Editing King's College London (section)

=== Notable alumni ===
{{See also|Category:Alumni of King's College London|List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation}}

There are 14 [[list of Nobel laureates|Nobel laureates]] who were associated with either King's College London or one of the institutions that have since merged with it.<ref name="nobelpr">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/our-people/nobel|website=King's College London |title=Nobel Laureates|access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> Notable alumni in the sciences include Nobel laureates [[Peter Higgs]] (Physics),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/famouspeople/peterhiggs.aspx |title=Professor Peter Higgs |publisher=King's College London|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> [[Michael Houghton (virologist)|Sir Michael Houghton]] (Medicine)<ref name="nobelpr" /> and [[Michael Levitt (biophysicist)|Michael Levitt]] (Chemistry).<ref name="nobelpr" /> Others include [[Francis Galton|Sir Francis Galton]], polymath and pioneer of [[eugenics]].<ref>'GALTON, Sir Francis', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref> Alumni in performing arts include impressionist [[Rory Bremner]];<ref name="oldnotable">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/about/known/ |title=King's Notable Alumni |publisher=King's College London |year=2006|access-date=16 January 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070829044710/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/about/known/  |archive-date=29 August 2007}}</ref> [[Queen (band)|Queen]] bassist [[John Deacon]];<ref name="oldnotable" /> and [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] winners [[Greer Garson]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IW__K6uOroC&pg=PA19|page=19|title=A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson|author= Michael Troyan|publisher= University Press of Kentucky|date=12 September 2010|isbn=978-0-8131-2842-9 }}</ref> [[Edmund Gwenn]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Mr Edmund Gwenn – Versatile Character Actor|work=[[The Times]]|date=8 September 1959|page= 13}}</ref> and [[Anne Dudley]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Alumna of the Year: Anne Dudley |url=https://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=5011 |publisher=King's College London|access-date=27 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227230423/https://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=5011|archive-date=27 December 2018}}</ref> In law, alumni include [[Karim Ahmad Khan]], Chief [[Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/karim-khan-british-barrister-icc-russia-war-crimes-inquiry|title=Karim Khan: the 'very modern British barrister' heading ICC's Russia inquiry|date=6 March 2022|author=Haroon Siddique |work=The Guardian}}</ref> and [[Patrick Lipton Robinson]], a judge of the International Court of Justice.<ref name="ICJ">{{cite web |url=http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/files/4/18394.pdf |title=ICJ Press Release |publisher=[[International Court of Justice|ICJ]] official site | access-date=19 November 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129064422/http://www.icj-cij.org/presscom/files/4/18394.pdf | archive-date=29 November 2014 }}</ref> In literature, alumni include the dramatist [[W. S. Gilbert|Sir W. S. Gilbert]] of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]],<ref>Jane W. Stedman, 'Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836–1911)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004</ref> and the writers [[Thomas Hardy]],<ref name=Notable-alumni>{{cite web |title=Notable Alumni |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204232408/http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/news-features/notable-alumni|archive-date=4 February 2016|url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/news-features/notable-alumni |website=News & features |publisher=King's Alumni Community|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref> [[Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://harpercollins.co.uk/blogs/authors/arthur-c-clarke|title=Arthur C. Clarke|website=HarperCollins|access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref> and [[Virginia Woolf]].<ref name=Notable-alumni/>

Notable King's alumni to have held senior positions in British politics include two Speakers of the House of Commons ([[Horace King, Baron Maybray-King|Horace King]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWmNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gained+Ph.D.+in+1940%22|page=125|title=The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth| volume= 47-48|publisher=General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association|date= 1966}}</ref> and [[James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater|James Lowther]]),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-osAAAAYAAJ&dq=lowther+james&pg=PA401|title= The Calendar of King's College, London|publisher= John W. Parker |date=1896|pages=401, 522}}</ref> and one [[Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)|Foreign Secretary]] ([[David Owen]]). King's has also educated numerous foreign heads of state and government including two presidents of Cyprus, [[Tassos Papadopoulos]]<ref name="phileleftheros 1">{{cite news |first=Helena |last=Smith |title=Obituary: Tassos Papadopoulos |date=8 January 2009 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/08/cyprus-obituary-tassos-papadopoulos |newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=31 March 2013 |location=London}}</ref> and [[Glafcos Clerides]];<ref name="Glafkos Ioannou Clerides">{{cite web |url=http://www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Bios/GlafkosClerides.html |title=Glafkos Ioannou Clerides|access-date=16 January 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804110415/http://www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Bios/GlafkosClerides.html|archive-date=4 August 2012 }}</ref> [[Marouf al-Bakhit]], Prime Minister of Jordan;<ref name="Biography of Marouf al-Bakhit">{{cite web |url=http://www.globalinsight.com/Perspective/PerspectiveDetail2538.htm |title=Biography of Marouf al-Bakhit|access-date=22 December 2008}}{{subscription required}}</ref> [[France-Albert René]], President of the Seychelles;<ref name="France-Albert Rene">{{cite book |author=((Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries ))|title=The Riverside dictionary of biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zxQ5dr61X8C&pg=PA670| access-date = 31 March 2013 |year=2005 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=978-0-618-49337-1 |page=670}}</ref> [[Lynden Pindling|Sir Lynden Pindling]], Prime Minister of the Bahamas;<ref name="Sir Lynden Pindling">{{cite book |last=O'Neill |first=Terry |title=The Bahamas Speed Weeks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkXnZF-WcT4C&pg=PA353| access-date = 31 March 2013 |year=2006 |publisher=Veloce Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-84584-018-1 |page=353}}</ref> [[Godfrey Binaisa]], President of Uganda;<ref name="autogenerated204">{{cite book |author1=Wolfgang, M. E. |author2=Lambert, R. D. |title=Africa in Transition |publisher=American Academy of Political and Social Science |year=1977 |page=204}}</ref> [[Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz]], Prime Minister of Iraq;<ref name="al-bazzaz">{{cite book |first1=John L |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam – Abdul-Rahman al-Bazzaz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VeCWQfVNjkC&pg=PA40| access-date = 31 March 2013 |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-512559-7 |last1=Esposito}}</ref> [[Maurice Bishop]], Prime Minister of Grenada; and [[Lee Moore (politician)|Sir Lee Moore]], Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis.<ref name="Biography of Sir Lee Moore">{{cite web |url=http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem.asp?articlenumber=49 |title=Court Building to be named in honour of Sir Lee Llewellyn Moore on National Heroes Day |publisher=Office of the Prime Minister of the Government of St. Kitts & Nevis |access-date=31 March 2013 |archive-date=24 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124154057/http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem.asp?articlenumber=49 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

King's alumni in religion include [[Desmond Tutu]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate and Archbishop of Cape Town;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/archbishop-desmond-tutu |title=Desmond Tutu |publisher=King's College London |access-date=29 December 2021}}</ref> [[George Carey]], Archbishop of Canterbury;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/george-carey-103rd-archbishop-of-canterbury.html |title=George Carey – 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury |publisher=The Archbishop of Canterbury|access-date=31 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110155052/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/george-carey-103rd-archbishop-of-canterbury.html|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Jonathan Sacks]], [[Chief Rabbi]] of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. While in the military, alumni include [[Tony Radakin|Sir Tony Radakin]], [[Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Defence Staff]]; [[John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton|Lord Harding]], [[Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Imperial General Staff]]; [[Michael Wigston|Sir Michael Wigston]], [[Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Air Staff]]; and two recipients of the [[Victoria Cross]], [[Ferdinand Le Quesne]] and [[Mark Sever Bell]]. King's is also the alma mater of the founder of [[Bentley Motors]], [[W. O. Bentley|Walter Bentley]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rolls-royceandbentley.co.uk/w-o-bentley-the-founder-of-bentley.html |title=W. O. Bentley – The Founder of Bentley |publisher=Rolls-Royce & Bentley |year=2016|access-date=14 July 2016}}</ref> oil magnate and philanthropist [[Calouste Gulbenkian]], and Olympic gold medalists [[Katherine Grainger|Dame Katherine Grainger]],<ref name=Notable-alumni /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/graingerolympicgold |title=KCL's Katherine Grainger wins gold – King's Alumni Online |work=kcl.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Paul Bennett (rower)|Paul Bennett]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/newsevents/newsrecords/alumniriomedalists.aspx |title=Alumni produce Super Saturday double in Rio |work=kcl.ac.uk}}</ref> and [[Kieran West]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/kingsolympichopefuls |title=King's Olympic Hopefuls – King's Alumni Online |work=kcl.ac.uk}}</ref>

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|Physicist [[Peter Higgs]], awarded the 2013 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his work on the [[Higgs boson]]
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|Writer [[Virginia Woolf]]
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|Dramatist [[W. S. Gilbert|Sir W. S. Gilbert]] of Gilbert and Sullivan 
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|Science fiction writer [[Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke]]
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|Archbishop [[Desmond Tutu]], awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1984
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|[[Queen (band)|Queen]] bassist [[John Deacon]] 
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