This is a list of notable individuals associated with University College London. | Contents - 1 Former staff
- 2 Alumni
- 2.1 Academics
- 2.2 Architects, artists, and designers
- 2.3 Banking, business and commercial figures
- 2.4 Charity sector figures
- 2.5 Civil servants, government employees, heads of state, politicians and royalty
- 2.6 Cultural management and heritage professionals
- 2.7 Engineers, mathematicians, scientists and statisticians
- 2.8 Explorers
- 2.9 Hospitality and catering professionals
- 2.10 Lawyers and judges
- 2.11 Literary figures
- 2.12 Media professionals in film, television, theatre and radio
- 2.13 Editors, journalists and publishers
- 2.14 Medical figures
- 2.15 Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators
- 2.16 Philanthropists and religious figures
- 2.17 Sporting figures
- 3 Fictional alumni
- 4 Current staff
- 5 References
| [edit] Former staff [edit] Art, Architecture and Design [edit] Chemical sciences [edit] Nobel laureates [edit] Engineering sciences [edit] Languages and Literature - John Austin- Professor of Jurisprudence, a major foundational figure for legal theory.
- Ronald Dworkin - Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy, formerly Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, major figure in jurisprudence, critic of legal positivism.
- Baron Woolf - Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, studied at UCL Law dept. and taught as a visiting professor.
- John Stewart Mill - Attended UCL to study with John Austin, major political philosopher.[2]
- Professor Bin Cheng - Professor of Aviation Law, UCL and son of F.T. Cheng a.k.a Cheng T'ien-Hsi
- F.T. Cheng a.k.a Cheng T'ien-Hsi [his connection to the Law is?]
- Sir Hugh Laddie - former 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] Mathematical, Physical and Space Sciences [edit] Nobel laureate [edit] Life Sciences - Dame Carol Black, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the Royal College of Physicians
- John Collins, later Professor at Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (1986 - 2010). He pioneered gene cloning technology with Barbara Hohn (cosmids), founding member of HUGO
- Alex Comfort, Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, The Joy of Sex
- C. Robin Ganellin, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of cimetidine
- Mitchell Glickstein, Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
- J. B. S. Haldane, Professor of Genetics (1933–57). He was one of the founders of population genetics.
- Victor Horsley, Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley-Clarke apparatus
- Roland Levinsky, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology.
- Avrion Mitchison, Professor of Zoology
- Santa Ono, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Ocular Immunology
- Heinz O. Schild, Professor of Pharmaocology, 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)
- Charles Spearman, Professor of Psychology; noted for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
- Bernard Spilsbury, Britain's first forensic scientist.
- Ernest Starling, Physiologist, noted for the Frank-Starling law of the heart
- Patrick Wall, Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential Gate Theory of Pain with Ronald Melzack at McGill University
- John (J-Z)Young, Professor of Anatomy
[edit] Nobel laureates [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 Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
- Richard Wollheim, Grote Professor of Mind and Logic
- John Stewart Mill, studied with John Austin at UCL.[3]
- Jeremy Bentham, founder of utilitarianism, major political and legal philosopher, considered spiritual founder to UCL and is displayed in an auto-icon in UCL.
[edit] Social Sciences, Geography and History [edit] Alumni [edit] Academics - Albert Alexander, MDS, FDSRCS, FHKAM(Dent.Surg.), formerly Professor of Conservative Dentistry and Dean of University College and Middlesex School of Dentistry. [1986].*
- Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea
- David Crystal, Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist
- Rainer Guillery, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School; formerly Dr Lee’s Professor of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford
- Stephen Guest, Professor of Legal Philosophy, UCL
- Noreena Hertz, associate director, Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- William Jevons, Professor of Political Economy, UCL
- Jiaxi Lu, BSc, PhD, President, Executive Chairman, Presidium, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Honorary President of Fuzhou University, [1985]
- Julie Maxton, Registrar at Oxford University
- Sir John Pattison formerly Director of Research and Development, Department of Health
- Professor Chung-Kwong Poon(潘宗光), GBS, JP, President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1991
- Henry Enfield Roscoe - was vice-chancellor of the University of London between 1896 to 1902.
- Lord Randolph Quirk, Quain Professor of English Literature
- Sir Philip Randle, MA, PhD, MD, FRCP, FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975.
- Stefan Reif, studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge
- Adrian Smith (academic)
- Robert Souhami, 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]
- Russell Stannard OBE, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Open University, Winner of the 1999 Bragg Medal
[edit] Nobel laureates [edit] Architects, artists, and designers - Martin Callanan
- Sir William Coldstream
- 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 Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist, author, critic
- Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist movement
- David Mlinaric, architect, interior designer
- Ben Nicholson, abstract painter
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and artist
- Stuart Pearson-Wright – Painter
- Patricio Pouchulu, architect and academic
- Jenny Saville, prominent Young British Artist
- Sir Stanley Spencer, painter
- Tomoko Takahashi, installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000 Turner Prize
- Naoko Takahashi
- Rachel Whiteread, sculptor; winner of the 1993 Turner Prize
- Sir Rex Whistler, artist, designer and illustrator
[edit] Banking, business and commercial figures - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
- Lewis Evans, scientific instrument collector and businessman
- Lord Digby Jones, Director-general, Confederation of British Industry
- Nishpank Kankiwala, President, Burger King International, since 2003. [2005].
- John Kenny, BSc, founder and Chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992. [1995].
- Chief Bayo Kuku, President, Nigerian Stock Exchange, 1987-90. [1995].
- Vanessa Lloyd-Platt, founder of Lloyd Platt & Company
- Ian Luder, Taxation specialist, and Lord Mayor of the City of London 2008-2009
- Roger Lyons, Joint General Secretary, AMICUS since 2001; President, Trades Union Congress, 2003-04. [1996].
- Sir Alfred Shepperd, formerly Chairman and Chief Executive, Wellcome plc and the Wellcome Foundation Limited. [1986].
- Roger Tomlinson, founder of [Geographic Information Systems] President, Tomlinson Associates Ltd, Consulting Geographers. [2003].
- Marjorie Wallace, Countess Skarbek - Chief Executive, SANE, since 1990. [2004].
- Edward Walker-Arnott, Governor, Wellcome Trust
- Edwin Waterhouse. founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Beric Wright, formerly Chairman, BUPA. [1982]
- Nadhim Zahawi, CEO and founder of YouGov
[edit] Charity sector figures [edit] Civil servants, government employees, heads of state, politicians and royalty - Stephen Aldridge, Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit under Tony Blair; MSc Economics, 1982
- Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi (غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي), Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Great Britain since 1992.
- Alex Allan, Head of the Joint Intelligence Committee
- Mori Arinori ( 森有礼 ): first Japanese ambassador to the USA, 1871-1873
- Robin Baker, Deputy Director-General, The British Council, since 2002
- Georgina Butler, British Ambassador to Costa Rica, since 2002
- Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Liberal Democrat peer
- Sir Ellis Clarke, President of Trinidad and Tobago
- Sir Stafford Cripps, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Bryan Davies,Baron Davies of Oldham - Labour member of the House of Lords; Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
- Terry Davis, former Labour Member of Parliament and current Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear - Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 1990-97. [1990].
- Evan Durbin (1906-48), Labour Member of Parliament for Edmonton, London (1945-48), Parliamentary Secretary and Minister of Works (1947-48); Economics (Ricardo scholarship), 1929
- Baroness Shreela Flather, first female Asian peer
- Mahatma Gandhi ( મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ), leader of the Indian Independence Movement; Laws
- Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton — British Labour politician Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor.
- Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell,former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Chaim Herzog (חיים הרצוג), sixth President of Israel
- Itō Hirobumi ( 伊藤 博文 ), first Prime Minister of Japan (1885-1888)
- Inoue Kaoru ( 井上 馨 ), the first Foreign Minister of Japan
- Philip Karađorđević, Prince Phillip of Yugoslavia and Serbia
- Jomo Kenyatta, "Founding Father" of Kenya; first Prime Minister and President of Kenya
- Endō Kinsuke ( 遠藤 謹助 ) : head of the Japanese National Mint (造幣局), 1881-1883
- Junichiro Koizumi ( 小泉 純一郎 ) – Former prime minister of Japan (2001-2006)
- Ian Luder, Lord Mayor of the City of London (elected 2008)
- Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
- Tom McNally, Baron McNally, Liberal Democrat peer
- Augustus Margary, diplomat.
- Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India (1917-1922)
- Anil Moonesinghe, Sri Lankan Trotskyist parliamentarian, trade unionist, ambassador, cabinet minister and deputy speaker
- Terashima Munenori (寺島宗則 ): Meiji era politician, Japanese Foreign Minister and later Privy Councillor
- Stan Newens, Labour and co-operative parliamentarian and MEP
- Jesse Norman, Conservative PPC for Hereford
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam - the first Prime Minister of Mauritius.
- Anthony Steen, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Ernest Symons, Director-General of the Board of Inland Revenue
- Baroness Jenny Tonge, Liberal Democrat shadow international development secretary.
- Jan Vincent-Rostowski, the current Finance Minister of the Republic of Poland (since 2007)
- William Wedgwood-Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, Liberal and Labour politician
- John Whittingdale, Conservative Member of Parliament and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher
- Wu Tingfang( 伍廷芳 ), also Ng Choy ( 伍才 ), one of the first Acting Premiers of the Republic of China, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- David Young, Baron Young of Graffham; Secretary of State for Employment (1985-1987); Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1987-1989)
- Yamao Yōzō ( 山尾 庸三 ) , Japanese Minister of Public Works in the first Meiji era government
[edit] Cultural management and heritage professionals [edit] Engineers, mathematicians, scientists and statisticians [edit] Explorers [edit] Hospitality and catering professionals [edit] Lawyers and judges - A.S. Anand, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1998-2001)
- S.C. Aggarwal, former Judge, Supreme Court of India (1990-98)
- Justice Samuel Azu-Crabbe, former Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977)
- Justice Gabriel Bach, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
- F.T. Cheng a.k.a Cheng T'ien-Hsi, judge of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, and Nationalist China's last ambassador to the United Kingdom
- David Childs, managing partner of Clifford Chance
- Winston Chu, founding Partner, Winston Chu & Company Solicitors, since 1989. [2002].
- Lord Cozens-Hardy, Master of the Rolls (1907-1918)
- Daniel Fung, SC (馮華健), former Solicitor-General of Hong Kong
- Edwin Glasgow, QC, member of the so-called Bloody Sunday Inquiry
- Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, QC — former Attorney General for England and Wales (2001-2007)
- Baron Arnold Goodman, leading British lawyer; former Senior Partner, Goodman Derrick LLP
- Baron Farrer Herschell, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Hassan 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
- Vyas D. Misra, former Judge, High Court of Delhi (1969-1983)
- S.S.M. Quadri, former Judge,Supreme Court of India (1997-2003); Chairman, Authority for Advance Ruling, India (1994- )
- Leonard Sainer, solicitor and retailer
- Baroness Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales (2007-present)
- Thirugnana Sinnathuray — former Judge of the High Court of Singapore
- Kuldip Singh, former Judge, Supreme Court of India (1988-96); Advocate General, Punjab (1987); Additional Solicitor General of India (1987-88)
- Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney General of Singapore (1969-1992)
- Chao Hick Tin (赵锡燊), Attorney General of Singapore (2006-present)
- Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Sir Ti-Liang Yang (楊鐵樑), former Chief Justice of Hong Kong
[edit] Literary figures [edit] Nobel laureates [edit] Media professionals in film, television, theatre and radio - David Baddiel, Comedian and television presenter
- Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the Teletubbies
- Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter
- Frank Dunlop, formerly Festival Director, the Edinburgh International Festival; Founder and formerly Director, The Young Vic. [1979]
- Jane Fallon, English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series Teachers, 20 Things To Do Before You're 30, Eastenders and This Life.
- Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of The Office (studied biology and philosophy)
- Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life
- Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
- Dominic Keating, actor, including in Star Trek: Enterprise
- Trevor Lock, comedian and actor
- Jeremy Marre, film director
- Oliver Messel, foremost stage designer
- Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader
- Mary Nighy, actress
- Christopher Nolan, film Director, including Memento and The Dark Knight
- Raj Persaud, psychiatrist and broadcaster
- Jonathan Ross – Presenter
- Michael Smith (writer) and broadcaster
- Suzie Templeton, writer, director and animator, including Peter and the Wolf
- Alex Trippier, actor (Queer as Folk)
- Mat Whitecrosx, film Director
- Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian
[edit] Editors, journalists and publishers - Walter Bagehot, former editor of The Economist
- Victoria Barnsley, Editor-in-Chief at HarperCollins
- Patrick Blower, cartoonist, The Evening Standard
- Jeremy Bowen, journalist, BBC Middle East editor
- John Derbyshire, 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 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, journalist, [The Times and BBC]
- Jeremy Warner, business editor, The Independent
- Michael White, political editor, The Guardian
- Petronella Wyatt, writer, The Spectator
[edit] Medical figures - Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson, KBE, DM, FRCP, FFPHM, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983-91.
- William Carpenter CB FRS
- Saverio Borriello - 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
- Viscount Bertrand Dawson, was a doctor to the British Royal Family.
- Sir William Jenner, was the first doctor to identify between typhus and typhoid
- Edwin Lankester, founder of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (QJMS)
- Sir Ronald Mason, KCB, FRS, Chair, UCL Hospitals Charities, since 2004; Chair, UCL Hospitals NHS Trust, 1993-2001
- Raj Persaud, 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
- Heenal Raichura, the UK's youngest doctor at the age of 22,
- Peter Sutton, MB, BS, FRCPath, formerly Director, Public Health Service Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down.
- Sir Rodney Sweetnam, 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.
- Richard Turner-Warwick, CBE, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOG, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons
- Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, DBE, MA, DM, PhD, FRCP, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989-92
- Kenneth Walton, noted pathologist
[edit] Nobel laureates [edit] Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators - Brett Anderson, Suede
- Carolyn Bannister, My Vitriol
- Sophie Barker, singer, occasional vocalist for Zero 7 and Groove Armada (did not graduate)
- Guy Berryman, Coldplay
- Jonny Buckland, Coldplay
- Will Champion, Coldplay
- John Curwen, proponent of tonic sol-fa
- Kathleen Dale née Richards, translator, musicologist, composer and pianist (Swedish: 1926-8)[6]
- Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif
- Justine Frischmann, Elastica
- Leonard Feather, jazz musician, composer, and writer (1932)[7]
- Joshua Hayward, The Horrors
- Philip Heseltine aka Peter Warlock, composer and music critic
- Gustav Holst, composer and teacher
- Richard Hughes, Keane
- Ravi Kesavaram, My Vitriol
- Chris Martin, Coldplay
- Jack Penate, singer-songwriter
- Simon Ratcliffe, Basement Jaxx
- Tim Rice-Oxley, Keane
- Harold D(avid) Rosenthal, writer on music
- Som Wardner, My Vitriol
- Benjamin Zander, conductor, Boston Philharmonic
[edit] Philanthropists and religious figures [edit] Sporting figures [edit] Fictional alumni [edit] Current staff [edit] Art, Architecture and Design [edit] Languages and Literature [edit] Mathematical, Physical and Space Sciences [edit] Life sciences - Peter Butler, Professor of Surgery
- Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics
- Sammy Lee, expert in vitro fertilisation
- John Martin, the UCL British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Science
- Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy
- Martin Raff, Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
- Robin Weiss, Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that CD4 is the co-receptor for HIV
- Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology
- Semir Zeki, Professor of Anatomy
[edit] Social Sciences, Geography and History - John Adams (geographer), Professor of geography and authority on risk compensation.
- Richard Blundell, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Wendy Davies, Authority on Celtic Europe
- Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History
- Simon Hornblower, Grote Professor of ancient history and editor of the Oxford Classical Dictionary
- Amélie Kuhrt, Historian of the ancient Near East.
- Martyn Rady, Professor of Central European History
- John Reid, Chairman of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at UCL, and a member of the UK Parliament.
- Christopher Tilley,Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, he is known as one of the pioneers of the Post-processual archaeology movement.
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