This list of people associated with the London School of Economics includes notable alumni, non-graduates, academics and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 55 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates.[1]
LSE started awarding its own degrees in its own name in 2008,[2] prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree.
The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university's alumni have attained a level of distinction in more than one field, however these appear only in the category which they are most often associated.
State | Image | Leader | Affiliation | Office |
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Barbados | Errol Barrow (1920–1987) | BSc (Econ) 1950 | Prime Minister (1962–1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987) | |
Mia Mottley (born 1965) | LLB 1986 | Prime Minister (2018–present) | ||
Benin | Lionel Zinsou (born 1954) | Course unknown | Prime Minister (2015–2016) | |
Bulgaria | Sergey Stanishev (born 1966) | Visiting Fellow International Relations 1999–2000 | Prime Minister (2005–2009) | |
Canada | Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) | Research Fee student 1947–1948 | Prime Minister (1968–1979; 1980–1984) | |
75px|Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada, 1993 | Kim Campbell (born 1947) | PhD student 1973 | Prime Minister (June–November 1993) | |
Colombia | Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo | Occasional Registration 1932–1933 | President (1934–1938; 1942–1945) | |
Juan Manuel Santos | MSc Economics 1975 | President (2010–2018) | ||
Costa Rica | Óscar Arias (born 1941) | Enrolled 1967 | President (1986–1990; 2006–2010) | |
Denmark | HM Queen Margrethe II (born 1940) | Occasional student 1965 | Queen (1972–present) | |
Dominica | Dame Eugenia Charles | LLM 1949 | Prime Minister (1980–1995) | |
Fiji | Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) | Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962 | Prime Minister (1970–1992) President (1994–2000) | |
Finland | Alexander Stubb (born 1968) | PhD International Politics 1999 | Prime Minister (2014–2015) | |
Germany | Heinrich Brüning | BSc Economics student 1911–1913 | Chancellor (1930–1932) | |
Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) | PhD 1946 | President (1960–1966) | |
Hilla Limann (1934–1998) | BSc (Econ) 1960 | President (1979–1981) | ||
John Atta Mills (born 1944) | LLM 1967–1968 | President (2009) | ||
Gibraltar | Joe Bossano (born 1939) | BSc Economics circa 1960 | Chief Minister (1988–1996) | |
Greece | George Papandreou (born 1952) | MSc Sociology 1977 | Prime Minister (2009–2011) | |
Constantine Simitis (born 1936) | Research Fee student 1961–1963 | Prime Minister (1996–2004) | ||
Grenada | Maurice Bishop (1943–1983) | LLB circa 1967–1968 | Prime Minister (1979–1983) | |
Guyana | Forbes Burnham (1923–1985) | LLB 1948 | Prime Minister (1964–1980) President (1980–1985) | |
India | K.R. Narayanan (1921–2005) | BSc (Econ) 1945–1948 | President (1997–2002) | |
Israel | Moshe Sharett (1894–1965) | BSc (Econ) 1924 | Prime Minister (1953–1955) | |
Italy | Romano Prodi (born 1939) | Research Fee student 1962–1963 | Prime Minister (1996–1998; 2006–2008) | |
Jamaica | Michael Manley (1924–1997) | BSc (Econ) 1949 | Prime Minister (1972–1980; 1989–1992) | |
P J Patterson | LLB 1963 | Premier (1992–2006) | ||
Japan | Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936) | Course unknown | Prime Minister (1920–1922; 1932) | |
Tsutomu Hata (1935–2017) | Course unknown | Prime Minister (1994) | ||
Taro Aso (born 1940) | Occasional student 1966 | Prime Minister (2008–2009) | ||
Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978) | ADA 1936 | President (1964–1978) | |
Mwai Kibaki (born 1931) | BSc Economics 1959 | President (2002–2013) | ||
Kiribati | Anote Tong (born 1952) | MSc Sea-Use Group 1988 | President (2003–2016) | |
Libya | Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (born 1972) | PhD 2006 | Effective Prime Minister (2007–2011)[4] | |
Malaysia | Tuanku Jaafar (1922–2008) | Course unknown | Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch) (1994–1999) | |
Mauritius | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985) | Attended lectures whilst studying at University College London | Chief Minister (1961–1968) Prime minister (1968–1982) Governor-General (1983–1985) | |
Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000) | LLB 1948 | President (March–June 1992) | ||
Navinchandra Ramgoolam (born 1947) | LLB 1990 | Prime Minister (1995–2000; 2005–2014) | ||
Nepal | Sher Bahadur Deuba (born 1943) | Research student, International Relations 1988–1989 | Prime Minister (1995–1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005) | |
Panama | Harmodio Arias Madrid (1886–1962) | Occasional student, 1909–1911 | President (1932–1936) | |
Peru | Pedro Beltrán Espantoso (1897–1979) | BSc (Econ) 1918 | Prime Minister (1959–1961) | |
Beatriz Merino (born 1947) | LLM 1972 | Prime Minister (2003) | ||
Poland | Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005) | MSc Economics 1953 | Prime Minister of government in exile (1986–1990) | |
Marek Belka (born 1952) | Summer School 1990 | Prime Minister (2004–2005) | ||
Sierra Leone | Banja Tejan-Sie (1917–2000) | LLB circa 1950 | Governor-General (1968–1971) | |
Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) | Occasional student after circa 1945 | Prime Minister (1959–1990) | |
Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957) | BSc (Econ) 1981 | President (2023–present) | ||
Saint Lucia | John Compton (1925–2007) | LLB 1952 | Premier (1964–1979) Prime Minister (February–July 1979; 1982–1996) | |
Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000) | Composition fee student 1947–1949 | Premier (1984–1989) | ||
Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) | Ph.D. Law 1984 | President (2016–present) | ||
Thailand | Tanin Kraivixien (born 1927) | LLB 1953 | Prime Minister (1976–1977) | |
Togo | Sylvanus Olympio (b. 1902–1963) | BSc Economics | Prime Minister (1958–1961) President (1961–1963) | |
United Kingdom | Ramsay MacDonald | Lecturer | Prime Minister (1924; 1929–1935) | |
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) | Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923 | Prime Minister (1945–1951) |
See main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the London School of Economics.
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The original governors of the LSE were, besides Beatrice Webb:[37]