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This is a list of people associated with University College London, including notable staff and alumni associated with the institution.
Founders and supporters
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 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
Benefactors
- Sir Herbert Bartlett (1842–1921), civil engineer, enabled the establishment of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
- Sir Francis Galton, eugenicist and supporter of statistics and eugenics at UCL[5]
- Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor
Council members
- Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (1949–)
- 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–)[6]
- Thomas Wilson (1764–1843),[7] Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825.
- Thomas Field Gibson (1803-1889),[8] Manufacturer and benefactor – on Council 1851–68
- 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.
Fields Medallists
The Fields Medal is often described as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medallists,[9]
1998: Timothy Gowers
- Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics (1991–1995)
1970: Alan Baker
- BSc (1961), Professor (1964–1965)
1958: Klaus Roth
- MSc (1948), PhD (1950), Professor (1948–1966)
Former staff
Art, architecture, and design
- Dame Phyllida Barlow, Sculptor
- Tancred Borenius (1885–1948), art historian, diplomat and British wartime spy
- Sir Peter Cook (1936–), architect, The Bartlett Professor of Architecture[10]
- Stuart Brisley, performance artist
- Thorold Dickinson (1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies[11]
- Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885), architect, first UCL Professor of Architecture
- Lucian Freud (1922–2011), painter[12]
- Roger Fry (1866–1934), painter, art critic
- Christine Hawley, architect, first female Head of the Barlett
- John Hooper Harvey (1911–97), architectural historian, Bartlett School of Architecture, 1950–59.
- Tim Head, artist
- John Hilliard, artist
- 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
- Eric Ash (1928-2021), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering , Pender Chair from 1979 to 1986
- Harold Barlow, staff then Pender Chair in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1950–1966)
- Thomas Hudson Beare (1859–1940), chair of engineering from 1889 to 1901
- Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69
- Wellesley Curram Clinton (1871-1934), Pender Chair from 1926 to 1934
- Jon Crowcroft, Professor of Networked Systems in Computer Science
- Alexander Lamb Cullen, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pender Chair from 1967 to 1980
- Sir David Davies, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1985–1988)
- John William Draper - pioneer astro-photographer who also took the oldest surviving picture of a woman
- Anthony Finkelstein, Head of Computer Science and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences until 2015
- John Fleming (1849–1945)
- William Edward Gibbs (1890-1934), Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Eaton Hodgkinson, Professor of the mechanical principles of engineering (appointed in 1847)
- Reginald Otto Kapp (1885-1966), Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering , Pender Chair from 1935 to 1945
- Peter T. Kirstein (1933-2020), Head of Computer Science department from 1980 to 1994
- John Edwin Midwinter (1938-2021), Pender Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 2004, Vice Provost from 1994-1999
- John Millington (1779-1868), the UK's first Civil Engineering Professor, appointed in 1827
- Sir John O'Reilly, Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1997–2001)
- William Pole (1813–1900), 1859–76
- William Ramsay (1852-1916), Chair of Chemistry (appointed 1887)
- H. E. Watson (1886-1980), Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering
- E. C. Williams, first Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering (1923-1927)
Interdisciplinary studies
- Carl Gombrich – founding programme director of the UCL Arts and Sciences programme and co-founder of the London Interdisciplinary School
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
- 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)[13]
- Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Moira Yip – Professor of Linguistics
Law
Mathematical, physical, and space sciences
- Jim Al-Khalili – post-doctoral fellow
- Alan Baker, (mathematics) – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal
- William Henry Bragg inventor of x-ray crystallography and Nobel laureate[14]
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, (astronomy) – discovered radio pulsars
- Charles Bungay Fawcett – Professor of Geography
- 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
- Otto Hahn – pioneer of nuclear chemistry, discoverer of nuclear fusion and Nobel laureate[14]
- Peter Higgs – theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate[15]
- 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 – eugenicist, 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
- Caroline Austin, British molecular biologist
- Sir Thomas Barlow, royal physician known for his research on infantile scurvy (Barlow's disease)
- 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[16]
- 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-[17]
- Alex Comfort, Faculty of Medicine; author of the seminal sex guide, The Joy of Sex
- Jack Drummond, biochemist known for his work on nutrition
- 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
- Archibald Hill, Professor of Physiology (1922–51), winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Victor Horsley, Professor of Clinical Surgery co-inventor of Horsley–Clarke apparatus
- Andrew Huxley, Nobel laureate[14]
- Ian Jacobs, Dean of Medicine
- Roland Levinsky, Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology.
- Avrion Mitchison, Professor of Zoology
- Santa Ono, GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Biomedical Sciences
- 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
- David J Werring, Professor of Clinical Neurology, noted for influential research in stroke
- 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 (after whom the annual Keeling lectures on Ancient Philosophy at UCL are named).[18]
- Stuart Hampshire, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
- W. D. Hart
- 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
- 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.[19]
- Philip Wicksteed, economist and theologian
Current staff
Art, architecture, and design
- Iain Borden
- David Burrows
- Susan Alexis Collins
- Melanie Counsell
- Peter Davies
- Tom Dyckhoff, broadcaster and teaching fellow at The Bartlett
- Simon Faithfull
- Murray Fraser (architect)
- Judith Goddard
- Dryden Goodwin
- Nadia Hebson
- Jonathan Hill (architect)
- Amy Kulper
- C.J. Lim
- Lisa Milroy
- Jayne Parker
- Barbara Penner
- Sarah Pickering
- Jane Rendell
- Liz Rideal
- Jon Thomson
- Carey Young
Engineering sciences
- Polina Bayvel, Professor of Optical Communications & Networks
- Ann Blandford, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
- Helen Czerski, Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering
- George Danezis, Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering
- Mark Handley, Professor of Networked Systems, Computer Science
- Zoe Laughlin, Materials Engineer and co-founder of the Institute of Making
- Paola Lettieri, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of UCL East
- Mark Miodownik, Professor of Materials & Society, co-founder of the Institute of Making
- Peter O'Hearn, Professor of Computer Science
- Michael Pepper, Pender Chair of Nanoelectronics (2009-)
- Yvonne Rogers, Professor of Interaction Design and director of UCLIC
- Angela Sasse, Professor of Human-Centred Technology
- John Shawe-Taylor, Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics
- Rebecca Shipley, Professor of Healthcare Engineering
- David Silver, Professor of Computer Science
- Eva Sorensen, 11th Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Sarah Spurgeon, Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Jose L. Torero, Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
History, languages and literature
- Rosemary Ashton, OBE, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature
- John Dickie, Professor in Italian Studies
- John Fletcher, Laplanche scholar, literary theorist
- Mark Ford, Professor of English
- Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History
- Julian Hoppit FBA, Astor Professor of British History
- Philip Horne, Professor of English
- John Mullan, Professor of English
- Li Wei, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics
Mathematical, physical and space sciences
- Tim Broyd, Professor of Built Environment Foresight and Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering
- Hannah Fry, Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
- David Kemp, physicist at the UCL Ear Institute who discovered otoacoustic emission
- Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics
- Helen Wilson, 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
- John O'Keefe (neuroscientist), winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 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
- Klara Valko, Honorary professor at University College London School of Pharmacy
- 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.
- Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science
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