List of Imperial College London people
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This is a list of famous student and staff alumni from Imperial College London and from the various historical institutions which are now part of Imperial.
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[edit] Student alumni
[edit] Sciences
- Dr Narinder Singh Kapany - father of optical fibres
- Sir Angel Ken (Oriental swordman, Literature)
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Sir Frederick Hopkins (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- T. H. Huxley (biologist and author)
- Sir William Crookes (chemist and physicist)
- Sir Patrick Linstead (discoverer of phthalocyanine dyes)
- Richard Barrer (developer of zeolites)
- Donald Watts Davies (computer scientist)
- Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry)
- William Henry Perkin, Jr. (son of Sir William Henry Perkin, studied at the Royal College of Science)
- James H. Ellis (engineer, conceived public-key cryptography)
- Alec Reeves (engineer, invented pulse code modulation)
- Baron Richard Beeching (engineer)
- Malcolm Green (chemist)
- Frederick William Lanchester (aeronautic engineer)
- Kevin Warwick (engineer)
- Sir Stanley Hooker (mechanical engineer)
- Alan Blumlein (electronic engineer)
- William George Penney (physicist)
- Juda Hirsch Quastel (chemist)
- Arthur Holmes (geologist)
- William Thomas Blanford (geologist)
- George Mercer Dawson (surveyor)
- Keith Duckworth (mechanical engineer)
- Johnjoe McFadden (molecular geneticist and writer)
- Anthony R. Barringer (geophysicist and inventor)
- Sir Charles Vernon Boys (scientist)
- Henry Edward Armstrong (chemist)
- Henry Rzepa (computational organic chemist)
- Herbert Dingle (English astronomer, best-known for his claimed disproof of the theory of special relativity.)
- Kevin Buzzard (mathematician)
- Shihab Shamma (neuromorphic engineer)
- Tino Belli (Racing Engineer)
- Peter Gregson (research engineer, Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast)
- Roy Anderson (leading British expert on epidemiology; mathematically modelled the spread of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and AIDS.)
- Simon Donaldson (mathematician, expert on topology of smooth differentiable four-dimensional manifolds)
- Prof Sir Harold Ellis (world famous general surgeon, Alumnus of Westminster medical school, former past president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England)
- Nicholas Tombazis (Mclaren F1 and Scuderia Ferrari chief aerodynamicist)
- Nicholas J. Phillips (physicist)
[edit] Politics
- Rajiv Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India)
- Adam Holloway (journalist and politician)
- Branislav Ivkovic (politician)
- Trevor Phillips (journalist and politician)
- Ken Michael (Governor of Western Australia)
- Sir Julius Vogel (former Prime Minister of New Zealand)
- Guy Saint-Pierre (politician)
[edit] Industry
- Gary Tanaka (founder of Amerindo)
- David Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian)
- Michael Cowpland (founder of Corel)
- Danny Lui (founder of Lenovo)
- Sir Ralph Robins (CEO of Rolls-Royce)
- Chew Choon Seng (CEO of Singapore Airlines)
- Iain Conn (Group Managing Director of BP)
- Derek Pannell (CEO of Noranda)
- Colin Dyer (CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle)
- Leslie Hudson (CEO of DOV Pharmaceutical)
- Winston Wong (businessman)
- John Manzoni (Group Managing Director of BP)
- Keith Duckworth (Founder of Cosworth Engineering)
- Michael Birch (Founder of Bebo)
- Harold Roxbee Cox (aircraft engineer)
- Baron Kings Norton (aircraft engineer)
- Chris Delay, Mark Morris and Thomas Arundel, who formed game developer Introversion Software
- Koh Boon Hwee (Chairman of DBS Bank, Singapore)
[edit] Others
- Louis Attrill (Olympic gold medallist, rowing)
- Sir Roger Bannister (athlete)
- Alfred Beit (gold and diamond magnate)
- David Cohen, New Scientist features editor
- Andrew Crumey, novelist
- Declan Curry (presenter on BBC news 24)
- Simon Dennis (Olympic gold medallist, rowing)
- Marc Garneau (astronaut)
- Pallab Ghosh (BBC Science Correspondent)
- David Irving (author)
- Alok Jha, The Guardian science correspondent
- Natasha Loder, Science and technology correspondent at The Economist
- Brian May (member of Queen)
- Anthony R. Michaelis (science journalist and publisher)
- Ayan Panja (doctor, author and TV presenter)
- Simon Singh (popular science author)
- Richard Southwood (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
- George Reginald Starr, Special Operations Executive officer
- H. G. Wells (science fiction author)
- Jane Yardley (author)
- David Irving (Historian)
[edit] Staff alumni
[edit] Applied Sciences
- Abbas Edalat, (computer scientist)
- Leonard Mandel (physicist, founder of quantum optics)
- Charles Kao (engineer, inventor of fibre optics)
- Eric Laithwaite (engineer)
- David Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian)
- Dame Julia Higgins (engineer, various Chairs)
- William Fyfe (geochemist)
- Sir Henry De la Beche, founder of the British Geological Survey
- Eric Ash (engineer)
- Igor Aleksander (engineering)
- Alec Skempton (founding father of soil mechanics)
- Basil John Mason (expert on cloud physics)
- John Albery (chemist)
- Moses Blackman (crystallographer)
- Tshilidzi Marwala (engineer)
[edit] Pure sciences
- Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Sir George Porter (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Sir Walter Haworth (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry)
- Dennis Gabor (Nobel Laureate, Physics)
- Baron Patrick Blackett (Nobel Laureate, Physics)
- Abdus Salam (Nobel Laureate, Physics)
- Sir G. P. Thomson (Nobel Laureate, Physics)
- Klaus Roth (Fields Medalist)
- Simon Donaldson (Fields Medalist)
- T. H. Huxley (biologist and author)
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann (chemist)
- Sir Edward Frankland (chemist)
- Julia King (Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics)
- David Blow (biophysicist)
- Sir James Lighthill (mathematician)
- Alfred North Whitehead (mathematician)
- Sir Gilbert Walker (physicist)
- Baron Robert May (physicist, member of the House of Lords)
- Baron Robert Winston (doctor, television presenter, member of the House of Lords)
- Alfred Fowler (astronomer)
- Michael Rowan-Robinson (astronomer)
- Ray Streater (physicist)
- R. A. Stradling (physicist)
- Alexander King (scientist)
- John Nelder (statistician)
- Michael Duff (string theorist)
- Michael Hassell (population ecology)
- Michael Mingos (inorganic chemist)
- Per Bak (theoretical physicist, self-organized criticality)
- Peter Knight (scientist) (physicist, Quantum Optics)
- Erol Gelenbe (computer scientist, G-networks and the random neural network)
- Tom W. B. Kibble (physicist; symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the topological defects (monopoles, cosmic strings or domain walls))
- Baron Ashby (botanist; adviser to the British National Fruit Traders Association)
- Colin Cherry (cognitive scientist; expert in cocktail party problem)
[edit] Medicine
- Sir Frederick Hopkins (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Ernst Chain (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
- Professor Sir Malcolm Green
- Julia Polak (tissue engineer)
- Carl Djerassi (chemist; first oral contraceptive pill progestin norethindrone)
[edit] Others
- Charles Kennedy (economist)
- David Miles (economist)
- Henry Cole (civil servant)
- Otto Beit (financier)
- Ronald Oxburgh (non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell PLC)
- Wilfred Corrigan (American engineer and entrepreneur, founder of LSI Logic Corp.)
- Andy Fanshawe (mountaineer)
