List of people associated with Royal Holloway, University of London

The following is a list of Royal Holloway, University of London people, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows. It is not exhaustive.

Notable alumni

Royal Holloway College, Bedford College and RHUL have over 80,000 alumni.

Entertainment, media, theatre

Chris Aldridge, British radio newsreader (BBC Radio 4)
David Benson (born 1962), English comedian, writer and actor
Peter Bramley, British actor, director and theatre director
Mark Carwardine, Zoologist, Writer, wildlife photographer, TV and radio presenter
Candace Chong Mui Ngam (born 1976), Hong Kong playwright
Richard Clarke (born 1978), English radio presenter
James Dagwell (born 1974), British journalist
Isabel Fay (born 1979), English comedy writer and character comedian
Emma Freud OBE (born 1962), English broadcaster and cultural commentator
Pippa Guard (born 1952), English actress
Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC Two^[1]
Lenny Henry (born 1958), Television presenter ^[2]
Alex Hyndman (born 1978), British newsreader
Robin Ince (born 1969), English comedian
Anthony Jabre, film producer and financier
Karena Johnson, English theatre director
Roxanne McKee (born 1980), British actress and model
John Moloney, comedian and comedy writer
Mary Nightingale (born 1964), British newsreader^[3]
Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
Simon Nye (born 1958), English comic television writer^[3]
Lucy Owen (born 1970), Welsh newsreader
Ben Richardson (b.198?), British cinematographer
Mark Strong (born 1963), English actor
Daniel Lawrence Taylor (born 198?), British actor and comedy writer
Francis Wheen (born 1957), British journalist, writer and broadcaster
Roger Wright (born 1956) Controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC Proms
David Herrera (born 1986) Colombian Filmmaker.

Literature

Tahmima Anam (born 1975), Bangladeshi-born writer and novelist
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), English novelist
Richmal Crompton (1890–1969), English writer of Just William^[3]
George Eliot (1819–1880), British novelist^[3]
Jane Gardam OBE FRSL (born 1928), novelist
Rosemary Manning (1911–1988), British author
Gerda Mayer (1927–2021), English poet
Jojo Moyes (born 1969), British novelist
Redell Olsen (born 1971), poet, performer and academic
Sophie Robinson, (born 1985) contemporary English poet
Miranda Seymour (born 1948), Biographer, novelist
Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930), British author and folklorist
Carol Townend (born 1953) English author

Music

Richard Baker (born 1972), British composer and conductor
Susan Bullock CBE (born 1958), English soprano
Jonathan Cole (born 1970), British composer
Tansy Davies (born 1973), British composer
Example (musician) (born 1982), British singer, rapper and songwriter
Sarah Fox (born 1973) English operatic soprano
Geoff Hannan (born 1972), British composer
Dame Felicity Lott DBE (born 1947), English soprano
Ivan Moody (born 1964), British composer
Paul Newland (born 1966), British composer
Ewan Pearson (born 1972), British music producer
Andrew Poppy (born 1954), British composer, pianist and music producer
China Soul (born 1988) American-British singer/songwriter
Joby Talbot (born 1971) British composer
KT Tunstall (born 1975) Scottish singer and songwriter
John Scott Whiteley (born 1950) York Minster organist and composer

Politics

Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi (born 1957), Iranian politician
Catherine Ashton (born 1956), British Labour politician; High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; vice president, European Commission
Norman Baker (born 1957) Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes 1997–2015
Gregory Barker MP (born 1966), British politician
Emily Davison (1872–1913), English suffragette activist
Dame Janet Fookes DBE DL (born 1936) English politician, Conservative member House of Lords
Norvela Forster (1931–1993) British businesswoman, exporter and politician (MEP)
Jean Henderson (1899–1997), British barrister and Liberal Party politician
Moussa Ibrahim (born 1974), Gaddafi spokesman during the 2011 Libyan civil war
Stewart Jackson MP (born 1965), British politician
Tess Kingham (born 1963), British politician
Jessica Lee MP (born 1976), British politician
Victoria Prentis MP (born 1971), Conservative MP
Jenny Randerson (born 1948), Welsh Liberal Democrat politician
Andrew Stephenson MP (born 1981), British politician
Frances Stevenson (1888–1972), personal secretary and second wife of David Lloyd George
Valerie Vaz MP (born 1954), British politician
Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 1945) Labour member House of Lords

Science

Waleed A. Alrodhan (born 1981), Saudi author and researcher
David Bellamy OBE (1933–2019) Botanist, environmentalist, author and broadcaster^[3]
Martin Buck FRS (born 1956) microbiologist
John B. Cosgrave (born 1946), Irish mathematician
Jackie Hunter (born 1956) chief executive BBSRC
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (1903–1971), crystallographer
Rosalind Pitt-Rivers FRS (1907–1990) biochemist
Helen Porter FRS (1899–1987) botanist, first female professor of Imperial College London
Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1871–1966), English geographer, historian of science
Derek Yalden (1940–2013) English zoologist, reader at the University of Manchester
Grace Waterhouse (1906–1996), British mycologist

Sport

Sophie Christiansen (born 1987), gold medal winner, Paralympics equestrian events[4]
Jessica Eddie (born 1984), British rower, Olympic silver medalist
Helene Raynsford (born 1979), British paralympic rower and gold medallist
Andy Sheridan, (born 1979) Rugby Union, Sale Sharks and England
Joe Saward (born 1961), British Formula One journalist
Alex Lewington (born 1991) English rugby player
Theo Brophy-Clews (born 1997) English rugby player

Other

Kitty Anderson DBE (1903–79) BA PhD Head North London Collegiate School 1945–65^[5]
Muhammad Abdul Bari MBE (b.1953), Former Secretary General Muslim Council of Britain
Sophie Bryant (1850–1922) Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
Helen Cam CBE FRHistS (1885–1968), English historian
Lucy Caslon, founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
Ilse Crawford (born 1962), British designer
Edith Durham (1863–1944), British traveller, artist, writer and anthropologist
Tania El Khoury (born 1976), Lebanese artist
Dame Janet Finch (born 1946) VC, Prof Social Rel, Keele 1995–2010, hon fellow RHC 1999
Jayne-Anne Gadhia (born 1961), Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Money UK
Robert Garside (born 1967), English record-breaking adventurer
Nick Hallard (born 1975), British artist
Giles Hart (1949–2005), British engineer and trade union activist
Duncan McCargo, British academic
Louisa Martindale CBE FRCOG (1872–1966), British physician and surgeon
Victor Olisa QPM, former senior Metropolitan Police officer
Jennifer Page CBE (b. 1944), former chief executive of the London Millennium Dome project
Thea Porter (1927–2000), fashion designer (expelled)^[6]
Sarah Parker Remond (1815-c.1894) African-American lecturer, abolitionist and doctor
Simon Thurley CBE (born 1963), British architectural historian^[3]
Amanda Vickery professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London
Ronald Alan Waldron (born 1927), English medievalist
Ahmed Yerima, Nigerian professor, administrator

Sofia Abramovich (born 1995), daughter of Roman Abramovich

Notable staff

The following is a list of notable office-holders, academics and other teachers or researchers:

H. B. Acton, taught political philosophy
Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, Member college council at the merger with Bedford
Khizar Humayun Ansari OBE, director of the Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies
Sarah Ansari, professor of history
Geoffrey Alderman RSA, professor of politics and contemporary history
Giovanni Aquilecchia, professor of Italian and Italian Renaissance scholar

Gillian Bailey, fellow in theatre studies
George Barger, professor of chemistry
Dame Gillian Beer, former President of Clare Hall, Cambridge
Sir William Benham, Fellow of the Royal Society, zoologist
Margaret Jane Benson, Professor of Botany
John Bercow, Professor of Politics, former Speaker of the House of Commons
Francis Berry, professor of English literature
Luiza Bialasiewicz, senior lecturer in human geography
James Booth, Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician
Mark Bowden, professor of composition
Andrew Bowie, professor of philosophy and German
Mary Boyce, taught Anglo-Saxon literature and archaeology
David Bradby, professor of drama and theatre studies
Daniel Joseph Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Bramley professor of biochemistry
Kai Brodersen, visiting professor in ancient history and classics
Jonathan Burrows, visiting professor of drama and theatre
Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Fellow of the Royal Society
Chris Carey, professor of classics
William Benjamin Carpenter CB, Fellow of the Royal Society
Lorna Casselton FRS, fungal geneticist
Philip Cashian, composer, taught in the music department
David Cesarani, OBE, Research Professor in History
William Gilbert Chaloner, Fellow of the Royal Society
Justin Champion, professor of the history of early modern ideas
Alexey Chervonenkis, professor of computer science
Christopher Cocksworth, college chaplain, now Bishop of Coventry
Paul Cohn, Fellow of the Royal Society
Grenville Cole, Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Conrad, visiting professor in sociology
Nicholas Cook, professorial research fellow in music
Glen Cowan, professor of physics
Denis Cosgrove, professor of geography and dean of the graduate school
Joseph Mordaunt Crook CBE FBA, historian
Tim Cresswell, professor of human geography
Hilda Ellis Davidson, lecturer in archaeology and anthropology
Veronica Della Dora FBA, professor of human geography
Antonella De Santo, lecturer in experimental physics, coordinator for the ATLAS experiment-UK supersymmetry group
Whitfield Diffie, visiting professor at the information security group
Richard Dixon, Fellow of the Royal Society, biologist
Roland Dobbs, emeritus professor of physics
Klaus Dodds FRGS, professor of geopolitics
Felix Driver FBA FAcSS FRGS, professor of human geography
Michael Eysenck, (now emeritus) professor of psychology
Lilian Faithfull CBE, university administrator
Giles Foden, fellow in creative and performing arts
Sir Gregory Foster, former vice-chancellor of the University of London
Mary Fowler, professor of geology, now Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
Harold Munro Fox, Fellow of the Royal Society
Dame Jane Francis, director of the British Antarctic Survey
Dame Helen Gardner, assistant lecturer in English literature
Reginald Gates, Fellow of the Royal Society
A. C. Grayling CBE, Master of New College of the Humanities
Edith Hall, professor of classics and drama
Robert Gavin Hampson, professor of modern literature
Glyn Harman, professor of mathematics
Nick Hardwick CBE, former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
J. P. E. Harper-Scott, professor of music history and theory
Leonard Hawkes, Fellow of the Royal Society
Harriet Hawkins FRGS, professor of geography
Margaret Hayes-Robinson, Head of History
John F Healy, professor of classics and archaeology
Sir Frank Heath GBE, KCB, educationist and civil servant
Olaus Henrici, Fellow of the Royal Society
Frank Horton, professor of physics and vice-chancellor of London University 1939–45
Dame Olwen Hufton, professorial research fellow in the history department
Jonathan Holmes, senior lecturer in drama
Joan M. Hussey, professor of history
Julian Johnson FBA, Regius Professor of Music
Brian Juden, professor of French 1970–1985
Sharman Kadish, scholar of Jewish British history
Peter Knight, Jubilee research fellow in quantum optics
Robert Latham FBA, historian, dean of men, joint author 1970–83 The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Robert Lethbridge chair French, head of dept, dean of the graduate school, vice-principal
Roger Lockyer, reader in history, specialist in Tudor and Stuart Britain
Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society
S L Loney, professor of mathematics
Peter Longerich, director of the research centre for the Holocaust and 20th century history
John Duncan Mackie CBE, historian
Louis MacNeice CBE, poet and playwright
Ursula Martin CBE, computer scientist
J. D. Mackie, professor of modern history
Ursula Martin, taught in the computer science department
Sir William McCrea FRS, professor of mathematics 1944–66
Oliver McGregor, Baron McGregor of Durris, sociologist
Katie Mitchell OBE, professor of Theatre Directing. Former associate director of the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. Internationally renowned and award-winning theatre director.
Sir Andrew Motion FRSL, Poet Laureate, professor of creative writing
Sean Murphy, professor of cryptology
David Naccache, visiting professor at the information security group
Anthony J. Naldrett, visiting professor of geology
Meredith Oakes, taught play-writing
Ben O'Loughlin, prof. of international relations, co-director, New Political Communication Unit
Sir Roger Penrose OM, recipient of the 2020 nobel prize in physics
Dame Lillian Penson, professor of modern history; first woman vice-chancellor of London University
Kevin Porée record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, lecturer theatre studies
H. F. M. Prescott, Jubilee research fellow on Thomas Wolsey
Boris Rankov, professor of Roman history
Dan Rebellato, professor of contemporary theatre
Jonathan Riley-Smith FRHistS, taught in the history department
Adam Roberts, teacher of literature and creative writing
Eric Robertson, professor of modern French literary and visual culture
Francis Robinson CBE, professor of the history of South Asia
Matt Robshaw, lecturer in cryptology
Francis Rose MBE botanist
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004), reader in history
William James Russell, Fellow of the Royal Society
Nigel Saul, professor of medieval history
Andrew Cunningham Scott emeritus prof. of geology, dir science communications 1996–2007
Andrew Sentance, visiting professor, economist
Jo Shapcott, poet and lecturer in creative writing
Pankaj Sharma, Professor of Clinical Neurology
Dame Barbara Shenfield, social scientist and politician
David Skinner, taught in the music department
Ray Solomonoff, visiting professor at the Computer Research Learning Centre
Oskar Spate, lecturer in geography
Sonya Stephens, former President of Mount Holyoke College
Anthony Stockwell FRAS, professor of modern history
Alex Stokes, lecturer in physics
Francis Thompson CBE, historian
Adam Tickell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex
Kathleen Tillotson CBE, academic and literary critic
Samuel Tolansky FRS FRAS, professor of physics
Vladimir Vapnik, professor of computer science and statistics
Andrew Wathey CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northumbria
Michael Walker OBE, mathematician
Martin West OM FBA, classical scholar
Nathan Widder, professor of political theory
William Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Society
Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher
Michael John Williams, reader in international relations
John Woolrich, composer, taught in the music department
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger CH, sociologist

References

^ "Press Releases: Janice Hadlow to be new Controller of BBC Two", BBC Press Office, 1 October 2008
^ "Lenny Henry's long road to a PhD", BBC Press Office, 5 October 2010
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Royal Holloway, University of London. The Independent, 27 July 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2008.
^ "London 2012". Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – subscription based
^ Trebay, Guy (27 July 2000). "Thea Porter, 72; Dressed the Elite of the 60's in Hippie Chic". New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

[1] "Press Releases: Janice Hadlow to be new Controller of BBC Two", BBC Press Office, 1 October 2008

[2] "Lenny Henry's long road to a PhD", BBC Press Office, 5 October 2010

[independentprofile-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Royal Holloway, University of London. The Independent, 27 July 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2008.

[4] "London 2012". Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2015.

[5] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – subscription based

[NYT-6] Trebay, Guy (27 July 2000). "Thea Porter, 72; Dressed the Elite of the 60's in Hippie Chic". New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

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