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[edit] list from London School of Economics

The following list comes from the main LSE page. It is largely duplication of the list here (List_of_London_School_of_Economics_people). But someone needs to go through & sort out whether there's any new information, and also weed for errors. (eg I know David Attenborough didn't study at LSE - he was awarded an honorary degree, but that doesn't make him an alumnus).

The list on this page has now been merged to the article overleaf. Little attempt was made to check accuracy of the items during the merge, but no information was lost from either list. Feel free to remove this list from this talk page if you need the space, but I'll leave it here for reference for now. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heads of State or Heads of Government

[edit] Nobel Laureates

[edit] Other Prominent Alumni or Faculty

[edit] Academics

[edit] Politics & Government

[edit] Media, Authors & Journalists

[edit] Business & Finance

[edit] Others

[edit] List of the School's Directors

[edit] What's the difference between a 'head of state' and a 'head of government'?

--Anchoress 05:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that no-one answered my question. It's not a homework question or trolling; I ask because I wonder why they are both necessary in the article. Anchoress 02:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
They are broadly similar, except when they are not. The Head of state and Head of government articles explain it. -- zzuuzz(talk) 02:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] David Attenborough

Like someone above, I thought that the claim that David Attenborough is an alumni of LSE is based on an error, namely on that fact that he received an honourary degree from LSE.

However, a google search reveals some hints that he did study at LSE:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13117845.100-a-man-for-all-habitats-david-attenborough-this-yearspresident-of-the-british-association-is-one-of-the-most-important-andgifted-science-popularisers-of-our-day-.html

http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWEnews/article.asp?item=419

The sources above are ambigious, so could someone in-the-know shed some light on this matter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.194.10 (talk) 18:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Reading those sources I get the impression he was offered the job of controller of BBC2 just as he was resigning to start at LSE. The New Scientist seems fairly clear about it, the UWE newsletter less so (I know which I would trust more). -- zzuuzz (talk) 23:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Founders of LSE

Just noticed that this has been substantially increased from Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw to several others, on the basis that these other people either gave money to help establish the LSE or appear on the Fabian window. I'm not sure whether this is sufficient to be considered a "founder". Unless a clear criteria is given, I recommend reverting back to the original three. (Also, Bertand Russell gave a lot of money to the LSE, as well as teach there, but does that make him a "founder" too?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.194.10 (talk) 01:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I've just looked at the LSE website here http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/aboutLSE/nobelPrizeWinners/russell.htm

LSE considers Russell as a "spiritual and financial founder". What might be worth doing is distinguishing between the actual founders of LSE - Shaw and the Webbs - and the financial ones - Russell et al. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.194.10 (talk) 01:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Both suggestions sound sensible. There are normally only three or four people recognised as founders. -- zzuuzz (talk) 11:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

There appears to be someone bent on trying to add every member of the Fabian Society circa 1895 as a founder of the LSE. This is simply ludicrous. I think we should only list those those can be verified as founders. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.194.10 (talk) 01:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Val Venis

Val Venis' new RF shoot video shows that he never in fact studied at LSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDdNefyxJp8

I'll remove him as appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.27.18 (talk) 22:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Cornelius

Does any one know about Peter Cornelius (Ex Chief Economist of World Economics forum, not the musician). We need to make a page about him. Unfortunately, I don't know much about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aakash58 (talk • contribs) 12:07, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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[edit] Carlos the Jackal, terrorist

Are we sure that Carlos the Jackal was ever a registered student at the LSE?. I was aware that he may have been a student at the Polytechnic of Central London for a period in the 1960s but I have never heard of an LSE association. Izzy (talk) 17:56, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Whether it's true or not it's been well reported for years that he attended LSE. A recent source:[2]. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:27, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Sure, I now accept that it is widely stated that Carlos "studied" (an ambiguous term) at LSE for a brief period in the early 1970s. I have my doubts about that and am pretty sure that he was never a registered student at LSE. Izzy (talk) 14:46, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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