Many institutions, comprising over 115,000 students. They include:
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David W. K. Acheson |
Government |
? |
|
Food Safety Czar |
| 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 |
1948 |
|
McLaughlin Group pundit |
| 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 |
| Walter Capps |
Politician |
5-May-1934 |
28-Oct-1997 |
Congressman from California, 1997 |
| Johnnie Carson |
Diplomat |
7-Apr-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Kenya, 1999-2003 |
| Tom Cole |
Politician |
28-Apr-1949 |
|
Congressman, Oklahoma 4th |
| Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Novelist |
5-Jun-1884 |
27-Aug-1969 |
Pastors and Masters |
| Bernard Cornwell |
Novelist |
1944 |
|
Sharpe series |
| Tom Courtenay |
Actor |
25-Feb-1937 |
|
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
| John Deacon |
Bassist |
19-Aug-1951 |
|
Bassist for Queen |
| Luisa Diogo |
Head of State |
11-Apr-1958 |
|
Prime Minister of Mozambique |
| 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 |
| Peter Hain |
Politician |
16-Feb-1950 |
|
British MP, Neath |
| 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 |
| Thomas Henry Huxley |
Scientist |
24-May-1825 |
29-Jun-1895 |
Debated Wilberforce over evolution |
| Koh Boon Hwee |
Business |
? |
|
Chairman of DBS Group |
| Carlos the Jackal |
Terrorist |
12-Oct-1949 |
|
International terrorist |
| Nancy Johnson |
Politician |
5-Jan-1935 |
|
Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1983-2007 |
| 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 |
| Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
| 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 |
| Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
| Andrew V. Schally |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1926 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
| 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 |
| Roland Young |
Actor |
11-Nov-1887 |
5-Jun-1953 |
Cosmo Topper |
