King's College London

King's College London, the British higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London

Country

the United Kingdom

Location

England, London, the United Kingdom

Website

http://www.kcl.ac.uk

Student Number

23,500; 18,630; 21,230

Location of

Australia House

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_College_London

Founded

1829

Slogan

"Sancte et Sapienter", "Sancte et Sapienter (Latin: With Holiness and Wisdom)"

Chair

Patricia Rawlings

Coordinates

51°30'19.78"N, 51°30'43"N, 51°30'42"N, 0°06'44.81"W, 0°06'58"W

Principal

Rick Trainor

Alumni

▶ Virginia Woolf, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Hardy, Desmond Tutu, Arthur C. Clarke,  …

Michael Collins, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gary Lineker, Yiruma, John Deacon, Abdul Kalam, John Ruskin, Kele Okereke, W. Somerset Maugham, Juno Temple, Francis Galton, Louis Slotin, Martin Bashir, Quentin Crisp, Charles Lyell, Sarojini Naidu, Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Nyman, Derek Jarman, Rory Bremner, Michael Morpurgo, Hanif Kureishi, Khushwant Singh, Alain de Botton, David Bellamy, Peter Higgs, W. S. Gilbert, C. S. Forester, Asma al-Assad, Graeme Garden, Charles Kingsley, David Owen, Richard Coles, Tassos Papadopoulos, Ben Goldacre, John Ralston Saul, Radclyffe Hall, Edmund Gwenn, George Carey, Cicely Saunders, Calouste Gulbenkian, John Eliot Gardiner, Claire Rayner, Anita Brookner, Susan Hill, Gwynne Dyer, William Kingdon Clifford, Evelyn Underhill, Barry Davies, Abdul Razak Baginda, Charles Scott Sherrington, Richard Doll, Andy Mackay, John Maddox, Susan Howatch, E. W. Bullinger, Elizabeth Smart, Jamila Massey, Leslie Stephen, Majeedah Bolkiah, Thomas Hodgkin, Raymond Buckland, Phil Hammond, Andrew Watson, C. Northcote Parkinson, William Burges, Alison Richard, John Evan, Humphry Osmond, Steven Rose, Dannie Abse, Michael Denton, Sophie Long, Edward Victor Appleton, Lucinda Roy, Theresa Villiers, Suzi Digby, Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Douglas Carswell, William Baker, Alfred Milner, Max Theiler, Glafkos Klerides, Adam Langley-Khan, Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Raja Ramanna, Benjamin Cohen, Raymond Gosling, Krisztina Morvai, Ukichiro Nakaya, Ronan Bennett, Uta Frith, Clifford Rose, Shridath Ramphal, Owen Willans Richardson, Chapman Pincher, Alex Carlile, Reginald McKenna, John Keats, Alice Martineau, Georgina Bouzova, Gilli Smyth, Natascha Engel, Anthony Seldon, Muhammad Abdul Bari, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederick Hopkins, Anne McLellan, Astley Cooper, Lynden Pindling, France-Albert René, B. S. Johnson, Katherine Grainger, Christopher Geidt, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, Edwin Arnold, Trupti Patel, Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, Walter Besant, Billy Werner, Janet Gordon-Lennox, Stanley William Hayter, Gareth Thomas, Mike Dash, Helen Cresswell, Jane Tranter, Sue Carpenter, Michael Fisher, Alfred de Rothschild, Rick Trainor, Richard Sykes, Mark Francois, Leonard Fenton, Frederic William Farrar, Fiona Mactaggart, Ronald Moody, Jonathan Maitland, Harry Golombek, Henry Sylvester-Williams, Harry Gem, Harry Johnston, Anthony Pawson, Patrick Steptoe, Freda Utley, Dusé Mohamed Ali, William Saville-Kent, John MacGregor, Brian Davies, Marouf al-Bakhit, Jack Nicholls, Alliott Verdon Roe, G. G. Ponnambalam, Leigh Richmond Roose, Richard Kostelanetz, Julie Morgan, Robert Ayres, John Wolfe-Barry, John Henry, Kieran West, Andrew Lambert, Maureen Duffy, Cat Porter, Miriam Rothschild, Edward Middleton Barry, Herbert Wilson, Stephen R. Bourne, Sally Morgan, Alexis Strum, Roger Royle, Marcelo Gleiser, Raja Kashif, Ilana Rovner, Nancy Rothwell, Jack Drummond, Edward Walter Maunder, Cyril Aldred, Gary Streeter, Barney Pityana, Fougasse, Louis Blom-Cooper, John Marek, Tim Collins, John Adair, Henry Parry Liddon, John L. Walters, Maitree Wickramasinghe, Roger Woolger, Debbie Flood, James Lowther, Martin J. Taylor, Alexander Masters, Kayode Fayemi, Chris Newman, Angela Rumbold, Denis Alexander

Employees

Dennis William Sciama, Charles Glover Barkla, John Huxtable Elliott, Denis Saurat, Tom Willmore

Pupils

▶ Virginia Woolf; Florence Nightingale; Thomas Hardy; Desmond Tutu; Arthur C. Clarke;  …

Michael Collins; Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje; Gary Lineker; John Deacon; Abdul Kalam; John Ruskin; Kele Okereke; W. Somerset Maugham; Francis Galton; Martin Bashir; Charles Lyell; Sarojini Naidu; Simon Baron-Cohen; Michael Nyman; Derek Jarman; Rory Bremner; Michael Morpurgo; Hanif Kureishi; Khushwant Singh; Alain de Botton; Peter Higgs; W. S. Gilbert; C. S. Forester; Asma al-Assad; Graeme Garden; Charles Kingsley; David Owen; Tassos Papadopoulos; Ben Goldacre; John Ralston Saul; Radclyffe Hall; George Carey; Cicely Saunders; Calouste Gulbenkian; John Eliot Gardiner; Claire Rayner; Anita Brookner; Gwynne Dyer; William Kingdon Clifford; Evelyn Underhill; Abdul Razak Baginda; Charles Scott Sherrington; Andy Mackay; John Maddox; Susan Howatch; E. W. Bullinger; Elizabeth Smart; Jamila Massey; Leslie Stephen; Thomas Hodgkin; C. Northcote Parkinson; William Burges; Alison Richard; John Evan; Humphry Osmond; Dannie Abse; Sophie Long; Edward Victor Appleton; Theresa Villiers; Suzi Digby; Douglas Carswell; William Baker; Alfred Milner; Max Theiler; Glafkos Klerides; Adam Langley-Khan; Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz; Raymond Gosling; Krisztina Morvai; Ukichiro Nakaya; Ronan Bennett; Clifford Rose; Shridath Ramphal; Owen Willans Richardson; Reginald McKenna; John Keats; Alice Martineau; Georgina Bouzova; Gilli Smyth; Natascha Engel; James Fitzjames Stephen; Frederick Hopkins; Anne McLellan; Lynden Pindling; France-Albert René; Katherine Grainger; Sinnathamby Rajaratnam; Ayesha Siddiqa Agha; Walter Besant; Billy Werner; Stanley William Hayter; Gareth Thomas; Mike Dash; Helen Cresswell; Jane Tranter; Sue Carpenter; Michael Fisher; Alfred de Rothschild; Richard Sykes; Mark Francois; Frederic William Farrar; Fiona Mactaggart; Ronald Moody; Jonathan Maitland; Harry Golombek; Harry Johnston; Anthony Pawson; Patrick Steptoe; Freda Utley; William Saville-Kent; John MacGregor; Marouf al-Bakhit; Alliott Verdon Roe; Leigh Richmond Roose; Julie Morgan; Robert Ayres; John Wolfe-Barry; Kieran West; Cat Porter; Miriam Rothschild; Edward Middleton Barry; Stephen R. Bourne; Sally Morgan; Alexis Strum; Marcelo Gleiser; Raja Kashif; Nancy Rothwell; Cyril Aldred; Gary Streeter; Barney Pityana; Tim Collins; Henry Parry Liddon; Debbie Flood; James Lowther; Alexander Masters; Kayode Fayemi; Chris Newman; Angela Rumbold; Howard Stoate; Richard Anthony Proctor; Michael Roberts; Brandon Lewis; Alfred Ainger; Henry Kingsley; Ka Vang; William Christie; Richard A. Falkenrath; Robert Bentley; Frances Houghton; Henry Barclay Swete; Edith Summerskill; Conrad Windham; Horace King; Michael Barry; F. A. Voigt; Bill Griffiths; Anne Ridler; Charles Wyndham; Wayne Martin; Frederic Harrison; Brian Bond; William Henry Preece; Eric Grove; John Thadeus Delane; T. Pelham Dale; Elizabeth Burns; Vernon Richards; Charles James Lyall; Helen Gwynne-Vaughan; Arnold Spencer-Smith; George Webbe Dasent; George Newman; Christopher Hill; Caroline Spurgeon; Jacob Wrey Mould; Tom Willmore; Oonagh McDonald; Hanneke Canters; Geoffrey Till; Josh Cooper; Frederick Wollaston Hutton; John Dunwoody; Andrew Gordon; John Cockburn; Edward James Stone; Ernest Clark; Matthew Halton; Charles Frederick Cross; Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright; William Francis Gray Swann; Julius J. Lipner; James Edwin Thorold Rogers; Albert Mansbridge; Thomas Anstey Guthrie; Herbert Edmund-Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies

Funding

publicly-funded university

Class

▶ building or building complex, non-business organization, publicly-funded university, business, academic institution,  …

university, nursing school, architectural structure, manufactured item, geographical area, educational organisation, organisation

Subjects

electrical engineer

Part of

University of London

Related Websites

▶ http://www.ull.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/militaryservice.shtml, http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/studentrecords.shtml, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/global, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/virtualtour/strand-campus.html,  …

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/history/175, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ikings, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/history/175, http://www.mastersportal.eu/students/browse/university/164/kings-college-london.html, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kcvb, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/library

Uncommon Terms

"kings"

Visited by

Desmond Tutu

Former Students

▶ Boris Karloff; Greer Garson; Adnan Sami; Christopher Isherwood; Havelock Ellis;  …

Alexander Windsor; Sacha Gervasi; Peter Asher; Nigel Green; Jonathan Sacks; Claire Windsor; George Hargreaves; Lewis Wolpert; Thomas Addison; Marina Lewycka; Rais Yatim; Peter Henry Emerson; John Milne; Shaw Clifton; Thomas Cavalier-Smith; Princess Antonia; Godfrey Binaisa; Ayoola Erinle; W. O. Bentley; Nuala O'Loan; Hudson Stuck; Helen Joseph; Herbert Brenon; Storm Jameson; Amber Marks; Ellie Harrison; Kypros Nicolaides; John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton; Charles Montagu Doughty; Garry Kilworth; Njongonkulu Ndungane; Chris Moran; Robert Fry; Adam Khan; Colwyn Philipps; Andreas Embirikos; Richard Peirse; Pat Reid; George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland; Hugh Pennington; Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso; Jo Ankier

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DBPedia URI

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Suborganisations

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Rare Terms

▶ "king's"; "the king's college"; "the kings"; "the king's college london act 1997"; "king's college london act 1997";  …

"the king’s college, london"; "the king's london"; "king's london"; "the kings' college, london"; "kings' college, london"; "the kings college, london"; "kings college, london"; "the king's college, university of london"; "king's college, university of london"; "the king's college, london"; "kings"

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