List of University College London people
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This is a list of notable individuals associated with University College London, including graduates, former students, and academics.
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[edit] Faculty
[edit] Arts
- Chimen Abramsky - Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
- A. S. Byatt - Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (1972–83); winner of the 1990 Booker Prize
- Martin John Callanan
- Dr. Susan Alexis Collins
- Alex Comfort - Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, The Joy of Sex
- Dame Mary Douglas - Professor of Anthropology; noted for her Cultural Theory of Risk
- Sir Hermann Gollancz - Professor of Hebrew; British Rabbi (1902–24)
- John Hilliard (artist) - Professor
- Alan Hollinghurst - Lecturer in English; deputy editor, The Times Literary Supplement; later winner of the 2004 Booker Prize
- Simon Hornblower - Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History
- A. E. Housman - Professor of Latin; poet most famous as author of A Shropshire Lad
- Dan Jacobson - Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious Somerset Maugham award
- Sir Frank Kermode - Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature (1967-74); literary critic
- David Masson - Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer
- Karl Miller - Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature (1976-92); first editor, The London Review of Books
- Arnaldo Momigliano - Professor of History (1951-75)
- Henry Morley - Professor of English Literature
- Sir Anthony Panizzi - Professor of Italian
- Albert Pollard - Professor of Constitutional History; major contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography
- Stefan Reif - Studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge
- Stephen Spender - Lecturer in English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet
- John Sutherland - Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for The Guardian
- Thomson & Craighead
- Jeremy Treglown - Professor of Enlgish; editor, The Times Literary Supplement; author
- Sir Eric Gardner Turner - Professor of Papyrology
- Stanley Wells - Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
[edit] Philosophy
- A. J. Ayer - Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic (1946–59)
- Myles Burnyeat - Lecturer in Philosophy
- Gerald Cohen - Reader in Philosophy; current Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University
- Stuart Hampshire - Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
- Ted Honderich - Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
- John Macmurray - Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic; BBC broadcaster
- Carveth Read - Professor of Moral Philosophy
- Bernard Williams - Lecturer in Philosophy; later Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
- Jonathan Wolff - Professor of Philosophy, Guardian columnist
- Richard Wollheim - Grote Professor of Mind and Logic
[edit] Social sciences
- Richard Blundell - Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Hugh Gaitskell - Lecturer in Political Economy (1928–1939), former leader of the Labour Party
- James Heckman - Distinguished Professor of Microeconometrics; winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Charles Spearman - Professor of Psychology; noted for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
[edit] Mathematical and physical sciences
- Alan Baker, (mathematics); - winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
- Sir William Henry Bragg - Quain Professor of Physics (1915–25); winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Richard Catlow - Professor of Chemistry, formely head of the Royal Institution's Davy Faraday laboratory
- Marianna Csörnyei - Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 2002 Whitehead Prize
- Harold Davenport- Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory
- Augustus De Morgan- Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets
- Philip Dawid - Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- Helen H Fielding - Professor of Chemical Physics; winner of the 2005 Corday-Morgan medal
- Tim Gowers - Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
- Norman Lloyd Johnson - Professor of Statistics
- Steve Jones - Professor of Genetics, President of the Galton Institute
- Peter Kirstein - Professor of Computer Communications Systems
- Sir James Lighthill; Lecturer; predecessor to Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
- Sir Harrie Massey - Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic and molecular collisions
- Egon Pearson - Professor of Statistics
- Karl Pearson - Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics
- Sir William Ramsay - Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (1887–1913); winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Klaus F. Roth- Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
- James Joseph Sylvester - Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory
[edit] Laws
- Sir Geoffrey Bindman - Visiting Professor of Law
- Professor Bin Cheng - Professor of Aviation Law, UCL
- Ronald Dworkin- Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence; Queen's Counsel
- Dame Hazel Genn - Professor of Socio-Legal Studies; Queen's Counsel
- Malcolm Grant - Provost and President (2003-); Chair of the Russell Group (2006-); lawyer
- Stephen Guest - Professor of Legal Philosophy
- Sir Hugh Laddie - Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Queen's Counsel; former High Court judge
- Sir Basil Markesinis - Professor of Common Civil Law, Queen's Counsel; prominent legal academic
[edit] Medical and biological sciences
- Dame Carol Black - Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the Royal College of Physicians
- Peter Butler - Professor of Surgery, plastic surgeon, Royal Free and University College Hospital, set to perform the first full face-transplant
- Uta Frith - Professor at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; leading developmental psychologist
- Mitchell Glickstein - Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
- 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
- Victor Horsley - Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley-Clarke apparatus
- Andrew Huxley - physiologist and biophysicist; winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Steve Jones - Professor of Genetics
- Sir Bernard Katz - Professor of Biophysics; winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Sammy Lee (scientist)
- Sir Michael Marmot - Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
- John Martin- British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Science Researcher; founder of Ark Therapeutics
- 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, the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
- Janet Radcliffe Richards - Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy; prominent feminist and humanist
- Martin Raff - Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
- Bert Sakmann- Researcher in Bernard Katz' department; winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Heinz O. Schild - Professor of Pharmaocolgy, discovery of Schild equations, an important finding in quantitative antagonist study in drug-receptor interaction
- Anthony Segal - Professor of Medicine
- John Maynard Smith - Lecturer in Zoology (1952–65)
- Ernest Starling - Physiologist, noted for the Frank-Starling law of the heart
- Patrick David Wall - Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential Gate Theory of Pain with Ronald Melzack at McGill University
- 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] Engineering Sciences
- John Ambrose Fleming - Professor of Electrical Engineering. Inventor of the thermionic valve (1904)
[edit] See also
[edit] Alumni
[edit] Academics
- David Crystal - Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist
- Julie Maxton – registrar at Oxford University
- Noreena Hertz - associate director, Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- William Stanley Jevons - Professor of Political Economy, UCL
- Lord Randolph Quirk - Quain Professor of English Literature
[edit] Nobel Laureates
- Sir William Ramsay - 1904 Chemistry
- Rabindranath Tagore - 1913 Literature
- Sir William Henry Bragg - 1915 Physics
- Frederick Soddy - 1921 Chemistry
- Archibald Vivian Hill - 1922 Physiology or Medicine
- Owen Willans Richardson - 1928 Physics
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins - 1929 Physiology or Medicine
- Sir Henry Hallett Dale - 1936 Physiology or Medicine
- Otto Hahn - 1944 Chemistry
- Sir Robert Robinson - 1947 Chemistry
- Vincent du Vigneaud - 1955 Chemistry
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky - 1959 Chemistry
- Peter Brian Medawar - 1960 Physiology or Medicine
- Francis Harry Compton Crick - 1962 Physiology or Medicine
- Andrew Fielding Huxley - 1963 Physiology or Medicine
- Bernard Katz - 1970 Physiology or Medicine
- Ulf Svante von Euler - 1970 Physiology or Medicine
- Sir James Black - 1988 Physiology or Medicine
- Bert Sakmann - 1991 Physiology or Medicine
- Martin Evans - 2007 Physiology or Medicine
[edit] Artists
- Martin John Callanan
- 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 furniture designer
- Augustus John – Painter
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi – Sculptor and artist
- Stuart Pearson Wright – Painter
- Jenny Saville; prominent Young British Artist
- Sir Stanley Spencer – Painter
- Tomoko Takahashi – Installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000 Turner Prize
- NaoKo TakaHashi (artist)
- Rachel Whiteread – Sculptor; winner of the 1993 Turner Prize
[edit] Business-related
- Victoria Barnsley – Editor-in-chief at HarperCollins
- Nadhim Zahawi - CEO and founder of YouGov
- Digby Jones – Director-general, Confederation of British Industry
- Edward Walker-Arnott – Governor, Wellcome Trust
- Jadesola Akande - Executive Director, Women, Law and Development Centre, since 1994. [2002].
- Leslie Bateman - formerly Chairman of Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board, Kuala Lumpur. [1974].
- Bryan Bennett- Deputy Chairman UCL Press Ltd., formerly Chairman of Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. [1988].
- Susan Birley - Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre, The Business School, Imperial College London, since 2000. [2004].
- John Blythe - Group Executive Engineering and Construction, Foster Wheeler Corporation, USA, since 1998. [2001].
- Lynne Brindley - Chief Executive, British Library, since 2000. [2002].
- Barry Buckland - Vice President, Bioprocess R&D, since 1996. [1998].
- Sir Stuart Burgess, CBE, PhD, FRSC, Chairman, Ramsay Memorial Fellowships Trust, since 2002; Chairman, Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority, 1990-97; Chief Executive, Amersham International plc, 1979-89. [1994].
- Christopher Chester-Brown, BSc(Eng), FIMechE, CEng, formerly Managing Director, Design & Projects, Brown & Root Vickers Limited and Chairman, Brown & Root Vickers Technology Limited. [1984].
- Winston Chu, LLB, Founding Partner, Winston Chu & Company Solicitors, since 1989. [2002].
- Daniel Cohen, BSc, FCA, Executive Director, Caradon plc, 1986-95; previously with Imperial Group plc, British Olivetti Ltd and Rank Xerox. [1996].
- Sir Ivor Cohen, CBE, TD, HonFREng, FIEE, Comp InstMC, Hon DSc (City), formerly Chairman of Remploy Ltd, Sira Ltd and Japan Electronics Business Association, and Managing Director of Mullard Ltd.. [1987].
- John Collingwood, HonDSc, FREng, FIChemE, Director, Unilever plc and Unilever N.V., 1965-77, and Head of Research Division, Unilever, 1961-77. [1970].
- Michael Cross, BSc, PhD, Chairman, Langcet Ltd and Langcet Holdings Ltd, since 2003; Non-Executive Director, Rapid Mouldings Technology Ltd, since 2003; Chair, Skills Assurance Services Ltd; Director, Cogent Sector Skills Council Ltd; Chair, 3C Adventure Capitalists Ltd; Board Member, Bloomsbury Bioseed Fund Ltd. [1998].
- Denis Dalton, BSc(Eng), FIEE, formerly Director, Group Technical Services, The Plessey Company Ltd. [1980].
- DAVIS, Sally Margaret, BA, Vice-President, Business Development Strategy, NYNEX Network Systems Company, since 1993. [1997].
- Sir Geoffrey Dear, Kt, QPM, DL, LLB, Chairman and Director of several companies; formerly Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, 1990-97. [1990].
- Frank Dunlop - formerly Festival Director, the Edinburgh International Festival; Founder and formerly Director, The Young Vic. [1979].
- Trevor Evans - BSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIChemE, Chief Executive and Secretary, Institution of Chemical Engineers, since 1976. [1997].
- Sir Leslie Fowden, PhD, HonDSc, FRS, formerly Director of Rothamsted Experimental Station; formerly Professor of Plant Chemistry, UCL. [1966].
- Herbert French - OBE, DSc, FREng, formerly Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence (Head of Special Research and Advanced Concepts Groups); Visiting Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL, since 1981. [1990].
- Peter Garland - CBE, MB, PhD, LLD(hc), FRSE, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Cancer Research, University of London; formerly Chief Executive, Institute of Cancer Research, 1989-99. [1999].
- Rosalind Gilmore, CB, Holder of international corporate and not for profit Directorships in the UK, Switzerland and USA; formerly Senior Official, HM Treasury. [1989].
- Alan Glynn, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, Professor retired, formerly Director, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale. [1982].
- Anthony Goldstone, FRCP, FRCPath, Medical Director of UCL Hospitals since 1993; Director of the North London Cancer Network, since 2000. [1994].
- Alan Griffith, OBE, BSc(Eng), Managing Director, David Brown-Vosper (Offshore) Limited. [1975].
- Barry Grime, BSc(Eng), MSEng, FEng, formerly Engineering Director for ECC International Limited. [1980].
- Ashley Hill - LLB, formerly Director of Broadcasting, Channel 5, 1997-2004. [1997].
- Rosemary Horwood- BSc, Non-executive Director, NHS Information Authority, since 1999; Chairman of Audit Risk Committee, since 1999; Member of DTI Foresight Crime Prevention Panel and Chairman of IT and Communication Working Group, 1999-2001. [2001].
- Harold Hughes - OBE, BSc(Eng), PhD, formerly Director-General, UK Offshore Operators Association, 1989-97; General Manager, British Gas Exploration Companies, 1981-89. [1997].
- J JAMES, Anthony Trafford, CBE, PhD, FRS, formerly Head of Division of Biosciences, Unilever's Colworth House Laboratories. [1975]*.
- Nishpank Kankiwala - President, Burger King International, since 2003. [2005].
- Alfred Kennedy, CBE, DSc, PhD, FinstP, FREng, formerly Director of Research, The Delta Group. [1975].
- John Kenny, BSc, Founder and Chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992. [1995].
- Chief Bayo Kuku, BL, LLB, DCL(Hon), President, Nigeria Stock Exchange, 1987-90; currently Principal Partner in legal practice specialising in oil and gas matters. [1995].
- Denise Lievesley, BSc, MSc, Director, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, since 1999. [2001].
- Bryan Lindley, CBE, BSc(Eng), PhD, Chairman, North Lakeland Healthcare NHS Trust; Director, RAPRA Technology Ltd; Chairman, SKAND Systems Ltd; Chairman, Lord Lindley Associates. [1979].
- Jiaxi Lu, BSc, PhD, President, Executive Chairman, Presidium, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Honorary President of Fuzhou University. [1985].
- Jeremy Luckett, BA, Director, Product Management and Strategy, Misys International Banking Systems, since 2003. [1998].
- Roger Lyons, BSc (Econ), Joint General Secretary, AMICUS, since 2001; President, Trades Union Congress, 2003-04. [1996].
- Akinlawon Mabogunje, CON, NNOM, PhD, Chairman, Presidential Technical Committee on Housing and Urban Development, since 2001; Executive Chairman, National Board for Community Banks, 1991-95; Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, 1982-91. [1981].
- John Maynard, OBE, BSc, PhD, formerly Group Managing Director, Healthcare, Amersham International plc. [1997].
- Michael Milner, BSc(Eng), CEng, FIChemE, formerly Director, British Chemical Engineering Contractors Association; formerly Director, Davy Corporation plc. [1978].
- Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan, Baroness of Drefelin in the County of Dyfed, Chief Executive, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, since 1996. [2005].
- Horace Oakley, CBE, FREng, MSc(Eng), formerly Senior Partner of Watson-Hawksley Consulting Engineers [1983].
- Stephen Perry, LLB, Managing Director, London Export Group; Vice-President, China-Britain Trade Group. [1997].
- Michael Phillips, LLB, President and Chief Executive Officer, Frank Russell Company. [2002].
- Jean Rankine, BA, MPhil, Deputy Director, British Museum, 1983-97. [1990].
- Robert Rubin, OBE, LLB, FRSA, FCFI, CIM, Chairman and Chief Executive, Pentland Group plc, since 1969; formerly World President of the Textile Institute and President, World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry. [1995].
- Sir Mortimer Sackler, KBE, MD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Purdue Pharma Company Ltd; Founder and Trustee, Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation. [2003].
- Sir Alfred Shepperd, BSc, formerly Chairman and Chief Executive, Wellcome plc and the Wellcome Foundation Limited. [1986].
- Roger Tomlinson, BSc, MSc, PhD, President, Tomlinson Associates Ltd, Consulting Geographers. [2003].
- WALLACE, Marjorie Shiona, MBE, BA, Chief Executive, SANE, since 1990. [2004].
- Beric Wright, MB, FRCS, MFOM, formerly Chairman, BUPA Medical Centre and Hospitals. [1982].
[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, including in Star Trek: Enterprise
- Trevor Lock – Comedian and actor
- Jeremy Marre, film director
- Mary Nighy – Actress
- Christopher Nolan – Director
- Raj Persaud – Psychiatrist and broadcaster
- Jonathan Ross – Presenter
- Michael Smith (writer) and broadcaster
- Nicholas Vangelis – Writer, Film Director
- Mat Whitecrosx – Film Director
- Alex Zane – Presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian
[edit] Journalists
- Walter Bagehot – former editor of The Economist
- 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
- Richard Holt Hutton – former editor of The Economist
- Nicholas de Jongh – Drama critic, The London Evening Standard
- Mark Lawson – Columnist, The Guardian; radio and television presenter
- Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton – former editor of The Economist
- 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 — former Chief Justice of India (1998-2001)
- Justice Gabriel Bach — former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Justice Samuel Azu Crabbe — former Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977)
- Daniel Fung SC (馮華健) — former Solicitor-General of Hong Kong
- Edwin Glasgow QC — Member of Bloody Sunday Inquiry
- Lord Goldsmith QC — former Attorney General for England and Wales (2001-2007)
- Baron Goodman — leading British lawyer; former Senior Partner, Goodman Derrick LLP
- Hassan Bubacar Jallow — former Attorney-General, Minister of Justice and Judge of the Supreme Court of Gambia; current Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2003-present)
- Sir George Jessel — renowned English jurist; Master of the Rolls (head of the civil division in the Court of Appeal) of England and Wales (1873-1883)
- Simon Li (李福善) — former Vice-President of Court of Appeals (Hong Kong) and first Chinese High Court Judge (Hong Kong)
- Sir Gavin Lightman QC — High Court Judge (Chancery Division), England
- Leonard Sainer — Solicitor and retailer
- Patricia Scotland — current Attorney General for England and Wales (2007-present)
- Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray — former Judge of the High Court of Singapore
- Tan Boon Teik — former Attorney General of Singapore (1969-1992)
- Chao Hick Tin — current Attorney General of Singapore (2006-present)
- Lord Woolf — former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Sir Ti-Liang Yang (楊鐵樑) GBM — former Chief Justice of Hong Kong
- David Childs-Managing partner of Clifford Chance
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Colin Chapman – Founder of Lotus Cars
- Lewis Evans – Scientific instrument collector and businessman
- Patrick Head – Co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1
- Hugh Price Hughes – Methodist Theologian
- Ernest Symons – Civil servant
- Augustus Raymond Margary, diplomat.
- Barry Morgan – Archbishop of Wales
- Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
- Tamara Ecclestone-ex model, daughter of billionare Bernie Ecclestone
- Nicholas Macpherson-serving Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury 2005-
[edit] Medicine
- Sir Donald Acheson, KBE, DM, FRCP, FFPHM, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983-91.
- Albert Geoffrey ALEXANDER, MDS, FDSRCS, FHKAM(Dent.Surg.), formerly Professor of Conservative Dentistry and Dean of University College and Middlesex School of Dentistry. [1986].
- ASHOUR, Baher, MD, M.Sc ENT, M.Sc Audiology for ENT Practice. Alumni contact for Egypt.
- BADERMAN, Howard, OBE, FRCP, FRCS (Ed), JP, formerly Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Accident and Emergency Department, University College Hospital, 1970-2000. [1988].
- BECK, Eric Robert, FRCP, Physician to Whittington Hospital since 1969 and formerly Clinical Tutor and Director of the Academic Centre at the Whittington Hospital. [1993].
- BIGLAND-RITCHIE, Brenda R, BSc, PhD, DSc, Consultant, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, since 1996
- BORRIELLO, Saverio Peter, BSc, PhD, FRCPath, FFPHM, Director of the Specialist and Reference Microbiology Division of the Health Protection Agency [HPA] and HPA Director of Research and Development, since 2003; formerly Director, Central Public Health Laboratory, 1995-2003
- CHAMBERLAIN, Geoffrey Victor Price, RD, MD, FRCS, FRCOG, FACOG(Hon), formerly Professor and Chairman of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George's Hospital Medical School; Lecturer, History of Medicine Unit, Clinical Medical School, Swansea
- CLARK, Dame June, DBE, FRCN, Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea; formerly Professor of Nursing and Director, Centre for Advanced and International Studies in Nursing, Middlesex University, 1994-96; President, Royal College of Nursing, 1990-94
- E EDIDIN, Michael Aaron, BS, PhD, Professor of Biology, Medicine and Pathology, The John Hopkins University, since 1975.
- FLYNN, Frederick Valentine, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology, School of Medicine, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine
- Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn-was a doctor to the British Royal Family.
- GUILLERY, Rainer Walter, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School; formerly Dr Lee’s Professor of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford
- HARRIES, Bernard John, MB, BS, FRCS(Eng), formerly Consultant Surgeon (Neurosurgery), University College Hospital, and Dean of University College Hospital Medical School
- HARRISON, Michael J G, BA, MRCP, FRCP, Emeritus Professor in Clinical Neurology, UCL
- HAWLEY, Peter, FRCS, MS, Consultant Surgeon, St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and Colon since 1970; Consultant Surgeon King Edward VII Hospital for Officers since 1972; Honorary Consultant in colon and rectal surgery to the Army since 1983
- HEAF, Peter Julius Denison, OBE, MD, FRCP, formerly Consultant Physician to University College Hospital, and Physician, Camden Chest Clinic.
- HOLLMAN, Arthur, MD, FRCP, FLS, Consulting Cardiologist, University Hospital; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, UCL.
- HUEHNS, Ernst Reinhard, PhD, MD, MRCPath, FRCP, Emeritus Professor of Haematology and formerly Head of Department of Haematology, UCL
- KENNEDY, Sir Ian McColl, FBA, LLB, LLM, LLD, Hon.DSc(Glasgow), Hon.FRCP, Chairman, Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection; Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Policy, UCL
- LANE, Sir David P BSc, PhD, FRS, FRSE, FRCPath, Chair in Molecular Oncology, University of Dundee and Director, CRC Cell Transformation Research Group, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, since 1990
- LENNARD-JONES, John Edward, MD, FRCP, FRCS, Emeritus Professor of Gastroenterology, Royal London Hospital Medical College; Emeritus Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Marks Hospital, London.
- LEVINSKY, Roland Jacob, BSc, MD, FRCP, FMedSci, Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth; Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology, Institute of Child Health, UCL, 1985-2002; Vice-Provost (Biomedicine) and Head of the Graduate School, UCL, 1999-2002
- MASON, Sir Ronald, KCB, FRS, Chair, UCL Hospitals Charities, since 2004; Chair, UCL Hospitals NHS Trust, 1993-2001
- MOSS, James Percy, PhD, BDS, DOrthRCS, FDRCS, Emeritus Professor of Orthodontics, University College and Middlesex School of Dentistry
- NICHOLSON, Howard, MD, BS, MRCS, FRCP, Physician to University College Hospital
- PATTERSON, David Llewhelin Hood, Vice-Dean of Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL; Consultant Physician and Cardiologist, Whittington Hospital and University College London Hospitals
- PATTISON, Sir John Ridley, KB, MA, DM, FRCPath, formerly Director of Research and Development, Department of Health; formerly Professor of Medical Microbiology, UCL; Dean, UCL Medical School, 1990-99; Vice-Provost, UCL, 1994-99
- PEPYS, Mark Brian, MA, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS, FMedSci, Professor of Medicine, UCL, since 1999; formerly Professor of Immunological Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, and Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
- PERSAUD, Rajendra, MB BS, BSc, Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult and Community Psychiatry, Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Teaching Hospitals and Clinical Tutor to Bethlem & Maudsley Senior House Officers, since 1994
- R RANDLE, Sir Philip, MA, PhD, MD, FRCP, FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975.
- RASHBASS, Barbara, MBBS, DCH, DPH, FRCP, Non-Executive Director, Harrow & Hillingdon Healthcare NHS Trust, since 1998; Development Council Member, Royal National Theatre, since 1998.
- RIDLEY, Dennis Snow, OBE, MD, FRCPath, Emeritus Consultant, University College Group of Hospitals
- RODECK, Charles, BSc, MB BS, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath, FMedSci, Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UCL, since 1990
- ROSS, Eric John, MD, PhD, FRCP, Emeritus Professor of Endocrinology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, 1981
- SOUHAMI, Robert Leon, CBE, MB, BS, MD, FRCP, FRCR, FMedSci, Director of Clinical Research, Cancer Research UK, since 2001; Kathleen Ferrier Professor of Clinical Oncology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, 1987-2001; Principal, Royal Free and University College Medical School, 1999-2001 and Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, UCL, 1997-2001. [1991
- STOKES, Elizabeth Joan [née Rooke], FRCP, Consulting Microbiologist to University College Hospital and formerly Head of Department of Clinical Microbiology
- STROUD, Mike, OBE, Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, since 1998
- SUTTON, Peter Morgan, MB, BS, FRCPath, formerly Director, Public Health Service Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down.
- SWEETNAM, Sir Rodney, KCVO, CBE, FRCS, President, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1995-98; formerly Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Middlesex and University College Hospitals 1960-92; Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Queen 1982-92.
- TURNER-WARWICK, Richard, CBE, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOG, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons
TURNER-WARWICK, Dame Margaret, DBE, MA, DM, PhD, FRCP, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989-92
[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
- Jack Penate Singer/Songwriter
[edit] Politics
- Stephen Aldridge - Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit under Tony Blair, MSc Economics 1982
- Sir Stafford Cripps – Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Baroness Shreela Flather – First female Asian peer
- Mahatma Gandhi – leader of the Indian Independence Movement
- Chaim Herzog – Sixth president of Israel
- Hirobumi Ito – First prime minister of Japan
- Jomo Kenyatta – "Founding father" of Kenya; first Prime Minister and President of Kenya
- Junichiro Koizumi – Former prime minister of Japan
- Lord McNally – Liberal Democrat shadow Home Office spokersperson, House of Lords
- Anil Moonesinghe – Sri LankanTrotskyist 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
- Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, LLB, PhD, MA, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Great Britain since 1992. [2000].
- Robin Baker, CMG, Deputy Director-General, The British Council, since 2002
- Georgina Susan Butler, LLB, H.M. Ambassador to Costa Rica, since 2002
- Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, GGMG, TC, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Lord Hart —British Labour politician Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor.
- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham is a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform as well as at the Foreign Office
- David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham;Secretary of State for Employment (1985-1987); Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1987-1989)
- Terry Davis — current Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Baron Davies of Oldham,Labour member of the House of Lords;Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords (Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard)
[edit] Scientists, mathematicians, statisticians
- Alan Baker- Winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
- Laurence Baxter
- Michael Baxter
- Alexander Graham Bell- Inventor of Telephone
- Sir William Henry Bragg- Winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Francis Crick- Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993) – Statistician
- Roland Dobbs
- Thomas Eckersley – Theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves
- John Ambrose Fleming
- John Fox
- William Timothy Gowers- Winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
- William Stanley Jevons
- Norman Lloyd Johnson
- Dennis Lindley
- Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister - associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine, the mouthwash Listerine is named after him
- Roger Penrose- Winner of the 1988 Wolf Prize
- Adrian Smith (academic)
- John Maynard Smith
- Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer Physiologist
- David Spiegelhalter
- Heinz Wolff
- Klaus Roth-Winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
- W. W. Rouse Ball - Mathematician
- Cyril Hilsum- pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices
[edit] Sports players
- David Gower - Cricketer, former England Captain
- Christine Ohuruogu -Sprinter; Gold Medal, Commonwealth Games
- Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent - Cricketer, England Women's
[edit] Writers
- Mulk Raj Anand – Pioneer of the English novel in India
- Raymond Briggs
- Robert Browning
- G. K. Chesterton
- Paul Cornell (did not graduate)
- David Crystal
- Ken Follet
- Clare Francis
- David Lodge
- David Magarshack – Biographer and Translator of Russian authors
- Jonathan Miller
- Jon de Burgh Miller
- Gladys Mitchell
- Bel Mooney
- Blake Morrison
- Ernest Satow – After whom the Chair of Japanese Law at UCL is named
- Jim Smith
- Michael Smith (writer), author of The Giro Playboy etc
- Marie Stopes
- Rabindranath Tagore – Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature
- Ken Wiwa
- Guy de la Bédoyère – British historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain, and has appeared regularly on Time Team.
[edit] Fictional
- Nick Guest, protagonist of the Booker Prize winning The Line of Beauty
- Frank Spencer (of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em)[citation needed]
