List of alumni of the Royal College of Art

The following is a list of alumni of the Royal College of Art, London, and of its predecessor schools before 1896: the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design, the Normal Training School of Art and the National Art Training School.

A

 * Kristian Aadnevik, fashion designer
 * Faisal Abdu'allah, printmaker
 * Gerald Abramovitz
 * M. R. Acharekar, painter, art director
 * Jane Ackroyd, sculptor
 * Norman Ackroyd
 * Mark Adams (designer)
 * David Adjaye, architect
 * Edgar Ainsworth (artist)
 * Griselda Allan
 * Charlie Allen (designer)
 * Kathleen Allen
 * W. H. Allen
 * Anthea Alley
 * Helen Allingham, painter
 * Edward Allington
 * Victor Ambrus, illustrator
 * Hurvin Anderson
 * Kay Anderson
 * Marie Angel (artist)
 * Peggy Angus
 * Pascal Anson
 * Lorenzo Apicella
 * Leonard Appelbee, painter
 * Billy Apple, artist and designer
 * Val Archer, painter
 * Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
 * Audrey Arnott
 * Pamela Ascherson
 * Ruth Spencer Aspden
 * Katerina Athanasopoulou, film maker and animation artist
 * Jeremy Atherton Lin, writer
 * Frank Auerbach, painter
 * Robert Austin (artist)
 * Maxwell Ayrton, architect

B

 * Marjorie May Bacon
 * Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe
 * Fred Baier
 * Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
 * Alfred Lys Baldry
 * Barbara Banister
 * Tom Barker (designer)
 * Jonathan Barnbrook, typographer and graphic designer
 * Brian Barnes (artist)
 * Glenys Barton
 * Michael Bartlett
 * Pauline Baumann
 * Lewis Baumer
 * Edward Bawden
 * Arlon Bayliss, visual artist
 * John Beard (artist)
 * Cressida Bell, textile designer
 * Peter Bellamy
 * John Bellany
 * Sebastian Bergne, industrial designer
 * Christine Berrie, illustrator
 * Arthur Berry (playwright)
 * Clara Billing, sculptor
 * Dora Billington
 * Helen Binyon
 * Henry Bird, muralist
 * Sutapa Biswas
 * David Blackburn (artist), landscape artist
 * William Kay Blacklock
 * Doris Blair
 * Peter Blake, painter
 * Quentin Blake, cartoonist, author and illustrator
 * Douglas Bliss
 * Eric Boman, photographer
 * Tord Boontje industrial designer
 * Allen Boothroyd, industrial designer
 * Nicholas Borden, painter
 * Deirdre Borlase, painter
 * Derek Boshier, painter
 * Pauline Boty
 * Doris Boulton-Maude
 * Denis Bowen
 * Moya Bowler
 * Frank Bowling, painter
 * William Bowyer (artist)
 * Alan Boyson, muralist
 * Boyd Webb
 * John Bratby
 * Kathleen Bridle
 * John Frederick Brill
 * Alison Britton
 * Iris Brooke
 * Jason Brooks (illustrator)
 * Frederick Brown (artist)
 * Percy Brown (art historian)
 * Ralph Brown (sculptor)
 * Sheilagh Brown, fashion designer
 * William Kellock Brown, sculptor
 * Kathleen Browne (artist)
 * John Brunsdon
 * Kenneth Budd
 * John Bunting (sculptor)
 * Victor Burgin, 1986 Turner Prize nominee
 * Edward Burra
 * James Butler (artist)

C

 * Charles William Cain, artist
 * Joyce W. Cairns
 * Ian Callum
 * Moray Callum
 * Gillian Carnegie, 2005 Turner Prize nominee
 * David Carpanini, painter and printmaker
 * Henry Carr, painter
 * George Bertram Carter
 * Michelle Cartlidge, illustrator
 * James Castle (sculptor)
 * Catherine Dean (artist)
 * Patrick Caulfield, 1987 Turner Prize nominee
 * Joseph Hermon Cawthra, sculptor
 * George Chakravarthi, artist
 * Jack Bridger Chalker, painter
 * Catherine Chalmers
 * Lu Chao
 * Charles Chaplin (artist)
 * Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2003 Turner Prize nominees
 * Malvina Cheek, artist
 * Bernard Cheese
 * Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
 * Gordon Cheung
 * Emma Chichester Clark
 * Madeleine Child
 * Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia, 1990–1997
 * John Clappison, ceramic and glass designer
 * Ossie Clark, fashion designer
 * Bob Carlos Clarke
 * Sir George Clausen, painter
 * Benjamin Clemens, sculptor
 * Clarice Cliff, ceramic designer, modeller and sculptor
 * Sue Coe, political artist
 * Ernest A. Cole, sculptor and printmaker
 * Freda Coleborn
 * Cecil Collins
 * Elisabeth Collins
 * Richard Cook, painter
 * Jean Cooke, artist
 * May Louise Greville Cooksey, painter
 * Eileen Cooper
 * Susie Cooper, ceramic designer
 * Marcus Cornish
 * Lucy Cousins
 * Jack Coutu, printmaker and sculptor
 * Jenny Cowern
 * Raymond Teague Cowern
 * Hilda Cowham
 * Raymond Coxon, painter
 * Roderick Coyne, sculptor
 * Stuart Craig, production designer
 * Tony Cragg, 1988 Turner Prize winner
 * Andrew Cranston
 * Reed Crawford
 * Keith Critchlow
 * Stella Rebecca Crofts
 * Edward Cronshaw
 * Neisha Crosland, textile designer
 * Victoria Crowe
 * Robert Crowther (author), children's book author and paper engineer
 * Bill Culbert, painter, sculptor, photographer
 * Frederick Cuming (artist)
 * Michael Cumming, director, filmmaker
 * Charles Cundall, war artist

D

 * Anna Dabis
 * Dexter Dalwood
 * Jill Daniels
 * Leonard Daniels
 * Adam Dant, 2002 Jerwood Prize winner
 * Frances Darlington
 * Leslie Davenport, artist and teacher
 * Alki David
 * Shezad Dawood
 * David Dawson (painter)
 * Lucienne Day
 * Robin Day (designer)
 * Richard Deacon, sculptor, 1987 Turner Prize winner
 * Roger Dean (artist)
 * Len Deighton, historian and author
 * Elise D'Elboux
 * Thomas Derrick (artist)
 * Mukul Dey, painter, engraver
 * Ted Dicks
 * Emilia, Lady Dilke, art historian
 * Jane Dillon, designer and artist
 * Emmy Dinkel-Keet
 * Austin Dobson, poet
 * Christopher Dresser, designer
 * Conrad Dressler, sculptor and potter
 * Lilian Dring
 * Barry Driscoll
 * William Harold Dudley
 * Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
 * Evelyn Dunbar, artist
 * Jacqueline Durran
 * Ian Dury, musician, singer
 * James Dyson, designer

E

 * Harry Eccleston
 * Mildred Eldridge
 * Nabil El-Nayal
 * Frederick Vincent Ellis
 * Tom Ellis (architect)
 * David Emanuel (fashion designer)
 * Joseph Emberton
 * Benoit Pierre Emery, fashion designer
 * Tracey Emin, artist, 1999 Turner Prize nominee
 * Nora England
 * Grace English
 * Arthur John Ensor, artist and industrial designer
 * Helen Escobedo
 * Vincent Evans

F

 * Wilfred Fairclough
 * Steve Fairnie
 * Sara Fanelli
 * Stephen Farthing
 * Cathie Felstead, illustrator
 * Sir Luke Fildes, painter
 * Anthony Finkelstein
 * Archie Fisher (painter)
 * Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)
 * Marion Foale, fashion designer
 * Juan Fontanive
 * Elizabeth Forbes (artist)
 * Michael Foreman (author/illustrator)
 * Gordon Forsyth
 * John Foxx
 * Barnett Freedman
 * Henry Charles Innes Fripp, artist, stained glass maker, illustrator
 * Elizabeth Fritsch, ceramic artist, potter
 * George Fullard
 * Ron Fuller (artist)
 * Hamish Fulton
 * Holly Fulton
 * John Furnival (1933–2020), poet
 * Anton Furst, production designer

G

 * Jeremy Gardiner
 * Margaret Garland
 * David Gentleman
 * Geoffrey Clarke
 * Walter Sykes George, architect
 * Bill Gibb
 * Evelyn Gibbs, artist
 * Jean Gibson, sculptor and teacher
 * Jeffrey Gibson
 * John Gillard, teacher of advertising and design
 * Ernest Gillick
 * Mary Gillick, sculptor
 * John Gilroy (artist)
 * Edna Ginesi
 * Gerald Gladstone
 * Keith Godwin
 * Mick Gold
 * Stephen Goldblatt
 * Grace Golden, artist
 * John Goldschmidt, film director and producer
 * João Gonzalez, animator
 * Noémie Goudal, photographer
 * James Henry Govier, painter, etcher and engraver
 * Margaret Green, painter
 * Kate Greenaway, illustrator
 * Eileen Greenwood, artist and printmaker
 * Ernest Greenwood, painter of watercolours
 * Helen Frances Gregor
 * Eleanor Gribble
 * John Griffiths
 * Kate Groobey, painter
 * Sunil Gupta
 * Karen Guthrie
 * Richard Guyatt

H

 * Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
 * Reginald George Haggar
 * Henry Haig
 * Lorna Hamilton-Brown
 * William Harbutt, sculptor and inventor of Plasticine
 * George Hardie (artist)
 * Anne Hardy
 * Sophie Harley, jewellery designer
 * Chris Harrison (photographer)
 * Max Hattler, visual artist and animator
 * Raymond Hawkey, designer and author
 * Thomas Heatherwick, designer and sculptor
 * John Hedgecoe, photographer
 * Keith Helfet
 * Guy Hendrix Dyas, production designer
 * Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
 * Hubert von Herkomer painter, composer, film maker
 * Hilda Hewlett, aviator
 * Gert Hildebrand
 * Adrian Hill
 * Rose Hilton
 * Lubaina Himid
 * Edith Mary Hinchley
 * David Hockney, painter
 * Rayner Hoff
 * Eileen Hogan, painter
 * Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook
 * Nigel Holmes
 * Sigrid Holmwood
 * Gerald Holtom
 * Peter Horbury
 * Percy Horton
 * Kathleen Horsman
 * Laurence Housman, playwright
 * Hitomi Hosono, ceramicist
 * Albert Houthuesen, artist
 * Ken Howard (artist)
 * Erlund Hudson, artist
 * Robert Alwyn Hughes
 * Mustafa Hulusi
 * Angus Hyland

I

 * Kamala Ibrahim
 * Bryan Ingham, etcher, painter and sculptor
 * Judy Inglis
 * James Irvine (designer)
 * Keith Irvine
 * Runa Islam

J

 * Alison Jackson
 * Charles Sargeant Jagger
 * Apu Jan, fashion designer
 * Merlin James, artist, critic
 * Jannuzzi Smith
 * James Jarvis (illustrator)
 * Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer
 * Travis Jeppesen, writer
 * Chantal Joffe, painter
 * Jasper Joffe, artist
 * Laurel Johannesson, painter, multimedia
 * Claude Johnson
 * Alfred Garth Jones, illustrator
 * Allen Jones, artist
 * Barbara Jones (artist)
 * Lucy Jones (artist)
 * Lily Delissa Joseph
 * Betty Jukes, sculptor
 * Jagannath Panda painter, sculptor

K

 * Jozef Kabaň, car designer
 * Asif Kapadia, film director
 * Geeta Kapur
 * John Francis Kavanagh Diploma in Sculpture 1928
 * Daniel Kearns (designer)
 * Patrick Keiller
 * Flora Kendrick
 * Jonathan Kenworthy, sculptor
 * Morris Kestelman
 * Idris Khan
 * Rajan Khosa
 * Ian Kiaer
 * Orla Kiely
 * Katharine Kimball
 * Ada Florence Kinton
 * John Kirby, painter
 * R. B. Kitaj, artist
 * Alan Kitching, typographer
 * Linda Kitson
 * Afroditi Krassa
 * Henry Krokatsis

L

 * Edwin La Dell
 * Simon Larbalestier, photographer
 * Nora Fry Lavrin
 * Geoff Lawson (designer)
 * Noel Leaver, painter
 * Gilbert Ledward
 * Lee Jinjoon, artist
 * Lawrence Lee
 * Dante Leonelli, artist
 * Audrey Levy, designer
 * Jessie Lipscomb
 * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd
 * Mark Lloyd, car designer
 * Fiona Lloyd-Davies
 * John Hodgson Lobley
 * Hew Locke
 * Bernard Lodge, graphic designer
 * Edwin Lutyens, architect

M

 * Frances Macdonald, painter
 * Julien Macdonald
 * David Mach, 1988 Turner Prize nominee
 * Kirsteen Mackay
 * Steve Mackey, musician
 * Ian Mackenzie-Kerr
 * Steve Mackey
 * Thomas MacLaren
 * Jane McAdam Freud
 * Charles Mahoney
 * Kate Malone studio potter
 * Peter Jacob Maltz, sculptor
 * Melanie Manchot
 * Edna Mann
 * Mick Manning
 * Jeremy Marre, film director
 * Walter Marsden
 * Robert Burkall Marsh
 * Kenneth Martin, sculptor
 * Mary Martin
 * Mary Martin (artist)
 * Penny Martin
 * Simon Martin (Mayanist)
 * Enid Marx
 * Benedict Mason
 * Robin Mason
 * Arthur Max
 * Donald Maxwell, artist and illustrator
 * Hannah Maybank
 * Enda McCallion
 * Gerald McCann (fashion designer)
 * Christopher McDonnell
 * David McFall
 * Gerry McGovern
 * Colin McNaughton
 * Carol McNicoll
 * Chris Meigh-Andrews
 * Ellen Meijers
 * David Mellor, cutler and industrial designer
 * Nathaniel Mellors
 * Zoë Mendelson
 * Mortimer Menpes, artist
 * Kobena Mercer
 * Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe
 * Percy Metcalfe
 * Katharine Meynell
 * Hilary Miller
 * John W. Mills, sculptor
 * Russell Mills, multimedia artist and musician
 * Dhruva Mistry
 * Crawford Mitchell
 * Maggie Mitchell, sculptor
 * Ursula Mommens
 * Henrietta Montalba, sculptor
 * Esther Moore, sculptor
 * Henry Moore, sculptor
 * Raymond Moore (photographer)
 * Erdem Moralioğlu, fashion designer
 * Katy Moran
 * Harry Morley, artist and illustrator
 * Malcolm Morley, 1984 Turner Prize winner
 * Jasper Morrison, designer
 * Mary Morton, sculptor
 * Colin Moss, artist and teacher
 * Charles Mozley
 * Sophie Muller
 * Charlie Murphy (artist)
 * Alison Murray
 * William Grant Murray
 * Peter Musson, silversmith
 * Lawrence Mynott

N

 * Deborah Nadoolman Landis
 * Vera Neubauer
 * Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
 * Simon Nicholson
 * Mike Nuttall
 * Charlotte Newman

O

 * Una O'Connor, actor
 * Chris Ofili, 1998 Turner Prize winner
 * Lucille Oille
 * Laura Oldfield Ford
 * Marilene Oliver, sculptor
 * M. C. Oliver, calligrapher
 * Vaughan Oliver, designer and graphic designer
 * Peter Olley, English printmaker
 * Chris Orr, English artist
 * Christopher Orr, Scottish artist
 * Jay Osgerby, designer
 * Thérèse Oulton
 * Graham Ovenden
 * Roy Oxlade, painter
 * Lawson Oyekan

P

 * Tom Palin, painter
 * Lilian Parker, sculptor
 * Susan Parkinson, ceramic artist
 * Eric Parry
 * Stephen Partridge
 * John Pasche
 * Alicia Paz
 * Muriel Pemberton
 * Graham Percy
 * Peter Phillips (artist)
 * Cathie Pilkington
 * Michael Pinsky
 * John Piper (artist)
 * Keith Piper (artist)
 * Vivian Pitchforth, painter
 * Platon (photographer)
 * John Platt (artist)
 * Michael Please
 * Fergus Pollock
 * Constance Mary Pott
 * Cherry Potter
 * Edward Poynter, artist
 * Jane Price, painter
 * Margaret Priest
 * Simon Pummell
 * William Pye (sculptor)

Q

 * Brothers Quay, stop-motion animators

R

 * Fiona Raby
 * Alma Ramsey
 * Tissa Ranasinghe
 * Eric Ravilious
 * Raymond Ray-Jones
 * Ruth Raymond
 * Mary Remington
 * Alan Reynolds (artist)
 * Lis Rhodes
 * Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer
 * Ceri Richards, painter
 * Frances Richards (British artist)
 * Sophy Rickett, visual artist
 * Alan Rickman, actor
 * Arthur Dewhurst Riley
 * Bridget Riley, artist
 * Michael Rizzello
 * John Romer (Egyptologist)
 * Frank Roper
 * Johnny Rozsa, photographer
 * Frank Runacres
 * Joseph Rykwert

S

 * Astrid Sampe
 * Kenneth Sandford
 * Janek Schaefer, composer
 * Tony Scherman
 * Herbert Gustave Schmalz
 * Peter Schreyer
 * Ridley Scott, film director
 * Tony Scott, film director
 * Florian Seidl
 * Uday Shankar, choreographer
 * George Shaw (artist), Turner Prize nominee 2011
 * Elaine Shemilt
 * Clare Shenstone
 * Marjorie Sherlock
 * Simon Shore
 * Stefan Sielaff
 * Norman Sillman, coin designer
 * John William Simpson
 * Lilian Simpson
 * Peter Sís, artist and illustrator
 * Yvonne Skargon, wood engraver and illustrator
 * Mary Annie Sloane
 * Walter Smith (art educator)
 * Arthur Smith (illustrator)
 * Graham Smith (milliner)
 * Graham Smith (photographer)
 * Jack Smith (artist)
 * Martin Smith (designer)
 * Martin Smith (potter)
 * Paul M. Smith (photographer)
 * Richard Smith (artist)
 * Walter Smith, industrial art educator
 * Susan Weber Soros
 * Alan Sorrell, archaeological reconstruction artist
 * Ruskin Spear
 * A. B. S. Sprigge
 * Henry Stannard
 * Mary Stainbank
 * Julian Stair
 * Cecil Stephenson, artist
 * Peter Stevens (car designer)
 * Stuart Stockdale, fashion designer
 * Susan Stockwell
 * Tim Stoner
 * Paul Stopforth
 * Mike Stott
 * Madeleine Strindberg
 * Linda Sutton, painter, RCA 100 mural prize 1972
 * Charles Robinson Sykes



T

 * Kam Tang
 * Jeremy Tankard
 * Eric Taylor
 * Leonard Campbell Taylor
 * Alice Temperley
 * Suzie Templeton, director of animated films, winner of Academy Award 2008
 * Patrick Thomas (graphic artist)
 * Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), painter
 * Storm Thorgerson, photographer and designer
 * Jake Tilson, artist
 * Joe Tilson, artist
 * Sue Timney
 * Carl Toms
 * Martin Travers, designer, stained glass artist
 * Philip Treacy
 * David Tremlett, artist, Turner Prize nominee 1992
 * Newbury Abbot Trent
 * Helen Mabel Trevor
 * Ernest William Tristram
 * John Tunnard, artist
 * Charles Tunnicliffe, painter
 * Gavin Turk, artist
 * Richard Turner (artist)
 * Sidney Tushingham, painter and etcher
 * Alice Twemlow
 * Mary Fraser Tytler

U

 * Michael Upton

V

 * Marjan van Aubel
 * Dirk van Braeckel
 * Katrina van Gruow
 * Paul Vanstone
 * Markus Vater
 * Eugenia Vronskaya

W

 * Paul Wager, painter and sculptor
 * Janice Wainwright (fashion designer)
 * Ray Walker, mural artist, 1945–1984
 * Melanie Walsh, children's book illustrator
 * Suling Wang, artist
 * Albert Watson (photographer)
 * Robert Welch (designer)
 * Richard Wentworth, sculptor
 * David Wheatley (director)
 * Fred Whisstock, illustrator
 * Valerie Wiffen, painter
 * David Wightman (painter)
 * Alison Wilding, 1992 Turner Prize nominee
 * Christopher Williams (Welsh artist), 1873–1934
 * Garth Williams
 * Eli Marsden Wilson
 * John David Wilson
 * Joash Woodrow, painter
 * Alice B. Woodward
 * Ernest Worrall
 * Sönke Wortmann
 * Jon Wozencroft, graphic designer
 * Run Wrake, animator
 * Andrea Wulf
 * Jan Wurm, painter
 * Rose Wylie, painter
 * Cerith Wyn Evans
 * Althea Wynne, sculptor

Y

 * Carey Young, artist
 * Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi

Z

 * Astrid Zydower