List of Royal Holloway, University of London people
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.
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
Other
- Chris Aldridge, British radio newsreader (BBC Radio 4)
- Tahmima Anam (born 1975), Bangladeshi-born writer and novelist
- Kitty Anderson DBE (1903–79) BA PhD Head North London Collegiate School 1945–65[1]
- Richard Baker (born 1972), British composer and conductor
- Muhammad Abdul Bari MBE (b.1953), Former Secretary General Muslim Council of Britain
- Debra Barr (born 1986) Apprentice candidate, Series 5
- David Bellamy OBE (born 1933) Botanist, environmentalist, author and broadcaster[2]
- David Benson (born 1962), English comedian, writer and actor
- Peter Bramley, British actor, director and theatre director
- Sophie Bryant (1850–1922) Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
- Martin Buck FRS (born 1956) microbiologist
- Susan Bullock CBE (born 1958), English soprano
- Helen Cam CBE FRHistS (1885–1968), English historian
- Mark Carwardine, Zoologist, Writer, Wildlife Photographer, TV and Radio Presenter
- Lucy Caslon, founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
- Candace Chong Mui Ngam, Hong Kong playwright
- Sophie Christiansen CBE (born 1987), gold medal winner, Paralympics equestrian events[3]
- Richard Clarke (born 1978), English radio presenter
- Jonathan Cole (born 1970), British composer
- Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), English novelist
- John B. Cosgrave (born 1946), Irish mathematician
- Ilse Crawford (born 1962), British designer
- Richmal Crompton (1890–1969), English writer of Just William[2]
- James Dagwell (born 1974), British journalist
- Tansy Davies (born 1973), British composer
- Tim Donovan (born 1964), political editor, BBC London News
- Edith Durham (1863–1944), British traveller, artist, writer and anthropologist
- George Eliot (1819–1880), British novelist[2]
- Example (musician) (born 1982), British singer, rapper and songwriter
- Isabel Fay (born 1979), English comedy writer and character comedian
- Dame Janet Finch (born 1946) VC, Prof Social Rel, Keele 1995–2010, hon fellow RHC 1999
- Sarah Fox (born 1973) English operatic soprano
- Emma Freud OBE (born 1962), English broadcaster and cultural commentator
- Jayne-Anne Gadhia (born 1961), Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Money UK
- Jane Gardam OBE FRSL (born 1928), novelist
- Robert Garside (born 1967), English record-breaking adventurer
- Pippa Guard (born 1952), English actress
- Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC Two[4]
- Nick Hallard (born 1975), British artist
- Geoff Hannan (born 1972), British composer
- Giles Hart (1949–2005), British engineer and trade union activist
- Lenny Henry (born 1958), Television presenter [5]
- Jackie Hunter (born 1956) chief executive BBSRC
- Alex Hyndman (born 1978) British newsreader
- Robin Ince (born 1969), English comedian
- Karena Johnson, English theatre director
- Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (1903–1971), Crystallographer
- Dame Felicity Lott DBE (born 1947), English soprano
- Rosemary Manning (1911–1988), British author
- Gerda Mayer, English poet
- Duncan McCargo, British academic
- Roxanne McKee (born 1980), British actress and model
- Jessica Eddie (born 1984), British Rower, Silver Olympic Medalist
- John Moloney, comedian and comedy writer
- Laura Moore, candidate in The Apprentice series six
- Louisa Martindale CBE FRCOG (1872–1966), British physician and surgeon
- Jojo Moyes (born 1969), British novelist
- Paul Newland (born 1966), British composer
- Mary Nightingale (born 1964), British newsreader[2]
- Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
- Simon Nye (born 1958), English comic television writer[2]
- Redell Olsen (born 1971), poet, performer and academic
- Lucy Owen (born 1970), Welsh newsreader
- Jennifer Page CBE (b. 1944), former chief executive of the London Millennium Dome project
- Ewan Pearson (born 1972), British music producer
- Rosalind Pitt-Rivers FRS (1907–1990) biochemist
- Andrew Poppy (born 1954), British composer, pianist and music producer
- Helen Porter FRS (1899–1987) botanist, first female professor of Imperial College London
- Thea Porter (1927–2000), fashion designer (expelled)[6]
- Helene Raynsford (born 1979), British paralympic rower and gold medallist
- Sarah Parker Remond (1815-c1894) African-American lecturer, abolitionist and doctor
- Ben Richardson (b.198?), British cinematographer
- Sophie Robinson, (born 1985) contemporary English poet
- Joe Saward (born 1961), British Formula One journalist
- Miranda Seymour (born 1948), Biographer, novelist
- Andy Sheridan, (born 1979) Rugby Union, Sale Sharks and England
- Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930), British author and folklorist
- China Soul (born 1988) American-British singer/songwriter
- Mark Strong (born 1963) English actor
- Joby Talbot (born 1971) British composer
- Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1871–1966), English geographer, historian of science
- Simon Thurley CBE (born 1963), British architectural historian[2]
- Carol Townend (born 1953) English author
- KT Tunstall (born 1975) Scottish singer and songwriter
- Amanda Vickery professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London
- Ronald Alan Waldron (born 1927), English medievalist
- Francis Wheen (born 1957) British journalist, writer and broadcaster
- John Scott Whiteley (born 1950) York Minster organist and composer
- Derek Yalden (1940–2013) English zoologist, reader at the University of Manchester
- Roger Wright (born 1956) Controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC Proms
- Alex Lewington (born 1991) English Rugby Player
- Theo Brophy-Clews (born 1997) English Rugby Player
- Ahmed Yerima, Nigerian professor, administrator
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
- Geoffrey Alderman RSA, professor of politics and contemporary history
- Giovanni Aquilecchia, professor of Italian and Italian Renaissance scholar
- Akil N. Awan, lecturer in Modern History
- Gillian Bailey, fellow in theatre studies
- George Barger, professor of chemistry
- Francis Berry, professor of English literature
- Luiza Bialasiewicz, senior lecturer in human geography
- Mark Bowden, senior lecturer in composition
- Andrew Bowie, professor of philosophy and German
- Mary Boyce, taught Anglo-Saxon literature and archaeology
- David Bradby, professor of drama and theatre studies
- Peter Bramley professor of biochemistry
- Kai Brodersen, visiting professor in ancient history and classics
- Jonathan Burrows, visiting professor of drama and theatre
- Chris Carey, professor of classics
- Lorna Casselton FRS, fungal geneticist
- Philip Cashian, composer, taught in the music department
- David Cesarani, OBE, Research Professor in History
- Justin Champion, professor of the history of early modern ideas
- Alexey Chervonenkis, professor of computer science
- Christopher Cocksworth, college chaplain, now Bishop of Coventry
- Peter Conrad, visiting professor in sociology
- Nicholas Cook, professorial research fellow in music
- Tim Cresswell, professor of human geography
- J. Mordaunt Crook, professor of architectural history
- Hilda Ellis Davidson, lecturer in archaeology and anthropology
- Whitfield Diffie, visiting professor at the information security group
- Roland Dobbs, emeritus professor of physics
- Klaus Dodds FRGS, professor of geopolitics
- Michael Eysenck, (now emeritus) professor of psychology
- Giles Foden, fellow in creative and performing arts
- Mary Fowler, professor of geology, now Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
- Helen Gardner, assistant lecturer in English literature
- Edith Hall, professor of classics and drama
- Robert Gavin Hampson FEA, FRSA, professor of modern literature
- Glyn Harman, professor of mathematics
- J. P. E. Harper-Scott, professor of music history and theory
- John F Healy, professor of classics and archaeology
- Frank Horton FRS, professor of physics and vice-chancellor of London University 1939–45
- Dame Olwen Hufton DBE FBA FRHistS, professorial research fellow in the history department
- Jonathan Holmes, senior lecturer in drama
- Joan M. Hussey, professor of history
- Brian Juden, professor of French 1970–1985
- Sharman Kadish, scholar of Jewish British history
- Peter Knight, Jubilee research fellow in quantum optics
- Robert Latham Reader history, 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
- Peter Longerich, director of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and 20th century History
- J. D. Mackie, professor of modern history
- Ursula Martin, taught in the computer science department
- Sir William McCrea FRS, professor of mathematics 1944–66
- 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
- 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 FRAS, 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
- Nigel Saul, professor of medieval history
- Jo Shapcott FRSL, professor of creative writing
- Pankaj Sharma, Professor of Clinical Neurology
- Andrew Cunningham Scott emeritus prof. of geology, dir science communications 1996–2007
- Andrew Sentance, visiting professor
- David Skinner, taught in the music department
- Jo Shapcott CBE, poet and lecturer in creative writing
- Oskar Spate, lecturer in geography
- Ray Solomonoff, visiting professor at the Computer Research Learning Centre
- Anthony Stockwell FRAS, professor of modern history
- Alex Stokes, lecturer in physics
- Samuel Tolansky FRS FRAS, professor of physics
- Vladimir Vapnik, professor of computer science and statistics
- Nathan Widder, professor of political theory.
- Michael John Williams, reader in international relations.
- John Woolrich, composer, taught in the music department
- Sarah Ansari, professor of history
- Glen Cowan, professor of physics
See also
References
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – subscription based
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
- ↑ "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
- ↑ 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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