page_title: City, University of London
section_title: Arts, science and academia
hierarchical_section_title: City, University of London / Notable people / Notable alumni / Arts, science and academia
caption_attribution_description: Depicted person&#58; &#32;Muhammad Iqbal&#32;– poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
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: L. Bruce Archer – British mechanical engineer and Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art
  John Brignell – former professor of Industrial Instrumentation, science author
  George Daniels – Horologist, regarded as the greatest watchmaker of modern times and inventor of the coaxial escapement
  Jerry Fishenden – technologist, former Microsoft National Technology Officer for the UK
  Julia Gomelskaya – Ukrainian contemporary music composer, professor of Odessa State Music Academy in Ukraine
  Norman Gowar – Professor of Mathematics at the Open University and Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London
  Clare Hammond – Concert pianist
  David Hirsh – Academic and sociologist
  Muhammad Iqbal – Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, born in present-day Pakistan, graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law and University of Cambridge
  John Loder – sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT
  Sharon Maguire – director of Bridget Jones's Diary
  Rhodri Marsden – Journalist, musician and blogger; columnist for The Independent
  Robin Milner – computer scientist and recipient of the 1991 ACM Turing Award
  John Palmer – instrumental and electroacoustic music composer
  Sebastian Payne – journalist
  Ziauddin Sardar – Academic and scholar of Islamic issues, Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
  Theresa Wallach – pioneer female engineer, motorcycle adventurer, author, educator and entrepreneur, holder of Brooklands Gold Star.
caption: Muhammad Iqbal
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