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

Thomas Henry Huxley

• 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

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 Alexander Fleming

David Livingstone

• 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

Lord Penney

• 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

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

Otto Beit

• 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

Brian May

H.G. Wells

Roger Bannister

• 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

• President & Rector of Imperial College London

References

1. http://corporate.moneysupermarket.com/mony/news/rns/rnsitem?id=3831361&t=popup
2. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/news/archive/profiles/Arjun-Panesar---Entrepreneur

External links

• Imperial College student lists