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.[1]
Government and politics
Heads of state or government
- Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1945-1951
- John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, 1961-1963
- Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1929-1935
- Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya, 1964-1978
- Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, 2006-2008, and President of the European Commission, 1999-2004
- Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, 1980-1984
- Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-1990
- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 1973–Present
- Tarō Asō, Prime Minister of Japan, 2008-2009
- Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada, 1993
- Errol Barrow, First Prime Minister of Barbados, 1966-1976
- Sergey Stanishev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, 2005-2009
- Alfonso López Pumarejo, President of Colombia, 1934-1938 and 1942-1945
- P.J. Patterson, President of Jamaica, 1992-2006
- George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, 2009-2011
- Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004–2005
- Edward Szczepanik, Prime Minister of Poland, 1986-1990
- Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister of Finland, 2014-2015
- Tuanku Jaafar, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch), 1994–1999
- Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980 and 1989-1992
- Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932
- Kamisese Mara, Founding father of Fiji, Prime Minister, 1970-1992
- Kwame Nkrumah, First Prime Minister of Ghana, 1957-1960
- Hilla Limann, President of Ghana, 1979-1981
- John Atta Mills, President of Ghana, 1970
- Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004
- Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, 1979-1983
- Joe Bossano, Chief Minister of Gibraltar, 1988-1996
- Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel, 1954-1955
- Veerasamy Ringadoo, First President of Mauritius, 1992
- Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius, 2005-2014
- Marek Belka, Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-2005
- Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo, 1960-1963
- Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995
- Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan, 2016-present
- Korekiyo Takahashi, Prime Minister of Japan, 1921-1922
- K.R. Naravanan, Prime Minister of India, 1997-2002
- Beatriz Merino, Prime Minister of Peru, 2003
- Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana, 1980-1985; Prime Minister of Guyana, 1964-1980
- Thanin Kraivichien, Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977; President of the Privy Council of Thailand, 2016-present
State | Leader | Affiliation | Office |
Barbados | Errol Walton Barrow (1920–1987) | BSc (Econ) 1950 | Prime minister 1962–1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987 |
Benin | Lionel Zinsou (born 1954) | Course unknown | Prime minister 2015–present |
Bulgaria | Sergey Stanishev (born 1966) | Visiting Fellow International Relations 1999–2000 | Prime minister 2005–2009 |
Canada | Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) | Research Fee Student 1947–1948 | Prime minister 1968–1979; 1980–1984 |
Canada | Kim Campbell (born 1947) | PhD student 1973 | Prime minister June–November 1993 |
Colombia | Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo | Occasional Registration 1932–1933 | President 1934–1938, 1942–1945 |
Colombia | Juan Manuel Santos | MSc Economics 1975 | President 2010– |
Costa Rica | Óscar Arias (born 1941) | Enrolled 1967 | President 1986–1990, 2006–2010 |
Denmark | HM Queen Margrethe II (born 1940) | Occasional student 1965 | Queen 1972– |
Dominica | Dame Eugenia Charles | LLM 1949 | Prime minister 1980–1995 |
Fiji | Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) | Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962 | Prime minister 1970–1992; President 1994–2000 |
Finland | Alexander Stubb (born 1968) | PhD International Politics 1999 | Prime minister 2014– |
Germany | Heinrich Brüning | BSc Economics Student 1911–1913 | Chancellor 1930–32 |
Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) | PhD 1946 | First president 1960–1966 |
Ghana | Hilla Limann (1934–1998) | BSc (Econ) 1960 | President 1979–1981 |
Ghana | John Atta Mills (born 1944) | LLM 1967–68 | President 2009 |
Gibraltar | Joe Bossano (born 1939) | BSc Economics circa 1960 | Chief minister 1988–1996 |
Greece | George Papandreou (born 1952) | MSc Sociology 1977 | Prime minister 2009–2011 |
Greece | Constantine Simitis (born 1936) | Research Fee Student 1961–1963 | Prime minister 1996–2004 |
Grenada | Maurice Bishop (1943–1983) | LLB circa 1967/1968 | Prime minister 1979–1983 |
Guyana | Forbes Burnham (1923–1985) | LLB 1948 | Prime minister 1964–1980, President 1980–1985 |
India | K.R. Narayanan (1921–2005) | BSc (Econ) 1945–1948 | President 1997–2002 |
Israel | Moshe Sharett (1894–1965) | BSc (Econ) 1924 | Prime minister 1953–1955 |
Italy | Romano Prodi (born 1939) | Research Fee Student 1962–1963 | Prime minister 1996–1998; 2006–2008 |
Jamaica | Michael Manley (1924–1997) | BSc (Econ) 1949 | Prime minister 1972–1980; 1989–1992 |
Jamaica | P J Patterson | LLB 1963 | Premier 1992–2006 |
Japan | Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936) | Course unknown | Prime minister 1920–1922; 1932 |
Japan | Tsutomu Hata (born 1935) | Course unknown | Prime minister 1994 |
Japan | Taro Aso (born 1940) | Occasional Student 1966 | Prime minister 2008–2009 |
Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978) | ADA 1936 | First president 1964–1978 |
Kenya | Mwai Kibaki (born 1931) | BSc Economics 1959 | President 2002–2013 |
Kiribati | Anote Tong (born 1952) | MSc Sea-Use Group 1988 | President 2003– |
Libya | Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (born 1972) | PhD 2006 | Effective Prime minister, 2007–2011[3] |
Malaysia | Tuanku Jaafar (1922–2008) | Course unknown | Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch) 1994–1999 |
Mauritius | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985) | Attended lectures whilst studying at University College London | Chief minister 1961–1968, Prime minister 1968–1982, Governor-General 1983–1985 |
Mauritius | Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000) | LLB 1948 | First President of Mauritius March–June 1992 |
Mauritius | Navinchandra Ramgoolam (born 1947) | LLB 1990 | Prime minister 1995–2000; 2005– |
Nepal | Sher Bahadur Deuba (born 1943) | Research Student International Relations 1988–1989 | Prime minister 1995–1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005 |
Panama | Harmodio Arias (1886–1962) | Occasional Student, 1909–1911 | President 1932–1936 |
Peru | Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897–1979) | BSc (Econ) 1918 | Prime minister 1959–1961 |
Peru | Beatriz Merino (born 1947) | LLM 1972 | Prime minister 2003 |
Poland | Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005) | MSc Economics 1953 | Prime minister of government in exile 1986–1990 |
Poland | Marek Belka (born 1952) | Summer School 1990 | Prime minister 2004–05 |
Sierra Leone | Banja Tejan-Sie (1917–2000) | LLB circa 1950 | Governor-General 1968–1971 |
Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) | Occasional student after circa 1945 | Prime minister 1959–1990 |
Saint Lucia | John Compton (born 1926) | LLB 1952 | Premier 1964–1979; Prime minister February–July 1979 and 1982–1996 |
Taiwan | Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000) | Composition fee student 1947–1949 | Premier 1984–1989 |
Taiwan | Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) | Ph.D. Law 1984 | President 2016– |
Thailand | Tanin Kraivixien (born 1927) | LLB 1953 | Prime minister 1976–1977 |
Togo | Sylvanus Olympio (b. 1902–1963) | BSc Economics | Prime minister of Togo 1958–1961, first President 1961–1963 |
United Kingdom | Ramsay MacDonald | Lecturer | Prime minister (1924 and 1929–1935) |
United Kingdom | Clement Attlee (1883–1967) | Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923 | Prime minister 1945–1951 |
United States | John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) [4] | General Course student 1935 | President 1961–1963 |
United Kingdom
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[5]
- 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[6]
- 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[7]
- Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England
United States
- 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[8]
- William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Los Angeles
- Marc Grossman, US 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 US 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 US House of Representatives
- Mark Kirk, Republican Member of the US 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, US 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, US 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, United States 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
- Fidel Herrera Beltrán, Governor of Veracruz, Mexico
- 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[9]
- 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[10]
- 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, an 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)[11]
- Sir John Morgan, Britain’s ambassador to South Korea, Poland and Mexico[12]
- 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[13]
- 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
Central bankers
- Janet Yellen, Chair of the US Federal Reserve, 2014-present
- Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, 2003-2013
- Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979–1987
- Puey Ungpakorn, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand
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
Nobel laureates
- Friedrich Hayek, Nobel Prize in Economics
- Amartya Sen, Indian economist, former Professor and Nobel Laureate
- Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and Nobel Prize Laureate
- Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize in Economics (1991)
- Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize in Economics (2007)
- Bertrand Russell, Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
- Juan Manuel Santos, Nobel Peace Prize (2016)
- Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize (1950)
- William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize in Economics (1979)
- Philip Noel-Baker, Nobel Peace Prize (1959)
- George Bernard Shaw, Npbel Prize in Literature (1925)
- James Meade, Nobel Prize in Economics (1977)
- Merton Miller, Nobel Prize in Economics (1990)
- George Akerlof, Nobel Prize in Economics (2001)
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize in Economics (2008)
- Christoper Pissarides, Nobel Prize in Economics (2010)
- 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)
Academics
- Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century
- Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British-Indian economist and Labour politician
- Michael Oakeshott, philosopher and conservative thinker
- Paul De Grauwe, Belgian economist
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
- 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[14] [15]
- 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, an English writer and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism.[16]
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[17]
- 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[18]
- 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
- 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
Arts and media
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
Pulitzer Prize winners
Business and finance
- George Soros, billionaire
- David Rockefeller, billionaire
- 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[19]
- Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
- 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 [20]
- 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, 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[21]
- 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
Lawyers and judges
- Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Hersch Lauterpacht, Judge of the International Court of Justice
- Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice, 2006-2009
- Manfred Lachs, Judge of the International Court of Justice, 1967-1993
- Anthony Kennedy, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1988-present
- Yoram Danziger, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, 2007- present
- 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[22]
- Yoram Danziger, a 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, United States 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[19]
- 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, a 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[23][24]
- Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director (1975–2011) of Community Service Volunteers (CSV)
- Mary Joynson, Director of Barnardo's[25][26]
- 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
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
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- ↑ Eugenia Tymoshenko: the fight to save my mother Yulia, The Guardian (23 September 2012).
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2012".
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- LSE Press and Information Office - World leaders
- LSE Press and Information Office - Nobel Prize winners
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