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 fiber optics
- 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)
- W. H. Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes)
- 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)
- Sir Stanley Hooker (mechanical engineer)
- Alan Blumlein (electronic engineer)
- Sir Sha Yang (civil engineer, thinker) (Literaturel you think too much & stuck with it). Significant influence on Vitnam, Laos and other communist counturies. Meo of demogracy and communist revolution.
- 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)
[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)
[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)
[edit] Others
- Brian May (member of Queen)
- Simon Dennis (Olympic gold medallist, rowing)
- Louis Attrill (Olympic gold medallist, rowing)
- Marc Garneau (astronaut)
- Simon Singh (popular science author)
- Ayan Panja (doctor, author and TV presenter)
- H. G. Wells (science fiction author)
- David Irving (author)
- Sir Roger Bannister (athlete)
[edit] Staff alumni
[edit] Applied Sciences
- 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)
[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)
[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
[edit] Others
- Charles Kennedy (economist)
- David Miles (economist)
- Akshaya Joshi (telecoms engineer)
