Many institutions, comprising over 115,000 students. They include:
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
David W. K. Acheson |
Government |
? |
|
Food Safety Czar |
Richard Aldington |
Poet |
8-Jul-1892 |
27-Jul-1962 |
Death of a Hero |
T. M. Aluko |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1918 |
1-May-2010 |
One Man, One Wife |
Moniza Alvi |
Poet |
2-Feb-1954 |
|
The Country at My Shoulder |
Alfred Austin |
Poet |
30-May-1835 |
2-Jun-1913 |
Poet Laureate of England, 1892-1913 |
Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
Arnold Bennett |
Novelist |
27-May-1867 |
27-Mar-1931 |
Five Towns novels |
Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
Tony Blankley |
Pundit |
21-Jan-1948 |
7-Jan-2012 |
McLaughlin Group pundit |
J. C. Bose |
Botanist |
30-Nov-1858 |
23-Nov-1937 |
Plant physiology |
Kenneth Bourne |
Historian |
17-Mar-1930 |
13-Dec-1992 |
Britain and the Balance of Power |
George E. P. Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
Malcolm Bradbury |
Critic |
7-Sep-1932 |
27-Nov-2000 |
The History Man |
E. R. Braithwaite |
Novelist |
27-Jun-1912 |
|
To Sir, with Love |
R. Hanbury Brown |
Astronomer |
31-Aug-1916 |
16-Jan-2002 |
Optical intensity interferometer |
Robert Browning |
Poet |
7-May-1812 |
12-Dec-1889 |
Prominent Victorian poet and playwright |
E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
Scientist |
3-Sep-1899 |
31-Aug-1985 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
Forbes Burnham |
Head of State |
20-Feb-1923 |
6-Aug-1985 |
President of Guyana, 1980-85 |
Walter Capps |
Politician |
5-May-1934 |
28-Oct-1997 |
Congressman from California, 1997 |
Johnnie Carson |
Diplomat |
7-Apr-1943 |
|
US Asst. Secy. of State for Africa |
Tom Cole |
Politician |
28-Apr-1949 |
|
Congressman, Oklahoma 4th |
Alex Comfort |
Doctor |
10-Feb-1920 |
26-Mar-2000 |
The Joy of Sex |
Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Novelist |
5-Jun-1884 |
27-Aug-1969 |
Pastors and Masters |
Anthony H. Cordesman |
Government |
2-Aug-1938 |
|
The Lessons of Modern War |
Bernard Cornwell |
Novelist |
1944 |
|
Sharpe series |
Tom Courtenay |
Actor |
25-Feb-1937 |
|
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Michael Craton |
Historian |
20-Aug-1931 |
|
History of the Bahamas |
Alain de Botton |
Author |
20-Dec-1969 |
|
The Architecture of Happiness |
John Deacon |
Bassist |
19-Aug-1951 |
|
Bassist for Queen |
William M. Diefenderfer III |
Government |
3-May-1945 |
|
Deputy Director of OMB, 1989-91 |
Luisa Diogo |
Head of State |
11-Apr-1958 |
|
Prime Minister of Mozambique |
G. R. Elton |
Historian |
17-Aug-1921 |
3-Dec-1994 |
The Tudor Revolution in Government |
Otto Robert Frisch |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1904 |
22-Sep-1979 |
Described fission |
Romola Garai |
Actor |
1-Jul-1982 |
|
Rory O'Shea Was Here |
Greer Garson |
Actor |
29-Sep-1904 |
6-Apr-1996 |
Mrs. Miniver |
Philip Giraldi |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
Former CIA officer |
Nigel Green |
Actor |
15-Oct-1924 |
15-May-1972 |
The Ipcress File |
Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
J. A. S. Grenville |
Historian |
11-Jan-1928 |
7-Mar-2011 |
Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy |
Peter Hain |
Politician |
16-Feb-1950 |
|
British MP, Neath |
Harry Hill |
Comic |
1-Oct-1964 |
|
The Harry Hill Show |
Robert Hill |
Government |
25-Sep-1946 |
|
Australian Minister for Defence, 2001-06 |
Damien Hirst |
Artist |
1965 |
|
Animal slices in formalin as art |
Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
Desmond Hoyte |
Head of State |
9-Mar-1929 |
22-Dec-2002 |
President of Guyana, 1985-92 |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
Scientist |
24-May-1825 |
29-Jun-1895 |
Debated Wilberforce over evolution |
Alec Issigonis |
Engineer |
18-Nov-1906 |
2-Oct-1988 |
Designer of the Mini Cooper |
Carlos the Jackal |
Terrorist |
12-Oct-1949 |
|
International terrorist |
Nancy Johnson |
Politician |
5-Jan-1935 |
|
Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1983-2007 |
Charles K. Kao |
Scientist |
4-Nov-1933 |
|
Fiber optics |
Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
Dominic Keating |
Actor |
1-Jul-1962 |
|
Lt. Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise |
Mary Leakey |
Anthropologist |
6-Feb-1913 |
9-Dec-1996 |
Discovered Proconsul |
Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
Ada Lovelace |
Mathematician |
10-Dec-1815 |
27-Nov-1852 |
Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine |
Ramsay MacDonald |
Head of State |
12-Oct-1866 |
9-Nov-1937 |
First Labour Prime Minister of UK |
Adel A. Mahmoud |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Molecular Biology Professor at Princeton |
Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
Peter Mansfield |
Scientist |
9-Oct-1933 |
|
Magnetic resonance imaging |
Ann Dore McLaughlin |
Government |
16-Nov-1941 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89 |
Surya N. Mohapatra |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Quest Diagnostics |
Frederick Mulley |
Politician |
3-Jul-1918 |
15-Mar-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1976-79 |
Bill O'Reilly |
Talk Show Host |
10-Sep-1949 |
|
The O'Reilly Factor |
Humphry Osmond |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1917 |
6-Feb-2004 |
LSD proponent, turned on Aldous Huxley |
Wilfred Owen |
Poet |
18-Mar-1893 |
4-Nov-1918 |
Dulce Et Decorum Est |
Ulice Payne, Jr. |
Baseball |
1955 |
|
CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers, 2002-03 |
Christopher Pissarides |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Job creation and destruction |
William Pollack |
Scientist |
26-Feb-1926 |
3-Nov-2013 |
Treatment for Rh Disease |
Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
Vincent Price |
Actor |
27-May-1911 |
25-Oct-1993 |
Master of the macabre |
Elizabeth Brown Pryor |
Historian |
15-Mar-1951 |
13-Apr-2015 |
Clara Barton: Professional Angel |
DJ Qualls |
Actor |
12-Jun-1978 |
|
Road Trip |
Robin Raphel |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1997-2000 |
B. Carroll Reece |
Politician |
22-Dec-1889 |
19-Mar-1961 |
Congressman from Tennessee |
Ptolemy Reid |
Head of State |
8-May-1912 |
2-Sep-2003 |
Prime Minister of Guyana, 1980-84 |
Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
Ronald Ross |
Scientist |
13-May-1857 |
16-Sep-1932 |
Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes |
Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
Richard Rudgley |
Author |
19-Feb-1961 |
|
The Alchemy of Culture |
Norman E. Saul |
Historian |
26-Nov-1932 |
|
Distant Friends: The United States and Russia |
Andrew V. Schally |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1926 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
Jay Sean |
Singer/Songwriter |
1979 |
|
Eyes on You |
H. Gordon Skilling |
Scholar |
12-Feb-1912 |
2-Mar-2001 |
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution |
Stephen Smith |
Politician |
12-Dec-1955 |
|
Australian Foreign Minister |
Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
2-Mar-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
Patrick Steptoe |
Doctor |
9-Jun-1913 |
21-Mar-1988 |
In vitro fertilization |
Mark Strong |
Actor |
30-Aug-1963 |
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
Max Theiler |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1899 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Yellow fever vaccination |
Eckhart Tolle |
Religion |
16-Feb-1948 |
|
The Power of Now |
KT Tunstall |
Singer/Songwriter |
23-Jun-1975 |
|
Eye to the Telescope |
Bruce W. Wilkinson |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of McDermott International |
Kim Williams |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Wellington Management Company |
Tom Wolf |
Politician |
17-Nov-1948 |
|
Governor of Pennsylvania |
Robert J. Young |
Historian |
27-Apr-1942 |
|
In Command of France |
Roland Young |
Actor |
11-Nov-1887 |
5-Jun-1953 |
Cosmo Topper |
Todd Young |
Politician |
24-Aug-1972 |
|
Congressman, Indiana 9th |