# 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
* Daniel Lawrence Taylor (born 198?), British actor and comedy writer
* 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

* Waleed A. Alrodhan (born 1981), Saudi author and researcher
* 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