The following is a list of alumni of Queen Mary University of London.

Notable alumni

Academics Sir Gilbert Barling – British surgeon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham Florence Mahoney – Gambian educator, academic, first woman to obtain a PhD from Gambia Sir William Turner – British anatomist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, 1903-1916

Historians and philosophers Malcolm Bowie – British academic and literary critic Brycchan Carey – British historian and literary critic Eric Ives – British historian and an expert on the Tudor period Alasdair MacIntyre – British philosopher Marjorie Reeves – British historian Sir Roy Strong – British historian

Mathematicians and scientists Timothy Ball – Canadian physical geographer and climatologist Bill Ballantine – British-born New Zealand marine biologist Frederick Blackman – British botanist and plant physiologist John Frederick Dewey – British geologist David Drewry – British glaciologist and geophysicist (Geography, 1969) Felix Eugen Fritsch – British biologist William Elford Leach – British zoologist and marine biologist Esther Odekunle - British neurobiologist and antibody engineer Eleanor Mary Reid – British paleobotanist George Rolleston – British medical doctor, zoologist and evolutionary biologist Francis Rose – British botanist, conservationist, nature writer G. Spencer-Brown – British mathematician

Chemists Sir Jack Drummond – Biochemist and nutritionist John S. Fossey– British chemist and professor at the University of Birmingham John S. Fossey- British chemist Sir Edward Frankland – British chemist C. Robin Ganellin– British chemist (Chemistry, 1958) Julius Grant – Forensic scientist and intelligence officer who exposed forgeries through chemical analysis Walter Thomas James Morgan – British biochemist Rowland Pettit – Australian-born American chemist Hulda Swai - Tanzanian researcher and professor in life sciences and bioengineering (PhD in biomaterials in 2000) Sir John Meurig Thomas – British physical chemist Frank Gibbs Torto – Ghanaian chemist Sir Robert Watson – British chemist (PhD in atmospheric chemistry in 1973)

Physicists Alexander Bradshaw – British physicist Sir Philip Campbell – British physicist, editor-in-chief of the science journal Nature (MSc Astrophysics, 1974) Michael Duff – British physicist at Imperial College London (Physics, 1969) Geraint F. Lewis – British astrophysicist, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney Sir Peter Mansfield – British Nobel Prize–winning physicist Helen Mason – British physicist George C. McVittie – British cosmologist Brendan Scaife – Irish engineer and physicist David Southwood – British space scientist, Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London Angela Speck - Astrophysicist and Professor at the University of Missouri Geoffrey Ernest Stedman – New Zealand physicist Charles Taylor – British physicist, lecturer and author Sir Tejinder Virdee – British physicist Rosemary Wyse – British astrophysicist

Artists Ashley Banjo – British choreographer John Leech – British caricaturist Siddharth Mallya – Indian actor and model Simon C. Page – British graphic designer

Writers Kia Abdullah – British writer J. G. Ballard – British writer of Empire of the Sun and Crash Alia Bano – British playwright Stephen Barber – British writer Sir Malcolm Bradbury – British writer Robert Bridges – British poet and holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913 Marcus Chown – British science writer, journalist and broadcaster, cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine Allan Cubitt - British playwright, screenwriter and director Richard Gordon – British screenwriter and writer Lee Harwood – British poet Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – British writer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Clive Leo McNeir - British linguist, lexicographer and author of crime novels Derek Marlowe - British playwright and screenwriter (did not graduate) Sara Torres - Spanish poet and novelist Eleanor Updale – British award-winning author Sarah Waters – British author of Tipping The Velvet Guy Walters – British author, historian and journalist

Musicians

Bernard Butler – British musician, former guitarist of Suede Bruce Dickinson – British singer of Iron Maiden Pete Doherty – British musician, writer, actor, poet and artist Fleur East – British singer and The X Factor contestant Jay Sean – British singer Shakka – British singer Valanto Trifonos – Greek–Cypriot singer; winner of Greek Idol season 1

Businesspeople Sir Richard Broadbent – British businessman Sir Frank Chapman – British CEO of BG Group Piers Corbyn – British scientist, businessman Sam Houser - co-creator of Grand Theft Auto, owner of Rockstar Games Christopher Rawson Penfold – British businessman, founder of Penfolds, an Australian wine producer David Sullivan – British businessman, newspaper publisher, and football chairmen and investor

Technologists Samson Abramsky – British computer scientist Igor Aleksander – British artificial intelligence researcher Keith Clark – British computer scientist; Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London Mary Coombs - British computer scientist, first female commercial computer programmer in the UK Ian Lewis – British computer scientist Tom Maibaum – Hungarian computer scientist

Engineers Kurt Berger – Finnish aviation engineer William Glanville – civil engineer George Hockham – British engineer; together with Nobel Prize winner Charles Kao, widely recognised a pioneer in the field of optical fibres (PhD Electronic Engineering, 1969) Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu - Ghanaian robotics engineer at NASA and chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNASA.gov

Lawyers and judges Dame Laura Cox – British lawyer, English High Court judge Sir William Davis – British lawyer, English High Court judge Roy Goode – British lawyer and author Tracey McDermott - past chief executive of Britain's Financial Conduct Authority and financial service executive Basil Markesinis – British lawyer Barbara Mensah - British judge Jeremy Phillips – British lawyer Sir Christopher Pitchford – British lawyer, Lord Justice of Appeal Anand Ramlogan – Trinidad and Tobago lawyer, Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago K. Sripavan – Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, the 44th and current Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Roger Tan Kor Mee – Malaysian lawyer

Actors, broadcasters and journalists Mehmet Aksoy - British - Kurdish Film Director and Editor in Chief of Kurdish Question. Graham Chapman – British actor, member of comedy group Monty Python Katia Elizarova – Russian model and actress Romola Garai – British actress Julie Gardner – British television producer responsible for Doctor Who Sean Gilder – British actor Sarah Harrison, British journalist Ching He Huang – British television chef Jane Hill – British newsreader, BBC News Tom Machell - British Actor and Writer Kasia Madera - British newsreader, BBC News Bill O'Reilly – American television host, author, historian, syndicated columnist and political commentator Claire Price – British actress Roger Tilling – British broadcaster and voice of University Challenge Prannoy Roy – Indian journalist Kate Williams – British broadcaster and historian Peter Wingfield – British actor

Doctors, psychiatrists and surgeons

John Abernethy – British surgeon Joseph Adams – British surgeon and pathologist Edgar Adrian – British neuroscientist and physiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology. Sir Christopher Andrewes – British virologist George Augustus Auden – British Professor of public health John Badley – British surgeon Edward Bancroft – British physician and double agent in the American Revolution Gopal Baratham – Singaporean author and neurosurgeon Frederick Batten – British neurologist and pediatrician Thomas Barnardo – Irish philanthropist Hannah Billig – British medical doctor Sir William Blizard – British surgeon, co-founded England's first clinical medical school, The London Hospital Medical College George Bodington – British pulmonary specialist Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle – British anaesthetist Alfred James Broomhall – British medical missionary George Busk – British surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist Tim Crow – British psychiatrist Thomas Blizard Curling – British surgeon Sir Henry Hallett Dale – British pharmacologist and physiologist, shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine John Langdon Down – British physician; first to describe Down syndrome, a genetic disorder named after him Colonel Sir Weary Dunlop – Australian surgeon John Freke – British ophthalmic surgeon Sir Archibald Garrod – British physician, first to appreciate the importance of biochemistry in medicine Major Greenwood – British epidemiologist and statistician Gordon Hamilton-Fairley – British oncologist William Harvey – British physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology, first person to describe circulation James Hinton – British surgeon and author Ebbe Hoff – American medical doctor and academic Allan Victor Hoffbrand – British medical doctor and academic John Hunter – British surgeon and anatomist; Hunterian Society is named in his honour Sir Jonathan Hutchinson – British surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist John Hughlings Jackson – British neurologist William Lawrence – British surgeon, a founder of British ophthalmology Andrew Lees – British neurologist William John Little – British orthopedic surgeon, pioneer of orthopaedic surgery Morell Mackenzie – British physician, pioneer of laryngology William Marsden – British surgeon, founder of The Royal Free and Marsden Hospitals Sir James Paget – British surgeon and founder of scientific medical pathology Stephen Paget – British surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget, proposed the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis Jonathan Pereira – British pharmacologist Percivall Pott – British surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen W. H. R. Rivers – British psychiatrist, psychiatric anthropologist Sir Ronald Ross – British medical doctor, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria Elizabeth Press – British immunologist Sir Peter Ratcliffe – British molecular biologist William Scovell Savory – British surgeon Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet – British surgeon Daniel Hack Tuke – British expert on mental illness Sir James Underwood – British pathologist Karen Vousden – British medical researcher Hugh Watkins – British cardiologist'WATKINS, Prof. Hugh Christian', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012) William James Erasmus Wilson – British surgeon Donald Winnicott – British paediatrician and psychoanalyst

Medical missionaries

Albert Ruskin Cook – British medical missionary Sir Wilfred Grenfell – British medical missionary John Preston Maxwell – British medical missionary Robert Morrison – British medical missionary Frederick Howard Taylor – British medical missionary Herbert Hudson Taylor – British medical missionary Hudson Taylor – British medical missionary

Politicians, civil servants and Parliamentarians

Politicians Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison – British politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament Apsana Begum – First British hijab-wearing Member of Parliament Sir Peter Caruana – Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister of Gibraltar Pushpendra Saroj- Indian Politician, Youngest Member of Parliament of India Lok Sabha Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey – British politician, former Conservative Party Member of Parliament Mary Clancy - Canadian politician and lawyer, former Member of Parliament