List of University of London people
The following people spent time at the University of London as either teaching staff or students.
BBK | Birkbeck |
GCUL | Goldsmiths, University of London |
HEY | Heythrop College |
ICL | Imperial College London |
KCL | King's College London |
LI | Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine |
LBS | London Business School |
LSE | London School of Economics |
QMUL | Queen Mary, University of London |
RAM | Royal Academy of Music |
RHUL | Royal Holloway, University of London |
SGUL | St George's, University of London |
SOAS | School of Oriental and African Studies |
UCL | University College London |
ULIP | University of London International Programmes |
Nobel Laureates
There are a total of 74 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 | 26 |
London School of Economics | 17 |
Imperial College London | 15 |
King's College London | 12 |
Queen Mary, University of London | 4 |
University of London International Programmes | 7 |
Birkbeck, University of London | 4 |
School of Oriental and African Studies | 1 |
Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine | 3 |
Politicians and Heads of State
Monarchs
- Tuanku Jaafar - King of Malaysia, 1994-1999 (LSE)
- Letsie III of Lesotho - King of Lesotho
- Margrethe II of Denmark - Queen of Denmark, 1972–present (LSE)
- Sultan Salahuddin – King of Malaysia 1999-2001 (SOAS)
Presidents and Prime Ministers
- Hossein Ala' – Prime Minister of Iran
- A.N.R. Robinson - Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1986-1981, and President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997-2003
- 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)
- Ellis Clarke - Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1976-1987 (UCL)
- 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 Beltrán Espantoso - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961 (LSE)
- Robert Fico - Current Prime Minister of Slovakia (UCL)
- 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)
- Glafcos 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)
- Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud - President of Somaliland (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)
- Basdeo Panday - Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1995-2001
- 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)
Other prominent political figures
- Elliott Abrams – American politician (LSE)
- Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison - British minister (QMUL)
- B. R. Ambedkar - Architect Indian Constitution, Indian independence leader, minister and anti-caste system activist (LSE)
- Obed Asamoah – Ghanaian Foreign Minister (KCL)
- Ziad Bahaa-Eldin - Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt (KCL)
- Cherie Booth – wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (LSE)
- Martin Bourke - Governor of The Turks and Caicos Islands (KCL)
- 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)
- Marlene Malahoo Forte - Jamaican Foreign Minister (KCL)
- Natalia Gherman - Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova (KCL)
- 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
- William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel - Governor General of Ghana (KCL)
- 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 - 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)
- Nikolay Mladenov – Bulgarian Foreign Minister (KCL)
- James Nyamweya – Kenyan Foreign Minister (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)
- Hayashi Tadasu – Japanese Foreign Minister (KCL)
- 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
- Frederick Wills - Guyanan Foreign Minister (KCL)
- David Wilson - Governor of Hong Kong
- Lord Woolf – Chief Justice of England and Wales (UCL)
- Abdi Yusuf Hassan – Somali politician and diplomat
- Rais Yatim – Malaysian Foreign Minister (KCL)
- Rafiq Zakaria – Indian politician
Other Prominent Royalty
- Haakon Magnus – Crown Prince of Norway (LSE)
- Mette-Marit – Crown Princess of Norway (SOAS)
- Abdulaziz bin Turki al Faisal– Grandson of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (SOAS)
Clergy and Religious Figures
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad- Khalifatul Masih IV, Caliph(Imam)IV of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- Alan Campbell - controversial Pentecostal pastor
- George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton – Archbishop of Canterbury (KCL)
- Robert William Dale – Nonconformist church leader
- Mark Elvins - Capuchin friar (HEY)
- Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, New Testament scholar, Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary
- Bernard Lonergan - theologian, philosopher and economist (HEY)
- Michael Anthony Moxon - Dean of Truro Cathedral (HEY)
- John Anthony McGuckin - Orthodox priest and poet (HEY)
- Njongonkulu Ndungane – Archbishop of Cape Town (KCL)
- Sir Jonathan Sacks – Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (KCL)
- Lindsay Urwin - Bishop of Horsham (HEY)
- Oliver D. Crisp (KCL)
Nobel Peace Prize
- Óscar Arias (LSE)
- Ralph Bunche (LSE)
- Nelson Mandela (ULIP)
- Philip Noel-Baker (LSE)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (SOAS)
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (KCL)
- Wole Soyinka (ULIP)
Literature
- Bertrand Russell (LSE)
- George Bernard Shaw (LSE)
- Rabindranath Tagore (UCL)
- T. S. Eliot (BBK)
- Wole Soyinka (ULIP)
- Derek Walcott (ULIP)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (KCL)
Scientists and Mathematicians
Biologists and Botanists
- David Bellamy (KCL & RHUL)
- W.D. Hamilton (LSE)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (ICL)
- Robert Swinhoe
- Katherine Warington (RHUL)
Chemists
- G Marius Clore (UCL)
- Sir William Crookes (ICL)
- John Frederic Daniell (KCL)
- Sir Edward Frankland (QMUL & ICL)
- Rosalind Franklin (KCL & BBK)
- Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (ICL & BBK)
- Otto Hahn (UCL)
- Sir Walter Haworth (ICL)
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (UCL)
- Sir Graham Hills (BBK)
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann (ICL)
- Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (ICL)
- Sir Aaron Klug (BBK)
- Michael Levitt (KCL)
- Sir William Henry Perkin (ICL)
- William Henry Perkin, Jr. (ICL)
- Sir George Porter (ICL/UCL)
- Juda Hirsch Quastel (ICL)
- Sir William Ramsay (UCL)
- Sir Robert Robinson (UCL)
- Sir Frederick Soddy (UCL)
- Richard Laurence Millington Synge (LI)
- Alexander Robertus Todd (LI)
- Vincent du Vigneaud (UCL)
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (ICL)
Engineers and Inventors
- Rutherford Aris
- Ayodele Awojobi (ICL)
- Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (ICL)
- Alexander Graham Bell (UCL)
- Donald Watts Davies (ICL)
- James H. Ellis (ICL)
- Sir Stanley Hooker (ICL)
- Sir Alec Issigonis (ULIP)
- Frederick William Lanchester (ICL)
- Alec Reeves (ICL)
- Sir Charles Wheatstone (KCL)
- Tommy Flowers
Geographers and Geologists
- William Fyfe (ICL)
- Arthur Holmes (ICL)
- David Linton (KCL)
- Sir Charles Lyell (KCL)
- Halford John Mackinder (LSE)
- Charles F. Newcombe
- Sir Dudley Stamp (KCL)
- Sir Gilbert Walker (ICL)
- Sidney Wooldridge (KCL)
- John Anthony Allan (SOAS and KCL)
Immunologists
- Anne O'Garra (UCL)
Mathematicians
- Sir David Cox (BBK & ICL)
- Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (LSE)
- Simon Donaldson (ICL)
- Patrick du Val (ULIP)
- Louis Mordell (BBK)
- Klaus Roth (UCL & ICL)
- Tom Willmore (KCL)
Psychologists, Sociologists and Anthropologists
- Akbar S. Ahmed (SOAS)
- Fei Xiaotong (LSE)
- Anthony Giddens (LSE)
- David Hirsh
- Satoshi Kanazawa (LSE)
- Bronislaw Malinowski (LSE)
- Karl Mannheim (LSE)
- Z.K. Mathews (LSE)
- Humphry Osmond (KCL)
- Talcott Parsons (LSE)
- J. Philippe Rushton (BBK)
- Arthur Waley (SOAS)
Physicians
- Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham (ICL)
- David Blow (ICL)
- Dr Thomas Bond (KCL)
- Michael Foster (UCL)
- Henry Gray (SGUL)
- Thomas Hodgkin (KCL)
- John Hunter (SGUL)
- William Hunter (SGUL)
- Edward Jenner (SGUL)
- Joseph Lister (KCL)
- Sir Victor Ewings Negus (KCL)
- Florence Nightingale (KCL)
- Patrick Steptoe (SGUL)
- Robert Winston, Baron Winston (ICL)
Physicists
- Sir Edward Appleton (KCL)
- Charles Barkla (KCL)
- J. D. Bernal (BBK)
- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (ICL)
- Sir William Henry Bragg (UCL)
- Jocelyn Burnell (UCL)
- Louis Essen
- Sir John Ambrose Fleming (UCL)
- Dennis Gabor (ICL)
- Raymond Gosling (KCL)
- Peter Higgs (KCL)
- Charles K. Kao (UCL/ICL)
- Geraint F. Lewis
- Kathleen Lonsdale (RHUL & UCL)
- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (ICL)
- James Clerk Maxwell (KCL)
- David Pearson, Computer Scientist (ICL)
- William George Penney (ICL)
- Sir Owen Richardson (KCL)
- Abdus Salam (ICL)
- Simon Singh (ICL)
- Duncan Steel
- Edward Teller (UCL)
- Sir George Paget Thomson (ICL)
- Thomas Young (SGUL)
The arts
Novelists, Poets and Playwrights
- Richard Aldington (UCL)
- Mulk Raj Anand (UCL)
- Alfred Austin
- James Graham Ballard
- Arnold Bennett
- Alain de Botton (KCL)
- Sir Malcolm Bradbury (QMUL)
- Raymond Briggs (UCL)
- Anita Brookner (KCL)
- Robert Browning (UCL)
- G. K. Chesterton (UCL)
- Arthur C. Clarke (KCL)
- Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (RHUL)
- Bernard Cornwell
- Richmal Crompton (RHUL)
- George Eliot (RHUL)
- T. S. Eliot (BBK)
- Nissim Ezekiel (BBK)
- C. S. Forester (KCL)
- Ann Granger
- Radclyffe Hall (KCL)
- Thomas Hardy (KCL)
- Susan Hill (KCL)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (QMUL)
- John Keats (KCL)
- Charles Kingsley (KCL)
- Hanif Kureishi (KCL)
- W. Somerset Maugham (KCL)
- Michael Morpurgo (KCL)
- Andrew Motion (RHUL)
- China Miéville (LSE)
- Gladys Mitchell (GCUL)
- John Ruskin (KCL)
- Lao She (SOAS)
- Sir Leslie Stephen (KCL)
- H. G. Wells (ICL & ULIP)
- Virginia Woolf (KCL)
- Samir El-Youssef
Actors, Comedians and TV Stars
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (KCL)
- Sir David Attenborough (LSE)
- Rory Bremner (KCL)
- Graham Chapman (QMUL)
- Julian Clary (GCUL)
- Nazia Hassan (GCUL)
- Zoheb Hassan (GCUL)
- Greer Garson (GCUL)
- Ricky Gervais (UCL)
- Lloyd Grossman (LSE)
- Harry Hill (SGUL)
- Emma Freud (RHUL)
- Dom Joly (SOAS)
- Boris Karloff
- Robert Kilroy-Silk (LSE)
- Bill O'Reilly (QMUL)
- Devika Rani (RAM)
- Mark Strong (RHUL)
Directors and Film-Makers
- Derek Jarman (KCL)
- Laura Mulvey (BBK)
- Christopher Nolan (UCL)
Musicians, Composers and Conductors
- Sir John Barbirolli – conductor (RAM)
- Arnold Bax - composer (RAM)
- Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - composer (RAM)
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle - composer (RAM & KCL)
- Dennis Brain – French hornist (RAM)
- Bernard Butler – Suede (QMUL)
- John Cale – The Velvet Underground (GCUL)
- Coldplay members Chris Martin, Will Champion, and Jon Buckland (UCL)
- Sir Clifford Curzon – pianist (RAM)
- John Dankworth – jazz composer (RAM)
- John Deacon – Queen (KCL)
- Pete Doherty - The Libertines (QMUL)
- Adam Dick – Two Crown King (LSE)
- Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden (QMUL)
- Lesley Garrett – soprano (RAM)
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner - conductor (KCL)
- Sir W. S. Gilbert – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan (KCL)
- Evelyn Glennie - percussionist (RAM)
- Dame Myra Hess – pianist (RAM)
- Joe Jackson (RAM)
- Mick Jagger – The Rolling Stones (LSE)
- Alex James – Blur (GCUL)
- Sir Elton John (RAM)
- Linton Kwesi Johnson (GCUL)
- Judge Jules – trance DJ, BBC Radio 1 (LSE)
- Dame Felicity Lott – soprano (RHUL & RAM)
- Brian May - Queen (ICL)
- Brian Molko – Placebo (GCUL)
- Michael Nyman – composer (KCL & RAM)
- Kele Okereke - Bloc Party (KCL)
- Denise Orme – music hall singer (RAM)
- Mat Osman - Suede (LSE)
- Sir Simon Rattle – conductor (RAM)
- Sir Arthur Sullivan – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan (RAM)
- Jody Talbot – composer (RHUL)
- Adnan Sami (KCL)
- KT Tunstall - singer-songwriter (RHUL)
- Dame Eva Turner – opera singer (RAM)
- Maxim Vengerov – violinist (RAM)
- Sir Henry Wood - conductor (RAM)
- Dido (singer) - singer and songwriter (BBK)
Artists
- Bernd Behr (GCUL)
- Ian Davenport (GCUL)
- Grenville Davey (GCUL)
- Tracey Emin (BBK)
- Anya Gallaccio (GCUL)
- Damien Hirst (GCUL)
- Gary Hume (GCUL)
- Michael Landy (GCUL)
- Sarah Lucas (GCUL)
- Wendy McMurdo (GCUL)
- Steve McQueen (GCUL)
- Cathy de Monchaux (GCUL)
- Simon Patterson (GCUL)
- Mary Quant – fashion designer (GCUL)
- Bridget Riley (GCUL)
- Mark Wallinger (GCUL)
- Gillian Wearing (GCUL)
- Catherine Yass (GCUL)
Businesspeople
- Sir David Arculus - Chairman of the Board O2 (LBS)
- Delphine Arnault - billionaire French businesswoman (LSE)
- Walter Owen Bentley – founder of Bentley Motors (KCL)
- Kumar Mangalam Birla - Chairman of Aditya Birla Group (LBS)
- Michael Cowpland – founder of Corel (ICL)
- Clara Furse - Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)
- Calouste Gulbenkian - Armenian oil magnate (KCL)
- Sir Richard Greenbury - former Chairman and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer (LBS)
- Stelios Haji-Ioannou – founder of EasyGroup (LSE)
- Huw Jenkins - CEO of UBS Investment Bank (LBS)
- Spiro Latsis - billionaire (LSE)
- Charles Lee - Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (LSE)
- Sir Deryck Maughan – CEO and Chairman of Salomon Brothers (KCL)
- Eric Nicoli - CEO of EMI (KCL)
- Jorma Ollila – Former CEO of Nokia (LSE)
- Gary Tanaka (founder of Amerindo)(ICL)
- David E. Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian) (ICL)
- Danny Lui (founder of Lenovo) (ICL)
- Sir Ralph Robins (CEO of Rolls-Royce) (ICL)
- Chew Choon Seng (CEO of Singapore Airlines) (ICL)
- David Rockefeller - American billionaire and business tycoon (LSE)
- Iain Conn (Group Managing Director of BP) (ICL)
- Derek Pannell (CEO of Noranda) (ICL)
- David Sullivan – media magnate, football club owner and pornographer (QMUL)
- Colin Dyer (CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle) (ICL)
- Maurice Saatchi – founder of Saatchi and Saatchi (LSE)
- Leslie Hudson (CEO of DOV Pharmaceutical) (ICL)
- Janet Lang (Business Administration)
- Winston Wong (businessman) (ICL)
- Sir Richard Sykes - chairman of GlaxoSmithKline (KCL)
- Keith Duckworth (Founder of Cosworth Engineering) (ICL)
- Michael Birch (Founder of Bebo) (ICL)
- Chris Delay, Mark Morris and Thomas Arundel, who formed game developer Introversion Software (ICL)
- Koh Boon Hwee (Chairman of DBS Bank, Singapore)(ICL)
- George Soros – financial speculator and philanthropist (LSE)
- Stephen Bernard Streater - founder of Eidos (KCL)
- Tony Wheeler - founder of Lonely Planet (LBS)
- Flint McGlaughlin - American academic and business leader, founder of MECLABS (HEY)
Economists
- George Akerlof (LSE)
- Sir Roy Allen (LSE)
- Kenneth Binmore (ICL)
- Ronald Coase (ULIP & LSE)
- Robert F. Engle III (LSE)
- Friedrich von Hayek (LSE)
- James Heckman (UCL)
- Sir John Hicks (LSE)
- Leonid Hurwicz (LSE)
- William Stanley Jevons (UCL)
- Charles Kennedy (ICL)
- Israel Kirzner (ULIP)
- Mervyn King (LSE)
- Paul Krugman (LSE)
- Sir Arthur Lewis (LSE)
- James Meade (LSE)
- Merton Miller (LSE)
- Robert Mundell (LSE)
- Christopher Pissarides (LSE)
- Lionel Robbins (LSE)
- Amartya Sen (LSE)
- Nicholas Stern (LSE)
- Janet Yellen (LSE)
Historians
- Ram Sharan Sharma eminent Historian of Ancient India
- Antony Beevor (BBK)
- Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (ULIP)
- Richard J. Evans (BBK)
- Orlando Figes (BBK)
- Eric Hobsbawm (BBK)
- David Irving (ICL)
- Bernard Lewis (SOAS)
- Desmond Morton (LSE)
- Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (BBK)
- Ben Pimlott (BBK)
- David Rohl (UCL)
- George Albert Wells (BBK)
- Conrad Russell (UCL)
- David Cannadine (UL)
- Arnaldo Momigliano (UCL)
Journalists
- Martin Bashir (KCL)
- Edward Greenspon (LSE)
- Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson (KCL)
- Charles Franklin Hildebrand (United States)
- Bernard Levin (LSE)
- Michael Lewis (LSE)
- Trevor Phillips (ICL)
- Richard Sambrook (BBK)
- Laurie Taylor (BBK)
- Xiao Qian (SOAS)
Judges and Lawyers
- Salahuddin Ahmad - Attorney General of Bangladesh (LSE)
- Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed - former Attorney General of Bangladesh (LSE)
- Albert Venn Dicey – English jurist (ICL)
- Gilbert Walter King - Judge of the British Supreme Court for China
- Sir George Jessel – English jurist (UCL)
- Mustafa Kamal - former Chief Justice of Bangladesh (LSE)
- Anthony Kennedy – American Supreme Court justice (LSE)
- Thomas Mesereau – American defence attorney (LSE)
- Shabtai Rosenne - International Law professor
- Meir Shamgar - President of the Israel Supreme Court
- Sir Skinner Turner - Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China
Philosophers
- William Warren Bartley (LSE)
- Nick Bostrom (LSE)
- Nancy Cartwright (LSE)
- Andrea Christofidou (BBK)
- Daniel Dennett (LSE)
- Paul Feyerabend (LSE)
- Raimond Gaita (KCL)
- Ernest Gellner (LSE)
- Jonathan Glover (KCL)
- John Gray (LSE)
- A. C. Grayling (BBK)
- C. E. M. Joad (BBK)
- Peter J. King (BBK)
- Imre Lakatos (LSE)
- David Miller (LSE)
- Alan Musgrave (LSE)
- Michael Oakeshott (LSE)
- Sir Karl Popper (LSE)
- John Ralston Saul (KCL)
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (SOAS)
- Bertrand Russell (LSE)
- Mark Sainsbury (KCL)
- Roger Scruton (BBK)
- Jeremy Shearmur (LSE)
- Elliott Sober (LSE)
Sportspersons
- Louis Attrill – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (ICL)
- Roger Bannister – first to run the four-minute mile (ICL)
- Simon Dennis – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (ICL)
- Hugh Lindsay – English amateur footballer who played for Southampton and appeared in the 1960 Summer Olympics[1]
- Kieran West - Olympic gold medallist, rowing (KCL)
Others
- Nancy Rothwell - academic (KCL)
- Devendra Prasad Gupta - academic (KCL)
- James Barrett (academic) - academic (KCL)
- Thomas John Barnardo – philanthropist (QMUL)
- Hedley Bull – International Relations academic (LSE)
- Alex Comfort – writer of "The Joy of Sex" (UCL)
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri - International Relations academic (LSE), (ICwS)
- Quentin Crisp – writer, actor and raconteur (KCL)
- Michael Halliday - linguist
- John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton - Head of the British Army (KCL)
- Reginald Johnston – teacher of Puyi (SOAS)
- Md. Joynul Abedin - Educationist and Trainer of Bangladesh, awarded with the Prime Minister's Gold Medal as the Best PTI Instructor of the country (IOE)
- David Livingstone - explorer (ICL)
- Linda Norgrove – kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and killed in rescue effort
- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – criminal and terrorist (LSE)
- José Graziano da Silva – agronomist, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (ILAS)