List of Birkbeck, University of London people
A list of Birkbeck, University of London people, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows.
Current and former faculty
- Anthony Bale, medievalist
- Julia Bell, author
- Derek Barton, organic chemist and Nobel Laureate for chemistry
- Antony Beevor, historian
- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, professor and Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1948
- Sir Tom Blundell, crystallographer, FRS
- David Bohm, quantum physicist
- Andrew Donald Booth, head of Numerical Automation
- C. Delisle Burns (1879-1942), atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
- Ian Christie, professor of film and media history
- Steven Connor, professor
- Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology
- Diana Coole, social scientist
- Costas Douzinas, law professor
- T. S. Eliot, Nobel Laureate for Literature 1948, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
- Hilda Ellis Davidson, academic and english antiquarian
- Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge
- Dame Millicent Fawcett, suffragist
- Orlando Figes, history professor
- Ben Fine, professor
- Rosalind Franklin, crystallographer
- Hugh Gaitskell, lecturer
- A. C. Grayling, philosopher
- Richard Hamblyn, lecturer in creative writing
- Vanessa Harding, professor of London history
- Basil Hiley, quantum physicist and emeritus professor
- Paul Hirst, professor
- Thomas Hodgskin, lecturer in economic theory
- Kenneth Holmes, crystallographer
- C. E. M. Joad, Reader in Philosophy, author and popular broadcaster
- Mark Johnson, professor
- Charlotte Jolles, Professor, historian
- Russell Celyn Jones, professor
- Annette Karmiloff-Smith, professor
- Anthony Julius, vsiting professor
- Aaron Klug, crystallographer and Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, 1982
- Toby Litt, author, lecturer
- Joni Lovenduski, political scientist
- Mark Mazower, professor
- Louis Mordell, researcher in mathematics
- Laura Mulvey, professor of film and media studies
- Jeremy K. Nicholson, professor of biological chemistry
- Roger Penrose, theoretical physicist
- Nikolaus Pevsner, professor
- Ben Pimlott, professor
- Lucy Riall, historian
- Roger Scruton, professor
- Lynne Segal, professor
- Colin Teevan, professor of playwriting
- Dame Janet Thornton, structural bioinformatics, FRS, Director EBI
- Li Wei, academic, linguist
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, lecturer, composer
- Tony Wright, politician, distinguished professor at Birkbeck
- Slavoj Žižek, philosopher
Presidents and Masters
- Joan Bakewell, broadcaster, critic, President of Birkbeck College
- Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, Master of the College, Vice-Chancellor of University of Greenwich
- George Birkbeck (1776–1841), doctor, philanthropist and founder of Birkbeck
- Kenneth Hare, Master of the College
- Eric Hobsbawm, President of the college, Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism
- John Francis Lockwood, Master of Birkbeck College 1951-1965; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1955-1958
- John Redcliffe Maud, Master of the College
- Timothy O'Shea, Master of the College, Principal of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni
- Chris Abani, writer
- Marian Bell, economist; current member of the Monetary Policy Committee
- Luciana Berger, politician and Member of Parliament
- J. D. Bernal, pioneer of X-ray crystallography
- Annie Besant, theosophist
- Simon Bird, actor and comedian
- Alex Corbisiero, England and British Lions Rugby Player
- Beth Cordingly, actress
- David Cox, statistician
- Bernard Crick, political theorist
- Juliet Davenport, businesswoman
- Alan Davey, civil servant; current Chief executive of British Arts Council
- Edward Davey, politician and Member of Parliament
- Dido, singer
- Jennifer Donnelly, writer
- Samir El-Youssef, writer
- Tracey Emin, artist
- Nissim Ezekiel, professor, poet
- Mark Fox, journalist and public policy analyst
- Marcus Garvey, founder Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
- Julia Goldsworthy, politician; former Liberal Democrat MP for Falmouth and Camborne
- Bear Grylls, adventurer, author and television presenter
- John Joseph Haldane, philosopher
- Frank Hartley, vice-chancellor of the university
- Zhu Hua, applied linguist
- Vernon Ingram, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Paul Johnson, economist
- William Joyce, deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists, Nazi wartime broadcaster and convicted traitor[1]
- James Lovelock, developer of the Gaia Hypothesis
- Ramsay MacDonald, politician; first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- John McDonnell, politician
- Denis MacShane, politician
- Leonard Mandel, nuclear physicist
- Ehsan Masood, science writer and editor of Research Fortnight
- Ernest Millington, politician
- Lisa Nandy, politician and Member of Parliament
- Jesse Norman, politician and Member of Parliament
- Nerina Pallot, singer
- Nick Palmer, politician and former Member of Parliament
- Arthur Wing Pinero, actor, stage director and dramatist
- Daisy Ridley, actress
- J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
- Jenny Rowe, Chief Executive, UK Supreme Court
- Richard Sambrook, broadcaster, formerly director of the BBC World
- Frank Sando, former International Cross-Country Champion
- Andy Saull, rugby player
- Helen Sharman, chemist and cosmonaut
- Joost Smiers, academic
- Nick Smith, politician
- Vaughan Smith, soldier, journalist, cameraman, and social entrepreneur
- Laura Solomon, writer
- William Stanley, inventor, engineer and philanthropist
- Kim Thomson, stage, film and television actress
- Laurie Taylor, sociologist
- Tracey Thorn, pop star, singer with Everything but the Girl
- Ronald Tress, economist
- Kitty Ussher, British economist and former Labour Party politician
- Rob Williams, rower, gold medallist in the 2012 Olympics
- Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, founder of the London School of Economics
- Wai Hnin Pwint Thon , a Burmese Muslim Political Activist
- Sonia Singh - Indian-Norwegian model and beauty queen
Fellows
- Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Kingston and Surbiton
- Frank Dobson, Labour politician
- Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist
- Sir Richard J. Evans, historian
- Julia Goodfellow, former Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Sir Peter Lampl, educationalist and philanthropist, founder of the Sutton Trust
- Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
References
- ↑ "Joyce Appellant; and Director of Public Prosecutions" (PDF). House of Lords. 1946. p. 1. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
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