- Philip Stott
Philip Stott is a professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a former editor (1987-2004) of the Journal of Biogeography
- Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA, (July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy.
- Toby Dodge
Toby Dodge is an English political scientist whose main area of interest lies in the Middle East. He completed a PhD on the transformation of international system in the aftermath of the First World War and the creation of the Iraqi state at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also taught international relations and Middle Eastern politics in the Department of Political Studies at SOAS for four years.
- A. C. Grayling
Anthony Clifford Grayling (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author. He is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has a MA, a DPhil from Oxford, and is a member of the Royal Society of Arts.
- Michael Young
Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (August 9, 1915, Manchester - January 14, 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. During an active life he founded or helped found a remarkable number of socially useful organizations. These include the Consumers' Association, the National Consumer Council the Open University and Language Line, a telephone-interpreting business. Young's father was an Australian violinist and music critic, …
- Charles Taylor
Charles Alfred Taylor (1922-2002) was a British physicist well known for his work in crystallography and his efforts to promote science to young audiences. Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922. He began his degree in Queen Mary's College at the University of London, but the college was subsequently evacuated to Cambridge during the remainder of World War II. He graduated in 1943, and then worked for the Admiralty designing radar countermeasures, …
- Graeme Davies
Sir Graeme Davies is a New Zealand engineer and academician. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, in the United Kingdom.
- John Baker
Sir John (Hamilton) Baker, LLB PhD London MA LLD Cambridge LLD honoris causa Chicago Barrister-at-Law Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Honorary Bencher Inner Temple QC FBA FBS FRHistS, Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1998, English legal historian. Baker was born 10 April 1944 in Sheffield, the son of Kenneth Lee Vincent Baker, and Marjorie Baker (nee Bagshaw). He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, and University College London.
- Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture. He is widely known for his 1957 book "The Uses of Literacy". This book was differently interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic popular culture and as denouncing the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
- David Cannadine
David Cannadine (born 1950) is a British historian, known for a number of books including "The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy" and "Ornamentalism"; and as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the British monarchy. As of 2004 he is engaged in a biography of Andrew Mellon and the nineteenth-century volume in the New Penguin History of Britain. (He is also the general editor of this series, …
- Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion, FRSL, (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate. His poems are known for the insightful way in which they explore loss and desolation. Raised in Stisted near Braintree in Essex, he was educated at Radley. When he was 17, his mother had a riding accident and spent the next nine years in and out of a coma before she died.
- John Lynch
John Lynch is a Latin Americanist historian. He was born on January 11, 1927 in Boldon, in northern England. He married Wendy Kathleen Norman in 1960. Both are Catholic. They had 5 children. Lynch studied at the University of Edinburgh (MA, 1952), and at the University of London (Ph.D., 1955). He served in the British Army after World War II from 1945-48.
- Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology.
- Geoff Whitty
Geoffrey "Geoff" James Whitty (born 31 December 1946) is the Director of the Institute of Education, University of London in the United Kingdom. Born in 1946, Whitty was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from St John's College, Cambridge. After postgraduate study at the Institute of Education, he became a lecturer in Education (Sociology and Social Studies) at the University of Bath in 1973.
- Jacqueline Rose
Jacqueline Rose is a British academic who is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Rose is probably best known for her work on the relationship between psychoanalysis, feminism and literature. She is a graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford and gained her higher degree (Mâitrise) from the Sorbonne and her doctorate from the University of London.
- Stephen Law
Stephen Law is a philosopher who teaches at Heythrop College in the University of London. He also edits the journal "THINK", a source of philosophy aimed at the general public, affiliated with The Royal Institute of Philosophy. Law currently lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and daughter.
- John Austin
John Austin (1790 - 1859) was a noted British jurist and wrote extensively in the philosophy of law and jurisprudence. Austin served in the army in Sicily and Malta, but sold his commission to study law. He was called to the Bar in 1818. He discontinued his practice shortly after, devoted himself to the study of law as a science, and became Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London (now University College London) 1826-32.
- Stephen Smith
Im stephen Im 16 years old. I was born in guelph Ontario I went to eastdale, southside public school and now I'm going to CASS. I like hanging out with my friends and parties.
- Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton (sometimes Anthony T. Grafton) (born 21 May 1950) is a Jewish American historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is noted for his wide learning, and in particular for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he took his A.B. and Ph.D. in rapid succession.
- Thomas Holloway
Thomas Holloway was a patent medicine vendor and philanthropist from England. Holloway was born in Devonport, Devon, in 1800. He was the elder son of Thomas and Mary Holloway (née Chellew), who at the time of their son's birth had a bakery business in Devonport. They later moved to Penzance, Cornwall, where they ran the Turk's Head Inn. In the late 1820s, Holloway went to live in Roubaix, France, for a few years.
- Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History. In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow.
- James Stewart
Professor James Stewart M.Sc, Ph.D is a Canadian professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart received his M.S. at Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of London. Stewart's research focuses on harmonic analysis and functional analysis. Stewart is most well known for his series of textbooks sold at high school and university level mathematics.
- John Morris
Dr. John Morris (1913 - June 1977) was an English historian who specialised in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain. He is best known for "The Age of Arthur" (1973), in which he attempted to reconstruct the history of Britain and Ireland during the so-called "Dark Ages" following the Roman withdrawal, based on scattered archaeological and historical records.
- James Dunkerley
James Dunkerley is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary College, the University of London, and the current Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. He has written extensively on Bolivia, Central America, and elsewhere in Latin America.
- Bernard Crick
Sir Bernard Crick is Emeritus Professor of Birkbeck College, University of London, and has been an Honorary Fellow of the Politics Department since coming to live in Edinburgh in 1984. He began his teaching career as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, taught at McGill a year before returning to teach at the LSE from 1956 to 1967 and was first professor Politics at Sheffield from 1967 to 1973, thereafter at Birkbeck.
- Michael Hunter
Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He has edited an edition of the 'Works' and 'Correspondence' of Robert Boyle published in twenty volumes between 1999 and 2001.
- Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law at University College London, where he teaches public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law.
- David Bates
Professor David Bates is a British historian. He was "Professor of Medieval History" at University of Glasgow from 1994 until 2003. He is currently the director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.
- Malcolm Bowie
Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA (May 5, 1943 - January 28, 2007) was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust. Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Bowie attended Woodbridge School, and then studied at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an MA in 1965. He was awarded a DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1970.
- Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard.
- Hans Eysenck
Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a psychologist most remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the living psychologist most frequently cited in science journals. Hans Eysenck was born in Germany, but moved to England as a young man in the 1930s because of his opposition to the Nazi party. Eysenck was the founding editor of the journal "Personality and Individual Differences", …
- Mark Blaug
Mark Blaug (April 3,1927, the Hague, Netherlands -) is a British economist, who has covered a broad range of topics over his long career. In 1955 he got his PhD at Columbia University in New York. Besides shorter periods in public service and in international organisations he has held academic appointments in - among others - Yale University, the University of London, the London School of Economics and the University of Buckingham.
- Wilfrid Hodges
Wilfrid Hodges (born 1941) is a British mathematician, known for his work in model theory. He is Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London and author of numerous books on logic. He attended New College, Oxford (1959-65), where he received degrees in both "Literae Humaniores" and Theology. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis in Logic. He lectured in both Philosophy and Mathematics at Bedford College, University of London.
- Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the world's biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi. Many large clients followed, and their new agency quickly overtook their ex agency in Britain's top ten.
- Ben Fine
Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of a number of key works in the broad tradition of heterodox economics, and has made contributions on economic imperialism and social capital. Perhaps his most significant book to date is "Social Capital versus Social Theory" (2001). He received his doctorate in economics from the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Amartya Sen.
- Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim (Mannheim Károly the original writting of his name March 27, 1893, Budapest – January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. Mannheim rates as a founder of the sociology of knowledge. He studied in Budapest, Berlin—in 1914 he attended lectures by Georg Simmel—, Paris and Heidelberg.
- Colin Bundy
Professor Colin Bundy is Warden of Green College, Oxford with effect from Michaelmas Term 2006. He was Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2001-06); Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of London (2003-06); Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand (1997-2001); and Director of the Institute for Historical Research (1992-94) and Vice Rector (1994-97), University of the Western Cape.
- Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf is a British journalist. He is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000. He left Oxford University with a master of philosophy degree in economics in 1971 to join the World Bank's young professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974. He left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, in London.
- Ann Oakley
Ann Oakley is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing and especially new novels. Oakley is the only daughter of Professor Richard Titmuss and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for recent re-publication.
- Mary James
Professor Mary James is Deputy Director of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme at the Institute of Education, University of London. She was born in Dorking, Surrey, England on 21st March 1946. Her father was a carpenter and joiner and her mother was a factory worker. Mary was educated at Sondes Place Secondary Modern School and West Ewell Country Secondary School before qualifying as a teacher at Brighton College of Education.