List of University College London people

This is a list of notable individuals associated with University College London.

Former staff

Further information: Category:Academics of University College London

Art, architecture, and design

• Thorold Dickinson (1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies
• Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885), architect, first UCL Professor of Architecture
• Lucian Freud (1922– ), painter
• Roger Fry (1866–1934), painter, art critic
• Tancred Borenius (1885–1948), art historian, diplomat.
• Otto Königsberger (1908–1999), architect
• Michael (Edward) Parsons (1938–), avant-garde composer, and lecturer in fine art

Chemical sciences

Nobel laureates

• Otto Hahn (1879–1968), 1944
• Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916), 1904
• George Porter (1920–2002), 1967

Engineering sciences

• Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69
• John Fleming (1849–1945), ----
• William Pole (1813–1900), 1859–76

Languages and literature

• Chimen Abramsky – Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• A. S. Byatt – Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (1972–83); winner of the 1990 Booker Prize
• Sir Hermann Gollancz – Professor of Hebrew; British Rabbi (1902–24)
• Alan Hollinghurst – Lecturer in English; deputy editor, The Times Literary Supplement; later winner of the 2004 Booker Prize
• A. E. Housman – Professor of Latin; poet most famous as author of A Shropshire Lad
• Dan Jacobson – Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award
• Sir Frank Kermode – Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature (1967–74); literary critic
• Tomáš Masaryk. Inaugurated the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), now part of UCL; later became the first President of Czechoslovakia.
• David Masson – Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer
• Karl Miller – Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature (1976–92); first editor, The London Review of Books
• Arnaldo Momigliano – Professor of History (1951–75)
• James Gardner – Inventor of the international auxiliary language Euronord
• Henry Morley – Professor of English Literature
• Sir Anthony Panizzi – Professor of Italian
• Stephen Spender – Lecturer in English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet
• John Sutherland – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for The Guardian
• Jeremy Treglown – Professor of English; editor, The Times Literary Supplement; author
• D. P. Walker – Reader in French, musicologist, composer (1945–61)
• Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
• Faith Wigzell, Professor of Russian Literature and Culture

Law

• John Austin – Professor of Jurisprudence, a major foundational figure for legal theory.
• Professor Bin Cheng – Professor of Aviation Law, UCL and son of F.T. Cheng a.k.a Cheng T'ien-Hsi
• Ronald Dworkin – Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy, formerly Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, major figure in jurisprudence, critic of legal positivism.
• 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
• Baron Woolf – Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, studied at UCL Law dept. and taught as a visiting professor.

Mathematical, physical, and space sciences

• Jim Al-Khalili; - post-doctoral Fellow.
• Alan Baker, (mathematics); – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• Charles Bungay Fawcett, Professor of Geography
• Jocelyn Burnell, (Astronomy); – discovered radio pulsars
• Paul Cohn – Astor Professor of Mathematics
• Marianna Csörnyei - Professor of Mathematics
• Harold Davenport – Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory
• Philip Dawid – Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Augustus DeMorgan – Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets
• Sir Francis Galton – father of fingerprinting.
• Tim Gowers – Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• Peter Higgs – Theoretical Physicist and winner of the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics.
• James Joseph-Sylvester – Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory
• Norman Lloyd-Johnson – Reader in Statistics
• Sir James Lighthill; Lecturer; predecessor to Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
• Sir Harrie Massey – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic and molecular collisions
• Egon Pearson – Professor of Statistics
• Karl Pearson – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics
• Eugene Rabinowitch – worked in the Manhattan Project and co-founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Klaus F. Roth – Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• Edward Teller – Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
• Patrick du Val
• Alfred North Whitehead – Professor of Physics.
• Alexander Williamson – noted for the chemical synthesis of ether.

Nobel laureate

• Sir Wiliam Bragg (1862–1942), 1915–25, 1915

Life sciences

• Dame Carol Black, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the Royal College of Physicians
• Patricia Clarke née Greene, FRS, (1919–2010), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry
• 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
• 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
• Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology
• John (J-Z)Young, Professor of Anatomy

Nobel laureates

• Sir James Black, 1988
• Sir Martin Evans, 2007
• Sir Henry Hallett-Dale, 1936
• Corneille Heymans, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• A. V. Hill, Professor of Physiology (1923–51); winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Andrew Huxley, physiologist and biophysicist; winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Sir Bernard Katz, Professor of Biophysics; winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Peter Medawar, Professor of Zoology (1952–61); winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Bert Sakmann, Researcher in Bernard Katz's department; winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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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
• John Stewart Mill, studied with John Austin at UCL.
• Carveth Read, Professor of Moral Philosophy
• Bernard Williams, Lecturer in Philosophy; later Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
• Richard Wollheim, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic

Social sciences, geography, and history

• Michael Crawford, Professor of Ancient History
• Wendy Davies, Professor of Medieval Celtic History
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Marxist historian of Greek Antiquity, author of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
• Andrew Dilnot, Economist; Principal, St. Hugh's College Oxford; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Oxford
• Dame Mary Douglas, Professor of Anthropology; noted for her Cultural Theory of Risk
• Hugh Gaitskell, lecturer in Political Economy (1928–1939), former leader of the Labour Party
• Albert Pollard, Professor of Constitutional History; major contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography
• Conrad Russell, Professor of Early Modern British History
• Sir Eric Turner, Professor of Papyrology

Nobel laureate

• James Heckman, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics

Alumni

Further information: Category:Alumni of University College London

Academics

• Albert Alexander, MDS, FDSRCS, FHKAM(Dent.Surg.), formerly Professor of Conservative Dentistry and Dean of University College and Middlesex School of Dentistry. [1986].
• John Baker (legal historian), UCL (LLB, PhD): Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
• Peter Birks: former Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
• Edith Clara Batho (English, 1915), Pricnipal of Royal Holloway College
• Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea
• Bernard Crick British political theorist
• 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

Nobel laureates

• Sir William Bragg, 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Francis Crick, 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sir Frederick Hopkins, 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Charles K Kao, 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

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
• Gerry Judah (Slade, 1977), artist, sculptor and 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
• Joshua Lau, architect, designer, academic, China/ HK Curator of the Venice Biennale 2006, HKIA Annual Awards

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].
• Susan Ma, managing director of Tropic Skin Care; finalist on The Apprentice series seven (2011).
• Rich Martell, Creator of the controversial social network "FitFinder".
• Catherine Novelli, UCL (LLM): vice-president, Apple Inc., former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
• 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].
• Edwin Waterhouse. founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Beric Wright, formerly Chairman, BUPA. [1982]

Charity sector figures

• Delyth Morgan – Baroness of Drefelin in the County of Dyfed, Chief Executive, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, since 1996
• Edward Walker-Arnott, Governor, Wellcome Trust

Civil servants, government employees, heads of state, politicians and royalty

Chaim Herzog

Jomo Kenyatta

Junichiro Koizumi

• 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, 2002–2006
• Rudranath Capildeo, UCL (BSc, MSc, PhD, Lecturer): Trinidad and Tobago Barrister at Law (Attorney-at-Law), mathematician, politician, former leader of Democratic Labour Party and leader of the Opposition
• 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].
• Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza - Scientist, then Crossbench Member of the House of Lords, elected Lord Speaker (Speaker of the House of Lords)
• 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
• Taslim Olawale Elias, UCL (BA, LLB, PhD): former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
• 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)
• Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, UCL (LLB): leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore (1971 to 2001) and Secretary-General of the Reform Party (2008)
• David Jones - Conservative MP (UK) and Minister for Wales
• 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
• Alison McGovern, Labour Member of Parliament for Wirral South
• Tom McNally, Baron McNally, Liberal Democrat peer, UK Justice Minister and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
• 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 MP (UK) for Hereford
• Stephen Owen, UCL (LLM): former Canadian Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Minister of Western Economic Diversification, and Minister of State (Sport)
• Michael Palmer, Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of Singapore
• Bernard Peiris, Cabinet Secretary of Ceylon
• Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam – the first Prime Minister of Mauritius.
• Henry Smith - Conservative MP (UK) for Crawley
• Anthony Steen, former Conservative Party Member of Parliament (UK)
• 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
• Nadhim Zahawi, CEO/founder of YouGov and current Conservative MP (UK)

Cultural management and heritage professionals

• Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, British Library, since 2000. [2002].
• Ian Mortimer historian
• Jean Rankine, Deputy Director, British Museum, 1983–97. [1990].

Economics & Finance

• John Stuart Mill – Attended UCL to study with John Austin, major political philosopher.

Engineers, mathematicians, scientists and statisticians

• John Ambrose-Fleming – Invented the thermionic valve and the diode
• William Ayrton – invented the wattmeter and the electric tricycle.
• Alan Baker – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• Laurence Baxter
• Alexander Bell – inventor of telephone
• Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – one of the founders of radio telecommunication.
• Margaret Burbidge FRS – astrophysicist, former American Astronomical Society President, former Royal Greenwich Observatory Director
• Florence (F-N) David (1909–1993) – Statistician
• Roland Dobbs
• Edward Dobson (1816/17? – 1908) – Provincial Engineer for the Canterbury Province in New Zealand
• Thomas Eckersley – Theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves
• John Fox
• William Gowers – Winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• Cyril Hilsum – pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices
• Hermann Jahn
• William Jevons
• Norman Johnson
• Ralph Kekwick FRS (1908–2000) Biochemist
• Dennis Lindley
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister – associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine, the mouthwash Listerine is named after him
• Oliver Lodge – was involved in the development of wireless telegraph
• Kathleen Lonsdale – discovered the structure of benzene
• John Maynard-Smith
• Roger Penrose – Winner of the 1988 Wolf Prize
• Klaus Roth – Winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• Walter Rouse-Ball – Mathematician
• M. J. Seaton FRS – British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer
• Ian Sloan – Australian applied mathematician
• Edward Sharpey-Schafer physiologist
• David Spiegelhalter
• Heinz Wolff
• Sir Frederick Warner

Explorers

• Pen Hadow – British polar explorer and author

Hospitality and catering professionals

• Clarissa Dickson-Wright – Chef (Law)

Lawyers and judges

See also List of University College London people in the Law

• 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)
• * Gabriel Bach גבריאל בך: former Prosecutor in the trial against Adolf Eichmann, former Justice of Supreme Court of Israel
• Margaret Booth: High Court judge
• Andrew Cayley, UCL (LLM): International Co-Prosecutor of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia
• 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)
• Rt. Hon. Sir Vincent Floissac, Chief Justice and President of East Caribbean Appeal Court
• 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
• Garry Hart: former Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor
• 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)
• Koh Juat Jong, UCL (BSc): former acting Attorney-General of Singapore, Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and current Solicitor-General of Singapore
• 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
• Sylvia Lim, UCL (LLM): Chairman of the opposition Workers' Party of Singapore, and a Member of Parliament
• Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, High Court Judge (Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division)
• Paul J. Mahoney, UCL (LLM 1969, Lecturer): current and first President of European Union Civil Service Tribunal
• Vyas D. Misra, former Judge, High Court of Delhi (1969–1983)
• Taslim Olawale Elias, UCL (BA, LLB, PhD): former President of the International Court of Justice
• S.S.M. Quadri, former Judge,Supreme Court of India (1997–2003); Chairman, Authority for Advance Ruling, India (1994– )
• Christos Rozakis, UCL (LLM 1970): first vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece
• Leonard Sainer, solicitor and retailer
• John William Salmond: Judge of the High Court of New Zealand
• Thirugnana Sinnathuray — former Judge of the High Court of Singapore
• Baroness Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales (2007–present)
• Thomas Edward Scrutton: former Lord Justice of Appeal
• 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)
• Alfred Wills: High Court judge
• 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

Literary figures

• M. R. Anand, pioneer of the English novel in India
• Guy de la Bédoyère, a British historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain, and has appeared regularly on Time Team
• Raymond Briggs
• Robert Browning
• G. K. Chesterton
• Paul Cornell (did not graduate)
• David Crystal
• Ken Follet
• Clare Francis
• Stella Gibbons
• Laila Lalami
• David Lodge
• David Magarshack, biographer and translator of Russian authors
• Jon de Burgh Miller
• Jonathan Miller
• Gladys Mitchell
• Bel Mooney
• Blake Morrison
• Sir Ernest Satow, after whom the Chair of Japanese Law at UCL is named
• Jim Smith
• Michael Smith (writer), author of The Giro Playboy etc.
• Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912)
• Marie Stopes
• Ken Wiwa

Nobel laureates

• Rabindranath Tagore, 1913

Media professionals (1): film, television, theatre and radio

• David Baddiel, Comedian and television presenter
• Nat Coombs, presenter, writer & comedian
• 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.
• Trey Farley, television presenter.
• Abla Freelance, actress and journalist
• Daniel R. Fung (馮華健), UCL (LLB, LLM): former Solicitor General of Hong Kong, Chairman of Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority
• Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of The Office (studied biology and philosophy)
• Rachel Hurd-Wood, actress; best known for playing Wendy Darling at the 2003 film Peter Pan
• Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life
• Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
• Naamua Delaney, UCL (LLB): news presenter
• James Robertson Justice, actor
• 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
• Adam Rutherford, TV presenter and editor for the journal Nature
• Michael Smith (writer) and broadcaster
• Suzie Templeton, writer, director and animator, including Peter and the Wolf
• Alex Trippier, actor (Queer as Folk), gay rights activist
• Mat Whitecrosx, film director
• Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian

Media professionals (2): 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
• L. J. K. Setright: writer and journalist
• Jeremy Warner, business editor, The Independent
• Michael White, political editor, The Guardian
• Petronella Wyatt, writer, The Spectator

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
• Oscar Clayton, surgeon
• Henry Radcliffe Crocker, dermatologist
• Viscount Bertrand Dawson, was a doctor to the British Royal Family.
• William Tilbury Fox, dermatologist
• Sir William Jenner, was the first doctor to identify between typhus and typhoid
• Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
• 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,B Sc, MBBS,FRCP, at one time 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

Nobel laureates

• Ulf von Euler, 1970

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

• 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)
• Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif
• Justine Frischmann, Elastica
• Leonard Feather, jazz musician, composer, and writer (1932)
• Joshua Hayward, The Horrors
• Philip Heseltine aka Peter Warlock, composer and music critic (English)
• Gustav Holst, composer and teacher (Sanskrit, 1909)
• Richard Hughes, Keane
• Ravi Kesavaram, My Vitriol

Chris Martin, Coldplay

• David Lasocki, recorder player and musicologist (Chemistry, 1965–68)
• Chris Martin, Coldplay
• Jack Peñate, 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

Philanthropists and religious figures

• Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales
• Hugh Price-Hughes, Methodist Theologian
• Rev Henry Solly, founder of Working Men's Club and Institute Union; an important advocate for the extension of working class political rights, and helping to set up the Charity Organisation Society

Sporting figures

• Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
• Samuel Azu Crabbe, UCL (LLB): former Chief Justice of Ghana, President of the National Olympic Committee of Ghana
• David Gower, cricketer, former England Captain
• Patrick Head, co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1
• Christine Ohuruogu – sprinter; Gold Medal, Olympic Games
• Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent – Cricketer, England Women's
• Maurice Watkins (solicitor), UCL (LLB, LLM): Director of Manchester United's football board and club's solicitor

Terrorists

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, suspected bomber in 2009 Christmas Day bombing

• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, UCL Engineering with Business, charged with attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
• Samar Alami, UCL Engineering (1988), convicted of detonating a car bomb outside the Israel embassy in London in the attack on the Israeli embassy in London in 1994.

Founders and supporters

Founders

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named (in Latin) on the Foundation Stone.

• James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), Scottish peer and British statesamn
• Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843), Grand Master of English Freemasons (the United Grand Lodge of England), 1813–1843, supporter of UCL; he laid the foundation stone of the new university on 30 April 1827
• Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), British politician and financier
• Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher; a leading advocate for the foundation of UCL
• George Birkbeck (1776–1841), British Quaker, doctor, academic, philanthropist, and early *pioneer in adult education; founder of Birkbeck College.
• Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), Scottish-born British statesman and slavery abolitionist, leading advocate in Parliament for the foundation of UCL
• Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet, founding father of UCL
• Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853), Baptist Minister, active supporter of the foundation of UCL
• George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, British statesman
• Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor
• Olinthus Gregory (1774–1841), English mathematician, author and editor
• George Grote (1794–1871), English classical historian
• Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk (1791–1856), Catholic peer, and advocate for the foundation of UCL
• Joseph Hume (1777–1855), Scottish doctor and politician
• Zachary Macaulay (1768–1838), Scottish-born slavery abolitionist, Governor of Sierra Leone, and active supporter of the foundation of UCL
• Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), Scottish jurist,politician and historian
• James Mill (1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher; advocate for the foundation of UCL
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), British statesman
• Henry Warburton (1784–1858), English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist
• John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833), British statesman
• William Wilkins (1778–1839), original architect of the main campus
• Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825.

A translation of the Latin text engraved on a metal plate that was buried with the foundation stone reads as follows:

To God's favour the greatest and best, eternal architect of the universe, may it bring you happiness and good fortune at the beginning of the eighth year of the reign of King George IV of Britain, the most highest prince, Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, patron of the all the fine arts the oldest order of architecture the highest among the English the foundation stone of the London University between city state [i.e. citizens] and brothers standing around will be placed by his hand to applause.

Day before the day before the Kalends of May

The work of God desired by the most fortunate citizens of this town has begun at last in the year of human greeting 1827 and in the year of light 5827.

In the name of these most illustrious men who are present and with the guidance of Henry Duke of Norfolk, Henry Marquis of Lansdown, Lord John Russell, John, Viscount Dudley and Ward, George, Baron Auckland, the Hon. James Abercrombie and Sir James Macintosh, Alexander Baring, Henry Bougham, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, George Grote, Zachary Macaulay, Benjamin Shaw, William Tooke, Henry Waymouth, George Birkbeck, Thomas Campbell, Olinthus Gregory, Joseph Hume, James Mill, John Smith, Henry Warburton, John Wishaw, Thomas Wilson, and William Wilkins, architect.

Supporters

Benefactors

• Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, 1st Baronet (1842–1921), civil engineer, enabled the establishment of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
• Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor

Council members

• Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, UCL alumnus; variously Visitor, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Council (2005–08), and Chairman of the UCL Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
• Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather (1934–), British politician, UCL alumna, and the first South Asian woman to receive a peerage
• Sir Stephen Wall, British diplomat, leading Catholic layman, chairman of Council (2008–)
• Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825.

Current staff

Further information: Category:Academics of University College London

Art, architecture, and design

• Edward Allington
• Dryden Goodwin
• Jonathan Hill (architect)
• John Hilliard (artist), professor
• Lisa Milroy
• Liz Rideal
• Thomson & Craighead, artists

Languages and literature

• Rosemary Ashton, OBE, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature

• Rachel Bowlby, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature

• Celia Britton, Professor of French

• Ardis Butterfield, Professor of English

• Pamela Davidson, Professor of Russian Literature

• John Dickie, Professor in Italian Studies

• Jane Fenoulhet, Professor of Dutch Studies

• John Foot, Professor of Modern Italian History

• Mark Ford, Professor of English

• David Forgacs, Professor of Italian

• Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History

• Angel María García Gómez Emeritus Professor of the University of London and Honorary Professor of UCL

• Julian Graffy, Professor of Russian Literature and Cinema

• Helen Hackett, Professor of English

• Mairéad Hanrahan, Professor of French

• Stephen Hart, Professor of Spanish

• Theo Hermans, Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature

• Philip Horne, Professor of English

• Susan Irvine, Professor of English

• Susanne Kord, Professor of German

• Andrew Leak, Professor of French

• Robert Lumley, Professor of Italian Cultural History

• Timothy Mathews, Professor of French and Comparative Criticism

• John Mullan, Professor of English

• Robert Pynsent, Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature

• John Took, Professor of Dante Studies

• Michael Worton, Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature, and Vice-Provost (Academic & International)

• Henry Woudhuysen, Professor of English

Honorary Staff

• Jason Wilson, Emeritus Professor of the University of London and Honorary Professor of UCL

Mathematical, physical and, space sciences

• Helen H Fielding, Professor of Chemical Physics; winner of the 2005 Corday–Morgan Medal
• Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics

Life sciences

• Peter Butler, Professor of Surgery
• Mitchell Glickstein, Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
• 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
• Semir Zeki, Professor of Anatomy

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
• 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.

Fictional figures

Fictional alumni

• Nick Guest, protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty

Fictional staff

• Owen Benjamin is a closeted gay lecturer at UCL in the BBC's 1991 adaptation of The Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt's 1986 New York novel of the same name
• Kirsty Daniels, a UCL research assistant, in episode 63 (2011) of BBC TV's New Tricks
• Philip McKenna, a UCL cold-fusion scientist, kidnapped and murdered in episode 63 (2011) of BBC TV's New Tricks
• Brian Rutland, a UCL cold-fusion scientist, in episode 63 (2011) of BBC TV's New Tricks

Fictional students

• Sofia Petrenko, UCL student and murder victim in episode 'Rules of the Game', Trial & Retribution, ITV (2008).

External links

• UCL student lists