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List of people associated with the London School of Economics

This list of people associated with the London School of Economics includes notable alumni, non-graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 34 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates.

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Current members of the House of Commons

  • Richard Bacon, British MP
  • Karen Buck, British MP
  • Greg Clark, British MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
  • Yvette Cooper, Cabinet Minister
  • Mary Creagh, British MP
  • Stella Creasy, British MP
  • Margaret Hodge, Minister
  • Margot James, British MP
  • Ranil Jayawardena, British MP
  • Ed Miliband, former leader of the Labour Party
  • Maria Miller, British MP, Cabinet Minister
  • Bob Neill, British MP
  • Christopher Pincher, British MP
  • Stephen Pound, British MP
  • Rachel Reeves, British MP
  • David Rutley, British MP
  • Andrew Selous, British MP
  • Virendra Sharma, British MP
  • Barry Sheerman, British MP
  • David Winnick, British MP

    • Current members of the House of Lords

  • Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, media mogul, openly gay Muslim businessman
  • Ros Altmann, Baroness Altmann, Minister of State for Pensions
  • Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, former Cabinet Minister
  • Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, development economist
  • Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine
  • Anthony Giddens, sociologist
  • David Gold, Baron Gold
  • Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, Deputy High Court Judge
  • Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Cabinet Minister
  • Frank Judd, Baron Judd, Minister
  • Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England
  • Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
  • Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore, peer, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Political Strategy
  • Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
  • John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, Cabinet Minister
  • Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist
  • Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin, Labour Party politician
  • Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings, British MEP, former Chairman of the Council of King's College London
  • Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
  • Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, Junior Minister
  • Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, businessman, academic, chair of the UK Financial Services Authority
  • William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, Professor of International Relations; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords

    • Former members of parliament

  • Leo Abse, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality
  • Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, Head of the Home Civil Service
  • Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, Solicitor General for England and Wales
  • Charlotte Atkins, Minister
  • Jackie Ballard, British MP, journalist, Director General of the RSPCA
  • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, former MP and British Peer
  • Sir Rhodes Boyson, British MP
  • Annette Brooke, British MP
  • Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister, Vice-President of the European Commission
  • Tim Collins, British MP
  • Maureen Colquhoun, Britain's first openly lesbian MP
  • Jim Cousins, British MP
  • Jo Cox, British MP
  • Edwina Currie, former British Conservative MP, author, radio presenter
  • Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Andrew Dismore, British MP
  • Dick Douglas, British MP
  • Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, British Member of Parliament, Minister of the Navy, and President of the NATO Assembly
  • Frank Dobson, MP, Cabinet Minister
  • Helen Eadie, MSP
  • Matthew Elliott, CEO of Vote Leave
  • Barbara Follett, British MP
  • Steve Gilbert, British MP
  • Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, political advisor
  • Tom Greatrex, British MP
  • Miranda Grell, Labour Councillor and first person found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983
  • Judith Hart, Baroness Hart, Cabinet Minister
  • Mark Hoban, British MP
  • Jane Hutt, Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government
  • Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford, British MP
  • Brian Jenkins, British MP
  • Aubrey Jones, Minister; chairman of the National Board for Prices and Incomes
  • Syed Kamall, British MEP
  • Ruth Kelly, Cabinet Minister
  • Arthur Latham, British MP
  • Sir Michael Lickiss, Chairman South West of England Regional Development Agency; Chairman VisitBritain
  • Rachel Lomax, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, Department for Work and Pensions, and the Welsh Office
  • Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, British Labour politician; former Secretary of State for Defence; former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  • Dame Mavis McDonald, Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office
  • Michael Meacher, Minister
  • John Mendelson, British MP
  • Merlyn Rees, former Home Secretary
  • Andrew Miller, British MP
  • Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon, British politician
  • Eric Ollerenshaw, British MP
  • Marion Phillips, British MP
  • Sir Ray Powell, British MP
  • Reginald Prentice, Baron Prentice, Cabinet Minister
  • Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords
  • Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, Junior Minister, first Local Government Ombudsman
  • Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, Cabinet Minister
  • Sir Richard Shepherd, British MP
  • Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
  • John Stonehouse, former Minister
  • Jo Swinson, British MP, Junior Minister
  • Ian Taylor, British MP
  • Adam Tomkins, Member of the Scottish Parliament
  • Rudi Vis, British MP
  • Malcolm Wicks, Minister
  • Jenny Willott, British MP, Junior Minister
  • Anthony Wright, Former British MP
  • Michael Young, Baron Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto

    • Civil servants

  • Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Sir Kenneth Berrill, chief economic adviser to the Treasury; Head of the Central Policy Review Staff
  • John Bourn, former Comptroller and Auditor General
  • Sir John Burgh, Director-General of the British Council
  • Munir Butt, High Commissioner to Pakistan
  • Sir Sydney Caine, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, Director of the LSE
  • Paul Corrigan, Director of Strategy and Commissioning of the NHS London Strategic Health Authority
  • Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
  • Claus Moser, Baron Moser, Director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom
  • Dame Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health
  • Vicky Pryce former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service
  • Sir David Ramsden, MSc Economics 1990, Chief Economic Adviser to HM Treasury
  • Tom Scholar, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury
  • Sir John Sparrow, Director-general Central Policy Review Staff; Chairman Horserace Betting Levy Board
  • Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England

    • United States

  • Arash Aramesh, Lawyer, Political and National Security Analyst
  • Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan Administration; Senior Director of the National Security Council in Bush Administration
  • Donald Baer, White House Director of Communications and Strategic Planning in Clinton Administration
  • Valerie Lynn Baldwin, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Bush Administration
  • Bill Blythe, former Republican state representative from Harris County, Texas, 1971 to 1983
  • Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Bush Administration; US Attorney, Bush Sr. and Clinton Administrations
  • Colm Connolly, United States Attorney, Bush Administration
  • Lauchlin Currie, White House Economic Adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Rosa DeLauro, Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives
  • Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank
  • Stanley Fischer, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
  • Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Los Angeles
  • Marc Grossman, U.S. Under-Secretary of State, Bush Administration; US Ambassador to Turkey, Clinton Administration; Special Advisor to the President on Near East Affairs, Carter Administration
  • Orval H. Hansen, Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Alice Stone Ilchman, Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under US President Jimmy Carter
  • Bruce Jentleson, International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
  • Bruce Katz, former Chief of Staff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vice President, Brookings Institution
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., first son of Joseph Kennedy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., environmental activist, son of Senator Robert Kennedy
  • Vanessa Kerry, Democratic activist and daughter of Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
  • Ron Kind, Democratic Member of U.S. House of Representatives
  • Mark Kirk, Republican Member of the U.S. Senate
  • Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton
  • Susan Lindauer, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion
  • Edward Luttwak, Consultant to the US National Security Council, State Department and Defence Department; Economist; Historian; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • James McGreevey, former governor of New Jersey
  • Brad Miller, Member of the US House of Representatives
  • Richard H. Moore, North Carolina state treasurer
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US Senator
  • Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance
  • Peter R. Orszag, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the Brookings Institution; Professor, Georgetown University, Congressional Budget Office Director, Director designate Office of Management and Budget
  • Tan Parker, member of the Texas House of Representatives
  • Alice Paul, American suffragist
  • Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Reagan Administration; Chairman of Defense Department Advsory Committee, Bush Administration; fellow, American Enterprise Institute
  • F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
  • David Rockefeller, former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission
  • Pete Rouse, White House Chief of Staff, Obama Administration
  • James Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign
  • Robert Rubin, U.S. Treasury Secretary and Director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; Director of Goldman Sachs
  • Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, Obama Administration
  • Robert Shapiro, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, Clinton Administration; Fellow of Harvard University; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Mona Sutphen, current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
  • John Tower, U.S. Senator
  • Paul Volcker, Chairman of Federal Reserve, Carter and Reagan Administrations; US Treasury Under-Secretary, Nixon Administration; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt, Bush Administration
  • Kimba Wood, U.S. Federal Judge; Attorney General Nominee
  • Dov Zakheim, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations

    • Canada

  • Ed Broadbent, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, 1975-1989
  • John Crosbie, Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Cabinet minister
  • Jean-Yves Duclos, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
  • Brian Greenspan, barrister
  • Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
  • Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party 2008-2011
  • Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia
  • Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada, 2007–present
  • David McGuinty, Member of Parliament, Liberal Party
  • Catherine McKenna, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change
  • Bill Morneau, Canadian MP, Canada's Minister of Finance, 2015–present
  • Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, 1994–1996
  • Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major political party
  • Gregory Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, 2009–present
  • Mitchell Sharp, former Canadian Minister of Finance
  • Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick

    • Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Eduardo Bhatia, President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
  • Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist
  • Christiana Figueres, current head of the UNFCCC
  • Martin Lousteau, Minister of economy and production, Argentina
  • Corinne Avril Baptiste-McKnight, Trinidad and Tobago Senator
  • Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

    • Europe

  • Georgios Alogoskoufis, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece
  • Prince Amedeo of Belgium
  • Rubina Berardo, Member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
  • Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner
  • Joe Bossano, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
  • Lykke Friis, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark
  • Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
  • Patrick Janssens, Mayor of Antwerp (2003–2012); MP Flemish Parliament, Chairman Flemish social democrats (SP) (1999–2003), Belgian MP Chamber of Representatives (2003–2004)
  • Jan Kavan, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
  • Ursula von der Leyen, Minister of Defence, Germany
  • Ivan Mikloš, Minister of Finance of Slovakia
  • Franz Neumann, first Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
  • Érik Orsenna, former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
  • Giorgos Papakonstantinou, former Minister for Finance of Greece
  • Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
  • Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Zdeněk Tůma, Governor of Czech National Bank
  • August Zaleski, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
  • Memli Krasniqi, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development of the Republic of Kosovo

    • Africa

  • Augustus Akinloye, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Chairman of defunct National Party of Nigeria
  • Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
  • Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian independence leader, Fabian lawyer, human rights advocate
  • Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
  • Jeanne Hoban, Anglo-Sri Lankan journalist, Trotskyist political activist and trade-unionist
  • Aguinaldo Jaime, Deputy Prime Minister of Angola
  • Michael Wamalwa Kijana, former Vice-President of Kenya
  • Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport
  • Bayo Ojo, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice
  • Babatunji Olowofoyeku, Nigerian politician
  • Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of Nigeria
  • Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
  • Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician
  • Shamsudeen Usman, Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker; Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria.

    • Asia

  • B. R. Ambedkar, First Law Minister of India, Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution
  • Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's Energy Minister
  • Sonny Angara, Senator of the Philippines
  • Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Defence Minister of Pakistan.
  • Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Former Dy. Foreign Minister of Pakistan
  • Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
  • Audrey Eu, chairman of the Civic Party and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
  • Feroze Gandhi, Indian-Parsi politician and journalist, former 'First Gentleman of India' (husband of PM Indira Gandhi)
  • Vivienne Goonewardena, Sri Lankan Trotskyist freedom agitator, parliamentarian, trade unionist and women's activist
  • Yang Jiechi, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
  • Sir Yuet Keung Kan, Hong Kong politician, banker and lawyer
  • Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, President of Pakistan Muslim League, 1st Chief Minister of N.W.F.P Pakistan, former Industry trade and Interior Minister of Pakistan
  • Emily Lau, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
  • Marvi Memon, Member National Assembly Pakistan
  • Krishna Menon, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defence, and leading proponent of India's emancipation
  • Marty Natalegawa, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia
  • C. R. Pattabhiraman, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister
  • Emilia Pires, Former Minister of Finance of Timor-Leste
  • Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1959–84)
  • Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Finance Minister
  • Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence
  • Kashmala Tariq, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan

    • Australia and New Zealand

  • Tim Barnett, Member of the Parliament of New Zealand
  • Peter Coleman, Journalist and conservative politician
  • Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand, judge
  • Robert Hill, Defence Minister
  • Christian Porter, Treasurer and Attorney-General of Western Australia
  • Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
  • Peter Shergold, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
  • Stephen Smith, Foreign and Defence minister
  • Tim Watts, Labour MP
  • Penny Wong, Labour MP and Minister

    • Middle East

  • Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai (attended courses; did not graduate)
  • Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan, member of royal family of Jordan
  • Yishai Be'er, General in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals
  • Kemal Derviş, former UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey
  • Rafi Eitan, leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, lawmaker, former security
  • Emre Gönensay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996
  • Moshe Levi, Lieutenant General, was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
  • Yitzhak Moda'i, Israeli politician who served as an MP for over 20 years
  • Amnon Rubinstein, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist, Education Minister of Israel, 1993–1996

    • International organisations and ambassadors

  • James Allan, British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
  • Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present
  • Shlomo Argov, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
  • William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
  • Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Philip Barton, British High Commissioner to Pakistan
  • Ralph Bunche, political scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
  • Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission
  • Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
  • Abul Fateh, Bangladesh diplomat
  • Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
  • Ian Goldin, former Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank
  • Jeffrey Goldstein, Managing Director, World Bank
  • Wang Guangya, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations
  • Robert Murray Hill, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Genta H. Holmes, United States Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration; United States Ambassador to Namibia; Chief of Mission to Haiti and Malawi
  • Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
  • Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978
  • Manoj Juneja, Deputy Director-General for Operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani Ambassador to the UN
  • Jan Kavan, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
  • Mohsin Khan, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund
  • Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA
  • John J. Maresca, former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration
  • Sir Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran, President of the UK Employment Tribunals; Judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal
  • Donald Mills, Jamaica's ambassador to the United Nations 1973-1981(BSc Demography 1947)
  • Sir John Morgan, Britain’s ambassador to South Korea, Poland and Mexico
  • Braj Kumar Nehru, Ambassador of India to the United States and Indian High Commissioner to Britain
  • Michael O'Neill, Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
  • William Peters, High Commissioner in Malawi
  • Romano Prodi , President of the European Commission 1999-2004
  • Bertrand Ramcharan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
  • Shaha Riza, World Bank
  • Pierre Sane, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
  • Michele J. Sison, US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration
  • Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
  • Arne Roy Walther, Norwegian ambassador to Japan
  • Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present

    • Europe

  • Tim Besley, economics professor and member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
  • Charlie Bean, economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
  • Willem Buiter, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
  • Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
  • Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; former World Bank Chief Economist
  • Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
  • Louis Rasminsky, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961 to 1973
    • Alumni
  • 1950: Ralph Bunche (Peace)
  • 1979: Sir William Arthur Lewis (Economics)
  • 1991: Ronald Coase (Economics)
  • 1999: Robert Mundell (Economics)
  • 2007: Leonid Hurwicz (Economics)
  • 2016: Juan Manuel Santos (Peace)
    • Founders and professors
  • 1925: George Bernard Shaw (Literature)
  • 1950: Bertrand Russell (Literature)
  • 1959: Philip Noel-Baker (Peace)
  • 1972: Sir John Hicks (Economics)
  • 1974: Friedrich von Hayek (Economics)
  • 1977: James Meade (Economics)
  • 1990: Merton Miller (Economics)
  • 1998: Amartya Sen (Economics)
  • 2001: George Akerlof (Economics)
  • 2008: Paul Krugman (Economics)
  • 2010: Christopher A. Pissarides (Economics)
  • 2016: Oliver Hart (Economics)
    • Non-alumni
  • 1987: Óscar Arias (Peace)

    • Guy Medal recipients

  • 1945 Sir Maurice Kendall
  • 1976 James Durbin (Silver)
  • 1978 Sir R. G. D. Allen (Gold)
  • 1982 Henry Wynn (Silver)
  • 2007 Howell Tong (Silver)
  • 2008 James Durbin (Gold)
  • 2008 Fiona Steele (Bronze)
  • 2013 Piotr Fryzlewicz (Bronze)

    • Economists

  • Daron Acemoglu, economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005
  • Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician
  • Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, economist
  • Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank
  • Peter Thomas Bauer, development economist
  • William Baumol, Professor of Economics and Director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University
  • Walter Berns, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
  • Kenneth Binmore, economist
  • Sir Richard Blundell, economist and econometrician
  • Sir Alan Budd, British economist, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
  • Ronald Coase, economist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; Previously Chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic
  • Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, development economist
  • Ian Goldin, development economist, Director of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
  • Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
  • W. M. Gorman, economist
  • Sir Theodore Gregory, British economist, Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 1938–46
  • Frank Hahn, economist
  • Friedrich von Hayek, Nobel Prize–winning economist
  • David Forbes Hendry, British economist, currently Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford
  • J.A. Hobson, economist and writer
  • Samuel Hollander, British/Canadian/Israeli economist
  • Eliot Janeway, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Harry Johnson, Canadian economist
  • Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University
  • Nicholas Kaldor, economist
  • Peter Kenen, economist
  • Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  • Maurice Kugler, development economist
  • Ludwig Lachmann, economist
  • David Laidler, economist
  • Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
  • Peter Leeson, George Mason Economist
  • Sir William Arthur Lewis, economist, Nobel Prize winner
  • James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Michio Morishima, Japanese economist
  • Robert Mundell, economist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Abhinay Muthoo, economist.
  • Andrew Oswald, economist
  • Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End, economist and politician
  • Peter C. B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale University
  • William Phillips, economist, inventor of the Phillip's Curve
  • Arnold Plant, economist
  • Thomas Piketty, economist, author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" Affairs
  • Christopher A. Pissarides, Cypriot-born British economist, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus
  • Mihir Rakshit, economist
  • Lionel Robbins, economist
  • Tadeusz Rybczynski, Polish-born English economist, known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem
  • Anthony Saunders, Chairman, Department of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
  • Tibor Scitovsky, economist
  • Arthur Seldon, free market ideologue
  • Andrew Sentance, member of Monetary Policy Committee
  • G.L.S. Shackle, economist
  • Neil Shephard, econometrician
  • Alasdair Smith, economist, former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex
  • Piero Sraffa, economist
  • Nicholas Stern, economist
  • Prajapati Trivedi, economist, First Secretary Performance Management to Government of India
  • Sho-Chieh Tsiang, economist
  • Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, businessman, academic, chair of the UK Financial Services Authority
  • Ralph Turvey, economist at the London School of Economics, HM Treasury, the Electricity Council and the National Board for Prices and Incomes
  • John Van Reenen, economist, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics
  • Sushil Wadhwani, economist
  • Sir Alan Walters, monetary economist
  • Basil Yamey, industrial economist
  • Allyn Abbott Young, economist

    • Economic historians

  • Edwin Cannan, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE from 1895 to 1926
  • Nick Crafts, professor of economic history at LSE between 1995 and 2005
  • Kent Deng, East Asian economic historian
  • Niall Ferguson, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs
  • Mary S. Morgan, historian of economics
  • R. H. Tawney, English writer and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism.

    • Employment relations & management

  • Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor of Information Systems
  • Claudio Ciborra (1951–2005) Professor of Information Systems

    • Historians

  • Janet Coleman, historian of political thought
  • Martin van Creveld, Israeli military historian and theorist
  • James Joll, leading World War One historian
  • Paul Kennedy, British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy
  • David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, prominent historian on African Americans
  • Alfred Marshall, historian and sociologist
  • Desmond Morton, historian
  • Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian
  • Ben Pimlott, Fabian President, modern historian, former president of Nottingham University
  • A. L. Rowse, historian
  • Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, biographer of Tony Blair and headmaster of Wellington College
  • Avi Shlaim, historian specialising in the Middle East
  • Alan Sked, leading Habsburg historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party
  • David Starkey, historian specialising in Tudor England
  • G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, historian
  • David Stevenson, World War One historian
  • John Stubbs, historian, former president of Trent University and Simon Fraser University
  • Jacob Talmon, historian
  • Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian
  • Sir Charles Webster, Stevenson Professor of International History; diplomat and founder of the United Nations
  • Odd Arne Westad, leading historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history; currently Convenor of the LSE International History Department and Cold War Studies Centre

    • Human geography

  • Harold Brookfield (PhD 1950), Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
  • George Jonas, founder of social geography; Professor of Geography at LSE, 1958–1983
  • Halford MacKinder, geographer and LSE director, 1903–1908
  • Laurence Dudley Stamp, geographer

    • International relations

  • Daniele Archibugi, former Visiting Professor of International Relations
  • Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
  • Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations
  • Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations
  • Sara Hagemann, Assistant Professor at LSE's European Institute
  • David Held, Professor of International Relations
  • Fred Halliday, Professor of International Relations (Montague Burton Chair), to 2008
  • Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of International Relations
  • Mary Kaldor, Professor of International Relations
  • Parag Khanna, author and current PhD candidate
  • F. S. Northedge, former Professor of International Relations
  • Richard W. Lyman, former Provost and President of Stanford University; Founder Stanford Institute for International Studies
  • Susan Strange, Professor of International Relations (Montague Burton Chair), 1978 to 1988.
  • Leonard Suransky, Winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster University
  • William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, Professor of International Relations; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
  • Martin Wight, Reader in International Relations, 1949–1960

    • Law

  • Andrew Ashworth CBE QC, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford
  • Janice R. Bellace, Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, founding president of the Singapore Management University
  • Paul Davies, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, Honorary QC
  • Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State University
  • Albert Venn Dicey, English jurist
  • Joseph Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
  • Jeremy Horder, former Law Commissioner for England and Wales, professor of law at Oxford University and the London School of Economics
  • Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, professor of comparative law, University of Oxford, and a scholar in labour law
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of politician Robert F Kennedy, law professor at Pace University School of Law
  • Philip Noel-Baker, professor of international law, politician, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner
  • Sir David Hughes Parry, Professor of English law (1930–1959),
  • Michael Zander QC, Professor Emeritus and the Legal Correspondent of The Guardian newspaper between 1963 and 1988

    • Linguists

  • Geoffrey Sampson, linguist

    • Philosophers

  • Joseph Agassi, philosopher
  • Brian Barry, moral and political philosopher
  • William Warren Bartley, philosopher
  • John Lane Bell, mathematical logician
  • Kenneth Binmore, philosopher, economist and mathematician
  • Nick Bostrom, philosopher
  • Luc Bovens, philosopher
  • Craig Callender, philosopher
  • Nancy Cartwright, philosopher of science
  • Sir Bernard Crick, political philosopher
  • Helena Cronin, Darwinist philosopher
  • Gregory Currie, philosopher
  • Daniel Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist
  • Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
  • Peter S. Fosl, philosopher
  • Ernest Gellner, philosopher
  • John Gray, political philosopher
  • Horace Romano Harré, philosopher
  • Colin Howson, philosopher
  • Chandran Kukathas, political theorist
  • Imre Lakatos, philosopher of science
  • Christian List, philosopher
  • Shirley Robin Letwin, political philosopher
  • David Makinson, philosopher and mathematical logician
  • Nicholas Maxwell, philosopher
  • David Miller, philosopher
  • Alan Musgrave, philosopher
  • Michael Oakeshott, philosopher
  • Michael Otsuka, moral and political philosopher
  • Sir Karl Popper, philosopher
  • Graham Priest, philosopher
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz, philosopher
  • Bertrand Russell, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
  • Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher
  • Elliott Sober, philosopher of biology
  • Jeremy Stangroom, philosopher
  • John Worrall, philosopher of science

    • Political scientists

  • Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Sir Ernest Barker, political scientist, Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927
  • Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
  • Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar College's sixth president and first female president
  • Verity Burgmann, professor of political science, University of Melbourne
  • Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist, diplomat and author
  • William Christian, political scientist at the University of Guelph
  • Ivor Martin Crewe, political scientist, Vice-Chancellor of University of Essex
  • Sir Bernard Crick, political theorist
  • Amy Gutmann, political scientist, President of the University of Pennsylvania
  • James Jupp AM, British/Australian political scientist and author
  • Harold Laski, political scientist and economist, colleague of Albert Einstein
  • Jim Leach, John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University
  • Steven Lukes, political and social theorist
  • Shireen Mazari, political scientist from Pakistan
  • Ralph Miliband, political scientist
  • Brendan O'Leary, Irish political scientist, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist
  • Louis Pauly, political scientist
  • Gordon Smith, professor of politics and government, London School of Economics
  • Jill Vickers, political scientist

    • Sociologists

  • Peter Abell, founding Director of Interdisciplinary Institute of Management
  • Helmut Anheier, founder of the Centre for Civil Society and Dean of the Hertie School of Governance
  • Eileen Barker, sociology of religion
  • Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist
  • Ulrich Beck, sociologist
  • Robin Blackburn, sociologist
  • Tessa Blackstone, educationalist
  • Stanley Cohen, sociologist
  • Peter Davis, sociologist
  • Norbert Elias, leading sociologist
  • Anthony Giddens, sociologist renowned for his theory of structuration, and former Director of the School
  • Paul Gilroy, sociologist
  • Michael Mann, sociologist
  • Karl Mannheim, sociologist
  • Robert McKenzie, sociologist and psephologist
  • Andrew Milner, sociologist of literature
  • Talcott Parsons, sociologist
  • John Porter, sociologist
  • Nikolas Rose, sociologist
  • Saskia Sassen, sociologist and economist
  • Richard Sennett, sociologist
  • France Winddance Twine, sociologist
  • Hilary Wainwright, sociologist

    • Social anthropology

  • Maurice Bloch, marxist and cognitive anthropologist
  • Fredrik Barth, anthropologist
  • Jean Comaroff, anthropologist
  • John Comaroff, anthropologist
  • Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist
  • Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist
  • E.E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist
  • Sir Raymond Firth, ethnologist, founder of economic anthropology
  • Rosemary Firth, ethnologist
  • Meyer Fortes, anthropologist
  • Alfred Gell, anthropologist
  • David Graeber, anthropologist, anarchist and activist
  • Phyllis Kaberry, anthropologist
  • Adam Kuper, anthropologist
  • David Lan, anthropologist and film maker
  • Edmund Leach, anthropologist
  • Charles Stafford, anthropologist
  • Alan Macfarlane, social anthropologist and historian
  • Lucy Mair, anthropologist
  • Harvey Whitehouse, cognitive anthropologist
  • Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist
  • Z.K. Mathews, prominent Apartheid-era South African academic
  • Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
  • Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist and ethnographer
  • Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, anthropologist
  • Audrey Richards, anthropologist, nutritional anthropologist
  • Charles Gabriel Seligman, ethnographer
  • Isaac Schapera, anthropologist
  • Dan Sperber, anthropologist
  • Michael Taussig, prominent 'postmodern' anthropologist
  • Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University
  • Edward Westermarck, anthropologist
  • Fei Xiaotong, anthropologist

    • Social policy analysts and workers

  • William Beveridge, former Director of LSE
  • Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, senior advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair
  • Martin Knapp, Chair of LSE Health and Social Care
  • Tim Newburn, professor of criminology and current president of the British Society of Criminology
  • Augustus Nuwagaba, associate professor at Makerere University
  • Peter Townsend, professor of social policy
  • Richard Titmuss, founder of the academic discipline of social policy

    • Social psychology

  • Martin Bauer, psychologist
  • Howard Gardner, an American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
  • Nicholas Humphrey, psychologist
  • Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist
  • J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
  • Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist
  • Andrew Samuels, psychologist
  • Graham Wallas, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society
  • Paul Webley, Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

    • Statisticians

  • Sir R. G. D. Allen, President of the Royal Statistical Society
  • D. J. Bartholomew, Professor of Statistics and President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1993–1995
  • Sir Arthur Bowley, statistician
  • D. G. Champernowne, Professor of Statistical Economics
  • W. Edwards Deming, statistician, economist
  • Sir Ian Diamond, statistician, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen
  • James Durbin, statistician, econometrician
  • John Hajnal, statistician
  • W.D. Hamilton, mathematical biologist and demographer
  • Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician
  • Leslie Kish, American statistician
  • John Denis Sargan, statistician
  • Nate Silver, American statistician
  • Howell Tong, statistician
  • Henry Wynn, President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977

    • Film and music

  • Sylvia Anderson (nee Thamm), producer, writer, voice actor
  • Greg Barker, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda
  • Rhian Benson, Ghanaian and Welsh soul and jazz singer-songwriter
  • Sophie Choudry, Indian actress
  • Mick Jagger, British musician, lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones
  • Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ
  • Soha Ali Khan, Indian actress
  • Katell Keineg, Singer/songwriter
  • Arif Mardin, Turkish music producer
  • Arnon Milchan, Israeli independent Hollywood film producer who has been linked to Mossad
  • Ron Moody, British actor, famous for playing Fagin in Oliver!
  • Jaime Murray, actress
  • Scott Neustadter, Hollywood writer, 500 Days of Summer is based on a romance at LSE
  • Mat Osman, bass player for Suede
  • Edward R. Pressman, film producer (Wall Street, Das Boot, Thank You for Smoking)
  • David Rodigan, Reggae DJ
  • Allan Segal, BAFTA-winning documentary film maker
  • Tara Sharma, Indian actress
  • Sophie Solomon, British violinist, songwriter and composer
  • Robin Spry, filmmaker
  • Frank Turner, musician, in the band Million Dead, now a solo artist. He wrote his final year dissertation while on tour with Million Dead.
  • Oliver Weindling, jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label
  • Frederick M. Zollo, Academy Award-nominated producer

    • Television and radio

  • David Attenborough, BBC presenter, naturalist and zoologist
  • Zeina Awad, reporter, TRT WORLD
  • Jana Bennett, Head of Vision, BBC
  • Bidisha, broadcaster and writer
  • Jon Blair, Academy Award, British Academy Award and Emmy winning producer and director
  • Josh Chetwynd baseball presenter
  • Martin Durkin, TV director
  • Daniel Finkelstein, Conservative Party strategist and Comment Editor of The Times
  • Loyd Grossman, TV chef/presenter
  • Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV presenter, politician and former Eurosceptic MEP
  • Hari Kondabolu, stand-up comedian
  • Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
  • Martin Lewis, TV presenter and money saving expert
  • Sean McGuiness, Top Gear, producer
  • James O'Brien, radio journalist
  • Mark Urban, Newsnight diplomatic editor
  • Huw Wheldon, former MD of BBC TV

    • Authors and journalists

  • Edith Abbott, author and social worker, Carnegie Postgraduate Fellowship 1906
  • Eric Alterman, Professor of English at Brooklyn College; political columnist for The Nation; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute
  • Anne Applebaum, journalist and author
  • Pat Barker, author, historian
  • Peter Bart, journalist and film producer
  • Melissa Benn, journalist and feminist
  • Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC World Service journalist
  • John Bersia, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  • Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter, player and writer
  • Andrew Coyne, national editor for Maclean's
  • Rhian Edwards, poet
  • Robert Elms, radio presenter, music journalist
  • Ekow Eshun, BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host
  • Simon Garfield, The Observer journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives"
  • Tom Happold, Editor of The Guardian
  • Maajid Nawaz, Author and Activist
  • Leslie Finer, British journalist and author
  • Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of The Times
  • Yvonne Green, poet, writer, barrister
  • Edward Greenspon, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper
  • Tim Judah, journalist and author
  • Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, journalist and author
  • John Honderich, former Publisher of the Toronto Star
  • Robert Kaiser, American author and journalist
  • Parag Khanna, author
  • To Kit (real name: Chip Tsao), Hong Kong-based columnist-broadcaster
  • Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
  • Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  • Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  • Robert Kuttner, journalist and economics author
  • Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
  • Philippe Legrain, British journalist and writer
  • Bernard Levin, journalist, author and broadcaster
  • Michael Lewis, #1 New York Times best selling author of Moneyball, Next, The New New Thing, Liar's Poker, Trail Fever, and The Money Culture; contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg
  • Rod Liddle, journalist, TV presenter, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme
  • Tim Lott, journalist and Whitbread Book Awards winning author
  • Edward Lucas, journalist
  • Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, Norwegian publisher of Aftenposten and Verdens Gang
  • Hilary Mantel, writer, Man Booker Prize winner in 2009 & 2012, the first woman to receive the award twice
  • China Miéville, writer, PhD International Relations 2001
  • Keith Murdoch, journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch
  • Nisha Pillai, BBC World presenter
  • Aroon Purie, Indian media mogul; founding editor and editor in chief of India Today and chairman of TV Today Network Limited
  • Nabila Ramdani, French-Algerian journalist
  • Christopher Ruddy, journalist, CEO of Newsmax Media, formerly with the New York Post and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Bertrand Russell, philosopher and Nobel Literature prize-winning author
  • Sadeq Saba, BBC Iranian affairs analyst
  • Edward Taylor Scott, journalist, former editor and co-owner of The Guardian
  • Barbara Serra, journalist and TV News Reader
  • Joss Sheldon, author
  • Zecharia Sitchin, ancient astronaut theorist
  • Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member and Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post
  • Paul Tansey, economics editor for The Irish Times
  • Michael Whitney Straight, publisher and novelist
  • Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC
  • Siddharth Varadarajan, journalist and editor
  • Stuart Varney, Peabody Award winning economic journalist, Fox; Previously CNN
  • David Vise, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist at The Washington Post, author of The Google Story
  • Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington Correspondent
  • Jacqueline Wheldon, novelist
  • Yvonne Ndege, journalist
  • Xu Zhimo, early 20th-century Chinese poet
  • Josef Ackermann (born 1948), former CEO of Deutsche Bank (visiting professor)
  • Ameer Ali, economist, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
  • Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman
  • Sir Terence Beckett, chairman of Ford and director-general of the Confederation of British Industry
  • Geoffrey Bell, banker, and Group of Thirty founder
  • Alan Blinder, Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors under Bill Clinton; economic advisor to John Kerry; vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Professor of Economics, Princeton University
  • Sir Gordon Brunton, Chief Executive Thomson Corporation, Former Chairman Sotheby's
  • Richard Caruso, Founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation and 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year
  • Winston Dookeran, politician and economist; former Governor of the Caribbean Development Bank and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Glyn England, chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board
  • Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
  • Rishi Khosla, Serial entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OakNorth Bank Limited
  • Clara Furse, former Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
  • Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup
  • Michael S. Jeffries, CEO Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
  • Robert S. Kaplan, former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
  • Michael Kopper, former Enron executive
  • Spiro Latsis, billionaire
  • Charles Lee, former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • David Morgan, CEO of Westpac
  • Arif Naqvi, CEO of The Abraaj Group, a private equity firm
  • Erling Dekke Næss, Norwegian shipowner and businessman
  • Richard Nesbitt, CEO, TSX Group; Toronto Stock Exchange
  • Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Nokia Corporation, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
  • Zarin Patel, BBC's Chief Financial Officer
  • Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World Bank
  • Avinash Persaud, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan
  • Vicky Pryce, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service
  • Philip J. Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
  • Ruth Porat, Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet/Google, former Chief Financial Officer, Morgan Stanley
  • Syed Ali Raza, President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
  • David Rockefeller, American billionaire and business tycoon
  • Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
  • George Soros, financier; billionaire
  • Peter Sutherland, BP and Goldman Sachs chairman
  • Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University
  • Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994-2001
  • Yevhenia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Lance Uggla, CEO of Markit Group
  • Panagis Vourloumis, Managing Director and President of the OTE's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece
  • Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock, English businessman best known for building GEC
  • Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
  • Jeff Wooller, accountant and educationalist

    • Law enforcement

  • Sir Ian Johnston, Chief Constable of British Transport Police
  • Valerie Plame, CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert Novak in July 2003
  • Barbara Wilding, Chief Constable of South Wales Police
  • Cherie Blair QC, judge, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
  • Gerald Butler, senior judge at Southwark Crown Court
  • Sir Clive Callman, longest serving Judge in all jurisdictions in England and Wales
  • Yoram Danziger, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
  • Dame Linda Dobbs, first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
  • Courtenay Griffiths, QC
  • Curtis Doebbler, lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein
  • Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
  • Sir Richard Field, High Court Judge
  • Sir Morris Finer, barrister, judge, Chairman of the Finer Report on One Parent Families & the Royal Commission on the Press, Vice Chairman of Governors of LSE
  • Sir Michael Fox, Lord Justice of Appeal
  • Dame Janet Gaymer QC, Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
  • Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, Deputy High Court Judge
  • sir Christopher Greenwood QC, advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the Iraq War, member of the International Court of Justice
  • Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand
  • Dame Rosalyn Higgins QC, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice
  • Sir Robin Jacob, as Lord Justice Jacob a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
  • Sir Edwin Jowitt, High Court Judge
  • Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
  • Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
  • Manfred Lachs, judge on the International Court of Justice
  • Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Judge of the International Court of Justice
  • Mónica Feria Tinta, international lawyer, obtained the first international human rights court decision ordering the prosecution of a former Head of State for crimes under international law; co-recipient of Gruber Justice Prize 2007
  • Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
  • Lauretta Lamptey, Ghanaian Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
  • Jeremy McMullen, QC, judge at the High Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Southwark Crown Court
  • Thomas Mesereau, lawyer, represented Michael Jackson
  • Regina Obiageli Nwodo, Judge of the Federal High Court, Nigeria; Justice of the Court of Appeal, Nigeria
  • Gareth Peirce, solicitor, represented the Guildford Four
  • Robert Ribeiro, Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
  • Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
  • Cedric Thornberry, International lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Peter Whiteman, Deputy High Court Judge
  • Christopher Wolf, American attorney, pioneer in Internet law
  • Kimba Wood, federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

    • NGOs, charities and pressure groups

  • Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
  • Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, chief executive of Oxfam GB
  • Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director (1975–2011) of Community Service Volunteers (CSV)
  • Mary Joynson, Director of Barnardo's
  • Marion Kozak, human rights campaigner
  • Sir Nicholas Partridge, Chief Executive Terrence Higgins Trust; Chairman of Involve
  • Anusyabehn Sarabhai, Indian trade unionist
  • Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International

    • Sport

  • Josh Chetwynd, baseball player, presenter and author
  • John Lacy, English footballer, 1975 FA Cup finalist with Fulham
  • Elham Al Qasimi, first Arab woman to reach the North Pole
  • Val Venis, wrestler
  • Folarin Ogunsola, Gambian national swimmer
  • Andy Ripley British Lions Rugby International

    • Others

  • Arnold Cook, Founder of the Guide Dog movement
  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal, terrorist
  • Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Islamic militant
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., so-called 'most talented' of the Kennedy brothers, died in WWII

    • Fictional

  • President Josiah Bartlet, fictional President of the United States on NBC's popular TV show The West Wing
  • Andrew Bond, fictional father of James Bond, 007
  • Eliza Doolittle, fictional character in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  • Prime Minister Jim Hacker of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
  • Jack Ryan, fictional character by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations
  • Guy MacKendrick, a British accounts exec in Mad Men

    • Founders of LSE

  • Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Graham Wallas
  • Henry Hutchinson
  • H. G. Wells
  • Annie Besant
  • Hubert Bland
  • Edith Nesbit
  • Sydney Olivier
  • Oliver Lodge
  • Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf
  • Emmeline Pankhurst

    • (Some are depicted in the Fabian Window)

  • Frank Podmore
  • Edward R. Pease
  • Edward Carpenter
  • Henry Stephens Salt
  • Ramsay MacDonald
  • H. M. Hyndman
  • Keir Hardie
  • Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
  • Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  • Lytton Strachey
  • E. M. Forster
  • Bertrand Russell
  • John Davidson
  • Havelock Ellis
  • R. H. Tawney
  • G. D. H. Cole
  • Leopold Stennett Amery, statesman and Conservative politician.
  • Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
  • Leopold Maxse, editor, National Review
  • Alfred Milner, statesman and colonial administrator
  • Henry Newbolt, author and poet.
  • Carlyon Bellairs, naval commander and M.P.
  • James Louis Garvin, journalist and editor
  • Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, businessman and civil servant.
  • Sir Edward Grey

    • References

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