King's College London: Students/Graduates



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Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser (born 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1982 from the Universidade Federal do...

Tom Willmore

Thomas James Willmore (16 April 1919 – 20 February 2005) was an English geometer. He is best known for his work on Riemannian 3-space and harmonic spaces. Willmore studied at King's College London. After his graduation in 1939, he was appointed as a...

Kenneth Hare

Fredrick Kenneth Hare, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (February 5, 1919–September 3, 2002) was a Canadian climatologist and academic, who researched atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change, drought, and arid zone climates and was a strong advocate for...

Edward Walter Maunder

Edward Walter Maunder (April 12, 1851 – March 21, 1928) was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder...

Robert Walter Campbell Shelford

Robert Walter Campbell Shelford (3 August 1872 – 22 June 1912), was a British entomologist and museum administrator and naturalist, with a special interest in entomology and insect mimicry; he specialised in cockroaches and also did some significant...

Leigh Richmond Roose

Leigh Richmond "Dick" Roose, MM, (27 November 1877 – 7 October 1916) was a Welsh international footballer who kept goal for a number of professional clubs in the Football League between 1901 and 1912. A celebrated amateur at a time when the game was...

James Boyden

Harold James Boyden (19 October 1910–26 September 1993) was a British Labour Party politician. Boyden was educated at Tiffin Boys' School, Kingston upon Thames, and King's College London. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in...

Edward George Bowen

Edward George 'Taffy' Bowen, CBE, FRS (14 January 1911 – 12 August 1991) was a British physicist who made a major contribution to the development of radar and so helped win both the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic. Edward George...

Geoffrey Till

Geoffrey Till, FKC (born in London, England 14 January 1945) is a British naval historian and Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. The son of Arthur Till, a Royal Air Force officer, and his wife...

Chris Taylor

Christopher Malcolm Taylor (born 15 January 1943) is an engineer who was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford, holding the post from 1st October 2001 until 30th April 2007 when he retired from the university. Taylor was educated at...

Patrick Steptoe

Patrick Christopher Steptoe (9 June 1913, Oxford, England – 21 March 1988, Canterbury) was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards for...

Robin Auld

Sir Robin Ernest Auld QC FKC PC (born 19 July 1937), is a Lord Justice of Appeal in the English Court of Appeal. Auld was educated at Brooklands College and King's College London. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Law in 1958,...

Walter Frank Raphael Weldon

Walter Frank Raphael Weldon DSc FRS (Highgate, London, 15 March 1860 – Oxford, 13 April 1906) generally called Raphael Weldon, was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. He was the joint founding editor of Biometrika, with...

James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater

James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, GCB, PC, JP, DL (1 April 1855–27 March 1949) was a British Conservative politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921. The son of Hon. William Lowther, a grandson of...

Charles Leonard Huskins

Charles Leonard Huskins (1897-1953) was an English-born Canadian geneticist who specialized in the field of cytogenetics. He is also sometimes referred to as C. Leonard Huskins or C.L. Huskins. Huskins was born in Walsall, England and moved with his...

William Francis Gray Swann

William Francis Gray Swann (August 29, 1884 – January 29, 1962) was an Anglo-American physicist. He was educated at Brighton Technical College and the Royal College of Science from which he obtained a B.Sc. in 1905. He worked as an Assistant...

Edward James Stone

Edward James Stone (February 28, 1831–May 6, 1897) was an English astronomer. He was born in Notting Hill, London to Roger and Elizabeth Stone. Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College London, and in 1856 a...

Rory Bremner

Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner FKC (born 6 April 1961, Edinburgh) is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire. Rory Bremner was the second son born to Major Donald Stuart Ogilvy Bremner (March...

Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton

Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born 28 June 1959) is a British Labour Party politician. Morgan was educated at Belvedere School for Girls, Liverpool, and at Durham University, where she graduated in 1980 with a B.A. in geography. After...

Arthur C. Clarke

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley...

Graeme Garden

David Graeme Garden (born 18 February 1943) is a British author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied...

Dannie Abse

Daniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse (born 22 September 1923), is a Welsh poet. Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse. Abse...

Douglas Carswell

John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Harwich. Carswell is the son of two medical doctors and grew up in Africa where his parents worked amongst resource-starved...

George Carey

George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton PC FKC (born 13 November 1935) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. He was the first modern holder not to have attended Oxford or Cambridge University. His time as archbishop saw the Church of...

Richard Anthony Proctor

Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 in Chelsea, London - 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer. He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer William Rutter...

John Keats

John Keats (pronounced /ˈkiːts/, "keets") (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet, who became one of the key figures of the Romantic movement. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats was one of the second generation...

Henry Morley

Henry Forster Morley (15 September 1822 – 1894) was a writer on English literature. The son of an apothecary, he was born in Hatton Garden, London, educated at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's College London, and after practicing medicine...

Andy Mackay

Andrew 'Andy' Mackay (born 23 July 1946) is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founder member (playing oboe and saxophone) of the art-rock group Roxy Music. In addition, he has taught music and provided scores for television, while...

Paul K. Davis

Paul K. Davis (1952- ) is an historian specializing in military history. Born in Texas, he earned his PhD from King's College London with a thesis on the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War. He currently teaches American and military...

James Edwin Thorold Rogers

James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1823 – 14 October 1890), known as Thorold Rogers, an English economist and Member of Parliament, was born at West Meon, Hampshire. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyze some of the key economic and...

William Bowman

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (20 July 1816 – 29 March 1892) was an English surgeon, histologist & anatomist. He is most famous for his research using microscopes to study various human organs, though during his lifetime he pursued a successful...

Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi CBE (born December 5, 1954) is an English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality. Kureishi was born in...

Henry Parry Liddon

Henry Parry Liddon (20 August 1829 - 9 September 1890) was an English theologian. The son of a naval captain, he was born at North Stoneham, near Eastleigh, Hampshire. He was educated at King's College School, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he...

William Foyle

William Foyle (1885–1963) co-founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 with his brother, Gilbert Foyle. The eldest son of a Shoreditch grocer, William attended Owens School and King's College London with his brother Gilbert. After failing their Civil Service...

Frederick Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS (20 June 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex - 16 May 1947 Cambridge) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. He...

Brian Davies

Brian Evan Anthony Davies OP is Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University (1995–), and author of the classic An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, now available in a third English edition and translated into five Asian and European...

George Chetwynd

Sir George Roland Chetwynd, CBE (14 May 1916 – 2 September 1982) was a British lecturer, politician and public servant. He defeated Harold Macmillan in order to get elected as a Member of Parliament, but later left Parliament to become Director of...

Julie Morgan

Julie Morgan MP (born 2 November 1944) is a Labour politician in Wales. She is the Member of Parliament for Cardiff North, first elected at the 1997 election and returned in 2001 and 2005. She is married to the First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan...

Charles Finger

Charles Joseph Finger (December 25, 1869 – January 7, 1941) was an American author. He was born in Willesden, England and attended King's College London. He traveled extensively as a young man, visiting North America, South America, and Africa. He...

Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt FRS {born 9 May 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa} is a British biophysicist. He has been Professor of Structural Biology, Stanford University, California, since 1987. He is one of the first people who simulated DNA and protein...

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS (20 October 1840 – 6 January 1903), known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician. The third son of Solomon Benedict de Worms,...

Alice Martineau

Alice Katherine Martineau (8 June 1972 – 6 March 2003) was an English pop singer and songwriter. Born and educated in London, Martineau graduated from King's College London with a first class honours degree in English. As a child, she played both...

Mike Dash

Mike Dash (born 1963) is a Welsh writer, historian and researcher. He is best known for his books and articles looking at unusual historical events, anomalous phenomena, and strange beliefs. Born in London, Dash attended Peterhouse, a college at the...

Adam Langley-Khan

Adam Khan (born 24 May 1985), is a British racing driver of Pakistani descent from Bridlington, Yorkshire, who represents Pakistan in the A1 Grand Prix series. He is fluent in six languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Urdu and Mandarin...

Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February, 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. Jarman was born Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman in Northwood, Middlesex, boarded at Canford School in Dorset and from 1960 studied at...

Ernest Henry Shears

The Reverend Ernest Henry Shears (1849, Streatham – 20 February 1917, Stafford) was an Anglican clergyman in South Africa. Ernest Henry Shears was the ninth son of James Henry Shears (1788-1855), a partner of James Shears and Sons, and Mary Mann ...

Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC (born 29 May 1929), is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the...

Jack Nicholls

The Rt Revd John Nicholls GCStJ, known as Jack Nicholls, (born 16 July 1943) is a British Anglican clergy and former Bishop of Sheffield. The son of James Williams and Nellie Nicholls was educated in Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, King's...

John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul, CC (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian author and essayist. As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more...

Paul Wellings

Professor Paul William Wellings (born 1 November 1953) is an English ecologist and academic administrator. He is the current Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University, Chair of the 1994 Group of leading UK research-intensive universities and is a...

France-Albert René

France-Albert René (born November 16, 1935) was the long-time socialist President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He is known by government officials and party members as "the Boss." His name is often given as simply Albert René or F.A. René; he is...

Owen Willans Richardson

Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS (26 April 1879 - 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which lead to Richardson's Law. Richardson was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire,...

Harold Moody

Harold Arundel Moody (1882-1947) was a physician in London who established the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931 with the support of the Quakers. Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1882, the son of a pharmacist. In 1904 he sailed to the United...

Sammy Lee

Sammy Lee (born Samuel Lee, 1958) is an expert on fertility and in vitro fertilisation He has been a hospital scientific consultant and was the chief scientist at the Wellington IVF programme. His book Counselling in Male Infertility was published...

Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934, Kirkby in Ashfield - 26 September 2005, Eakring, Nottinghamshire) was an English author of over 120 books for children including A Gift from Winklesea, the Lizzie Dripping series, and The Bagthorpe Saga. She also...

Benjamin Cohen

Benjamin Cohen (born 14 August 1982) is a journalist based in London. He became known for his dot.com enterprises as a teenager and for a dispute with Apple computers over the domain itunes.co.uk. Since 2006 he has been technology correspondent for...