The following is a list of alumni of Queen Mary University of London.
Notable alumni
Academics
Sir Gilbert Barling – British surgeon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham Florence Mahoney – Gambian educator, academic, first woman to obtain a PhD from Gambia Sir William Turner – British anatomist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, 1903-1916
Historians and philosophers
Malcolm Bowie – British academic and literary critic
Brycchan Carey – British historian and literary critic
Eric Ives – British historian and an expert on the Tudor period
Alasdair MacIntyre – British philosopher
Marjorie Reeves – British historian
Sir Roy Strong – British historian
Mathematicians and scientists
Timothy Ball – Canadian physical geographer and climatologist
Bill Ballantine – British-born New Zealand marine biologist
Frederick Blackman – British botanist and plant physiologist
Julie Denekamp - radiobiologist and director of the Gray Laboratory
John Frederick Dewey – British geologist
David Drewry – British glaciologist and geophysicist (Geography, 1969) Felix Eugen Fritsch – British biologist William Elford Leach – British zoologist and marine biologist Esther Odekunle - British neurobiologist and antibody engineer Eleanor Mary Reid – British paleobotanist George Rolleston – British medical doctor, zoologist and evolutionary biologist Francis Rose – British botanist, conservationist, nature writer G. Spencer-Brown – British mathematician
Chemists
Sir Jack Drummond – Biochemist and nutritionist
John S. Fossey– British chemist and professor at the University of Birmingham
John S. Fossey- British chemist
Sir Edward Frankland – British chemist
C. Robin Ganellin– British chemist (Chemistry, 1958) Julius Grant – Forensic scientist and intelligence officer who exposed forgeries through chemical analysis Walter Thomas James Morgan – British biochemist Rowland Pettit – Australian-born American chemist Hulda Swai - Tanzanian researcher and professor in life sciences and bioengineering (PhD in biomaterials in 2000) Sir John Meurig Thomas – British physical chemist Frank Gibbs Torto – Ghanaian chemist Sir Robert Watson – British chemist (PhD in atmospheric chemistry in 1973)
Physicists
Alexander Bradshaw – British physicist
Sir Philip Campbell – British physicist, editor-in-chief of the science journal Nature (MSc Astrophysics, 1974) Michael Duff – British physicist at Imperial College London (Physics, 1969) Geraint F. Lewis – British astrophysicist, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney Sir Peter Mansfield – British Nobel Prize–winning physicist Helen Mason – British physicist George C. McVittie – British cosmologist Brendan Scaife – Irish engineer and physicist David Southwood – British space scientist, Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London Angela Speck - Astrophysicist and Professor at the University of Missouri Geoffrey Ernest Stedman – New Zealand physicist Charles Taylor – British physicist, lecturer and author Sir Tejinder Virdee – British physicist Rosemary Wyse – British astrophysicist
Artists
Ashley Banjo – British choreographer
John Leech – British caricaturist
Siddharth Mallya – Indian actor and model
Simon C. Page – British graphic designer
Writers
Kia Abdullah – British writer
Caroline Venetia Annis - British writer
J. G. Ballard – British writer of Empire of the Sun and Crash
Alia Bano – British playwright
Stephen Barber – British writer
Sir Malcolm Bradbury – British writer
Robert Bridges – British poet and holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913 Marcus Chown – British science writer, journalist and broadcaster, cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine Allan Cubitt - British playwright, screenwriter and director Richard Gordon – British screenwriter and writer Lee Harwood – British poet Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – British writer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Clive Leo McNeir - British linguist, lexicographer and author of crime novels Derek Marlowe - British playwright and screenwriter (did not graduate) Eleanor Updale – British award-winning author Sarah Waters – British author of Tipping The Velvet Guy Walters – British author, historian and journalist