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Notable Alumni

Lancelot Thomas Hogben • Jonathan Sacks • William Penney, Baron Penney • Alfred Hitchcock • Khushwant Singh • Sarah Mullally • Alexander Fleming • Kemi Badenoch • Simon Rattle • Emily Davison • James Lovelock • Ricky Gervais • Asō Tarō • Tedros Adhanom • Ieuan Wyn Jones • Todd Young • Maria Ramos • Sir Mortimer Wheeler • Bridget Riley • Sir Macfarlane Burnet • Charles Kao • Ronald Coase • Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins • Sir Peter Mansfield • Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan • Andrew V. Schally • Freya Stark • Sir Gilbert Roberts • Ḥasan al-Turābī • Sir Arthur Harden • Penelope Mortimer • Michael Halliday

Related People

Valerie Amos • Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders • Emily Davies • Thomas Campbell

Photos

T.S. Eliot bows as he receives an honorary degree from the Earl of Athlone, both in academic robes, at the University of London Foundation Day Celebration in 1949.

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