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
Óscar Arias, President of Costa Rica, 2006-2010, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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
Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, 2010–Present. 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
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

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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

Ed Miliband, former leader of the Labour Party

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

Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway

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

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, First Law Minister of India and architect of Indian Constitution

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

Niall Ferguson, historian

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

Karl Popper, Austro-British philosopher and professor at LSE

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

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

Ralph Miliband, sociologist and Marxist author

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

Anthony Giddens, current Emeritus Professor at LSE

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

Bronislaw Malinowski, eminent anthropologist and functionalist

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, the author of the Beveridge Report and former Director of LSE

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

Sir Mick Jagger

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

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

Year	Recipient	Prize
1968	Nick Kotz	Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
1990	David A. Vise	Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
1993	Roy Gutman	Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
1994	David Levering Lewis	Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
2000	John Bersia	Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
2001	David Levering Lewis	Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
2013	Bret Stephens	Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

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

George Bernard Shaw, one of the founders of the LSE and Nobel laureate

(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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