List of Imperial College London people
This is a list of Imperial College London people, including notable students and staff from the various historical institutions which are now part of Imperial College.
Sciences and engineering
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- Asad Abidi (electrical engineer) - former dean of Lahore University of Management Sciences, member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Igor Aleksander (engineering)
- Sir Roy Anderson (epidemiology - mathematically modelled the spread of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and AIDS.)
- Nicolas Ambraseys (civil engineer) - Founder of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College London
- Dame Mary Archer (British scientist specialising in solar power conversion)
- John Argyris (civil and aeronautical engineer, one of the founders of the Finite Element Method)
- Baron Ashby (botanist)
- Eric Ash (engineer)
- Ayodele Awojobi (first African awarded the D.Sc degree in mechanical engineering; main field: vibration)
- David Balding (mathematical statistician)
- Cecil Balmond (civil engineer)
- Ian Bayley (computer scientist)
- Sir Henry De la Beche, founder of the British Geological Survey
- Baron Richard Beeching (engineer)
- Anne Beloff-Chain (professor of biochemistry)
- William Thomas Blanford (geologist)
- Kenneth Binmore (economist)
- Moses Blackman (crystallographer)
- Vincent Blondel (mathematician)
- Alan Blumlein (electronic engineer)
- Sir Charles Vernon Boys (scientist)
- Donal Bradley (researcher in plastic electronics)
- Tony Brooker (mathematician and computer scientist)
- Keith Browning (atmospheric scientist)
- John Burland (civil engineer) - the person who stabilised the Tower of Pisa
- Kevin Buzzard (mathematician, number theory)
- Nessa Carey, virologist and author)
- Colin Cherry (cognitive scientist - expert in cocktail party problem)
- Keith Clark (computer scientist)
- Piers Corbyn (meteorologist)
- Wilfred Corrigan (American engineer and entrepreneur, founder of LSI Logic Corp.)
- Donald Watts Davies (computer scientist)
- George Mercer Dawson (surveyor)
- William Reginald Dean (applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist)
- Herbert Dingle (English astronomer, best known for his claimed disproof of the theory of special relativity)
- Patrick Dixon (futurist, physician)
- Simon Donaldson (Fields Medallist)
- Keith Duckworth (mechanical engineer)
- Abbas Edalat (computer scientist)
- James H. Ellis (engineer, conceived public-key cryptography)
- Sir Harold Ellis (surgeon)
- Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (geologist, first president of Indian National Science Academy)
- Amanda Fisher (biologist)
- Sir Hugh Ford (engineer)
- Alfred Fowler (astronomer)
- Marc Garneau (first Canadian in space, Chancellor of Carleton University, Liberal Member of Parliament)
- Erol Gelenbe (computer scientist - G-networks and the random neural network)
- Stephen Glaister (civil engineering)
- Peter Gregson (research engineer, Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast)
- Nicholas Harrison (Professor of Computational Materials Science)
- Michael Hassell (population ecology)
- Dame Julia Higgins (engineer)
- E. W. Hobson (mathematician)
- Sir Thomas Henry Holland (geologist)
- Arthur Holmes (geologist)
- Sir Stanley Hooker (mechanical engineer)
- Sir Brian Hoskins (dynamical meteorologist)
- T. H. Huxley (biologist and author)
- Frank Irving (aeronautical engineer)
- C.L.V. Jayathilake (engineer)
- Nick Jennings (computer scientist)
- Viktor Jensen (engineer)
- John Wesley Judd (geologist)
- Alexander King
- Eric Laithwaite (engineer)
- Frederick William Lanchester (aeronautic engineer)
- David Latchman (geneticist)
- Sir James Lighthill (mathematician)
- Meir Manny Lehman (software engineering)
- Armand Marie Leroi (biologist)
- Tshilidzi Marwala (engineer)
- Sir Basil John Mason (meteorologist)
- Johnjoe McFadden (molecular geneticist and writer)
- Sanjoy K. Mitter (electrical engineer)
- C. Lloyd Morgan (psychologist)
- John Nelder (statistician)
- Naomi Oreskes (historian of science)
- Bill Parry (mathematician)
- William Henry Perkin, Jr. (son of Sir William Henry Perkin, studied at the Royal College of Science)
- Helen Porter (botanist)
- Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- David E. Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian)
- John G. Ramsay (structural geologist)
- Alec Reeves (engineer, invented pulse code modulation)
- Peter Rice (civil engineer)
- Sylvia Richardson (statistician)
- Donald Van Norman Roberts (civil engineer)
- Klaus Roth (Fields medallist)
- Roger W.H. Sargent (chemical engineer)
- Martin Schroder (chemist)
- Murray Shahahan (computer scientist)
- Luis Simoes da Silva (civil engineer)
- Alec Skempton (founding father of soil mechanics)
- Adrian Smith (mathematician)
- Brian Spalding (computational fluid dynamics)
- Michael Stumpf (systems biologist)
- L H C Tippett (statistician)
- Nicholas Tombazis (Mclaren F1 and Scuderia Ferrari chief aerodynamicist)
- Stuart Turnbull (financial mathematician)
- Elsayed Elsayed Wagih (Egyptian virologist and biotechnologist)
- Kevin Warwick (engineer)
- Alfred North Whitehead (mathematician)
- Andrew J. Whittle (head of Civil Engineering at MIT)
- Christopher R. Wronski (electrical engineer)
- Shao Xianghua (metallurgical engineer)
- Frank Yates (statistician)
- Olgierd Zienkiewicz (civil engineer - Finite Element Method)
Chemistry
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Geoffrey Wilkinson, Nobel laureate chemist
- John Albery (chemist)
- Henry Edward Armstrong (chemist)
- Dewan Singh Bhakuni Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Richard Barrer (chemistry - developer of zeolites)
- Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
- Ernst Boris Chain (biochemist)
- Sir William Crookes (chemist and physicist)
- Sir Alan Fersht
- George Finch
- Sir Edward Frankland (chemist)
- William Fyfe (geochemist)
- Malcolm Green
- Sir Walter Haworth (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
- Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann (chemist)
- Christopher Kelk Ingold (of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules)
- Adinath Lahiri (Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee)
- Sir Patrick Linstead (discoverer of phthalocyanine dyes)
- Michael Mingos (inorganic chemist)
- Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry)
- George Porter (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
- Juda Hirsch Quastel (chemist)
- Henry Rzepa (computational organic chemist)
- Jeremy Sanders (chemist)
- Sir Richard Sykes (biochemist, Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline)
- Sir Henry Tizard (Chemist and inventor)
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
Medicine
- Sir Ernst Chain (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Dame Sally Davis (Chief Medical Officer)
- Lord Ara Darzi (Baron Darzi of Denham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Leading Surgeon)
- Carl Djerassi (chemist; first oral contraceptive pill progestin norethisterone)
- Sir Joseph Fayrer (physician noted for his writings on medicine in India)
- Marc Feldmann (expert on rheumatology)
- Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Malcolm Green (inorganic chemist)
- John Henry (toxicologist) (clinical toxicologist who did crucial work on poisoning and drug overdose)
- Sir Frederick Hopkins (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Dame Rosalind Hurley (medical microbiologist, researcher, and ethicist)
- Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Bruce Keogh (medical director of the National Health Service)
- David Livingstone (congregationalist pioneer medical missionary in South Africa–Charing Cross Hospital)
- Christine Moffatt (nurse in leg ulcer care)
- Norman Morris (Obstetrician and healthcare reformer)
- Albert Neuberger (chemical pathologist)
- William Kitchen Parker (physician and zoologist)
- Julia Polak (tissue engineer)
- Sir Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Ann Redgrave (orthopaedic surgery)
- Bernard Spilsbury (pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern forensic medicine)
- Joseph Toynbee (otologist)
- Augustus Desiré Waller (the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG))
- Baron Robert Winston (fertility expert, politician, scientist and television presenter)
- Almroth Wright (advanced vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines)
- Sir Magdi Yacoub (expert on live lobe lung transplant)
Physics
Patrick Blackett, Nobel laureate in physics
Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics
- Per Bak (theoretical physicist, self-organized criticality)
- Anthony R. Barringer (geophysicist and inventor)
- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (Nobel laureate, physics)
- David Blow (biophysicist)
- Fernando Brandao (physicist)
- Andrew Crumey (physicist)
- Sir John Ambrose Fleming (physicist)
- Fay Dowker (physicist)
- Michael Duff (string theorist)
- Piers Forster (climatologist)
- Dennis Gabor (Nobel laureate, physics)
- James R. Graham (astrophysicist)
- Joanna Haigh, professor of atmospheric physics
- David Hand (physicist)
- Christopher Isham (physicist)
- Narinder Singh Kapany (physicist - optical fibres)
- Nicholas Kemmer (physicist)
- Tom W. B. Kibble (physicist)
- Julia King (Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics)
- Peter Knight (physicist, Quantum Optics)
- K. Kunaratnam (physicist)
- Norman Lockyer (discoverer of helium and founder of Nature)
- Leonard Mandel (physicist, founder of quantum optics)
- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (physicist, member of the House of Lords)
- Kirpal Nandra (astrophysist)
- Jenny Nelson (Professor of Physics)
- John Pendry (physicist)
- William George Penney (physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project)
- Nicholas J. Phillips (physicist)
- Michael Rowan-Robinson (astronomer)
- Abdus Salam (Nobel laureate, physics)
- Roy Sambles (President of the Institute of Physics)
- Le Jeu Sham (physicist)
- David Southwood (former President of the Royal Astronomical Society)
- R. A. Stradling (physicist)
- Ray Streater (physicist)
- Sir G. P. Thomson (Nobel laureate, physics)
- Vlatko Vedral (physicist)
- Sir Gilbert Walker (physicist)
- Wolfgang Rindler (physicist and textbook author who introduced term 'Event Horizon')
Politics
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Rajiv Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of India
Julius Vogel, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Adam Afriyie (MP For Windsor)
- Sir James Allen (Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand)
- Hussain al-Shahristani (Iraq's Minister for Higher Education)
- Thomas Anthony Brake (British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Carshalton and Wallington)
- Matthew Carrington (former Conservative Member of Parliament for Fulham, 1987–1997
- Frederic Creswell (mining engineer and Minister of Defense in South Africa)
- Edmund Daukoru (Minister of Energy for Nigeria and former OPEC President (2006))
- Les Ebdon (Director of Fair Access to Higher Education)
- Rajiv Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India)
- Adam Holloway (journalist and politician)
- Branislav Ivkovic (politician)
- Abubakarr Jalloh (Minister for Natural Resources, Sierra Leone)
- Sir Adrian Johns (former Governor of Gibraltar and former Second Sea Lord)
- Chris Kelly (MP for Dudley South)
- Phillip Lee (MP For Bracknell)
- Rilwan Lukman (Petroleum Resources Minister of Nigeria and former Secretary General OPEC)
- Ken Michael (Governor of Western Australia)
- Chi Onwurah (MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
- Trevor Phillips (journalist and politician)
- J Y Pillay (civil servant)
- Guy Saint-Pierre (politician)
- Joan Ruddock (politician)
- Sydney Russell-Wells (British MP)
- Richard Thomas Taylor (Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest)
- Teo Chee Hean (Defense Minister of Singapore and former Chief of Navy)
- Christos Staikouras (politician and economist)
- Desmond Stanley Turner (British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Kemptown)
- Sir Julius Vogel (former Prime Minister of New Zealand)
- Charles Wittenoom
Business
- Kaveh Alamouti (investment banker)
- Alfred Beit (gold and diamond magnate)
- Otto Beit (financier)
- Stan Bharti (founder of Forbes & Manhattan)
- Michael Birch (Founder of Bebo)
- Chew Choon Seng (CEO of Singapore Airlines)
- Iain Conn (Group Managing Director of BP)
- Michael Cowpland (founder of Corel)
- Chris Delay, Mark Morris and Thomas Arundel, who formed game developer Introversion Software
- Keith Duckworth (Founder of Cosworth Engineering)
- Colin Dyer (CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle)
- Alan Howard (co-founder of Brevan Howard)
- Koh Boon Hwee (Chairman of DBS Bank, Singapore)
- Martin Lamb, Chief Executive of IMI plc
- Danny Lui (founder of Lenovo)
- Mehraj Mattoo (Global Head, COMAS, Commerzbank)
- Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (Chairman of Tata Group)
- Charlie Muirhead (Entrepreneur, founder of Rightster)
- Ronald Oxburgh (non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell PLC)
- Arjun Panesar (entrepreneur and co-founder of Financial Services Net Ltd, acquired by Moneysupermarket.com)[1][2]
- Ian Read (CEO of Pfizer)
- Andrew Rickman OBE (technology billionaire)
- Sir Ralph Robins (Former CEO of Rolls-Royce)
- Harold Roxbee Cox (aircraft engineer)
- Gary Tanaka (founder of Amerindo Investment Advisors)
- Winston Wong (businessman)
Others
- Edna Agbarha (business psychologist and candidate on The Apprentice series seven)
- Anjana Ahuja (journalist)
- Kit Armstrong (pianist and composer)
- Louis Attrill (Sydney Olympics gold medallist, rowing)
- Sir Roger Bannister (athlete)
- Laurent Bonomo (visiting student)
- David Cain (composer)
- I. C. Chacko (writer)
- GradeAUnderA (YouTube personality)
- Henry Cole (civil servant)
- Andrew Crumey (novelist)
- Declan Curry (presenter on BBC News 24)
- Simon Dennis (Sydney Olympics gold medallist, rowing)
- Andy Fanshawe (mountaineer)
- Gabriel Ferez (visiting student)
- Pallab Ghosh (BBC Science Correspondent)
- Adrian Greenwood (historian and art dealer)
- Anthony Hardy (serial killer)
- Jessica Hsuan (Chinese actress)
- David Irving (author)
- Adam Kay (of the comedy duo Amateur Transplants)
- Charles Kennedy (economist)
- Nalin Kulatilaka (economist)
- Aarif Lee (Chinese actor and singer)
- Tan Yock Lin (professor of law and author)
- Brian May (astrophysicist, more commonly known as a member of the rock band Queen)
- Anthony R. Michaelis (science journalist and publisher)
- David Miles (economist)
- Andreas Mogensen (First Danish astronaut)
- Ghanem Nuseibeh (Founder of Cornerstone Global Associates)
- Murad Osmann (photographer)
- Ayan Panja (doctor, author and TV presenter)
- Sylvia Richardson (historian)
- Ted Simon (journalist)
- Simon Singh (popular science author)
- Daniel V. Snaith (IDM artist, records under the name Caribou)
- Richard Southwood (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
- Emma Townshend (Academic, musician and columnist)
- George Reginald Starr (Special Operations Executive officer)
- Paul Rogers (Professor of Peace)
- Kevin Walton (military, awarded the George Cross in 1946)
- Lancelot Ware (biochemist, barrister and co-founder of Mensa International)
- H. G. Wells (science fiction author)
- Jane Yardley (author)
- Raymond Yiu (composer)
See also
References
- ↑ http://corporate.moneysupermarket.com/mony/news/rns/rnsitem?id=3831361&t=popup
- ↑ http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/news/archive/profiles/Arjun-Panesar---Entrepreneur
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