Editing London Metropolitan University (section)

==Notable people==

===Notable alumni===
====Arts and media====<!-- PLEASE RESPECT ALPHABETICAL ORDER-->
*[[Helen Baker (author)|Helen Baker]], author
*[[Aman Ullah Malik]] Researcher, Professor, Solicitor, Dean and Principal [[Punjab University Law College]], Lahore. 
*[[John Box]], [[Academy Award]] and [[BAFTA]]-winning British film production designer and art director
*[[Noel Clarke]], director, screenwriter and actor
*[[Alannah Currie]], artist
*[[Chunkz]], YouTuber (dropped out)
*[[James Hyman]], DJ, Radio & TV presenter, music supervisor and MD of JLH.
*[[Yinka Ilori]], an artist and designer
*[[Henry Irving]], first English Stage actor to be awarded a knighthood<ref name="tylersandbricklayers.co.uk"/>
*[[Will Kirk]], furniture restorer, ''[[The Repair Shop]]''
*[[J. W. R. Linton]], West Australian artist and teacher<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinaoilpainting.com/china%20oil%20painting/artist-James%20Walter%20Robert%20Linton.html|title=1 James Walter Robert Linton Wholesale China Oil Painting & Frame|work=chinaoilpainting.com}}</ref>
*[[Maimie McCoy]], actress
*[[Tom McRae]], English singer-songwriter
*[[Alison Moyet]], pop singer
*[[Michael Petry]], multi-media artist, director of MOCA London, and co-founder of the Museum of Installation, London
*[[Vic Reeves]], comedian
*[[Daniela Ruah]], actress, most notably ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''
*[[Edwin Smith (photographer)|Edwin Smith]], photographer
*[[Adaora Onyechere]], a [[Nigerian]] [[Television presenter|TV]]/[[Radio personality|radio presenter]], entrepreneur, motivational speaker and author. 
*[[Irwin Sparkes]], front-man of pop band [[The Hoosiers]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/london-met-graduate-fronts-brit-nominated-band.cfm|title=London Met graduate fronts Brit-nominated band|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908234413/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/london-met-graduate-fronts-brit-nominated-band.cfm|archive-date=8 September 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*[[Matthew Sweeney]], Irish poet
*[[Neil Tennant]], from the [[Pet Shop Boys]] (1972–75 History, [[North London Polytechnic]])
*[[AJ Tracey]], Musician (dropped out)
*[[Jamie Theakston]], TV presenter
*[[Eamonn Walker]], English film, television and theatre actor
*[[Oritsé Williams]], member of pop band [[JLS]] (did not graduate)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/2010/february/everybody-in-love-with-orits.cfm|title=News|author=London Metropolitan University|work=London Metropolitan University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728130532/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/2010/february/everybody-in-love-with-orits.cfm|archive-date=28 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*[[Tracey Emin]], English Artist, was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from London Metropolitan University<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tracey Emin RA|url=https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/tracey-emin-ra|website=shop.royalacademy.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref>
*[[Xatar]], German Rapper and Record Label Executive (did not graduate)

====Business, marketing and law====
*William Neville Bingley, lawyer and academic known as the architect of Code of Practice for the [[Mental Health Act 1983]]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/8700830/William-Bingley.html| location=London| work=The Daily Telegraph| title=William Bingley| date=14 August 2011}}</ref>
*[[Edward Clarke (barrister)|Edward Clarke]], Victorian British barrister and politician<ref name="tylersandbricklayers.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.tylersandbricklayers.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142&Itemid=139&limitstart=4|title=Tylers and Bricklayers – Tylers and Bricklayers|author=Website Developer|work=tylersandbricklayers.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[Ian M. Cook]], Chairman, President and chief executive officer of [[Colgate-Palmolive]].
*[[Harry Henry]], one of Britain's market research pioneers and last survivor of the 23 founders of the Market Research Society (MRS)
*[[Nick Leeson]], trader with [[Barings Bank]] who brought about its collapse
*[[Jane Shepherdson]], chief executive of UK clothing brand, [[Whistles]] and was brand director for [[TopShop]].

====Politics and public affairs====
*[[Adel Mouwda|Adel Al-Mouwdah]], Deputy Speaker of [[Bahrain]]'s first elected [[Council of Representatives of Bahrain|parliament]] and president of [[Salafist]] party, [[Asalah]]
*[[Graham Allen (politician)|Graham Allen]], Member of Parliament (1974, [[City of London Polytechnic]])
*[[Candy Atherton]], British journalist and former Member of Parliament (1985, BA Applied Social Studies, [[Polytechnic of North London]])
*[[Julie Bindel]], English writer, feminist and co-founder of the group [[Justice For Women]] (Researcher)
*[[James Brokenshire]], Member of Parliament
*[[Jeremy Corbyn]], former leader of the Labour Party (Trade Union Studies, [[North London Polytechnic]]: did not graduate)
*[[Marie-Claire Faray]], women's rights activist, Vice President of the UK chapter of the [[Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elbagir |first=Nima |date=2012-11-30 |title='Give African women a voice', say activists |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/30/world/africa/africa-womens-decade-rights/index.html |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Guest Speakers |url=https://metimun2011.weebly.com/guest-speakers.html |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=METiMUN 2011}}</ref>
*[[Kate Hoey]], [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (Economics, [[City of London College]])
*[[Sadiq Khan]], Member of Parliament and [[Mayor of London]] (1992, Law, [[University of North London]])
*[[Nainendra Nand]], former Solicitor-General of Fiji from 1997 to 2000
*[[Christine Russell]], former Member of Parliament
*[[David Shaw (UK politician)|David Shaw]], former Member of Parliament
*[[Rainatou Sow]], women's rights campaigner
*[[Peter Tatchell]], human rights campaigner (1973, BSc Sociology, [[Polytechnic of North London]])
*[[Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin]], Labour politician and community activist
*[[Charlie Whelan]], [[Gordon Brown]]'s former [[spin doctor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/248203.stm|title=BBC News – UK Politics – Spin doctor to resign|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref>
*[[Malcolm Wicks]], Member of Parliament
* [[Nnamdi Kanu]], Nigerian-British Director of Radio Biafra and founder of [[Indigenous People of Biafra]] (IPOB), an African separatist group

====Royalty====
*[[Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II]], [[Asantehene|King]] of the Ashantiman in Ghana, attended the Polytechnic of North London<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://londondietetics.co.uk/library/c44354_3.pdf| title=The Metropolitan| date=Spring 2007| publisher=London Metropolitan University| access-date=27 August 2012| archive-date=8 September 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908015601/http://londondietetics.co.uk/library/c44354_3.pdf| url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Sciences====
*[[D. Bernard Amos]], professor of immunology and experimental surgery at [[Duke University]] (1962–1993), attended Sir John Cass Technical School<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://archives.mc.duke.edu/mcaamosdb.html| title=Amos, D. Bernard, Papers, 1963–1991| publisher=Medical Center Archives, Duke University| access-date=26 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[Harshad Bhadeshia]], professor of metallurgy at the [[University of Cambridge]], attended City of London Polytechnic<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans/Bhadeshia.html| title=Phase Transformations and Complex Properties Research Group| publisher=[[University of Cambridge]]| access-date=26 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[Edward Charles Bowra]], [[Sinologist]] and botanist, attended City of London College<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=86&inst_id=19| title=Bowra, Edward Charles Mackintosh and Cecil Arthur Verner| publisher=AIM25,Archives in London and the M25 area| access-date=26 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[Edward Robert Harrison]], astronomer and cosmologist noted for his explanation of [[Olbers's paradox]]

====Sports====
*[[David Goodchild]], former English cricketer

===Notable staff===
*[[Patrick Brill]], artist
*[[Maurice Glasman]], Lord Glasman
*[[Peter Gowan]], left-wing intellectual and editor of New Left Review
*[[Stephen Haseler]], politician and writer
*[[Sadiq Khan]], Member of Parliament and [[Mayor of London]]
*[[Tony McNulty]], former Member of Parliament
*[[Karim Ouazzane]], Professor of Computing and Knowledge Exchange<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-life-sciences-and-computing/staff/professor-karim-ouazzane/|title=Professor Karim Ouazzane|website=London Metropolitan University|language=en|access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref>
*[[Sunny Singh (writer)|Sunny Singh]], writer
*[[Paul St George]], artist
*[[Kate Soper]], philosopher
*[[Margot Sunderland]], children's psychologist and author of popular books
*[[A. J. P. Taylor]], historian
*[[Nicholas Troop]], health psychologist