List of University of London people
The following people spent time at the University of London as either teaching staff or students.
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:
Physics
Chemistry
Physiology or Medicine
Economics
Nobel Peace Prize
Literature
Politicians and Heads of State
Monarchs
Presidents and Prime Ministers
- Hossein Ala' – Prime Minister of Iran
- Harmodio Arias – President of Panama, 1932-1936 (LSE)
- Óscar Arias – President of Costa Rica, 1986 – 1990, 2006 – Present (LSE)
- Marouf al-Bakhit – Prime Minister of Jordan, 2005-2007 (KCL)
- Errol Walton Barrow - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962–1966, 1966–1976, 1986-1987 (LSE)
- Sükhbaataryn Batbold - Prime Minister of Mongolia, 2009–present (LBS)
- Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz - Prime Minister of Iraq, 1965-1966 (KCL)
- Marek Belka - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-2005 (LSE)
- Godfrey Binaisa - President of Uganda, 1979-1980 (KCL)
- Heinrich Brüning - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932 (LSE)
- Kim Campbell - Prime Minister of Canada, June–November 1993 (LSE)
- Eugenia Charles - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995 (LSE)
- John Compton - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964–1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February–July 1979 & 1982-1996 (LSE)
- Sher Bahadur Deuba - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995–1997, 2001–2002, 2004-2005 (LSE)
- Luisa Diogo - Prime Minister of Mozambique, 1991-1992 (SOAS)
- Bülent Ecevit - Former Prime Minister of Turkey (SOAS)
- Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961 (LSE)
- Rajiv Gandhi - Prime Minister of India 1984-1989 (ICL)
- Chaim Herzog – President of Israel 1983-1993 (UCL)
- Hirobumi Ito – Prime Minister of Japan, 1885–1888, 1892–1896, 1898, 1900-1901 (UCL)
- John F. Kennedy - President of the United States of America 1961-1963 (LSE)
- Jomo Kenyatta - First President of Kenya, 1964-1978 (LSE)
- Mwai Kibaki - President of Kenya, 2002–present (LSE)
- Glafkos Klerides, President of Cyprus, 1993–2003 (KCL)
- Junichiro Koizumi - Prime Minister of Japan, 2001-2006 ( UCL)
- Thanin Kraivichien - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977 (LSE)
- Yu Kuo-Hwa - Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989 (LSE)
- Hilla Limann - President of Ghana, 1979-1981 (LSE)
- Alfonso López Pumarejo - President of Colombia, 1934–1938, 1942-1945 (LSE)
- Ramsay MacDonald - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1924, 1929-1935 (BBK)
- Michael Manley - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972–1980, 1989-1992 (LSE)
- Kamisese Mara - 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 - President of Zimbabwe (ULIP)
- Kocheril Raman Narayanan - President of India, 1997-2002 (LSE)
- Kwame Nkrumah - President of Ghana, 1960-1966 (LSE)
- Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus, 2003-2008 (KCL)
- Percival Patterson - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-2006 (LSE)
- Sir Lynden Pindling, Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 1969-1992 (KCL)
- Romano Prodi - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996–1998, 2006–present, President of the European Commission, 1999-2004 (LSE)
- Navinchandra Ramgoolam - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000 (LSE)
- France-Albert René, Prime Minister of Seychelles 1976–1977, and President of Seychelles 1977-2004 (KCL)
- Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo - First President of Mauritius, March–June 1992 (LSE)
- Moshe Sharett - Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955 (LSE)
- Constantine Simitis - Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004 (LSE)
- Anote Tong - President of Kiribati, 2003–present (LSE)
- Pierre Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada, 1968–1979, 1980-1984 (LSE)
- Robert Fico - Current Prime Minister of Slovakia. (UCL)
- Ahmad Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo - Current President of the Republic of Somaliland (LSE)
Other prominent political figures
- Elliott Abrams – American politician (LSE)
- Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison - British minister (QMUL)
- B. R. Ambedkar - Indian independence leader, minister and anti-caste system activist (LSE)
- Francis Black - Canadian cabinet minister (KCL)
- Cherie Booth – wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (LSE)
- Ed Broadbent – Canadian political leader (LSE)
- Dame Lois Browne-Evans – Bermudian opposition leader (KCL)
- Maragatham Chandrasekhar – Indian Cabinet Minister (KCL)
- Michael Collins – Irish independence leader (KCL)
- Sir John Cockburn - Premier of South Australia
- Abdulai Conteh – Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL)
- Sir Stafford Cripps – Former Chancellor of the Exchequer (UCL)
- Edwina Currie – British minister (LSE)
- Hugh Dalton – Chancellor of the Exchequer (LSE)
- Joseph B. Dauda - Sierra Leonean Finance Minister (KCL)
- Kemal Derviş – Turkish politician and senior UN administrator
- Frank Dobson – British minister (LSE)
- Mahatma Gandhi - Indian Independence Leader (UCL)
- Mark Grossman – American Under Secretary of State
- Sir Sydney Gun-Munro - Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (KCL)
- Peter Hain - British minister and anti-apartheid campaigner (QMUL)
- Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell – Lord Chancellor (UCL)
- Ruth Kelly – British minister (LSE)
- Horace Maybray King, Baron Maybray-King Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL)
- Tessa Jowell - British minister (GCUL)
- William Joyce - wartime propagandist (BBK)
- Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – Pakistani Foreign Minister (KCL)
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – son of US Senator Robert Kennedy and environmental activist (LSE)
- David Lammy - British minister (SOAS)
- Emily Lau – Hong Kong political leader (LSE)
- Ambrose Lau - Hong Kong political leader
- James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater Speaker of the House of Commons (KCL)
- John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market - Leader of the House of Commons (KCL)
- Ann Dore McLaughlin - U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Anne McLellan - Canadian cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (KCL)
- Ken Michael – governor of Western Australia (ICL)
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner - British Cabinet Minister (KCL)
- Francis Minah – Vice President of Sierra Leone (KCL)
- David Owen, Baron Owen of Plymouth – British Foreign Secretary (KCL)
- Alice Paul – American suffragist (LSE)
- Jacques Parizeau – Premier of Quebec (LSE)
- Richard Perle – American political advisor (LSE)
- Enoch Powell - British minister and right-wing politician (SOAS)
- S. Rajaratnam - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Cabinet minister (KCL)
- Sir Shridath Ramphal - Commonwealth Secretary-General and Guyanan Foreign Minister (KCL)
- Paul Robeson - American athlete, actor, singer and civil rights activist (SOAS)
- Walter Rodney – Guyanese activist (SOAS)
- Robert Rubin – U.S. Treasury Secretary
- Sir Ernest Satow - British diplomat (UCL)
- Stephen Smith - Australian politician
- Robert Sobukwe – South African political dissident
- Marie Stopes – family planning and eugenics campaigner (UCL)
- Gisela Stuart - Member of Parliament, England (Birmingham Edgbaston) (ULIP)
- Goh Keng Swee - deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (LSE)
- Teo Chee Hean – Singaporean minister (ICL)
- Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson - Minister of Defence (KCL)
- Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield - British Cabinet Minister (BBK & KCL)
- David Welch – American Assistant Secretary of State
- David Wilson - Governor of Hong Kong
- Lord Woolf - Chief Justice of England and Wales (UCL)
- Rais Yatim – Malaysian Foreign Minister (KCL)
- Rafiq Zakaria - Indian politician
Other Prominent Royalty
Clergy and Religious Figures
Scientists and Mathematicians
Physicists
Biologists and Botanists
Immunologists
Chemists
Mathematicians
Geographers and Geologists
Psychologists, Sociologists and Anthropologists
Physicians and Physiologists
Engineers and Inventors
The arts
Novelists, Poets and Playwrights
Actors, Comedians and TV Stars
Directors and Film-Makers
Musicians, Composers and Conductors
Artists
Philosophers
Economists
Journalists
Sportspersons
Historians
Businesspeople
Others
References
- ^ Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. p. 209. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3.
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