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OUR HISTORY

Anna, Physics BSc

In 1829 King George IV NOBEL LAUREATES

and the Duke of Wellington
founded King’s College London,
making King’s the fourth oldest
university in England. When
the University of London
was established in 1836,
King’s became one of its
two founding colleges.

230k MEDICAL EDUCATION

1. Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)

school of nursing at St Thomas’

Hospital in 1860.
2. Dr Oliver Johnson
Medicine MBBS & Director of King’s
A large network Sierra Leone Partnership
of more than Studied Medicine at King’s from 2004.
230,000 alumni
worldwide Ebola as Director of the King’s Sierra
Leone Partnership. He is currently a
1 visiting lecturer at King’s.
3. Michael Morpurgo OBE
Studied English and French at King’s.
His novel War Horse was adapted

adaptation in 2011.
4. Dina Asher-Smith
Studied History at King’s from 2014.
Dina is currently Britain’s fastest
woman and the 2018 European
Champion at 100 and 200 metres
and Olympic bronze-medalist from
Rio 2016.

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‘I’m so proud
to be a King’s
graduate. With
hard work you can
do anything you
set your mind to.’
Dina Asher-Smith
2 History BA

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12
Nobel Prize winners
have studied or
worked at King’s