Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. He has been the only consistent member of the band since its formation. He also competes in auto racing, e.g., the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London (many online biographies mistakenly cite the street address, …

Sir Anthony Caro, OM, CBE, (born 8 March 1924 in New Malden, Surrey) is an English, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using 'found' industrial objects. Caro was educated at Charterhouse public school and Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a degree in engineering. In 1946, after time in the British Navy, he started at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) to study sculpture for a year.

Ralph Erskine Ralph Erskine, CBRE, RFS, ARIBA (February 24, 1914 – March 16, 2005) was an architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.

George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 - 27 October 1991) was an English poet and author. Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, and was raised by his Irish mother in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school and at Regent Street Polytechnic. He left school at the age of 14 and pursued several odd jobs before settling on a career in writing. Early volumes of note by Barker include "Thirty Preliminary Poems" (1933), …

Michael Wilford CBE (born 1938) is an English architect from Hartfield, East Sussex. Wilford studied at the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture, London, from 1955 to 1962, and at the Regent Street Polytechnic Planning School, London, in 1967. In 1960, he joined the practice of James Stirling and in 1971 together established the Stirling/Wilford partnership. In 1960 he joined the practice which James Stirling created in 1956.

Mark Gertler (December 9 1891 - June 23 1939), was a British painter. His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert Cannan's novel "Mendel". The character Loerke from D. H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" and Gombauld from Aldous Huxley's "Crome Yellow" were based on him.

Sam Dodwell RI was born in London as Samuel William Charles Dodwell in 1909. Painting, which he discovered as a small child, at once became the driving force in his life. At age 18 he travelled by train to Cornwall for a holiday and, arriving in Polperro, decided that the county would one day be his home. Prevented by his father and the depression of 1926 from making painting his career he went into banking, …

Harry Watson was an English landscape and portrait artist born in Scarborough. He studied at Scarborough School of Art 1884–8, at Lambeth School of Art and at the Royal College of Art (R.C.A.) 1889–4, where he was awarded a travelling scholarship. Exhibited at the Royal Academy (R.A.) from 1896; member R.W.S. 1915; R.W.A. 1927; R.O.I. 1932. Taught at Regent Street Polytechnic from 1913. His watercolour Across the River is in the permanent collection at the Tate Gallery.

John Gerald Christopher Ryan (born 4 March 1921, Edinburgh) is a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character "Captain Pugwash. Ryan expressed his love of writing and drawing early in life, creating his first book, "Adventures of Tommy Brown" at the age of 7. Ryan attended Ampleforth College, a Catholic boarding school. After completing his national service in Burma, Ryan studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic, …

Petrie Bowen Wells, known as Bowen Wells; (born August 4, 1935) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Wells was educated at St Paul's, the University of Exeter, and Regent Street Polytechnic. He served as Member of Parliament for Hertford and Stevenage from 1979 (defeating Shirley Williams) to 1983, and after boundary changes, for Hertford and Stortford from 1983 until 1997.

Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom FRIBA (6 October 1881 - 4 September 1965) was an English architect active in the United States, and Conservative Party politician. Bossom was born in Islington, London, to Alfred Henry and Amelia Jane (Hammond) Bossom. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and studied architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the Royal Academy of Arts before leaving for the United States in 1903 to work for Carnegie Steel in Pittsburgh, …

Sir Thomas Bennett KBE FRIBA (1887 - 29 January 1980) was a renowned British architect, responsible for much of the development of the new towns of Crawley and Stevenage. He trained as an architect at Regent Street Polytechnic while employed in the drawing office of the London and North Western Railway. He went on to study at the Royal Academy School, joining the Office of Works (later Ministry of Works) in 1911. A career in both education and government followed, …

Phyllis Jacobine Jones (born 1897) was a sculptor. She was born in England, but immigrated to Canada in 1933. She died in 1976. Jacobine traveled around Denmark and Italy with her mother for years until, at 28, she studied casting, carving, and modelling at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London. She joined the Sculptors' Society of Canada in 1939. Her close friend and protege was Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook whom before her passing she gifted several artistic tools.

The Reverend David Gwyn Nicholls, DLitt (Oxon) (June 3 1936 - 1996) was the author of more than one hundred publications in the fields of Theology, Politics, and Caribbean Studies.

Usha Rani Hooja is a noted sculptor from Rajasthan state in India. Born in 1923 she studied sculpture in Regent Street Polytechnic, London.She has published a collection of her poems "Song & Sculpture". She has held many exhibitions. Usha Rani’s career as a sculptor was sparked by a chance encounter soon after her graduation with an MA in Philosophy from St. Stephen’s. She saw a sculpture class at the Delhi Polytechnic and was immediately seduced.

Anita Howard (born 1926) is a British-born painter. Howard was born in London, and she attended the Regent Street Polytechnic. Howard served in the WRAC from 1945-1948 in Singapore and Hong Kong. Howard's first solo art exhibition was held at Camden Arts Centre in 1976.

NANA ESSILFIE-CONDUAH , (65) Director of Studies A graduate of University of London and Regent Street Polytechnic, Nana joined AIJC mid 2004 as Director of Studies. He has worked variously as Head of Current Affairs, TV AFRICA, News Trainer, CHOICE FM, Executive Secretary, National Media Commission, and Tutor, Ghana Institute of Journalism.

Michael Wilford . Michael Wilford Architects, London, England. Michael Wilford was born in Surbiton, England. Michael formed the firm of Michael Wilford Architects in 2001 after being the principal of Stirling Wilford from 1971 to 2000. He attended the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture, London from 1955 to 62 and the Regent Street Polytechnic Planning School, in 1967. The firm work ranges from libraries and archives to museums and art galleries.