University of London
The University of London is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the world's largest universities. Approximately 5 percent of all UK students attend one of its colleges, which include some of the most prestigious places of study in the world. Many universities in Britain and abroad began life as associate colleges of the university, offering its degrees under licence. In recent years this aspect of the university's work has revived due to the globalisation of the education market, and an increasing number of overseas academic institutes offer University of London diplomas and degrees. The main offices of the University of London are at Senate House in Bloomsbury, which includes a substantial library and the residence of the chancellor.
Notable alumni and attendees
Notable persons who graduated from or otherwise attended the University include:
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- Christopher Addison
- Akbar S. Ahmed
- Richard Aldington
- Mulk Raj Anand
- David Attenborough
- Alfred Austin
- Thomas John Barnardo
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Arnold Bennett
- William Henry Bragg
- Raymond Briggs
- Robert Browning
- John Cale
- Alan Campbell
- William Benjamin Carpenter
- Graham Chapman
- G.K. Chesterton
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Coldplay members Chris Martin, William Champion, and Johnny Buckland
- Alex Comfort
- Bernard Cornwell
- Francis Crick
- Robert William Dale
- Hugh Dalton
- Valerie Davey
- Louis Essen
- John Ambrose Fleming
- Denis Follows
- Michael Foster
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Greer Garson
- Ann Granger
- Peter Griffiths
- Peter Hain
- Michael Halliday
- Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
- Chaim Herzog
- Damien Hirst
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Charles Ingram
- Hirobumi Ito
- Mick Jagger
- George Jessel
- William Stanley Jevons
- Nancy Johnson
- Tessa Jowell
- William Joyce
- Charles K. Kao
- Boris Karloff
- John F. Kennedy
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Junichiro Koizumi
- David Lammy
- Emily Lau
- Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen
- Bernard Lewis
- Joseph Lister
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Nelson Mandela
- Karl Mannheim
- Brian May
- Desmond Morton
- Charles F. Newcombe
- Bill O'Reilly
- Humphry Osmond
- Talcott Parsons
- Lynden Pindling
- Enoch Powell
- Romano Prodi
- B. Carroll Reece
- Paul Robeson
- David Rohl
- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos (the Jackal)
- Ernest Satow
- John Ralston Saul
- Elizabeth Smart
- Stephen Smith
- Robert Sobukwe
- George Soros
- Marie Stopes
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Goh Keng Swee
- Robert Swinhoe
- Larry Trask
- Suzanne Tremblay
- Pierre Trudeau
- Desmond Tutu
- Henry Wace
- Sidney Webb
- H. G. Wells
- David Wilson
- Robert Winston
- Fei Xiaotong
Heads of State/Heads of Government
- Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909) - Prime Minister of Japan, 1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901
- Harmodio Arias (1886-1962) - President of Panama,1932-1936
- Oscar Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize Winner
- Pedro Gerardo Beltrán Espanto (1897-1979) - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961
- Errol Walton Barrow (1920-1987) - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962-1966, 1966-1976, 1986-1987
- Marek Belka (b. 1952) - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-present
- Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932
- Kim Campbell (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993
- Eugenia Charles (b. 1919) - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995
- John Compton (b. 1926) - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964-1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February-July 1979 & 1982-1996
- Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-present
- Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994-1999
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) - President of the U.S.A. 1961-1963
- Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978) - First President of Kenya, 1964-1978
- Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) - President of Kenya, 2002-present
- Thanin Kraivichien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977
- Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914-2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989
- Hilla Limann (1934-1998) - President of Ghana, 1979-1981
- Alfonso López Pumarejo - President of Colombia, 1934-1938, 1942-1945
- Michael Manley (1924-1997) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980, 1989-1992
- Kamisese Mara (1920-2004) - Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000
- Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1940) - Queen of Denmark, 1972-present
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - First President of Ghana, 1960-1966
- Percival Patterson (b. 1935) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-present
- Romano Prodi (b. 1939) - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-1998 and President of the European Commission, 1999-present
- Junichiro Koizumi (b. 1942) - Prime Minister of Japan, 2001-
- Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000
- Veerasainy Ringadoo (1920-2000) - First President of Mauritius, March-June 1992
- Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) - Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955
- Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) - Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004
- Anote Tong (b. 1952) - President of Kiribati, 2003-present
- Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) - Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984
Other prominent alumni
- Sir Roy Allen (Economist and Mathematician)
- Sir David Attenborough (TV Presenter)
- Cherie Booth QC (wife of Tony Blair)
- Ed Broadbent (Canadian socialist opposition leader)
- Ralph Bunche (Nobel prize winner)
- Ronald Coase (Nobel prize winner)
- Benjamin Cohen (Businessman and writer)
- Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter)
- Hugh Dalton (former Chancellor of the Exchequer)
- Frank Dobson (former Health Secretary)
- Marc Grossman (U.S. Under Secretary of State)
- Haakon Magnus (Crown Prince of Norway)
- Margaret Hodge (British MP, Minister for Children)
- Robert E. Hunter (Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO)
- Mick Jagger (Musician)
- Anthony Kennedy (U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice)
- Robert Kilroy-Silk (TV Presenter)
- Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England)
- Bernard Levin (journalist)
- Sir Arthur Lewis (Nobel prize winner)
- John Anthony McGuckin (scholar)
- Merton Miller (Nobel prize winner)
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (former U.S. Senator)
- Robert Mundell (Nobel prize winner)
- Philip Noel-Baker (Nobel prize winner)
- Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules) (Radio 1 DJ)
- Jacques Parizeau, Quebec separatist leader
- Alice Paul, American suffragist
- Sir Karl Popper (philosopher)
- Robert Rubin (former U.S. Treasury Secretary)
- Charles Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi)
- Maurice Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi)
- Carlos (the Jackal) (terrorist)
- George Soros (Billionaire)
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Colleges and institutions |
| ► | Notable alumni and attendees |
| ► | Some statistics |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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