The following people spent time at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 as either teaching staff or students.

BBK	Birkbeck Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
GCUL	Goldsmiths, University of London
HEY	Heythrop College Heythrop College Heythrop College is the specialist philosophy and theology constituent college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square, Kensington, London. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in philosophy, theology and psychology, as well as research in related fields.It was founded...
ICL	Imperial College London Imperial College London Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
KCL	King's College London King's College London King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
LI	Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine
LBS	London Business School London Business School London Business School is an international business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located in central London, beside Regent's Park...
LSE	London School of Economics London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
QMUL	Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
RAM	Royal Academy of Music Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
RHUL	Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
SGUL	St George's, University of London St George's, University of London St George's, University of London is a medical school located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
SOAS	School of Oriental and African Studies School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...
UCL	University College London University College London University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
ULIP	University of London International Programmes

Nobel Laureates

There are a total of 72 Nobel Laureates who were either students or staff members at the University of London. Their respective college or colleges is shown in the parenthesis. The following table shows the number of Nobel Laureates from each college:

University College London University College London University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...	26
London School of Economics London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...	17
Imperial College London Imperial College London Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...	15
King's College London King's College London King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...	10
Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...	4
University of London International Programmes	3
Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...	3
School of Oriental and African Studies School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...	1
Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine	3

Physics

• Sir Edward Appleton (KCL)
• Charles Barkla (KCL)
• Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
  Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing Operational Research...
  
   (ICL)
• Sir William Henry Bragg
  William Henry Bragg
  Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics...
  
   (UCL)
• Dennis Gabor
  Dennis Gabor
  Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....
  
   (ICL)
• Sir Owen Richardson (KCL)
• Abdus Salam
  Abdus Salam
  Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
  
   (ICL)
• Sir George Paget Thomson
  George Paget Thomson
  Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.-Biography:...
  
   (ICL)
• Charles K. Kao
  Charles K. Kao
  The Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications...
  
   (UCL/ICL)

Chemistry

• Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
  Derek Harold Richard Barton
  Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS was a British organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.-Biography:Barton was born to William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton. He attended Tonbridge School and in 1938 he entered Imperial College London, where he graduated in 1940 and obtained his Ph.D. degree...
  
   (ICL & BBK)
• Otto Hahn
  Otto Hahn
  Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Walter Haworth
  Walter Haworth
  Sir Norman Haworth was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C"...
  
   (ICL)
• Jaroslav Heyrovský
  Jaroslav Heyrovský
  Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (ICL)
• Sir Aaron Klug
  Aaron Klug
  Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.-Biography:Klug was...
  
   (BBK)
• Sir George Porter
  George Porter
  George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry...
  
   (ICL/UCL)
• Sir William Ramsay
  William Ramsay
  Sir William Ramsay 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 in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Robert Robinson (UCL)
• Sir Frederick Soddy
  Frederick Soddy
  Frederick Soddy was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements...
  
   (UCL)
• Vincent du Vigneaud
  Vincent du Vigneaud
  Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for the isolation, structural identification, and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide, oxytocin.-Biography:...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
  Geoffrey Wilkinson
  Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.-Biography:...
  
   (ICL)
• Alexander Robertus Todd  (LI)
• Richard Laurence Millington Synge  (LI)

Physiology or Medicine

• Corneille Heymans
  Corneille Heymans
  Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Flemish physiologist. He studied at the prestigious Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe after which he proceeded to Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France Corneille Jean François...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir James Black
  James W. Black
  Sir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist. He spent his career both as researcher and as an academic at several universities. Black established the physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline...
  
   (UCL & KCL)
• Sir Ernest Chain (ICL)
• Francis Crick
  Francis Crick
  Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Henry Hallett Dale
  Henry Hallett Dale
  Sir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...
  
   (UCL)
• Ulf Svante von Euler (UCL)
• Sir Alexander Fleming
  Alexander Fleming
  Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy...
  
   (ICL)
• Archibald Hill
  Archibald Hill
  Archibald Vivian Hill CH OBE FRS was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Frederick Hopkins
  Frederick Hopkins
  Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Andrew Huxley
  Andrew Huxley
  Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his experimental and mathematical work with Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity...
  
   (ICL & UCL)
• Sir Bernard Katz
  Bernard Katz
  Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Peter Mansfield
  Peter Mansfield
  Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, , is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging . The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI...
  
   (QMUL)
• Sir Peter Medawar
  Peter Medawar
  Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS was a British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants...
  
   (UCL)
• Sir Rodney Robert Porter
  Rodney Robert Porter
  Rodney Robert Porter, FRS was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate.Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences degree from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry. He moved to the University of Cambridge where...
  
   (ICL)
• Bert Sakmann
  Bert Sakmann
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   (UCL)
• Sir Charles Sherrington (KCL)
• Max Theiler
  Max Theiler
  Max Theiler was a South African/American virologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.-Career development:...
  
   (KCL)
• Maurice Wilkins
  Maurice Wilkins
  Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS was a New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate whose research contributed to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and to the development of radar...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Martin Evans (UCL)
• Frank Macfarlane Burnet
  Frank Macfarlane Burnet
  Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology....
  
   (LI)
• Otto Loewi
  Otto Loewi
  Otto Loewi was a German born pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, whom he met in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's...
  
   (UCL)
• Herbert Spencer Gasser (UCL)

Economics

• George Akerlof
  George Akerlof
  George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of...
  
   (LSE)
• Ronald Coase
  Ronald Coase
  Ronald Harry Coase is a British-born, American-based economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the London School of Economics, where he took...
  
   (ULIP & LSE)
• Friedrich von Hayek (LSE)
• Sir John Hicks (LSE)
• Sir Arthur Lewis (LSE)
• James Meade
  James Meade
  James Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
  
   (LSE)
• Merton Miller
  Merton Miller
  Merton Howard Miller was the co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe...
  
   (LSE)
• Robert Mundell
  Robert Mundell
  Robert Mundell, CC is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Currently, Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong....
  
   (LSE)
• Amartya Sen
  Amartya Sen
  Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
  
   (LSE)
• James Heckman
  James Heckman
  James Joseph Heckman is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.Heckman...
  
   (UCL)
• Leonid Hurwicz
  Leonid Hurwicz
  Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...
  
   (LSE)
• Paul Krugman
  Paul Krugman
  Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
  
   (LSE)
• Christopher Pissarides (LSE)
• Robert F. Engle III (LSE)

Nobel Peace Prize

• Óscar Arias
  Óscar Arias
  Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as President from 1986 to 1990 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several other Central American countries.He is also a...
  
   (LSE)
• Ralph Bunche
  Ralph Bunche
  Ralph Johnson Bunche or 1904December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize...
  
   (LSE)
• Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
  
   (ULIP)
• Philip Noel-Baker (LSE)
• Aung San Suu Kyi
  Aung San Suu Kyi
  Aung San Suu Kyi, AC is a Burmese opposition politician and the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. In the 1990 general election, her National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 81% of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained...
  
   (SOAS)
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  Desmond Tutu
  Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
  
   (KCL)

Literature

• Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
  
   (LSE)
• George Bernard Shaw
  George Bernard Shaw
  George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
  
   (LSE)
• Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
   (UCL)
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
   (BBK)
• Wole Soyinka
  Wole Soyinka
  Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
  
   (ULIP)
• Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
   (ULIP)
• Mario Vargas Llosa
  Mario Vargas Llosa
  Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
  
   (KCL)

Monarchs

• Tuanku Jaafar
  Tuanku Jaafar
  Duli Yang Maha Mulia Almarhum Tuanku Ja'afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, GCB was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia from 26 April 1994 until 25 April 1999 and the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of modern Negeri Sembilan.-Early life and education:The second son of Tuanku Abdul Rahman...
  
   - King of Malaysia, 1994-1999 (LSE)
• Letsie III of Lesotho
  Letsie III of Lesotho
  Letsie III is the reigning king of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Moshoeshoe II, when the latter was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but soon died in a car crash in early 1996, and Letsie became king again...
  
   - King of Lesotho
• Margrethe II of Denmark
  Margrethe II of Denmark
  Margrethe II is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375-1412 during the Kalmar Union.-Early life:...
  
   - Queen of Denmark, 1972–present (LSE)
• Sultan Salahuddin – King of Malaysia 1999-2001 (SOAS)

Presidents and Prime Ministers

• Hossein Ala'
  Hossein Ala'
  Hosein Alā was a Prime Minister of Iran during 1951. He was born in 1882 in Tehran and spent his early years in London. He was educated at Westminster School and studied law at the University of London after which he was admitted to the bar at Inner Temple...
  
   – Prime Minister of Iran
• Harmodio Arias – President of Panama, 1932-1936 (LSE)
• Óscar Arias
  Óscar Arias
  Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as President from 1986 to 1990 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several other Central American countries.He is also a...
  
   – President of Costa Rica, 1986 – 1990, 2006 – Present (LSE)
• Marouf al-Bakhit
  Marouf al-Bakhit
  Dr. Marouf Suleiman al-Bakhit is a Jordanian politician and two-time Prime Minister. He first served as Prime Minister from 27 November 2005 until 25 November 2007 and then again from 9 February 2011 to 17 October 2011. Bakhit also held the position of Jordanian ambassador to Israel and the...
  
   – Prime Minister of Jordan, 2005-2007 (KCL)
• Errol Walton Barrow - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962–1966, 1966–1976, 1986-1987 (LSE)
• Sükhbaataryn Batbold
  Sükhbaataryn Batbold
  Sükhbaataryn Batbold is the Prime Minister of Mongolia. He was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of his predecessor, Sanjaagiin Bayar.-Education and Personal Life:...
  
   - Prime Minister of Mongolia, 2009–present (LBS)
• Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
  Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
  Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz was a politician, reformist, and writer. He was an pan-Arab nationalist and he was the Dean of Baghdad Law College and Prime Minister of Iraq. Al-Bazzaz main political project was the professionalization of the government on the basis of civilian expertise. That civic...
  
   - Prime Minister of Iraq, 1965-1966 (KCL)
• Marek Belka
  Marek Belka
  Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of Economics, a former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, former Director of the International Monetary Fund's European Department and current Head of National Bank of Poland.- Biography :...
  
   - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-2005 (LSE)
• Godfrey Binaisa
  Godfrey Binaisa
  Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa QC was a Ugandan lawyer who was Attorney General of Uganda from 1962 to 1968 and later served as President of Uganda from June 1979 to May 1980. At his death he was Uganda's only surviving former president....
  
   - President of Uganda, 1979-1980 (KCL)
• Heinrich Brüning
  Heinrich Brüning
  Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....
  
   - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932 (LSE)
• Kim Campbell
  Kim Campbell
  Avril Phædra Douglas "Kim" Campbell, is a Canadian politician, lawyer, university professor, diplomat, and writer. She served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993...
  
   - Prime Minister of Canada, June–November 1993 (LSE)
• Eugenia Charles
  Eugenia Charles
  Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister, as well as the nation's longest serving prime minister...
  
   - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995 (LSE)
• John Compton
  John Compton
  Sir John George Melvin Compton, KBE, PC was the first, fifth and eighth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia in 1979, from 1982 to 1996, and from 2006 until his death. Compton, who previously led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, was the country's first leader when it became independent...
  
   - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964–1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February–July 1979 & 1982-1996 (LSE)
• Sher Bahadur Deuba
  Sher Bahadur Deuba
  Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister. He is the second senior most leader of the Nepali Congress. He has twice been elected as the leader of parliamentary party of the Nepali Congress, thus enabling him to be elected twice as the Prime Minister of Nepal.He has...
  
   - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995–1997, 2001–2002, 2004-2005 (LSE)
• Luisa Diogo
  Luisa Diogo
  Luísa Dias Diogo was Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to January 2010. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years. Before becoming Prime Minister, she was Minister of Planning and Finance, and she continued to hold that post until February...
  
   - Prime Minister of Mozambique
  Mozambique
  Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
  
  , 1991-1992 (SOAS)
• Bülent Ecevit
  Bülent Ecevit
  Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, who was the leader of Republican People's Party , later of the Democratic Left Party and four-time Prime Minister of Turkey.- Personal life :...
  
   - Former Prime Minister of Turkey (SOAS)
• Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto - Prime Minister of Peru
  Peru
  Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  
  , 1959-1961 (LSE)
• Rajiv Gandhi
  Rajiv Gandhi
  Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India . He took office after his mother's assassination on 31 October 1984; he himself was assassinated on 21 May 1991. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.Rajiv Gandhi was the elder son of Indira...
  
   - Prime Minister of India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
   1984-1989 (ICL)
• Chaim Herzog
  Chaim Herzog
  Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel , following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces .-Early life:...
  
   – President of Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
   1983-1993 (UCL)
• Hirobumi Ito – Prime Minister
  Prime minister
  A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
  
   of Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  , 1885–1888, 1892–1896, 1898, 1900-1901 (UCL)
• John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
   - President of the United States of America 1961-1963 (LSE)
• Jomo Kenyatta
  Jomo Kenyatta
  Jomo Kenyattapron.] served as the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation....
  
   - First President of Kenya
  Kenya
  Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
  
  , 1964-1978 (LSE)
• Mwai Kibaki
  Mwai Kibaki
  Mwai Kibaki is the current and third President of the republic of Kenya.Kibaki was previously Vice President of Kenya for ten years from 1978–1988 and also held cabinet ministerial positions, including a widely acclaimed stint as Minister for Finance , Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for...
  
   - President of Kenya, 2002–present (LSE)
• Glafkos Klerides
  Glafkos Klerides
  Glafcos Ioannou Clerides is a Greek-Cypriot politician and the fourth President of the Republic of Cyprus.Clerides was the eldest son of the lawyer and statesman Ioannis Clerides....
  
  , President of Cyprus, 1993–2003 (KCL)
• Junichiro Koizumi
  Junichiro Koizumi
  is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...
  
   - Prime Minister of Japan, 2001-2006 ( UCL)
• Thanin Kraivichien - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977 (LSE)
• Yu Kuo-Hwa
  Yu Kuo-hwa
  Yu Kuo-hwa was the Premier of the Republic of China from 1984 to 1989.-Biography:He was born on 10 January 1914 in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China...
  
   - Premier of Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  , 1984-1989 (LSE)
• Hilla Limann
  Hilla Limann
  Hilla Limann was the President of Ghana from 24 September, 1979 to 31 December, 1981. Eventually he became a diplomat, and served in Switzerland. Limann, whose original last name was Babini, was born in the northern Ghanaian town of Gwolu in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region to a...
  
   - President of Ghana
  Ghana
  Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
  
  , 1979-1981 (LSE)
• Alfonso López Pumarejo
  Alfonso López Pumarejo
  Alfonso López Pumarejo was a two-time Colombian president and political figure, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as president of Colombia for the first time between 1934 and 1938 and again between 1942 and 1945....
  
   - President of Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
  , 1934–1938, 1942-1945 (LSE)
• Ramsay MacDonald
  Ramsay MacDonald
  James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....
  
   - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  , 1924, 1929-1935 (BBK)
• Michael Manley
  Michael Manley
  Michael Norman Manley ON OCC was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica . Manley was a democratic socialist....
  
   - Prime Minister of Jamaica
  Jamaica
  Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
  
  , 1972–1980, 1989-1992 (LSE)
• Kamisese Mara
  Kamisese Mara
  Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, CF, GCMG, KBE is considered the founding father of the modern nation of Fiji. He was Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992...
  
   - Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000 (LSE)
• Sir Lee Moore – Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1979-1980 (KCL)
• Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
   - President of Zimbabwe (ULIP)
• Kocheril Raman Narayanan - President of India, 1997-2002 (LSE)
• Kwame Nkrumah
  Kwame Nkrumah
  Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...
  
   - President of Ghana, 1960-1966 (LSE)
• Tassos Papadopoulos
  Tassos Papadopoulos
  Tassos Nikolaou Papadopoulos was a Cypriot politician. He served as the fifth President of the Republic of Cyprus from February 28, 2003 to February 28, 2008.His parents were Nicolas and Aggeliki from Assia. He was the first of three children...
  
  , President of Cyprus, 2003-2008 (KCL)
• Percival Patterson - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-2006 (LSE)
• Sir Lynden Pindling
  Lynden Pindling
  Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling KCMG, OM, JP , is generally regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and then to independence on 10 July 1973. He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as...
  
  , Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 1969-1992 (KCL)
• Romano Prodi
  Romano Prodi
  Romano Prodi is an Italian politician and statesman. He served as the Prime Minister of Italy, from 17 May 1996 to 21 October 1998 and from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008...
  
   - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996–1998, 2006–present, President of the European Commission
  European Commission
  The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
  
  , 1999-2004 (LSE)
• Navinchandra Ramgoolam - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000 (LSE)
• France-Albert René
  France-Albert René
  France-Albert René was the long-time socialist President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He is known by government officials and party members as "the Boss". His name is often given as simply Albert René or F.A...
  
  , Prime Minister of Seychelles 1976–1977, and President of Seychelles 1977-2004 (KCL)
• Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo
  Veerasamy Ringadoo
  Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, GCMG, GCSK, QC, was the Governor General of Mauritius from 17 January 1986 to 12 March 1992, when it became a republic. Ringadoo then served as President until later in 1992, when he was replaced by the democratically elected Cassam Uteem. He is a Tamil by origin and a Hindu...
  
   - First President of Mauritius, March–June 1992 (LSE)
• Moshe Sharett
  Moshe Sharett
  Moshe Sharett on 15 October 1894, died 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms.-Early life:...
  
   - Prime Minister of Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  , 1953-1955 (LSE)
• Constantine Simitis - Prime Minister of Greece
  Greece
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
  
  , 1996-2004 (LSE)
• Anote Tong
  Anote Tong
  Anote Tong is an I-Kiribati politician with Chinese heritage. He is the current President of Kiribati. He won the election in July 2003 with a slim plurality of votes cast against his brother, Dr. Harry Tong and the private lawyer Banuera Berina...
  
   - President of Kiribati
  Kiribati
  Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population exceeds just over 100,000 , and is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, straddling the...
  
  , 2003–present (LSE)
• Pierre Trudeau
  Pierre Trudeau
  Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...
  
   - Prime Minister of Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  , 1968–1979, 1980-1984 (LSE)
• Robert Fico
  Robert Fico
  Robert Fico served as the Prime Minister of Slovakia from July 4, 2006 to July 8, 2010.He is the leader of the left-wing party Direction – Social Democracy . The party won the parliamentary elections in 2006, receiving approximately 30 percent of the cast votes...
  
   - Current Prime Minister of Slovakia. (UCL)
• Ahmad Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo - Current President of the Republic of Somaliland (LSE)

Other prominent political figures

• Elliott Abrams
  Elliott Abrams
  Elliott Abrams is an American attorney and neoconservative policy analyst who served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan and in the State Department, Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer...
  
   – American politician (LSE)
• Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison - British minister (QMUL)
• B. R. Ambedkar
  B. R. Ambedkar
  Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
  
   - Indian independence leader, minister and anti-caste system activist (LSE)
• Francis Black
  Francis Black
  Francis Mollison Black was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1927, and was a cabinet minister in John Bracken's government from 1922 to 1925....
  
   - Canadian cabinet minister (KCL)
• Cherie Booth – wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair
  Tony Blair
  Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
  
   (LSE)
• Ed Broadbent
  Ed Broadbent
  John Edward "Ed" Broadbent, is a Canadian social democratic politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. In the 2004 federal election, he returned to Parliament for one additional term as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre.-Life...
  
   – Canadian political leader (LSE)
• Dame Lois Browne-Evans
  Lois Browne-Evans
  Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans, DBE, JP was a lawyer and political figure in Bermuda. She led the Progressive Labour Party in opposition before being appointed Bermuda's first female Attorney-General. She first gained recognition in 1953 as the Bermuda's first female barrister...
  
   – Bermudian opposition leader (KCL)
• Maragatham Chandrasekhar – Indian Cabinet Minister (KCL)
• Michael Collins
  Michael Collins (Irish leader)
  Michael "Mick" Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently, he was both Chairman of the...
  
   – Irish
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
   independence leader (KCL)
• Sir John Cockburn
  John Cockburn (Australian politician)
  Sir John Alexander Cockburn, KCMG was Premier of South Australia from 27 June 1889 until 18 August 1890.Cockburn was born in Corsbie, Berwickshire, Scotland in 1850. His father was Thomas Cockburn. He was educated at Highgate School, and King's College London, he obtained the degree of M.D....
  
   - Premier of South Australia
• Abdulai Conteh
  Abdulai Conteh
  Dr Abdulai Osman Conteh is a lawyer and politician from Sierra Leone.-Early life and education:Dr. Conteh graduated with LLB from King's College London where he won the Harold Porter Prize for Land Law in 1968, and subsequently continued his education at King's College, Cambridge...
  
   – Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL)
• Sir Stafford Cripps
  Stafford Cripps
  Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...
  
   – Former Chancellor of the Exchequer (UCL)
• Edwina Currie
  Edwina Currie
  Edwina Jonesnée Cohen is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs...
  
   – British minister (LSE)
• Hugh Dalton
  Hugh Dalton
  Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....
  
   – Chancellor of the Exchequer
  Chancellor of the Exchequer
  The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...
  
   (LSE)
• Joseph B. Dauda - Sierra Leonean Finance Minister (KCL)
• Kemal Derviş
  Kemal Dervis
  Kemal Derviş is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
  
   – Turkish
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
   politician and senior UN administrator
• Frank Dobson
  Frank Dobson
  Frank Gordon Dobson, is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras since 1979...
  
   – British minister (LSE)
• Mahatma Gandhi
  Mahatma Gandhi
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
  
   - Indian Independence Leader (UCL)
• Mark Grossman – American Under Secretary of State
  Under Secretary of State
  The Under Secretary of State, from 1919 to 1972, was the second-ranking official at the United States Department of State , serving as the Secretary's principal deputy, chief assistant, and Acting Secretary in the event of the Secretary's absence...
  
  
• Sir Sydney Gun-Munro
  Sydney Gun-Munro
  Sir Sydney Douglas Gun-Munro GCMG, FRCS was Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...
  
   - Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (KCL)
• Peter Hain
  Peter Hain
  Peter Gerald Hain is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for...
  
   - British minister and anti-apartheid campaigner (QMUL)
• Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
  Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
  Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell GCB, PC, QC was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895.-Early career:...
  
   – Lord Chancellor
  Lord Chancellor
  The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
  
   (UCL)
• Ruth Kelly
  Ruth Kelly
  Ruth Maria Kelly is a British Labour Party politician of Irish descent who was the Member of Parliament for Bolton West from 1997 until she stood down in 2010...
  
   – British minister (LSE)
• Horace Maybray King, Baron Maybray-King Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL)
• Tessa Jowell
  Tessa Jowell
  Tessa Jowell is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Formerly a member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she is currently the Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London.-Early life:Tessa Jane...
  
   - British minister (GCUL)
• William Joyce
  William Joyce
  William Joyce , nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He was hanged for treason by the British as a result of his wartime activities, even though he had renounced his British nationality...
  
   - wartime propagandist (BBK)
• Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
  Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
  Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, international jurist, and scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, known for drafting the Pakistan Resolution, for his representation of Pakistan at the United Nations, and serving as a judge at the International...
  
   – Pakistani Foreign Minister (KCL)
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. is an American radio host, activist, and attorney specializing in environmental law. He is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy...
  
   – son of US Senator Robert Kennedy and environmental activist (LSE)
• David Lammy
  David Lammy
  David Lindon Lammy is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000.Lammy has commented on Britain's history of slavery.-Early life and Education:...
  
   - British minister (SOAS)
• Emily Lau
  Emily Lau
  Emily Lau Wai-hing JP is one of two vice-chairmen of Democratic Party.She was the convenor of The Frontier...
  
   – Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
  
   political leader (LSE)
• Ambrose Lau
  Ambrose Lau
  Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen GBS JP was the chairman of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance , a pro-business and pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong , elected from the constituency of Election Committee...
  
   - Hong Kong political leader
• James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
  James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
  James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, GCB, PC, JP, DL was a British Conservative politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921.-Background and education:The son of Hon...
  
   Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL)
• John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market
  John MacGregor
  John Roddick Russell MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, OBE PC FKC , is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, then at the University of St Andrews and at King's College London...
  
   - Leader of the House of Commons (KCL)
• Ann Dore McLaughlin - U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Anne McLellan
  Anne McLellan
  |-...
  
   - Canadian cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (KCL)
• Ken Michael
  Ken Michael
  Kenneth Comninos Michael, AC was the 32nd Governor of Western Australia, succeeding Lieutenant-General John Sanderson.His vice-regal appointment was announced on 6 June 2005 by the then Premier Geoff Gallop and he was sworn in at Government House, Perth on 18 January 2006 by the Chief Justice of...
  
   – governor of Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
   (ICL)
• Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
  Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
  Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner KG, GCB, GCMG, PC was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played an influential leadership role in the formulation of foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s...
  
   - British Cabinet Minister (KCL)
• Francis Minah
  Francis Minah
  Francis Misheck Minah was a Sierra Leonean politician. Minah earned his law degree from King's College London. He returned to Sierra Leone and served in many capacities as Sierra Leone's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, under former...
  
   – Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL)
• David Owen, Baron Owen of Plymouth
  David Owen
  David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP is a British politician.Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post; he co-authored the failed Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg peace plans offered during the Bosnian War...
  
   – British Foreign Secretary (KCL)
• Alice Paul
  Alice Paul
  Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.-Activism: Alice Paul received her undergraduate education from...
  
   – American suffragist (LSE)
• Jacques Parizeau
  Jacques Parizeau
  Jacques Parizeau, is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.-Early life and career:...
  
   – Premier of Quebec
  Quebec
  Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
  
   (LSE)
• Richard Perle
  Richard Perle
  Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government, a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970’s...
  
   – American political advisor (LSE)
• Enoch Powell
  Enoch Powell
  John Enoch Powell, MBE was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, and soldier. He served as a Conservative Party MP and Minister of Health . He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made the controversial Rivers of Blood speech in opposition to mass immigration from...
  
   - British minister and right-wing politician (SOAS)
• S. Rajaratnam - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Cabinet minister (KCL)
• Sir Shridath Ramphal
  Shridath Ramphal
  Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OM, QC, FRSA served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990. Ramphal previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972-1975...
  
   - Commonwealth Secretary-General and Guyanan Foreign Minister (KCL)
• Paul Robeson
  Paul Robeson
  Paul Leroy Robeson was an American concert singer , recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the twentieth century...
  
   - American athlete, actor, singer and civil rights activist (SOAS)
• Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.-Career:...
  
   – Guyanese
  Guyana
  Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
  
   activist (SOAS)
• Robert Rubin
  Robert Rubin
  Robert Edward Rubin served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs eventually serving as a member of the Board, and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992...
  
   – U.S. Treasury Secretary
• Sir Ernest Satow - British diplomat (UCL)
• Stephen Smith
  Stephen Smith (Australian politician)
  Stephen Francis Smith , is the Australian Minister for Defence. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Perth, Western Australia....
  
   - Australian politician
• Robert Sobukwe
  Robert Sobukwe
  Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was a South African political dissident, who founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the apartheid regime. In 2004 Sobukwe was voted 42nd in the SABC3's Great South Africans....
  
   – South African political dissident
• Marie Stopes
  Marie Stopes
  Marie Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control...
  
   – family planning
  Family planning
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   and eugenics
  Eugenics
  Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...
  
   campaigner (UCL)
• Gisela Stuart
  Gisela Stuart
  Gisela Gschaider Stuart is a German born, British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997.-Early life:...
  
   - Member of Parliament, England (Birmingham Edgbaston) (ULIP)
• Goh Keng Swee
  Goh Keng Swee
  Goh Keng Swee was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century. Born in Malacca in the Straits Settlements into a Peranakan family, he came to Singapore at the age of two years...
  
   - deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
   (LSE)
• Teo Chee Hean
  Teo Chee Hean
  Teo Chee Hean is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party , he is currently the country's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Home Affairs and Co-ordinating Minister for National Security, and a Member of Parliament for the Pasir Ris-Punggol Group...
  
   – Singaporean minister (ICL)
• Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson
  Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson
  Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson CH, PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician. He was Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation between 1955 and 1959 and a cabinet member as Minister of Defence between 1959 and 1962, when he was sacked in the Night of the Long Knives...
  
   - Minister of Defence (KCL)
• Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield - British Cabinet Minister (BBK & KCL)
• David Welch
  David Welch
  Charles David Welch is an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State from 2005 through 2008...
  
   – American Assistant Secretary of State
• David Wilson
  David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn
  David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong...
  
   - Governor of Hong Kong
• Lord Woolf - Chief Justice of England and Wales (UCL)
• Rais Yatim
  Rais Yatim
  Dato' Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim is the current Malaysian Information, Communications, and Culture Minister. His ministry is considered a new ministry formed from the merger of three separate ministries in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's smaller cabinet...
  
   – Malaysian Foreign Minister (KCL)
• Rafiq Zakaria
  Rafiq Zakaria
  Rafiq Zakaria was an Indian politician and Islamic scholar and father of well known Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria and former Merrill Lynch investment banking head Arshad Zakaria...
  
   - Indian politician

Other Prominent Royalty

• Haakon Magnus – Crown Prince of Norway (LSE)
• Mette-Marit
  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway , is the wife of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.-Background and education:...
  
   – Crown Princess of Norway (SOAS)

Clergy and Religious Figures

• Mirza Tahir Ahmad
  Mirza Tahir Ahmad
  Mirza Tahir Ahmad was Khalifatul Masih IV, Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and fourth successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad...
  
  - Khalifatul Masih
  Khalifatul Masih
  Khalifatul Masih sometimes simply referred to as Khalifah is the elected spiritual leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and is the successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian...
  
   IV, Caliph(Imam)IV of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
• Alan Campbell
  Alan Campbell (pastor)
  Pastor Alan Campbell is the Pentecostal pastor of the Cregagh Covenant People's Fellowship in Belfast, Northern Ireland, co-director of Open Bible Ministries with Glyn Jones, and a prominent scholar and lecturer in the British Israel movement. Campbell is also popular in Historicist circles because...
  
   - controversial Pentecostal pastor
• George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton
  George Carey
  George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton PC, FKC is a former Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1991 to 2002. He was the first modern holder of the office not to have attended Oxford or Cambridge University...
  
   – Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
   (KCL)
• Robert William Dale
  Robert William Dale
  Robert William Dale was an English Congregationalist church leader.-Life:Dale was born in London and educated at Spring Hill College, Birmingham, for the Congregational ministry...
  
   – Nonconformist church leader
• Mark Elvins
  Mark Elvins
  Mark Turnham Elvins, OFMCap, was Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford until its closure in 2008.- Biography :Mark Turnham Elvins was born in 1939 at Whitstable, the son of an Anglican clergyman who had been Rector of St Mary in the Castle, Dover....
  
   - Capuchin friar
  Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
  The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin is an Order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans. The worldwide head of the Order, called the Minister General, is currently Father Mauro Jöhri.-Origins :...
  
   (HEY)
• Philip Edgecumbe Hughes
  Philip Edgecumbe Hughes
  Philip Edgcumbe Hughes was an Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar.Dr. Hughes was born in Australia and received his B.A., M.A., and D.L.H. from the University of Cape Town, B.D. from the University of London, and Th.D. from the Australian College of Theology. From 1947 to 1953 Hughes...
  
  , New Testament scholar, Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary
  Westminster Theological Seminary
  Westminster Theological Seminary is a Presbyterian and Reformed Christian graduate educational institution located in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with a satellite location in London.-History:...
  
  
• Bernard Lonergan
  Bernard Lonergan
  Fr. Bernard J.F. Lonergan, CC, SJ was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as one of the most important Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century....
  
   - theologian, philosopher and economist (HEY)
• Michael Anthony Moxon
  Michael Anthony Moxon
  An Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, the Very Reverend Michael Anthony Moxon was Dean of Truro from 1998 until his resignation in 2004. He was born on 23 January 1942 and educated at Merchant Taylors, Durham University and Heythrop College, London...
  
   - Dean of Truro Cathedral
  Truro Cathedral
  The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Truro is an Anglican cathedral located in the city of Truro, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It was built in the Gothic Revival architectural style fashionable during much of the nineteenth century, and is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom...
  
   (HEY)
• John Anthony McGuckin
  John Anthony McGuckin
  John Anthony McGuckin is an Orthodox Christian scholar, priest and poet.McGuckin was raised Roman Catholic and at 19 became a member of the Passionist religious order. In 1989 he became Greek Orthodox and was ordained a priest for the Romanian Orthodox Church, now serving at the St. Gregory the...
  
   - Orthodox priest and poet (HEY)
• Njongonkulu Ndungane
  Njongonkulu Ndungane
  Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane FKC was the Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa ....
  
   – Archbishop of Cape Town (KCL)
• Sir Jonathan Sacks
  Jonathan Sacks
  Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Kt is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His Hebrew name is Yaakov Zvi...
  
   – Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (KCL)
• Lindsay Urwin
  Lindsay Urwin
  Lindsay Goodall Urwin OGS is an Australian-born bishop of the Church of England . Urwin was the suffragan Bishop of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester, in southern England, from 1993 to 2009 and was also the principal organiser of the annual Caister Conferences...
  
   - Bishop of Horsham
  Bishop of Horsham
  The Bishop of Horsham is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, in the Province of Canterbury, England...
  
   (HEY)
• Oliver D. Crisp
  Oliver D. Crisp
  Category:21st-century theologiansOliver D. Crisp is a British theologian who currently works as a professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Crisp was, until 2011, a reader in divinity at Bristol University in the United Kingdom. He specializes in...
  
   (KCL)

Physicists

• Jocelyn Burnell (UCL)
• Edward Teller
  Edward Teller
  Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy , and surface physics...
  
   (UCL)
• Geraint F. Lewis
  Geraint F. Lewis
  Geraint F. Lewis is a Welsh-born astrophysicist , who is best known for his work on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic cannibalism. Lewis is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, part of the University of Sydney's School of Physics...
  
  
• J. D. Bernal
  J. D. Bernal
  John Desmond Bernal FRS was one of Britain’s best known and most controversial scientists, called "Sage" by his friends, and known for pioneering X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.-Origin and education:His family was Irish, of mixed Italian and Spanish/Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin...
  
   (BBK)
• Louis Essen
  Louis Essen
  Louis Essen FRS O.B.E. was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light...
  
  
• Sir John Ambrose Fleming
  John Ambrose Fleming
  Sir John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule...
  
   (UCL)
• Raymond Gosling
  Raymond Gosling
  Raymond Gosling is a distinguished scientist who worked with both Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London in deducing the structure of DNA, under the direction of Sir John Randall. His other KCL colleagues included Alex Stokes and Herbert Wilson.-Early years:He was born in...
  
   (KCL)
• Peter Higgs
  Peter Higgs
  Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC , is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh....
  
   (KCL)
• Kathleen Lonsdale
  Kathleen Lonsdale
  Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE FRS was a crystallographer, who established the structure of benzene by X-ray diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by Fourier spectral methods in 1931...
  
   (RHUL & UCL)
• Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
  Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
  Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...
  
   (ICL)
• James Clerk Maxwell
  James Clerk Maxwell
  James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory...
  
   (KCL)
• William George Penney
  William George Penney
  William George Penney, Baron Penney OM, KBE PhD, DSc, , FRS, FRSE, FIC, Hon FCGI was a British mathematician who was responsible for the development of British nuclear technology, following World War II...
  
   (ICL)
• Simon Singh
  Simon Singh
  Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....
  
   (ICL)
• Thomas Young
  Thomas Young (scientist)
  Thomas Young was an English polymath. He is famous for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work...
  
   (SGUL)
• Duncan Steel
  Duncan Steel
  Dr Duncan I. Steel, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, FRAS , is a British/Australian scientist born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. He is a world-renowned space science authority who has worked with NASA to assess the threat of comet and asteroid collisions and investigate technologies to avert such impacts...
  
  

Biologists and Botanists

• David Bellamy
  David Bellamy
  David James Bellamy OBE is a British author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist. He has lived in County Durham since 1960.-Career:...
  
   (KCL & RHUL)
• W.D. Hamilton (LSE)
• Thomas Henry Huxley (ICL)
• Robert Swinhoe
  Robert Swinhoe
  Robert Swinhoe FRS , was an English naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He discovered many Southeast Asian birds and several, such as Swinhoe's Pheasant, are named after him.-Biography:...
  
  

Chemists

• Sir William Crookes
  William Crookes
  Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy...
  
   (ICL)
• John Frederic Daniell
  John Frederic Daniell
  John Frederic Daniell was an English chemist and physicist.Daniell was born in London, and in 1831 became the first professor of chemistry at the newly founded King's College London. His name is best known for his invention of the Daniell cell , an electric battery much better than voltaic cells...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Edward Frankland
  Edward Frankland
  Sir Edward Frankland, KCB, FRS was a chemist, one of the foremost of his day. He was an expert in water quality and analysis, and originated the concept of combining power, or valence, in chemistry. He was also one of the originators of organometallic chemistry.-Biography:Edward Frankland was born...
  
   (QMUL & ICL)
• Rosalind Franklin
  Rosalind Franklin
  Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...
  
   (KCL & BBK)
• Sir Graham Hills
  Graham John Hills
  Sir Graham Hills FRSE is a physical chemist, a writer in educational theory and practice, and was Principal of the University of Strathclyde and a Governor of the BBC. He was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys and Birkbeck College, London...
  
   (BBK)
• August Wilhelm von Hofmann
  August Wilhelm von Hofmann
  August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.-Biography:Hofmann was born at Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen. But he then turned to chemistry, and studied under Justus von...
  
   (ICL)
• Sir William Henry Perkin (ICL)
• William Henry Perkin, Jr.
  William Henry Perkin, Jr.
  William Henry Perkin, Jr. was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the degradation of naturally occurring organic compounds.-Early life:...
  
   (ICL)
• Juda Hirsch Quastel
  Juda Hirsch Quastel
  Juda Hirsch Quastel, CC, FRS, FRSE was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer....
  
   (ICL)

Mathematicians

• Sir David Cox
  David Cox (statistician)
  Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS is a prominent British statistician.-Early years:Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch.-Career:He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft...
  
   (BBK & ICL)
• Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley
  Arthur Lyon Bowley
  Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys....
  
   (LSE)
• Simon Donaldson
  Simon Donaldson
  Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS , is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London...
  
   (ICL)
• Patrick du Val
  Patrick du Val
  Patrick du Val 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 after him....
  
   (ULIP)
• Louis Mordell
  Louis Mordell
  Louis Joel Mordell was a British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, USA, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction...
  
   (BBK)
• Klaus Roth
  Klaus Roth
  Klaus Friedrich Roth is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. He was born in Breslau, Prussia, but raised and educated in the UK. He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1945...
  
   (UCL & ICL)
• Tom Willmore
  Tom Willmore
  Thomas James Willmore was an English geometer. He is best known for his work on Riemannian 3-space and harmonic spaces.Willmore studied at King's College London...
  
   (KCL)

Geographers and Geologists

• William Fyfe
  William Fyfe
  William Sefton Fyfe, is a New Zealand geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is widely considered among the world’s most eminent geochemists.-Life:...
  
   (ICL)
• Arthur Holmes
  Arthur Holmes
  Arthur Holmes was a British geologist. As a child he lived in Low Fell, Gateshead and attended the Gateshead Higher Grade School .-Age of the earth:...
  
   (ICL)
• David Linton
  David Leslie Linton
  Professor David Leslie Linton , British geographer and geomorphologist, was professor of geography at Sheffield and Birmingham, best remembered for his work on the landscape development of south-east England with S.W.Wooldridge, and on the development of tors.-Early life and education:David Linton...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Charles Lyell
  Charles Lyell
  Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...
  
   (KCL)
• Halford John Mackinder
  Halford John Mackinder
  Sir Halford John Mackinder PC was an English geographer and is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.-Early life and education:...
  
   (LSE)
• Charles F. Newcombe
  Charles F. Newcombe
  Charles Frederick Newcombe was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher.-Biography:Newcome was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, as the eighth of fourteen children...
  
  
• Sir Dudley Stamp
  Laurence Dudley Stamp
  Sir Dudley Stamp, CBE, DSc, D. Litt, LLD, Ekon D, DSc Nat , was professor of geography at Rangoon and London, and one of the internationally best known British geographers of the 20th century....
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Gilbert Walker
  Gilbert Walker
  Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker, CSI, FRS, was a British physicist and statistician of the 20th century. He is best known for his groundbreaking description of the Southern Oscillation, a major phenomenon of global climate, and for greatly advancing the study of climate in general.He was born in...
  
   (ICL)
• Sidney Wooldridge
  Sidney William Wooldridge
  Professor Sidney William Wooldridge CBE, FRS, FGS , geologist, geomorphologist and geographer, was a pioneer in the study of the geomorphology of south-east England and the first professor of geography at King's College London...
  
   (KCL)
• “John Anthony Allan
  John Anthony Allan
  John Anthony Allan is a British geographer. He was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 for his revolutionary virtual water concept. Although being an emeritus of the School of Oriental and African Studies and King's College London of the University of London, he still acts as a teaching...
  
   (SOAS and KCL)

Psychologists, Sociologists and Anthropologists

• Akbar S. Ahmed
  Akbar S. Ahmed
  Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, or Akbar Ahmed, is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington, D.C., the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the...
  
   (SOAS)
• David Hirsh
  David Hirsh
  David Hirsh is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the founder of Engage, a campaign against academic boycotts of Israel....
  
  
• Anthony Giddens
  Anthony Giddens
  Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
  
   (LSE)
• Bronislaw Malinowski
  Bronislaw Malinowski
  Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish-born- British-naturalized anthropologist, one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists.From 1910, Malinowski studied exchange and economics at the London School of Economics under Seligman and Westermarck, analysing patterns of exchange in...
  
   (LSE)
• Karl Mannheim
  Karl Mannheim
  Karl Mannheim , or Károly Mannheim in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology and a founder of the sociology of knowledge.-Life:Mannheim studied in Budapest,...
  
   (LSE)
• Z.K. Mathews (LSE)
• Talcott Parsons
  Talcott Parsons
  Talcott Parsons was an American sociologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 to 1973....
  
   (LSE)
• J. Philippe Rushton
  J. Philippe Rushton
  Jean Philippe Rushton is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r/K selection theory to humans in his book Race,...
  
   (BBK)
• Arthur Waley
  Arthur Waley
  Arthur David Waley CH, CBE was an English orientalist and sinologist.-Life:Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, as Arthur David Schloss, son of the economist David Frederick Schloss...
  
   (SOAS)
• Fei Xiaotong
  Fei Xiaotong
  Fei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist...
  
   (LSE)
• Satoshi Kanazawa
  Satoshi Kanazawa
  Satoshi Kanazawa PhD is a Reader in Management at the London School of Economics. His work uses evolutionary psychology to analyze social sciences such as sociology, economics, and anthropology...
  
   (LSE)

Physicians and Physiologists

• David Blow (ICL)
• Michael Foster
  Michael Foster (physiologist)
  Sir Michael Foster was an English physiologist.He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and educated at University College School, London....
  
   (UCL)
• Henry Gray
  Henry Gray
  Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 25.-Biography:...
  
   (SGUL)
• Thomas Hodgkin
  Thomas Hodgkin
  Thomas Hodgkin was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832...
  
   (KCL)
• John Hunter
  John Hunter (surgeon)
  John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...
  
   (SGUL)
• William Hunter
  William Hunter (anatomist)
  William Hunter FRS was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day...
  
   (SGUL)
• Edward Jenner
  Edward Jenner
  Edward Anthony Jenner was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire...
  
   (SGUL)
• Joseph Lister
  Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
  Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister OM, FRS, PC , known as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., between 1883 and 1897, was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary...
  
   (KCL)
• Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...
  
   (KCL)
• Humphry Osmond
  Humphry Osmond
  Humphry Fortescue Osmond was a British psychiatrist known for inventing the word psychedelic and for using psychedelic drugs in medical research...
  
   (KCL)
• Patrick Steptoe
  Patrick Steptoe
  Patrick Christopher Steptoe FRS was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards for developing in vitro fertilization...
  
   (SGUL)
• Robert Winston, Baron Winston
  Robert Winston
  Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and politician.-Early life and education :...
  
   (ICL)
• Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (ICL)
• Dr Thomas Bond
  Thomas Bond (British physician)
  Dr Thomas Bond FRCS, MB BS , was a British surgeon considered by some to be the first offender profiler, and best known for his association with the notorious Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.-Early life:...
  
   (KCL)

Engineers and Inventors

• Rutherford Aris
  Rutherford Aris
  Rutherford "Gus" Aris was a chemical engineer and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota.- Early life :...
  
  
• Ayodele Awojobi
  Ayodele Awojobi
  Ayodele Oluwatuminu Awojobi , also known by the nicknames "Dead Easy", "The Akoka Giant", and "Macbeth", was a Nigerian academic, author, inventor, social crusader and activist....
  
   (ICL)
• Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching
  Richard Beeching
  Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching , commonly known as Doctor Beeching, was chairman of British Railways and a physicist and engineer...
  
   (ICL)
• Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
  
   (UCL)
• Donald Watts Davies (ICL)
• James H. Ellis
  James H. Ellis
  James Henry Ellis was a British engineer and mathematician. In 1970, while working at the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham he conceived of the possibility of "non-secret encryption", more commonly termed public-key cryptography.-Early life, education and career:Ellis was born...
  
   (ICL)
• Sir Stanley Hooker
  Stanley Hooker
  Sir Stanley George Hooker was a jet engine engineer, first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines where he helped bring the troubled Proteus and Olympus to market, and then designed the famous Pegasus.Stanley George...
  
   (ICL)
• Sir Alec Issigonis
  Alec Issigonis
  Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959.- Early life:Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna ...
  
   (ULIP)
• Frederick William Lanchester (ICL)
• Alec Reeves
  Alec Reeves
  Alec Harley Reeves, CBE was a British scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation . He was awarded 82 patents.-Early life:...
  
   (ICL)
• Sir Charles Wheatstone
  Charles Wheatstone
  Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS , was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope , and the Playfair cipher...
  
   (KCL)
• Tommy Flowers
  Tommy Flowers
  Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE was an English engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.-Early life:...
  
  

Novelists, Poets and Playwrights

• Richard Aldington
  Richard Aldington
  Richard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry...
  
   (UCL)
• Mulk Raj Anand
  Mulk Raj Anand
  Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K...
  
   (UCL)
• Alfred Austin
  Alfred Austin
  Alfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.-Life:...
  
  
• James Graham Ballard
• Arnold Bennett
  Arnold Bennett
  - Early life :Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the...
  
  
• Alain de Botton
  Alain de Botton
  Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer, television presenter, and entrepreneur, resident in the UK.His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. In August 2008, he was a founding member...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Malcolm Bradbury
  Malcolm Bradbury
  Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic.-Life:Bradbury was the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother...
  
   (QMUL)
• Raymond Briggs
  Raymond Briggs
  Raymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...
  
   (UCL)
• Anita Brookner
  Anita Brookner
  Anita Brookner CBE is an English language novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.-Early life and education:...
  
   (KCL)
• Robert Browning
  Robert Browning
  Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...
  
   (UCL)
• G. K. Chesterton
  G. K. Chesterton
  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....
  
   (UCL)
• Arthur C. Clarke
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
  
   (KCL)
• Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (RHUL)
• Bernard Cornwell
  Bernard Cornwell
  Bernard Cornwell OBE is an English author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films.-Biography:...
  
  
• Richmal Crompton
  Richmal Crompton
  Richmal Crompton Lamburn was a British writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books.-Life:...
  
   (RHUL)
• George Eliot
  George Eliot
  Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
  
   (RHUL)
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
   (BBK)
• C. S. Forester
  C. S. Forester
  Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
  
   (KCL)
• Ann Granger
  Ann Granger
  Patricia Ann Granger is a British crime writer.Granger was born in Portsmouth, England. She took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the visa sections of British consulates and embassies in Yugoslavia,...
  
  
• Radclyffe Hall
  Radclyffe Hall
  Radclyffe Hall was an English poet and author, best known for the lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness.- Life :...
  
   (KCL)
• Thomas Hardy
  Thomas Hardy
  Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
  
   (KCL)
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant...
  
   (QMUL)
• John Keats
  John Keats
  John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
  
   (KCL)
• Charles Kingsley
  Charles Kingsley
  Charles Kingsley was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.-Life and character:...
  
   (KCL)
• Hanif Kureishi
  Hanif Kureishi
  Hanif Kureishi CBE is an English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality...
  
   (KCL)
• Lao She
  Lao She
  Shu Qingchun , better known by his pen name Lao She was a notable Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures of 20th century Chinese literature, and is perhaps best known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse . He was of Manchu ethnicity...
  
   (SOAS)
• W. Somerset Maugham
  W. Somerset Maugham
  William Somerset Maugham , CH was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and, reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.-Childhood and education:...
  
   (KCL)
• Andrew Motion
  Andrew Motion
  Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...
  
   (RHUL)
• China Miéville
  China Miéville
  China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
   (LSE)
• Gladys Mitchell
  Gladys Mitchell
  Gladys Mitchell was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs. Bradley, the heroine of numerous detective novels. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie...
  
   (GCUL)
• Nissim Ezekiel
  Nissim Ezekiel
  ' was an Indian Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English....
  
   (BBK)
• John Ruskin
  John Ruskin
  John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir Leslie Stephen
  Leslie Stephen
  Sir Leslie Stephen, KCB was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.-Life:...
  
   (KCL)
• H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
   (ICL & ULIP)
• Virginia Woolf
  Virginia Woolf
  Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....
  
   (KCL)
• Samir El-Youssef
  Samir El-Youssef
  Samir El-Youssef is a Palestinian writer and critic, who was born in Rashidieh, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon. El-Youssef's father is a Sunni and his mother is from the only Shi'ite Palestinian family...
  
  

Actors, Comedians and TV Stars

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a British actor, and former fashion model best known for his roles as Mr. Eko on Lost, Simon Adebisi on Oz and Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity.-Early life and career:...
  
   (KCL)
• Sir David Attenborough
  David Attenborough
  Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
  
   (LSE)
• Rory Bremner
  Rory Bremner
  Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire...
  
   (KCL)
• Graham Chapman
  Graham Chapman
  Graham Arthur Chapman was a British comedian, physician, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe.-Early life and education:...
  
   (QMUL)
• Julian Clary
  Julian Clary
  Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.-Early life and education:...
  
   (GCUL)
• Greer Garson
  Greer Garson
  Greer Garson, CBE was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award...
  
  
• Ricky Gervais
  Ricky Gervais
  Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...
  
   (UCL)
• Lloyd Grossman (LSE)
• Harry Hill
  Harry Hill
  Harry Hill , is a Perrier Award–winning English comedian, author and television presenter. A former medical doctor , Hill began his career in comedy with the popular radio show Harry Hill's Fruit Corner.-Personal life:Hill was born in Woking,...
  
   (SGUL)
• Emma Freud
  Emma Freud
  Emma Vallencey Freud OBE is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.-Early life:Emma Freud was born on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud and June Flewett. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud...
  
   (RHUL)
• Dom Joly
  Dom Joly
  Dominic John Romulus "Dom" Joly is a British television comedian and journalist. He came to note as the star of Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera show that was sold to over seventy countries worldwide...
  
   (SOAS)
• Boris Karloff
  Boris Karloff
  William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...
  
  
• Robert Kilroy-Silk
  Robert Kilroy-Silk
  Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy. He has been a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament...
  
   (LSE)
• Bill O'Reilly
  Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
  William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news television program on American television...
  
   (QMUL)
• Devika Rani
  Devika Rani
  Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich was an early Indian movie star.- Career :Born in Waltair , Devika Rani came from a distinguished background: she was the great-grandniece of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and her father, Col. M. N. Chaudhuri, was the first Indian Surgeon-General of Madras...
  
   (RAM)
• Mark Strong
  Mark Strong
  Mark Strong is an English actor, with a body of work in both films and television. He has performed in films as varied as Body of Lies, Syriana, The Young Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, RocknRolla, Stardust, and Kick-Ass...
  
   (RHUL)

Directors and Film-Makers

• Derek Jarman
  Derek Jarman
  Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
  
   (KCL)
• Laura Mulvey
  Laura Mulvey
  Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London...
  
   (BBK)
• Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.He received serious notice after his second feature Memento , which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him,...
  
   (UCL)

Musicians, Composers and Conductors

• Sir John Barbirolli
  John Barbirolli
  Sir John Barbirolli, CH was an English conductor and cellist. Born in London, of Italian and French parentage, he grew up in a family of professional musicians. His father and grandfather were violinists...
  
   – conductor (RAM)
• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
  
   - composer (RAM)
• Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
  Richard Rodney Bennett
  Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...
  
   - composer (RAM)
• Sir Harrison Birtwistle
  Harrison Birtwistle
  Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...
  
   - composer (RAM & KCL)
• Dennis Brain
  Dennis Brain
  Dennis Brain was a British virtuoso horn player and was largely credited for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public...
  
   – French hornist (RAM)
• Bernard Butler
  Bernard Butler
  Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
  
   – Suede
  Suede (band)
  Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...
  
   (QMUL)
• John Cale
  John Cale
  John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
  
   – The Velvet Underground
  The Velvet Underground
  The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. First active from 1964 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although experiencing little commercial success while together, the band is often cited...
  
   (GCUL)
• Coldplay
  Coldplay
  Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...
  
   members Chris Martin
  Chris Martin
  Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin is an English song-writer, who is the lead vocalist, pianist and rhythm guitarist of the band Coldplay. He is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.-Early life:...
  
  , Will Champion
  Will Champion
  William "Will" Champion is an English musician and the drummer of rock band Coldplay.-Early life:William Champion was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England, and was brought up in Highfield, Southampton, where his father, Timothy Champion, is a professor of archaeology...
  
  , and Jon Buckland (UCL)
• Sir Clifford Curzon
  Clifford Curzon
  Sir Clifford Michael Curzon, CBE was an English pianist.-Early life:Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg...
  
   – pianist (RAM)
• John Dankworth
  John Dankworth
  Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist...
  
   – jazz composer (RAM)
• John Deacon
  John Deacon
  John Richard Deacon is a retired English multi-instrumentalist and song writer, best known as the bassist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only 19 years old when he was recruited by the other members of the band...
  
   – Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
   (KCL)
• Pete Doherty
  Pete Doherty
  Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles...
  
   - The Libertines
  The Libertines
  The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty . The band, centred on the song-writing partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
  
   (QMUL)
• Bruce Dickinson
  Bruce Dickinson
  Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, songwriter, airline pilot, fencer, broadcaster, author, screenwriter, actor and marketing director, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
  
   – Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
  
   (QMUL)
• Lesley Garrett
  Lesley Garrett
  Lesley Garrett CBE is an English musician, broadcaster and media personality.- Early life :Garrett was born in the town of Thorne near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, into a musical family. She attended Thorne Grammar School, where she performed in school plays and musicals. As she grew up she...
  
   – soprano (RAM)
• Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  John Eliot Gardiner
  Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir , the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique...
  
   - conductor (KCL)
• Sir W. S. Gilbert – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...
  
   (KCL)
• Evelyn Glennie
  Evelyn Glennie
  Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...
  
   - percussionist (RAM)
• Dame Myra Hess
  Myra Hess
  Dame Myra Hess DBE was a British pianist.She was born in London as Julia Myra Hess, but was best known by her middle name. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later entered the Guildhall School of Music, where she graduated as winner of the Gold Medal...
  
   – pianist (RAM)
• Joe Jackson
  Joe Jackson (musician)
  Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...
  
   (RAM)
• Mick Jagger
  Mick Jagger
  Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
  
   – The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
   (LSE)
• Alex James
  Alex James (musician)
  Professionally known as Alex James is an English musician, songwriter, journalist and cheesemaker. He is best known as the bass player and occasional vocalist of band Blur...
  
   – Blur
  Blur (band)
  Blur is an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...
  
   (GCUL)
• Sir Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
   (RAM)
• Linton Kwesi Johnson
  Linton Kwesi Johnson
  Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based dub poet. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British...
  
   (GCUL)
• Judge Jules
  Judge Jules
  Judge Jules is a British dance music DJ and producer, known for his DJ activities and popular radio show which achieved global success.-Education:...
  
   – trance DJ, BBC Radio 1 (LSE)
• Dame Felicity Lott
  Felicity Lott
  Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, DBE, FRCM is an English soprano.-Education:From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and...
  
   – soprano (RHUL & RAM)
• Brian May
  Brian May
  Brian Harold May, CBE is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen...
  
   - Queen (ICL)
• Brian Molko
  Brian Molko
  Brian Molko is a songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the band Placebo. He is known in particular for his high-pitched vocals, androgynous appearance, and unique, Sonic Youth-influenced guitar style and tuning.-Early life:Born to an American father of French-Italian heritage and a Scottish...
  
   – Placebo
  Placebo (band)
  Placebo are a British rock band from London, England, formed in 1994 by singer and guitarist Brian Molko and bass guitarist Stefan Olsdal. The band was joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was later replaced by Steve Hewitt after conflicts with Molko. Hewitt left the band in October 2007 and...
  
   (GCUL)
• Michael Nyman
  Michael Nyman
  Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
  
   – composer (KCL & RAM)
• Kele Okereke
  Kele Okereke
  Kelechukwu "Kele" Rowland Okereke is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.-Early life:...
  
   - Bloc Party
  Bloc Party
  Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...
  
   (KCL)
• Denise Orme
  Denise Orme
  Jessie Smither , best known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:The only daughter of Alfred John Smither and Jessicah...
  
   – music hall singer (RAM)
• Mat Osman
  Mat Osman
  Mat Osman is an English musician, best known as the bassist in the band Suede. He studied at the London School of Economics, where in 1989 he was awarded a BSc in Economics....
  
   - Suede (LSE)
• Sir Simon Rattle
  Simon Rattle
  Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....
  
   – conductor (RAM)
• Sir Arthur Sullivan
  Arthur Sullivan
  Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
  
   – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan
  Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...
  
   (RAM)
• Jody Talbot – composer (RHUL)
• Adnan Sami
  Adnan Sami
  Adnan Sami is a British-born Pakistani-Indian- Canadian singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer of Pakistani origin. He currently holds Canadian citizenship and works and lives in Mumbai, India...
  
   (KCL)
• KT Tunstall
  KT Tunstall
  Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
  
   - singer-songwriter (RHUL)
• Dame Eva Turner
  Eva Turner
  Dame Eva Turner DBE was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles.-Career:...
  
   – opera singer (RAM)
• Maxim Vengerov
  Maxim Vengerov
  Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....
  
   – violinist (RAM)
• Sir Henry Wood
  Henry Wood (conductor)
  Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences...
  
   - conductor (RAM)
• Dido (singer)
  Dido (singer)
  Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong , known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel...
  
   - singer and songwriter (BBK)

Artists

• Bernd Behr
  Bernd Behr
  Bernd Behr is a Taiwanese/German artist based in London.Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths College, London.Behr was shortlisted for the 2003 Beck's Futures prize...
  
   (GCUL)
• Ian Davenport
  Ian Davenport
  Ian Davenport is an English painter, and former Turner Prize nominee.-Life and work:Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup in London, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire before going to Goldsmiths College from where he graduated in 1988...
  
   (GCUL)
• Grenville Davey
  Grenville Davey
  Grenville Davey is an English sculptor and winner of the 1992 Turner Prize.He is a professor of the University of East London school of Architecture and the Visual Arts...
  
   (GCUL)
• Tracey Emin
  Tracey Emin
  Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....
  
   (BBK)
• Anya Gallaccio
  Anya Gallaccio
  Anya Gallaccio is a Scottish artist, who often works with organic matter. She was a nominee in the 2003 Turner Prize.-Life and career:...
  
   (GCUL)
• Damien Hirst
  Damien Hirst
  Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
  
   (GCUL)
• Gary Hume
  Gary Hume
  Gary Stewart Hume is an English artist. His work is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early-1990s. In 1996, Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize, but lost out to Douglas Gordon. Hume was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.-Life and work:Hume was born in...
  
   (GCUL)
• Michael Landy
  Michael Landy
  Michael Landy RA is one of the Young British Artists . He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down , in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008 Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in...
  
   (GCUL)
• Sarah Lucas
  Sarah Lucas
  Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s...
  
   (GCUL)
• Wendy McMurdo
  Wendy McMurdo
  Wendy McMurdo is a British artist who specialises in photography and digital media. She attended Edinburgh College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where she first became interested in photography.-Career:Her work centres around the relationship...
  
   (GCUL)
• Steve McQueen
  Steve McQueen (artist)
  Steve Rodney McQueen CBE is a British artist and filmmaker. He is a winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival, a Turner Prize and BAFTA.-Early years:...
  
   (GCUL)
• Cathy de Monchaux
  Cathy de Monchaux
  Cathy de Monchaux is a British sculptor.de Monchaux was born in London. She studied first at the Camberwell School of Art , and later at Goldsmiths College in London ....
  
   (GCUL)
• Simon Patterson (GCUL)
• Mary Quant
  Mary Quant
  Mary Quant OBE FCSD is a British] fashion designer and British fashion icon, who was instrumental in the mod fashion movement. She was one of the designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born in Blackheath, London, to Welsh parents, Quant brought fun and fantasy to...
  
   – fashion designer (GCUL)
• Bridget Riley
  Bridget Riley
  Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art.-Early life:...
  
   (GCUL)
• Mark Wallinger
  Mark Wallinger
  Mark Wallinger is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo , and State Britain , a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He won the Turner Prize in 2007...
  
   (GCUL)
• Gillian Wearing
  Gillian Wearing
  Gillian Wearing OBE RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997. On 11 December 2007, Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London....
  
   (GCUL)
• Catherine Yass
  Catherine Yass
  Catherine Yass is an English artist.Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London and in her early years lived in Hampstead. She later studied at the Slade School of Art, London and then at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin...
  
   (GCUL)

Philosophers

• William Warren Bartley
  William Warren Bartley
  William Warren Bartley, III, was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.-Life:...
  
   (LSE)
• Nick Bostrom
  Nick Bostrom
  Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk and the anthropic principle. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics...
  
   (LSE)
• Nancy Cartwright
  Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
  Nancy Cartwright FBA is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...
  
   (LSE)
• Andrea Christofidou
  Andrea Christofidou
  Andrea Christofidou is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Keble College and Lecturer in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford. She has taught philosophy at the University of Oxford since 1992, and at Keble since 2001. She previously held lectureships at New College, Balliol, and Wadham College.She...
  
   (BBK)
• Daniel Dennett
  Daniel Dennett
  Daniel Clement Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of...
  
   (LSE)
• Paul Feyerabend
  Paul Feyerabend
  Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades . He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand,...
  
   (LSE)
• Raimond Gaita
  Raimond Gaita
  Raimond Gaita was until 2011 Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London...
  
   (KCL)
• Ernest Gellner
  Ernest Gellner
  Ernest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
  
   (LSE)
• Jonathan Glover
  Jonathan Glover
  Jonathan Glover is a British philosopher known for his studies on ethics. He was educated at Tonbridge School, later going on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London...
  
   (KCL)
• John Gray
  John Gray (LSE)
  John N. Gray is a British political philosopher and author, formerly School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics....
  
   (LSE)
• A. C. Grayling
  A. C. Grayling
  Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, a private undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991...
  
   (BBK)
• C. E. M. Joad
  C. E. M. Joad
  Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality. He is most famous for his appearance on The Brains Trust, an extremely popular BBC Radio wartime discussion programme...
  
   (BBK)
• Peter J. King (BBK)
• Imre Lakatos
  Imre Lakatos
  Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his...
  
   (LSE)
• David Miller
  David Miller (philosopher)
  David W. Miller is a philosopher and prominent exponent of critical rationalism. He taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK....
  
   (LSE)
• Alan Musgrave
  Alan Musgrave
  Alan Musgrave is an English born New Zealand philosopher. Musgrave was educated at the London School of Economics with a BA Honours Philosophy and Economics 1961. Sir Karl Popper supervised Musgrave's PhD which was completed in 1969. Musgrave worked as Popper's Research Assistant initially then...
  
   (LSE)
• Michael Oakeshott
  Michael Oakeshott
  Michael Joseph Oakeshott was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and philosophy of law...
  
   (LSE)
• Sir Karl Popper
  Karl Popper
  Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
  
   (LSE)
• John Ralston Saul
  John Ralston Saul
  John Ralston Saul, CC is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN.As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the...
  
   (KCL)
• Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
  Syed Muhammad al Naquib bin Ali al-Attas is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and...
  
   (SOAS)
• Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
  
   (LSE)
• Mark Sainsbury
  Mark Sainsbury (philosopher)
  R. Mark Sainsbury is a philosopher from the United Kingdom who has worked in the areas of philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege....
  
   (KCL)
• Roger Scruton
  Roger Scruton
  Roger Vernon Scruton is a conservative English philosopher and writer. He is the author of over 30 books, including Art and Imagination , Sexual Desire , The Aesthetics of Music , and A Political Philosophy: Arguments For Conservatism...
  
   (BBK)
• Jeremy Shearmur
  Jeremy Shearmur
  Jeremy Shearmur is Reader in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He was educated at the London School of Economics....
  
   (LSE)
• Elliott Sober
  Elliott Sober
  Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sober is noted for his work in philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science. Sober taught for one year at Stanford University and has...
  
   (LSE)

Economists

• Sir Roy Allen (LSE)
• William Stanley Jevons
  William Stanley Jevons
  William Stanley Jevons was a British economist and logician.Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical...
  
   (UCL)
• Charles Kennedy
  Charles Kennedy (economist)
  Charles Kennedy was an economist, often considered one of the finest theorists of his generation.He was born into a large family, the youngest of five sons; he was the son of George Kennedy, an architect, and grandson of the painter Charles Napier Kennedy. A gifted child, he was educated at...
  
   (ICL)
• Israel Kirzner
  Israel Kirzner
  Israel Meir Kirzner is a leading economist in the Austrian School.-Early life:The son of a well-known rabbi and Talmudist, Kirzner was born in London, England and came to the United States via South Africa.-Education:After studying with the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1947-48 and...
  
   (ULIP)
• Mervyn King
  Mervyn King (economist)
  An ex-officio member of the Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee since its inception in 1997, Sir Mervyn is the only person to have taken part in every one of its monthly meetings to date. His voting style is often seen as "hawkish", a perspective that emphasises the dangers of...
  
   (LSE)
• Lionel Robbins
  Lionel Robbins
  Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, FBA was a British economist and head of the economics department at the London School of Economics...
  
   (LSE)
• Nicholas Stern
  Nicholas Stern
  Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA is a British economist and academic. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics , and 2010 Professor of Collège de...
  
   (LSE)
• Friedrich von Hayek
  Friedrich Hayek
  Friedrich August Hayek CH , born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought...
  
   (LSE)
• Kenneth Binmore
  Kenneth Binmore
  Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore, is a British mathematician, economist and game theorist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of London and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol ....
  
   (ICL)
• Janet Yellen
  Janet Yellen
  Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
  
   (LSE)

Journalists

• Martin Bashir
  Martin Bashir
  Martin Bashir is a British journalist and media personality, currently with NBC News as a contributor for its Dateline program, and an afternoon anchor for MSNBC, hosting Martin Bashir...
  
   (KCL)
• Edward Greenspon
  Edward Greenspon
  Edward Greenspon is vice president, business development for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. Before that, he was the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for seven years...
  
   (LSE)
• Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson
  Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson
  Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson MC, was a British journalist, editor and political commentator.- Early years :...
  
   (KCL)
• Charles Franklin Hildebrand
  Charles Franklin Hildebrand
  Charles Franklin Hildebrand, usually known as Franklin Hildebrand , was an American journalist who from 1930 to 1957 published the Jeff Davis Parish News, subsequently renamed the Jennings Daily News and located in Jennings, the seat of Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.Hildebrand was...
  
   (United States)
• Bernard Levin
  Bernard Levin
  Henry Bernard Levin CBE was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics,...
  
   (LSE)
• Michael Lewis
  Michael Lewis (author)
  Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Panic and Home Game: An...
  
   (LSE)
• Trevor Phillips
  Trevor Phillips
  Trevor Phillips OBE chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission and is a former television executive and presenter...
  
   (ICL)
• Richard Sambrook
  Richard Sambrook
  Richard Sambrook is Global Vice Chairman and Chief Content Officer of the Edelman public relations agency. For 30 years, until February 2010, he was a BBC journalist and news executive, becoming successively Director of BBC Sport, BBC News and, latterly, Director of BBC World Service and Global...
  
   (BBK)
• Laurie Taylor
  Laurie Taylor (sociologist)
  Laurence John "Laurie" Taylor is an English sociologist and radio presenter originally from Liverpool.-Academic career:After attending Roman Catholic schools including the direct grant grammar school St Mary's College in Crosby at the same time as Liverpool poet, Roger McGough, Taylor first...
  
   (BBK)
• Xiao Qian
  Xiao Qian
  Xiao Qian , alias Nuoping was a famous essayist, editor, journalist and translator from China. His life spanned the country before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.-Early years:Xiao was born on 27 January 1910 in Beijing, China...
  
   (SOAS)

Sportspersons

• Louis Attrill
  Louis Attrill
  Louis Attrill is a British rower and Olympics gold medallist.Attrill took up rowing at Shanklin Rowing Club on the Isle of Wight and won novice at Milford regatta. The following year he furthered his interest in the sport at Imperial College Boat Club in 1993. Previously he had played rugby and...
  
   – Olympic
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   gold medallist, rowing
  Sport rowing
  Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
  
   (ICL)
• Roger Bannister
  Roger Bannister
  Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE is an English former athlete best known for running the first recorded mile in less than 4 minutes...
  
   – first to run the four minute mile
  Four Minute Mile
  Four Minute Mile is the first full-length album released by Kansas City, Missouri emo band The Get Up Kids.-Recording:The album was recorded in April 1997 on a budget of $4,000. It was produced by Shellac bassist Bob Weston in Chicago over the course of two and a half days. It was released by...
  
   (ICL)
• Simon Dennis
  Simon Dennis
  Simon Dennis MBE is a British rower and Olympic gold medalist.He started rowing at St Paul's School, London, coached by Michael Streat and his first international appearance was in 1994 in the GB eight at the Junior World Rowing Championships, winning a bronze medal...
  
   – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (ICL)
• Gary Lineker
  Gary Lineker
  Gary Winston Lineker, OBE , is a former English footballer, who played as a striker. He is a sports broadcaster for the BBC, Al Jazeera Sports and Eredivisie Live...
  
   – England international footballer and sports broadcaster (KCL)
• Hugh Lindsay
  Hugh Lindsay (footballer)
  Hugh Murray Lindsay is a former amateur footballer who played as an inside-forward for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, as well as making two Football League appearances for Southampton in 1961, making him the last amateur player to play for Southampton.-Football...
  
   – English amateur footballer who played for Southampton
  Southampton F.C.
  Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
  
   and appeared in the 1960 Summer Olympics
  Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  The football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughout Italy.-Venues:-Medalists:-Group A:---------------------Group B:---------------------Group C:--------...
  
  
• Kieran West
  Kieran West
  Kieran Martin West, MBE is a British rower and Olympic champion.-Education:Born in Kingston upon Thames, West was educated at Dulwich College, in south-east London, before going to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1995, to study for a BA in Economics and Land Economy, followed by a PGCE in...
  
   - Olympic gold medallist, rowing (KCL)

Historians

• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   eminent Historian of Ancient India
  History of India
  The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from...
  
  
• Antony Beevor
  Antony Beevor
  Antony James Beevor, FRSL is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission...
  
   (BBK)
• Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (ULIP)
• Richard J. Evans
  Richard J. Evans
  Richard John Evans is a British academic and historian, prominently known for his history of Germany.-Life:Evans was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College...
  
   (BBK)
• Orlando Figes
  Orlando Figes
  Orlando Figes is a British historian of Russia, and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London.-Overview:Figes is the son of the feminist writer Eva Figes. His sister is the author and editor Kate Figes. He attended William Ellis School in north London from 1971-78...
  
   (BBK)
• Eric Hobsbawm
  Eric Hobsbawm
  Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...
  
   (BBK)
• David Irving
  David Irving
  David John Cawdell Irving is an English writer,best known for his denial of the Holocaust, who specialises in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany...
  
   (ICL)
• Bernard Lewis
  Bernard Lewis
  Bernard Lewis, FBA is a British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...
  
   (SOAS)
• Desmond Morton
  Desmond Morton (historian)
  Desmond Dillon Paul Morton, OC, FRSC, CD is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations....
  
   (LSE)
• Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
  Nikolaus Pevsner
  Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...
  
   (BBK)
• Ben Pimlott
  Ben Pimlott
  Benjamin John Pimlott, known as Ben Pimlott , was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain...
  
   (BBK)
• David Rohl
  David Rohl
  New Chronology is the term used to describe an alternative Chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with A Test of Time: The Bible - from Myth to History in 1995...
  
   (UCL)
• George Albert Wells
  George Albert Wells
  George Albert Wells , usually known as G. A. Wells, is an Emeritus Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. He is best known as an advocate of the idea that Jesus is a largely mythical rather than a historical figure....
  
   (BBK)
• Conrad Russell (UCL)
• David Cannadine
  David Cannadine
  Sir David Nicholas Cannadine, FBA is a British historian, known for a number of books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism. He is also notable as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the monarchy. He serves as the generaleditor...
  
   (UL)
• Arnaldo Momigliano
  Arnaldo Momigliano
  Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the "world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world." He became Professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost...
  
   (UCL)

Businesspeople

• Sir David Arculus - Chairman of the Board O2
  O2
  O2, o2, O2, or O2 may refer to:- Companies :* O2 Global Network, an international network for sustainable design* O2TV, a Russian independent socially-political TV channel...
  
   (LBS)
• Delphine Arnault
  Delphine Arnault
  Delphine Arnault is a French businesswoman with the LVMH luxury goods conglomerate. The daughter of Bernard Arnault, she is one of the richest women in the world; on September 24, 2005, she married Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to an Italian wine fortune.-Biography:Arnault was in 2008 one of...
  
   - billionaire French businesswoman (LSE)
• Walter Owen Bentley
  W. O. Bentley
  Walter Owen Bentley, MBE engineer; designer of aero engines, designer and racer of motor cars, founder of Bentley Motors Limited in Cricklewood near London.He was known as "W.O." without any need to add the word Bentley....
  
   – founder of Bentley Motors
  Bentley
  Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...
  
   (KCL)
• Kumar Mangalam Birla
  Kumar Mangalam Birla
  Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian industrialist and the Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerate corporations in India. He is also the Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science.-Education and career:...
  
   - Chairman of Aditya Birla Group
  Aditya Birla Group
  The Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. It operates in 33 countries with more than 133,000 employees worldwide...
  
   (LBS)
• Michael Cowpland
  Michael Cowpland
  Michael Cowpland is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.-Early life:...
  
   – founder of Corel
  Corel
  Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems...
  
   (ICL)
• Clara Furse
  Clara Furse
  Dame Clara Hedwig Frances Furse DBE was the Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange between 2001 and May 2009, and was the first female to occupy the position. In 2005 she was ranked 19th in Fortune magazine's Most powerful women in business list.Furse was born in Canada to Dutch parents, and...
  
   - Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)
• Calouste Gulbenkian
  Calouste Gulbenkian
  Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development...
  
   - Armenian oil magnate (KCL)
• Sir Richard Greenbury - former Chairman and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer
  Marks & Spencer
  Marks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...
  
   (LBS)
• Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , born 14 February 1967) is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds...
  
   – founder of EasyGroup
  EasyGroup
  EasyGroup , founded in 1998, is a conglomerate & the holding company controlling the "easy" ventures; it is privately owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou....
  
   (LSE)
• Huw Jenkins
  Huw Jenkins
  Huw Jenkins, 52, is the former CEO of UBS Investment Bank. He is currently a managing partner for BTG Pactual.-Education:Jenkins graduated from the University of Liverpool and gained an MBA from the London Business School.-Professional life:...
  
   - CEO of UBS Investment Bank
  UBS AG
  UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland, which provides investment banking, asset management, and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland...
  
   (LBS)
• Spiro Latsis
  Spiro Latsis
  Dr. Spiro J. Latsis is a Greek businessman with a fortune of US$9.1 billion . He ranked 51st on Forbes's 2006 World's Billionaires list. He is the son of the Greek shipping magnate, John Latsis, who died in 2003....
  
   - billionaire (LSE)
• Charles Lee
  Charles Lee
  Charles Lee may refer to:*Charles Lee , former NFL player*Charles Lee *Charles Lee , British author*Charles Lee *Charles Lee...
  
   - Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (LSE)
• Sir Deryck Maughan
  Deryck Maughan
  Sir Deryck C. Maughan is a British businessman and philanthropist. He graduated from King's College London with a BA in 1969, and earned a MS from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1978, where he was a Harkness Fellow....
  
   – CEO and Chairman of Salomon Brothers
  Salomon Brothers
  Salomon Brothers was a bulge bracket, Wall Street investment bank. Founded in 1910 by three brothers along with a clerk named Ben Levy, it remained a partnership until the early 1980s, when it was acquired by the commodity trading firm Phibro Corporation and then became Salomon Inc. Eventually...
  
   (KCL)
• Eric Nicoli
  Eric Nicoli
  Eric Luciano Nicoli, CBE was CEO of EMI Group plc between January 12, 2007 and August 2007, having previously been Executive Chairman of the group since July 1999....
  
   - CEO of EMI
  EMI
  The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
  
   (KCL)
• Jorma Ollila
  Jorma Ollila
  Jorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman and former CEO of the Nokia Corporation and a Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company , UPM-Kymmene , and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd...
  
   – Former CEO of Nokia
  Nokia
  Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
  
   (LSE)
• Gary Tanaka
  Gary Tanaka
  Gary A. Tanaka is a Japanese-American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar....
  
   (founder of Amerindo)(ICL)
• David Potter
  David Potter
  David Edwin Potter, CBE, FREng is the founder and chairman of the microcomputer systems company Psion PLC., and Psion Teklogix after Psion's acquisition of Teklogix in the year 2000.-Early life:...
  
   (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian
  Symbian
  Symbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user...
  
  ) (ICL)
• Danny Lui
  Danny Lui
  Danny Lui is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He won the Hong Kong Young Industrialist Award in 1992 and maintains working relationships with governments in China and Hong Kong...
  
   (founder of Lenovo) (ICL)
• Sir Ralph Robins
  Ralph Robins
  Sir Ralph Robins was the CEO of Rolls-Royce. He served 20 years on the board of Rolls-Royce, retiring in 2003 after 10 years as chairman.He graduated from Imperial College London and joined Rolls-Royce as a graduate apprentice in 1955...
  
   (CEO of Rolls-Royce
  Rolls-Royce plc
  Rolls-Royce Group plc is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines , and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. Through its defence-related activities...
  
  ) (ICL)
• Chew Choon Seng
  Chew Choon Seng
  Chew Choon Seng is the former Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airlines .He is currently the Chairman of both Singapore Exchange and Singapore Tourism Board-Career:...
  
   (CEO of Singapore Airlines
  Singapore Airlines
  Singapore Airlines Limited is the flag carrier airline of Singapore. Singapore Airlines operates a hub at Changi Airport and has a strong presence in the Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and "Kangaroo Route" markets...
  
  ) (ICL)
• David Rockefeller
  David Rockefeller
  David Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five siblings were...
  
   - American billionaire and business tycoon (LSE)
• Iain Conn
  Iain Conn
  In his role as an executive director of the BP Group, Iain Conn has regional responsibility for Europe, including the UK, together with Russia, the Middle East, the Caspian and Africa...
  
   (Group Managing Director of BP
  BP
  BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
  
  ) (ICL)
• Derek Pannell (CEO of Noranda
  Noranda
  Noranda Inc. was a mining and metallurgy company originally from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada. It was listed on the TSX under the symbol NRD.LV. After eventually acquiring a large interest in rival mining company Falconbridge, it merged with that company in 2005. The combined company continued...
  
  ) (ICL)
• David Sullivan – media magnate, football club owner and pornographer (QMUL)
• Colin Dyer (CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle
  Jones Lang LaSalle
  Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. is a multinational financial and professional services company specializing in real estate. Global headquarters are located in Chicago, with an operational remit covering the Americas regional market...
  
  ) (ICL)
• Maurice Saatchi – founder of Saatchi and Saatchi (LSE)
• Leslie Hudson (CEO of DOV Pharmaceutical
  DOV Pharmaceutical
  DOV Pharmaceutical, a biotechnology company, focuses on therapies primarily for central nervous system conditions. The firm's lead drug candidate, Indiplon, is said to treat insomnia. Indiplon targets the same subset of neurotransmitter receptors affected by Valium and Xanax, but with more...
  
  ) (ICL)
• Winston Wong
  Winston Wong
  Winston Wen-Yang Wong , Taiwan) is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group , by his second wife. Wong is now a widower with a son and a daughter after his wife succumbed to stomach cancer in 2007. Wong holds degrees in physics, applied optics, and chemical engineering...
  
   (businessman) (ICL)
• Sir Richard Sykes
  Richard Sykes
  Sir Richard Brook Sykes, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, FKC is a biochemist and former executive in a number of pharmaceuticals, most notably GlaxoSmithKline. He is the former rector of Imperial College, London, UK...
  
   - chairman of GlaxoSmithKline
  GlaxoSmithKline
  GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...
  
   (KCL)
• Keith Duckworth
  Keith Duckworth
  David Keith Duckworth, , was an English mechanical engineer. He is most famous for designing the Cosworth DFV engine, an engine that revolutionised the sport of Formula One....
  
   (Founder of Cosworth Engineering
  Cosworth
  Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries...
  
  ) (ICL)
• Michael Birch (Founder of Bebo
  Bebo
  Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is currently owned and operated by Criterion Capital Partners after taking over from AOL in June 2010....
  
  ) (ICL)
• Chris Delay, Mark Morris and Thomas Arundel, who formed game developer Introversion Software
  Introversion Software
  -History:The company was founded in 2001 by three friends, Chris Delay; Mark Morris; and Thomas Arundel, who met when they were undergraduates at Imperial College London...
  
   (ICL)
• Koh Boon Hwee
  Koh Boon Hwee
  Koh Boon Hwee holds a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School...
  
   (Chairman of DBS Bank
  DBS Bank
  DBS Bank Ltd is a bank incorporated in Singapore. It was previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, before the present name was adopted in July 2003 to reflect its changing role as a regional bank....
  
  , Singapore)(ICL)
• George Soros
  George Soros
  George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...
  
   – financial speculator and philanthropist (LSE)
• Stephen Bernard Streater
  Stephen B. Streater
  Dr. Stephen Bernard Streater is a British technology entrepreneur.Stephen Streater was born in Boston Lying-In Hospital, Massachusetts, United States...
  
   - founder of Eidos
  Eidos Interactive
  Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....
  
   (KCL)
• Tony Wheeler - founder of Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. The company is owned by BBC Worldwide, which bought a 75% share from the founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 2007 and the final 25% in February 2011...
  
   (LBS)

Others

• Devendra Prasad Gupta
  Devendra Prasad Gupta
  Prof. Devendra Prasad Gupta /, is an Indian scholar and academician.-Early life and education:He belongs to a Hindu family. Prof.Gupta actively participated in Indian freedom movements of 1942 as a result of which his studies were discontinued for many years. At the age of eleven years he was a...
  
   - Former Vice Chancellor of Ranchi University
  Ranchi University
  The Ranchi University is a university in Jharkhand state of India. It was established on 12th July 1960 as a teaching-cum-affiliating university, and its first vice chancellor was Sri Vishnudeo Narayan Singh...
  
   (KCL)
• Salahuddin Ahmad
  Salahuddin Ahmad
  Salahuddin Ahmad was the attorney general of Bangladesh from July 13, 2008 to January 12, 2009 and a prominent practicing lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Mr. Ahmad was appointed after Fida M...
  
   - Attorney General of Bangladesh (LSE)
• Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed - former Attorney General of Bangladesh (LSE)
• Thomas John Barnardo
  Thomas John Barnardo
  Thomas John Barnardo was a philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children, born in Dublin. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1870 to the date of Barnardo’s death, nearly 100,000 children had been rescued, trained and given a better life.- Early life :Barnardo...
  
   – philanthropist (QMUL)
• Hedley Bull
  Hedley Bull
  Hedley Bull, FBA was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985...
  
   – International Relations
  International relations
  International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
  
   academic (LSE)
• Alex Comfort
  Alex Comfort
  Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc was a medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex, which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution...
  
   – writer of "The Joy of Sex" (UCL)
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
  Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
  Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, FRAS is a Political Scientist, Political Historian and International Relations expert.He is presently a Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U.K., and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science...
  
   - International Relations
  International relations
  International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
  
   academic (LSE), (ICwS)
• Quentin Crisp
  Quentin Crisp
  Quentin Crisp , was an English writer and raconteur. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant.- Early life :...
  
   – writer, actor and raconteur (KCL)
• Albert Venn Dicey – English jurist (ICL)
• Michael Halliday
  Michael Halliday
  Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday is a British linguist who developed an internationally influential model of language, the systemic functional linguistic model. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar .-Biography:Halliday was born and raised in England...
  
   - linguist
• John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
  John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
  Field Marshal Allan Francis John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer and Governor of Cyprus from 1955 to 1957, Cyprus being a British colony at that time....
  
   - Head of the British Army (KCL)
• Sir George Jessel
  George Jessel (jurist)
  Sir George Jessel , a British judge, was born in London. He was one of the most influential commercial law and equity judges of his time, and served as the Master of the Rolls.-Early life and education:...
  
   – English jurist (UCL)
• Reginald Johnston
  Reginald Johnston
  Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston, KCMG, CBE, was a Scottish academic, diplomat and tutor to Puyi, the last emperor of China, and later appointed as the last Commissioner of Weihaiwei.-Early:...
  
   – teacher of Puyi
  Puyi
  Puyi , of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, was the last Emperor of China, and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. He ruled as the Xuantong Emperor from 1908 until his abdication on 12 February 1912. From 1 to 12 July 1917 he was briefly restored to the throne as a nominal emperor by the...
  
   (SOAS)
• Mustafa Kamal - former Chief Justice of Bangladesh (LSE)
• Anthony Kennedy
  Anthony Kennedy
  Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, having been appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy has often been the swing vote on many of the Court's politically charged 5–4 decisions...
  
   – American Supreme Court
  Supreme Court of the United States
  The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
  
   justice (LSE)
• David Livingstone
  David Livingstone
  David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...
  
   - explorer (ICL)
• Thomas Mesereau
  Thomas Mesereau
  Thomas Arthur Mesereau, Jr. is an American attorney best known for defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial.-The Robert Blake murder trial:...
  
   – American defence attorney (LSE)
• Linda Norgrove – kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and killed in rescue effort
• Shabtai Rosenne
  Shabtai Rosenne
  Shabtai Rosenne , formerly known as Sefton Wilfred David Rowson was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat....
  
   - International Law professor
• Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
  Carlos the Jackal
  Ilich Ramírez Sánchez , better known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan pro-Palestinian currently serving a life sentence in France for shooting to death two French secret agents and a Lebanese informer in 1975....
  
   – criminal and terrorist (LSE)
• Meir Shamgar
  Meir Shamgar
  Meir Shamgar was President of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 until 1995.-Biography:Shamgar was born Meir Sterenberg in the Free City of Danzig to Eliezer and Dina Sterenberg.He emigrated to Palestine in 1939.He was arrested by the British in 1944 for anti-British activity and being...
  
   - President of the Israel Supreme Court
• José Graziano da Silva
  José Graziano da Silva
  José Graziano da Silva is an American-born Brazilian agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil...
  
   – agronomist, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
  Food and Agriculture Organization
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...
  
   (ILAS
  Institute of Latin American Studies
  The Institute of Latin American Studies was set up in 1965 at the University of London, with the objective of providing postgraduate level teaching and a focus for research on the literature, history, politics and economics of Latin America and the Caribbean.In August 2004 the ILAS merged with the...
  
  )

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