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Notable Alumni Lancelot Thomas Hogben • Jonathan Sacks • William Penney, Baron Penney • Alfred Hitchcock • Khushwant Singh • Alexander Fleming • Simon Rattle • Emily Davison • James Lovelock • Ricky Gervais • Asō Tarō • Tedros Adhanom • Ieuan Wyn Jones • Todd Young • Maria Ramos • Sir Mortimer Wheeler • Bridget Riley • Sir Macfarlane Burnet • Charles Kao • Ronald Coase • Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins • Sir Peter Mansfield • Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan • Andrew V. Schally • Sir Gilbert Roberts • Sir Arthur Harden • Penelope Mortimer • Michael Halliday
Related People Valerie Amos • Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders • Emily Davies • Thomas Campbell

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