List of University College London people

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

Contents

[edit] Former staff

[edit] Art, architecture, and design

[edit] Chemical sciences

[edit] Nobel laureates

[edit] Engineering sciences

[edit] Languages and literature

[edit] 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.

[edit] Mathematical, physical, and space sciences

[edit] Nobel laureate

[edit] Life sciences

[edit] Nobel laureates

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[edit] Philosophy

[edit] Social sciences, geography, and history

[edit] Nobel laureate

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Academics

[edit] Nobel laureates

[edit] Architects, artists, and designers

[edit] Banking, business and commercial figures

[edit] Charity sector figures

[edit] Civil servants, government employees, heads of state, politicians and royalty

[edit] Cultural management and heritage professionals

[edit] Economics & Finance

[edit] Engineers, mathematicians, scientists and statisticians

[edit] Explorers

[edit] Hospitality and catering professionals

[edit] Lawyers and judges

See also List of University College London people in the Law

[edit] Literary figures

[edit] Nobel laureates

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

[edit] Media professionals (2): editors, journalists and publishers

[edit] Medical figures

  • Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson, KBE, DM, FRCP, FFPHM, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983–91.
  • William Carpenter CB FRS
  • Saverio Borriello – BSc, PhD, FRCPath, FFPHM, Director of the Specialist and Reference Microbiology Division of the Health Protection Agency [HPA] and HPA Director of Research and Development, since 2003; formerly Director, Central Public Health Laboratory, 1995–2003
  • 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

[edit] Nobel laureates

[edit] Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators

Guy Berryman, Coldplay
Chris Martin, Coldplay

[edit] Philanthropists and religious figures

[edit] Sporting figures

[edit] Terrorists

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, suspected bomber in 2009 Christmas Day bombing

[edit] Founders and supporters

[edit] Founders

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named (in Latin) on the Foundation Stone.[11]

A translation of the Latin text engraved on a metal plate that was buried with the foundation stone reads as follows:[14]

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.

[edit] Supporters

[edit] Benefactors

[edit] 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–)[15]
  • Thomas Wilson (1764–1843),[16] Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825.

[edit] Current staff

[edit] Art, architecture, and design

[edit] 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
  • 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
  • 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

[edit] Honorary Staff

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

[edit] Mathematical, physical and, space sciences

[edit] 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

[edit] Social sciences, geography, and history

[edit] Fictional figures

[edit] Fictional alumni

[edit] Fictional staff

[edit] Fictional students

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ UCL News, December 18, 2009
  2. ^ Penelope Gouk. "Walker, D.P." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. July 2, 2008. Chicago
  3. ^ a b http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/Events-Seminars/jsm_conference1.htm
  4. ^ "FAMOUS SONS OF THE LION HOUSE" (in (English)). http://www.thelionhouse.com/FSLH.HTML. Retrieved May 21, 2011. 
  5. ^ Adler, Claire (Autumn 2003). "Pen Hadow". UCL People: p. 2. 
  6. ^ BBC Food
  7. ^ Frank Dawes. "Dale, Kathleen" Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. July 2, 2008. Ch
  8. ^ Frankie Nemko. "Feather, Leonard" Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. July 2, 2008.
  9. ^ Profile: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, BBC, 2009-12-27' and UCL News, December 26, 2009
  10. ^ Imperial Terror Link
  11. ^ See Harte, N. and North, J. (2004), The World of UCL: 1828–2004, London : UCL Press, p.41
  12. ^ Harte, N. and North, J. (2004), The World of UCL: 1828–2004, London : UCL Press, p.28
  13. ^ Harte, N. and North, J. (2004), The World of UCL: 1828–2004, London : UCL Press, p.31
  14. ^ See an image of that original Latin text in Harte, N. and North, J. (2004), The World of UCL: 1828–2004, London : UCL Press, p.41
  15. ^ UCL News, 13 March 2008, accessed 26 June 2010
  16. ^ Named on the foundation stone, 1827, quoted in Harte, N. and North, J. (2004), The World of UCL: 1828–2004, London : UCL Press, p.41

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