Notable Alumni of Royal College of Art [Sorted List]

1. Eric Parry

1952-. (aged 74)

university teacher designer architect

Eric Owen Parry CBE RA is a British architect, designer, writer and educator. Parry is the founder and principal of Eric Parry Architects established in London in 1983. His built work includes the restoration and renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Holburne Museum in Bath, 50 New Bond Street, 23 Savile Row, One Eagle Place in Piccadilly, Aldermanbury Square...

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2. Pascale Petit

1953-. (aged 73)

poet writer

Pascale Petit, is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and...

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3. Shezad Dawood

1974-. (aged 52)

visual artist painter multimedia artist video artist

Shezad Dawood is a British visual artist. He is based in London.

4. Edward Allington

1951-2017 (aged 66)

painter sculptor

Edward Thomas Allington was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement.

5. Rhoda Carleton Holmes Nicholls

1854-1930 (aged 76)

art educator painter illustrator

Rhoda Holmes Nicholls was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England. She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries. A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls of Port Elizabeth area's scenery, wildlife and architecture. She lived there on...

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6. Dexter Dalwood

1960-. (aged 66)

painter

Dexter Dalwood is a British artist now based in Mexico City.

7. Alice Bolingbroke Woodward

1862-1951 (aged 89)

scientific illustrator painter designer illustrator

Alice Bolingbroke Woodward was an English artist and illustrator. She was one of the most prolific illustrators at the turn of the 20th century and is known mainly for her work in children's literature, and secondarily for her scientific illustrations.

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8. Barbara Jones

1937-. (aged 89)

sprinter

Barbara Mildred Jones was an English artist, writer and mural painter. She is known for curating the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade (1951) and her book The Unsophisticated Arts (1951).

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9. Edgar Heap of Birds

1954-. (aged 72)

printmaker painter video artist television producer photographer

Edgar Heap of Birds is a multi-disciplinary artist. His art contributions include public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf series acrylic paintings, prints, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

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10. Mary Gillick

1881-1965 (aged 84)

medalist sculptor

Mary Gaskell Gillick OBE was a sculptor and medallist, best known for her effigy of Elizabeth II used on coinage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere from 1953 to 1970.

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11. James Jebusa Shannon

1862-1923 (aged 61)

visual artist painter

Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA was an Anglo-American artist. In 1886 he married Florence Mary Cartwright (d. 1948), with whom he had an only child, the illustrator Kitty Shannon (1887–1974).

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12. Mary Fraser Tytler

1849-1938 (aged 89)

ceramicist painter architect

Mary Seton Fraser Tytler was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer.

13. Guy Hendrix Dyas

1968-. (aged 58)

scenographer

Guy Hendrix Dyas is a British-American production designer known for his collaboration with directors such as Pablo Larraín, Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg.

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14. Christopher Williams

1873-1934 (aged 61)

painter

Christopher David Williams RBA was a Welsh artist.

15. Mortimer Menpes

1855-1938 (aged 83)

painter etcher illustrator draftsperson

Mortimer Luddington Menpes was an Australian-born painter, author, printmaker and illustrator.

16. Mark Adams

1961-. (aged 65)

designer engineer car designer

Mark Adams is an English car designer. He is current senior car designer at Opel Automobile and has worked as for brands including Cadillac, Buick and Opel.

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17. Alison Jackson

1960-. (aged 66)

photographer

Alison Jackson is an English artist, photographer and filmmaker. Her work explores the theme of celebrity culture. She makes realistic work of celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes.

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18. Jess Thom

1980-. (aged 46)

activist painter comedian theatre maker

Jessica Thom is a British theatre-maker and comedian who established Touretteshero, an alter-ego and project aimed at increasing awareness of Tourette syndrome, the neurological condition which she was diagnosed with in her early twenties. The first Touretteshero production, Backstage in Biscuit Land debuted at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. The show won critical acclaim and has since toured across the...

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19. Clare Shenstone

1948-. (aged 78)

painter

Clare Noel Shenstone is an English artist. She is considered notable for her cloth relief heads and her figure drawings. Her portraits hang in some major British collections including the National Portrait Gallery and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.

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20. Thomas Thwaites

1980-. (aged 46)

designer writer interaction designer inventor artist

Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer. He describes himself as "a designer, interested in technology, science, futures research & etc."

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21. Christopher Raeburn

1982-. (aged 44)

fashion designer

Christopher Raeburn, is a British fashion designer who reworks surplus fabrics and garments to create menswear, womenswear and accessories.

22. David Mach

1956-. (aged 70)

installation artist sculptor artist

David Mach RA is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines, vicious teddy bears, newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.

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23. Monster Chetwynd

1973-. (aged 53)

performance artist painter installation artist graphic artist visual artist

Monster Chetwynd is a British artist known for reworkings of iconic moments from cultural history in improvised performances. In 2012, she was nominated for the Turner Prize.

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24. Joe Tilson

1928-2023 (aged 95)

draftsperson printmaker graphic artist sculptor visual artist

Joseph Charles Tilson RA was a British visual artist and fellow of the Royal Academy. He was involved in the Pop Art movement in the 1960s; he made paintings, prints and constructions.

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25. Charles Sargeant Jagger

1885-1934 (aged 49)

sculptor painter draftsperson

Charles Sargeant Jagger MC ARA was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war. He is best known for his war memorials, especially the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner and the Great Western Railway War Memorial in Paddington Railway Station. He also designed several other monuments...

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26. Hew Locke

1959-1959 (aged 0)

sculptor painter visual artist

Hew Donald Joseph Locke is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000, he won a Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Award. He grew up in Guyana, but has lived most of his adult life in London.

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27. David Mellor

1930-2009 (aged 79)

lighting designer

David Rogerson Mellor CBE FCSD RDI was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.

28. Robin Day

1915-2010 (aged 95)

visual artist designer industrial designer furniture designer

Robin Day OBE RDI FCSD was one of the most significant British furniture designers of the 20th century, enjoying a long career spanning seven decades. An accomplished industrial and interior designer, he was also active in the fields of graphics and exhibitions.

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29. Hamish Fulton

1946-. (aged 80)

artist land artist visual artist conceptual artist illustrator

Hamish Fulton is an English walking artist. Since 1972 he has only made works based on the experience of walks. He translates his walks into a variety of media, including photography, illustrations, and wall texts. His work is contained in major museums' collections, such as the Tate Britain and MoMA. Since 1994 he has been creating group walks for the...

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30. Helen Escobedo

1934-2010 (aged 76)

painter installation artist sculptor curator

Helen "Elena" Escobedo was a Mexican sculptor and installation artist. She has had her work displayed all over the world from Mexico, Latin America, the United States, and Canada to the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel and New Zealand.

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31. Joseph Rykwert

1926-2024 (aged 98)

university teacher architecture critic architectural theoretician architect architectural historian

Joseph Rykwert CBE was a British architectural historian and writer. He was the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and the United States. He taught the history and theory of architecture at...

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32. Jean Jullien

1983-. (aged 43)

illustrator

Jean Jullien is a French graphic designer and illustrator.

33. Jessie Lipscomb

1861-1952 (aged 91)

sculptor

Jessie Lipscomb, later Jessie Elborne, was an English sculptor of the human figure. She worked in Paris in a shared studio workshop in the late 1800s with French sculptor Camille Claudel and two fellow alumni from the Royal College of Art: Amy Singer and Emily Fawcett.

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34. Elizabeth Forbes

1859-1912 (aged 53)

painter artist

Elizabeth Adela Forbes was a Canadian painter who was primarily active in the UK. She often featured children in her paintings and School Is Out (painted in Newlyn) is one of her most popular works. She was friends with the artists James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert, both of whom influenced her work. Her etchings in particular are said...

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35. Lucienne Day

1917-2010 (aged 93)

textile designer designer

Désirée Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie Day OBE RDI FCSD was one of the most influential British textile designers of the 1950s and 1960s. Day drew on inspiration from other arts to develop a new style of abstract pattern-making in post-war British textiles, known as 'Contemporary' design. She was also active in other fields, such as wallpapers, ceramics and carpets.

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36. Jeffrey Gibson

1972-. (aged 54)

installation artist painter sculptor

Jeffrey A. Gibson is an American Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee painter and sculptor. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York; Hudson, New York; and Germantown, New York.

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37. Richard Deacon

1921-1984 (aged 63)

stage actor television actor chef actor film actor

Richard Deacon CBE RA is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.

38. Laurence Housman

1865-1959 (aged 94)

playwright autobiographer novelist poet illustrator

Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the...

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39. Gavin Turk

1967-. (aged 59)

painter artist printmaker sculptor conceptual artist

Gavin Turk is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and was considered to be one of the Young British Artists. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art.

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40. Billy Apple

1935-2021 (aged 86)

conceptual artist painter sculptor visual artist

Billy Apple ONZM was a New Zealand artist whose work is associated with the London, Auckland and New York schools of pop art in the 1960s and NY's Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He worked alongside artists like Andy Warhol and David Hockney before opening the second of the seven New York Not-for-Profit spaces in 1969. His work is...

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41. Leslie Green

1875-1908 (aged 33)

architect

Leslie William Green was an English architect. He is best known for his design of iconic stations constructed on the London Underground railway system in central London during the first decade of the 20th century, with distinctive oxblood red faïence blocks including pillars and semi-circular first-floor windows, and patterned tiled interiors done in the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style).

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42. Rose Wylie

1934-. (aged 92)

painter

Rose Wylie OBE RA is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.

43. Jonathan Barnbrook

1966-. (aged 60)

graphic designer designer

Jonathan Barnbrook is a British graphic designer, film maker, type designer, and typographer. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, both in London.

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44. Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge

1887-1963 (aged 76)

sculptor writer translator

Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge was a British sculptor and translator. She is best known as the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness.

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45. Geeta Kapur

1943-. (aged 83)

artist art critic art historian curator

Geeta Kapur is a noted Indian art critic, art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of critical art writing in India, and who, as Indian Express noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemporary art theory for three decades now". Her writings include artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues, books, and sets of widely anthologized...

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46. Alice Temperley

1975-. (aged 51)

fashion designer creative director

Alice Temperley MBE is an English fashion designer based in Ilminster, Somerset, England. Her fashion label, Temperley London, was launched in 2000.

47. Edward Bawden

1903-1989 (aged 86)

designer draftsperson painter illustrator war artist

Edward Bawden, CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked...

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48. Edward Burra

1905-1976 (aged 71)

painter artist draftsperson graphic artist printer

Edward John Burra CBE was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, Black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s.

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49. Idris Khan

1978-. (aged 48)

video artist sculptor artist visual artist photographer

Idris Khan OBE is a British artist based in London.

50. Helen Allingham

1848-1926 (aged 78)

illustrator painter

Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham RWS was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.

51. Anthony Finkelstein

1959-. (aged 67)

engineer

Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein is a British engineer and computer scientist. He is the President of City St George's, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to the British government until 2021.

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52. Gerry McGovern

1956-. (aged 70)

car designer

Gerard Gabriel McGovern OBE is a British car designer and the Chief Creative Officer for Jaguar Land Rover leading the Group’s Design Studio at Gaydon, Warwickshire, creating concepts and new models. A strong advocate of design's relevance to brand equity, he is a member of the Jaguar Land Rover board of Management.

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53. Lubaina Himid

1954-. (aged 72)

painter sculptor university teacher curator

Lubaina Himid CBE RA is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.

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54. Hubert von Herkomer

1849-1914 (aged 65)

painter poet sculptor university teacher

Sir Hubert von Herkomer CVO RA was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor. Hard Times (1885; Manchester Art Gallery) showing the distraught family of a travelling day-labourer at...

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55. Albert Watson

1922-1994 (aged 72)

lawyer judge politician

Albert Watson OBE is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s, and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel and Levis. Watson has also taken some well-known photographs, from the portrait of Steve Jobs that appeared on the...

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56. Stephen Goldblatt

1945-. (aged 81)

cinematographer film director

Stephen Goldblatt, A.S.C., B.S.C. is a South African-born British cinematographer.

57. Erdem Moralıoğlu

1977-. (aged 49)

fashion designer

Erdem Moralıoğlu is a creative director and founder of eponymous London-based fashion label Erdem, which he established in 2005.

58. Gorden Wagener

1968-. (aged 58)

designer car designer

Gorden Wagener is a German car designer, and is the chief design officer for Mercedes-Benz Group AG. He was born in Essen.

59. Oswald Chambers

1874-1917 (aged 43)

writer theologian

Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

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60. Steve Mackey

1966-2023 (aged 57)

musician guitarist composer bassist record producer

Stephen Patrick Mackey was an English musician and record producer best known as the bass guitarist for the Britpop band Pulp, which he joined in 1989. As a record producer, he produced songs and albums by M.I.A., Florence + the Machine, The Long Blondes and Arcade Fire.

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61. Ian Callum

1955-. (aged 71)

engineer car designer

Ian Stuart Callum is a British car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, and Aston Martin. In 1999 he became the Director of design for Jaguar Cars, later Jaguar Land Rover, a position he held until mid 2018.

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62. Deborah Nadoolman Landis

1952-. (aged 74)

costume designer

Deborah Nadoolman Landis is an American costume designer, author, and professor. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Three Amigos, all of which credited her as Deborah Nadoolman. Landis served two terms as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more...

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63. Andrea Wulf

1972-. (aged 54)

cartoonist opinion journalist writer historian biographer

Andrea Wulf is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

64. Eric Ravilious

1903-1942 (aged 39)

graphic designer exlibrist war artist illustrator wood engraver

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war...

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65. Kate Greenaway

1846-1901 (aged 55)

exlibrist watercolorist artist writer painter

Catherine Greenaway was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of Art, the South Kensington School of Art, the Heatherley School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning...

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66. Elizabeth Emanuel

1953-. (aged 73)

fashion designer

Elizabeth Florence Emanuel is a British fashion designer who is best known for designing, with her former husband David Emanuel, the wedding dress worn by Lady Diana Spencer on her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981. Since then Elizabeth has developed her own label and worked in costume design for airlines, cinema, pop video and television productions, as well as...

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67. Thomas Heatherwick

1970-. (aged 56)

sculptor designer architect

Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE RA RDI HonFREng is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of about 250 architects, designers and entrepreneurs from his studio in King's Cross, London.

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68. John Foxx

1948-. (aged 78)

graphic artist lecturer composer painter singer

John Foxx is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer. He was the original lead singer of the new wave band Ultravox, before leaving to embark on a solo career in 1980 with the album Metamatic.

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69. Uday Shankar

1962-. (aged 64)

journalist

Uday Shankar was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a pioneer of modern dance in India.

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70. Una O'Connor

1880-1959 (aged 79)

film actor television actor stage actor

Una O'Connor was an Irish-born American actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actress in film and in television. She often portrayed comical wives, housekeepers and servants. In 2020, she was listed at number 19 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

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71. David Adjaye

1966-. (aged 60)

architect furniture designer

Sir David Frank Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He received the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, making him the first African recipient and one of the...

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72. Douglas Stuart

1976-. (aged 50)

writer fashion designer

Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer and fashion designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he studied at the Scottish College of Textiles and London's Royal College of Art, before moving at the age of 24 to New York City, where he built a successful career in fashion design, while also beginning to write. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain – which had...

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73. Peter Schreyer

1953-. (aged 73)

engineer

Peter Schreyer is a German automobile designer widely known for his design contributions to the Audi TT. He was the chief design officer at Kia Motors from 2006–2018 and, on 28 December 2012, he was named one of three presidents of the company.

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74. Roger Dean

1944-. (aged 82)

painter designer illustrator architect

William Roger Dean is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He began painting posters and album covers for musicians in the late 1960s, most notably the English rock bands Yes and Asia.

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75. Minnie Weisz

1972-. (aged 54)

photographer

Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz is an English photographer and visual artist who specialises in the camera obscura technique. She is the younger sister of actress Rachel Weisz.

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76. Mary Martin

1913-1990 (aged 77)

television actor stage actor singer film actor

Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). Over the course of her career, she won four Tony Awards...

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77. Edwin Lutyens

1869-1944 (aged 75)

urban planner visual artist architect

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not,...

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78. Barbara Hepworth

1903-1975 (aged 72)

painter draftsperson artist sculptor visual artist

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.

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79. Storm Thorgerson

1944-2013 (aged 69)

graphic designer film director designer photographer

Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English art director and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other art for 10cc, the Alan Parsons Project, Black Sabbath, Catherine Wheel, the Cranberries, Led Zeppelin, the Mars Volta, Muse, and Phish.

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80. Sylvia Pankhurst

1882-1960 (aged 78)

women's rights activist feminist editor oil painter journalist

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother...

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81. Peter Blake

1932-. (aged 94)

collagist designer artist watercolorist photographer

Sir Peter Thomas Blake CBE RDI RA is an English pop artist. He co-created the sleeve design for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other works include the covers for two of The Who's albums, the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also...

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82. Asif Kapadia

1972-. (aged 54)

screenwriter film director director actor

Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker. Kapadia is best known for his trilogy of narratively driven, archive-constructed documentaries Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona.

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83. Zandra Rhodes

1940-. (aged 86)

designer fashion designer

Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes DBE RDI, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales, and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. She has also designed textiles for interiors, featuring her...

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84. James Dyson

1947-. (aged 79)

industrial designer entrepreneur designer farmer inventor

Sir James Dyson is an English inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2023, he was the fifth-richest person in the United Kingdom, with an estimated family net worth...

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85. Ian Dury

1942-2000 (aged 58)

actor singer-songwriter film actor recording artist painter

Ian Robins Dury was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads, the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.

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86. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

1848-1939 (aged 91)

painter aristocrat sculptor artist

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

87. Henry Moore

1898-1986 (aged 88)

illustrator bandmaster printmaker architectural draftsperson artist

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English visual artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore also produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper.

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88. Tracey Emin

1963-. (aged 63)

photographer salesperson textile artist architectural draftsperson printmaker

Dame Tracey Karima Emin DBE RA is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016.

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89. Alan Rickman

1946-2016 (aged 70)

character actor voice actor theatrical director film director film actor

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was renowned for his stage and screen roles and for his deep and distinctive voice. He received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for...

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90. Ridley Scott

1937-. (aged 89)

producer director television producer executive producer film director

Sir Ridley Scott is an English filmmaker. His work includes science fiction, crime, and historical epic films, with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He ranks among the highest-grossing directors, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received many accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a...

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91. David Hockney

1937-. (aged 89)

etcher screenwriter sculptor illustrator teacher

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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92. Astrid Sampe

1909-2002 (aged 93)

designer textile artist

Astrid Sampe was a Swedish textile designer who for a large part of her professional life was affiliated with the textile department at Nordiska Kompaniet but also worked for several other textile producers.

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93. Jozef Kabaň

1973-. (aged 53)

engineer designer

Jozef Kabaň is a Slovak automobile designer. He started his career as a designer at Volkswagen. In 2003 he moved to Audi as an exterior design assistant. In 2007 he advanced to the position of Chief of Exterior Design at Audi. He was exterior designer of the Volkswagen Lupo, SEAT Arosa, Bugatti Veyron and Škoda Octavia. He has been Chief...

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94. Philip Treacy

1967-. (aged 59)

fashion designer modiste designer dressmaker

Philip Anthony Treacy OBE is an Irish haute couture milliner, or hat designer, who has been mostly based in London for his career, and who was described by Vogue magazine as "perhaps the greatest living milliner". In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner in eighty years to be invited to exhibit at the Paris haute couture fashion shows. He has...

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95. Victor Ambrus

1935-2021 (aged 86)

illustrator visual artist

Victor Ambrus FSA FRSA was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television archaeology series Time Team, on which he visualised how sites under excavation may have once looked. Ambrus was an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both...

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96. Thomas Huber

1955-. (aged 71)

printmaker performance artist painter conceptual artist installation artist

Thomas Huber is a Swiss artist who lived and worked in Mettmann near Düsseldorf for several years and is currently resident in Berlin.

97. Jasper Morrison

1959-. (aged 67)

designer exhibition designer exhibition curator industrial designer engineer

Jasper Morrison is an English product and furniture designer. He is known for the refinement and apparent simplicity of his designs. In a rare interview with the designer, he is quoted as saying "objects should never shout."

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98. John Piper

1946-. (aged 80)

pastor theologian

John Stephen Piper is a Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor. Specializing in New Testament studies, he is chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years (1974–1980), before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church (Converge) in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980–2013).

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99. Sönke Wortmann

1959-. (aged 67)

association football player screenwriter film director film producer actor

Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.

100. Peter Sís

1949-. (aged 77)

film director graphic artist animator writer painter

Peter Sís is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. In 2012 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his "lasting contribution" as an illustrator of children's literature.

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