# List of alumni of the Royal College of Art

The following is a list of alumni of the Royal College of Art, London, and of its predecessor schools before 1896: the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design, the Normal Training School of Art and the National Art Training School.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* See also

## A

* Kristian Aadnevik, fashion designer
* Faisal Abdu'allah, printmaker
* Gerald Abramovitz
* M. R. Acharekar, painter, art director
* Jane Ackroyd, sculptor
* Norman Ackroyd
* Mark Adams (designer)
* David Adjaye, architect
* Edgar Ainsworth (artist)
* Griselda Allan
* Charlie Allen (designer)
* Kathleen Allen
* W. H. Allen
* Anthea Alley
* Helen Allingham, painter
* Edward Allington
* Victor Ambrus, illustrator
* Hurvin Anderson
* Kay Anderson
* Marie Angel (artist)
* Peggy Angus
* Pascal Anson
* Lorenzo Apicella
* James Ayres, multi-millionaire, artist, Educator: Sexeys boarding school
* Leonard Appelbee, painter
* Billy Apple, artist and designer
* Val Archer, painter
* Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
* Audrey Arnott
* Pamela Ascherson
* Ruth Spencer Aspden
* Katerina Athanasopoulou, film maker and animation artist
* Jeremy Atherton Lin, writer
* Frank Auerbach, painter
* Robert Austin (artist)
* Maxwell Ayrton, architect

## B

* Marjorie May Bacon
* Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe
* Fred Baier
* Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
* Eve Baker
* Alfred Lys Baldry
* Barbara Banister
* Tom Barker (designer)
* Jonathan Barnbrook, typographer and graphic designer
* Brian Barnes (artist)
* Glenys Barton
* Michael Bartlett
* Pauline Baumann
* Lewis Baumer
* Edward Bawden
* Arlon Bayliss, visual artist
* John Beard (artist)
* Cressida Bell, textile designer
* Peter Bellamy
* John Bellany
* Sebastian Bergne, industrial designer
* Christine Berrie, illustrator
* Arthur Berry (playwright)
* Clara Billing, sculptor
* Dora Billington
* Helen Binyon
* Henry Bird, muralist
* Sutapa Biswas
* David Blackburn (artist), landscape artist
* William Kay Blacklock
* Doris Blair
* Peter Blake, painter
* Quentin Blake, cartoonist, author and illustrator
* Douglas Bliss
* Eric Boman, photographer
* Tord Boontje industrial designer
* Allen Boothroyd, industrial designer
* Nicholas Borden, painter
* Deirdre Borlase, painter
* Derek Boshier, painter
* Pauline Boty
* Doris Boulton-Maude
* Denis Bowen
* Moya Bowler
* Frank Bowling, painter
* William Bowyer (artist)
* Alan Boyson, muralist
* Boyd Webb
* John Bratby
* Kathleen Bridle
* John Frederick Brill
* Alison Britton
* Iris Brooke
* Jason Brooks (illustrator)
* Frederick Brown (artist)
* Percy Brown (art historian)
* Ralph Brown (sculptor)
* Sheilagh Brown, fashion designer
* William Kellock Brown, sculptor
* Kathleen Browne (artist)
* John Brunsdon
* Fatma Bucak
* Kenneth Budd
* John Bunting (sculptor)
* Victor Burgin, 1986 Turner Prize nominee
* Edward Burra
* James Butler (artist)

## C

* Charles William Cain, artist
* Joyce W. Cairns
* Ian Callum
* Moray Callum
* Gillian Carnegie, 2005 Turner Prize nominee
* David Carpanini, painter and printmaker
* Henry Carr, painter
* George Bertram Carter
* Michelle Cartlidge, illustrator
* James Castle (sculptor)
* Catherine Dean (artist)
* Patrick Caulfield, 1987 Turner Prize nominee
* Joseph Hermon Cawthra, sculptor
* George Chakravarthi, artist
* Jack Bridger Chalker, painter
* Catherine Chalmers
* Lu Chao
* Charles Chaplin (artist)
* Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2003 Turner Prize nominees
* Malvina Cheek, artist
* Bernard Cheese
* Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
* Gordon Cheung
* Emma Chichester Clark
* Madeleine Child
* Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia, 1990–1997
* John Clappison, ceramic and glass designer
* Ossie Clark, fashion designer
* Bob Carlos Clarke
* Sir George Clausen, painter
* Benjamin Clemens, sculptor
* Clarice Cliff, ceramic designer, modeller and sculptor
* Sue Coe, political artist
* Ernest A. Cole, sculptor and printmaker
* Freda Coleborn
* Cecil Collins
* Elisabeth Collins
* Richard Cook, painter
* Jean Cooke, artist
* May Louise Greville Cooksey, painter
* Eileen Cooper
* Susie Cooper, ceramic designer
* Marcus Cornish
* Lucy Cousins
* Jack Coutu, printmaker and sculptor
* Jenny Cowern
* Raymond Teague Cowern
* Hilda Cowham
* Raymond Coxon, painter
* Gary Coyle, photographer and artist
* Roderick Coyne, sculptor
* Stuart Craig, production designer
* Tony Cragg, 1988 Turner Prize winner
* Andrew Cranston
* Reed Crawford
* Keith Critchlow
* Stella Rebecca Crofts
* Edward Cronshaw
* Neisha Crosland, textile designer
* Victoria Crowe
* Robert Crowther (author), children's book author and paper engineer
* Bill Culbert, painter, sculptor, photographer
* Frederick Cuming (artist)
* Michael Cumming, director, filmmaker
* Charles Cundall, war artist

## D

* Anna Dabis
* Dexter Dalwood
* Jill Daniels
* Leonard Daniels
* Adam Dant, 2002 Jerwood Prize winner
* Frances Darlington
* Leslie Davenport, artist and teacher
* Alki David
* Shezad Dawood
* David Dawson (painter)
* Lucienne Day
* Robin Day (designer)
* Richard Deacon, sculptor, 1987 Turner Prize winner
* Roger Dean (artist)
* Len Deighton, historian and author
* Elise D'Elboux
* Thomas Derrick (artist)
* Mukul Dey, painter, engraver
* Ted Dicks
* Emilia, Lady Dilke, art historian
* Jane Dillon, designer and artist
* Emmy Dinkel-Keet
* Austin Dobson, poet
* Christopher Dresser, designer
* Conrad Dressler, sculptor and potter
* Lilian Dring
* Barry Driscoll
* William Harold Dudley
* Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
* Evelyn Dunbar, artist
* Jacqueline Durran
* Ian Dury, musician, singer
* James Dyson, designer

## E

* Harry Eccleston
* Mildred Eldridge
* Nabil El-Nayal
* Frederick Vincent Ellis
* Tom Ellis (architect)
* David Emanuel (fashion designer)
* Joseph Emberton
* Benoit Pierre Emery, fashion designer
* Tracey Emin, artist, 1999 Turner Prize nominee
* Nora England
* Grace English
* Arthur John Ensor, artist and industrial designer
* Helen Escobedo
* Vincent Evans

## F

* Wilfred Fairclough
* Steve Fairnie
* Sara Fanelli
* Stephen Farthing
* Cathie Felstead, illustrator
* Sir Luke Fildes, painter
* Anthony Finkelstein
* Archie Fisher (painter)
* Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)
* Marion Foale, fashion designer
* Juan Fontanive
* Elizabeth Forbes (artist)
* Michael Foreman (author/illustrator)
* Gordon Forsyth
* John Foxx
* Barnett Freedman
* Henry Charles Innes Fripp, artist, stained glass maker, illustrator
* Elizabeth Fritsch, ceramic artist, potter
* George Fullard
* Ron Fuller (artist)
* Hamish Fulton
* Holly Fulton
* John Furnival (1933–2020), poet
* Anton Furst, production designer

## G

* Jeremy Gardiner
* Margaret Garland
* David Gentleman
* Geoffrey Clarke
* Walter Sykes George, architect
* Bill Gibb
* Evelyn Gibbs, artist
* Jean Gibson, sculptor and teacher
* Jeffrey Gibson
* John Gillard, teacher of advertising and design
* Ernest Gillick
* Mary Gillick, sculptor
* John Gilroy (artist)
* Edna Ginesi
* Gerald Gladstone
* Keith Godwin
* Mick Gold
* Stephen Goldblatt
* Grace Golden, artist
* John Goldschmidt, film director and producer
* João Gonzalez, animator
* Noémie Goudal, photographer
* James Henry Govier, painter, etcher and engraver
* Margaret Green, painter
* Kate Greenaway, illustrator
* Eileen Greenwood, artist and printmaker
* Ernest Greenwood, painter of watercolours
* Helen Frances Gregor
* Eleanor Gribble
* John Griffiths
* Kate Groobey, painter
* Sunil Gupta
* Karen Guthrie
* Richard Guyatt

## H

* Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
* Reginald George Haggar
* Henry Haig
* Lorna Hamilton-Brown
* William Harbutt, sculptor and inventor of Plasticine
* George Hardie (artist)
* Anne Hardy
* Sophie Harley, jewellery designer
* Chris Harrison (photographer)
* Max Hattler, visual artist and animator
* Raymond Hawkey, designer and author
* Thomas Heatherwick, designer and sculptor
* John Hedgecoe, photographer
* Keith Helfet
* Guy Hendrix Dyas, production designer
* Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
* Hubert von Herkomer painter, composer, film maker
* Hilda Hewlett, aviator
* Gert Hildebrand
* Adrian Hill
* Rose Hilton
* Lubaina Himid
* Edith Mary Hinchley
* David Hockney, painter
* Rayner Hoff
* Eileen Hogan, painter
* Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook
* Nigel Holmes
* Sigrid Holmwood
* Gerald Holtom
* Peter Horbury
* Percy Horton
* Kathleen Horsman
* Laurence Housman, playwright
* Hitomi Hosono, ceramicist
* Albert Houthuesen, artist
* Ken Howard (artist)
* Erlund Hudson, artist
* Robert Alwyn Hughes
* Mustafa Hulusi
* Angus Hyland

## I

* Kamala Ibrahim
* Bryan Ingham, etcher, painter and sculptor
* Judy Inglis
* James Irvine (designer)
* Keith Irvine
* Runa Islam

## J

* Alison Jackson
* Charles Sargeant Jagger
* Apu Jan, fashion designer
* Merlin James, artist, critic
* Jannuzzi Smith
* James Jarvis (illustrator)
* Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer
* Travis Jeppesen, writer
* Chantal Joffe, painter
* Jasper Joffe, artist
* Laurel Johannesson, painter, multimedia
* Claude Johnson
* Alfred Garth Jones, illustrator
* Allen Jones, artist
* Barbara Jones (artist)
* Lucy Jones (artist)
* Lily Delissa Joseph
* Betty Jukes, sculptor
* Jagannath Panda painter, sculptor

## K

* Jozef Kabaň, car designer
* Asif Kapadia, film director
* Geeta Kapur
* John Francis Kavanagh Diploma in Sculpture 1928
* Daniel Kearns (designer)
* Patrick Keiller
* Flora Kendrick
* Jonathan Kenworthy, sculptor
* Morris Kestelman
* Idris Khan
* Rajan Khosa
* Ian Kiaer
* Orla Kiely
* Katharine Kimball
* Ada Florence Kinton
* John Kirby, painter
* R. B. Kitaj, artist
* Alan Kitching, typographer
* Linda Kitson
* Afroditi Krassa
* Henry Krokatsis

## L

* Edwin La Dell
* Simon Larbalestier, photographer
* Nora Fry Lavrin
* Geoff Lawson (designer)
* Noel Leaver, painter
* Gilbert Ledward
* Lee Jinjoon, artist
* Lawrence Lee
* Dante Leonelli, artist
* Audrey Levy, designer
* Philippa Lindenthal, designer
* Jessie Lipscomb
* Elizabeth Jane Lloyd
* Mark Lloyd, car designer
* Fiona Lloyd-Davies
* John Hodgson Lobley
* Hew Locke
* Bernard Lodge, graphic designer
* Edwin Lutyens, architect

## M

* Frances Macdonald, painter
* Julien Macdonald
* David Mach, 1988 Turner Prize nominee
* Kirsteen Mackay
* Steve Mackey, musician
* Ian Mackenzie-Kerr
* Steve Mackey
* Thomas MacLaren
* Jane McAdam Freud
* Charles Mahoney
* Kate Malone studio potter
* Peter Jacob Maltz, sculptor
* Melanie Manchot
* Edna Mann
* Mick Manning
* Jeremy Marre, film director
* Walter Marsden
* Robert Burkall Marsh
* Kenneth Martin, sculptor
* Mary Martin
* Mary Martin (artist)
* Penny Martin
* Simon Martin (Mayanist)
* Enid Marx
* Benedict Mason
* Robin Mason
* Arthur Max
* Donald Maxwell, artist and illustrator
* Hannah Maybank
* Enda McCallion
* Gerald McCann (fashion designer)
* Christopher McDonnell
* David McFall
* Gerry McGovern
* Colin McNaughton
* Carol McNicoll
* Chris Meigh-Andrews
* Ellen Meijers
* David Mellor, cutler and industrial designer
* Zoë Mendelson
* Mortimer Menpes, artist
* Kobena Mercer
* Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe
* Percy Metcalfe
* Katharine Meynell
* Hilary Miller
* John W. Mills, sculptor
* Russell Mills, multimedia artist and musician
* Dhruva Mistry
* Crawford Mitchell
* Maggie Mitchell, sculptor
* Ursula Mommens
* Henrietta Montalba, sculptor
* Esther Moore, sculptor
* Henry Moore, sculptor
* Raymond Moore (photographer)
* Erdem Moralioğlu, fashion designer
* Katy Moran
* Harry Morley, artist and illustrator
* Malcolm Morley, 1984 Turner Prize winner
* Jasper Morrison, designer
* Mary Morton, sculptor
* Colin Moss, artist and teacher
* Charles Mozley
* Matthieu Muller, industrial designer
* Sophie Muller
* Charlie Murphy (artist)
* Alison Murray
* William Grant Murray
* Peter Musson, silversmith
* Lawrence Mynott

## N

* Deborah Nadoolman Landis
* Vera Neubauer
* Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
* Simon Nicholson
* Mike Nuttall
* Charlotte Newman

## O

* Una O'Connor, actor
* Chris Ofili, 1998 Turner Prize winner
* Lucille Oille
* Laura Oldfield Ford
* Marilene Oliver, sculptor
* M. C. Oliver, calligrapher
* Vaughan Oliver, designer and graphic designer
* Peter Olley, English printmaker
* Chris Orr, English artist
* Christopher Orr, Scottish artist
* Jay Osgerby, designer
* Thérèse Oulton
* Graham Ovenden
* Roy Oxlade, painter
* Lawson Oyekan

## P

* Tom Palin, painter
* Lilian Parker, sculptor
* Susan Parkinson, ceramic artist
* Eric Parry
* Stephen Partridge
* John Pasche
* Alicia Paz
* Muriel Pemberton
* Graham Percy
* Tony Pettman
* Peter Phillips (artist)
* Cathie Pilkington
* Michael Pinsky
* John Piper (artist)
* Keith Piper (artist)
* Vivian Pitchforth, painter
* Platon (photographer)
* John Platt (artist)
* Michael Please
* Fergus Pollock
* Constance Mary Pott
* Cherry Potter
* Edward Poynter, artist
* Jane Price, painter
* Margaret Priest
* Simon Pummell
* William Pye (sculptor)

## Q

* Brothers Quay, stop-motion animators

## R

* Fiona Raby
* Alma Ramsey
* Tissa Ranasinghe
* Eric Ravilious
* Raymond Ray-Jones
* Ruth Raymond
* Mary Remington
* Alan Reynolds (artist)
* Lis Rhodes
* Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer
* Ceri Richards, painter
* Frances Richards (British artist)
* Sophy Rickett, visual artist
* Alan Rickman, actor
* Arthur Dewhurst Riley
* Bridget Riley, artist
* Michael Rizzello
* John Romer (Egyptologist)
* Frank Roper
* Johnny Rozsa, photographer
* Frank Runacres
* Joseph Rykwert

## S

* Astrid Sampe
* Kenneth Sandford
* Janek Schaefer, composer
* Tony Scherman
* Herbert Gustave Schmalz
* Peter Schreyer
* Ridley Scott, film director
* Tony Scott, film director
* Florian Seidl
* Uday Shankar, choreographer
* George Shaw (artist), Turner Prize nominee 2011
* Elaine Shemilt
* Clare Shenstone
* Marjorie Sherlock
* Simon Shore
* Stefan Sielaff
* Norman Sillman, coin designer
* John William Simpson
* Lilian Simpson
* Peter Sís, artist and illustrator
* Yvonne Skargon, wood engraver and illustrator
* Mary Annie Sloane
* Walter Smith (art educator)
* Arthur Smith (illustrator)
* Graham Smith (milliner)
* Graham Smith (photographer)
* Jack Smith (artist)
* Martin Smith (designer)
* Martin Smith (potter)
* Paul M. Smith (photographer)
* Richard Smith (artist)
* Walter Smith, industrial art educator
* Susan Weber Soros
* Alan Sorrell, archaeological reconstruction artist
* Ruskin Spear
* A. B. S. Sprigge
* Henry Stannard
* Mary Stainbank
* Julian Stair
* Cecil Stephenson, artist
* Peter Stevens (car designer)
* Stuart Stockdale, fashion designer
* Susan Stockwell
* Tim Stoner
* Paul Stopforth
* Mike Stott
* Madeleine Strindberg
* Linda Sutton, painter, RCA 100 mural prize 1972
* Charles Robinson Sykes

## T

* Abdul Rahman Taha
* Kam Tang
* Jeremy Tankard
* Eric Taylor
* Leonard Campbell Taylor
* Alice Temperley
* Suzie Templeton, director of animated films, winner of Academy Award 2008
* Patrick Thomas (graphic artist)
* Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), painter
* Storm Thorgerson, photographer and designer
* Jake Tilson, artist
* Joe Tilson, artist
* Sue Timney
* Carl Toms
* Martin Travers, designer, stained glass artist
* Philip Treacy
* David Tremlett, artist, Turner Prize nominee 1992
* Newbury Abbot Trent
* Helen Mabel Trevor
* Ernest William Tristram
* John Tunnard, artist
* Charles Tunnicliffe, painter
* Gavin Turk, artist
* Richard Turner (artist)
* Sidney Tushingham, painter and etcher
* Alice Twemlow
* Mary Fraser Tytler

## U

* Michael Upton

## V

* Marjan van Aubel
* Dirk van Braeckel
* Katrina van Gruow
* Paul Vanstone
* Markus Vater
* Eugenia Vronskaya

## W

* Paul Wager, painter and sculptor
* Janice Wainwright (fashion designer)
* Ray Walker, mural artist, 1945–1984
* Melanie Walsh, children's book illustrator
* Suling Wang, artist
* Albert Watson (photographer)
* Robert Welch (designer)
* Richard Wentworth, sculptor
* David Wheatley (director)
* Fred Whisstock, illustrator
* Valerie Wiffen, painter
* David Wightman (painter)
* Alison Wilding, 1992 Turner Prize nominee
* Christopher Williams (Welsh artist), 1873–1934
* Garth Williams
* Eli Marsden Wilson
* John David Wilson
* Joash Woodrow, painter
* Alice B. Woodward
* Ernest Worrall
* Sönke Wortmann
* Jon Wozencroft, graphic designer
* Run Wrake, animator
* Andrea Wulf
* Jan Wurm, painter
* Rose Wylie, painter
* Cerith Wyn Evans
* Althea Wynne, sculptor

## Y

* Carey Young, artist
* Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi

## Z

* Astrid Zydower