List of alumni of Queen Mary University of London
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The following is a list of alumni of Queen Mary University of London.
Notable alumni
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Academics
[edit]- Sir Gilbert Barling – British surgeon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
- Florence Mahoney – Gambian educator, academic, first woman to obtain a PhD from Gambia
- Sir William Turner – British anatomist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, 1903-1916
Historians and philosophers
[edit]- Malcolm Bowie – British academic and literary critic
- Brycchan Carey – British historian and literary critic
- Eric Ives – British historian and an expert on the Tudor period
- Alasdair MacIntyre – British philosopher
- Marjorie Reeves – British historian
- Sir Roy Strong – British historian[1]
Mathematicians and scientists
[edit]- Timothy Ball – Canadian physical geographer and climatologist
- Bill Ballantine – British-born New Zealand marine biologist
- Frederick Blackman – British botanist and plant physiologist
- John Frederick Dewey – British geologist
- David Drewry – British glaciologist and geophysicist (Geography, 1969)
- Felix Eugen Fritsch – British biologist
- William Elford Leach – British zoologist and marine biologist
- Esther Odekunle - British neurobiologist and antibody engineer
- Eleanor Mary Reid – British paleobotanist
- George Rolleston – British medical doctor, zoologist and evolutionary biologist
- Francis Rose – British botanist, conservationist, nature writer
- G. Spencer-Brown – British mathematician
Chemists
[edit]- Sir Jack Drummond – Biochemist and nutritionist
- John S. Fossey– British chemist and professor at the University of Birmingham
- John S. Fossey- British chemist
- Sir Edward Frankland – British chemist
- C. Robin Ganellin– British chemist (Chemistry, 1958)
- Julius Grant – Forensic scientist and intelligence officer who exposed forgeries through chemical analysis
- Walter Thomas James Morgan – British biochemist
- Rowland Pettit – Australian-born American chemist
- Hulda Swai - Tanzanian researcher and professor in life sciences and bioengineering (PhD in biomaterials in 2000)
- Sir John Meurig Thomas – British physical chemist
- Frank Gibbs Torto – Ghanaian chemist
- Sir Robert Watson – British chemist (PhD in atmospheric chemistry in 1973)
Physicists
[edit]- Alexander Bradshaw – British physicist
- Sir Philip Campbell – British physicist, editor-in-chief of the science journal Nature (MSc Astrophysics, 1974)
- Michael Duff – British physicist at Imperial College London (Physics, 1969)
- Geraint F. Lewis – British astrophysicist, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney
- Sir Peter Mansfield – British Nobel Prize–winning physicist[2]
- Helen Mason – British physicist
- George C. McVittie – British cosmologist
- Brendan Scaife – Irish engineer and physicist
- David Southwood – British space scientist, Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London[3]
- Angela Speck - Astrophysicist and Professor at the University of Missouri
- Geoffrey Ernest Stedman – New Zealand physicist
- Charles Taylor – British physicist, lecturer and author
- Sir Tejinder Virdee – British physicist
- Rosemary Wyse – British astrophysicist
Artists
[edit]- Ashley Banjo – British choreographer
- John Leech – British caricaturist
- Siddharth Mallya – Indian actor and model
- Simon C. Page – British graphic designer
Writers
[edit]- Kia Abdullah – British writer
- J. G. Ballard – British writer of Empire of the Sun and Crash[1]
- Alia Bano – British playwright
- Stephen Barber – British writer
- Sir Malcolm Bradbury – British writer
- Robert Bridges – British poet and holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913
- Marcus Chown – British science writer, journalist and broadcaster, cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine
- Allan Cubitt - British playwright, screenwriter and director
- Richard Gordon – British screenwriter and writer
- Lee Harwood – British poet
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – British writer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Clive Leo McNeir - British linguist, lexicographer and author of crime novels
- Derek Marlowe - British playwright and screenwriter (did not graduate)
- Sara Torres - Spanish poet and novelist
- Eleanor Updale – British award-winning author
- Sarah Waters – British author of Tipping The Velvet
- Guy Walters – British author, historian and journalist
Musicians
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- Bernard Butler – British musician, former guitarist of Suede
- Bruce Dickinson – British singer of Iron Maiden[1]
- Pete Doherty – British musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
- Fleur East – British singer and The X Factor contestant
- Jay Sean – British singer
- Shakka – British singer
- Roger Taylor – British drummer of the band Queen
- Valanto Trifonos – Greek–Cypriot singer; winner of Greek Idol season 1
Businesspeople
[edit]- Sir Richard Broadbent – British businessman
- Sir Frank Chapman – British CEO of BG Group
- Piers Corbyn – British scientist, businessman
- Sam Houser - co-creator of Grand Theft Auto, owner of Rockstar Games
- Christopher Rawson Penfold – British businessman, founder of Penfolds, an Australian wine producer
- David Sullivan – British businessman, newspaper publisher, and football chairmen and investor
Technologists
[edit]- Samson Abramsky – British computer scientist[4][3]
- Igor Aleksander – British artificial intelligence researcher[5][3]
- Keith Clark – British computer scientist; Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London[6][3]
- Mary Coombs - British computer scientist, first female commercial computer programmer in the UK
- Ian Lewis – British computer scientist
- Tom Maibaum – Hungarian computer scientist[3]
Engineers
[edit]- Kurt Berger – Finnish aviation engineer
- William Glanville – civil engineer
- George Hockham – British engineer; together with Nobel Prize winner Charles Kao, widely recognised a pioneer in the field of optical fibres (PhD Electronic Engineering, 1969)
- Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu - Ghanaian robotics engineer at NASA and chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory[7]
Lawyers and judges
[edit]- Dame Laura Cox – British lawyer, English High Court judge
- Sir William Davis – British lawyer, English High Court judge
- Roy Goode – British lawyer and author
- Tracey McDermott - past chief executive of Britain's Financial Conduct Authority and financial service executive
- Basil Markesinis – British lawyer
- Barbara Mensah - British judge[8]
- Jeremy Phillips – British lawyer
- Sir Christopher Pitchford – British lawyer, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Anand Ramlogan – Trinidad and Tobago lawyer, Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago
- K. Sripavan – Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, the 44th and current Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
- Roger Tan Kor Mee – Malaysian lawyer
Actors, broadcasters and journalists
[edit]- Mehmet Aksoy - British - Kurdish Film Director and Editor in Chief of Kurdish Question.
- Graham Chapman – British actor, member of comedy group Monty Python[1]
- Katia Elizarova – Russian model and actress
- Romola Garai – British actress
- Julie Gardner – British television producer responsible for Doctor Who
- Sean Gilder – British actor
- Sarah Harrison, British journalist
- Ching He Huang – British television chef
- Jane Hill – British newsreader, BBC News
- Tom Machell - British Actor and Writer
- Kasia Madera - British newsreader, BBC News
- Bill O'Reilly – American television host, author, historian, syndicated columnist and political commentator
- Claire Price – British actress
- Roger Tilling – British broadcaster and voice of University Challenge
- Prannoy Roy – Indian journalist
- Kate Williams – British broadcaster and historian
- Peter Wingfield – British actor
Doctors, psychiatrists and surgeons
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- John Abernethy – British surgeon
- Joseph Adams – British surgeon and pathologist
- Edgar Adrian – British neuroscientist and physiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology.[9]
- Sir Christopher Andrewes – British virologist
- George Augustus Auden – British Professor of public health
- John Badley – British surgeon
- Edward Bancroft – British physician and double agent in the American Revolution
- Gopal Baratham – Singaporean author and neurosurgeon
- Frederick Batten – British neurologist and pediatrician
- Thomas Barnardo – Irish philanthropist[1]
- Hannah Billig – British medical doctor
- Sir William Blizard – British surgeon, co-founded England's first clinical medical school, The London Hospital Medical College
- George Bodington – British pulmonary specialist
- Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle – British anaesthetist
- Alfred James Broomhall – British medical missionary
- George Busk – British surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist
- Tim Crow – British psychiatrist
- Thomas Blizard Curling – British surgeon
- Sir Henry Hallett Dale – British pharmacologist and physiologist, shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[10]
- John Langdon Down – British physician; first to describe Down syndrome, a genetic disorder named after him
- Colonel Sir Weary Dunlop – Australian surgeon
- John Freke – British ophthalmic surgeon
- Sir Archibald Garrod – British physician, first to appreciate the importance of biochemistry in medicine
- Major Greenwood – British epidemiologist and statistician
- Gordon Hamilton-Fairley – British oncologist
- William Harvey – British physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology, first person to describe circulation
- James Hinton – British surgeon and author
- Ebbe Hoff – American medical doctor and academic
- Allan Victor Hoffbrand – British medical doctor and academic
- John Hunter – British surgeon and anatomist; Hunterian Society is named in his honour
- Sir Jonathan Hutchinson – British surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist
- John Hughlings Jackson – British neurologist
- William Lawrence – British surgeon, a founder of British ophthalmology
- Andrew Lees – British neurologist
- William John Little – British orthopedic surgeon, pioneer of orthopaedic surgery
- Morell Mackenzie – British physician, pioneer of laryngology
- William Marsden – British surgeon, founder of The Royal Free and Marsden Hospitals
- Sir James Paget – British surgeon and founder of scientific medical pathology
- Stephen Paget – British surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget, proposed the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis
- Jonathan Pereira – British pharmacologist
- Percivall Pott – British surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen
- W. H. R. Rivers – British psychiatrist, psychiatric anthropologist
- Sir Ronald Ross – British medical doctor, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria[11]
- Elizabeth Press – British immunologist
- Sir Peter Ratcliffe – British molecular biologist
- William Scovell Savory – British surgeon
- Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet – British surgeon
- Daniel Hack Tuke – British expert on mental illness
- Sir James Underwood – British pathologist
- Karen Vousden – British medical researcher
- Hugh Watkins – British cardiologist[12]
- William James Erasmus Wilson – British surgeon
- Donald Winnicott – British paediatrician and psychoanalyst
Medical missionaries
[edit]- Albert Ruskin Cook – British medical missionary
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell – British medical missionary
- John Preston Maxwell – British medical missionary
- Robert Morrison – British medical missionary
- Frederick Howard Taylor – British medical missionary
- Herbert Hudson Taylor – British medical missionary
- Hudson Taylor – British medical missionary
Politicians, civil servants and Parliamentarians
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Politicians
[edit]- Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison – British politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament
- Apsana Begum – First British hijab-wearing Member of Parliament[13]
- Sir Peter Caruana – Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
- Pushpendra Saroj- Indian Politician, Youngest Member of Parliament of India Lok Sabha[14]
- Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey – British politician, former Conservative Party Member of Parliament
- Mary Clancy - Canadian politician and lawyer, former Member of Parliament
- Sir William Job Collins – British politician and surgeon, Liberal Party Member of Parliament, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
- David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone – British politician, member of the House of Lords
- John Cronin – British politician and surgeon, Labour Party Member of Parliament
- Marcia Matilda Falkender, Baroness Falkender – British politician, member of the House of Lords[1]
- Sir Alan Glyn – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
- Donald McIntosh Johnson – British author and politician
- Peter Hain – British politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales[1]
- Stephen Hammond – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament and former UK Government Minister
- Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn – British politician
- Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel – Irish British politician, member of the House of Lords
- Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton – British politician and former chairman of the BBC
- Guðni Th. Jóhannesson – Icelandic politician, historian and lecturer; President of Iceland (2016–2024)
- Leo Chen-jan Lee – Taiwanese politician, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
- Amin Liew Abdullah – Bruneian Cabinet Minister
- Esther McVey – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
- Joseph Ngute - Cameroonian politician, the 9th Prime Minister of Cameroon
- Stephanie Peacock – British Labour Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Barnsley East
- Tom Pursglove – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy – British Politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Streatham
- Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon – British politician, Leader of the House of Lords from October 2008 to May 2010
- Caroline Spelman – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs[1]
- John Whittaker – British economics academic at Lancaster University; former politician, UKIP Member of the European Parliament
Administrators and civil servants
[edit]- David Blanchflower – British-American economist
- Dame Colette Bowe – British civil servant
- William Carr – British-Australian admiral
- Simon Case – British civil servant
- Sir Curtis Keeble – British ambassador to the USSR
- Sir Michael Lyons – British chairman of the BBC Trust
- Davidson Nicol – Sierra Leonean academic and diplomat, Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Dame Veronica Sutherland – British ambassador, sixth President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and former ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
- Martin Uden – British ambassador to South Korea
- Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands – Dutch royalty, Vice-President of Fauna & Flora International, Chair of the European Cultural Foundation
Clergy and religious leaders
[edit]- Joyce M. Bennett – British Anglican priest and member of the Anglican clergy (first Englishwoman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion)
- Pamela Evans – British medical doctor and Christian writer
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones – British evangelical Christian religious leader
Sportspeople
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- Richard Budgett – British gold medal-winning Olympic rower
- Martin Cross – British gold medal-winning Olympic rower
- W. G. Grace – British cricketer
- Mike Hennessy – British Olympic rower
- Jimmy Hill – British footballer, football manager, TV presenter
- William Hughes - Welsh boxer
- Imran Kayani – Professional footballer and Pakistan international
- Naila Kiani – leading Pakistani female high-altitude mountaineer. She is the first Pakistani woman mountaineer to climb 10 of the 14 eight-thousanders
- Martyna Snopek – Polish paralympic rower
- Arthur Wint – Jamaican athlete, won Jamaica's first gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics in the 400 metres, and a silver medal in the 800 metres[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Queen Mary, University of London - Complete University Guide". Complete University Guide. 2016.
- ^ "Peter Mansfield: Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. 2003. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Gay, H. (2007). The History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007. Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. World Scientific. pp. 563–715.
- ^ Samson Abramsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Igor Aleksander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Clark, Keith Leonard (1980). Predicate logic as a computational formalism. British Library EThOS (Ph.D). British Library. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ NASA.gov
- ^ "Judge Barbara Mensah awarded honorary degree". City, University of London. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ "Edgar Adrian". Nobelprize.org.
- ^ Waddington, Keir (2003). Medical education at St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1123-1995. Boydell & Brewer. p. 123. ISBN 9780851159195. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ "Ronald Ross – Facts". Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ^ 'WATKINS, Prof. Hugh Christian', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
- ^ "Apsana Begum MP | Poplar and Limehouse". Archived from the original on 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Pushpendra, Priya, Sanjana, Shambhavi: Meet youngest MPs of 2024 Lok Sabha polls". The Economic Times. 5 June 2024. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 25 November 2024.