List of Imperial College London people

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Sciences and engineering

Thomas Henry Huxley

Asad Abidi (electrical engineer) - former dean of Lahore University of Management Sciences, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Igor Aleksander (engineering)
Sir Roy Anderson (epidemiology - mathematically modelled the spread of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and AIDS.)
Nicolas Ambraseys (civil engineer) - Founder of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College London
Dame Mary Archer (British scientist specialising in solar power conversion)
John Argyris (civil and aeronautical engineer, one of the founders of the Finite Element Method)
Baron Ashby (botanist)
Eric Ash (engineer)
Ayodele Awojobi (first African awarded the D.Sc degree in mechanical engineering; main field: vibration)
David Balding (mathematical statistician)
Cecil Balmond (civil engineer)
Sir Henry De la Beche, founder of the British Geological Survey
Baron Richard Beeching (engineer)
Anne Beloff-Chain (professor of biochemistry)
William Thomas Blanford (geologist)
Kenneth Binmore (economist)
Moses Blackman (crystallographer)
Alan Blumlein (electronic engineer)
Sir Charles Vernon Boys (scientist)
Donal Bradley (researcher in plastic electronics)
Tony Brooker (mathematician and computer scientist)
Keith Browning (atmospheric scientist)
John Burland (civil engineer) - the person who stabilised the Tower of Pisa
Kevin Buzzard (mathematician, number theory)
Nessa Carey, virologist and author
Colin Cherry (cognitive scientist - expert in cocktail party problem)
Keith Clark (computer scientist)
Piers Corbyn (meteorologist)
Wilfred Corrigan (American engineer and entrepreneur, founder of LSI Logic Corp.)
Donald Watts Davies (computer scientist)
George Mercer Dawson (surveyor)
William Reginald Dean (applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist)
Herbert Dingle (English astronomer, best known for his claimed disproof of the theory of special relativity)
Patrick Dixon (futurist, physician)
Simon Donaldson (Fields Medallist)
Keith Duckworth (mechanical engineer)
Abbas Edalat (computer scientist)
James H. Ellis (engineer, conceived public-key cryptography)
Sir Harold Ellis (surgeon)
Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (geologist, first president of Indian National Science Academy)
Amanda Fisher (biologist)
Sir Hugh Ford (engineer)
Alfred Fowler (astronomer)
Marc Garneau (first Canadian in space, Chancellor of Carleton University, Liberal Member of Parliament)
Erol Gelenbe (computer scientist - G-networks and the random neural network)
Stephen Glaister (civil engineering)
Peter Gregson (research engineer, Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast)
Nicholas Harrison (Professor of Computational Materials Science)
Michael Hassell (population ecology)
Dame Julia Higgins (engineer)
Sir Thomas Henry Holland (geologist)
Arthur Holmes (geologist)
Sir Stanley Hooker (mechanical engineer)
Sir Brian Hoskins (dynamical meteorologist)
T. H. Huxley (biologist and author)
Frank Irving (aeronautical engineer)
C.L.V. Jayathilake (engineer)
Viktor Jensen (engineer)
Alexander King
Eric Laithwaite (engineer)
Frederick William Lanchester (aeronautic engineer)
David Latchman (geneticist)
Sir James Lighthill (mathematician)
Meir Manny Lehman (software engineering)
Armand Marie Leroi (biologist)
Tshilidzi Marwala (engineer)
Sir Basil John Mason (meteorologist)
Johnjoe McFadden (molecular geneticist and writer)
John Nelder (statistician)
William Henry Perkin, Jr. (son of Sir William Henry Perkin, studied at the Royal College of Science)
Helen Porter (botanist)
Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
David E. Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion, Chairman of Symbian)
John G. Ramsay (structural geologist)
Alec Reeves (engineer, invented pulse code modulation)
Peter Rice (civil engineer)
Sylvia Richardson (statistician)
Klaus Roth (Fields medallist)
Roger W.H. Sargent (chemical engineer)
Alec Skempton (founding father of soil mechanics)
Adrian Smith (mathematician)
Brian Spalding (computational fluid dynamics)
Michael Stumpf (systems biologist)
Nicholas Tombazis (Mclaren F1 and Scuderia Ferrari chief aerodynamicist)
Elsayed Elsayed Wagih (Egyptian virologist and biotechnologist)
Kevin Warwick (engineer)
Alfred North Whitehead (mathematician)
Shao Xianghua (metallurgical engineer)
Frank Yates (statistician)
Olgierd Zienkiewicz (civil engineer - Finite Element Method)

Chemistry

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Geoffrey Wilkinson, Nobel laureate chemist

John Albery (chemist)
Henry Edward Armstrong (chemist)
Richard Barrer (chemistry - developer of zeolites)
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
Sir William Crookes (chemist and physicist)
Sir Alan Fersht
George Finch
Sir Edward Frankland (chemist)
William Fyfe (geochemist)
Malcolm Green
Sir Walter Haworth (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann (chemist)
Sir Patrick Linstead (discoverer of phthalocyanine dyes)
Michael Mingos (inorganic chemist)
Sir William Henry Perkin (discoverer of aniline dyes, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry)
George Porter (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
Juda Hirsch Quastel (chemist)
Ernst Boris Chain (biochemist)
Henry Rzepa (computational organic chemist)
Jeremy Sanders (chemist)
Sir Richard Sykes (biochemist, Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline)
Sir Henry Tizard (Chemist and inventor)
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel laureate, chemistry)

Medicine

Sir Alexander Fleming

David Livingstone

Sir Ernst Chain (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Dame Sally Davis (Chief Medical Officer)
Lord Ara Darzi (Baron Darzi of Denham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Leading Surgeon)
Carl Djerassi (chemist; first oral contraceptive pill progestin norethindrone)
Sir Joseph Fayrer (physician noted for his writings on medicine in India)
Marc Feldmann (expert on rheumatology)
Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Sir Malcolm Green (inorganic chemist)
John Henry (toxicologist) (clinical toxicologist who did crucial work on poisoning and drug overdose)
Sir Frederick Hopkins (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Dame Rosalind Hurley (medical microbiologist, researcher, and ethicist)
Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Sir Bruce Keogh (medical director of the National Health Service)
David Livingstone (congregationalist pioneer medical missionary in South Africa–Charing Cross Hospital)
Christine Moffatt (nurse in leg ulcer care)
Norman Morris (Obstetrician and healthcare reformer)
Albert Neuberger (chemical pathologist)
William Kitchen Parker (physician and zoologist)
Julia Polak (tissue engineer)
Sir Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Ann Redgrave (orthopaedic surgery)
Bernard Spilsbury (pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern forensic medicine)
Joseph Toynbee (otologist)
Augustus Desiré Waller (the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG))
Baron Robert Winston (fertility expert, politician, scientist and television presenter)
Almroth Wright (advanced vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines)
Sir Magdi Yacoub (expert on live lobe lung transplant)

Physics

Patrick Blackett, Nobel laureate in physics

Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics

Lord Penney

Per Bak (theoretical physicist, self-organized criticality)
Anthony R. Barringer (geophysicist and inventor)
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (Nobel laureate, physics)
David Blow (biophysicist)
Andrew Crumey (physicist)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (physicist)
Fay Dowker (physicist)
Michael Duff (string theorist)
Dennis Gabor (Nobel laureate, physics)
James R. Graham (astrophysicist)
Joanna Haigh, professor of atmospheric physics
David Hand (physicist)
Christopher Isham (physicist)
Narinder Singh Kapany (physicist - optical fibres)
Nicholas Kemmer (physicist)
Tom W. B. Kibble (physicist)
Julia King (Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics)
Peter Knight (physicist, Quantum Optics)
Leonard Mandel (physicist, founder of quantum optics)
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (physicist, member of the House of Lords)
Kirpal Nandra (astrophysist)
Jenny Nelson (Professor of Physics)
John Pendry (physicist)
William George Penney (physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project)
Nicholas J. Phillips (physicist)
Michael Rowan-Robinson (astronomer)
Abdus Salam (Nobel laureate, physics)
R. A. Stradling (physicist)
Ray Streater (physicist)
Sir G. P. Thomson (Nobel laureate, physics)
Sir Gilbert Walker (physicist)

Politics

Rajiv Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of India

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Julius Vogel, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Adam Afriyie (MP For Windsor)
Sir James Allen (Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand)
Thomas Anthony Brake (British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Carshalton and Wallington)
Matthew Carrington (former Conservative Member of Parliament for Fulham, 1987–1997
Frederic Creswell (mining engineer and Minister of Defense in South Africa)
Edmund Daukoru (Minister of Energy for Nigeria and former OPEC President (2006))
Rajiv Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India)
Adam Holloway (journalist and politician)
Branislav Ivkovic (politician)
Abubakarr Jalloh (Minister for Natural Resources, Sierra Leone)
Sir Adrian Johns (former Governor of Gibraltar and former Second Sea Lord)
Chris Kelly (MP for Dudley South)
Phillip Lee (MP For Bracknell)
Rilwan Lukman (Petroleum Resources Minister of Nigeria and former Secretary General OPEC)
Ken Michael (Governor of Western Australia)
Chi Onwurah (MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Trevor Phillips (journalist and politician)
Guy Saint-Pierre (politician)
Joan Ruddock (politician)
Sydney Russell-Wells (British MP)
Richard Thomas Taylor (Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest)
Teo Chee Hean (Defense Minister of Singapore and former Chief of Navy)
Desmond Stanley Turner (British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Kemptown)
Sir Julius Vogel (former Prime Minister of New Zealand)