants * Erasmus Darwin Barlow, psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman * Sir Thomas Barlow (Medicine),

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

royal physician known for his research on infantile

('' Barlow's disease'') * Dame Josephine Barnes (Medicine), obstetrician and gynaecologist * Ann Barrett, Emeritus Professor of Oncology at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

* Allon Barsam, ophthalmologist and medical researcher, who pioneered the use of microwave keratoplasty in humans * Herbert Barrie, neonatologist * Anne Beloff-Chain, biochemist * Margaret Jane Benson, (1859-1936) paleobotanist * Alfred William Bennett (1833–1902), British botanist and publisher of The Friend * Katie Bentley, computer scientist, builds computational software to understand communication between cells *

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

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

Nigel Bonner William Nigel Bonner (15 February 1928 – 27 August 1994) was a British zoologist, Antarctic marine mammal specialist, author and ecologist. The topics of his books and scientific publications included marine animals, reindeer and the ecology of ...

, ecologist and zoologist *

John Bowlby Edward John Mostyn Bowlby (; 26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. A ''Review of General Psychology'' ...

(Medicine), psychologist, psychiatrist, pioneer of

attachment theory Attachment theory is a psychological and evolutionary framework, concerning the relationships between humans, particularly the importance of early bonds between infants and their primary caregivers. Developed by psychiatrist and psychoanalys ...

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

Physician to the Queen Physician to the King (or Queen, as appropriate) is a title (as postnominals, KHP, QHP) held by physicians of the Medical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Part of the Royal Household, the Medical Household includes physicians, ...

* Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt FBA (1883-1971). Professor and Chair of Psychology (1931–51), pioneering child psychologist, now discredited. * Walter Carr (BS MD), physician and surgeon * William Carpenter, physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist * Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea * Oscar Clayton, surgeon * G. Marius Clore FMedSci, FRS (Biochemistry, UCL, 1976; Medicine, University College Medical School, 1979), biophysicist and structural biologist; pioneer of multidimensional

macromolecular A macromolecule is a "molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass." Polymers are physi ...

NMR spectroscopy Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique based on re-orientation of atomic nuclei with non-zero nuclear spins in an external magnetic f ...

laying foundations of 3D structure determination of

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

in solution; member of the

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

Archie Cochrane Archibald Leman Cochrane (12 January 1909 – 18 June 1988) was a Scottish physician noted for his book, ''Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services'', which advocated the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) t ...

, epidemiologist, Professor of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases, Welsh National School of Medicine, pioneer of

evidence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available exte ...

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

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

-winning biochemist * Leslie Collier, virologist who helped to create the first heat stable smallpox vaccine key in the eventual eradication of the disease. * Edward Treacher Collins, ophthalmologist and first described

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

Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the Nucleic acid doub ...

, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA; Nobel laureate *

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

, dermatologist *

Jane Dacre Dame Jane Elizabeth Dacre, (born 11 November 1955) is a British rheumatologist and medical scholar. She is professor of medical education at University College London, former director of UCL Medical School, past president of the Royal College o ...

(Medicine), President of the

(2014–incumbent) * Viscount Bertrand Dawson, doctor to the British Royal Family * Deborah Doniach, leading expert on auto-immune diseases * George Viner Ellis (Medicine and later Professor of Anatomy), prominent anatomist *

Sir John Erichsen Sir John Eric Erichsen, 1st Baronet (19 July 1818 – 23 September 1896) was a Danish-born British surgery, surgeon. Early life Erichsen was born in Copenhagen, the son of Eric Erichsen, a member of a well-known Denmark, Danish banking family. ...

(Medicine and later lecturer), prominent surgeon and surgeon-extraordinary to

* Sir Martin Evans (PhD, 1969, and later lecturer), winner of the 2007

Jeremy Farrar Sir Jeremy James Farrar (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher who has served as Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization since 2023. He was previously the director of The Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and a professor ...

(BSc, MBBS), director of the

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

from 2014 * Sir

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

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

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

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

, dermatologist *

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

. Fellow of the

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

, child psychiatrist and pioneer of arts therapies in hospital, for children * Paul Garner (doctor), physician, epidemiologist, public health professional, and medical academic *

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

(Medicine), former chair of the

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

(2010–13) *

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

(MB BS), academic and science writer * Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon * Gillian Griffiths, cell biologist and immunologist * Rainer Guillery, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School; formerly Dr Lee's Professor of Human Anatomy,

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

* Anita Harding, neurologist who co-authored the first paper which identified pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease (in Kearn-Sayre syndrome) *

Colleen Higgins Colleen Michele Higgins is a New Zealand academic plant pathologist, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in plant viruses and environmental microbiology. Higgins won an award for her teaching in 2013, f ...

, professor of molecular genetics in New Zealand * John Ivor Pulsford James, known as J.I.P. James, president and honorary fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association *

Allan Octavian Hume Allan Octavian Hume, Order of the Bath, CB Indian Civil Service, ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British Raj, British India and was the founding spirit ...

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

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

* Donald Jeffries, virologist, expert on

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

* Sir William Jenner, was the first doctor to identify between

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

and

typhoid Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by ''Salmonella enterica'' serotype Typhi bacteria, also called ''Salmonella'' Typhi. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often ther ...

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

, medical doctor and television presenter best known ''

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

'' *

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

, biochemist *

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

, founder of the '' Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science'' (QJMS) * Thomas Lewis (MB BS), cardiologist *

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of aseptic, antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Joseph Lister revolutionised the Sur ...

, pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery * Barbara Low, founder member of the

British Psychoanalytical Society The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of several organisations in Britain training psychoanalysts. The society has been home to a number of psych ...

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

Hadassah Medical Organization Hadassah Medical Center () is an Israeli medical organization established in 1934 that operates two university hospitals in Jerusalem (one in Ein Karem and one in Mount Scopus) as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology a ...

* Barrie Marmion, microbiologist * Henry Marsh (Medicine), neurosurgeon * Clare Marx (MB BS), first woman to be President of the

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

, theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist * Jan McLelland, (Medicine), dermatologist and medical researcher *

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

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

and

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

Richard Quain Richard Quain may refer to: * Richard Quain (Irish physician) (1816–1898) * Richard Quain (English surgeon) (1800–1887), English anatomist and surgeon {{hndis, Quain, Richard ...

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

* Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome, Pioneer ophthalmologist in

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

* Sir Philip Randle, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975 * Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, former president of the

(2005–08) *

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

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

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

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

, 1995–98; formerly Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Middlesex and University College Hospitals 1960–92; Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Queen 1982–92. * Susan Swindells (MB BS), infectious disease expert, AIDS researcher, Scientist Laureate at the

University of Nebraska Medical Center The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a Public university, public Academic health science centre, academic health science center in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1869 and chartered as a private medical college in 1881, UNMC became p ...

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

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

, father of

orthopaedic surgery Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (American and British English spelling differences, alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgic ...

in Britain * Richard Turner-Warwick, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons * Dame

Margaret Turner-Warwick Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick (; 19 November 1924 – 21 August 2017) was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–1992) and, later, chairman of the ...

, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989–92 * Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, gynaecological surgeon * Kenneth Walton, pathologist *

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

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

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

* W. Roger Williams, pathologist, surgeon, cancer researcher and medical writer * Dame Albertine Winner (BSc, MB BS, MD), physician and medical administrator * R. A. Young (MB MD), physician and tuberculosis specialist

Mathematicians and physical scientists

* Alan Baker, winner of the 1970

* D.J. Bartholomew (BSc, PhD Mathematics), statistician and

President of the Royal Statistical Society The president of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), elected biennially by the Fellows of the Society. The time-period between elections has varied in the past. The president oversees the running of t ...

(1993-1995) * Laurence Baxter, professor of statistics * Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – one of the founders of radio telecommunication. *

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

(1919–2013), (mathematics and statistics, PhD, 1953), Vilas Research Professor of Statistics,

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

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

, astrophysicist, former

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

President, former

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

Director, one of the founders of

stellar nucleosynthesis In astrophysics, stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen, helium and lithium during the Big Bang. As a ...

and first author of the influential B²FH paper), * Ian Crawford – Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck University of London * Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), statistician * Roland Dobbs, physicist * Israel Dostrovsky, Israeli physical chemist and fifth president of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...

* Thomas Eckersley, theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves * Thomas Elger, selenographer famous for his lunar map *

Hans Eysenck Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( ; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality psychology, personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At t ...

, psychologist who created the modern scientific theory of personality *

Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer who invented the vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established ...

, inventor of the vacuum tube * John Fox, statistician * Cecilie French, chemist specialising in

magnetochemistry Magnetochemistry is concerned with the magnetic properties of chemical compounds and Chemical element, elements. Magnetic properties arise from the spin and orbital angular momentum of the electrons contained in a compound. Compounds are diamagneti ...

. * William Gowers, winner of the 1998

Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský (; 20 December 1890 – 27 March 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography. Life and work Jaroslav Heyrovský was born in Prague on December 2 ...

, father of the electroanalytical method * Cyril Hilsum, pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices * Hermann Arthur Jahn, chemist, with Edward Teller he identified the

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

David Jewitt David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Pla ...

, co-discoverer of the

Kuiper belt The Kuiper belt ( ) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times ...

, professor of statistics and author * Charles Kuen Kao, pioneer of the use of fibre optics in telecommunications; Nobel laureate *

Chris Lintott Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster. He is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, and, since 2023, Gresham Professor of Astronomy ...

, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford *

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

, discovered the structure of

benzene Benzene is an Organic compound, organic chemical compound with the Chemical formula#Molecular formula, molecular formula C6H6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar hexagonal Ring (chemistry), ring with one hyd ...

* Christine E. Morris, archaeologist *

Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Spława-Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fis ...

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

Freda Nkirote Freda Nkirote M’Mbogori is a Kenyan archaeologist, who is Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and President of the Pan-African Archaeological Association. Biography Nkirote studied for her BA at the University of Nairob ...

, Director of the

British Institute in Eastern Africa The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and is dedicated to supporting historical, archaeological, and other social science and humanities research in eastern Africa. The BIEA is sponsored by the British A ...

and President of the

Pan-African Archaeological Association The PanAfrican Archaeological Association (PAA) is a Pan-Africanism, pan-African professional organisation for Archaeology, archaeologists, Geologist, geologists and Paleoanthropology, palaeoanthropologists. History The association was founded ...

* Sir Roger Penrose, mathematician and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, winner of the 2020

Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics () is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the ...

* Suzanna Randall, astrophysicist and private astronaut candidate *

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

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

and

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

Owen Willans Richardson Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. Biography Richardson was born in Dew ...

, physicist, winner of the 1928

, mathematician, winner of the 1958

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

* R.J.G. Savage (PhD Paleontology), palaeontologist known as Britain's leading expert on fossil mammals * M. J. Seaton, British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer * Ian Sloan, Australian applied mathematician *

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

, statistician, creator of

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

of experiments *

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

, statistician, Professor at Cambridge * Russell Stannard, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the

Open University The Open University (OU) is a Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate ...

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

chemist and nuclear scientist * Heinz Wolff, scientist, television and radio presenter

Architects, artists, and designers

* Corinne Bennett (Bartlett, 1957), conservation architect *

David Bomberg David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Hen ...

(1890–1957), Slade School of Fine Art (1913) * Teresa Borsuk (Bartlett, 1981), architect * Martin John Callanan *

Dora Carrington Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytt ...

Ethel Charles Ethel Mary Charles (25 March 1871 – 8 April 1962) was a British architect, the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1898. Early life Ethel Charles, her sister Bessie Ada Charles (1869–1932) ...

and

Bessie Charles Bessie Ada Charles (1869 – 4 November 1932) was a British architect. In 1900, she became one of the first women to enter the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Early life Bessie Charles, her sister Ethel Charles and brother Rona ...

, the first women to be admitted to RIBA (Only allowed to audit classes at UCL as women weren't permitted to officially enroll in architecture in the 1890s) * Sir William Coldstream * Martin Creed, conceptual artist; winner of the 2001 Turner Prize * Robert Erskine (sculptor), Robert Erskine (Slade 1978) sculptor, designer, automotive broadcaster, winner of the 1994 International Sir Otto Beit Award For Public Sculpture Excellence * James Stevens Curl (History of Art), architectural historian, conservation consultant and critic * Antony Gormley, sculptor; winner of the 1994 Turner Prize; creator of the ''Angel of the North'' * Eileen Gray (Slade, 1898), lacquer artist and furniture designer * Augustus John, painter * Gerry Judah (Slade, 1977), artist, sculptor and designer * Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist, author, critic * Gertrude Leverkus (B.A., 1919), architect * Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist movement (dropped out without completing course) * Arthur Ling * David Mlinaric, architect, interior designer * Evelyn De Morgan (Slade, 1877), painter * Ben Nicholson, abstract painter * Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and artist * Stuart Pearson Wright, painter * Monica Pidgeon, interior designer and journalist * Patricio Pouchulu, architect and academic * Paula Rego, painter (Slade, 1952–56) * Ibrahim el-Salahi, artist and painter * Jenny Saville, prominent Young British Artist * Stanley Spencer, Sir Stanley Spencer, painter * John Summerson, Sir John Summerson, leading

architectural historian and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the

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

Banking, business and commercial figures

* Andreas Antonopoulos (Computer Science), technology entrepreneur * Dominic Blakemore (French), CEO of Compass Group * Richard Brown (transport), Richard Brown (MPhil Town and Transport Planning), current chairman of Eurostar International Limited, Eurostar International and former chief executive of Eurostar UK *Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok * Paul Donovan (businessman), Paul Donovan, current CEO of Odeon Cinemas, Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and former CEO of Vodafone Ireland and eircom * Lewis Evans (collector), Lewis Evans, scientific instrument collector and businessman * Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind * Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, Lord Digby Jones (LLB), former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry and Minister of State for Trade, Minister of State for Trade and Investment * John Patrick Kenny, John Kenny, BSc, founder and chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992. [1995]. * Ian Luder, Taxation specialist, and Lord Mayor of the City of London 2008–2009 * Roger Lyons, Joint General Secretary, Amicus (trade union), AMICUS since 2001; President, Trades Union Congress, 2003–04. [1996]. * Susan Ma, managing director of Tropic Skin Care; finalist on ''The Apprentice (UK TV series), The Apprentice'' series seven (2011). * Richard Martell, Creator of the controversial social network "FitFinder". * Farhad Moshiri, part owner of Everton F.C. * Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, Longleat Enterprises * Roger Tomlinson, founder of Geographic Information Systems President, Tomlinson Associates Ltd, Consulting Geographers. [2003]. * Marjorie Wallace (SANE), Marjorie Wallace, Countess Skarbek, Chief Executive, SANE (charity), SANE, since 1990. [2004]. * Edwin Waterhouse, founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers * Sharon White (businesswoman), Dame Sharon White (MSc Econometrics), chair of the John Lewis Partnership; former chiefexecutive of Ofcom * Alex Chesterman, (BSc Economics), co-founder of ScreenSelect, which later became part of online film distributor LoveFilm, and is the founder and CEO of online used car platform Cazoo * Peter Williams (businessman), Peter Williams, CEO of the clothing brand Jack Wills * Nkiru Balonwu, CEO of Spinlet * David E. I. Pyott, CEO of Allergan * Sara Rashid, president of Kurdistan Save the Children

Government and public officials, heads of state and politicians

Many prominent politicians in the UK and abroad have studied at UCL. Notable alumni include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria among others. Jomo Kenyatta

Heads of state and heads of government

*Nicos Anastasiades (Shipping Law), former president of Cyprus (2013–23) * Ellis Clarke, Sir Ellis Clarke (LLB), Governor-General then first president of Trinidad and Tobago (1972-1987) * Chaim Herzog, Chaim Herzog (חיים הרצוג) (LLB), sixth President of Israel (1983-1993) * Itō Hirobumi, Hirobumi Itō (伊藤博文) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), first Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Imperial Japan (1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901), known as ‘the Father of the Japanese Constitution’ having drafted the Meiji Constitution, 1890 Meiji Constitution of the Empire of Japan, Imperial JapanUCL. Retrieved on 10 August 2015.
/ref> * Jomo Kenyatta, considered the Father of the Nation, "Founding Father" of Kenya, first prime minister then President of Kenya (1963-1978) * Benedicto Kiwanuka (LLB, 1956), Chief Minister of the Uganda Protectorate, 1961–1962, first Prime Minister of Uganda, prime minister of Uganda, 1962, Chief Justice of Uganda, 1971–72 * Junichiro Koizumi, Junichiro Koizumi (小泉純一郎) (Economics, 1969), former Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan (2001-2006) * Charles Lilley, Sir Charles Lilley (Law), Premier of Queensland (1868-1870), attended UCL for two years then dropped out * Kwame Nkrumah (Philosophy), considered "The Father of African Nationalism", first prime minister of the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast, then first Prime Minister of Ghana, prime minister and then first president of Ghana (1952-1966) * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, considered the Father of the Nation, "Founding Father" of Mauritius, chief minister of British Mauritius, then first Prime Minister of Mauritius, prime minister (1961-1982) and then Governor-General of Mauritius (1983–1985) * Harold Bernard St. John, Sir Bernard St. John, former Prime Minister of Barbados, prime minister of Barbados (1985-1986)

Heads of intergovernmental organisations

* Angie Brooks (International Law, 1953), first African woman president of the United Nations General Assembly (24th Session, 1969-1970) and the second woman to head the United Nations * Terry Davis (politician), Terry Davis (LLB, 1962), former Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2004-2009) *Patricia Scotland, Baroness Patricia Scotland (LLB), current Commonwealth Secretary General, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations (2016-) and former Attorney General of England and Wales, attorney general of England and Wales (2007-2010)

Other politicians, campaigners and public officials

* William Kwasi Aboah (LLM), Ghanaian politician and former Minister for the Interior (Ghana), Interior Minister * Aliza Ayaz, world's youngest United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and leader of the campaign for UCL to divest from fossil fuels * Kwame Addo-Kufuor (Medicine), former Minister for the Interior (Ghana), Minister for the Interior and Minister for Defence (Ghana), Minister for Defence of Ghana * Ryland Adkins, Sir Ryland Adkins (BA), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Solomon Adler (Economics), identified Soviet Union, Soviet Espionage, spy and economist at the United States Department of the Treasury, US Treasury Department * Richard Alexander (British politician), Richard Alexander (LLB), former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi (غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي) (PhD Law, 1970), former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Great Britain and Minister for Labor * Alex Allan, Sir Alex Allan (MSc Statistics, 1973), former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom), UK Joint Intelligence Committee * Heidi Allen (Astrophysics), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Ros Altmann, Baroness Ros Altmann (Economics and later lecturer), UK pensions expert and former government minister * Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, Peter Archer (LLB), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and Solicitor General for England and Wales * Edward Aveling (BSc Zoology, 1870), prominent UK socialist and founding member of the Socialist League (UK, 1885), UK Socialist League and Independent Labour Party * Barbara Ayrton-Gould, former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Baey Yam Keng (MSc, Economic Development Board scholarship), People's Action Party, Singaporean People's Action Party politician * Alan Baker (diplomat), Alan Baker (אלן בייקר) (LLB, 1969), international law expert and former Israeli Ambassador to Canada * Robin Baker (academic), Robin Baker (BA), former deputy director-general of The British Council and vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University * Millie Banerjee (BSc Zoology), public official and current chairman of the British Transport Police Authority * Thomas Barclay (economic writer), Sir Thomas Barclay, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician, economic and international law expert and head of the British Chamber of Commerce * William Pell Barton, Sir William Barton, former British government official and diplomat of the Indian Political Service * Evangelos Basiakos, Evangelos Bassiakos (LLM), former Greece, Greek politician who served as government minister and MP of New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy * Elliott Belgrave, Sir Elliott Belgrave (LLB), former Governor-General of Barbados (2012-2017) *Joy Belmonte (MA in archaeology), Filipino politician, Mayor of Quezon City, former vice mayor of Quezon City * James Berry (politician), James Berry (LLB), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter, Liberal Democrats (UK), UK Liberal Democrat Party politician * Martin Bourke (diplomat), Martin Bourke (BA, 1969), Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1993-1996 * John Albert Bright (BSc, 1867), former Liberal Unionist Party and Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Richard Briginshaw, Baron Briginshaw, Lord Richard Briginshaw (Diploma), former General Secretary of National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, NATSOPA and trade unionist * Rudranath Capildeo (BSc, MSc, PhD Mathematical Physics, 1948, and later lecturer), former Leader of the Opposition (Trinidad and Tobago), Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and leader of the Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago), Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago * Chang Tao-fan, Tao-fan Chang (張道藩) (Slade School of Fine Art, Fine Art), former President of the Legislative Yuan, President of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China * Cheng Tien-Hsi, Tien-Hsi Cheng (鄭天錫) (LLB, LLD, 1915), former Republic of China (1912–49), Chinese politician, Permanent Court of International Justice, World Court judge and the Republic of China (1912–49), last Ambassador of the Republic of China to the UK before the creation of the People's Republic of China. He was the first Chinese student to gain a doctorate in law from a British university. * Thérèse Coffey (BSc, PhD Chemistry), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK Deputy Prime Minister * Arthur Cohen (politician), Arthur Cohen, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Arthur Colegate, Sir Arthur Colegate, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Petrus Compton, Petrus "Papo" Compton (LLM), former minister of foreign and external affairs of Saint Lucia * Edward Rider Cook (Chemistry), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet, first Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and first president of the Royal Philatelic Society London * Freda Corbet, former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * George Courtauld (MP), George Courtauld, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Sir Stafford Cripps (Chemistry), former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer * Charles Crompton, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Valerie Davey (PGCE, 1963), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Baron Davies of Oldham, Bryan Davies (BA History, PGCE, 1962), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Geoffrey Dear (LLB, 1962), former Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales * Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian revolutionary and Indian independence movement, pro-independence activist, executed before completing studies * Frances D'Souza, Baroness Frances D'Souza (BSc Anthropology, 1970), second Lord Speaker, Lord Speaker of the UK House of Lords and scientist * Evan Durbin (Economics, Ricardo Scholarship, 1930?), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Endō Kinsuke, Kinsuke Endō (遠藤謹助) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), regarded as 'the Father of the modern Japanese mint’ as former head of the Japan Mint, Imperial Japanese Mint * Shreela Flather, Baroness Shreela Flather, first Asian women member of the House of Lords, UK House of Lords * Vincent Floissac (LLB), former president of the Politics of Saint Lucia, Saint Lucian Senate, acting Governor-General of Saint Lucia (1987-1988) * Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi (મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ), leader of the Indian Independence Movement, took English classes with Henry Morley at UCL in 1888–89 * Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, Lord Peter Goldsmith (LLM), former Attorney General for England and Wales and Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland * Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, Lord Arnold Goodman (LLB), former lawyer, former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and political advisor to politicians including Harold Wilson * Rupert Harrison, former chief of staff to Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (2006-2015) * Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, Lord Garry Hart, former Special advisers (UK government), Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor, UK Lord Chancellor * Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, Lord Farrer Herschell (BA, 1857), former Lord Chancellor, UK Lord Chancellor * Lin Homer (LLB), former chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, UK HM Revenue and Customs * Bola Ige (LLB, 1959), former Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice, attorney general and Minister of Justice of Nigeria (2000–2001) * Annuar Musa, former Ministry of Youth and Sports (Malaysia), Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (1990–1993), former Minister of Rural Development (1993–1999), former Minister of Federal Territories (2020–2021), Minister of Communications and Multimedia (2021–) * Khairy Jamaluddin (MA Legal and Political Theory, 1998), former Ministry of Youth and Sports (Malaysia), Minister of Youth and Sport of Malaysia (2013-2018), former Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation (2020-2021), Minister of Health (2021-) * Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, "J.B." Jeyaretnam (LLB), former leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore and Secretary-General of the Reform Party (Singapore), Reform Party * David Jones (MP for Clwyd West), David Jones (LLB), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and government minister. Former Secretary of State for Wales * Helen Jones (BA), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Inoue Kaoru, Kaoru Inoue (井上馨) (one of the "Chōshū Five"), first Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Foreign Minister of Imperial Japan credited as ‘the Father of modern Japanese diplomacy' * Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat), Masaru Inoue (井上勝) (Civil engineering and mining, as one of the "Chōshū Five"), credited as 'the Father of the Japanese railway' having been the first Director of the Railway Board of Empire of Japan, Imperial Japan * Philip, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia (BA) * James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale, James Kitson (Chemistry and Natural Sciences), former President of the Liberal Party, President of the UK Liberal Party and first Lord Mayor of Leeds * Sylvia Lim (LLM, 1989), chairman of the Workers' Party of Singapore * Ian Luder (BA Economics and Economic History), UK tax expert and former Lord Mayor of the City of London * Nicholas Macpherson, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Permanent Secretary to the UK Treasury * Stavros Malas (BSc, PhD Genetics), former List of Ministers of Health of the Republic of Cyprus, Minister of Health of Cyprus and Progressive Party of Working People, Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) politician * Augustus Raymond Margary, Augustus Margary, former UK diplomat, and whose murder caused the Margary Affair, 1875 "Margary Affair" * Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney, Brian Mawhinney (PhD Radiation Physics, 1969), former Chairman of the Conservative Party, chairman of the UK Conservative Party and Secretary of State for Transport * Alison McGovern (Philosophy), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Fiona Mactaggart (PGCE), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister * Steve Dick Tennyson Matenje, Steve Matenje, Malawian civil servant and Permanent Representative to the United Nations * Tom McNally, Baron McNally, Lord Tom McNally (LLB), Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Leader of the House of Lords, Deputy Leader of the UK House of Lords. He was president of the University College London Union * William Stevenson Meyer, Sir William Meyer, first High Commission of India to the United Kingdom, High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (1920-1922) * Amanda Milling (Economics and Statistics, 1997), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Edwin Samuel Montagu, Edwin Montagu, former Secretary of State for India, UK secretary of state for India, Minister of Munitions and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Anil Moonesinghe (LLB), Sri Lankan government minister and Trotskyism, Trotskyist politician * Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton, Baroness Sally Morgan (MA Education), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former chair of Ofsted * Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, Baroness Delyth Morgan (Physiology), Chief Executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and former UK government minister * Mori Arinori, Arinori Mori (森有礼), first Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Japanese ambassador to the US and founder of Japan's modern educational system as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Minister of Education * Paul Myners, Baron Myners, Lord Paul Myners (BA Education, PGCE), UK businessman and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, financial secretary to the Treasury ("City Minister") * Stan Newens, Labour Co-operative, UK Labour Co-operative politician and chair of the European Parliamentary Labour Party * Jesse Norman (MPhil, PhD Philosophy, 2003, and later lecturer), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and government minister * Harry Nkumbula (Diploma), Northern Rhodesian/Zambian nationalist leader * John Olumba (Law), United States, American Independent Democratic Party (USA), Democratic politician and Michigan House of Representatives, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives * Stephen Owen (politician), Stephen Owen (LLM, 1974), Minister of Western Economic Diversification (Canada), Minister of Western Economic Diversification of Canada and Minister of State (Canada), Minister of State for Sport * Aziz Pahad (Diploma in International Relations, 1966), South African African National Congress, ANC Party politician and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999-2008) * Michael Palmer (politician), Michael Palmer (LLB, 1992), former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore * Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet, Sir Walter Palmer, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and biscuit manufacturer * Pambos Papageorgiou (PhD Political Philosophy), Progressive Party of Working People, AKEL Party of Cyprus politician * Michalis Papapetrou, Cypriot politician and former president of the United Democrats, United Democrat Party of Cyprus * Muhammad Ali Pate, former Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria), Minister of State for Health of Nigeria (2011-2013) and now Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University's Global Health Institute * Kash Patel (Certificate in International Law), 9th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation * Andrew Pattulo, Canadians, Canadian former Ontario Liberal Party politician Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario * Bernard Peiris (LLB), former Cabinet Secretary of Ceylon, who drafted the 'Ceylon Order in Council', the first constitution of independent Ceylon * Colin Phipps (BSc Geology, 1955), former Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party and Social Democratic Party (UK), UK Social Democratic Party politician * Thomas Bayley Potter, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Robert John Price, Sir Robert John Price (Medicine, 1876), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * William Edwin Price (BA, 1959), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Murad Qureshi (MSc Environmental Economics), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former Member of the London Assembly * Yasmin Qureshi (LLM), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * John Randall (British politician), Sir John Randall (Serbo-Croat Language and Literature, 1979), former Deputy Chief Whip, Government Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons * Kulveer Ranger (Architecture, 1996), former advisor, Director of Transport Policy and then Environment for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson * Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings, Baroness Patricia Rawlings, Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Andrew Reid (lawyer), Andrew Reid (LLB), lawyer, horse racing trainer and current treasurer of the UK Independence Party * Winston Roddick (LLB), current Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales Police (2012-) * William Anderson Rose, Sir William Rose, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and Lord Mayor of London (1862) * Christos Rozakis (LLM, 1970), former Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece), deputy foreign minister of Greece, President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Council of Europe and first vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights * Sydney Russell-Wells, Sir Sydney Russell-Wells (BSc, 1889), former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London, vice-chancellor of the University of London * James Rutherford (Canadian politician), James Rutherford, former Canadians, Canadian Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party politician * John Salmond (judge), Sir John Salmond (LLB, Gilchrist Educational Trust, Gilchrist scholarship), former Solicitor-General of New Zealand (1910-1920). He represented New Zealand at the Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922). * Ernest Satow, Sir Ernest Satow, former British Ambassador to Japan and British Ambassador to China, the UCL Faculty of Laws, UCL Chair of Japanese Law is named after him * John Edward Sears (Architecture), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and architect * Navin Shah, Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and Member of the London Assembly * Tulip Siddiq (BA English Literature), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician * Sarup Singh (PhD English Literature, 1953), former governor of Gujarat (1990-1995) and governor of Kerala (1990) * Henry Smith (British politician), Henry Smith (Philosophy), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Arthur Snelling, Sir Arthur Snelling, former List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa, UK Ambassador to South Africa (1970-1973) and List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Ghana, UK High Commissioner to Ghana (1959-1961) * Anthony Steen (LLB), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician * Marie Stopes, campaigner for eugenics and women's rights) * William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, Lord William Strang, former Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign Office (1949-1953) and diplomat. He sat on the UCL college committee. * Frederick William Strange, F.W. Strange (Medicine), former Canadians, Canadian Liberal-Conservative Party politician * Dudley Stewart-Smith, Sir Dudley Stewart-Smith (LLB), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and barrister * Colin Sutton (LLB, 1970), former Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Assistant Commissioner (Personnel and Training) of the London Metropolitan Police (1987-1988) and Director of the Police Scientific Development Branch at the Home Office, UK Home Office (1991-1993) * Sir Charles Swann, 1st Baronet, Sir Charles Swann, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Manuela Sykes, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and dementia campaigner * Ernest Symons, former director-general of the board of the Inland Revenue, UK Inland Revenue * William Ngartse Thomas Tam (LLB, 1923), former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and judge * Sarah Teather (PhD, did not graduate), Liberal Democrats (UK), UK Liberal Democrat Party politician and former Department for Education, Minister of State for Children and Families (2010-2012) * Tan Boon Teik (LLB, LLM, 1953), former Attorney-General of Singapore (1967-1992) * Terashima Munenori, Munenori Terashima (寺島宗則), former Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese diplomat * Stephen Terrell, former President of the Liberal Party, President of the UK Liberal Party (1971-1972) * Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenny Tonge (MB BS, 1964), independent (former Liberal Democrats (UK), UK Liberal Democrat Party) politician * Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe, Lord Denis Tunnicliffe (BSc Mathematics, 1965), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in House of Lords * Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Public Policy and Economics), Greeks, Greek politician and Governor of Central Macedonia (2013-) * Jan Vincent-Rostowski (BSc, MA Economy and History, 1964), Polish people, Polish politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, deputy prime minister of Poland and Ministry of Finance (Poland), finance minister * V. Viswanathan, Governor of Kerala, India (1967-1973) * Makis Voridis, Makis Voridis (Μαυρουδής (Μάκης) Χρήστου Βορίδης) (LLM), Greeks, Greek politician and former Ministry of Health and Social Security (Greece), Minister for Health * William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, William Wedgwood-Benn, Viscount Stansgate, former Secretary of State for India, UK Secretary of State for India and Secretary of State for Air * George Hammond Whalley (Metaphysics and Rhetoric), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * John Whittingdale (Economics, 1982), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport * Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan, Lord Michael Williams (BSc, 1971), former Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process * Henry Wilson-Fox, former Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician, businessman and associate of Cecil Rhodes * Henry Winterbotham (BA, LLB, 1959, Hume Scholar and University Law Scholar), former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department * Thomas McKinnon Wood, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary for Scotland and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * Sidney Woolf, former Liberal Party (UK), UK Liberal Party politician * Iain Wright (BA, MA History, 1995), Labour Party (UK), UK Labour Party politician and former government minister * Durmuş Yılmaz (MA), Turkish people, Turkish Nationalist Movement Party politician and former List of Governors of the Central Bank of Turkey, governor of the Central Bank of Turkey (2006-2011) * David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham, Lord David Young (LLB), former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK secretary of state for trade and industry and Secretary of State for Employment. He was chairman of the UCL Council from 1995 to 2005. * Yamao Yōzō, Yamao Yōzō (尾庸三) (Science and industry, as one of the "Chōshū Five"), former Empire of Japan, Imperial Japanese government minister credited as 'the Father of Japanese engineering' * Nadhim Zahawi (BSc Chemical Engineering), Conservative Party (UK), UK Conservative Party politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK chancellor of the Exchequer

Royalty

* Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra (PhD History) – former crown prince of Kelantan, one of the crown princes of Malaysia, as a federal constitutional monarchy * Princess Alexia of the Netherlands (BSc Science & Engineering for Social Change) – daughter of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Lawyers and judges

Literary figures and authors

* Gabriela Aguileta (PhD Genetics), author and scientist * Refaat Alareer (MA, 2007), Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist * Karim Alrawi, playwright and writer * Mulk Raj Anand, M. R. Anand, writer and pioneer of the English novel in India * Kofi Awoonor (MA), Ghanaian poet, academic and politician * Julian Baggini (PhD Philosophy, 1996), philosopher and author * Antonia Barber, author of books for children and adults * Pat Barr (writer) * Raymond Briggs * Robert Browning (studied Greek for one year) * Amit Chaudhuri * G. K. Chesterton * Paul Cornell (did not graduate) * Bernard Cornwell (BA History, 1966), author of historical fiction *

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

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(1899). * Geoffrey Elton, Sir Geoffrey Elton (PhD History, 1949), prominent political historian of the Tudor period * Ken Follett * Clare Francis * Stella Gibbons * Simon Inglis, architectural historian and sports writer * David Irving (Political Economy), Holocaust denial, Holocaust denier and author * Laila Lalami * David Lodge (author), David Lodge, author * Dimitris Lyacos * Helen MacInnes * David Magarshack, biographer and translator of Russian authors * Jon de Burgh Miller * Jonathan Miller * Gladys Mitchell * Bel Mooney * Blake Morrison * Ian Mortimer (historian), Ian Mortimer (MA), historian and historical fiction author * Chioma Okereke * Tomiwa Owolade, journalist and author * Clive Sansom * Jim Smith (writer), Jim Smith, writer * Michael Smith (writer), Michael Smith, author of The Giro Playboy etc. * Natsume Sōseki, Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912) * Rabindranath Tagore (Law 1878–1879, did not graduate), Bengalis, Bengali poet and polymath; first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) * Sean Thomas (writer), Sean Thomas, journalist and novelist * Marianne Winder * Ken Wiwa * Jerrold Yam, Singaporean poet and lawyer

Film, television, theatre and radio

* Ken Adam, Sir Ken Adam (Architecture; did not complete studies due to outbreak of WWII), Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning film production designer famous for designing the sets for various James Bond films (including the first Dr. No (film), ''Dr. No'') and the famous car for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film), ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' * Jassa Ahluwalia (Spanish and Russian), actor * Babar Ahmed (director), Babar Ahmed, film director * Franny Armstrong (Zoology), documentary film director * Ikenna Azuike (LLB with French Law), TV broadcaster and presenter of ''What's Up Africa'' * David Baddiel, comedian and television presenter *Roy Battersby, Film and TV director (1954) * Guy de la Bédoyère (MA Archaeology, 1987), historian, TV personality and ''Time Team'' historical expert * Brooke Burfitt, actress and radio presenter * George Clarke (architect), George Clarke (Postgraduate Diploma), architect and TV presenter of shows including ''George Clarke's Amazing Spaces'' * Nat Coombs, presenter, writer & comedian *Tom Courtenay, actor * Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the ''Teletubbies'' * Andrew Davies (writer), Andrew Davies (BA English, 1957), novelist and screenplay writer. His famous works include ''Mr Selfridge'', ''House of Cards (UK TV series), House of Cards (UK)'' and a 1995 adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Pride and Prejudice''. * Ptolemy Dean (Architecture), architect and TV presenter * Naamua Delaney (LLB), news presenter * Felix Dexter (LLB), actor and comedian * Clarissa Dickson-Wright (LLB), celebrity chef, writer and TV personality * Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter * Frank Dunlop (director), Frank Dunlop, former director of the Edinburgh International Festival; founder and former director, The Young Vic. [1979] * Jane Fallon, English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series ''Teachers'', ''20 Things To Do Before You're 30'', ''EastEnders'' and ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life''. * Trey Farley, television presenter. * Honey G (rapper), Honey G, Rap music artist, X Factor 2016 Debut *Tony Garnett, film and TV producer, actor. * Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of ''The Office (UK TV series), The Office'' (studied biology and philosophy) * Peter Ginn, archaeologist, historian, author and presenter of " Victorian Farm", "Edwardian Farm", "Wartime Farm" * Rachel Hurd-Wood, actress; best known for playing Wendy Darling at the 2003 film ''Peter Pan (2003 film), Peter Pan'' * Amy Jenkins, creator of ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life'' *

, medical doctor and television presenter * Griffith Jones (actor), Griffith Jones, actor * James Robertson Justice, actor (left after a year)Sheridan Morley, "Justice, James Norval Harald Robertson (1907–1975)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> * Dominic Keating, actor, including in ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' * Jim Loach, film and television director * Trevor Lock, comedian and actor * Philip Mackie, film and television writer * Jeremy Marre, film director * Steph McGovern, ''BBC Breakfast'' television presenter * Oliver Messel, influential leading stage designer * Fiona Millar, journalist and campaigner on Education in the United Kingdom, education and parenting issues * Karen Mok, Hong Kong diva and movie star * Michael Mosley, psychiatrist and TV presenter * Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader * Mary Nighy, actress * Christopher Nolan, Sir Christopher Nolan (English, 1993), Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning director of films including ''Oppenheimer (film), Oppenheimer'', ''Inception'', ''Interstellar (film), Interstellar'', ''Memento (film), Memento'' and ''The Dark Knight Trilogy'' * Sean O'Connor (producer), Sean O'Connor, television and radio producer * Raj Persaud, psychiatrist and broadcaster * Mark Porter (general practitioner), Mark Porter, doctor, journalist and TV presenter * Jonathan Ross (television presenter), Jonathan Ross (Modern European History), TV presenter * Adam Rutherford, TV presenter and editor for the journal ''Nature'' * Irene Shubik, television producer * Michael Smith (writer), Michael Smith, writer and broadcaster * Suzie Templeton, Academy Award, Academy Award-winning writer, director and animator, including ''Peter and the Wolf (2006 film), Peter and the Wolf'' * Fagun Thakrar, actor and writer-director * Emma Thomas (UCL History 1993), producer at Warner Brothers * Matthew Vaughn (Anthropology and Ancient History), producer and director of films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake (film), Layer Cake X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service * Arthur Wimperis, Academy Award-winning screenwriter * Patrick Wymark, actor * Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian

Editors, journalists and publishers

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

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

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Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators

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

Sporting figures

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

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* Samuel Azu Crabbe (LLB), former Chief Justice of Ghana and President of the National Olympic Committee of Ghana * Ewan Davies (LLB), former Wales national rugby union team, Welsh rugby union international * David Gower, cricketer and former England captain * Isa Guha, cricketer, England Women's *

, co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1 * Christine Ohuruogu, sprinter and World Athletics Championships, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games 400 metres champion * Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent, cricketer, England Women's * Gayatri Reddy (socialite), Gayatri Reddy (BSc Construction Management), former owner of now-defunct Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League * Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Nathaniel "Noddy" Reilly-O'Donnell, rower, 2006 World Junior Champion and silver medallist at the 2011 World Rowing Championships * Peter Short (field hockey), Peter Short (Master's in International Planning), Canadians, Canadian international and Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Olympic field hockey player * Andrew Simpson (sailor), Andrew Simpson (BSc Economics),

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

rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls, Women's quadruple sculls * Soh Rui Yong (Bachelor of Laws) – Marathon runner, multiple Southeast Asian Games medalist and Singapore national record holder, and 5-time Singapore marathon national champion.

Other notable alumni

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

Fictional figures

Fictional alumni and students

* Pat Barker, Pat Barker's novels, ''Life Class'' and ''Toby's Room'', follows students and teachers at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Slade School of Fine Art * Protagonist/s in Gilbert Cannan's ''Mendel'' * Lara Croft, protagonist of the Square Enix (previously Eidos Interactive) video game franchise ''Tomb Raider'' * Molly MacDonald in ''Monarch of the Glen (TV series), Monarch of the Glen'' is a former Slade School of Fine Art, Slade School student * Griffin (The Invisible Man), Griffin in ''The Invisible Man, H G Wells The Invisible Man'' is a former University College London Medical School, UCL Medical School medical student who dropped medicine to study optics * Dr Arthur Kemp in ''The Invisible Man, H G Wells The Invisible Man'' trained to be a doctor at University College London Medical School, UCL Medical School

References

External links

UCL student lists
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