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Alumni of the London School of Economics

  • Ivy PinchbeckIvy Pinchbeck stood on the stage at the University of Nottingham in 1920 to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree. This moment marked the beginning of a career…
  • Pierre TrudeauPierre Trudeau walked into the 1968 Liberal leadership convention having been a card-carrying member of the party for barely three years.
  • Bronisław MalinowskiBronisław Malinowski arrived in the Trobriand Islands in 1915 having already made one embarrassing mistake. On his first field trip, lodged with a local…
  • George SorosGeorge Soros was born György Schwartz on the 12th of August 1930 in Budapest, into a prosperous Jewish family that would spend the next decade and a half…
  • Tobias AdrianTobias Adrian entered the world on the 23rd of July 1971 in Kronberg, West Germany. He began his schooling at Humboldtschule located in Bad Homburg.
  • B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar was born on the 14th of April 1891 in the town and military cantonment of Mhow, as the 14th and last child of an army officer.
  • David AttenboroughDavid Attenborough turned 100 years old on the 8th of May 2026, and the Royal Albert Hall filled with singers, filmmakers, composers, and royalty to mark the…
  • Hilary MantelHilary Mantel stood at the podium at the Guildhall in London in 2009 and told the audience she was "happily flying through the air." She had just won the…
  • Ronald CoaseRonald Harry Coase was born on the 29th of December 1910 in Willesden, a suburb of London, and he would live to the age of 102 - long enough to see ideas he…
  • Nicholas BarrNicholas Barr holds the chair of professor of public economics at the London School of Economics, one of the most debated institutions in the world of social…
  • Michael Hirst (writer)Michael Hirst was born on the 21st of September 1952 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and he would go on to reshape how television tells stories about history.
  • Patrick CurryPatrick Curry was born in Winnipeg, Canada, during the year 1951. He pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at the University of California, Santa…
  • Nick BostromNick Bostrom was born Niklas Boström on the 10th of March 1973 in Helsingborg, Sweden, and he grew up disliking school so much that he spent his final year…
  • Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan shined shoes at Pennsylvania Station as a boy during the Great Depression, in the same building he would later spend decades fighting…
  • William BaumolWilliam Jack Baumol was born on the 26th of February 1922 in the South Bronx, to immigrant parents who had come from Eastern Europe.