List of University College London people

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This is a list of famous individuals associated with University College London, including graduates, former students, and professors.

1 Notable academics
2 Famous alumni
3 See also

[edit] Notable academics

Chimen Abramsky - Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
A. J. Ayer - Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic (1946–59)
Alan Baker, (mathematics); - winner of the 1970 Fields Prize
Sir William Henry Bragg - Quain Professor of Physics (1915–25); winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
Prof. Peter Butler -Plastic surgeon, Royal Free and University College hospital, going to carry out first full face transplant
A. S. Byatt - Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (1972–83); winner of the 1990 Booker Prize
Marianna Csörnyei - Professor of Mathematics and winner of the 2002 Whitehead Prize
Harold Davenport- Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory
Augustus De Morgan- Professor of Mathematics, law of sets
Philip Dawid - Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Ronald Dworkin- Professor of Jurisprudence
Hugh Gaitskell - Economics faculty (1928–1939), former leader of the Labour Party
Mitchell Glickstein- Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
Sir Hermann Gollancz - United Kingdom Rabbi, Professor of Hebrew (1902–24)
Tim Gowers, (mathematics) - winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
J. B. S. Haldane- Professor of Genetics (1933–57)
A. V. Hill, Professor of Physiology (1923–51); winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ted Honderich - Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
Victor Horsley - Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley-Clarke apparatus
A. E. Housman - English poet, Professor of Latin
Andrew Huxley - physiologist and biophysicist; winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Norman Lloyd Johnson - Professor of Statistics
Steve Jones Professor of Genetics
Peter Kirstein - Computer Scientist
Basil Markesinis - Professor of Law, authority on European Private Law
Sir Michael Marmot - Professor
Prof. John Martin- Researcher, stem cell cardiac regeneration
John Maynard Smith - Lecturer in Zoology (1952–65)
Peter Medawar - Professor of Zoology (1952-61); winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Avrion Mitchison - Professor of Zoology
Salvador Moncada - Director of the Wolson Institute for Biomedical Research
Egon Pearson - Professor of Statistics
Karl Pearson - Professor of Statistics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics
Martin Raff - Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
Janet Radcliffe Richards - British feminist philosopher and bioethicist
Sir William Ramsay - Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (1887–1913); winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Stefan Reif - Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge
Klaus F. Roth- Professor of Mathematics, winner of 1958 Fields Medal
Bert Sakmann- Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Anthony Segal - Professor of Medicine
Stephen Spender - English poet
Ernest Starling - Physiologist, famous for starling law
John Sutherland - Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature
James Joseph Sylvester - Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory
Patrick Wall- Gate Theory of Pain with Ronald Melzack (McGill)
Robin Weiss - Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that CD4 is the co-receptor for HIV
Lewis Wolpert - Professor of Biology
John Zachary Young - Professor of Anatomy
Semir Zeki - Mapped Visual and Motion Centers of the Brain

[edit] Famous alumni

[edit] Artists

Martin Creed – Conceptual artist; winner of the 2001 Turner Prize
Antony Gormley – Sculptor; winner of the 1994 Turner Prize; creator of the Angel of the North
Eileen Gray – Lacquer artist and designer
Augustus John – Painter
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Sculptor and artist
Stuart Pearson Wright – Painter
Sir Stanley Spencer – Painter
Tomoko Takahashi – Installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000 Turner Prize
Rachel Whiteread – Sculptor; winner of the 1993 Turner Prize

[edit] Business-related

Victoria Barnsley – Editor-in-chief at HarperCollins
Digby Jones – Director-general, Confederation of British Industry
Edward Walker-Arnott – Governor, Wellcome Trust

[edit] Economists

Walter Bagehot – former editor of The Economist
Noreena Hertz
Richard Holt Hutton – former editor of The Economist
Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton – former editor of The Economist
William Stanley Jevons

[edit] Film, television, theatre and radio

David Baddiel – Comedian and television presenter
Andrew Davenport – Co-creator of the Teletubbies
Jonathan Dimbleby – Writer and television presenter
Ricky Gervais – Comedian/actor, co-writer and director of The Office (studied biology and philosophy)
Amy Jenkins – Creator of This Life
Dominic Keating – Actor
Trevor Lock – Comedian and actor
Jeremy Marre, film director
Mary Nighy – Actress
Christopher Nolan – Director
Raj Persaud – Psychiatrist and broadcaster
Jonathan Ross – Presenter
Nicholas Vangelis – Writer, Film Director
Mat Whitecross – Film Director
Alex Zane – Presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian

[edit] Journalists

Patrick Blower – Cartoonist, The Evening Standard
Jeremy Bowen – Journalist, BBC Middle East editor
John Derbyshire – conservative essayist, novelist, popularizer of mathematics history
Nicholas Garland – First and current political cartoonist, The Daily Telegraph
A. A. Gill – Columnist, The Sunday Times
Jeanne Hoban – The Ceylon Observer, Jana, The Patriot, The Nation (all Sri Lanka); Anglo-Sri Lankan Trotskyist trade unionist and political activist
Nicholas de Jongh – Drama critic, The London Evening Standard
Mark Lawson – Columnist, The Guardian; radio and television presenter
Lindsay Nicholson – Editor, Good Housekeeping
Vivienne Parry – Columnist, The News of the World
Jeremy Warner – Business editor, The Independent
Michael White – Political editor, The Guardian
Petronella Wyatt – Writer, The Spectator

[edit] Lawyers

Justice A.S. Anand – Chief Justice of India (1998-2001)
Justice Gabriel Bach – Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
Edwin Glasgow QC – Member of Bloody Sunday inquiry
Lord Goldsmith QC – HM Attorney General
Simon Li – Justice of Appeal and former Deputy Attorney General, Hong Kong
Sir Gavin Lightman QC – Judge
Leonard Sainer – Solicitor and retailer
Judge Sam Sinnathuray – Judge of the Supreme Court, Singapore
Lord Woolf – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2000-2005)
Sir Ti Liang Yang – Chief Justice of Hong Kong

[edit] Miscellaneous

Colin Chapman – Founder of Lotus Cars
Lewis Evans – Scientific instrument collector and businessman
Patrick Head – Co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1
Julie Maxton – registrar at Oxford University
Ernest Symons – Civil servant

[edit] Musicians

Brett Anderson – Suede
Carolyn Bannister – My Vitriol
Sophie Barker – singer, occasional vocalist for Zero 7 and Groove Armada (did not graduate)
Guy Berryman – Coldplay
Jon Buckland – Coldplay
Will Champion – Coldplay
Justine Frischmann – Elastica
Joshua Hayward – The Horrors
Richard Hughes – Keane
Ravi Kesavaram – My Vitriol
Chris Martin – Coldplay
Simon Ratcliffe – Basement Jaxx
Tim Rice-Oxley – Keane
Som Wardner – My Vitriol
Benjamin Zander – Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

[edit] Politicians

Sir Stafford Cripps – Former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer
Baroness Shreela Flather – First female Asian peer
Mahatma Gandhi – Iconic human rights activist
Chaim Herzog – Sixth president of Israel
Hirobumi Ito – First prime minister of Japan
Jomo Kenyatta – Kenya's "founding father"
Junichiro Koizumi – Former prime minister of Japan
Lord McNally – Liberal Democrat shadow Home Office spokersperson, House of Lords
Anil Moonesinghe – Sri Lankan Trotskyist parliamentarian, trade unionist, ambassador, cabinet minister and deputy speaker
Stan Newens – Labour and co-operative parliamentarian and MEP
Baroness Tonge – Liberal Democrat shadow international development secretary.
John Whittingdale – Conservative Member of Parliament and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher