List of alumni of Queen Mary University of London
A list of alumni of Queen Mary University of London, former students of Queen Mary University of London.
Notable alumni of Queen Mary
Academics

Edgar Adrian, British neuroscientist and physiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology.

Alasdair MacIntyre, British philosopher.
- Samson Abramsky – British computer scientist.[1]
- Igor Aleksander – British artificial intelligence researcher.[2]
- Edgar Adrian - British neuroscientist and physiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, and Barts alumnus.[3]
- Timothy Ball – Canadian geographer and historical climatologist.
- Malcolm Bowie – British academic and literary critic.
- John Frederick Dewey – British geoligist
- Ian Lewis – British computer scientist.
- Alasdair MacIntyre – British philosopher.
- Francis Rose – British botanist, conservationists, nature writer
- Brendan Scaife – Irish engineer and physicist.
- David Southwood – British space scientist
- G. Spencer-Brown - British mathematician.
Biologists

Sir Richard Owen, British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
- Bill Ballantine (biologist) – British-born New Zealand marine biologist.
- Felix Eugen Fritsch – British biologist.
- William Elford Leach - British zoologist and marine biologist.
- Sir Richard Owen - British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
Historians
- Thomas Asbridge - British medievalist and historian.
- David N Farr - British historian and schoolmaster.
- Eric Ives - British historian and an expert on the Tudor period.
- Marjorie Reeves - British historian.
- Sir Roy Strong – British historian.[4]
Chemists
- Jack Drummond – biochemist and nutritionist.
- Sir Edward Frankland – British chemist.
- C. Robin Ganellin - British chemist.
- Sir John Meurig Thomas – chemist.
- Sir Robert Watson - British chemist.
Physicians and surgeons

Sir Ronald Ross, British medical doctor, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate.

Sir Henry Hallett Dale - British pharmacologist and physiologist, shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- John Abernethy - British surgeon.
- Joseph Adams (physician) - British surgeon and pathologist.
- George Augustus Auden - British Professor of public health.
- John Badley - British surgeon.
- Gopal Baratham - Singaporean author and neurosurgeon.
- William Blizard - British surgeon.
- George Busk - British surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.
- William Job Collins - British surgeon and politician.
- John Desmond Cronin - British surgeon and politician.
- Thomas Blizard Curling - British surgeon.
- Sir Henry Hallett Dale - British pharmacologist and physiologist, shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[5]
- Allan Victor Hoffbrand - British medical doctor and academic.
- Sir Ronald Ross – British medical doctor, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria.[6]
- Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet - British surgeon.
- Daniel Hack Tuke - British expert on mental illness.
- William Turner (University Principal) - British anatomist and former principal of Edinburgh University.
- Hugh Watkins - British cardiologist.[7]
- William James Erasmus Wilson - British surgeon.
Physicists
- Alexander Bradshaw – British physicist.
- Sir Philip Campbell – British physicist.
- Michael Duff (physicist) – British physicist.
- Geraint F. Lewis – British astrophysicist, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney.
- Sir Peter Mansfield – British Nobel Prize–winning physicist.[8]
- Charles Taylor – physicist, lecturer and author.
- Sir Tejinder Virdee – British physicist.
- Rosemary Wyse – British astrophysicist.
Athletes

W. G. Grace, British cricketer.
- Richard Budgett – British gold medal-winning Olympic rower.
- Martin Cross – British gold medal-winning Olympic rower.
- W. G. Grace – British cricketer and Barts alumnus.
- Mike Hennessy – British olympic rower.
- Jimmy Hill - British footballer, football manager, TV presenter.
- 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.[4]
Business figures
- Sir Richard Broadbent – British businessman.
- Sir Frank Chapman – British CEO of BG Group.
- Piers Corbyn – British scientist, businessman.
- David Sullivan – British businessman, newspaper publisher, and football chairmen and investor.
Civil servants
- Halima Begum – British civil servant.
- David Blanchflower – British-American economist.
- Dame Colette Bowe – British civil servant.
- Simon Case - British civil servant.
- Linda Chalker – British politician, served as Minister of State for Overseas Development at the Foreign Office, in the Conservative government from 1989 to 1997.
- 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.
Engineers
- Kurt Berger – Finnish aviation engineer.
- William Glanville – civil engineer.
- George Hockham – British engineer.
Lawyers
- Dame Laura Cox – British lawyer, English High Court judge.
- Sir William Davis – British lawyer, English High Court judge.
- Roy Goode – British lawyer and author.
- Basil Markesinis – British lawyer.
- Jeremy Phillips – British lawyer.
- Sir Christopher Pitchford – British lawyer, Lord Justice of Appeal.
- Roger Tan Kor Mee – Malaysian lawyer.
- 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.
Media personalities
- Graham Chapman – British actor, member of comedy group Monty Python, and Barts alumnus.[4]
- Fleur East – British singer and The X Factor contestant.
- 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.
- Bill O'Reilly – American television host, author, historian, syndicated columnist and political commentator.
- Roger Tilling – British broadcaster and voice of University Challenge.
- Prannoy Roy – Indian journalist.
- Kate Williams – British broadcaster and historian.
- Peter Wingfield - British actor.
Medical missionaries
- Alfred James Broomhall - British medical missionary.
- 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.
Musicians

Bruce Dickinson, British singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Iron Maiden.
- Bernard Butler - British musician, former guitarist of Suede.
- Bruce Dickinson – British singer of Iron Maiden.[4]
- Pete Doherty – British musician, writer, actor, poet and artist.
- Jay Sean – British singer.
- Shakka - British singer.
- Roger Taylor - British drummer of the band Queen.
Politicians
- Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison - British politician.
- Sir Peter Caruana – Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
- David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone – British politician, member of the House of Lords .
- Marcia Matilda Falkender, Baroness Falkender – British politician, member of the House of Lords.[4]
- Donald McIntosh Johnson - British author and politician.
- Peter Hain – British politician, Labour MP, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales.[4]
- Stephen Hammond – British politician, Conservative Party and former UK Government Minister.
- Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn - British politician.
- Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton - British politician and former chairman of the BBC.
- Tom Pursglove – British politician, Conservative MP.
- 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 MP and former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.[4]
- John Whittaker - British politician, UKIP MEP.
Writers
- Kia Abdullah – British writer.
- J. G. Ballard – British writer of Empire of the Sun and Crash.[4]
- Alia Bano – British playwright.
- Stephen Barber (writer) – British writer.
- Sir Malcolm Bradbury – British writer.
- Robert Bridges - British poet and holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913.
- Richard Gordon - British screenwriter and writer.
- Lee Harwood -- British poet.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – British writer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Other notable alumni

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, Dutch princess.
- Sir William Blizard – British, co-founded England’s first clinical medical school, The London Hospital Medical College.
- Ashley Banjo – British choreographer.
- Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands – Dutch royalty.
- Florence Mahoney – Gambian academic, first woman to obtain a PhD from Gambia.
- Simon C. Page - British graphic designer.
- Elizabeth Press - British immunologist.
- Claire Price – British actress.
- Ben Rider - British filmmaker.
- Valanto Trifonos – Greek–Cypriot singer; winner of Greek Idol season 1.
- Eleanor Updale – British award-winning author.
- Sarah Waters – British author of Tipping The Velvet.
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry alumni
- Edward Bancroft - Physician and double agent in the American Revolution.
- Gilbert Barling - Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
- Thomas Barnardo – Irish philanthropist.[4]
- Frederick Batten - Neurologist and paediatrician.
- Hannah Billig - Famous wartime doctor.
- George Bodington - Pulmonary specialist.
- Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle - Anaesthetist.
- William Carr - Former director of the Royal Australian Navy's Naval Medical Services.
- Tim Crow - Psychiatrist.
- John Langdon Down - first to describe Down syndrome, a genetic disorder named after him.
- Pamela Evans - GP and author.
- John Freke - First ophthalmic surgeon.
- Archibald Garrod - The physician first to appreciate the importance of biochemistry in medicine.
- Major Greenwood - Epidemiologist and statistician.
- Gordon Hamilton-Fairley - Oncologist.
- William Harvey - First person to describe circulation.
- James Hinton (surgeon) - Surgeon and author.
- Ebbe Hoff - Founding director of the Virginia Division of Substance Abuse.
- Jonathan Hutchinson - Ophthalmologist.
- John Hughlings Jackson - Neurologist.
- John Hunter (surgeon) - Surgeon and anatomist. The Hunterian Society is named in his honour.
- William Lawrence - Surgeon, a founder of British ophthalmology.
- John Leech - Caricaturist.
- William John Little - British surgeon, pioneer of orthopaedic surgery.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones - Evangelical Christian religious leader.
- Morell Mackenzie - Pioneer of laryngology.
- William Marsden (surgeon) - British surgeon, founder of The Royal Free and Marsden Hospitals.
- Peter William Mathieson - President of the University of Hong Kong.
- James Parkinson - British political activist and first to describe Parkinson's Disease.[4]
- Sir James Paget - British surgeon and founder of scientific medical pathology.
- Jonathan Pereira - British pharmacologist.
- Percivall Pott - British surgeon, founder of orthopaedy.
- W. H. R. Rivers - British psychiatrist, psychiatric anthropologist.
- William Scovell Savory - British surgeon.
References
- ↑ Samson Abramsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Igor Aleksander at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Edgar Adrian". Nobelprize.org.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Queen Mary, University of London - Complete University Guide". Complete University Guide. 2016.
- ↑ Waddington, Keir (2003). Medical education at St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1123-1995. Boydell & Brewer. p. 123. 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)
- ↑ "Peter Mansfield: Autobiography". Nobel Foundation. 2003. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
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