List of University College London people

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This is a list of notable individuals associated with University College London; see also the main Wikipedia article on University College London.

Contents 1 Former UCL Staff of Note 1.1 Art, Architecture and Design 1.2 Chemical Sciences 1.2.1 Nobel Laureates 1.3 Engineering Sciences 1.4 Languages and Literature 1.5 Law 1.6 Mathematical, Physical and Space Sciences 1.6.1 Nobel Laureates 1.7 Medical and Biological Sciences 1.7.1 Nobel Laureates 1.8 Philosophy 1.9 Social and Historical Sciences 2 UCL Alumni of Note 2.1 Academics 2.1.1 Nobel Laureates 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 Hospitality and Catering Professionals 2.9 Lawyers and Judges 2.10 Literary Figures 2.10.1 Nobel Laureates 2.11 Media Professionals 1: film, television, theatre and radio 2.12 Media Professionals 2: editors, journalists and publishers 2.13 Medical Figures 2.13.1 Nobel Laureates 2.14 Musicians, Musicologists and Musical Commentators 2.15 Philanthropists and Religious Figures 2.16 Rich and/or just well-known 2.17 Sporting Figures 3 Fictional alumni 4 Current UCL Staff of Note 4.1 Art, Architecture, and Design 4.2 Mathematical, Physical and Space Sciences 4.3 Medical and Biological Sciences 4.4 Social and Historical Sciences 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Former UCL Staff of Note

[edit] Art, Architecture and Design

• Lucian Freud - Taught at the Slade, prominent artist
• Roger Fry - Painter and member of the Bloomsbury Set, taught at the Slade School of Art, later Slade Professor at Cambridge
• Michael (Edward) Parsons - Avant-garde composer, and lecturer at the UCL Slade School of Art (1970-90)

[edit] Chemical Sciences

[edit] Nobel Laureates

• Otto Hahn - 1944
• Sir William Ramsay - Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (1887–1913); winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] Engineering Sciences

• John Ambrose Fleming - Professor of Electrical Engineering. Inventor of the thermionic valve (1904)
• William Pole - Civil engineer and music scholar; Professor of Engineering at UCL, 1859-76, and examiner of music degrees for the University of London.
• Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield - Engineer, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering between 1961 and 1969

[edit] 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
• Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - Inaugurated SSEES and was among its first faculty. He later became the first president of Czechoslovakia.
• 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
• 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)
• 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)^[1]
• Stanley Wells - Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

[edit] Law

• 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
• 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

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, (Astronomy); - discovered radio pulsars
• Alan Baker, (mathematics); - winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• Paul Cohn - Astor Professor of Mathematics
• Harold Davenport- Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory
• Augustus De Morgan- Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets
• Philip Dawid - Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Tim Gowers - Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• Norman Lloyd Johnson - Reader in Statistics
• Peter Higgs - Theoretical Physicist and winner of the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics.
• 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
• Klaus F. Roth- Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• James Joseph Sylvester - Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory
• Edward Teller - Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
• Eugene Rabinowitch - worked in the Manhattan Project and co-founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Alfred North Whitehead - Professor of Physics.
• Alexander William Williamson - noted for the chemical synthesis of ether.

[edit] Nobel Laureates

• Sir William Henry Bragg - Quain Professor of Physics (1915–25); winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics

[edit] Medical and Biological Sciences

• Dame Carol Black - Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the Royal College of Physicians
• John Collins - Professor at Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (1986 - 2010); 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)
• Victor Horsley - Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley-Clarke apparatus
• Andrew Huxley - physiologist and biophysicist; winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Sammy Lee (scientist)
• Roland Levinsky, BSc, MD, FRCP, FMedSci, Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth; Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology, Institute of Child Health, UCL, 1985-2002; Vice-Provost (Biomedicine) and Head of the Graduate School, UCL, 1999-2002
• Avrion Mitchison - Professor of Zoology
• Santa Ono - PhD, FAAAAI, Cumberlege Professor of Biomedical Science and then GlaxoSmithKline Chair of Ocular Immunology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Trust, 2001-2006; Vice-Provost Academic & Deputy Provost Emory University, 2006
• 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
• Ernest Starling - Physiologist, noted for the Frank-Starling law of the heart
• John Zachary Young - Professor of Anatomy
• Bernard Spilsbury - Britain's first forensic scientist.

[edit] Nobel Laureates

• Sir James Black - 1988
• Martin Evans - 2007
• Sir Henry Hallett Dale - 1936
• A. V. Hill, Professor of Physiology (1923–51); winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Andrew Fielding Huxley - 1963
• 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' department; winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

[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 Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
• Richard Wollheim - Grote Professor of Mind and Logic

[edit] Social and Historical Sciences

• Michael Crawford - Professor of Ancient History
• Wendy Davies - Professor of Medieval Celtic History
• 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 Gardner Turner - Professor of Papyrology

[edit] UCL Alumni of Note

[edit] Academics

• Albert Geoffrey 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, DBE, FRCN, Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea; formerly Professor of Nursing and Director, Centre for Advanced and International Studies in Nursing, Middlesex University, 1994-96; President, Royal College of Nursing, 1990-94
• 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 Stanley Jevons - Professor of Political Economy, UCL
• Professor Chung-Kwong Poon(潘宗光) - GBS, JP, President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1991
• Julie Maxton – Registrar at Oxford University
• Sir John Pattison, KB, MA, DM, FRCPath, formerly Director of Research and Development, Department of Health; formerly Professor of Medical Microbiology, UCL; Dean, UCL Medical School, 1990-99; Vice-Provost, UCL, 1994-99
• Lord Randolph Quirk - Quain Professor of English Literature
• Stefan Reif - Studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge
• Adrian Smith (academic)
• Sir Philip Randle, MA, PhD, MD, FRCP, FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975.
• 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

• Sir William Henry Bragg- Winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Francis Crick- Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky - 1959
• Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins - 1929

[edit] Architects, Artists, and Designers

• Martin John 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 - English, artist, designer and illustrator

[edit] Banking, Business and Commercial Figures

• Patrick Head – Co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1
• Digby Jones – Director-general, Confederation of British Industry
• Edward Walker-Arnott – Governor, Wellcome Trust
• Colin Chapman – Founder of Lotus Cars
• Lewis Evans – Scientific instrument collector and businessman
• 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].
• Jiaxi Lu - BSc, PhD, President, Executive Chairman, Presidium, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Honorary President of Fuzhou University. [1985].
• 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 Shiona Wallace, Countess Skarbek - Chief Executive, SANE, since 1990. [2004].
• Edwin Waterhouse - founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Beric Wright - formerly Chairman, BUPA. [1982]
• Nadhim Zahawi - CEO and founder of YouGov
• Vanessa Lloyd Platt - Founder of Lloyd Platt & Company.

[edit] Charity Sector Figures

• Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan - Baroness of Drefelin in the County of Dyfed, Chief Executive, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, since 1996. [2005].

[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, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Great Britain since 1992.
• Alex Allan – Head of the Joint Intelligence Committee
• Robin Baker, Deputy Director-General, The British Council, since 2002
• Georgina Susan Butler, British Ambassador to Costa Rica, since 2002
• William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate - Liberal and Labour politician
• Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury - Liberal Democrat peer
• Sir Ellis Clarke, President of Trinidad and Tobago
• Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear - Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 1990-97. [1990].
• Robert Fico - Prime Minister of Slovakia
• 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
• Evan Frank Mottran 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 – 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 – Sixth President of Israel
• Hirobumi Ito – First Prime Minister of Japan (1885-1888)
• Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham - Minister of State at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform as well as at the Foreign Office
• Inoue Kaoru - the first Foreign Minister of Japan
• Jomo Kenyatta – "Founding father" of Kenya; first Prime Minister and President of Kenya
• Junichiro Koizumi – Former prime minister of Japan (2001-2006)
• Ian Luder - Lord Mayor of the City of London
• Sir Nicholas Macpherson - Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
• Lord McNally – Liberal Democrat shadow Home Office spokesperson, House of Lords
• Augustus Raymond Margary, diplomat.
• Edwin Samuel Montagu - Secretary of State for India (1917-1922)
• Anil Moonesinghe – Sri Lankan Trotskyist parliamentarian, trade unionist, ambassador, cabinet minister and deputy speaker
• Stan Newens – Labour and co-operative parliamentarian and MEP
• Jesse Norman - Conservative PPC for Hereford
• Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
• Anthony Steen - Conservative Member of Parliament
• Ernest Symons – Director-General of the Board of Inland Revenue
• Baroness Tonge – Liberal Democrat shadow international development secretary.
• Jan Vincent-Rostowski - the current Finance Minister of the Republic of Poland (since 2007)
• John Whittingdale – Conservative Member of Parliament and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher
• Wu Tingfang (Ng Choy) - Former Acting Premier of the Republic of China;Minister of Foreign Affairs
• David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham;Secretary of State for Employment (1985-1987); Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1987-1989)

[edit] Cultural Management and Heritage Professionals

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

[edit] Engineers, Mathematicians, Scientists and Statisticians

• Alan Baker- Winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• Laurence Baxter
• Alexander Graham Bell- Inventor of Telephone
• Margaret Burbidge FRS- Astrophysicist, former American Astronomical Society President, former Royal Greenwich Observatory Director
• Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993) – Statistician
• Roland Dobbs
• Thomas Eckersley – Theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves
• John Ambrose Fleming - Invented the thermionic valve and the diode
• John Fox
• William Timothy Gowers- Winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• William Stanley Jevons
• Norman Lloyd Johnson
• Dennis Lindley
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister - associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine, the mouthwash Listerine is named after him
• Roger Penrose- Winner of the 1988 Wolf Prize
• M. J. Seaton FRS- British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer
• Ian Sloan- Australian applied mathematician
• John Maynard Smith
• Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer Physiologist
• David Spiegelhalter
• Heinz Wolff
• Klaus Roth-Winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• W. W. Rouse Ball - Mathematician
• Cyril Hilsum- pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices
• Jagadish Chandra Bose - one of the founders of radio telecommunication.
• Oliver Joseph Lodge - was involved in the development of wireless telegraph
• William Edward Ayrton - invented the wattmeter and the electric tricycle.
• Hermann Arthur Jahn

[edit] Hospitality and Catering Professionals

• Clarissa Dickson-Wright - Chef (Law)^[2]

[edit] Lawyers and Judges

• A.S. Anand — former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1998-2001)
• Kuldip Singh - former Judge, Supreme Court of India (1988-96); Advocate General, Punjab (1987); Additional Solicitor General of India (1987-88)
• S.C. Aggarwal - former Judge, Supreme Court of India (1990-98)
• S.S.M. Quadri - former Judge,Supreme Court of India (1997-2003); Chairman, Authority for Advance Ruling, India (1994- )
• Vyas Dev Misra - former Judge, High Court of Delhi (1969-1983)
• 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)
• Justice Samuel Azu Crabbe — former Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977)
• Daniel Fung SC (馮華健) — former Solicitor-General of Hong Kong
• Edwin Glasgow QC — Member of Bloody Sunday Inquiry
• Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith QC — former Attorney General for England and Wales (2001-2007)
• Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman — leading British lawyer; former Senior Partner, Goodman Derrick LLP
• Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell - Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
• Hassan Bubacar 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
• Leonard Sainer — Solicitor and retailer
• Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal — current Attorney General for England and Wales (2007-present)
• Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray — former Judge of the High Court of Singapore
• Tan Boon Teik — former Attorney General of Singapore (1969-1992)
• Chao Hick Tin — current 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

• Mulk Raj Anand – Pioneer of the English novel in India
• 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
• Jonathan Miller
• Jon de Burgh 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
• Marie Stopes]
• Ken Wiwa
• Guy de la Bédoyère – British historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain, and has appeared regularly on Time Team.
• Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868-1912)

[edit] Nobel Laureates

• Rabindranath Tagore – Winner of the 1913 [[Nobel Prize for literature]

[edit] Media Professionals 1: 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]
• 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] 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 – conservative 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 Holt 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 – Columnist, The News of the World
• Jeremy Warner – Business editor, The Independent
• Michael White – Political editor, The Guardian
• Petronella Wyatt – Writer, The Spectator

[edit] Medical Figures

• Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet - The first doctor to identify between typhus and typhoid
• William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS
• Edwin Lankester - Founder of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (QJMS)
• Sir Donald Acheson, KBE, DM, FRCP, FFPHM, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983-91.
• 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
• Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn-was a doctor to the British Royal Family.
• 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
• Dr 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

• Ulf Svante von Euler - 1970

[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
• Jon Buckland – Coldplay
• Will Champion – Coldplay
• John Curwen – Proponent of tonic sol-fa
• Kathleen Dale née Richards – Translator, musicologist, composer and pianist (Swedish: 1926-8)^[3]
• Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif
• Leonard Geoffrey Feather - Jazz musician, composer, and writer (1932)^[4]
• Justine Frischmann – Elastica
• Joshua Hayward – The Horrors
• Philip Arnold 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

• Barry Morgan – Archbishop of Wales
• Hugh Price Hughes – Methodist Theologian
• Rev Henry Solly -Founder of Working Men's Club and Institute Union - Important advocate for the extension of working class political rights and helped to set up the Charity Organisation Society.

[edit] Rich and/or just well-known

• Tamara Ecclestone-ex model, daughter of billionaire Bernie Ecclestone
• Pen Hadow - British polar explorer and author^[5]
• Stephen Tennant - Important member of the 'Brightest' in the 20s and 30s

[edit] Sporting Figures

• David Gower - Cricketer, former England Captain
• Christine Ohuruogu -Sprinter; Gold Medal, Olympic Games
• Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent - Cricketer, England Women's

[edit] Fictional alumni

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

[edit] Current UCL Staff of Note

[edit] Art, Architecture, and Design

• John Hilliard (artist) - Professor
• Thomson & Craighead - Artists

[edit] Mathematical, Physical and Space Sciences

• Marianna Csörnyei - Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 2002 Whitehead Prize
• Helen H Fielding - Professor of Chemical Physics; winner of the 2005 Corday-Morgan medal
• Alan Sokal - Professor of Mathematics; notable hoxer

[edit] Medical and Biological Sciences

• Peter Butler - Professor of Surgery, plastic surgeon, Royal Free and University College Hospital, set to perform the first full face-transplant
• John Martin- British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Science Researcher; founder of Ark Therapeutics
• Janet Radcliffe Richards - Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy; prominent feminist and humanist
• Martin Raff - Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
• Patrick David Wall - Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential Gate Theory of Pain with Ronald Melzack at McGill University
• 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 - Mapped Visual and Motion Centers of the Brain

[edit] Social and Historical Sciences

• Richard Blundell - Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies

[edit] See also

• Quain Professor
• Category:Academics of University College London
• Category:Alumni of University College London

[edit] References

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