page_title: City, University of London
section_title: Government, politics and society
hierarchical_section_title: City, University of London / Notable people / Notable alumni / Government, politics and society
caption_attribution_description: English: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, as barrister (about age 34)
context_page_description: City, University of London is a public research university in London, United Kingdom and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City University was created by royal charter in 1966. The Inns of Court School of Law, which merged with City in 2001, was established in 1852, making it the University's oldest constituent part. City joined the federal University of London on 1 September 2016, becoming part of the eighteen colleges and ten research institutes that then made up that university.
  City has strong links with the City of London, and the Lord Mayor of London serves as the university's rector. The university has its main campus in Central London in the London Borough of Islington, with additional campuses in Islington, the City, the West End and East End. The annual income of the institution for 2016–17 was £227.0 million, of which £11.6 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £221.4 million.
context_section_description: Muhammad Ali Jinnah – founder of Pakistan, first Governor-General of Pakistan graduated from the Inns of Court school of Law (now part of The City Law School)
  Margaret Thatcher – Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School)
  Clement Attlee – Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951
  H. H. Asquith – Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916
  Tony Blair – Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School)
  Christos Staikouras – Finance Minister of Greece from 2019 to present
  Roderic Bowen – Welsh Liberal Party politician
  Robert Chote – chief of the Office for Budget Responsibility; former director of Institute for Fiscal Studies
  Ali Dizaei – former police commander
  Jody Dunn – Liberal Democrat politician, and a barrister specialising in family law
  Sir James Dutton – Royal Marine general and former deputy commander of the International Security Assistance Force
  Chloë Fox – Australian politician, former Labor MP for the South Australian electoral district of Bright
  Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada – Noted Pakistani lawyer & Politician. Also served as 5th secretary general of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
  Mahatma Gandhi – Leader of the Indian Independence Movement, graduated 1891 from the Inns of Court School of Law (now part of The City Law School)
  James Hart – Commissioner of the City of London Police
  David Heath – Politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Somerton and Frome
  Syed Kamall – Conservative Party politician and Member of the European Parliament for the London European Parliament constituency
  David Lammy – Labour MP for Tottenham
  Liu Mingkang – Chinese Politician and Businessman, current Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, former Vice-Governor of the China Development Bank
  Jawaharlal Nehru – First Prime Minister of the Republic of India
  Houda Nonoo – Bahraini Ambassador to the United States
  Patrick O'Flynn – UK Independence Party MEP
  Stav Shaffir – Youngest member of the Israeli Knesset, leader of the social justice movement
  Aris Spiliotopoulos – Minister of Greek Tourism
  Ivy Williams – First woman to be called to the English bar
caption: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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