List of people associated with Royal Holloway, University of London

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
• Lenny Henry (born 1958), Television presenter
• 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
• Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
• Simon Nye (born 1958), English comic television writer
• 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
• George Eliot (1819–1880), British novelist
• 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

• David Bellamy OBE (1933–2019) Botanist, environmentalist, author and broadcaster
• Martin Buck FRS (born 1956) microbiologist
• John B. Cosgrave (born 1946), Irish mathematician
• Jackie Hunter (born 1956) chief executive BBSRC
• Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (1903–1971), crystallographer
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers FRS (1907–1990) biochemist
• Helen Porter FRS (1899–1987) botanist, first female professor of Imperial College London
• Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1871–1966), English geographer, historian of science
• Derek Yalden (1940–2013) English zoologist, reader at the University of Manchester
• Grace Waterhouse (1906–1996), British mycologist

Sport

• Sophie Christiansen CBE (born 1987), gold medal winner, Paralympics equestrian events
• Jessica Eddie (born 1984), British rower, Olympic silver medalist
• Helene Raynsford (born 1979), British paralympic rower and gold medallist
• Andy Sheridan, (born 1979) Rugby Union, Sale Sharks and England
• Joe Saward (born 1961), British Formula One journalist
• Alex Lewington (born 1991) English rugby player
• Theo Brophy-Clews (born 1997) English rugby player

Other

• Kitty Anderson DBE (1903–79) BA PhD Head North London Collegiate School 1945–65
• 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)
• Sarah Parker Remond (1815-c.1894) African-American lecturer, abolitionist and doctor
• Simon Thurley CBE (born 1963), British architectural historian
• 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

• Sofia Abramovich (born 1995), daughter of Roman Abramovich

Notable staff

The following is a list of notable office-holders, academics and other teachers or researchers:

• H. B. Acton, taught political philosophy
• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, Member college council at the merger with Bedford
• Khizar Humayun Ansari OBE, director of the Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies
• Sarah Ansari, professor of history
• Geoffrey Alderman RSA, professor of politics and contemporary history
• Giovanni Aquilecchia, professor of Italian and Italian Renaissance scholar

• 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

• List of Principals of Royal Holloway, University of London