List of people associated with University College London

• Thorold Dickinson (1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies^[1]
• Lucian Freud (1922– ), painter
• Roger Fry (1866–1934), painter
• Otto Königsberger (1908–1999), architect.
• Michael (Edward) Parsons (1938–), avant-garde composer, and lecturer in fine art.

• Otto Hahn (1879–1968), 1944
• Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916), 1904

• Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69
• John Fleming (1849–1945), ----
• William Pole (1813–1900), 1859–76

• Sir Frank Kermode – one of Britain's foremost literary critics.
• Chimen Abramsky – Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• 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)
• James Gardner – Inventor of the international auxiliary language Euronord
• Henry Morley – Professor of English Literature
• 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)^[2]
• Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

• John Austin – Professor of Jurisprudence, a major foundational figure for legal theory.
• Professor Bin Cheng – Professor of Aviation Law, UCL and son of F.T. Cheng a.k.a Cheng T'ien-Hsi
• Ronald Dworkin – Jeremy Bentham Professor of Law and Philosophy, formerly Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, major figure in jurisprudence, critic of legal positivism.
• Baron Woolf – Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, studied at UCL Law dept. and taught as a visiting professor.
• John Stewart Mill – Attended UCL to study with John Austin, major political philosopher.^[3]
• Sir Hugh Laddie – former Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Queen's Counsel; former High Court judge
• Sir Basil Markesinis – Professor of Common Civil Law, Queen's Counsel; prominent legal academic

• 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
• 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 HawkingasLucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
• 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.
• Alexander Williamson – noted for the chemical synthesis of ether.

• Sir Wiliam Bragg (1862–1942), 1915–25, 1915

• Dame Carol Black, Professor of Rheumatology; National Director for Health & Work; formerly president of the Royal College of Physicians
• Patricia Clarke née Greene, FRS, (1919–2010), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry
• John Collins, later Professor at Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (1986–2010). He pioneered gene cloning technology with Barbara Hohn (cosmids), founding member of HUGO
• Alex Comfort, Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, The Joy of Sex
• C. Robin Ganellin, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, co-discoverer of cimetidine
• 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
• Roland Levinsky, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology.
• Avrion Mitchison, Professor of Zoology
• Santa Ono, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Ocular Immunology
• Heinz O. Schild, Professor of Pharmaocology, discovery of Schild equations, an important finding in quantitative antagonist study in drug-receptor interaction
• Anthony Segal, Professor of Medicine
• John Maynard-Smith, Lecturer in Zoology (1952–65)
• 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
• Patrick Wall, Professor of Neurophysiology, noted for the influential Gate Theory of Pain with Ronald Melzack at McGill University
• John (J-Z)Young, Professor of Anatomy

• Sir James Black, 1988
• Martin Evans, 2007
• Sir Henry Hallett-Dale, 1936
• A. V. Hill, Professor of Physiology (1923–51); winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Andrew Huxley, physiologist and biophysicist; winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Sir Bernard Katz, Professor of Biophysics; winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Peter Medawar, Professor of Zoology (1952–61); winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Bert Sakmann, Researcher in Bernard Katz's department; winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• A. J. Ayer, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic (1946–59)
• Myles Burnyeat, Lecturer in Philosophy
• Gerald Cohen, Reader in Philosophy; current Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University
• 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 Stewart Mill, studied with John Austin at UCL.^[3]
• Carveth Read, Professor of Moral Philosophy
• Bernard Williams, Lecturer in Philosophy; later Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
• Richard Wollheim, Grote Professor of Mind and Logic

• Michael Crawford, Professor of Ancient History
• Wendy Davies, Professor of Medieval Celtic History
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Marxist historian of Greek Antiquity, author of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
• 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
• 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

• Albert Alexander, MDS, FDSRCS, FHKAM(Dent.Surg.), formerly Professor of Conservative Dentistry and Dean of University College and Middlesex School of Dentistry. [1986].*
• Dame June Clark Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, University of Wales, Swansea
• David Crystal, Professor Emeritus, UWB, prominent linguist
• Rainer Guillery, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School; formerly Dr Lee’s Professor of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford
• Stephen Guest, Professor of Legal Philosophy, UCL
• Noreena Hertz, associate director, Judge Business SchoolatCambridge University
• William Jevons, Professor of Political Economy, UCL
• Jiaxi Lu, BSc, PhD, President, Executive Chairman, Presidium, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Honorary President of Fuzhou University, [1985]
• Julie Maxton, Registrar at Oxford University
• Sir John Pattison formerly Director of Research and Development, Department of Health
• Professor Chung-Kwong Poon(潘宗光), GBS, JP, President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1991
• Henry Enfield Roscoe – was vice-chancellor of the University of London between 1896 to 1902.
• Lord Randolph Quirk, Quain Professor of English Literature
• Sir Philip Randle, MA, PhD, MD, FRCP, FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford since 1975.
• Stefan Reif, studentship, later Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge
• Adrian Smith (academic)
• Robert Souhami, CBE, MB, BS, MD, FRCP, FRCR, FMedSci, Director of Clinical Research, Cancer Research UK, since 2001; Kathleen Ferrier Professor of Clinical Oncology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, 1987–2001; Principal, Royal Free and University College Medical School, 1999–2001 and Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, UCL, 1997–2001. [1991]
• Russell Stannard OBE, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Open University, Winner of the 1999 Bragg Medal

• Sir William Bragg, 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Francis Crick, 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sir Frederick Hopkins, 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Charles K Kao, 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

• Martin Callanan
• Sir William Coldstream
• Martin Creed, conceptual artist; winner of the 2001 Turner Prize
• Antony Gormley, sculptor; winner of the 1994 Turner Prize; creator of the Angel of the North
• Eileen Gray – Lacquer artist and furniture designer
• Augustus John, painter
• Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist, author, critic
• Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist movement
• David Mlinaric, architect, interior designer
• Ben Nicholson, abstract painter
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor and artist
• Stuart Pearson-Wright – Painter
• Patricio Pouchulu, architect and academic
• Jenny Saville, prominent Young British Artist
• Sir Stanley Spencer, painter
• Tomoko Takahashi, installation artist; shortlisted for the 2000 Turner Prize
• Naoko Takahashi
• Rachel Whiteread, sculptor; winner of the 1993 Turner Prize
• Sir Rex Whistler, artist, designer and illustrator

• Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
• Lewis Evans, scientific instrument collector and businessman
• Lord Digby Jones, Director-general, Confederation of British Industry
• Nishpank Kankiwala, President, Burger King International, since 2003. [2005].
• John Kenny, BSc, founder and Chairman, JKX Oil and Gas, since 1992. [1995].
• Chief Bayo Kuku, President, Nigerian Stock Exchange, 1987–90. [1995].
• Vanessa Lloyd-Platt, founder of Lloyd Platt & Company
• 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].
• Rich Martell, Creator of the controversial social network "FitFinder".
• Sir Alfred Shepperd, formerly Chairman and Chief Executive, Wellcome plc and the Wellcome Foundation Limited. [1986].
• 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
• Beric Wright, formerly Chairman, BUPA. [1982]
• Nadhim Zahawi, CEO and founder of YouGov

• [[Delyth Morgan, [2005], Baroness Morgan|Delyth Morgan]] – Baroness of Drefelin in the County of Dyfed, Chief Executive, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, since 1996
• Edward Walker-Arnott, Governor, Wellcome Trust

• Stephen Aldridge, Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit under Tony Blair; MSc Economics, 1982
• Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi (غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي), Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Great Britain since 1992.
• Alex Allan, Head of the Joint Intelligence Committee
• Mori Arinori ( 森有礼 ): first Japanese ambassador to the USA, 1871–1873
• Robin Baker, Deputy Director-General, The British Council, since 2002
• Georgina Butler, British Ambassador to Costa Rica, since 2002
• Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Liberal Democrat peer
• Sir Ellis Clarke, President of Trinidad and Tobago
• Sir Stafford Cripps, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Bryan Davies,Baron Davies of Oldham – Labour member of the House of Lords; Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
• Terry Davis, former Labour Member of Parliament and current Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear – Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 1990–97. [1990].
• Evan Durbin (1906–48), Labour Member of Parliament for Edmonton, London (1945–48), Parliamentary Secretary and Minister of Works (1947–48); Economics (Ricardo scholarship), 1929
• Baroness Shreela Flather, first female Asian peer
• Mahatma Gandhi ( મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ), leader of the Indian Independence Movement; Laws
• Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton — British Labour politician Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor.
• Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell,former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
• Chaim Herzog (חיים הרצוג‎), sixth President of Israel
• Itō Hirobumi ( 伊藤 博文 ), first Prime Minister of Japan (1885–1888)
• Inoue Kaoru ( 井上 馨 ), the first Foreign Minister of Japan
• Philip Karađorđević, Prince Phillip of Yugoslavia and Serbia
• Jomo Kenyatta, "Founding Father" of Kenya; first Prime Minister and President of Kenya
• Endō Kinsuke ( 遠藤 謹助 ): head of the Japanese National Mint (造幣局), 1881–1883
• Junichiro Koizumi ( 小泉 純一郎 ) – Former prime minister of Japan (2001–2006)
• Ian Luder, Lord Mayor of the City of London (elected 2008)
• Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
• Alison McGovern, Labour Member of Parliament for Wirral South
• Tom McNally, Baron McNally, Liberal Democrat peer, UK Minister of Justice
• Augustus Margary, diplomat.
• Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India (1917–1922)
• Anil Moonesinghe, Sri Lankan Trotskyist parliamentarian, trade unionist, ambassador, cabinet minister and deputy speaker
• Terashima Munenori (寺島宗則 ): Meiji era politician, Japanese Foreign Minister and later Privy Councillor
• Stan Newens, Labour and co-operative parliamentarian and MEP
• Jesse Norman, Conservative PPC for Hereford
• Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam – the first Prime Minister of Mauritius.
• Anthony Steen, Conservative Member of Parliament
• Ernest Symons, Director-General of the Board of Inland Revenue
• Baroness Jenny Tonge, Liberal Democrat shadow international development secretary.
• Jan Vincent-Rostowski, the current Finance Minister of the Republic of Poland (since 2007)
• William Wedgwood-Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, Liberal and Labour politician
• John Whittingdale, Conservative Member of Parliament and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher
• Wu Tingfang( 伍廷芳 ), also Ng Choy ( 伍才 ), one of the first Acting Premiers of the Republic of China, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• David Young, Baron Young of Graffham; Secretary of State for Employment (1985–1987); Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1987–1989)
• Yamao Yōzō ( 山尾 庸三 ), Japanese Minister of Public Works in the first Meiji era government

• Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, British Library, since 2000. [2002].
• Jean Rankine, Deputy Director, British Museum, 1983–97. [1990].

• John Ambrose-Fleming – Invented the thermionic valve and the diode
• William Ayrton – invented the wattmeter and the electric tricycle.
• Alan Baker – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
• Laurence Baxter
• Alexander Bell – inventor of telephone
• Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – one of the founders of radio telecommunication.
• Margaret Burbidge FRS – astrophysicist, former American Astronomical Society President, former Royal Greenwich Observatory Director
• Florence (F-N) David (1909–1993) – Statistician
• Roland Dobbs
• Thomas Eckersley – Theoretical physicist and expert in radio waves
• John Fox
• William Gowers – Winner of the 1998 Fields Medal
• Cyril Hilsum – pioneer of liquid crystal materials and devices, development of flat screen devices
• Hermann Jahn
• William Jevons
• Norman Johnson
• Dennis Lindley
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister – associated with the rise of antiseptics in medicine, the mouthwash Listerine is named after him
• Oliver Lodge – was involved in the development of wireless telegraph
• Kathleen Lonsdale – discovered the structure of benzene
• John Maynard-Smith
• Roger Penrose – Winner of the 1988 Wolf Prize
• Klaus Roth – Winner of the 1958 Fields Medal
• Walter Rouse-Ball – Mathematician
• M. J. Seaton FRS – British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer
• Ian Sloan – Australian applied mathematician
• Edward Sharpey-Schafer physiologist
• David Spiegelhalter
• Heinz Wolff
• Sir Frederick Warner

• Pen Hadow – British polar explorer and author^[4]

• Clarissa Dickson-Wright – Chef (Law)^[5]

• A.S. Anand, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1998–2001)
• S.C. Aggarwal, former Judge, Supreme Court of India (1990–98)
• Justice Samuel Azu-Crabbe, former Chief Justice of Ghana (1973–1977)
• Justice Gabriel Bach, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
• F.T. Cheng a.k.a Cheng T'ien-Hsi, judge of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, and Nationalist China's last ambassador to the United Kingdom
• David Childs, managing partner of Clifford Chance
• Winston Chu, founding Partner, Winston Chu & Company Solicitors, since 1989. [2002].
• Lord Cozens-Hardy, Master of the Rolls (1907–1918)
• Daniel Fung, SC (馮華健), former Solicitor-General of Hong Kong
• Edwin Glasgow, QC, member of the so-called Bloody Sunday Inquiry
• Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, QC — former Attorney General for England and Wales (2001–2007)
• Baron Arnold Goodman, leading British lawyer; former Senior Partner, Goodman Derrick LLP
• Baron Farrer Herschell, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
• Hassan Jallow, former Attorney-General, Minister of Justice and Judge of the Supreme Court of Gambia; current Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2003–present)
• Sir George Jessel, renowned English jurist; Master of the Rolls (head of the civil division in the Court of Appeal) of England and Wales (1873–1883)
• Simon Li (李福善), former Vice-President of Court of Appeals (Hong Kong) and first Chinese High Court Judge (Hong Kong)
• Sir Gavin Lightman QC, High Court Judge (Chancery Division), England
• Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, High Court Judge (Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division)
• Vyas D. Misra, former Judge, High Court of Delhi (1969–1983)
• S.S.M. Quadri, former Judge,Supreme Court of India (1997–2003); Chairman, Authority for Advance Ruling, India (1994– )
• Leonard Sainer, solicitor and retailer
• Baroness Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales (2007–present)
• Thirugnana Sinnathuray — former Judge of the High Court of Singapore
• Kuldip Singh, former Judge, Supreme Court of India (1988–96); Advocate General, Punjab (1987); Additional Solicitor General of India (1987–88)
• Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney General of Singapore (1969–1992)
• Chao Hick Tin (赵锡燊), Attorney General of Singapore (2006–present)
• Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Sir Ti-Liang Yang (楊鐵樑), former Chief Justice of Hong Kong

• M. R. Anand, pioneer of the English novel in India
• Guy de la Bédoyère, a British historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain, and has appeared regularly on Time Team
• Raymond Briggs
• Robert Browning
• G. K. Chesterton
• Paul Cornell (did not graduate)
• David Crystal
• Ken Follet
• Clare Francis
• Stella Gibbons
• Laila Lalami
• David Lodge
• David Magarshack, biographer and translator of Russian authors
• Jon de Burgh Miller
• Jonathan Miller
• Gladys Mitchell
• Bel Mooney
• Blake Morrison
• Sir Ernest Satow, after whom the Chair of Japanese Law at UCL is named
• Jim Smith
• Michael Smith (writer), author of The Giro Playboy etc.
• Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868–1912)
• Marie Stopes
• Ken Wiwa

• Rabindranath Tagore, 1913

• David Baddiel, Comedian and television presenter
• Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the Teletubbies
• Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter
• Frank Dunlop, formerly Festival Director, the Edinburgh International Festival; Founder and formerly 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.
• Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of The Office (studied biology and philosophy)
• Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life
• Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
• Dominic Keating, actor, including in Star Trek: Enterprise
• Trevor Lock, comedian and actor
• Jeremy Marre, film director
• Oliver Messel, foremost stage designer
• Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader
• Mary Nighy, actress
• Christopher Nolan, film director, including Memento and The Dark Knight
• Raj Persaud, psychiatrist and broadcaster
• Jonathan Ross – Presenter
• Michael Smith (writer) and broadcaster
• Suzie Templeton, writer, director and animator, including Peter and the Wolf
• Alex Trippier, actor (Queer as Folk), gay rights activist
• Mat Whitecrosx, film Director
• Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian

• Walter Bagehot, former editor of The Economist
• Victoria Barnsley, Editor-in-Chief at HarperCollins
• Patrick Blower, cartoonist, The Evening Standard
• Jeremy Bowen, journalist, BBC Middle East editor
• John Derbyshire, essayist, novelist, popularizer of mathematics history
• Nicholas Garland, first and current political cartoonist, The Daily Telegraph
• A. A. Gill, columnist, The Sunday Times
• 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
• Lindsay Nicholson, Editor, Good Housekeeping
• Vivienne Parry, journalist, [The Times and BBC]
• Jeremy Warner, business editor, The Independent
• Michael White, political editor, The Guardian
• Petronella Wyatt, writer, The Spectator

• Sir (Ernest) Donald Acheson, KBE, DM, FRCP, FFPHM, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Adviser to H.M. Government 1983–91.
• William Carpenter CB FRS
• Saverio Borriello – BSc, PhD, FRCPath, FFPHM, Director of the Specialist and Reference Microbiology Division of the Health Protection Agency [HPA] and HPA Director of Research and Development, since 2003; formerly Director, Central Public Health Laboratory, 1995–2003
• Henry Radcliffe Crocker, dermatologist
• Viscount Bertrand Dawson, was a doctor to the British Royal Family.
• William Tilbury Fox, dermatologist
• Sir William Jenner, was the first doctor to identify between typhus and typhoid
• Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
• Dominic Keating, actor, including in [[Star Trek:
• Edwin Lankester, founder of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (QJMS)
• Sir Ronald Mason, KCB, FRS, Chair, UCL Hospitals Charities, since 2004; Chair, UCL Hospitals NHS Trust, 1993–2001
• Raj Persaud, MB BS, BSc, Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult and Community Psychiatry, Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Teaching Hospitals and Clinical Tutor to Bethlem & Maudsley Senior House Officers, since 1994
• Heenal Raichura, at one time the UK's youngest doctor at the age of 22,
• Peter Sutton, MB, BS, FRCPath, formerly Director, Public Health Service Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down.
• Sir Rodney Sweetnam, KCVO, CBE, FRCS, 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.
• Richard Turner-Warwick, CBE, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOG, formerly Senior Surgeon and Urologist to The Middlesex and St Peters Hospitals and Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons
• Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, DBE, MA, DM, PhD, FRCP, President, Royal College of Physicians 1989–92
• Kenneth Walton, noted pathologist

• Ulf von Euler, 1970

• Brett Anderson, Suede
• Carolyn Bannister, My Vitriol
• Sophie Barker, singer, occasional vocalist for Zero 7 and Groove Armada (did not graduate)

• Guy Berryman, Coldplay
• Jonny Buckland, Coldplay
• Will Champion, Coldplay
• John Curwen, proponent of tonic sol-fa
• Kathleen Dale née Richards, translator, musicologist, composer and pianist (Swedish: 1926–8)^[6]
• Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif
• Justine Frischmann, Elastica
• Leonard Feather, jazz musician, composer, and writer (1932)^[7]
• Joshua Hayward, The Horrors
• Philip Heseltine aka Peter Warlock, composer and music critic
• Gustav Holst, composer and teacher
• Richard Hughes, Keane
• Ravi Kesavaram, My Vitriol

• Chris Martin, Coldplay
• Jack Peñate, singer-songwriter
• Simon Ratcliffe, Basement Jaxx
• Tim Rice-Oxley, Keane
• Harold D(avid) Rosenthal, writer on music
• Som Wardner, My Vitriol
• Benjamin Zander, conductor, Boston Philharmonic

• Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales

• Hugh Price-Hughes, Methodist Theologian
• Rev 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

• David Gower, cricketer, former England Captain
• Patrick Head, co-founder of Formula One team WilliamsF1
• Christine Ohuruogu – sprinter; Gold Medal, Olympic Games
• Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent – Cricketer, England Women's

• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.^[8] UCL Engineering with Business and Finance, 2008.^[9]
• Samar Alami, UCL Engineering (1988), convicted of detonating a car bomb outside the Israel embassy in London in the attack on the Israeli embassy in London in 1994.^[10]

Apart from Jeremy Bentham, all these men were named on the Foundation Stone.^[11]

• James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), Scottish peer and British statesamn
• 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^[12]
• 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^[13]
• 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.

• Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, 1st Baronet (1842–1921), civil engineer, enabled the establishment of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
• Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor

• Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, UCL alumnus; variously Visitor, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Council (2005–08), and Chairman of the UCL Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
• Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather (1934–), British politician, UCL alumna, and the first South Asian woman to receive a peerage
• Sir Stephen Wall, British diplomat, leading Catholic layman, chairman of Council (2008–)^[14]
• Thomas Wilson (1764–1843),^[15] Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825.

• John Hilliard (artist), professor
• Thomson & Craighead, artists

• John Sutherland (author) – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature

• Marianna Csörnyei, Professor of Mathematics
• Helen H Fielding, Professor of Chemical Physics; winner of the 2005 Corday–Morgan Medal
• Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics

• Peter Butler, Professor of Surgery
• Mitchell Glickstein, Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
• Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics
• Sammy Lee, expert in vitro fertilisation
• John Martin, the UCL British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Science
• Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Philosophy
• Martin Raff, Professor of Zoology, Former Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
• Robin Weiss, Director of the Wohl Virus Research Centre, discovered that CD4 is the co-receptor for HIV
• Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology
• Semir Zeki, Professor of Anatomy

• John Adams (geographer), 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
• 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.

• Nick Guest, protagonist of the Booker Prize winning The Line of Beauty

• Owen Benjamin is a closeted gay lecturer at UCL in the BBC's 1991 adaptation of The Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt's 1986 New York novel of the same name
• Gregory Brown, window cleaner of the Engineering Building in Friends: The One With The Truth About London (2001)

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