List of King's College London alumni
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This list of King's College London alumni comprises notable graduates, non-graduate former, and current, students. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions later merged with King's College London. It does not include those whose only connection with the college is the conferral of an honorary degree or honorary fellowship.
[edit] Politics & Government
[edit] Heads of State and Government
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| Marouf al-Bakhit | Prime Minister of Jordan |
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| Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz | Prime Minister of Iraq |
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| Godfrey Binaisa | President of Uganda |
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| Glafcos Clerides | President of Cyprus |
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| Sir Lee Moore | Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis |
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| Tassos Papadopoulos | President of Cyprus |
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| Sir Lynden Pindling | Prime Minister of The Bahamas |
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| France-Albert René | President of Seychelles |
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[edit] Current Members of the House of Lords
| Name | Affiliation |
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| The Lord Boston of Faversham | Crossbench |
| The Lord Carey of Clifton | Crossbench |
| The Lord Carlile of Berriew | Liberal Democrat |
| The Lord Clinton-Davis | Labour |
| The Lord Bishop of Guildford | Lord Spiritual |
| The Lord Kakkar | Crossbench |
| The Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | Conservative |
| The Baroness Morgan of Huyton | Labour |
| The Baroness O'Loan | Crossbench |
| The Lord Owen | Crossbench |
| The Lord Plant of Highfield | Labour |
| The Lord Rowlands | Labour |
| The Lord Sacks | Crossbench |
| The Lord St John of Bletso | Crossbench |
[edit] Current Members of the House of Commons
| Name | Party | Constituency |
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| Douglas Carswell | Conservative | Clacton |
| Nic Dakin | Labour | Scunthorpe |
| Natascha Engel | Labour | North East Derbyshire |
| Mark Francois | Conservative | Rayleigh and Wickford |
| Phillip Lee | Conservative | Bracknell |
| Brandon Lewis | Conservative | Great Yarmouth |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Labour | Slough |
| Sarah Newton | Conservative | Truro and Falmouth |
| Daniel Poulter | Conservative | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich |
| Keith Simpson | Conservative | Broadland |
| Gary Streeter | Conservative | South West Devon |
| Gareth Thomas | Labour | Harrow West |
| Sarah Wollaston | Conservative | Totnes |
| Simon Wright | Liberal Democrat | Norwich South |
[edit] Former Members of the House of Lords
- Sir John Bethell, 1st Baron Bethell – Liberal peer
- James Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy – Liberal peer
- Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden – son and Private Secretary to William Ewart Gladstone
- Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury – Liberal peer
- Horace Maybray King, Baron Maybray-King – Speaker of the House of Commons (1965–1970)
- James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater – Speaker of the House of Commons (1905–1921)
- Sir George Croydon Marks, Baron Marks of Woolwich – Labour peer
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner – Conservative peer and Cabinet Minister
- Augustus Paulet, 15th Marquess of Winchester
- Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids – Conservative peer
- Michael Stapleton-Cotton, 5th Viscount Combermere – Crossbench peer
- Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill – Labour peer
- George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland – Liberal peer
- Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson – Conservative peer and Cabinet Minister
- Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield – Labour peer and Cabinet Minister
- John Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston – Labour peer
- Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright – Conservative peer
[edit] Former Members of the House of Commons
- Sir Ronald Wilberforce Allen – Liberal MP
- Charles Bagnall – Conservative MP
- Jacob Bell – Liberal MP
- Sir Patrick Bishop – Conservative MP
- Thomas Bowles – Conservative and Liberal MP, founder of Vanity Fair magazine
- James Boyden – Labour MP
- Alexander Brogden – Liberal MP
- Sir Edmund Byrne – Conservative MP
- Sir George Chetwynd – Labour MP
- Gavin Clark – Liberal MP
- Michael Clark – Conservative MP
- Sir Edward Clarke – Conservative MP and Solicitor General for England and Wales
- Tim Collins – Conservative MP
- Sir Henry Cotton – Liberal MP and President of the Indian National Congress
- John Dunwoody – Labour MP
- Sir Richard Glass – Conservative MP
- Sir Augustus Godson – Conservative MP
- Joseph Green – National Democratic MP
- George Peabody Gooch – Liberal MP and historian
- Charles Harrison – Liberal MP
- Sir John Heaton, 1st Baronet – Conservative MP
- Charles Hopwood – Liberal MP and judge
- Sir Clarendon Hyde – Liberal MP
- Edward Johnson – Liberal MP
- Sir John Maple, 1st Baronet – Conservative MP
- John Marek – Labour MP
- Oonagh McDonald – Labour MP
- Julie Morgan – Labour MP and Welsh Assembly Member
- Charles Newdegate – Conservative MP
- Sir Robert Perks, 1st Baronet – Liberal MP
- Sir Philip Pilditch, 1st Baronet – Conservative MP
- Pandeli Ralli – Liberal MP
- Sir William Rattigan – Liberal Unionist MP and Vice-Chancellor of Punjab University
- Thorold Rogers – Liberal MP and economist
- Sir John Rolleston – Conservative MP
- Sir Hugh Rossi – Conservative MP
- Dame Angela Rumbold – Conservative MP
- Sir Arthur Salter – Conservative MP and judge
- Howard Stoate – Labour MP
- Edward Anthony Strauss – Liberal MP
- Jeffrey Thomas – Labour MP
- Sir Gerard Folliot Vaughan – Conservative MP
- Sir Kenneth Warren – Conservative MP
- John Shiress Will – Liberal MP
[edit] Members of the European Parliament
- Georgios Anastassopoulos – Greek MEP
- James Moorhouse – Conservative and Liberal Democrat MEP
- Krisztina Morvai – Hungarian MEP
- Peter Price – Conservative MEP
- Shaun Spiers – Labour MEP and Chief Executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England
- Kay Swinburne – Conservative MEP
[edit] Foreign politicians
- Shafique Ahmed – Bangladeshi Law, Justice & Parliamentary Minister
- Obed Asamoah – Ghanaian Foreign Minister
- Asma al-Assad – First Lady of Syria
- Patrick Belton – Irish Member of Parliament
- Francis Black – Canadian Cabinet Minister
- Dame Lois Browne-Evans – Bermudian opposition leader
- Hector Cameron – Canadian Member of Parliament
- Maragatham Chandrasekhar – Indian Cabinet Minister
- Tan Chuan-Jin - Singaporean Member of Parliament
- Sir Ernest Clark – Governor of Tasmania
- Sir John Cockburn – Premier of South Australia
- Michael Collins – Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State
- Abdulai Conteh – Vice President of Sierra Leone
- Joseph B. Dauda – Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone
- Kayode Fayemi – Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria
- Sir Francis Floud – British High Commissioner in Canada (1934-1938)[9]
- Sir Sydney Gun-Munro – Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Eurfyl ap Gwilym – Plaid Cymru politician
- Richard Willis Jameson – Canadian Member of Parliament
- Helen Joseph – anti-apartheid activist
- John Hargrave – Australian Member of Parliament and judge
- Hayashi Tadasu – Japanese Foreign Minister
- John Hillen – US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
- Olga Kefalogianni – Greek Member of Parliament
- Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – Pakistani Foreign Minister and President of the International Court of Justice
- Emil Kirjas – Macedonian politician
- Hannelore Kraft – German politician
- Bilal Macit – Turkish Member of Parliament
- Edgar Mann – Chairman of the Executive Council of the Isle of Man
- Anne McLellan – Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- Francis Minah – Vice President of Sierra Leone
- Nikolay Mladenov – Bulgarian Foreign Minister and former MEP
- Gholam Mujtaba – Pakistani American Politician
- Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad – Malaysian politician
- Sarojini Naidu – President of the Indian National Congress
- James Nyamweya – Kenyan Foreign Minister
- G. G. Ponnambalam – Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister
- S. Rajaratnam – Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
- Raja Ramanna – Indian Member of Parliament and nuclear scientist
- Sir Shridath Ramphal – Commonwealth Secretary-General and Guyanan Foreign Minister
- Christina Rau – First Lady of Germany
- Christina Rocca – US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
- Sir Edward Thornton – British Ambassador to the United States (1867-1881)
- Francesc Vendrell (diplomat) - UN envoy to East Timor, Caucasus and Afghanistan, European Union Special Representative for Afghanistan, Director of Studies of The Hague Academy of International Law.
- Edward Wakefield – New Zealand Member of Parliament
- Maitree Wickramasinghe – First Lady of Sri Lanka
- Rais Yatim – Malaysian Foreign Minister
[edit] Royalty and nobility
- Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial
- Her Royal Highness Princess Antonia, Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo
- Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster – 20th in line to the British Throne and heir to the Dukedom of Gloucester
- Her Royal Highness Princess Hajah Majeedah Nuurul Bulqiah – daughter of the Sultan of Brunei
- Rupert Onslow, 8th Earl of Onslow – British peer
- Janet Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March and Kinrara – courtesy Countesses
- Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster – courtesy Countesses
- Suzanne Feilding, Countess of Denbigh – Countesses
- Margaret Colville, Viscountess Colville of Culross – Viscountess
- Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley – Irish peer
- Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan – Irish peer
- John Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork – Irish peer
[edit] Law
- Sir Robin Auld – Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir Horace Avory – judge and criminal lawyer
- Sir Louis Blom-Cooper – judge and lawyer
- Sir Harold Bollers – Chief Justice of Guyana
- Michael Caplan – judge and solicitor
- Sir Mackenzie Chalmers – judge
- Philippe Couvreur – Registrar at the International Court of Justice
- Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies – Law Lord
- Sir David Foskett – High Court judge
- Michael Fox – lawyer
- Neil Kaplan – judge and arbitrator
- Frances Kirkham – judge
- Abdul Koroma – judge of the International Court of Justice
- Sir Leonard Knowles – Chief Justice of The Bahamas
- Amber Marks – barrister
- Wayne Martin – Chief Justice of Western Australia
- Peter McCormick – lawyer
- Sir David Penry-Davey – High Court judge
- Ilana Rovner – judge
- Jenny Rowe – Chief Executive of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- J. Sarkodee-Addo – Chief Justice of Ghana
- Jaishanker Manilal Shelat - Judge, Supreme Court of India (1966-73)[10]
- Sir Jeremy Sullivan – Lord Justice of Appeal
- John Taylor – Chief Justice of Lagos
[edit] Religion
[edit] Current Bishops
[edit] Other Religious Figures
- James Adams – Bishop of Barking
- Godfrey Ashby – Bishop of St John's
- David Atkinson – Bishop of Thetford
- Muhammad Abdul Bari – Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain
- Harold Beardmore – Bishop of St Helena
- Trevor Beeson – Dean of Winchester
- Manuel Bidwell – Bishop of Miletopolis
- Hibbert Binney – Bishop of Nova Scotia
- Richard Blunt – Bishop of Hull
- Derek Bond – Bishop of Bradwell
- David Bonser – Bishop of Bolton
- Harold Bradfield – Bishop of Bath and Wells
- John Broadhurst – Bishop of Fulham
- Ethelbert William Bullinger – dispensationalist theologian
- Edward Carpenter – Dean of Westminster
- Noel Chamberlain – Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago
- Clifford Chapman – Dean of Exeter
- Shaw Clifton – General of The Salvation Army
- Peter Coleman – Bishop of Crediton
- Neil Collings – Dean of St Edmundsbury
- William Cordingly – Bishop of Thetford
- Frederick Courtney – Bishop of Nova Scotia
- Frederick Craske – Bishop of Gibraltar
- Anthony Crockett – Bishop of Bangor
- Wilfred Frank Curtis – Provost of Sheffield
- Thomas Pelham Dale – ritualist clergyman
- Joost de Blank – Archbishop of Cape Town
- Peter Delaney – Archdeacon of London
- Ralph Emmerson – Bishop of Knaresborough
- Ronald Foley – Bishop of Reading
- Richard Garrard – Bishop of Penrith
- Donald Clifford Gray – clergyman
- Laurence Green – Bishop of Bradwell
- Sehon Sylvester Goodridge – Bishop of the Windward Islands
- David Halsey – Bishop of Carlisle & Tonbridge
- Peter Hatendi – Bishop of Mashonaland
- Edward Holland – Bishop of Gibraltar & Colchester
- Walter Homolka – rabbi
- Alan Hopes – Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster
- Wilfrid Hudson – Bishop of Carpentaria
- Peter Hullah – Bishop of Ramsbury
- Henry Huxtable – Bishop of Mauritius
- Eric James – Chaplain Extraordinary to HM the Queen
- Robert Jeffery – Dean of Worcester
- Walter Jenks – Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness
- David Jennings – Bishop of Warrington
- Marcus Knight – Dean of Exeter
- Graeme Knowles – Dean of St Paul's & Bishop of Sodor and Man
- John Lang – Dean of Lichfield
- Richard Lewis – Bishop of Taunton & St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Lawrence Luscombe – Primus of Scotland
- Walter Matthews – Dean of St Paul's
- Francis MacDougall – Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak
- Thomas Oliver Morgan – Bishop of Saskatchewan
- James Morrell – Bishop of Lewes
- Keith Newton – Bishop of Richborough
- Njongonkulu Ndungane – Archbishop of Cape Town
- John Neale – Bishop of Ramsbury
- Jack Nicholls – Bishop of Sheffield & Lancaster
- Ivor Norris – Bishop of Brandon
- Michael Nott – Provost of Portsmouth
- Mark Oakley – Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe
- Stephen Oliver – Bishop of Stepney
- Kenneth Oram – Bishop of Grahamstown
- Geoffrey Paul – Bishop of Bradford & Hull
- Martyn Percy – Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon
- Gavin Reid – Bishop of Maidstone
- Alan Rogers – Bishop of Mauritius, Fulham & Colchester
- Cris Rogers – theologian
- Ronald Sargison – Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown
- Ronald Shapley – Bishop of the Windward Islands
- Martin Shaw – Bishop of Argyll and the Isles
- Ernest Henry Shears – Archdeacon of Durban
- David Smith – Bishop of Bradford & Maidstone
- Frederick Spurrell – priest and archaeologist
- Frederic Stanford – Bishop of Cariboo
- Victor Stock – Dean of Guildford
- Sidney Thelwall – clergyman and Christian scholar
- Eric Treacy – Bishop of Wakefield & Pontefract
- Albert John Trillo – Bishop of Bedford, Chelmsford & Hertford
- Desmond Tutu – Archbishop of Cape Town, apartheid activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.[11]
- Evelyn Underhill – theologian and writer on Christian mysticism
- Ambrose Weekes – Bishop of Gibraltar
[edit] Literature
- Khushwant Singh - author, writer, and notable poet
- Dannie Abse – writer and poet
- John Adair – author
- Alfred Ainger – biographer and critic
- Sir Edwin Arnold – poet and journalist
- Ronan Bennett – novelist and screenwriter
- Tamasin Berry-Hart – novelist
- Sir Walter Besant – novelist, historian and academic
- Shahbano Bilgrami – novelist and poet
- Alain de Botton – writer, philosopher and television producer
- Charles Brookfield – playwright and actor
- Anita Brookner – Booker Prize winning novelist
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke – science fiction writer and inventor
- Helen Cresswell – children's author and screenwriter
- Sir George Webbe Dasent – writer
- Mike Dash – writer and journalist
- Ebou Dibba – novelist
- Maureen Duffy – novelist, poet and screenwriter
- Andreas Embirikos – poet
- Charles Finger – author
- C. S. Forester – historical novelist
- Chris Genoa – comedic novelist
- Sir W. S. Gilbert – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan.[12]
- Bea Gonzalez – novelist and lecturer
- Bill Griffiths – poet
- Radclyffe Hall – poet and author
- Thomas Hardy – novelist and poet.[12]
- Susan Hill – novelist
- Molly Holden – poet
- Africanus Horton – writer
- Susan Howatch – author
- Simon Ings – novelist
- Christopher Isherwood – novelist
- Storm Jameson – novelist
- B. S. Johnson – novelist
- Nihan Kaya – novelist
- John Keats – Romantic poet.[12]
- Garry Kilworth – novelist
- Charles Kingsley – novelist
- Henry Kingsley – novelist
- Hanif Kureishi – Whitbread Award winning author and screenwriter
- Molly Lefebure – writer
- Marina Lewycka – novelist
- Menon Marath – novelist
- Alexander Masters – Whitbread Award winning author and screenwriter
- W. Somerset Maugham – novelist and playwright
- Henry Morley – writer and academic
- Michael Morpurgo – writer
- Lawrence Norfolk – novelist
- Barry Pilton – novelist and screenwriter
- Ross Raisin – novelist
- Vernon Richards – anarchist editor and author
- Anne Ridler – poet
- Michael Roberts – poet, writer and broadcaster
- John Ruskin – author, poet, artist, art critic and social critic
- Elizabeth Smart – novelist and poet
- Anne Somerset – historian
- Sir Leslie Stephen – author and mountaineer
- David Watmough – novelist, playwright and academic
- Virginia Woolf – novelist and essayist
[edit] Entertainment
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, actor
- Michael Barry – BBC executive
- Georgina Bouzova – actress
- Rory Bremner – impressionist and satirist
- Herbert Brenon – film director
- Sue Carpenter – television presenter
- Nazrin Choudhury - screenwriter
- Quentin Crisp – writer, actor and raconteur
- Bijan Daneshmand – actor and film director
- Leonard Fenton – actor
- Graeme Garden – actor and comedian
- Greer Garson – actress
- Sacha Gervasi – screenwriter
- Edmund Gwenn – actor
- Janice Hadlow – Controller of BBC Two
- Jason Hall – playwright
- Derek Jarman – film director
- Boris Karloff – actor
- Henry Kemble – actor
- Jonathan Maitland – television presenter and journalist
- Jamila Massey – actress
- Sir Allan Powell – Chairman of the BBC (1939-1946)
- Clifford Rose – actor
- Ashraf Safdar – actor and journalist
- Ceri Sherlock – Welsh theatre and film director
- Jane Tranter – BBC executive
- Sir Charles Wyndham – actor
[edit] Academia
[edit] Heads of University
- Kenneth Barker – Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University and Thames Valley University
- Sir James Barrett – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
- Malcolm Gillies – Vice-Chancellor of City University, London
- Sir Andrew Haines – Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Kenneth Hare – Master of Birkbeck College and President of the University of British Columbia
- Sir William Hunter – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bombay
- Martin Howy Irving – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and educationist
- Qasim Jan – Vice-Chancellor of Quaid-i-Azam University
- George Kitchin - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham
- Sir Alec Merrison – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol
- Barney Pityana – Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa
- Sir Joseph Pope – Vice-Chancellor of Aston University
- Dame Alison Richard – Former Provost of Yale University and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Sir Frederick Robertson – Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab University
- Dame Nancy Rothwell – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester
- John Spinks – President of the University of Saskatchewan
- Sir Richard Sykes – Rector of Imperial College London and Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline
- Chris Taylor – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford
- Henry Wace – Principal of King's College London
- Paul Wellings – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster
- Steven West- Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England
- Anne Wright – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sunderland
[edit] Academics & scientists
- Denis Alexander – Director of the Faraday Institute at the University of Cambridge
- Francis Anstie – physician
- Norman Ashton – ophthalmologist
- Simon Baron-Cohen – Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge
- George Barrow – geologist
- Lionel Smith Beale – Professor at King's College London
- Sir Raymond Beazley – Professor at the University of Birmingham
- David Bellamy – botanist
- Robert Bentley – Professor at King's College London
- Brian Bond – Emeritus Professor at King's College London
- Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet – histologist and anatomist
- Harry Brighouse – Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Henry William Bristow – geologist
The Higgs boson (here simulated) was theorised by King's alumnus Professor Peter Higgs. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is presently attempting to prove the existence of the Higgs, which is generally accepted as a key ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics.
- Elizabeth Burns – Lecturer at Heythrop College, London
- Geoffrey Burnstock – Emeritus Professor at University College London
- Robert Townley Caldwell – Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Leigh Canham – scientist
- Thomas Cavalier-Smith – Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford
- Sir William Christie – Astronomer Royal
- Alfred John Church – Professor at University College London
- Edgar Crookshank – physician and microbiologist
- Charles Frederick Cross – chemist
- Sir Howard Dalton – microbiologist
- Brian Davies – Professor at Fordham University
- Richard MacGillivray Dawkins – archaeologist
- John Leonard Dawson – Serjeant Surgeon to the Royal Household
- Sir George Deacon – oceanographer
- Michael Denton – biochemist and author
- Richard Dixon – Professor at the University of Bristol
- Sir Richard Doll – Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford
- R. John Ellis – Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick
- Frank Farmer – physicist
- Henry John Horstman Fenton – chemical engineer
- Sir Ian Gainsford – Vice-Principal of King’s College London
- Sir Francis Galton – polymath
- Alfred Henry Garrod – Fullerian Professor at the Royal Institution
- Marcelo Gleiser – Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College
- Ian Gooderson – Senior Lecturer at King's College London
- Raymond Gosling – DNA researcher
- Judith Green – Professor at the University of Edinburgh
- Sir Malcolm Green – founder of the British Lung Foundation
- Eric Grove – Professor at the University of Salford
- Keith Gull – Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Peter Higgs – Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, after whom the Higgs Boson is named
- Thomas Hodgkin – discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins – President of the Royal Society and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Frederick Wollaston Hutton – scientist
- Janet Kear – ornithologist
- Marios Kyriazis – gerontologist
- David Lary – NASA scientist
- Daniel Leech-Wilkinson – Professor at King's College London
- Charles Leonard Huskins – Guggenheim Fellow at Columbia University
- David Linton – geographer
- Alwyn Jones – Professor at the University of Uppsala
- Robert Knecht – Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham
- Andrew Lambert – Professor at King's College London
- Michael Levitt – Professor at Stanford University
- Julius J. Lipner – Professor at the University of Cambridge
- Robert Lubbock Bensly – Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge
- Dame Jill Macleod Clark – Head of the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Southampton
- Claudio Maccone – space scientist
- Sir Morell Mackenzie – physician
- Charles James Martin – Director of the Lister Institute
- Maxwell Masters – botanist
- Edward Walter Maunder – astronomer
- William Allen Miller – astronomer and chemist
- John Milne – inventor of the Seismometer
- St. George Jackson Mivart – biologist
- Harold Moody – physician
- Ludlow Moody – physician
- Noreen Murray – Vice-President of the Royal Society
- Ukichiro Nakaya – glaciologist
- Joseph Shield Nicholson – Professor at the University of Edinburgh
- Augustine Ong – chemist
- Daphne Osborne – plant scientist
- Roger Parker – Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London
- Anthony Pawson – microbiologist
- Raymond Peters – Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester
- Rohan Pethiyagoda - taxonomist
- Wendy Piatt – Director General of The Russell Group
- Geoffrey Rose – ophthalmologist
- Steven Rose – Professor at the University of London
- Lucinda Roy – Director of Creative Writing at Virginia Tech
- Sir Arthur Russell, 6th Baronet – mineralogist
- Philip Sabin – Professor at King's College London
- Helen Saibil – Professor at Birkbeck, University of London
- William Saville-Kent – marine biologist
- Sir John Simon – Chief Medical Officer for Her Majesty's Government
- Louis Slotin – Nuclear physicist who took part to the Manhattan Project
- Henry Tibbats Stainton – entomologist
- Sir Laurence Dudley Stamp – geographer and President of the Royal Geographical Society
- Thomas Stebbing – zoologist
- Patrick Christopher Steptoe – pioneer of IVF
- Edward James Stone – President of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Henry Barclay Swete – Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge
- Sir George Adlington Syme – surgeon
- Charles Taylor – Master of St John's College, Cambridge
- Sir Martin Taylor – Vice-President of the Royal Society, President of the London Mathematical Society and Warden of Merton College, Oxford
- Max Theiler – winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Janet Thornton – Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute
- Geoffrey Till – Professor at King's College London
- Hassan Ugail – Senior Lecturer at the University of Bradford
- Peter Vardy – Vice Principal of Heythrop College, London
- Nicla Vassallo – Professor at the University of Genova
- Ralph Waller – Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford
- Robin Ward – Principal of St Stephen's House, Oxford
- Sidney Wooldridge – geologist and President of the Royal Geographical Society
- Anthony Yates – rheumatologist
[edit] Journalism
- Martin Bashir – journalist
- Cyril Kenneth Bird – editor of Punch and cartoonist
- Benjamin Cohen – Channel 4 News correspondent
- Jane Corbin – BBC Panorama journalist
- John Delane – editor of The Times
- Gwynne Dyer – journalist and military historian
- Daniel Ford – journalist, novelist and military historian
- Matthew Halton – journalist
- Ellie Harrison – BBC journalist
- Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson – editor of The Sun
- Sophie Long – BBC News journalist
- Ira Mathur – journalist
- Hargreaves Parkinson – editor of The Financial Times
- Claire Rayner – journalist and agony aunt
- Roger Royle – radio broadcaster
- John Sandes – journalist and author
- Nicholas Stuart – journalist
[edit] Music
- Filiz Ali – pianist and musicologist
- Peter Asher – musician and record producer
- David Bruce – composer
- Steven Burke - video game music composer and sound designer
- John Deacon – bassist for the rock band Queen
- Richard Coles – multi-instrumentalist with The Communards
- Suzi Digby, Baroness Eatwell – conductor and musician
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner – conductor
- John Evan – keyboardist for Jethro Tull
- Harold Fraser-Simson – composer
- Dai Fujikura – composer
- Raja Kashif – singer
- Andy Mackay – saxophonist for Roxy Music
- Davitt Moroney – musicologist, harpsichordist and organist
- Alice Martineau – singer and songwriter
- John Moran – musician and musicologist
- Michael Nyman – composer and musicologist
- Kele Okereke – Bloc Party vocalist and guitarist
- Surendran Reddy – composer and pianist
- Andrew Schultz – composer
- Gilli Smyth – musician who performed with Gong amongst others
- Alexis Strum – singer-songwriter
- Jeremy Summerly – conductor
- Howard Talbot – composer and conductor
- Billy Werner – singer and songwriter
- Yiruma – pianist
[edit] Business & economics
- Walter Owen Bentley – founder of Bentley Motors
- Christian Candy – businessman
- William Foyle – founder of Foyles bookshop
- Harriet Green – CEO of Premier Farnell
- Calouste Gulbenkian – oil magnate and philanthropist
- Johnny Hon – entrepreneur
- Lewis Luk – businessman
- Sir Deryck Maughan – CEO of Salomon Brothers
- Eric Nicoli – CEO of EMI
- Tim Pryce – CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners
- Sir Alliott Verdon Roe – founder of Avro
- Alfred de Rothschild – banker, philanthropist and director of the Bank of England
- Stephen Bernard Streater – founder of Eidos
- Rory Tapner – CEO of Wealth Management at Royal Bank of Scotland
[edit] Military
- Mark Sever Bell – recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Hans Busk – army reformer
- Sir Herbert Edwardes – army and political officer
- Sir Robert Fry – Commandant General Royal Marines
- Sir Frederic Goldsmid – Major-General, British Army
- Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan – Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force and Chief Controller of the Auxiliary Territorial Service
- John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton – Head of the British Army (1952–1955)
- Michael Harwood – RAF Air Vice-Marshal
- Syed Ata Hasnain - Indian Army General
- Pratap Chandra Lal - Former Air Chief Marshal of India
- Ferdinand Le Quesne – recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Dame Vera Laughton Mathews – Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service
- Sir Chris Moran – Commander-in-Chief of RAF Air Command
- Sir Richard Peirse – Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force and of RAF Bomber Command[13]
- Pat Reid – army officer and author
- Andy Salmon – Commandant General Royal Marines
- Harsha Abeywickrama - Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force
- David Walker – RAF Air Marshal
- Martin Xuereb - Head of the Maltese Armed Forces
[edit] Education
- Stephen Baldock – High Master of St Paul's School
- Dean Farrar – Master of Marlborough College and Dean of Canterbury
- Albert Mansbridge – educator
- Anthony Seldon – Master of Wellington College, and political commentator best known as Tony Blair's biographer
[edit] Mathematics
- Henry William Watson – mathematician
- Tom Willmore – geometer
[edit] Computer Science
- Steve Bourne – author of the Bourne shell
- Ian Cullimore – computer scientist
[edit] Sport
- Jo Ankier – athlete
- Barry Davies – sports commentator
- Ayoola Erinle – rugby union player currently with Leicester Tigers
- Harry Gem – inventor of lawn tennis
- Katherine Grainger – Olympic medal winning rower
- Frances Houghton – Olympic medal winning rower
- Thomas Hollingdale – Welsh international rugby player
- Adam Khan – racing driver
- Edward Pegge – Welsh international rugby player
- Leigh Richmond Roose – Welsh international goalkeeper
- Chris Sheasby – England rugby player
- Annie Vernon – Olympic medal winning rower
- Kieran West – Olympic gold medal winning rower
[edit] Engineering
- Henry Marc Brunel – Civil Engineer and son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- William Clark – civil engineer and inventor
- Henry Deane – engineer
- Sir Douglas Fox – civil engineer
- Thomas Walker – civil engineer
- Sir John Wolfe-Barry – civil engineer
[edit] Police and Security Officers
- Colin Cramphorn – Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police
- Richard A. Falkenrath - U.S. counter-terrorism expert
- Paddy Tomkins – Police Chief Inspector
- John Yates – Metropolitan Police head of counter-terrorism
[edit] Other
- Theodore Dyke Acland – surgeon and physician
- Thomas Armitage – founder of the RNIB
- Walter Bagot – architect
- William Baker – stylist
- Nick Barratt – genealogist
- Edward Middleton Barry – architect
- Michael Burgess – Coroner of The Queen's Household
- Frederick Pepys Cockerell – architect
- Roshonara Choudhry - Islamist convicted of the attempted murder of MP Stephen Timms in 2010.[14]
- Sebastian Cox – RAF historian
- Paul Davis – military historian
- John Alfred Gotch – President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Peter Henry Emerson – photographer
- Frederic Sutherland Ferguson – bibliographer
- Christopher Geidt – Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
- Harry Golombek – chess grandmaster
- Richard Grunberger – historian
- Leonard Hussey – explorer
- Dame Agnes Jekyll – philanthropist
- Sir Ivison Macadam – first President of NUS and Director-General of Chatham House
- Matthew MacLachlan – historian
- Ross McNicol – photographer
- Ronald Moody – sculptor
- Percy Newberry – Egyptologist
- Robyn O'Neil – artist
- Hudson Stuck – explorer
- Sir William Tritton – inventor of the tank
- Edward William West – orientalist
- Colin White – Director of the Royal Naval Museum
[edit] References
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- ^ "Biography of Sir Lee Moore". http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem.asp?articlenumber=49. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
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- ^ "The Papers of Sir Francis Floud". 2009. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FFLUD. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
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- ^ "King's College London - Notable Alumni". 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070829044710/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/about/known/. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
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