List of people associated with University College London

This is a list of people associated with University College London, including notable staff and alumni associated with the institution.

[1] A translation of the Latin text engraved on a metal plate that was buried with the foundation stone reads as follows:[4] To God's favour the greatest and best, eternal architect of the universe may it bring you happiness and good fortune at the beginning of the eighth year of the reign of King George IV of Britain the most highest prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex patron of all the fine arts the oldest order of architecture the highest among the English the foundation stone of the London University between city state [i.e. citizens] and brothers standing around will be placed by his hand to applause.

In the name of these most illustrious men who are present and with the guidance of Henry Duke of Norfolk, Henry Marquis of Lansdown, Lord John Russell, John, Viscount Dudley and Ward, George, Baron Auckland, the Hon.

James Abercrombie and Sir James Macintosh, Alexander Baring, Henry Bougham, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, George Grote, Zachary Macaulay, Benjamin Shaw, William Tooke, Henry Waymouth, George Birkbeck, Thomas Campbell, Olinthus Gregory, Joseph Hume, James Mill, John Smith, Henry Warburton, John Wishaw, Thomas Wilson, and William Wilkins, architect.

Notable alumni include the "Father of the Nation" of each of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria among others.

Harold Davenport
J. B. S. Haldane
David Crystal
William Jevons
Sir Martin Evans shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine after discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells
Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafter is regarded as the founder of endocrinology
Prominent UK businessman Digby Jones served as a government minister under UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Sir Stafford Cripps (left) attempted to negotiate with fellow UCL alumnus Mahatma Gandhi for full Indian support of the British war effort in World War II during his 1942 "Cripps mission"
Hirobumi Itō drafted Imperial Japan's first constitution
Jomo Kenyatta oversaw the creation of Kenya's public institutions after independence from the United Kingdom
Junichiro Koizumi was the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan since 1972
Thérèse Coffey became the first female Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022
Sir Ernest Satow has been described as the first Englishman to become fluent in both written and spoken Japanese
Rabindranath Tagore , the first Asian Nobel Laureate, with Gandhi , both of whom took courses at UCL
Demetrius Vikelas served as the first president of the International Olympic Committee for the first modern Olympic Games in Athens