List of people associated with University College London

Founders

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named (in Latin) on the Foundation Stone.^[1]

• James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), Scottish peer and British statesman
• Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843), Grand Master of English Freemasons (the United Grand Lodge of England), 1813–1843, supporter of UCL; he laid the foundation stone of the new university on 30 April 1827
• Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), British politician and financier
• Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher; a leading advocate for the foundation of UCL
• George Birkbeck (1776–1841), British Quaker, doctor, academic, philanthropist, and early *pioneer in adult education; founder of Birkbeck College.
• Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), Scottish-born British statesman and slavery abolitionist, leading advocate in Parliament for the foundation of UCL
• Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet, founding father of UCL^[2]
• Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853), Baptist Minister, active supporter of the foundation of UCL
• George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, British statesman
• Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor
• Olinthus Gregory (1774–1841), English mathematician, author and editor
• George Grote (1794–1871), English classical historian
• Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk (1791–1856), Catholic peer, and advocate for the foundation of UCL^[3]
• Joseph Hume (1777–1855), Scottish doctor and politician
• Zachary Macaulay (1768–1838), Scottish-born slavery abolitionist, Governor of Sierra Leone, and active supporter of the foundation of UCL
• Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), Scottish jurist, politician and historian
• James Mill (1773–1836), Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher; advocate for the foundation of UCL
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), British statesman
• Henry Warburton (1784–1858), English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist
• John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1781–1833), British statesman
• William Wilkins (1778–1839), original architect of the main campus
• Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825.

A translation of the Latin text engraved on a metal plate that was buried with the foundation stone reads as follows:^[4]

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 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.

Supporters

Art, architecture, and design

• Tancred Borenius (1885–1948), art historian, diplomat and British wartime spy
• Sir Peter Cook (1936–), architect, The Bartlett Professor of Architecture^[9]
• Thorold Dickinson (1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies^[10]
• Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885), architect, first UCL Professor of Architecture
• Lucian Freud (1922–2011), painter
• Roger Fry (1866–1934), painter, art critic
• John Hooper Harvey (1911–97), architectural historian, Bartlett School of Architecture, 1950–59.
• Otto Königsberger (1908–1999), architect
• Michael (Edward) Parsons (1938–), avant-garde composer, and lecturer in fine art
• Cameron Sinclair (1973–), co-founder of Architecture for Humanity

Engineering sciences

• Thomas Hudson Beare (1859–1940), chair of engineering from 1889 to 1901
• Harold Barlow, staff then Pender Chair in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1950–1966)
• Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69
• John Fleming (1849–1945)
• William Pole (1813–1900), 1859–76

Languages and literature

• Chimen Abramsky – Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• Celia Britton – Emeritus Professor of French
• A. S. Byatt – Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (1972–83); winner of the 1990 Booker Prize
• Sir Hermann Gollancz – Professor of Hebrew; British Rabbi (1902–24)
• Alan Hollinghurst – Lecturer in English; deputy editor, The Times Literary Supplement; later winner of the 2004 Booker Prize
• A. E. Housman – Professor of Latin; poet most famous as author of A Shropshire Lad
• Dan Jacobson – Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award
• Sir Frank Kermode – Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature (1967–74); literary critic
• Tomáš Masaryk – Inaugurated the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), now part of UCL; later became the first President of Czechoslovakia
• David Masson – Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer
• Karl Miller – Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature (1976–92); first editor, The London Review of Books
• Arnaldo Momigliano – Professor of History (1951–75)
• Henry Morley – Professor of English Literature
• Dadabhai Naoroji – Professor of Gujarati (1856–1865) credited as the first British Asian UK Member of Parliament, also known as the "Grand Old Man of India"
• Sir Anthony Panizzi – Professor of Italian
• Stephen Spender – Lecturer in English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet
• John Sutherland – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for The Guardian
• Jeremy Treglown – Professor of English; editor, The Times Literary Supplement; author
• D. P. Walker – Reader in French, musicologist, composer (1945–61)^[11]
• Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
• Moira Yip – Professor of Linguistics

Law

Mathematical, physical, and space sciences

Harold Davenport

• Jim Al-Khalili – post-doctoral Fellow
• Alan Baker, (mathematics) – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• Charles Bungay Fawcett – Professor of Geography
• Jocelyn Burnell, (astronomy) – discovered radio pulsars
• Paul Cohn – Astor Professor of Mathematics
• Marianna Csörnyei – Professor of Mathematics
• Harold Davenport – Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory
• Philip Dawid – Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Augustus DeMorgan – Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets
• Sir Francis Galton – 'Father of fingerprinting'
• Tim Gowers – Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• Peter Higgs – Theoretical Physicist and winner of the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics
• James Joseph Sylvester – Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory
• Norman Lloyd Johnson – Reader in Statistics
• Sir James Lighthill – Lecturer; predecessor to Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
• Dennis Lindley, statistician
• Sir Harrie Massey – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic and molecular collisions
• Egon Pearson – Professor of Statistics
• Karl Pearson – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics
• Eugene Rabinowitch – worked in the Manhattan Project and co-founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Klaus F. Roth – Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• Edward Teller – 'Father of the Hydrogen Bomb'
• Patrick du Val
• Alfred North Whitehead – Professor of Physics

Life sciences

J. B. S. Haldane

• Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician known for his research on infantile scurvy (Barlow's disease)
• Dame Carol Black, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the Royal College of Physicians
• Patricia H. Clarke née Greene, FRS, (1919–2010), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry
• David Clary, FRS, Director of the UCL Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Chief Scientific Advisor, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009-^[12]
• Alex Comfort, Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, The Joy of Sex
• George Viner Ellis, prominent anatomist. He studied Medicine at UCL Medical School and later became a Professor of Anatomy
• Sir Martin Evans, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-winning biologist for his work with stem cells
• Lesley Fallowfield, Professor of Psycho-Oncology (1997–2001)
• Suzi Gage, psychologist, science blogger
• C. Robin Ganellin, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of cimetidine
• Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery
• J. B. S. Haldane, Professor of Genetics (1933–57). He was one of the founders of population genetics.
• Victor Horsley, Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley–Clarke apparatus
• Ian Jacobs, Dean of Medicine
• Roland Levinsky, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology.
• Avrion Mitchison, Professor of Zoology
• Santa Ono, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Biomedical Sciences
• Sir Richard Quain, Chair of Anatomy (?–1850), having also studied Medicine at UCL Medical School, and later physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria
• Dunkinfield Henry Scott, Botanist
• Anthony Segal, Professor of Medicine
• John Maynard-Smith, Lecturer in Zoology (1952–65)
• David Morley, Professor of child health, a pioneer in child healthcare
• Bert Sakmann, Nobel Prize-winning cell physiologist and former researcher at UCL Department of Biophysics (1970–1973)
• Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, former Physician Extraordinary to King Edward VII
• Charles Spearman, Professor of Psychology; noted for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
• Bernard Spilsbury, Britain's first forensic scientist.
• Ernest Starling, Physiologist, noted for the Frank–Starling law of the heart, producing the Starling equation, and for the discovery of hormones at UCL alongside his brother-in-law William Bayliss
• Patrick Wall, Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential gate theory of pain with Ronald Melzack at McGill University
• Alexander Williamson – noted for the chemical synthesis of ether
• Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology
• John (J-Z)Young, Professor of Anatomy

Philosophy

• A. J. Ayer, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic (1946–59)
• Myles Burnyeat, Lecturer in Philosophy
• Gerald Cohen, Reader in Philosophy; later Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University
• S.V. Keeling, Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy, scholar of J. M. E. McTaggart and Descartes.
• Stuart Hampshire, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
• Ted Honderich, Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
• John Macmurray, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic; BBC broadcaster
• John Stuart Mill, studied with John Austin at UCL.^[13]
• Carveth Read, Professor of Moral Philosophy
• Bernard Williams, Lecturer in Philosophy; later Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
• Richard Wollheim, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic

Social sciences, geography, and history

• Michael Crawford, Professor of Ancient History
• Wendy Davies, Professor of Medieval Celtic History
• Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত)), student and later Professor of Indian History who translated the Ramayana and Mahabharata. He served as President of the Indian National Congress in 1899.
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Marxist historian of Greek Antiquity, author of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
• Sir Andrew Dilnot, Economist; Principal, St. Hugh's College Oxford; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Oxford
• Dame Mary Douglas, Professor of Anthropology; noted for her Cultural Theory of Risk
• Hugh Gaitskell, lecturer in Political Economy (1928–1939), former leader of the Labour Party
• Georgina Herrmann, Reader in the Archaeology of Western Asia (1994-2002)
• Albert Pollard, Professor of Constitutional History; major contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography
• Conrad Russell, Professor of Early Modern British History
• Sir Eric Turner, Professor of Papyrology
• Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, taught Economics at UCL, authored the "Big Push" Theory, later Assistant Director of the Economic Department in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1947-1953.^[14]

Art, architecture, and design

• Edward Allington
• Martin John Callanan
• Dryden Goodwin
• Lisa Milroy
• Liz Rideal
• Thomson & Craighead, artists

History, languages and literature

• Rosemary Ashton, OBE, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature
• John Dickie, Professor in Italian Studies
• Mark Ford, Professor of English
• Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History
• Philip Horne, Professor of English
• John Mullan, Professor of English

Mathematical, physical and space sciences

• Tim Broyd, Professor of Built Environment Foresight and Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering
• Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics

Life sciences

• Peter Butler, Professor of Surgery
• David Colquhoun, notable for predicting the single Ion channel function, later verified by Bert Sakmann
• Martin Elliott, Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Rob Horne, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, School of Pharmacy
• Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics
• Nick Lane, Winner of the 2015 biochemical society award and influential science writer
• Sammy Lee, expert in in vitro fertilisation
• Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy
• Martin Raff, Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
• Sarah Tabrizi, Professor of Neuroscience
• Robin Weiss, Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that CD4 is the co-receptor for HIV
• Semir Zeki, Professor of Neurology, proponent for the role of Visual area 4 in cognitive colour construction

Social sciences, geography, and history

• John Adams, Professor of geography and authority on risk compensation
• Richard Blundell, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy; Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History
• Gordon Hillman, Honorary Visiting Professor in Archaeobotany (Palaeoethnobotany)
• Simon Hornblower, Grote Professor of ancient history and editor of the Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Amélie Kuhrt, Historian of the ancient Near East.
• Martyn Rady, Professor of Central European History
• John Reid, Chairman of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at UCL, and a member of the UK Parliament.
• Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, he is known as one of the pioneers of the post-processual archaeology movement.

Academics

David Crystal

William Jevons

• Roy Clive Abraham (Certificate in Anthropology, 1927), scholar of African languages
• Israel Abrahams (MA), Jewish scholar
• Sir Walter Adams (History and later lecturer), historian and former Director of the London School of Economics
• Momtazuddin Ahmed (PhD Philosophy, 1937), Bangladeshi philosopher and academic
• Mark Allinson (PhD in German history), academic and historian of German history
• Ali Ansari (BA), historian and founder of the Institute for Iranian Studies
• Robert Arnott, medical archaeologist
• John Baker, UCL (LLB, PhD): Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
• Trevor J. Barnes, Professor of Economic Geography at the University of British Columbia
• Peter Birks, former Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
• Edith Clara Batho (English, 1915), Principal of Royal Holloway College
• Bernard Crick, British political theorist
• David Crystal, Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist
• Stephen Guest, Professor of Legal Philosophy, UCL
• Noreena Hertz, associate director, Judge Business School at Cambridge University
• David Gwilym James, Vice-Chancellor 1952-1965 University of Southampton
• William Jevons, Professor of Political Economy, UCL
• R.J.B. Knight, naval historian
• David Llewellyn, Vice-Chancellor of Harper Adams University
• Julie Maxton, Registrar at Oxford University
• Lillian Penson, first woman Vice-Chancellor of London University
• Chung-Kwong Poon (潘宗光), GBS, JP, President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1991
• Henry Enfield Roscoe, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (1896-1902)
• Lord Randolph Quirk, Quain Professor of English Literature
• Stefan Reif, studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge
• William Scoresby Routledge (Medicine), ethnographer
• Sir Adrian Smith (UCL Mathematics, PhD), FRS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 2012-
• Jonathan Wolff (MPhil), Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL

Mathematicians, scientists and statisticians

Karl Pearson

• Alan Baker, winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• D.J. Bartholomew (BSc, PhD Mathematics), statistician and President of the Royal Statistical Society (1993-1995)
• Laurence Baxter, professor of statistics
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
• Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – one of the founders of radio telecommunication.
• George E. P. Box (1919–2013), (UCL Mathematics and Statistics, PhD, 1953), Vilas Research Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Margaret Burbidge, astrophysicist, former American Astronomical Society President, former Royal Greenwich Observatory Director
• Ian Crawford – Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck University of London
• Florence Nightingale David (1909–1993), statistician
• Roland Dobbs, physicist
• Thomas Eckersley, theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves
• Thomas Elger, selenographer famous for his lunar map
• John Fox, statistician
• Cecilie French, chemist specialising in magnetochemistry.
• William Gowers, winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• Cyril Hilsum, pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices
• Hermann Arthur Jahn, chemist, with Edward Teller he identified the Jahn–Teller effect
• William Stanley Jevons, economist and logician
• Norman Lloyd Johnson, professor of statistics and author
• Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford
• Kathleen Lonsdale, discovered the structure of benzene
• Karl Pearson, statistician, founder of statistics department at UCL.
• Sir Roger Penrose, mathematician and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, winner of the 1988 Wolf Prize
• Hans Reck, volcanologist and paleontologist
• Klaus Roth, mathematician, winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• Walter Rouse-Ball, mathematician

Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafter is regarded as the founder of endocrinology

• R.J.G. Savage (PhD Paleontology), palaeontologist known as Britain's leading expert on fossil mammals
• M. J. Seaton, British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer
• Ian Sloan, Australian applied mathematician
• Kirstine Smith, statistician, creator of optimal design of experiments
• David Spiegelhalter, statistician, Professor at Cambridge
• Russell Stannard, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Open University, winner of the 1999 Bragg Medal
• Tan Tin Wee (陈定炜), Singaporean scientist, 2012 Inaugural Internet Hall of Fame,^[18][19] inventor of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) (1998), bioinformatics pioneer in Asia, Director, National Supercomputing Centre Singapore.
• Percy White (Chemical Engineering), British chemist and nuclear scientist
• Heinz Wolff, scientist, television and radio presenter

Medical figures

• Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983–91.
• Judy Armitage (PhD, 1976), professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at the University of Oxford
• Tipu Aziz (Neurophysiology), professor of neurosurgery and neurophysiology
• Alan Baddeley, psychologist known for his work on working memory, including his multiple components model
• Edward Ballard (Medicine), physician and social commentator on living conditions in Victorian Britain
• Erasmus Darwin Barlow, psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman
• Sir Thomas Barlow (Medicine), British royal physician known for his research on infantile scurvy (Barlow's disease)
• Dame Josephine Barnes (Medicine), obstetrician and gynaecologist
• Ann Barrett, Emeritus Professor of Oncology at the University of East Anglia
• William Bayliss, physiologist who, along with his brother-in-law Ernest Starling, first discovered the existence and function of hormones while working at University College London
• Wilfred Bion, psychoanalyst
• Charles Bolton (MD), physician and pathologist
• John Bowlby (Medicine), psychologist, psychiatrist, pioneer of attachment theory
• Michael Brown, Director of Army Medicine and former Physician to the Queen
• Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt FBA (1883-1971). Professor and Chair of Psychology (1931-51), pioneering child psychologist, now discredited.
• Walter Carr (BS MD), physician and surgeon
• William Carpenter, physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist
• Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea
• Oscar Clayton, surgeon
• Archie Cochrane, epidemiologist, Professor of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases, Welsh National School of Medicine, pioneer of evidence-based medicine^[20]
• Leslie Collier, virologist who helped to create the first heat stable smallpox vaccine key in the eventual eradication of the disease.^[21]
• Edward Treacher Collins, ophthalmologist and first described Treacher Collins Syndrome

Sir Martin Evans shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine after discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells

• Henry Radcliffe Crocker, dermatologist
• Jane Dacre (Medicine), President of the Royal College of Physicians (2014–incumbent), only the third female President in its nearly 500-year history^[22]
• Viscount Bertrand Dawson, doctor to the British Royal Family
• Deborah Doniach, leading expert on auto-immune diseases^[23]
• George Viner Ellis (Medicine and later Professor of Anatomy), prominent anatomist
• Sir John Erichsen (Medicine and later lecturer), prominent surgeon and surgeon-extraordinary to Queen Victoria
• Sir Martin Evans (PhD, 1969, and later lecturer), 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-winning scientist
• Jeremy Farrar (BSc, MBBS), director of the Wellcome Trust 2014-
• Sir William Henry Flower (MB), comparative anatomist and 2nd director of the Natural History Museum
• William Tilbury Fox, dermatologist
• Eva Frommer. Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, child psychiatrist and pioneer of arts therapies in hospital, for children
• Clare Gerada (Medicine), former Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2010–13), the first female Chair for 50 years^[24]
• Ben Goldacre (MB BS), academic and science writer
• Andrew J Goldberg, Clinical Senior Lecturer in orthopaedic surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
• Rainer Guillery, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School; formerly Dr Lee's Professor of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford
• Anita Harding, neurologist who co-authored the first paper which identified pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease (in Kearn-Sayre syndrome)
• Donald Jeffries, virologist, expert on HIV^[25]
• Sir William Jenner, was the first doctor to identify between typhus and typhoid
• Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter best known Embarrassing Bodies
• Edwin Lankester, founder of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (QJMS)
• Thomas Lewis (MB BS), cardiologist
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine
• Kalman Mann (MB BS), Israeli physician, 8th director general of Hadassah Medical Organization^[26]
• Henry Marsh (Medicine), neurosurgeon^[27]
• Clare Marx (MB BS), first female president elected at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2014-incumbent)
• Max Pemberton, medical doctor, author and journalist
• Raj Persaud, Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult and Community Psychiatry, Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Teaching Hospitals and Clinical Tutor to Bethlem & Maudsley Senior House Officers, since 1994
• Sir Richard Powell (Medicine), physician and Physician Royal to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V
• Sir Richard Quain (Medicine, 1840, and later Chair of Anatomy), physician who also served as physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria
• Sir Philip Randle, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975
• Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2005–08)
• Sydney Ringer (MB), British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist, best known for inventing Ringer's solution
• Rosemary Rue, physician and civil servant
• Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer, physiologist
• Elizabeth Joan Stokes (MB BS), clinical bacteriologist
• Sir Rodney Sweetnam, 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.
• Hugh Owen Thomas, father of orthopaedic surgery in Britain
• Richard Turner-Warwick, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons
• Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989–92
• Kenneth Walton, pathologist
• Dame Albertine Winner (BSc, MB BS, MD), physician and medical administrator
• R. A. Young (MB MD), physician and tuberculosis specialist

Architects, artists, and designers

• Corinne Bennett (Bartlett, 1957), conservation architect
• David Bomberg (1890–1957), Slade School of Fine Art (1913)
• Teresa Borsuk (Bartlett, 1981), architect
• Martin John Callanan
• Sir William Coldstream
• Martin Creed, conceptual artist; winner of the 2001 Turner Prize
• James Stevens Curl (History of Art), architectural historian, conservation consultant and critic
• Antony Gormley, sculptor; winner of the 1994 Turner Prize; creator of the Angel of the North
• Eileen Gray (Slade, 1898), lacquer artist and furniture designer
• Gerry Judah (Slade, 1977), artist, sculptor and designer
• Augustus John, painter
• Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist, author, critic
• Gertrude Leverkus (B.A., 1919), architect
• Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist movement
• David Mlinaric, architect, interior designer
• Evelyn De Morgan (Slade, 1877), painter
• Ben Nicholson, abstract painter
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and artist
• Stuart Pearson Wright, painter
• Monica Pidgeon, interior designer and journalist
• Patricio Pouchulu, architect and academic
• Paula Rego, painter (Slade, 1952–56)
• Jenny Saville, prominent Young British Artist
• Sir Stanley Spencer, painter
• Sir John Summerson, leading British architectural historian and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford (1958–59)
• Tomoko Takahashi, installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000 Turner Prize
• Rachel Whiteread, sculptor; winner of the 1993 Turner Prize
• Sir Rex Whistler, artist, designer and illustrator
• Sir Colin St John Wilson (Architecture, 1949), architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London.

Banking, business and commercial figures

Prominent UK businessman Digby Jones served as a government minister under UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown

• Andreas Antonopoulos (Computer Science), technology entrepreneur
• Dominic Blakemore (French), CEO of Compass Group
• Richard Brown (MPhil Town and Transport Planning), current Chairman of Eurostar International and former chief executive of Eurostar UK
• Rishi Khosla, serial entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OakNorth Bank Limited
• Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
• Thomas d'Aquino (LLM), former chief executive and president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE)
• Paul Donovan, current CEO of Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and former CEO of Vodafone Ireland and eircom
• Lewis Evans, scientific instrument collector and businessman
• Lord Digby Jones (LLB), former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry and Minister of State for Trade and Investment
• John Kenny, BSc, founder and Chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992. [1995].
• Ian Luder, Taxation specialist, and Lord Mayor of the City of London 2008–2009
• Roger Lyons, Joint General Secretary, AMICUS since 2001; President, Trades Union Congress, 2003–04. [1996].
• Susan Ma, managing director of Tropic Skin Care; finalist on The Apprentice series seven (2011).
• Richard Martell, Creator of the controversial social network "FitFinder".
• Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, Longleat Enterprises
• Roger Tomlinson, founder of Geographic Information Systems President, Tomlinson Associates Ltd, Consulting Geographers. [2003].
• Marjorie Wallace, Countess Skarbek, Chief Executive, SANE, since 1990. [2004].
• Edwin Waterhouse, founding partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Farhad Moshiri, billionaire and stakeholder in Everton FC.

Charity sector figures

• Baroness Delyth Morgan (Physiology), Chief Executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and former UK government minister
• Jeremy Farrar (University College Medical School, 1986), Director of the Wellcome Institute, 2014-
• Christopher Howe (MSc Conservation, 1989), Executive Director of WWF-New Zealand, 2007-2016^[28]

Government and public officials, heads of state and politicians

Sir Stafford Cripps (left) attempted to negotiate with fellow UCL alumnus Mahatma Gandhi for full Indian support of the British war effort in World War II during his 1942 "Cripps mission"

UCL has had a long and distinguished history in producing many prominent politicians for countries home and abroad. Notable alumni include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria among others.

Hirobumi Itō drafted Imperial Japan's first constitution

Jomo Kenyatta oversaw the creation of Kenya's public institutions after independence from the United Kingdom

Junichiro Koizumi was the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan since 1972

Chaim Herzog was the first President of Israel to make an official state visit to Germany

Sir Ernest Satow has been described as the first Englishman to become fluent in both written and spoken Japanese

Explorers

• Pen Hadow – British polar explorer and author^[34]

Lawyers and judges

Literary figures and authors

Marie Stopes

Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate, with fellow UCL Law alumnus Gandhi

• Gabriela Aguileta (PhD Genetics), author and scientist
• Karim Alrawi, playwright and writer
• M. R. Anand, writer and pioneer of the English novel in India
• Kofi Awoonor (MA), Ghanaian poet, academic and politician
• Julian Baggini (PhD Philosophy, 1996), philosopher and author
• Antonia Barber, author of books for children and adults
• Raymond Briggs
• Robert Browning
• G. K. Chesterton
• Paul Cornell (did not graduate)
• Bernard Cornwell (BA History, 1966), author of historical fiction
• David Crystal
• Nigel Davies (PhD Archaeology), historian of pre-Columbian America and former UK Conservative Party politician
• Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত)) (later Professor of Indian History), Indian civil servant and writer who translated the Ramayana and Mahabharata. He also served as President of the Indian National Congress (1899).
• Sir Geoffrey Elton (PhD History, 1949), prominent political historian of the Tudor period
• Ken Follett
• Clare Francis
• Stella Gibbons
• David Irving (Political Economy), Holocaust denier and author
• Laila Lalami
• David Lodge, author
• Dimitris Lyacos
• David Magarshack, biographer and translator of Russian authors
• Jon de Burgh Miller
• Jonathan Miller
• Gladys Mitchell
• Bel Mooney
• Blake Morrison
• Ian Mortimer (MA), historian and historical fiction author
• Jim Smith, writer
• Michael Smith, author of The Giro Playboy etc.
• Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912)
• Marie Stopes, writer, scientist and activist
• Rabindranath Tagore (Law, did not graduate), Bengali poet and polymath. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).
• Ken Wiwa

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

• Sir Ken Adam (Architecture), Academy Award-winning film production designer famous for designing the sets for various James Bond films (including the first Dr. No) and the famous car for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Jassa Ahluwalia (Spanish and Russian), actor
• Babar Ahmed, film director
• Franny Armstrong (Zoology), documentary film director
• Ikenna Azuike (LLB with French Law), TV broadcaster and presenter of What’s Up Africa
• David Baddiel, comedian and television presenter
• Guy de la Bédoyère (MA Archaeology, 1987), historian, TV personality and Time Team historical expert
• Brooke Burfitt, actress and radio presenter
• George Clarke (Postgraduate Diploma), architect and TV presenter of shows including George Clarke's Amazing Spaces
• Nat Coombs, presenter, writer & comedian
• Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the Teletubbies
• Andrew Davies (BA English, 1957), novelist and screenplay writer. His famous works include Mr Selfridge, House of Cards (UK) and a 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
• Ptolemy Dean (Architecture), architect and TV presenter
• Naamua Delaney (LLB), news presenter
• Felix Dexter (LLB), actor and comedian
• Clarissa Dickson-Wright (LLB), celebrity chef, writer and TV personality^[35]
• Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter
• Frank Dunlop, former Director of the Edinburgh International Festival; founder and former Director, The Young Vic. [1979]
• Jane Fallon, English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series Teachers, 20 Things To Do Before You're 30, EastEnders and This Life.
• Trey Farley, television presenter.
• Honey G, Rap music artist, X Factor 2016 Debut
• Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of The Office (studied biology and philosophy)
• Rachel Hurd-Wood, actress; best known for playing Wendy Darling at the 2003 film Peter Pan
• Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life
• Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
• Griffith Jones, actor
• James Robertson Justice, actor
• Dominic Keating, actor, including in Star Trek: Enterprise
• Trevor Lock, comedian and actor
• Philip Mackie, film and television writer
• Jeremy Marre, film director
• Steph McGovern, BBC Breakfast television presenter
• Oliver Messel, influential leading stage designer
• Fiona Millar, journalist and campaigner on education and parenting issues
• Karen Mok, Hong Kong diva and movie star
• Michael J. Mosley, psychiatrist and TV presenter
• Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader
• Mary Nighy, actress
• Christopher Nolan (English, 1993), Academy Award-nominated director of films including Inception, Interstellar, Memento and The Dark Knight Trilogy of films
• Raj Persaud, psychiatrist and broadcaster
• Mark Porter, doctor, journalist and TV presenter
• Jonathan Ross (Modern European History), TV presenter
• Adam Rutherford, TV presenter and editor for the journal Nature
• Michael Smith, writer and broadcaster
• Suzie Templeton, Academy Award-winning writer, director and animator, including Peter and the Wolf
• Emma Thomas (UCL History 1993), producer at Warner Brothers
• Matthew Vaughn (Anthropology and Ancient History), producer and director of films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service
• Arthur Wimperis, Academy Award-winning screenwriter
• Patrick Wymark, actor
• Roland Young, actor
• Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian

Media professionals (2): editors, journalists and publishers

• Fiona Armstrong (German literature), journalist
• Walter Bagehot, former editor of The Economist
• Christopher Paul Baker, travel writer, photographer, and adventure motorcyclist
• Victoria Barnsley, Editor-in-Chief at HarperCollins
• Jeremy Bowen, journalist, BBC Middle East editor
• Sarah Cullen (BA English, 1972), radio and TV journalist
• John Derbyshire, essayist, novelist, popularizer of mathematics history
• Sara Edwards (BA Medieval and Modern History), journalist and former presenter of BBC Wales Today
• Nicholas Garland, first and current political cartoonist, The Daily Telegraph
• A. A. Gill, columnist, The Sunday Times (Slade School of Fine Art)
• Jeanne Hoban, The Ceylon Observer, Jana, The Patriot, The Nation (all Sri Lanka); Anglo-Sri Lankan Trotskyist trade unionist and political activist
• Richard Hutton, former editor of The Economist
• Nicholas de Jongh, drama critic, The London Evening Standard
• Mark Lawson, columnist, The Guardian; radio and television presenter
• Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton, former editor of The Economist
• Vivienne Parry, journalist, The Times and BBC
• Nick Paton Walsh, Emmy award-winning Senior International correspondent at CNN
• L. J. K. Setright: writer and journalist
• Carol Thatcher (LLB), journalist, author, media personality and daughter of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
• Michael White, political editor, The Guardian
• Petronella Wyatt, writer, The Spectator

Musicians, musicologists and musical commentators

Guy Berryman, Coldplay

Chris Martin, Coldplay

• Brett Anderson, Suede
• Sophie Barker, singer, occasional vocalist for Zero 7 and Groove Armada (did not graduate)
• Guy Berryman, Coldplay
• Jonny Buckland, Coldplay
• Will Champion, Coldplay
• David Conway (music historian)
• John Curwen, proponent of tonic sol-fa
• Kathleen Dale née Richards, translator, musicologist, composer and pianist (Swedish: 1926–8)^[36]
• Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif
• Justine Frischmann, Elastica
• Leonard Feather, jazz musician, composer, and writer (1932)^[37]
• Joshua Hayward, The Horrors
• Philip Heseltine aka Peter Warlock, composer and music critic (English)
• Gustav Holst, composer and teacher (Sanskrit, 1909)
• Ravi Kesavaram, My Vitriol
• Chris Martin, Coldplay
• Jack Peñate, singer-songwriter
• Tim Rice-Oxley, Keane
• Harold Rosenthal, music critic
• Som Wardner, My Vitriol
• Benjamin Zander, conductor, Boston Philharmonic

Philanthropists, cultural, educational, military and religious figures

• Barnett Abrahams (BA), former Principal of the London School of Jewish Studies and the first English Jewish minister to hold a British university degree
• Kaniz Ali (LLB, 2007), entrepreneur, makeup artist and columnist
• Sheikh Zaki Badawi (BSc Psychology, 1954), Egyptian Islamic scholar, interfaith-dialogue activist and founder of the Muslim College in London
• Ben Barkow, writer and director of the Wiener Library
• Lynne Brindley, former Chief Executive of the British Library
• George Cassidy (MPhil, 1967), former Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham
• Brian Castle, current Bishop of Tonbridge
• Isaac Cohen, former Chief Rabbi of Ireland
• Barry Morgan, current Archbishop of Wales
• Hugh Price-Hughes, Methodist theologian
• Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake (Medicine), soldier who received both the Victoria Cross and the Bar
• Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley (Geography), former Master of the Royal Armouries (2009-2012) and Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (2008-2009)
• Jackie Tabick (BA Medieval History), the first British woman Rabbi
• F. Sherwood Taylor (PhD History of Science), former Director of the Science Museum, London (1950-1956)
• Henry Solly, founder of Working Men's Club and Institute Union; an important advocate for the extension of working class political rights, and helping to set up the Charity Organisation Society
• Samuel Bishop, former Bishop of Kingston (1915-1921) and Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (1921-1929)
• Emma Thynn, Viscountess Weymouth

Sporting figures

Demetrius Vikelas served as the first President of the International Olympic Committee for the first modern Olympic Games in Athens

• Donald Barrell (Anthropology), rugby union player formerly of Saracens F.C..
• Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
• Samuel Azu Crabbe (LLB), former Chief Justice of Ghana and President of the National Olympic Committee of Ghana
• Ewan Davies (LLB), former Welsh rugby union international
• David Gower, cricketer and former England Captain
• Patrick Head, co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1
• Christine Ohuruogu, sprinter and World Athletics Championships, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games 400 metres champion
• Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent, Cricketer, England Women's
• Gayatri Reddy (BSc Construction Management), former owner of now-defunct Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League
• Nathaniel "Noddy" Reilly-O'Donnell, rower, 2006 World Junior Champion and silver medallist at the 2011 World Rowing Championships
• Peter Short (Master's in International Planning), Canadian international and Olympic field hockey player
• Andrew Simpson (Economics), British Olympic Games Men's Star sailing gold medalist (2008)
• Dawson Turner (Medicine), rugby union international who represented England (1871–75).
• Demetrius Vikelas (Botany), first President of the International Olympic Committee (1894-1896)
• Maurice Watkins (LLB, LLM), Director of Manchester United's football board and club's solicitor
• Robin Williams, professional rowing coach for Team GB and former competitive World Championships rower
• Melanie Wilson (Master's in Biochemical Engineering), British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Women's quadruple sculls

Terrorists

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, suspected bomber in 2009 Christmas Day bombing

• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Engineering with Business), charged with attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.^[38]
• Samar Alami, (UCL Engineering, 1988), convicted of detonating a car bomb in the attack on the Israeli Embassy in London in 1994.^[39]

Fictional alumni and students

• Pat Barker's novels, Life Class and Toby's Room, follows students and teachers at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art
• Protagonist/s in Gilbert Cannan's Mendel
• Lara Croft, protagonist of the Square Enix (previously Eidos Interactive) video game franchise Tomb Raider
• Molly MacDonald in Monarch of the Glen is a former Slade School student