Since its founding, King’s has educated some of the world’s foremost thinkers, leaders and innovators, and welcomed exceptional academics as Faculty.

From early innovators such as Florence Nightingale, James Clerk Maxwell, and Sir Charles Lyell, through to Professor Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Sir James Black and Dame Cicely Saunders, we have a history of making advances that have shaped modern life.

Creative writers nurtured at King’s include John Keats, Thomas Hardy, WS Gilbert, and Virginia Woolf.

Great names from King's have continued to change the world. Among our notable alumni are:

• Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• 2013 Nobel Physics Laureate Peter Higgs, of Higgs Boson fame
• Authors Hanif Kureishi CBE, Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE DL, Susan Hill CBE and Alain de Botton
• Dame Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold and silver medallist
• Dina Asher-Smith MBE, Olympic and European Championship sprint medallist
• Farrah Storr, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine
• Susan Gilchrist, CEO of Brunswick Group
• Dev Pragad, CEO of Newsweek Group
• Sir Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister
• Margo Marrone, founder of the Organic Pharmacy.