Richard Farleigh, the University's Chancellor (2012-2018) was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws and installed as the new Chancellor in July 2012.
Sarah Rose spent over twenty five years building up an art collection of works by David Bomberg and members of the Borough Group. She donated the collection in trust to London South Bank University, where it is exhibited in the Borough Gallery. She was made an Honorary Fellow in July 2012.
Hitesh Tailor is an alumnus of the Polytechnic of the South Bank and sat on the Board of Governors from 2001 until 2010. In 2011 the Hitesh Tailor Annual Lecture was launched. He was made an Honorary Fellow at the ceremony.
Judith Kelly OBE is a theatre director and producer and was Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre in London from 2005-2018. She was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2013.
Edward Greatrex was a clock and watch maker who worked at English Market near Dale End in Birmingham from about 1724 to about 1755. He was the son of John, a yeoman of Aston in Derbyshire, and was apprenticed in Birmingham to Peter Brown, clockmaker on 24 June 1713 for 6 years and the fee of £8. Later Edward took his own apprentice, John Walker, in 1732.
In 1722 Edward married, in his home town of Ashbourne and the following year a daughter was born. No children are recorded . Edward is known to have maintained the Welsh Cross clock, once situated in the heart of Birmingham.
Principal of the Borough Polytechnic Institute 1956-1965
The CTI Centre for Computing was one of 25 Centres funded by the Department of Education to enhance learning and teaching through the use of appropriate learning technologies. The Centres were subject based and distributed among universities in the United Kingdom. CTI stands for Computers in Teaching and the CTI Centre for Computing was based at the University of Ulster.
One time student at Battersea College of Education.
The General Nursing Council for England and Wales was disestablished under Section 21 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979.