Olympic winning athlete (KCL) Louis Attrill – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (ICL) Roger Bannister – first to run the four-minute mile (ICL) Paul Bennett – Olympic gold medal-winning rower (KCL) Simon Dennis – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (ICL) Harry Gem – inventor of lawn tennis (KCL) Hugh Lindsay – English amateur footballer who played for Southampton and appeared in the 1960 Summer Olympics Katherine Grainger – Olympic gold medalist, rowing (KCL) Frances Houghton – Olympic medal-winning rower (KCL) Zoe Lee – Olympic medal-winning rower (KCL) Kieran West – Olympic gold medallist, rowing (KCL) Annabel Vernon – Olympic medal-winning rower (KCL) Thomas Hollingdale – Welsh international rugby player (KCL) Adam Khan – racing driver (KCL) Corinna Lawrence – fencer (KCL) Gary Lineker – England footballer and television pundit (KCL) Edward Pegge – Welsh international rugby player (KCL) Leigh Richmond Roose – Welsh international footballer (KCL) Chris Sheasby – England rugby player (KCL) Others Abdalla Uba Adamu, professor, media scholar, vice chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria Thomas Armitage – founder of the RNIB (KCL) James Barrett (academic) – academic (KCL) Thomas John Barnardo – philanthropist (QMUL) Hedley Bull – International Relations academic (LSE) Urvashi Butalia – Indian feminist writer, publisher, and activist Alex Comfort – writer of "The Joy of Sex" (UCL) Sir William Coxen, 1st Baronet – Lord Mayor of London (KCL) Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri – International Relations academic (LSE), (ICwS) Quentin Crisp – writer, actor and raconteur (KCL) James Cuno – director of the Courtauld Institute of Art (2003-2004) Sir Christopher Geidt – Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (KCL) Harry Golombek – chess grandmaster (KCL) Devendra Prasad Gupta – academic (KCL) Michael Halliday – linguist Harold Jenkins – Shakespeare scholar Reginald Johnston – teacher of Puyi (SOAS) Sir Ivison Macadam – first President of NUS and Director-General of Chatham House (KCL) David Livingstone – explorer (ICL) Ram Charan Mehrotra - Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi and University of Allahabad Linda Norgrove – kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and killed in rescue effort Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – criminal and terrorist (LSE) José Graziano da Silva – agronomist, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (ILAS) Nancy Rothwell – academic (KCL) Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott – Lord Mayor of London (KCL) Marianne Winder – linguist, author, Buddhist and Librarian at the Wellcome Library Josh Carrott – Youtuber Arthur Christopher Watson – British High Commissioner to Brunei