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The following is a list of
Royal Holloway, University of London people, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows. It is not exhaustive.
Notable alumni
Royal Holloway College, Bedford College and RHUL have over 80,000 alumni.
Entertainment, media, theatre
Chris Aldridge , British radio newsreader (
BBC Radio 4 )
David Benson (born 1962), English comedian, writer and actor
Peter Bramley , British actor, director and theatre director
Mark Carwardine , Zoologist, Writer, wildlife photographer, TV and radio presenter
Candace Chong Mui Ngam (born 1976), Hong Kong playwright
Richard Clarke (born 1978), English radio presenter
James Dagwell (born 1974), British journalist
Isabel Fay (born 1979), English comedy writer and character comedian
Emma Freud
OBE (born 1962), English broadcaster and cultural commentator
Pippa Guard (born 1952), English actress
Janice Hadlow , controller of
BBC Two
[1]
Lenny Henry (born 1958), Television presenter
[2]
Alex Hyndman (born 1978) British newsreader
Robin Ince (born 1969), English comedian
Anthony Jabre ,
film producer and
financier
Karena Johnson , English theatre director
Roxanne McKee (born 1980), British actress and model
John Moloney , comedian and comedy writer
Mary Nightingale (born 1964), British newsreader
[3]
Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
Simon Nye (born 1958), English comic television writer
[3]
Lucy Owen (born 1970), Welsh newsreader
Ben Richardson (b.198?), British cinematographer
Mark Strong (born 1963) English actor
Francis Wheen (born 1957) British journalist, writer and broadcaster
Roger Wright (born 1956) Controller of
BBC Radio 3 and director of the
BBC Proms
David Herrera (born 1986) Colombian Filmmaker.
Literature
Tahmima Anam (born 1975), Bangladeshi-born writer and novelist
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), English novelist
Richmal Crompton (1890–1969), English writer of
Just William
[3]
George Eliot (1819–1880), British novelist
[3]
Jane Gardam
OBE
FRSL (born 1928), novelist
Rosemary Manning (1911–1988), British author
Gerda Mayer (1927–2021), English poet
Jojo Moyes (born 1969), British novelist
Redell Olsen (born 1971), poet, performer and academic
Sophie Robinson , (born 1985) contemporary English poet
Miranda Seymour (born 1948), Biographer, novelist
Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930), British author and folklorist
Carol Townend (born 1953) English author
Music
Richard Baker (born 1972), British composer and conductor
Susan Bullock
CBE (born 1958), English soprano
Jonathan Cole (born 1970), British composer
Tansy Davies (born 1973), British composer
Example (musician) (born 1982), British singer, rapper and songwriter
Sarah Fox (born 1973) English operatic soprano
Geoff Hannan (born 1972), British composer
Dame Felicity Lott
DBE (born 1947), English soprano
Ivan Moody (born 1964), British composer
Paul Newland (born 1966), British composer
Ewan Pearson (born 1972), British music producer
Andrew Poppy (born 1954), British composer, pianist and music producer
China Soul (born 1988) American-British singer/songwriter
Joby Talbot (born 1971) British composer
KT Tunstall (born 1975) Scottish singer and songwriter
John Scott Whiteley (born 1950) York Minster organist and composer
Politics
Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi (born 1957), Iranian politician
Catherine Ashton (born 1956), British Labour politician; High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; vice president, European Commission
Norman Baker (born 1957)
Liberal Democrat
MP for
Lewes 1997–2015
Gregory Barker
MP (born 1966), British politician
Emily Davison (1872–1913), English suffragette activist
Dame Janet Fookes
DBE
DL (born 1936) English politician,
Conservative member
House of Lords
Norvela Forster (1931–1993) British businesswoman, exporter and politician (MEP)
Jean Henderson (1899–1997), British
barrister and
Liberal Party politician
Moussa Ibrahim (born 1974), Gaddafi spokesman during the
2011 Libyan civil war
Stewart Jackson
MP (born 1965), British politician
Tess Kingham (born 1963), British politician
Jessica Lee
MP (born 1976), British politician
Victoria Prentis
MP (born 1971), Conservative MP
Jenny Randerson (born 1948), Welsh Liberal Democrat politician
Andrew Stephenson
MP (born 1981), British politician
Frances Stevenson (1888–1972), personal secretary and second wife of
David Lloyd George
Valerie Vaz
MP (born 1954), British politician
Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 1945)
Labour member
House of Lords
Science
Sport
Other
Kitty Anderson
DBE (1903–79) BA PhD Head
North London Collegiate School 1945–65
[5]
Muhammad Abdul Bari
MBE (b.1953), Former Secretary General
Muslim Council of Britain
Sophie Bryant (1850–1922) Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist
Helen Cam
CBE
FRHistS (1885–1968), English historian
Lucy Caslon , founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
Ilse Crawford (born 1962), British designer
Edith Durham (1863–1944), British traveller, artist, writer and anthropologist
Tania El Khoury (born 1976), Lebanese artist
Dame Janet Finch (born 1946)
VC , Prof Social Rel,
Keele 1995–2010, hon fellow RHC 1999
Jayne-Anne Gadhia (born 1961), Chief Executive Officer of
Virgin Money UK
Robert Garside (born 1967), English record-breaking adventurer
Nick Hallard (born 1975), British artist
Giles Hart (1949–2005), British engineer and trade union activist
Duncan McCargo , British academic
Louisa Martindale
CBE
FRCOG (1872–1966), British physician and surgeon
Victor Olisa QPM, former senior Metropolitan Police officer
Jennifer Page
CBE (b. 1944), former chief executive of the London
Millennium Dome project
Thea Porter (1927–2000), fashion designer (expelled)
[6]
Sarah Parker Remond (1815-c.1894) African-American lecturer, abolitionist and doctor
Simon Thurley
CBE (born 1963), British architectural historian
[3]
Amanda Vickery professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London
Ronald Alan Waldron (born 1927), English medievalist
Ahmed Yerima , Nigerian professor, administrator
Notable staff
The following is a list of notable office-holders, academics and other teachers or researchers:
Gillian Bailey , fellow in theatre studies
George Barger , professor of chemistry
Dame
Gillian Beer , former President of
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Sir
William Benham ,
Fellow of the Royal Society , zoologist
Margaret Jane Benson , Professor of Botany
John Bercow , Professor of Politics, former
Speaker of the House of Commons
Francis Berry , professor of English literature
Luiza Bialasiewicz , senior lecturer in human geography
James Booth ,
Fellow of the Royal Society , mathematician
Mark Bowden , professor of composition
Andrew Bowie , professor of philosophy and German
Mary Boyce , taught Anglo-Saxon literature and archaeology
David Bradby , professor of drama and theatre studies
Daniel Joseph Bradley ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Bramley professor of biochemistry
Kai Brodersen , visiting professor in ancient history and classics
Jonathan Burrows , visiting professor of drama and theatre
Hugh Longbourne Callendar ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Chris Carey , professor of classics
William Benjamin Carpenter
CB ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Lorna Casselton
FRS , fungal geneticist
Philip Cashian , composer, taught in the music department
David Cesarani ,
OBE , Research Professor in History
William Gilbert Chaloner ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Justin Champion , professor of the history of early modern ideas
Alexey Chervonenkis , professor of computer science
Christopher Cocksworth , college chaplain, now
Bishop of Coventry
Paul Cohn ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Grenville Cole ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Conrad , visiting professor in sociology
Nicholas Cook , professorial research fellow in music
Glen Cowan , professor of physics
Denis Cosgrove , professor of geography and dean of the graduate school
Joseph Mordaunt Crook
CBE
FBA , historian
Tim Cresswell , professor of human geography
Hilda Ellis Davidson , lecturer in archaeology and anthropology
Veronica Della Dora
FBA , professor of human geography
Antonella De Santo , lecturer in experimental physics, coordinator for the
ATLAS experiment -UK supersymmetry group
Whitfield Diffie , visiting professor at the information security group
Richard Dixon ,
Fellow of the Royal Society , biologist
Roland Dobbs , emeritus professor of physics
Klaus Dodds
FRGS , professor of geopolitics
Felix Driver
FBA
FAcSS
FRGS , professor of human geography
Michael Eysenck , (now emeritus) professor of psychology
Lilian Faithfull
CBE , university administrator
Giles Foden , fellow in creative and performing arts
Sir
Gregory Foster , former vice-chancellor of the
University of London
Mary Fowler , professor of geology, now Master of
Darwin College, Cambridge
Harold Munro Fox ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Dame
Jane Francis , director of the
British Antarctic Survey
Dame Helen Gardner , assistant lecturer in English literature
Reginald Gates ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
A. C. Grayling
CBE , Master of
New College of the Humanities
Edith Hall , professor of classics and drama
Robert Gavin Hampson , professor of modern literature
Glyn Harman , professor of mathematics
Nick Hardwick
CBE , former
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
J. P. E. Harper-Scott , professor of music history and theory
Leonard Hawkes ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Harriet Hawkins
FRGS , professor of geography
Margaret Hayes-Robinson , Head of History
John F Healy , professor of classics and archaeology
Sir Frank Heath
GBE ,
KCB , educationist and civil servant
Olaus Henrici ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Frank Horton , professor of physics and vice-chancellor of London University 1939–45
Dame Olwen Hufton , professorial research fellow in the history department
Jonathan Holmes , senior lecturer in drama
Joan M. Hussey , professor of history
Julian Johnson
FBA ,
Regius Professor of Music
Brian Juden , professor of French 1970–1985
Sharman Kadish , scholar of Jewish British history
Peter Knight , Jubilee research fellow in quantum optics
Robert Latham
FBA , historian, dean of men, joint author 1970–83 The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Robert Lethbridge chair French, head of dept, dean of the graduate school, vice-principal
Roger Lockyer , reader in history, specialist in Tudor and Stuart Britain
Sir
Oliver Lodge ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
S L Loney , professor of mathematics
Peter Longerich , director of the research centre for the Holocaust and 20th century history
John Duncan Mackie
CBE , historian
Louis MacNeice
CBE , poet and playwright
Ursula Martin
CBE , computer scientist
J. D. Mackie , professor of modern history
Ursula Martin , taught in the computer science department
Sir William McCrea
FRS , professor of mathematics 1944–66
Oliver McGregor, Baron McGregor of Durris , sociologist
Katie Mitchell OBE, professor of Theatre Directing. Former associate director of the
National Theatre ,
Royal Court Theatre and
Royal Shakespeare Company . Internationally renowned and award-winning theatre director.
Sir
Andrew Motion
FRSL ,
Poet Laureate , professor of creative writing
Sean Murphy , professor of cryptology
David Naccache , visiting professor at the information security group
Anthony J. Naldrett , visiting professor of geology
Meredith Oakes , taught play-writing
Ben O'Loughlin , prof. of international relations, co-director, New Political Communication Unit
Sir
Roger Penrose
OM , recipient of the
2020 nobel prize in physics
Dame
Lillian Penson , professor of modern history; first woman vice-chancellor of London University
Kevin Porée record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, lecturer theatre studies
H. F. M. Prescott , Jubilee research fellow on
Thomas Wolsey
Boris Rankov , professor of Roman history
Dan Rebellato , professor of contemporary theatre
Jonathan Riley-Smith
FRHistS , taught in the history department
Adam Roberts , teacher of literature and creative writing
Eric Robertson , professor of modern French literary and visual culture
Francis Robinson
CBE , professor of the history of South Asia
Matt Robshaw , lecturer in cryptology
Francis Rose
MBE botanist
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004), reader in history
William James Russell ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Nigel Saul , professor of medieval history
Andrew Cunningham Scott emeritus prof. of geology, dir science communications 1996–2007
Andrew Sentance , visiting professor, economist
Jo Shapcott , poet and lecturer in creative writing
Pankaj Sharma , Professor of Clinical Neurology
Dame
Barbara Shenfield , social scientist and politician
David Skinner , taught in the music department
Ray Solomonoff , visiting professor at the Computer Research Learning Centre
Oskar Spate , lecturer in geography
Sonya Stephens , former President of
Mount Holyoke College
Anthony Stockwell
FRAS , professor of modern history
Alex Stokes , lecturer in physics
Francis Thompson
CBE , historian
Adam Tickell , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex
Kathleen Tillotson
CBE , academic and literary critic
Samuel Tolansky
FRS
FRAS , professor of physics
Vladimir Vapnik , professor of computer science and statistics
Andrew Wathey
CBE , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northumbria
Michael Walker
OBE , mathematician
Martin West
OM FBA, classical scholar
Nathan Widder , professor of political theory
William Wilson ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Sir
Bernard Williams , philosopher
Michael John Williams , reader in international relations
John Woolrich , composer, taught in the music department
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
CH , sociologist
See also
References
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