List of Imperial College London people

This is a list of Imperial College London people, including notable students and staff from the various historical institutions which are now part of Imperial College. Students who later became academics at Imperial are listed in the alumni section only to avoid duplication.

Alumni

Scientists and engineers

Sir Roy M. Anderson (epidemiology - mathematically modelled the spread of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and AIDS.)
Dame Mary Archer (British scientist specialising in solar power conversion)
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby (botanist)
Ian Bayley (computer scientist)
Sir Henry De la Beche, founder of the British Geological Survey
William Thomas Blanford (geologist)
Kenneth Binmore (economist)
Moses Blackman (crystallographer)
George C. Clerk ( Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist)
Sir Charles Vernon Boys (scientist)
Donal Bradley (researcher in plastic electronics)
Nessa Carey, virologist and author)
Piers Corbyn (meteorologist)
Donald Watts Davies (computer scientist)
Herbert Dingle (English astronomer, best known for his claimed disproof of the theory of special relativity)
Patrick Dixon (futurist, physician)
Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (geologist, first president of Indian National Science Academy)
Amanda Fisher (biologist)
Alfred Fowler (astronomer)
Marc Garneau (first Canadian in space, Chancellor of Carleton University, Liberal Member of Parliament)
Sir Thomas Henry Holland (geologist)
Arthur Holmes (geologist)
John Wesley Judd (geologist)
David Latchman (geneticist)
Johnjoe McFadden (molecular geneticist and writer)
C. Lloyd Morgan (psychologist)
Naomi Oreskes (historian of science)
Helen Porter (botanist)
David E. Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian)
John G. Ramsay (structural geologist)
Murray Shanahan (computer scientist)
Sir Alec Skempton (founding father of soil mechanics)
Elsayed Elsayed Wagih (Egyptian virologist and biotechnologist)

Chemists

Geoffrey Wilkinson, Nobel laureate chemist

Henry Edward Armstrong (chemist)
Richard Barrer (chemistry - developer of zeolites)
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
Dewan Singh Bhakuni Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Sir William Crookes (chemist and physicist)
Andrew deMello (chemist)
Carl Djerassi (chemist; first oral contraceptive pill progestin norethisterone)
George Finch
Malcolm Green
Christopher Kelk Ingold (of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules)
Adinath Lahiri (Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee)
Sir Patrick Linstead (discoverer of phthalocyanine dyes)
Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry)
William Henry Perkin, Jr. (organic chemist, son of Sir William Henry Perkin, studied at the Royal College of Science)
Juda Hirsch Quastel (chemist)
Henry Rzepa (computational organic chemist)
Jeremy Sanders (chemist)
Martin Schroder (chemist)
Sir Richard Sykes (biochemist, Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline)
Sir Henry Tizard (Chemist and inventor)
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel laureate, chemistry)

Engineers

Asad Abidi (electrical engineer) - former dean of Lahore University of Management Sciences, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Nicolas Ambraseys (civil engineer) - Founder of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College London
Eric Ash (engineer)
Ayodele Awojobi (first African awarded the D.Sc degree in mechanical engineering; main field: vibration)
Cecil Balmond (civil engineer)
Baron Richard Beeching (engineer)
Alan Blumlein (electronic engineer)
Wilfred Corrigan (American engineer and entrepreneur, founder of LSI Logic Corp.)
Peter A. Cundall (rock engineer - Discrete Element Method)
George Mercer Dawson (surveyor)
James H. Ellis (engineer, conceived public-key cryptography)
Sir Hugh Ford (engineer)
Erol Gelenbe (Electrical Engineer, Computer Scientist, Applied Mathematician, Professor at Imperial College, Fellow of the Académie des technologies, France, Fellow of the Académie royale de Belgique, Fellow of the Science Academies of Hungary, Belgium and Turkey)
Peter Gregson (research engineer, Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast)
Dame Judith Elizabeth Hackitt (engineer and civil servant)
Sir Stanley Hooker (mechanical engineer)
C.L.V. Jayathilake (engineer)
Viktor Jensen (engineer)
Frederick William Lanchester (aeronautic engineer)
Meir Manny Lehman (software engineering)
Tshilidzi Marwala (engineer)
Sanjoy K. Mitter (electrical engineer)
Alec Reeves (engineer, invented pulse code modulation)
Peter Rice (civil engineer)
Donald Van Norman Roberts (civil engineer)
Roger W.H. Sargent (chemical engineer)
Luís Simões da Silva (civil engineer)
Nicholas Tombazis (Mclaren F1 and Scuderia Ferrari chief aerodynamicist)
Kevin Warwick (engineer)
Andrew J. Whittle (head of Civil Engineering at MIT)
Richard Williams, Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University
Christopher R. Wronski (electrical engineer)
Shao Xianghua (metallurgical engineer)
Olgierd Zienkiewicz (civil engineer - Finite Element Method)

Mathematicians and statisticians

David Balding (mathematical statistician)
Vincent Blondel (mathematician)
Tony Brooker (mathematician and computer scientist)
William Reginald Dean (applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist)
E. W. Hobson (mathematician)
Bill Parry (mathematician)
L H C Tippett (statistician)
Stuart Turnbull (financial mathematician)

Medicine

Sir Alexander Fleming

David Livingstone

Dame Sally Davis (Chief Medical Officer)
Sir Harold Ellis (surgeon)
Sir Joseph Fayrer (physician noted for his writings on medicine in India)
Marc Feldmann (expert on rheumatology)
Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Sir Frederick Hopkins (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Dame Rosalind Hurley (medical microbiologist, researcher, and ethicist)
Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Sir Bruce Keogh (medical director of the National Health Service)
David Livingstone (congregationalist pioneer medical missionary in South Africa–Charing Cross Hospital)
Norman Morris (Obstetrician and healthcare reformer)
Albert Neuberger (chemical pathologist)
William Kitchen Parker (physician and zoologist)
Sir Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Ann Redgrave (orthopaedic surgery)
Bernard Spilsbury (pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern forensic medicine)
Joseph Toynbee (otologist)
Augustus Desiré Waller (the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG))
Almroth Wright (advanced vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines)
Sir Magdi Yacoub (expert on live lobe lung transplant)

Physicists

Lord Penney

Anthony R. Barringer (geophysicist and inventor)
Fernando Brandao (physicist)
Lesley Cohen (physicist)
Andrew Crumey (physicist)
Michael Duff (string theorist)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (physicist)
Piers Forster (climatologist)
James R. Graham (astrophysicist)
Joanna Haigh, professor of atmospheric physics
Suzanne Imber (astrophysicist)
Christopher Isham (physicist)
Narinder Singh Kapany (physicist - optical fibres)
Nicholas Kemmer (physicist)
K. Kunaratnam (physicist)
Norman Lockyer (discoverer of helium and founder of Nature)
Jenny Nelson (Professor of Physics)
T. E. Nevin, Irish physicist
William George Penney (physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project)
Nicholas J. Phillips (physicist)
Wolfgang Rindler (physicist and textbook author who introduced term 'Event Horizon')
Christopher Sachrajda (physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS))
Roy Sambles (President of the Institute of Physics)
Le Jeu Sham (physicist)
David Southwood (former President of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Ray Streater (physicist)
Vlatko Vedral (physicist)
Sir Gilbert Walker (physicist)

Politicians

Rajiv Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of India

Julius Vogel, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Adam Afriyie (MP For Windsor)
Sir James Allen (Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand)
Hussain al-Shahristani (Iraq's Minister for Higher Education)
Thomas Anthony Brake (British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Carshalton and Wallington)
Matthew Carrington (former Conservative Member of Parliament for Fulham, 1987–1997
Frederic Creswell (mining engineer and Minister of Defense in South Africa)
Edmund Daukoru (Minister of Energy for Nigeria and former OPEC President (2006))
Les Ebdon, Director of Fair Access to Higher Education
Rajiv Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India)
Adam Holloway (journalist and politician)
Branislav Ivkovic (politician)
Abubakarr Jalloh (Minister for Natural Resources, Sierra Leone)
Sir Adrian Johns (former Governor of Gibraltar and former Second Sea Lord)
Chris Kelly (former MP for Dudley South)
Phillip Lee (MP For Bracknell)
Rilwan Lukman (Petroleum Resources Minister of Nigeria and former Secretary General OPEC)
Ken Michael (Governor of Western Australia)
Chi Onwurah (MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Trevor Phillips (journalist and politician)
J Y Pillay (civil servant)
Joan Ruddock (politician)
Sydney Russell-Wells (British MP)
Guy Saint-Pierre (politician)
Christos Staikouras (politician and economist)
Richard Thomas Taylor (Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest)
Teo Chee Hean (Defense Minister of Singapore and former Chief of Navy)
Desmond Stanley Turner (British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Kemptown)
Sir Julius Vogel (former Prime Minister of New Zealand)
Thamir Al-Ghadhban-Former Minister of Oil -Iraq)

Business people

Otto Beit

Kaveh Alamouti (investment banker)
Alfred Beit (gold and diamond magnate)
Otto Beit (financier)
Stan Bharti (founder of Forbes & Manhattan)
Michael Birch (Founder of Bebo)
Chew Choon Seng (CEO of Singapore Airlines)
Iain Conn (Group Managing Director of BP)
Michael Cowpland (founder of Corel)
Keith Duckworth (Founder of Cosworth Engineering)
Colin Dyer (CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle)
Alan Howard (co-founder of Brevan Howard)
Koh Boon Hwee (Chairman of DBS Bank, Singapore)
Mathias Laursen (Customer Service)
Martin Lamb, Chief Executive of IMI plc
Danny Lui (founder of Lenovo)
Mehraj Mattoo (Global Head, COMAS, Commerzbank)
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (Chairman of Tata Group)
Charlie Muirhead (Entrepreneur, founder of Rightster)
Ronald Oxburgh (non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell PLC)
Ian Read (CEO of Pfizer)
Andrew Rickman OBE (technology billionaire)
Sir Ralph Robins (Former CEO of Rolls-Royce)
Harold Roxbee Cox (aircraft engineer)
Gary Tanaka (founder of Amerindo Investment Advisors)
Winston Wong (businessman)

Others

Brian May

H.G. Wells

Roger Bannister

Anjana Ahuja (journalist)
Kit Armstrong (pianist and composer)
Louis Attrill (Sydney Olympics gold medallist, rowing)
Sir Roger Bannister (athlete)
Laurent Bonomo (visiting student)
Will Burrard-Lucas (photographer)
David Cain (composer)
I. C. Chacko (writer)
Henry Cole (civil servant)
Andrew Crumey (novelist)
Declan Curry (presenter on BBC News 24)
Simon Dennis (Sydney Olympics gold medallist, rowing)
Andy Fanshawe (mountaineer)
Gabriel Ferez (visiting student)
Pallab Ghosh (BBC Science Correspondent)
Adrian Greenwood (historian and art dealer)
Anthony Hardy (serial killer)
Jessica Hsuan (Chinese actress)
David Irving (author)
Adam Kay (of the comedy duo Amateur Transplants)
Nalin Kulatilaka (economist)
Aarif Lee (Chinese actor and singer)
Tan Yock Lin (professor of law and author)
Brian May (astrophysicist, more commonly known as a member of the rock band Queen)
Anthony R. Michaelis (science journalist and publisher)
Andreas Mogensen (First Danish astronaut)
Ghanem Nuseibeh (Founder of Cornerstone Global Associates)
Murad Osmann (photographer)
Paul Rogers (Professor of Peace)
Ted Simon (journalist)
Simon Singh (popular science author)
Daniel V. Snaith (IDM artist, records under the name Caribou)
Richard Southwood (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
George Reginald Starr (Special Operations Executive officer)
Emma Townshend (Academic, musician and columnist)
Kevin Walton (military, awarded the George Cross in 1946)
Lancelot Ware (biochemist, barrister and co-founder of Mensa International)
H. G. Wells (science fiction author)
Jane Yardley (author)
Raymond Yiu (composer)

Staff

Patrick Blackett, Nobel laureate in physics

Samson Abramsky, FRS computer scientist
John Albery, chemist
Igor Aleksander, electronic engineer
John Stuart Archer, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Heriot-Watt University
John Argyris (civil and aeronautical engineer, one of the founders of the Finite Element Method)
Deborah Ashby, medicial statistician
Per Bak (theoretical physicist, self-organized criticality)
James Barber, biochemist
Wendy Barclay, virologist
Michael Bearpark, chemist and musician
John Beddington, population biologist
Derek Bell, physician
Anne Beloff-Chain (professor of biochemistry)
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (Nobel laureate, physics)
David Blow (biophysicist)
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Peter Bradshaw, aeronautical engineer
Stephen D. M. Brown, geneticist
Keith Browning (atmospheric scientist)
Martin Buck, microbiologist
John Burland (civil engineer) - the person who stabilised the Tower of Pisa
Kevin Buzzard (mathematician, number theory)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Clementine Chambon (chemical engineer)
Colin Cherry (cognitive scientist - expert in cocktail party problem)
Keith Clark (computer scientist)
Ara Darzi (Baron Darzi of Denham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Leading Surgeon)
Simon Donaldson (mathematician, Fields Medallist)
Fay Dowker (physicist)
Abbas Edalat (computer scientist)
Sir Alan Fersht, chemist
Sir Edward Frankland (chemist)
William Fyfe (geochemist)
Dennis Gabor (Nobel laureate, physics)
Erol Gelenbe (computer scientist - G-networks and the random neural network)
Stephen Glaister (civil engineering)
David Hand, statistician
Nicholas Harrison (Professor of Computational Materials Science)v
Michael Hassell (population ecology)
Sir Walter Haworth (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
John Henry (toxicologist) (clinical toxicologist who did crucial work on poisoning and drug overdose)
Dame Julia Higgins (chemical engineer)
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann (chemist)
Sir Brian Hoskins (dynamical meteorologist)

Thomas Henry Huxley

T. H. Huxley (biologist and author)
Frank Irving (aeronautical engineer)
Nick Jennings (computer scientist)
Charles Kennedy (economist)
Sir Tom Kibble (physicist)
Alexander King, scientist and policy advisor
Julia King (Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics)
Sir Peter Knight (physicist, Quantum Optics)
Eric Laithwaite (engineer)
Armand Marie Leroi (biologist)
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham, inorganic chemist
Sir James Lighthill (mathematician)
Leonard Mandel (physicist, founder of quantum optics)
Sir Basil John Mason (meteorologist)
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (physicist, member of the House of Lords)
Emma McCoy (mathematician and statistician)
David Miles (economist)
Michael Mingos (inorganic chemist)
Christine Moffatt (nurse in leg ulcer care)
Kirpal Nandra (astrophysist)
John Nelder (statistician)
Sir John Pendry (physicist)
David Phillips, chemist
Dame Julia Polak (tissue engineer)
George Porter (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
Rodney Robert Porter (biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Sylvia Richardson (statistician)
Klaus Roth (mathematician, Fields medallist)
Michael Rowan-Robinson (astronomer)

Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics

Abdus Salam (Nobel laureate, physics)
Sir Adrian Smith (mathematician)
Brian Spalding (computational fluid dynamics)
John M Squire, biophysicist
Molly Stevens, bioengineer
R. A. Stradling (physicist)
Ray Streater, physicist
Michael Stumpf (systems biologist)
Sir George Paget Thomson (Nobel laureate, physics)
Vlatko Vedral (physicist)
Alfred North Whitehead (mathematician)
Robert Winston (fertility expert, politician, scientist and television presenter)
James Hunter (Jim) Whitelaw (mechanical engineer, fluid mechanics)
Frank Yates (statistician, Guy Medallist)
Martin Hairer (mathematician, Fields medallist)
Yael Naim Dowker (mathematician)
Sydney Chapman (mathematician)
Alessio Corti (mathematician)
Richard Thomas (mathematician, FRS)
Walter Hayman (mathematician)

References

External links

Imperial College student lists

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