• Source: List of people associated with Birkbeck, University of London

This article is a list of people associated with Birkbeck, University of London, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows.




Current and former faculty


Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek Minister of Economy and Finance from March 2004 till January 2009.
Anthony Bale, medievalist
Julia Bell, author
J. D. Bernal, pioneer of X-ray crystallography
Derek Barton, organic chemist and Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, 1969
Antony Beevor, historian
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, professor and Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1948
Sir Tom Blundell, crystallographer, FRS
David Bohm, quantum physicist
Andrew Donald Booth, head of Numerical Automation
Kathleen Booth née Britten, computer scientist
C. Delisle Burns (1879-1942), atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
Ian Christie, professor of film and media history
Steven Connor, professor
Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology
Diana Coole, social scientist
Costas Douzinas, law professor
T. S. Eliot, Nobel Laureate for Literature 1948, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
Hilda Ellis Davidson, academic and English antiquarian
Martina Evans, poet
Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge
Martin Paul Eve, professor
Dame Millicent Fawcett, suffragist
Orlando Figes, professor of history
Ben Fine, professor
Rosalind Franklin, crystallographer
Hugh Gaitskell, lecturer
Caroline Goodson, medievalist
A. C. Grayling, philosopher
Vittorio Grilli, Italy's economy and finances minister (Monti cabinet) from 2012 to 2013.
Richard Hamblyn, lecturer in creative writing
Vanessa Harding, professor of London history
Basil Hiley, quantum physicist and emeritus professor
Paul Hirst, professor
Eric Hobsbawm, professor of History
Thomas Hodgskin, lecturer in economic theory
Kenneth Holmes, crystallographer
Elizabeth Hounsell, carbohydrate scientist
C. E. M. Joad, Reader in Philosophy, author and popular broadcaster
Mark Johnson, professor
Charlotte Jolles, Professor, historian
Russell Celyn Jones, professor of creative writing
Annette Karmiloff-Smith, professor
Anthony Julius, visiting professor
Aaron Klug, crystallographer and Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, 1982
Jon Lansman, Labour Party activist
Gail Lewis, academic and activist
Toby Litt, author, lecturer
Joni Lovenduski, political scientist
Mark Mazower, professor
Louis Mordell, researcher in mathematics
Laura Mulvey, professor of film and media studies
Jeremy K. Nicholson, professor of biological chemistry
Roger Penrose, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate for Physics, 2020
Nikolaus Pevsner, professor
Ben Pimlott, professor
Lucy Riall, historian
Helen Saibil, molecular biologist, FRS, FMedSci
Roger Scruton, professor
Lynne Segal, professor
Colin Teevan, professor of playwriting
Dame Janet Thornton, structural bioinformatics, FRS, Director EBI
Li Wei, academic, linguist
Ralph Vaughan Williams, lecturer, composer
Kalpana Wilson, author, researcher, lecturer
Tony Wright, politician, distinguished professor at Birkbeck
Slavoj Žižek, philosopher




Presidents


The following have served as President of Birkbeck:

1823–1841: George Birkbeck FRS (founder of Birkbeck)
1841–1888: William Lloyd Birkbeck
1888–1897: The Rt Hon The Earl of Northbrook, GCSI
1903–1915: The Rt Hon Lord Alverstone, GCMG
1919–1928: The Rt Hon Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, FRS
1929–1933: The Rt Hon Viscount Burnham, GCMG, CH, LLD, DLitt
1935–1936: His Royal Highness The Duke of York (later King George VI)
1942–1944: The Most Rev and Rt Hon William Temple, PC (Archbishop of Canterbury)
1947–1950: Field-Marshal The Rt Hon Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, LLD
1952–1983: The Rt Hon Lord Denning, LLD, DCL, FBA
1983–1989: The Rt Hon Baroness Lockwood
1989–1993: The Rt Hon Lord Young of Dartington, HonFBA
1993–1998: The Rt Hon Lord Healey, CH, MBE
1998-2002: The Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill
2002-2012: Professor Eric Hobsbawm
2012-present: The Rt Hon Baroness Bakewell




Masters and Vice Chancellors


John Redcliffe Maud (1939–1943)
E.H. Warmington (acting, 1950–1951)
John Francis Lockwood (1951–1965; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1955–1958)
E.H. Warmington (acting, 1965–1966)
Kenneth Hare (1966–1968)
Ronald Tress (1968–1977)
Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone (1987–1997; Vice-Chancellor of University of Greenwich)
Timothy O'Shea (1998–2002; Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
David Latchman (2003–2023)
Sally Wheeler (since 2024)




Alumni


Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, politician, editor, Minister and former Adviser to the President of Bangladesh
Chris Abani, writer
Kemi Badenoch, politician and Member of Parliament, candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Marian Bell, economist; former member of the Monetary Policy Committee
Luciana Berger, politician and Member of Parliament
Annie Besant, theosophist
Simon Bird, actor and comedian
Oliver Chris, actor
Alex Corbisiero, England and British Lions rugby player
Beth Cordingly, actress
David Cox, statistician
Bernard Crick, political theorist
Juliet Davenport, businesswoman
Alan Davey, civil servant; current Chief executive of British Arts Council
Edward Davey, politician and Member of Parliament
Dido, singer
Jennifer Donnelly, writer
Samir El-Youssef, writer
Tracey Emin, artist
Nissim Ezekiel, professor, poet
Rachel Glennerster, economist, Chief Economist at the Department for International Development
Tomás González Estrada, Colombian politician, former minister of energy
Marcus Garvey, founder Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Eliane Glaser, writer, broadcaster
Julia Goldsworthy, politician; former Liberal Democrat MP for Falmouth and Camborne
Bear Grylls, adventurer, author and television presenter
John Joseph Haldane, philosopher
Frank Hartley, vice-chancellor of the university
Zhu Hua, applied linguist
Vernon Ingram, Fellow of the Royal Society
Paul Johnson, economist, Director of Institute of Fiscal Studies
William Joyce, deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists, Nazi wartime broadcaster and convicted traitor
Oliver Kamm, journalist
James Lovelock, developer of the Gaia Hypothesis
Ramsay MacDonald, politician; first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John McDonnell, politician
Denis MacShane, politician
Leonard Mandel, nuclear physicist
Ehsan Masood, science writer and editor of Research Fortnight
Ram Charan Mehrotra, organometallic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Ernest Millington, politician
Seumas Milne, journalist and political aide
Lisa Nandy, politician and Member of Parliament
Jesse Norman, politician and Member of Parliament
Nerina Pallot, singer
Nick Palmer, politician and former Member of Parliament
Arthur Wing Pinero, actor, stage director and dramatist
Daisy Ridley, actress
J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
John Rowan (psychologist), psychologist
Jenny Rowe, Chief Executive, UK Supreme Court
Richard Sambrook, broadcaster, formerly director of the BBC World
Frank Sando, former International Cross-Country Champion
Andy Saull, rugby player
Helen Sharman, chemist and cosmonaut
Joost Smiers, academic
Nick Smith, politician
Vaughan Smith, soldier, journalist, cameraman, and social entrepreneur
Laura Solomon, writer
Nicola Spence, Chief Plant Health Officer, Defra
William Stanley, inventor, engineer and philanthropist
Kim Thomson, stage, film and television actress
Mark P. Taylor, economist, Dean of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Laurie Taylor, sociologist
Tracey Thorn, pop star, singer with Everything but the Girl
Ronald Tress, economist
Kitty Ussher, British economist and former Labour Party politician
Alfred Russel Wallace, naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection
Rob Williams, rower, silver medallist in the 2012 Olympics
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, founder of the London School of Economics
Jah Wobble, musician/writer
Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Burmese Muslim political activist
Sidin Vadukut, columnist, writer and blogger
Claudia Webbe, Labour MP
Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings , deaf British-Sudanese textile artist based in Brighton




Fellows


Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Kingston and Surbiton
Frank Dobson, Labour politician
Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist
Sir Richard J. Evans, historian
Dame Julia Goodfellow, former Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Sir Peter Lampl, educationalist and philanthropist, founder of the Sutton Trust
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson




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