Top 10 UCL Notable Alumni You Should Know

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Last Updated on September 24, 2021

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Year after year, University College London prepares graduates who, after graduation, achieve success in various disciplines.

University College London is known for offering its students the best education and world-class learning resources. This has attracted students from all over the world to pursue their studies in the United Kingdom. It is safe to say that the University College London has created a quality standard for higher education around the world.

Many famous people graduated from University College London; from the ones you see on television to authors of the books that you read, you’d be surprised that they are actually UCL alumni.

Here are the Top 10 UCL Notable Alumni

  1. Walter Bagehot – publishing

Walter Bagehot (UCL Mathematics 1846) becomes the editor of the Economist magazine in 1860. The UK current affairs section is still named after him.

  1. Ito Hirobume – politics

Ito Hirobume, one of the Choshu Five, is one of the first international students to come to UCL, going on to become Prime Minister of Japan.

  1. Alexander Graham Bell – telephone invention

Alexander Graham Bell (Phonics) is credited with the invention of the telephone. Bell and his associates originally offered to sell the patent for the telephone to Western Union for $100,000. The company declined, only to offer $25 million two years later. By then, Bell was rich and no longer wished to sell the patent.

  1. Gustav Holst – music composition

Gustav Holst (UCL Languages 1909) finishes composition of orchestral suite The Planets in 1916. Five years later, he sets a Cecil Spring-Rice poem to music and in doing so creates the patriotic song ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’.

  1. Isaac Rosenberg – war poetry

Isaac Rosenberg (UCL Slade 1913) writes ‘On Receiving News of the War’ in 1914, one of the earliest poems to criticise World War I. Two years later, he publishes ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’, which some go on to call the greatest poem of the war. Read more about Rosenberg in the UCL Antenna article ‘We will remember them’.

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  1. Rob Williams – rowing

Rob Williams (UCL Biotechnology 2006) wins gold in the lightweight men’s four at the World Rowing Championships in 2010. He follows this success with a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

  1. Joshua Hayward – music

Joshua Hayward (UCL Physics 2006) releases his first album Strange House with his band the Horrors in 2007. The band joins Florence and the Machine on their UK and Ireland tour in 2012.

  1. Christine Ohuruogu – athletics

Christine Ohuruogu MBE (UCL Linguistics 2005) wins a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in the 400m.

  1. Julian Baggini – publishing

Julian Baggini (UCL Philosophy 1996) co-founds The Philosophers’ Magazine in 1997. His book, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments, is published in 2005.

  1. Coldplay – music

Chris Martin (UCL Greek and Latin 1996), Jonny Buckland (UCL Mathematics 1996), Will Champion (UCL Anthropology 1996), and Guy Berryman (UCL Engineering Sciences 1996) meet at Ramsay Hall during Freshers’ Week and go on to form Coldplay.

The list doesn’t stop here. There are many other famous personalities who have attended Stanford. From politicians, great scholars, skilled scientists, activists, and more, you name it.

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