School of Oriental and African Studies

Notable alumni

• Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident Burmese opposition leader.
• Paul Robeson: Musician, writer and civil rights activist.
• Enoch Powell: British statesman
• Bernard Lewis: "The neo-cons' favourite historian", recently chosen by Time magazine as the world's most influential academic.
• Luisa Diogo: Current Prime Minister of Mozambique
• David Lammy: The 'black Blair'. MP for Tottenham, youngest MP in the Commons.
• Dom Joly: Comedian.
• Walter Rodney: Guyanese historian and political activist.
• Jemima Khan: Society figure and campaigner, daughter of Sir James Goldsmith and former wife Imran Khan.
• Sultan Salahuddin: Sultan of Selangor and King of Malaysia
• Mette-Marit:Crown Princess of Norway
• Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas: Prominent Islamic thinker
• Akbar S. Ahmed: Anthropologist, former Pakistani High Commissioner
• Michael Jay: Permanent Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, formerly British Ambassador to France.
• Zeinab Badawi: Newsreader
• Fred Halliday: Middle East expert at LSE