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
- David Adjaye, architect
- Edgar Ainsworth
- Griselda Allan
- Charlie Allen
- Kathleen Allen
- W. H. Allen
- Anthea Alley
- Helen Allingham, painter
- Edward Allington
- Victor Ambrus, illustrator
- Hurvin Anderson
- Kay Anderson
- Marie Angel
- 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
- Frank Auerbach, painter
- Robert Austin
- Maxwell Ayrton, architect
B
- Marjorie May Bacon
- Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe
- Fred Baier
- Christopher Bailey
- Alfred Lys Baldry
- Barbara Banister
- Tom Barker
- Jonathan Barnbrook, typographer and graphic designer
- Brian Barnes
- Glenys Barton
- Michael Bartlett
- Lewis Baumer
- Edward Bawden
- Arlon Bayliss, visual artist
- John Beard
- Cressida Bell, textile designer
- Peter Bellamy
- John Bellany
- Sebastian Bergne, industrial designer
- Christine Berrie, illustrator
- Arthur Berry
- Clara Billing, sculptor
- Dora Billington
- Helen Binyon
- Henry Bird, muralist
- Sutapa Biswas
- David Blackburn, 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
- Alan Boyson, muralist
- Boyd Webb
- John Bratby
- Kathleen Bridle
- John Frederick Brill
- Alison Britton
- Iris Brooke
- Jason Brooks
- Frederick Brown
- Percy Brown
- Ralph Brown
- Sheilagh Brown, fashion designer
- Kathleen Browne
- John Brunsdon
- Kenneth Budd
- John Bunting
- Victor Burgin, 1986 Turner Prize nominee
- Edward Burra
- James Butler
C
- Joyce W. Cairns
- Ian Callum
- Moray Callum
- Louise Camrass
- Gillian Carnegie, 2005 Turner Prize nominee
- David Carpanini, painter and printmaker
- Henry Carr, painter
- George Bertram Carter
- Michelle Cartlidge, illustrator
- James Castle
- Catherine Dean
- Patrick Caulfield, 1987 Turner Prize nominee
- George Chakravarthi, artist
- Jack Bridger Chalker, painter
- Catherine Chalmers
- Lu Chao
- Charles Chaplin
- 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
- Tony Cragg, 1988 Turner Prize winner
- Andrew Cranston
- Reed Crawford
- Keith Critchlow
- Stella Rebecca Crofts
- Edward Cronshaw
- Neisha Crosland, textile designer
- Victoria Crowe
- Bill Culbert, painter, sculptor, photographer
- Frederick Cuming
- Michael Cumming, director, filmmaker
- Charles Cundall, war artist
D
- Anna Dabis
- Dexter Dalwood
- Jill Daniels
- Leonard Daniels
- Adam Dant, 2002 Jerwood Prize winner
- Leslie Davenport, artist and teacher
- Alki David
- Shezad Dawood
- David Dawson
- Lucienne Day
- Robin Day
- Richard Deacon, sculptor, 1987 Turner Prize winner
- Roger Dean
- Len Deighton, historian and author
- Elise D'Elboux
- Thomas Derrick
- 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
- David Emanuel
- Joseph Emberton
- Benoit Pierre Emery, fashion designer
- Tracey Emin, artist, 1999 Turner Prize nominee
- 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
- Alan Fletcher
- Marion Foale, fashion designer
- Juan Fontanive
- Elizabeth Forbes
- Michael Foreman
- Gordon Forsyth
- John Foxx
- Barnett Freedman
- Henry Charles Innes Fripp, artist, stained glass maker, illustrator
- Elizabeth Fritsch, ceramic artist, potter
- George Fullard
- Ron Fuller
- Hamish Fulton
- Holly Fulton
- John Furnival, poet
- Anton Furst, production designer
G
- Jeremy Gardiner
- Margaret Garland
- David Gentleman
- Geoffrey Clarke
- Walter Sykes George, architect
- Bill Gibb
- Evelyn Gibbs, artist
- Jeffrey Gibson
- Ernest Gillick
- Mary Gillick, sculptor
- John Gilroy
- Edna Ginesi
- Gerald Gladstone
- Keith Godwin
- Mick Gold
- Stephen Goldblatt
- Grace Golden, artist
- John Goldschmidt, film director and producer
- 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
- John Griffiths
- Kate Groobey, painter
- Karen Guthrie
- Richard Guyatt
H
- Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
- Reginald George Haggar
- Henry Haig
- William Harbutt, sculptor and inventor of Plasticine
- George Hardie
- Anne Hardy
- Sophie Harley, jewellery designer
- Chris Harrison
- Max Hattler, visual artist and animator
- Raymond Hawkey, designer and author
- Thomas Heatherwick, designer and sculptor
- John Hedgecoe, photographer
- Keith Helfet
- Guy Hendrix Dyas
- Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
- Hubert von Herkomer painter, composer, film maker
- Hilda Hewlett, aviator
- Gert Hildebrand
- Adrian Hill
- Rose Hilton
- Lubaina Himid
- David Hockney, painter
- Rayner Hoff
- Eileen Hogan, painter
- Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook
- Nigel Holmes
- Sigrid Holmwood
- Gerald Holtom
- Peter Horbury
- Percy Horton
- Laurence Housman, playwright
- Albert Houthuesen, artist
- Ken Howard
- Erlund Hudson, artist
- Robert Alwyn Hughes
- Mustafa Hulusi
- Angus Hyland
I
- Kamala Ibrahim
- Bryan Ingham, etcher, painter and sculptor
- James Irvine
- Keith Irvine
- Runa Islam
J
- Alison Jackson
- Charles Sargeant Jagger
- Apu Jan, fashion designer
- Merlin James, artist, critic
- Jannuzzi Smith
- James Jarvis
- 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
- Lucy Jones
- Lily Delissa Joseph
K
- Asif Kapadia, film director
- Geeta Kapur
- John Francis Kavanagh Diploma in Sculpture 1928
- Daniel Kearns
- Patrick Keiller
- Jonathan Kenworthy
- 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
- Noel Leaver, painter
- Gilbert Ledward
- Lee Jinjoon, artist
- Lawrence Lee
- Dante Leonelli, artist
- 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
- Penny Martin
- Simon Martin
- Enid Marx
- Benedict Mason
- Robin Mason
- Arthur Max
- Donald Maxwell, artist and illustrator
- Hannah Maybank
- Enda McCallion
- Gerald McCann
- 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
- John W. Mills, sculptor
- Russell Mills, multimedia artist and musician
- Dhruva Mistry
- Ursula Mommens
- Henrietta Montalba, sculptor
- Henry Moore, sculptor
- Raymond Moore
- Erdem Moralioğlu, fashion designer
- Katy Moran
- Harry Morley, artist and illustrator
- Malcolm Morley, 1984 Turner Prize winner
- Jasper Morrison, designer
- Colin Moss, artist and teacher
- Charles Mozley
- Sophie Muller
- Charlie Murphy
- Alison Murray
- William Grant Murray
- Peter Musson, silversmith
- Lawrence Mynott
N
- Deborah Nadoolman Landis
- Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
- Simon Nicholson
- Mike Nuttall
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
- Andrew Onraet
- Chris Orr, English artist
- Christopher Orr, Scottish artist
- Jay Osgerby, designer
- Thérèse Oulton
- Graham Ovenden
- Roy Oxlade, painter
- Lawson Oyekan
P
- Susan Parkinson, ceramic artist
- Eric Parry
- Stephen Partridge
- John Pasche
- Alicia Paz
- Muriel Pemberton
- Graham Percy
- Peter Phillips
- Cathie Pilkington
- Michael Pinsky
- John Piper
- Keith Piper
- Vivian Pitchforth, painter
- Platon
- John Platt
- Michael Please
- Fergus Pollock
- Constance Mary Pott
- Julia Pott, creator of Summer Camp Island
- Cherry Potter
- Edward Poynter, artist
- Jane Price, painter
- Margaret Priest
- Simon Pummell
- William Pye
Q
- Brothers Quay, stop-motion animators
R
- Fiona Raby
- Tissa Ranasinghe
- Eric Ravilious
- Raymond Ray-Jones
- Alan Reynolds
- Lis Rhodes
- Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer
- Ceri Richards, painter
- Frances Richards
- Sophy Rickett, visual artist
- Alan Rickman, actor
- Arthur Dewhurst Riley
- Bridget Riley, artist
- Michael Rizzello
- John Romer
- Frank Roper
- Johnny Rozsa, photographer
- Michael Rowe, silversmith
- Frank Runacres
- Joseph Rykwert
S
- Astrid Sampe
- Kenneth Sandford
- Janek Schaefer, British Composer of the Year in Sound Art
- Tony Scherman
- Herbert Gustave Schmalz
- Peter Schreyer
- Ridley Scott, film director
- Tony Scott, film director
- Florian Seidl
- Uday Shankar, choreographer
- George Shaw, Turner Prize nominee 2011
- Elaine Shemilt
- Clare Shenstone
- Marjorie Sherlock
- Simon Shore
- Stefan Sielaff
- Norman Sillman, coin designer
- John William Simpson
- Peter Sís, artist and illustrator
- Yvonne Skargon, wood engraver and illustrator
- Mary Annie Sloane
- Walter Smith
- Arthur Smith
- Graham Smith
- Graham Smith
- Jack Smith
- Martin Smith
- Martin Smith
- Paul M. Smith
- Richard Smith
- 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
- 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
- Elizabeth Thompson, 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
- Sidney Tushingham, painter and etcher
- Alice Twemlow
- Mary Fraser Tytler
U
- Michael Upton
V
- Dirk van Braeckel
- Katrina van Gruow
- Paul Vanstone
- Markus Vater
- Eugenia Vronskaya
W
- Paul Wager, painter and sculptor
- Lee Wagstaff, photographer, performance artist
- Ray Walker, mural artist, 1945–1984
- Melanie Walsh, children's book illustrator
- Suling Wang, artist
- Albert Watson
- Robert Welch
- Richard Wentworth, sculptor
- David Wheatley
- Fred Whisstock, illustrator
- Valerie Wiffen, painter
- David Wightman
- Alison Wilding, 1992 Turner Prize nominee
- Christopher Williams, 1873–1934
- Garth Williams
- Eli Marsden Wilson
- John David Wilson
- Joash Woodrow, painter
- Alice B. Woodward
- Ernest Worrall
- Sönke Wortmann
- Jon Wozencroft, graphic designer
- 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