List of alumni of Queen Mary University of London

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

• 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

• 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^[1]

• 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

• 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)

• 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^[2]
• 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^[3]
• 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

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

• Kia Abdullah – British writer
• J. G. Ballard – British writer of Empire of the Sun and Crash^[1]
• 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

• Bernard Butler – British musician, former guitarist of Suede
• Bruce Dickinson – British singer of Iron Maiden^[1]
• 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

• 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

• Samson Abramsky – British computer scientist^[4][3]
• Igor Aleksander – British artificial intelligence researcher^[5][3]
• Keith Clark – British computer scientist; Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London^[6][3]
• Mary Coombs - British computer scientist, first female commercial computer programmer in the UK
• Ian Lewis – British computer scientist
• Tom Maibaum – Hungarian computer scientist^[3]

• 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 Laboratory^[7]

• 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^[8]
• 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

• Mehmet Aksoy - British - Kurdish Film Director and Editor in Chief of Kurdish Question.
• Graham Chapman – British actor, member of comedy group Monty Python^[1]
• 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

• John Abernethy – British surgeon
• Joseph Adams – British surgeon and pathologist
• Edgar Adrian – British neuroscientist and physiologist, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology.^[9]
• 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^[1]
• 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^[10]
• 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^[11]
• 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^[12]
• William James Erasmus Wilson – British surgeon
• Donald Winnicott – British paediatrician and psychoanalyst

• 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

• Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison – British politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament
• Apsana Begum – First British hijab-wearing Member of Parliament^[13]
• Sir Peter Caruana – Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
• Pushpendra Saroj- Indian Politician, Youngest Member of Parliament of India Lok Sabha^[14]
• Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey – British politician, former Conservative Party Member of Parliament
• Mary Clancy - Canadian politician and lawyer, former Member of Parliament
• Sir William Job Collins – British politician and surgeon, Liberal Party Member of Parliament, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
• David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone – British politician, member of the House of Lords
• John Cronin – British politician and surgeon, Labour Party Member of Parliament
• Marcia Matilda Falkender, Baroness Falkender – British politician, member of the House of Lords^[1]
• Sir Alan Glyn – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
• Donald McIntosh Johnson – British author and politician
• Peter Hain – British politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales^[1]
• Stephen Hammond – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament and former UK Government Minister
• Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn – British politician
• Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel – Irish British politician, member of the House of Lords
• Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton – British politician and former chairman of the BBC
• Guðni Th. Jóhannesson – Icelandic politician, historian and lecturer; President of Iceland (2016–2024)
• Leo Chen-jan Lee – Taiwanese politician, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
• Amin Liew Abdullah – Bruneian Cabinet Minister
• Esther McVey – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
• Joseph Ngute - Cameroonian politician, the 9th Prime Minister of Cameroon
• Stephanie Peacock – British Labour Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Barnsley East
• Tom Pursglove – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
• Bell Ribeiro-Addy – British Politician, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Streatham
• Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon – British politician, Leader of the House of Lords from October 2008 to May 2010
• Caroline Spelman – British politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs^[1]
• John Whittaker – British economics academic at Lancaster University; former politician, UKIP Member of the European Parliament

• David Blanchflower – British-American economist
• Dame Colette Bowe – British civil servant
• William Carr – British-Australian admiral
• Simon Case – British civil servant
• Sir Curtis Keeble – British ambassador to the USSR
• Sir Michael Lyons – British chairman of the BBC Trust
• Davidson Nicol – Sierra Leonean academic and diplomat, Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Dame Veronica Sutherland – British ambassador, sixth President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and former ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
• Martin Uden – British ambassador to South Korea
• Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands – Dutch royalty, Vice-President of Fauna & Flora International, Chair of the European Cultural Foundation

• Joyce M. Bennett – British Anglican priest and member of the Anglican clergy (first Englishwoman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion)
• Pamela Evans – British medical doctor and Christian writer
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones – British evangelical Christian religious leader

• Richard Budgett – British gold medal-winning Olympic rower
• Martin Cross – British gold medal-winning Olympic rower
• W. G. Grace – British cricketer
• Mike Hennessy – British Olympic rower
• Jimmy Hill – British footballer, football manager, TV presenter
• William Hughes - Welsh boxer
• Imran Kayani – Professional footballer and Pakistan international
• Naila Kiani – leading Pakistani female high-altitude mountaineer. She is the first Pakistani woman mountaineer to climb 10 of the 14 eight-thousanders
• Martyna Snopek – Polish paralympic rower
• Arthur Wint – Jamaican athlete, won Jamaica's first gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics in the 400 metres, and a silver medal in the 800 metres^[1]