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The
University of Cambridge in
Cambridge , England
This is a list of notable alumni from the University of Cambridge , featuring members of the
University of Cambridge segregated in accordance with their fields of achievement. The individual must have either studied at the university (although they may not necessarily have taken a degree), or worked at the university in an academic capacity; others have held
fellowships at one of the university's
colleges .
Honorary fellows or those awarded an honorary degree are not included and neither are
non-executive chancellors . Lecturers without long-term posts at the university also do not feature, although official
visiting fellows and
visiting professors do.
The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university's alumni/ae have attained a level of distinction in more than one field. These individuals may appear under two categories. In general, however, an attempt has been made to put individuals in the category with which they are most associated.
Cantabrigians is a term for members of the university derived from its Latin name Cantabrigia , a medieval Latin name for Cambridge.
Politics and royalty
Monarchs
Royalty
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (Clare)
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Trinity)
Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate of Ethiopia (Magdalene)
Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand (Trinity)
Prince Chudadhuj Dharadilok of Thailand (Magdalene)
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (Jesus)
Fra' Matthew Festing ,
Prince and
Grand Master of the Order of Malta (St John's)
Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid of Iraq (Christ's)
Princess Rahma bint Hassan of Jordan (Trinity)
Prince Rashid bin Hassan of Jordan (Caius)
Sao Hkun Hkio ,
Saopha of
Mongmit , 4th Foreign Minister of Myanmar
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Magdalene)
Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa ,
Crown Prince of Bahrain (Queens')
Princess Sarvath El Hassan of Jordan (unknown)
Princess Takamado of Japan (Girton)
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (Clare)
Prince Tunku Abdul Rahman of
Kedah (St Catharine's)
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Trinity)
Prince William, Prince of Wales (without college membership, de facto St John's)
Prince William of Gloucester (Magdalene)
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (Trinity)
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad of Iraq (Christ's)
Diplomats
Viceroys
Clement Francis Cornwall (Trinity/Magdalene), Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1881–1887)
Charles Cornwallis (Clare),
Governor-General of India (1786–1793)
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (Trinity), 13th
Governor General of Canada (1926–1931)
Sir
Robert George Howe (St Catharine's), Governor General of the Sudan (1947–1955)
David Lloyd Johnston (Trinity Hall), 28th
Governor General of Canada (2010–)
Sir
William Manning (Fitzwilliam),
Governor of Jamaica (1913–1918) and
Governor of Ceylon (1918–1925)
Louis Mountbatten (Christ's), last
Viceroy of India (1947); first
Governor General of India (1947–1948)
Sarojini Naidu (Girton), first woman to become the
President of the Indian National Congress (1925) and
Governor of Uttar Pradesh (1947–1949)
Shenton Thomas (Queens'), last Governor of the
Straits Settlements (1934-1942, 1945–1946) and
Governor of the Gold Coast (1932-1934)
Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (Trinity), 14th
Governor-General of Canada (1931–1935)
John Winthrop (Trinity), founder and first Governor of
Massachusetts (1630–1648)
Ambassadors
Leigh Turner (Downing),
UK Ambassador to Austria (2016-)
Janet Douglas (St Catherine's),
UK High Commissioner to Barbados (2017-)
Caroline Wilson (Downing),
UK Ambassador to China (2020-)
Antony Stokes (Queens'),
UK Ambassador to Cuba (2016-)
Paul Madden (Caius),
UK Ambassador to Japan (2017-)
Nicholas Hopton (Magdalene),
UK Ambassador to Libya (2019-)
Laura Clarke ,
UK High Commissioner to New Zealand (2018-)
Colin Crooks (Fitzwilliam),
UK Ambassador to North Korea (2018-)
Sir
Laurie Bristow (Trinity),
UK Ambassador to Russia (2016-2020)
Nigel Baker (Caius),
UK Ambassador to Slovakia (2020-)
Jane Owen (Trinity),
UK Ambassador to Switzerland (2018-)
Brian Davidson (Trinity),
UK Ambassador to Thailand (2016-)
Karen Pierce (Girton),
UK Ambassador to the United States (2020-)
Hugh Elliott (Trinity),
UK Ambassador to Spain (2019-)
[1]
Jacqueline Perkins ,
UK Ambassador to Belarus (2019-)
[2]
Heads of state and heads of government
Jawaharlal Nehru (Trinity), first
Prime Minister of India
Dr Manmohan Singh (St John's College),
Prime Minister of India
Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex), first
Lord Protector
Lee Kuan Yew (Fitzwilliam),
Prime Minister of Singapore 1959-1990
Lee Hsien Loong (Trinity),
Prime Minister of Singapore 2004-Present
Dudley Senanayake (Corpus Christi),
Prime Minister of Ceylon 1952-1952, 1960, 1965-1970
John Kotelawala (Christ's),
Prime Minister of Ceylon 1953-1956
Anand Panyarachun (Trinity),
Prime Minister of Thailand 1991-1992, 1992
British Prime Ministers
Robert Walpole (King's), first Prime Minister 1721–1742
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Clare), Prime Minister 1754–1756, 1757–1762
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (St John's), Prime Minister 1765–1766, 1782
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (Peterhouse), Prime Minister 1768–1770
William Pitt the Younger (Pembroke), Prime Minister 1783–1801, 1804–1806
Spencer Perceval (Trinity), Prime Minister 1809–1812
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (St John's), Prime Minister 1827–1828
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Trinity), Prime Minister 1830–1834
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Trinity), Prime Minister 1834, 1835–1841
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (St John's), Prime Minister 1852–1855
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (St John's), Prime Minister 1855–1858, 1859–1865
Arthur Balfour (Trinity), Prime Minister 1902–1905
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Trinity), Prime Minister 1905–1908
Stanley Baldwin (Trinity), Prime Minister 1923–1924, 1924–1929, 1935–1937
Signatories of the American Declaration of Independence
Soviet spies
Known:
Suspected:
(for other suspects, see
Cambridge Five )
Other political figures
A–D
Diane Abbott (Newnham), British shadow cabinet member and Labour Party leadership contender
Colin Forbes Adam (King's), civil servant in the Indian
Imperial Civil Service
Aitzaz Ahsan (Downing), Interior Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990)
Mani Shankar Aiyar (Trinity Hall), Indian
Minister of Panchayati Raj (2004–2009)
Augustus Molade Akiwumi (Fitzwilliam), Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (1958–1960)
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Queens'), Jordanian Foreign Minister (1980–1990), Royal State Adviser on International Law
Musa Alami (unknown), Palestinian nationalist, major contributor to the
White Paper of 1939
Choudhary Rahmat Ali (Emmanuel), Pakistani independence leader, credited with inventing the name "Pakistan"
Jorge Arreaza , Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017–), former Vice President (2013–2016)
Gilberto Arias (Hughes Hall), Ambassador of
Panama to the
United Kingdom (2009-2011)
Sri Aurobindo (King's), Member of the
Indian National Congress and independence leader
Nathaniel Bacon (Sidney Sussex), early American rebel, instigator of
Bacon's Rebellion of 1676
Steve Barclay (Peterhouse), Conservative MP and
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (2018–)
Joseph Baptista (Fitzwilliam), founder of the Indian
Home Rule Movement (1916) and
Mayor of Bombay (1925–1926)
Johan Baverbrant (St Edmund's), Swedish representative on the
Council of Europe
Chris Bentley (Wolfson), Minister of Aboriginal Affairs in Ontario (2010–)
Augustine Birrell (Trinity Hall), British
Chief Secretary for Ireland (1907–1916)
Hans Blix (Trinity Hall), UN weapons inspector, Swedish Foreign Minister (1978–1979)
Richard Blumenthal (Trinity), US Senator from Connecticut (2011–)
Maria Böhmer (unknown), current Minister of State in the German Chancellery
Subhas Chandra Bose (Fitzwilliam), President of the
Indian National Congress (1938–1939) and leader of the
Indian National Army
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman , British
Home Secretary (1922–1924)
Leon Brittan (Trinity), British Home Secretary (1983–1985) and vice-president of the European Commission (1999)
Annette Brooke (Hughes Hall),
Liberal Democrats MP for
Mid Dorset and North Poole
Andy Burnham (Fitzwilliam), British
Health Secretary (2009–2010) and Labour Party leadership contender
Rab Butler (Pembroke), British
Deputy Prime Minister (1962–1963), Home Secretary (1957–1962),
Foreign Secretary (1963–1964) and
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–1955)
Jerzy Buzek (unknown), President of the European Parliament (2009-2012)
P. K. van der Byl (Pembroke), Rhodesian Foreign Minister (1974–1979)
Vince Cable (Fitzwilliam),
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats (2006-2010) and
Business Secretary (2010-2015)
Alastair Campbell (Caius), Press Secretary and Director of Communications and Strategy under
Tony Blair
Robert Carr (Caius), British Home Secretary (1972–1974)
Fernando María Castiella y Maíz (unknown), Spanish Foreign Minister (1957–1969)
William Cecil (St John's), Chief adviser to
Queen Elizabeth I , Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572)
Austen Chamberlain (Trinity), British Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903–1905, 1919–1921),
Secretary of State for India (1915–1917), Leader of the Conservative Party (1921–1922), Foreign Secretary (1924–1929) and
Nobel Peace Prize winner (1925)
Somnath Chatterjee (Jesus), Speaker of the
Lok Sabha in the Indian Government (2004–2009)
Erskine Childers (Trinity), Irish independence leader, Director of Publicity for the First Irish Parliament (1919–1922)
Charles Clarke (King's), British Home Secretary (2004–2006) and Education Secretary (2002–2004)
Kenneth Clarke (Caius), British Chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–1997), Home Secretary (1992–1993), Education Secretary (1990–1992) and Health Secretary (1988–1990)
Thomas Clarkson (St John's), slavery abolitionist
Nick Clegg (Robinson), Leader of the British
Liberal Democrats (2007-2015) and Deputy Prime Minister (2010-2015)
Paul Clement (Darwin), Solicitor General of the United States (2004–2008)
Jo Cox (Pembroke),
Member of Parliament for the
Batley and Spen constituency from May 2015 until
her murder in June 2016
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe , British Secretary of State for India (1910–1911, 1911–1915), Ambassador to France (1922–1928) and
Secretary of State for War (1931)
Hugh Dalton (King's), Chairman of the Labour Party (1936–1937) and British Chancellor of the Exchequer (1945–1947)
Sir
C. D. Deshmukh (Jesus), Finance Minister in the Indian Government (1951–1957)
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (Trinity), favourite of and adviser to
Queen Elizabeth I , Earl Marshal (1597–1601)
Gamini Dissanayake (Wolfson), Sri Lankan Leader of the Opposition (1994)
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland (Trinity), British Secretary of State for India (1935–1940)
E–M
Abba Eban (Queens'/Pembroke), Israeli
Deputy Prime Minister (1963–1966),
Education Minister (1960–1963) and
Foreign Minister (1966–1974)
James Chuter Ede (Christ's), British Home Secretary (1945–1951)
Steven Engel (unknown),
United States Assistant Attorney General for the
Office of Legal Counsel under the
Trump Administration (2017–present)
Femi Fani-Kayode (Pembroke), Nigerian Minister of Aviation (2006–2007) and Special Assistant to the President (2003–2006)
Remi Fani-Kayode (Downing), Nigerian Minister for Local Government Affairs (1963–1966)
Kate Forbes (Selwyn), Scottish
Cabinet Secretary for Finance (2020–present)
Peter Fragiskatos Canadian MP
Karen-Christine Friele (unknown), Norwegian gay rights activist, leader of
Forbundet av 1948 (1966–1971)
Rahul Gandhi (Trinity), General Secretary of the
Indian National Congress (2004–)
Michael Gau (Hughes Hall), Vice Chairman of
Aviation Safety Council of the
Republic of China
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet (Trinity Hall), British Home Secretary (1932–1935)
Jarosław Gowin , former
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
Chris Grayling (Sidney Sussex),
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (2012–2015) and Transport Minister (2016–2019)
Nick Griffin (Downing), Leader of the
British National Party (1999–)
Matt Hancock (Christ's), British Health Secretary (2018–2021)
William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel (Magdalene), the last British Secretary of State for India (1947) and the last Governor-General of Ghana (1957–1960)
William Harcourt (Trinity), British Home Secretary (1880–1885), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1892–1895) and Leader of the Opposition (1896–1898)
John Healey (Christ's), British MP
Francis Higginson (Jesus), first Minister of
Salem, Massachusetts (1629–1630)
Geoff Hoon (Jesus), British
Secretary of State for Defence (1999–2005) and
Secretary of State for Transport (2008–2009)
Michael Howard (Peterhouse), Leader of the
Conservative Party (2003–2005), British
Home Secretary (1993–1997)
Geoffrey Howe (Trinity Hall), British Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979–1983), Foreign Secretary (1983–1989), and Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister (1989–1990)
Douglas Hurd (Trinity), British Home Secretary (1985–1989) and Foreign Secretary (1989–1995)
Michael Ignatieff (King's), Leader of the
Liberal Party of Canada (2008–2011)
Vane Ivanović (Peterhouse), co-founder of the
European Movement (1947), pro-Yugoslavia activist
Vladeta Janković (unknown), co-founder and Deputy President of
Democratic Party of Serbia (1992), Yugoslav Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Vuk Jeremić (Queens'),
Foreign Minister in the Government of Serbia (2007–2012)
Michael Johnson (unknown), Member of the
Australian House of Representatives (2001–2010)
Suematsu Kenchō (St John's), Japanese
Home Minister (1900–1901) and Minister of Communication (1898)
Norman Lamont (Fitzwilliam), British
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1990–1993)
John Lehman (Caius),
US Secretary of the Navy (1981–1987)
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Sidney Sussex), Irish Justice Minister (2007–2008) and Finance Minister (2008–2011)
Alan Leong (Hughes Hall), Leader of the
Civic Party of Hong Kong (2011–)
Arthur Li (unknown), Member of the
Executive Council of Hong Kong ; Hong Kong Secretary for Education and Manpower (2002–2007)
Sir David Li (Selwyn), Member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong and former member of the
Executive Council of Hong Kong
David Lidington (Sidney Sussex), Conservative MP and
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2018–2019)
Peter Lilley (Clare), British
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1990–1992) and
Secretary of State for Social Security (1992–1997)
Gwilym Lloyd George (Jesus), British Home Secretary (1954–1957) and younger son of
David Lloyd George
Selwyn Lloyd (Magdalene), British Foreign Secretary (1955–1960), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1960–1962), and
Speaker of the House of Commons (1971–1976)
Roy MacLaren (St Catharine's), Canadian
Minister of National Revenue (1984–1985) and
Minister of International Trade (1993–1996)
Iain Macleod (Caius), British Chancellor of the Exchequer (1970)
Lord Mark Malloch Brown (Magdalene),
Minister of State in the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and previously
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
Inagaki Manjirō (Caius), Japan's first deputy Minister Resident to the Kingdom of Siam on March 31, 1897; appointed Minister Plenipotentiary on 19 November 1899; envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 1903; he continued in that role until July 1907 when he was transferred to Madrid, Spain, where he died of illness in 1908
Allama Mashriqi (Christ's), founder of the
Khaksar movement (1930)
Francis Maude , (Corpus Christi), Chairman of the Conservative Party (2005–2007)
John McCallum (Queens'), Canadian
Minister of National Defence (2002–2003) and
Minister of National Revenue (2004–2006)
Reginald McKenna (Trinity Hall), British Home Secretary (1911–1915) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1915–1916)
David Mellor (Christ's), British Conservative MP and
Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–1992)
Andrew Mitchell (Jesus), British
Secretary of State for International Development (2010–2012)
Edwin Montagu (Trinity), British Secretary of State for India (1917–1922)
Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata (Hughes Hall), Minister of Culture, Colombia; Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow,
MIT
Andrew Murrison (Hughes Hall),
Conservative Party MP for Westbury and former
Minister of State
for Northern Ireland
Paul Magnette , President of the
Socialist Party of Belgium and former
Minister-President of Wallonia
R. M. Muzumdar ,
IOFS officer. He was the second Indian Director General of the
Indian Ordnance Factories .
N–Z
Marty Natalegawa (Corpus Christi), Foreign Minister in the Indonesian Government (2009–)
Philip Noel-Baker (King's), British Commonwealth Secretary (1947–1950), Chair of the Labour Party (1946–1947) and
Nobel Peace Prize winner (1959)
Simeon Nyachae (Churchill), Kenyan presidential candidate (2002)
David Owen (Sidney Sussex), co-founder and leader of the
Social Democratic Party (1983–1987 & 1988–1990), British Foreign Secretary (1977–1979)
Charles Stewart Parnell (Magdalene), Leader of the
Irish Nationalist Party (1882–1891)
Matthew Parris (Clare), British political analyst,
Member of Parliament for
West Derbyshire (1979–1986)
Sir
Emyr Jones Parry (St Catharine's), British
Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2003–2007) and
NATO (2001–2003)
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (Trinity), British Leader of the Opposition (1942) and Secretary of State for India and Burma (1945–1947)
Michael Portillo (Peterhouse), British
Defence Secretary (1995–1997) and
Employment Secretary (1994–1995)
Enoch Powell (Trinity), British
Minister of Health (1960–1963) and
Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1957–1958)
Francis Pym (Magdalene), British Foreign Secretary (1982–1983) and Leader of the House of Commons (1981–1982)
Shah Mehmood Qureshi (Corpus Christi), Foreign Minister in the Pakistani Government (2008–)
Dominic Raab (Jesus), British
Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (July–November 2018) and
Foreign Secretary (2019–2021) Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2021-Present)
Sir
Benegal Rama Rau (King's), Indian Ambassador to Japan (1947–1948) and the United States (1948–1949)
Geoffrey Robinson (Clare),
Paymaster General in the British Government (1997–1999)
Gábor Scheiring (Hughes Hall), economist and Member of the
Hungarian National Assembly
Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Wolfson), Singapore's Education Minister (2003–2008) and Finance Minister (2007–)
Kamalesh Sharma (King's), Secretary General of the
Commonwealth of Nations (2008–)
Peter Shore (King's), Secretary of State for Trade (1974–1976) and Secretary of State for the Environment (1976–1979)
Chatumongol Sonakul (Trinity), Governor of the Bank of Thailand (1998–2001) and Minister of Labour (2019–2020)
Shahid Aziz Siddiqi (Wolfson), Federal Secretary in the Government of Pakistan (1997–2000)
Arun Singh (St Catharine's), Minister of State for Defence in the Government of India (1984–1988)
Chris Smith (Pembroke), British
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1997–2001)
Gavin Strang (Churchill), British Transport Minister (1997–1998)
Sir
John Stuttard (Churchill),
Lord Mayor of London 2006/7
Szeming Sze (Christ's), Chinese representative at the foundation of the
United Nations (1945) and co-founder of the
World Health Organization (1948)
Linda Taylor , executive director of the
United Nations Office of Administration of Justice (OAJ)
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (Trinity), Secretary of State for Scotland (1886) and Ireland (1882–1884)
Christopher Tugendhat (Caius), vice-president of the European Commission (1981–1985)
Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull (Christ's), Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service
Tin Tut (unknown), Minister of Finance in the Government of Myanmar (1946–1947)
Tom Udall (Downing), US Senator from New Mexico (2009–)
Jim Wallace (Downing), Leader of the
Scottish Liberal Democrats (1992–2005) and
Deputy First Minister of Scotland (1999–2005)
Francis Walsingham (King's), Principal Secretary to Elizabeth I of England (1573–1590), "Spymaster"
William Whitelaw (Trinity), British Home Secretary (1979–1983) and
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (1975–1991)
William Wilberforce (St John's), slavery abolitionist
Roger Williams (Pembroke), founder of
Rhode Island , advocate of
Native Americans
Yeo Bee Yin |Corpus Christi|, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (Malaysia)
Clergy and spiritual leaders
Archbishops of Canterbury
Thomas Langton (Clare/Pembroke), 1501-1501
Thomas Cranmer (Jesus), 1533-1555
Matthew Parker (Corpus), 1559-1575
Edmund Grindal (Christ's), 1576-1583
John Whitgift (Queen's/Pembroke/Peterhouse), 1583-1604
Richard Bancroft (Christ's/Jesus), 1604-1610
William Sancroft (Emmanuel), 1677-1690
John Tillotson (Clare), 1691-1694
Thomas Tenison (Corpus), 1696-1715
Thomas Herring (Jesus), 1747-1757
Matthew Hutton (Jesus), 1757-1758
Frederick Cornwallis (Christ's), 1768-1783
Charles Manners-Sutton (Emmanuel), 1805-1828
John Bird Sumner (King's), 1848-1862
Edward White Benson (Trinity), 1883-1896
Michael Ramsey (Magdalene), 1961-1974
Donald Coggan (St John's), 1974-1980
Robert Runcie (Trinity Hall), 1980-1991
Rowan Williams (Christ's/Clare), 2002-2012
Justin Welby (Trinity), 2013-
Literature
Fiction writers
A–G
H–M
N–Z
Vladimir Nabokov (Trinity)
Thomas Norton (unknown)
Brian O'Doherty (unknown)
Maggie O'Farrell (Emmanuel)
Joseph O'Neill (Girton)
Lawrence Osborne (Fitzwilliam)
Helen Oyeyemi (Corpus Christi)
Tim Parks (Downing)
Philippa Pearce (Girton)
Sir
Max Pemberton (Caius)
Samuel Pepys (Magdalene)
Marie Phillips (Robinson)
Stephen Poliakoff (King's)
John Cowper Powys (Corpus Christi)
J. B. Priestley (Trinity Hall)
Frederic Raphael (St John's),
Academy Award winner
Julian Rathbone (Magdalene)
Simon Raven (King's)
Piers Paul Read (St John's)
Amber Reeves (Newnham)
Forrest Reid (Christ's)
Sir
Salman Rushdie (King's),
Booker Prize winner
Edward Rutherfurd (Caius)
Thomas Shadwell (Caius)
Anthony Shaffer (Trinity)
Sir
Peter Shaffer (Trinity),
Academy Award winner
Tom Sharpe (Pembroke)
James Shirley (St Catharine's)
Indra Sinha (Pembroke)
Ali Smith (Newnham)
Zadie Smith (King's)
C. P. Snow (Christ's)
Wole Soyinka (Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
George Steiner (Churchill)
Laurence Sterne (Jesus)
Nick Stone (unknown)
William Sutcliffe (Emmanuel)
Graham Swift (Queens'),
Booker Prize winner
Netta Syrett (Hughes Hall)
Tom Taylor (Trinity)
William Makepeace Thackeray (Trinity)
Marcel Theroux (Clare)
Matt Thorne (Sidney Sussex)
Frank Tuohy (King's)
Alison Uttley (Hughes Hall)
Leslie Valiant (king's),
Turing Award winner
Mario Vargas Llosa (Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Hugh Walpole (Emmanuel)
Eudora Welty (Peterhouse),
Pulitzer Prize winner
Patrick White (King's),
Nobel Prize winner
T. H. White (Queens')
James H. Wilkinson (St. John's),
Turing Award winner
Raymond Williams (Trinity)
James Wood (Jesus)
Jin Yong (St John's)
Non-fiction writers
A–Z
Poets
A–M
N–Z
Literary scholars
Travel writers
The arts
Actors, comedians, directors, producers and screenwriters
A–G
H–M
N–Z
Henry Naylor (Downing)
[20]
Mike Newell (Magdalene)
Robert Newman (Selwyn)
Thandie Newton (Downing)
James Norton (Fitzwilliam)
Sir
Trevor Nunn (Downing)
Bill Oddie (Pembroke)
John Oliver (Christ's),
Emmy Award winner
Barunka O'Shaughnessy (unknown)
Richard Osman (Trinity)
Tony Palmer (Trinity Hall),
Emmy Award winner
Andy Parsons (Christ's)
Alice Patten (Queens')
John Percival (Sidney Sussex)
[21]
Sue Perkins (New Hall)
Steve Punt (St Catharine's)
Frederic Raphael (St John's),
Academy Award winner
Jan Ravens (Homerton), first female president of
Footlights
Corin Redgrave (King's)
Sir
Michael Redgrave (Magdalene)
Eddie Redmayne (Trinity),
Academy Award winner
Karel Reisz (Emmanuel)
Blake Ritson (unknown)
Matthew Robinson (King's)
[22]
Antony Root (Christ's)
[23]
Nicola Shindler (Caius)
[24]
John Shrapnel (St Catharine's)
[25]
Don Siegel (Jesus),
Academy Award winner
Tony Slattery (Trinity Hall)
Iain Softley (Queens')
Dan Stevens (Emmanuel)
Tim Sullivan (Fitzwilliam)
Jonny Sweet (Pembroke)
Clive Swift (Caius)
David Swift (Caius)
Tilda Swinton (New Hall),
Academy Award winner
Fagun Thakrar (Pembroke)
Joe Thomas (Pembroke)
Emma Thompson (Newnham),
Academy Award winner
Sandi Toksvig (Girton)
Richard Vranch (unknown)
Nicola Walker (New Hall)
[26]
Holly Walsh (Caius)
Phil Wang (King's)
Rick Warden (Churchill)
Mark Watson (Queens')
Robert Webb (Robinson),
BAFTA joint winner
Rachel Weisz (Trinity Hall),
Academy Award winner
Chris Weitz (Trinity)
Olivia Williams (Newnham)
Michael Winner (Downing)
Andrea Wonfor (New Hall)
[27]
Peter Woodthorpe (Magdalene)
[28]
Lloyd Woolf (unknown)
Basil Wright (Corpus Christi)
Terence Young (St Catharine's)
Architects
Artists
Lord Antony Armstrong-Jones (Jesus), portrait photographer and
Emmy Award winner
Sir
Cecil Beaton (St John's), fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and
Academy Award -winning stage and costume designer
Quentin Blake (Downing), cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer
Roald Dahl
Sir
Roy Yorke Calne (unknown), contemporary painter and
Group 90 member
Sir
Anthony Caro (Christ's), abstract sculptor, famed for the use of 'found' industrial objects
Ralph Chubb (Selwyn), late Romantic painter and printer
Roger Fry (King's), modernist painter and
Bloomsbury Group member
Antony Gormley (Trinity), sculptor, best known for the
Angel of the North
Jon Harris (Trinity Hall), painter, illustrator, and calligrapher, best known for his drawings of Cambridge
Wuon-Gean Ho (unknown), contemporary artist and printmaker
Benjamin Hope (unknown), painter, noted for
plein air oil paintings of London
Luke Piper (unknown), contemporary landscape painter
Marc Quinn (Robinson), contemporary sculptor, member of
Young British Artists , best known for sculptures Self ,
Alison Lapper Pregnant and
Siren
Mick Rock (Caius), pop culture photographer, renowned for iconic images of major rock bands
Julian Trevelyan (Trinity), surrealist painter and modern printmaker
Art critics, museum directors, and historians of art
Clive Bell (Trinity),
Formalist art critic,
Bloomsbury Group member
Anita Brookner (Murray Edwards), art historian, Reader at the
Courtauld Institute of Art and first female
Slade Professor of Fine Art
Sir
Sydney Cockerell (unknown), Director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum and close friend of
John Ruskin
William George Constable (St John's), Curator of the
Boston Museum of Fine Art and assistant director of the
National Gallery
Shalini Ganendra (Trinity Hall), fine arts consultant and gallerist, judge on various art award panels
Michael Jaffé (King's), art historian, Director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum and Proprietor of
Clifton Maybank House
Michael Kitson (King's), art historian,
Claude Lorrain expert, professor at the
Slade School of Fine Art and the
Courtauld Institute of Art
Joseph Koerner (unknown), art historian,
German art expert, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at
Harvard and lecturer at the
Courtauld Institute of Art
Lothar Ledderose (unknown), Professor of the History of Art of Eastern Asia at the
University of Heidelberg , Mellon Lecturer at the
National Gallery of Art
Timothy Potts (Clare), Director of the
Kimbell Art Museum , the
National Gallery of Victoria and the
Fitzwilliam Museum
Duncan Robinson (Clare/Magdalene), Director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum and Chairman of the
Henry Moore Foundation
Simon Schama (Christ's), art historian and critic, professor at
Columbia University , award-winning author and documentary director
Sir Nicholas Serota (Christ's), Director of the
Whitechapel Gallery and
The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford , chairman of the
Turner Prize jury
Sir
Charles Waldstein (King's), Director of the
American School of Classical Studies , the
Archaeological Institute of America and the
Fitzwilliam Museum
Lord Horatio Walpole (King's), art historian and Proprietor of
Strawberry Hill
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (unknown), art historian, Secretary of the
Great Exhibition and the first
Slade Professor of Fine Art
Musicians
A–G
H–M
N–Z
Groups
Academic disciplines
Scientists, technologists, and mathematicians
A–C
Rediet Abebe (Pembroke), mathematician and computer scientist
Samson Abramsky (King's), computer scientist
John Couch Adams (St John's), mathematician and astronomer
Gilbert Smithson Adair (King's), protein scientist
Lord Adrian (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner, physiologist
Wilfred Eade Agar (King's), animal scientist
Sir
George Airy (Trinity)
Pat Ambler (Newnham), roboticist
Philip Warren Anderson (Churchill/Jesus),
Nobel Prize winner, physicist
Ross J. Anderson (Trinity), computer scientist
Sir
Edward Appleton (St John's),
Nobel Prize winner, physicist
Francis Aston (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner, physicist
Sir
Michael Atiyah (Trinity),
Fields Medal and
Abel Prize winner
Charles Babbage (Peterhouse), mathematician
Alan Baker (Trinity),
Fields Medal winner, mathematician
H. F. Baker (St. John's)
Charles Barkla (Trinity/King's),
Nobel Prize winner, physicist
Horace Barlow (Trinity)
Simon Baron-Cohen (Trinity), psychologist
Isaac Barrow (Trinity)
John Barrow (Clare),
Templeton Prize winner, mathematician
Tristan Bekinschtein , neuroscientist.
Noel Benson (unknown), geologist
John Desmond Bernal (Emmanuel)
Elizabeth Blackburn (Darwin),
Nobel Prize winner
Patrick Blackett (Magdalene/King's),
Nobel Prize winner, physicist
Sarah Bohndiek (Corpus Christi), physicist
Niels Bohr (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner, physicist
Béla Bollobás (Trinity)
Enrico Bombieri (Trinity),
Fields Medal winner, mathematician
Sir
Hermann Bondi (Trinity), Mathematician and cosmologist
Richard Borcherds (Trinity),
Fields Medal winner, mathematician
Max Born (Caius),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Jagdish Chandra Bose (Christ's)
Sir
Lawrence Bragg (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
William Henry Bragg (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Sydney Brenner (King's),
Nobel Prize winner
Alec Broers (Caius)
Jacob Bronowski (Jesus)
Tony Buffery (Corpus Christi)
Michael Burrows (Churchill), inventor of the first internet search machine,
Alta Vista
Sir
Roy Yorke Calne (Trinity Hall)
Roger Carpenter (Caius)
James McKeen Cattell , psychologist
Henry Cavendish (Peterhouse)
Arthur Cayley (Trinity)
Sir James Chadwick (Caius),
Nobel Prize winner
Ernst Chain (Fitzwilliam),
Nobel Prize winner
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
John Coates (Emmanuel)
Sir
John Cockcroft (St John's),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Christopher Cockerell (Peterhouse)
Joseph Comerford (Fitzwilliam)
Arthur Holly Compton (unknown),
Nobel Prize winner
John Horton Conway (Caius)
David Cordier (unknown)
Allan Cormack (St John's),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Alan Cottrell (Christ's/Jesus),
Chief Scientific Adviser
Francis Crick (Caius/Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
David Crighton (St. John's)
D–G
Henry Dale (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Charles Darwin (Christ's), naturalist
Sir
Charles Galton Darwin (Trinity/Christ's)
Erasmus Darwin (St John's)
Sir
Francis Sacheverel Darwin (Emmanuel)
Sir
George Darwin (Trinity)
Harold Davenport (Trinity)
Ashika David (Trinity)
Aubrey de Grey (Trinity Hall)
John Dee (St John's/Trinity)
Beryl Dent (Newnham), English
mathematical physicist
Duncan R. Derry (unknown),
Logan Medal winner,
economic geologist
Sir
James Dewar (Peterhouse)
Jared Diamond (Trinity),
Pulitzer Prize winner
Paul Dirac (St John's),
Nobel Prize winner
Simon Donaldson (Pembroke),
Fields Medal winner
Freeman Dyson (Trinity),
Templeton Prize winner
Sir
Arthur Eddington (Trinity)
Robert Edwards (Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
Sam Edwards (Caius)
Sir
Martin Evans (Christ's), biochemist,
Nobel Prize winner
Thomas Campbell Eyton (St John's), naturalist
Alan Fersht (Caius)
Ronald Fisher (Caius)
John Flamsteed (Jesus)
Howard Florey (Caius),
Nobel Prize winner
Dian Fossey (Darwin)
Sir
Michael Foster (Trinity)
Sir
Ralph Fowler (Trinity)
William Fowler (Pembroke),
Nobel Prize winner
Rosalind Franklin (Newnham)
Sir
Richard Friend (Trinity/St John's)
Sir
Francis Galton (Trinity)
Mike Gascoyne (Churchill), chief technical officer of the Caterham F1 Formula One team
Gary Gibbons (Trinity)
Walter Gilbert (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
William Gilbert (St John's)
Sir
Harold Gillies (Caius)
Peter Goddard (St. John's)
Thomas Gold (Trinity)
Jane Goodall (Newnham/Darwin)
Timothy Gowers (Trinity),
Fields Medal winner
George Green (Caius)
Michael Green (Churchill/Clare Hall)
Paul Greengard (unknown),
Nobel Prize winner
Siân Griffiths (New Hall)
[29]
Richard Kenneth Guy (Caius), British mathematician
H–M
J. B. S. Haldane (Trinity)
Nicholas Harberd (Christ's), Fellow of the
Royal Society
Gaylord Harnwell (unknown)
G. H. Hardy (Trinity), discovered
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Douglas Hartree (St. John's)
H. W. Harvey (Downing), marine biologist
William Harvey (Caius)
Stephen Hawking (Trinity Hall/Caius)
Roger Heath-Brown (Trinity)
William Heberden (St John's)
Richard Henderson (Corpus Christi/Darwin),
Nobel Prize winner
Richard Henson , neuroscientist
Sir
John Herschel (St John's)
Antony Hewish (Caius/Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
A. V. Hill (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Dorothy Hill (Newnham)
Christopher Hinton (Trinity),
Turing Award winner
WVD Hodge (Pembroke)
Alan Hodgkin (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Dorothy Hodgkin (Newnham/Girton),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Frederick Hopkins (Trinity/Emmanuel),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Fred Hoyle (Emmanuel)
Ieuan Hughes , Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics
Sir
Tim Hunt (Clare),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Andrew Huxley (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Edward A. Irving (unknown),
Logan Medal winner
James Jeans (Trinity)
Karen Spärck Jones (Girton)
Brian Josephson (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Pyotr Kapitsa (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Kay-Tee Khaw (Girton/Caius), Professor of Clinical Gerontology
Stan Kelly-Bootle (Downing)
Sir
John Kendrew (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Geoffrey Keynes (Pembroke)
Sir
David King (Downing),
Chief Scientific Adviser
Sir
Aaron Klug (Trinity/Peterhouse),
Nobel Prize winner
Georges J.F. Kohler (unknown),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Hans Krebs (Girton),
Nobel Prize winner
Horace Lamb (Trinity)
Joseph Larmor (St. John's)
David Lary (Churchill)
Imre Leader (Trinity)
Louis Leakey (St John's)
Georges Lemaître (St Edmund's)
John Lennard-Jones (Trinity)
Geraint F. Lewis (unknown), astrophysicist
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (Robinson)
James Lighthill (Trinity)
John Edensor Littlewood (Trinity)
Peter Littlewood (Trinity)
Alan MacDiarmid (Sidney Sussex),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
David MacKay (Trinity/Darwin),
Chief Scientific Adviser to
DECC
Thomas Henry Manning (unknown)
Elizabeth Nesta Marks (Newnham)
Archer Martin (Peterhouse),
Nobel Prize winner
Keith Martin (St Catharine's)
Peter Mathieson (Christ's),
Vice-Chancellor of
University of Hong Kong
Duncan Maskell (Caius/Wolfson), biochemist and Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
James Clerk Maxwell (Trinity)
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (unknown),
Chief Scientific Adviser
Robin Milner (King's),
Turing Award winner
César Milstein (Fitzwilliam/Darwin),
Nobel Prize winner
Peter Mitchell (Jesus),
Nobel Prize winner
John Keith Moffat (King's),
Guggenheim Fellow , biologist
Keith Moffatt (Trinity)
Augustus De Morgan (Trinity)
Simon Conway Morris (St John's)
Nevill Mott (Caius/St John's),
Nobel Prize winner
N–R
Roger Needham (St John's/Wolfson)
Michael Neuberger (Trinity)
Sir Isaac Newton (Trinity)
Sir
Robin Nicholson (St Catharine's/Christ's),
Chief Scientific Adviser
Ronald Norrish (Emmanuel),
Nobel Prize winner
Lawrence Ogilvie (Emmanuel), plant pathologist, entomologist, mycologist
J. Robert Oppenheimer (Christ's), scientific director of the
Manhattan Project
Jeremiah Ostriker (unknown)
William Oughtred (King's), inventor of the slide rule and the "×" symbol for multiplication
Sir
Charles Algernon Parsons (St John's)
George Peacock (Trinity)
Karl Pearson (King's)
Sir
Roger Penrose (St John's)
Max Perutz (Peterhouse),
Nobel Prize winner
Joseph Pesce (Peterhouse)
Sir
Brian Pippard (Clare Hall)
John Polkinghorne (Trinity/Queens'),
Templeton Prize winner
Sir
John Pople (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
George Porter (Emmanuel),
Nobel Prize winner
Rodney Porter (Pembroke),
Nobel Prize winner
Cecil Powell (Sidney Sussex),
Nobel Prize winner
Reginald Punnett (Caius)
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (Trinity)
Srinivasa Ramanujan (Trinity)
Frank P. Ramsey (Magdalene/Trinity/King's), Ramsey theory, Decision theory
Norman F. Ramsey (Clare),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
John Randall (unknown)
John Ray (St Catharine's)
Lord Rayleigh (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Lord
Martin Rees (Trinity),
Astronomer Royal
Osborne Reynolds (Queens')
Owen Richardson (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
W. H. R. Rivers (St John's)
Steven Rose (King's)
Klaus Roth (Peterhouse),
Fields Medal winner
Edward Routh (Peterhouse)
Ernest Rutherford (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Christopher Rudd (unknown), immunologist
Martin Ryle (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Ram Parikshan Roy ,
Professor of Botany ,
President Indian Science Congress, 1972
S–Z
Barbara Sahakian (Clare Hall), professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
Umar Saif (Trinity), computer science
Abdus Salam (St John's),
Nobel Prize winner
Frederick Sanger (St John's), winner of two
Nobel Prizes
Vikram Sarabhai (St John's)
Nicholas Saunderson (Christ's)
Richard R. Schrock (unknown),
Nobel Prize winner
Dennis William Sciama (Trinity), physicist
Sir
Nicholas Shackleton (Clare)
Rupert Sheldrake (Clare)
Sir
Charles Scott Sherrington (Fitzwilliam/Caius),
Nobel Prize winner
Simon Singh (Emmanuel)
Herchel Smith (Emmanuel)
John Maynard Smith (Trinity)
C. P. Snow (Christ's)
Ian Stewart (Churchill), mathematician
George Gabriel Stokes (Pembroke)
Bjarne Stroustrup (Churchill), inventor of
C++
Audrey Stuckes (Newnham), material scientist
John Sulston (Pembroke),
Nobel Prize winner
M. S. Swaminathan (Fitzwilliam),
World Food Prize winner
James Joseph Sylvester (St John's)
Richard Synge (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Albert Szent-Györgyi (Fitzwilliam),
Nobel Prize winner
Peter Guthrie Tait (Peterhouse)
Simon Tatham (Trinity)
Brook Taylor (St John's)
Sir
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Trinity)
Chris D. Thomas (Corpus), FRS
John Griggs Thompson (Churchill),
Fields Medal winner
Sir
George Paget Thomson (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
J. J. Thomson (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Peterhouse)
Alexander Todd (Christ's),
Nobel Prize winner
Chai Keong Toh (King's)
Roger Y. Tsien (Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
Alan Turing (King's)
Neil Turok (Churchill), mathematician
William Tutte (Trinity)
Stephen Tweedie (Churchill), software developer
Carina Tyrrell (Murray Edwards), physician scientist
Srinivasan Varadarajan , chemist and
Padma Bhushan awardee
John Venn (Caius)
Jemma Wadham , glacial biogeochemist, Antarctic researcher
Sir
John E. Walker (Sidney Sussex),
Nobel Prize winner
John Wallis (Emmanuel)
Ernest Walton (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
James D. Watson (Clare),
Nobel Prize winner
Steven Weinberg (unknown),
Nobel Prize winner
David Wheeler (Trinity/Darwin)
A.N. Whitehead (Trinity)
E.T. Whittaker (Trinity)
Sir
Frank Whittle (Peterhouse)
Sir
Andrew Wiles (Clare)
Sir
Maurice Wilkes (St John's),
Turing Award winner
Maurice Wilkins (St John's),
Nobel Prize winner
Sir
Ian Wilmut (Darwin)
C. T. R. Wilson (Sidney Sussex),
Nobel Prize winner
Edward Adrian Wilson (Caius)
J. Tuzo Wilson (St. John's)
Sophie Wilson , computer scientist and software engineer, designed the
Acorn Micro-Computer
Sir
Greg Winter (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Ian H. Witten (Caius), mathematics,
Hector Memorial Medal ,
IFIP Namur Award for
Greenstone
William Hyde Wollaston (Caius),
Copley Medal winner
Thomas Young (Emmanuel)
Christopher Zeeman (Christ's), mathematician
Jenny Zhang (Corpus Christi), chemist
Astronauts
Philosophers
A–M
N–Z
Economists
R. G. D. Allen (Sidney Sussex)
Andrew Bailey (Queens'),
Governor of the Bank of England (2020–present)
Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer (Trinity),
Governor of the Bank of England (1961–1966)
Peter Thomas Bauer (Caius)
Charlie Bean (Emmanuel)
David Bensusan-Butt (King's)
Christopher Bliss (King's)
D. G. Champernowne (King's/Trinity)
Ha-Joon Chang (unknown)
Robert Chote (Queens')
Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold (King's),
Governor of the Bank of England (1949–1961)
Alfred Clayton Cole (Trinity),
Governor of the Bank of England (1911–1913)
John James Cowperthwaite (Christ's)
Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe (Trinity),
Governor of the Bank of England (1913–1918)
Angus Deaton (Fitzwilliam),
Nobel Prize winner
Stanley Dennison (Trinity/Caius)
Gérard Debreu (Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
Maurice Dobb (Pembroke/Trinity)
John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell (Queens')
Robert Fogel (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner*
Milton Friedman (Caius),
Nobel Prize winner*
John Kenneth Galbraith (Trinity)
Pierangelo Garegnani (Trinity)
Sir
Edward George (Emmanuel),
Governor of the Bank of England (1993–2003)
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (Christ's)
Oliver Hart (King's/Churchill),
Nobel Prize winner
Noreena Hertz (King's)
Sir
Hubert Henderson (Emmanuel/Clare)
John Hicks (Caius),
Nobel Prize winner
John C. Hull (unknown)
Harry Johnson (Jesus)
Richard Kahn (King's)
Nicholas Kaldor (King's)
John Maynard Keynes (King's)
Mervyn King (King's/St John's),
Governor of the Bank of England (2003–2013)
Patrick Lynch (Peterhouse)
Thomas Malthus (Jesus)
Alfred Marshall (St John's)
James Meade (Christ's/Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Murray Milgate (Trinity/Queens')
James Mirrlees (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Robert Neild (Trinity)
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (King's),
Governor of the Bank of England (1920–1944)
Douglass North (Girton),
Nobel Prize winner*
Luigi Pasinetti (King's)
Arthur Cecil Pigou (King's)
Rogelio Ramírez de la O (Fitzwilliam)
Frank P. Ramsey (Magdalene/Trinity/King's)
Gordon Richardson (Caius),
Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983)
Dennis Robertson (Trinity)
Austin Robinson (Sidney Sussex)
Joan Robinson (Girton/Newnham/King's)
Amartya Sen (Trinity),
Nobel Prize winner
Ajit Singh (Queens')
Piero Sraffa (Trinity)
Joseph Stiglitz (Caius/Fitzwilliam),
Nobel Prize winner
Richard Stone (Caius/King's),
Nobel Prize winner
John Vaizey (Queens')
Yuen Pau Woo (unknown)
* Not part of official Cambridge Nobel count.
Historians
A–M
N–Z
Linguists
Keith Brown (Pembroke), Editor-in-Chief of the
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
Leslie Peter Johnson (Pembroke),
Germanist
John Lyons (Christ's),
semanticist
April McMahon (Selwyn),
evolutionary linguist
Peter Hugoe Matthews (St John's),
morphologist
Rebecca Posner (Girton),
Romance
philologist
Ian Roberts (Downing),
syntactician
Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Churchill),
revivalist ,
contact linguist ,
lexicologist
Classicists
Armed forces
Charles Cornwallis (Clare), Lieutenant General
Oliver Cromwell (Sidney Sussex), Lord Protector
Sir
Richard Dearlove (Queens'/Pembroke), Head of
Secret Intelligence Service
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (St John's), Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the
English Civil War
Billy Fiske (Trinity Hall), Second World War RAF pilot
Frank Ludlow (Sidney Sussex), botanist and Army officer
Louis Mountbatten (Christ's), First Sea Lord
Siegfried Sassoon (Clare), poet; Lieutenant,
Sussex Yeomanry ; awarded the
Military Cross for actions during World War I
Arthur Tedder (Magdalene), First World War RAF pilot
Sir
Peter Anthony Wall (Selwyn),
Chief of General Staff , and
Chief Royal Engineer
Educationalists
A–M
Theodore Acland (King's), Headmaster of
Norwich School
Syed Ali Akbar (Peterhouse), major educator of
Hyderabad State
Frederick Attenborough (Emmanuel), Principal of the
University of Leicester and the
West London Institute of Higher Education
John Haden Badley (Trinity), founder and first headmaster of
Bedales School
Isaac Barrow (Peterhouse), founder of
King William's College
St. Vincent Beechey (Caius), founder and first headmaster of
Rossall School
Frank Bell (Peterhouse), founder and first Chairman of the
Bell Educational Trust
Niels Bohr (Trinity), founder of the
Institute of Theoretical Physics in
Copenhagen
Lee Bollinger (Clare Hall), President of
Columbia University and the
University of Michigan
William Grant Broughton (unknown), founder of
The King's School, Parramatta , Australia's first independent school
Sir Dominic Cadbury (Trinity), Chancellor of the
University of Birmingham
Henry Cavendish (Peterhouse), co-founder of the
Royal Institution
Lord William Cavendish (Trinity), founder of
Eastbourne College and Chancellor of
London University and
Cambridge University
Sir William Cecil (St John's), responsible for revitalising
Stamford School in 1548
Hugh Childers (Trinity), founder of the
University of Melbourne
Sir
Samuel Curran (St John's), founder, first Principal and first Vice-chancellor of the
University of Strathclyde
Emily Davies (Girton), founder of
Girton College , the first residential higher education institution for women
C. D. Deshmukh (Jesus), Vice-chancellor of the
University of Delhi
Arthur Dunn (King's), founder and second master of
Ludgrove School
Henry Dunster (Magdalene), first president of
Harvard
Nathaniel Eaton (Trinity), first schoolmaster at
Harvard
John Eliot (Jesus), founder of
Roxbury Latin School , the oldest school in North America
Sir
Christopher Frayling (Churchill), writer and educationalist
Anthony Giddens (King's), Director of the
London School of Economics
Eli Gottlieb (St John's), Director of the
Mandel Leadership Institute
Sir
Brandon Gough (Jesus), Chancellor of the
University of East Anglia and Chairman of the
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Sir
Hari Singh Gour (Downing), founder and Vice-chancellor of the
University of Delhi , the
University of Nagpur and the
University of Sagar
Malcolm Grant (Clare), Provost and President of
University College London
Sir
Thomas Gresham (Caius), founder and first benefactor of
Gresham College
Lord Thomas de Grey (St John's), co-founder of the
Royal Institute of British Architects
Sir
Peter Hall (St Catharine's), founder of the
Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the
National Theatre
Andrew D. Hamilton (unknown), current Vice-chancellor of the
University of Oxford
John Harvard (Emmanuel), co-founder and first benefactor of
Harvard
Elizabeth Phillips Hughes (Newnham), de facto founder of
Hughes Hall, Cambridge and campaigner for women's right to education
David Lloyd Johnston (unknown), former President of the
University of Waterloo
Marty Kaplan (unknown), professor at the
USC Annenberg School for Communication and founding director of the
Norman Lear Center
Sir
John Kingman (Pembroke), Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Bristol and Director of the
Isaac Newton Institute
Thomas Langley (Corpus Christi), founder of
Durham School
Lord George Lascelles (King's), first Chancellor of the
University of York
Edward Latymer (St John's), founder of
The Latymer School and
Latymer Upper School
Arthur Li (unknown), Vice-Chancellor of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thomas Linacre (St John's), founder of the
Royal College of Physicians
Anthony R. M. Little (Corpus Christi), Headmaster of
Eton College
Adam Loftus (Trinity), co-founder and first Provost of
Trinity College, Dublin
Roger Lupton (King's), Provost of
Eton College and founder of
Sedbergh School
Jack Meyer (unknown), founder of
Millfield School and
St Lawrence College, Athens
Sir
Walter Mildmay (Christ's), founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
N–Z
Bernard Orchard (Fitzwilliam), re-founder of
St Benedict's School , lead it to become the only Catholic day school of
Public School status
Karl Pearson (King's), founder of the world's first university statistics department at
University College London
Stephen Perse (Caius), founder of
The Perse School
John Pye-Smith (Homerton), co-founder of
Mill Hill School
Dr
John Rae (Sidney Sussex}, headmaster of
Westminster School , writer and broadcaster
Alison Richard (Newnham), Provost of
Yale University and Vice-chancellor of
Cambridge University
Sir
Evelyn Robert de Rothschild (Trinity), Governor of the
London School of Economics and council member at
RADA
Sir
Nicholas Shackleton (Clare), Cambridge Professor and President of the
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
Sheung-Wai Tam (Robinson), President of
The Open University of Hong Kong and Chairman of
St. Paul's Co-educational College
Shahid Aziz Siddiqi (Wolfson), Vice-chancellor of the
Ziauddin Medical University
Henry Sidgwick (Trinity), co-founder of the
Society for Psychical Research and
Newnham College, Cambridge
John Sperling (King's), founder of the
University of Phoenix
Sir
Thomas Sutton (unknown), founder of
Charterhouse School
Geoffrey Thomas (Churchill), President of
Kellogg College, Oxford
Edward Thring (King's), Headmaster of
Uppingham School and founder of the
Headmasters' Conference
Sir
John Tusa (Trinity/Wolfson), Chairman of the
University of the Arts London (2007–)
William Waynflete (King's Hall), founder of
Magdalen College, Oxford and
Magdalen College School
William Wentworth (Peterhouse), de facto founder of the
University of Sydney
John Whitgift (Queens'/Pembroke/Trinity), founder of
Whitgift School and
Trinity School and, indirectly,
Old Palace School
Sir
David Glyndwr Tudor Williams (Emmanuel/Wolfson), Chancellor of
Swansea University and Vice-chancellor of
Cambridge University
James Wilson (St John's), Headmaster of
Clifton College
Michael Young (Churchill), co-founder of
The Open University
Tristram Stuart (Trinity), author and
sustainability campaigner
Entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists
A–M
Marcus Agius (Trinity Hall), financier and businessman, chairman of
Barclays bank
Toyin Ajayi (King's), CEO and co-founder of Cityblock Health
Lord Robert Alexander (King's), Chairman of the
NatWest bank
Simon Ambrose (Magdalene), business entrepreneur, winner of
The Apprentice
Simon Arora (unknown), billionaire CEO of
B & M
Sir
Hugh Barton (Trinity), chairman and managing director of
Jardine, Matheson & Co
Peter Bazalgette (Fitzwilliam), media expert, Creative Director figure at the global TV firm
Endemol
Sir
Max Bemrose (Clare), noted industrialist
Karan Bilimoria (Sidney Sussex), entrepreneur, co-founder and Chairman of
Cobra Beer
Lee Bollinger (Clare Hall), Chair of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors
John Browne (St John's), Chief Executive of
BP
Stewart Butterfield (Clare College), co-founder of
Slack Technologies and
Flickr
Sir
Egbert Cadbury (Trinity), managing director of
Cadbury , the British confectionery firm
Dame
Elizabeth Cadbury (unknown), philanthropist, founder of the
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Peter Cadbury (Trinity), entrepreneur, founder and first chairman of
Westward Television
Clementine Chambon chemical engineer, founder of Oorja Solutions
David Cleevely (unknown), entrepreneur and international telecoms expert, co-founder and Chief Executive of
Abcam plc
Mark Coombs (St. John's), billionaire CEO of
Ashmore Group
Gerald Corbett (Pembroke), Chief Executive of
Railtrack , chairman
Moneysupermarket.com and formerly
Woolworths
Charles "Nick" Corfield (St John's),
Silicon Valley entrepreneur, inventor of
Adobe FrameMaker
Sir
Andrew Crockett (Queens'), General Manager of the
Bank for International Settlements , member of
JPMorgan Chase and
Group of Thirty
Andrew Currie (businessman) (unknown), billionaire director at
Ineos
Gavyn Davies (St John's), managing director of
Goldman Sachs investment bank and Chairman of the
BBC
Sir
C. D. Deshmukh (Jesus), Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India (1943–1949)
Dinesh Dhamija (Fitzwilliam), founder, chairman and Chief Executive of the pioneering online travel agency
Ebookers
Ray Dolby (Pembroke), audio technologies inventor and founder of
Dolby
Mohamed A. El-Erian (Queens'), Chief Executive of
PIMCO investment firm
Massimo Ellul (Judge Business School), marketing and management consultant; philanthropist
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (Pembroke), Vice Chairman of
U.S. Federal Reserve System , President and CEO of
TIAA , Trustee of
Group of Thirty
Sir
Brandon Gough (Jesus), business leader, Chairman of
Yorkshire Water ,
Coopers & Lybrand , and
De La Rue plc
Roger J. Hamilton (Trinity), social entrepreneur, futurist, creator of Wealth Dynamics, Talent Dynamics, founder of Entrepreneurs Institute
Demis Hassabis (Queens'), entrepreneur, founder of
Deepmind
David Harding (financier) (St. Catherine's), billionaire founder and CEO of
Winton Group
Barney Harford (Clare), former CEO of
Orbitz.com and COO of
Uber
Clive Fiske Harrison (Trinity Hall), investment banker, Chairman of Fiske plc.
Hermann Hauser (King's), electronics entrepreneur, co-founder of
Acorn Computers
Johnny Hon (Hughes Hall), Hong Kong born international businessman and founder of the Global Group
Andy Hopper (Corpus Christi), electronics entrepreneur, academic
Michael Johns (Caius), healthcare executive, former
White House speechwriter
Sir
Paul Judge (Trinity), businessman and entrepreneur, Director of
Standard Bank Group
Nihad Kabir (unknown), President of
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka
Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum (born 1959), chief operating officer of investment trust
RIT Capital Partners , and a
Labour member of the
House of Lords
Sir
Henry Keswick (Trinity), Chairman of
Jardine Matheson Holdings
Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny (Trinity Hall), founder of OpenX Innovations, trustee of
The Brookings Institution
Andrew Kuper Founder and CEO of
LeapFrog Investments
Raymond Kwok (Jesus), Hong Kong property billionaire
Randy Lerner (Clare), American sports entrepreneur, owner of
Cleveland Browns
Edward Lewis (Trinity), founder of
Decca Records
Sir David Li (Selwyn), chairman and Chief Executive of the
Bank of East Asia
Paddy Lowe (Sidney Sussex), engineering director of the
McLaren
Formula One racing team
Michael Lynch (Christ's), software and internet entrepreneur; co-founder and Chief Executive of
Autonomy Corporation
David, Lord Cobbold (King's), proprietor of
Knebworth House ; founder of the
Knebworth Rock Festival
Zia Mody (Selwyn), founding partner of
AZB & Partners , India's second-largest law firm
Liam Mooney (Hughes Hall), entrepreneur living in Dubai
Nathan Myhrvold (unknown), former
Chief Technology Officer at
Microsoft ; co-founder of
Intellectual Ventures
N–Z
Nigel Newton (Selwyn), founder and Chief Executive of
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Edwin Nixon (Selwyn), successively managing director, chairman and Chief Executive of
IBM [UK] , then Chairman of
Amersham
Archie Norman (Emmanuel), Chairman of
ITV plc and formerly
Kingfisher plc and
Asda
Christian Purslow (Fitzwilliam), managing director of
Liverpool Football Club and Founder of
MidOcean Partners private equity firm
Sir
Michael Rake (unknown), Chairman of
BT Group and formerly director of
Barclays ,
McGraw-Hill and the
Financial Reporting Council
Sir
Benegal Rama Rau (King's), Governor of the
Reserve Bank of India (1949–1957)
John Reece (Queens'), billionaire Chief Finance Officer at
Ineos
Sir Harry Ricardo (Trinity), pioneering engine designer, founder of
Ricardo plc (1927)
Charles Rolls (Trinity), co-founder of
Rolls-Royce , the automobile and aviation company
Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (Trinity), Managing Partner of
N M Rothschild & Sons , art collector and race horse breeder
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (Trinity), Chairman of
N M Rothschild & Sons , art collector and noted horticulturalist
Sir
Evelyn Robert de Rothschild (Trinity), Chairman of
N M Rothschild & Sons and Director of
IBM United Kingdom Holdings Limited
Leopold de Rothschild (Trinity), banker, art collector and thoroughbred race horse breeder
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (Trinity), banker, Conservative politician and creator and manager of
Exbury Gardens
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (Magdalene/Trinity), banker,
High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and race horse owner
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (Trinity), Managing Partner of
N M Rothschild & Sons and funder of the
Suez Canal construction
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (Trinity), Chairman of
N M Rothschild & Sons and biologist
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (Magdalene), banker, Liberal politician and pioneering zoologist
David Sainsbury (King's),
Sainsbury's supermarket fortune heir; philanthropist
Sir
Robert Sainsbury (Pembroke), Chairman of
Sainsbury's supermarket (1967–1969)
Simon Sainsbury (Trinity), Director and Deputy Chairman of
Sainsbury's supermarket
Apoorva Shah (Unknown), managing director, Co-Head of M&A Asia ex-Japan, Nomura
Rod Smallwood (Trinity), music entrepreneur, manager of
Iron Maiden , co-founder of
Sanctuary Records
Martin Sorrell (Christ's), founder of
WPP , the world's largest advertising group
John Sperling (King's), for-profit education entrepreneur, founder of the
University of Phoenix
Lord Dennis Stevenson (King's), Director of
BSkyB (1994–2001), a Chairman of
HBOS (1999–)
Stephen B. Streater (Trinity), electronics entrepreneur, founder of
Eidos
Roger Tamraz (unknown), international banker and oil industry entrepreneur, Director of
Intra Bank
Dorabji Tata (Caius), Indian industrialist and philanthropist, Chairman of the
Tata Group
J.R.D Tata (unknown), French-Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur, Chairman of the
Tata Group
Andy Taylor (Trinity), music entrepreneur, manager of
Iron Maiden , co-founder of
Sanctuary Records
David Thomson (Trinity), Canada's wealthiest family,
Thomson Corp. (information services)
Kenneth Thomson (St John's) &
David Thomson (Selwyn), Canada's wealthiest family,
Thomson Corp. (information services)
Onyeche Tifase (unknown), MD/CEO of
Siemens Nigeria and President of Nigerian-German Chamber of Commerce
Sam Toy (Fitzwilliam), Chairman of
Ford Motor Company [UK]
Geoff Travis (Churchill), founder of
Rough Trade Records and
Rough Trade Music Store
Lord David Triesman (King's), business leader, Labour life peer and disgraced ex-chairman of
The FA
Sir
John Tusa (Trinity/Wolfson), managing director of the
Barbican Arts Centre (1995–2007) and the
BBC World Service (1986–1993), Chairman of the
Victoria and Albert Museum (2007)
Sir
Tim Waterstone (St Catharine's), founder of
Waterstone's (1982), the largest specialist bookseller in the UK
Neville Wadia (Trinity), Bombay Industrialist and Philanthropist
Samuel Whitbread (St John's), early owner of
Whitbread & Co Ltd brewing firm, Whig politician
William Henry Whitbread (Trinity), Managing Partner of
Whitbread & Co Ltd brewing firm, Whig and Liberal politician
Tony Wilson (Jesus), music and youth culture entrepreneur, founder of
Factory Records and owner of
The Haçienda nightclub
Daniel Yergin (unknown), founder of
Cambridge Energy Research Associates and
Pulitzer Prize winner
Xin Zhang (Wolfson), founder and CEO of
SOHO China
Zhang Zetian , (King's) Billionaire, chief fashion adviser at
JD.com
The law
Judges and lawyers
Charles Sterling Acolatse , Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ghana (1964–1965)
Aitzaz Ahsan (Downing), President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (1990–2007)
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Queens'), International Court of Justice judge (2000–)
Mary Arden (Girton), first female High Court judge to be assigned to the Chancery Division;
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2018-2022)
Mirza Hameedullah Beg (Trinity), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1977–1978)
Chris Bentley (Wolfson), Attorney General of Ontario (2007–)
Sir
Louis Blom-Cooper (Fitzwilliam), major lawyer specialising in public law and co-founder of
Amnesty International
Lee Bollinger (Clare Hall), US High Court lawyer
Sir
Dennis Byron (Fitzwilliam), Chief Justice of the
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (1996–1999), President of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2007–)
Kenneth Clarke (Caius), British Lord Chancellor (2010–)
Paul Clement (Darwin), Attorney General of the United States (2007–)
Sir
Edward Coke (Trinity), Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1613-1616), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1606-1613), Attorney General for England and Wales (1594-1606), widely regarded as the greatest English jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras; was influential on early American law
Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury (Downing), one of the first
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009-2011); general editor of Dicey & Morris, the standard reference work on conflict of laws, since 1987
Alvin Robert Cornelius (Selwyn), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (1960–1968)
Professor
James Crawford (Jesus), Judge of the International Court of Justice (2015–)
Charles Falconer (Queens'), British Lord Chancellor (2003–2007)
Anthony Gates (Fitzwilliam), Chief Justice of the High Court of Fiji (2007–)
Elizabeth Gloster , judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (2013-2018) and Vice-President of the Civil Division. She was the first female judge of the Commercial Court.
Lord Peter Goldsmith (Caius), Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland (2001–2007)
Sir
Hari Singh Gour (Downing), author of the
Indian Penal Code , Member of the
Legislative Assembly
Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths (St John's), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (1985–1993)
Joseph Grimberg , first to be appointed Senior Counsel in Singapore and current Senior Consultant in
Drew & Napier , a leading law firm in Singapore
Lady Brenda Hale (Girton/Newnham), the only woman ever to be appointed as one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009), then Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–), first female Deputy President (2013–2017) and President (2017–) of the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Mohammad Hidayatullah (Trinity), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1968–1970), first Muslim to attain the post
Rosalyn Higgins (Girton), first female International Court of Justice judge, President (2006–2009)
Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge (Corpus Christi),
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2013; Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2020
Yong Pung How (Downing), Chief Justice of Singapore (1990–2006)
Karl Hudson-Phillips (Selwyn), International Criminal Court judge, Trinidad and Tobago legal advisor and politician
Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim (St John's), Attorney-General of Singapore (1965–1967)
Derry Irvine (Christ's), British Lord Chancellor (1997–2003), mentor of
Tony Blair and
Cherie Booth
Sir
Rupert Jackson (Jesus), Judge of the
Court of Appeal of England and Wales (2008–)
Professor
Robert Jennings (Downing; Jesus), Judge of the
International Court of Justice (1982–1991), later President (1991–1994)
Wee Chong Jin (St John's), first Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore (1963–1990)
Anthony Julius (Jesus), lawyer in
Princess Diana and
David Irving cases
David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin (Fitzwilliam),
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2018
Mahomed Hameed Ullah Khan (Christ's), former Chief Justice of Hyderabad
[31]
Makhdoom Ali Khan (Corpus Christi), Attorney General of Pakistan (2001–2007)
Susan Kiefel (Wolfson), 13th
Chief Justice of Australia (2017–), Kiefel is the first woman to hold that position
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (Trinity), International Court of Justice lawyer
Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (unknown), Judge of the International Court of Justice (1955–1960), member of the UN's
International Law Commission (1952–1954)
George Leggatt, Lord Leggatt (King's),
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2020
Andrew Li (Fitzwilliam), Chief Justice of Hong Kong (1997–2010)
Wong Yan Lung (Magdalene), Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
Sir
Richard May (Selwyn), major judge, British representative on the
UN 's
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Sir
Robert Megarry (Trinity Hall),
Chancellor of the High Court from 1976 to 1985
Peter Millett, Baron Millett (Trinity Hall), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1998 to 2004
Zia Mody (Selwyn), founding partner of
AZB & Partners , India's second-largest law firm[
citation needed ]
Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill (St John's College), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1992 to 1997
Donald Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead (Trinity Hall), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1994 to 2007
Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton (Trinity Hall), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1986 to 1991
Chan Seng Onn (Hughes Hall), Justice of the
Supreme Court of Singapore (2007–)
Hisashi Owada (Trinity), International Court of Justice judge, Presidefnt (2009–)
Lord Nicholas Phillips (King's), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2005–2008) and President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–)
V. K. Rajah , Attorney-General of Singapore (2014–), former Judge of Appeal of the
Supreme Court of Singapore (2007–2014)
Sir
Benegal Rama Rau (King's), Vice-chairman of the UN's
International Law Commission (1949–1952)
Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell (Christ's),
Attorney General for England and Wales
Lord Reid (Jesus), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (1948–1975)
David Richards, Lord Richards of Camberwell (Trinity),
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2022
Patricia A. Rowbotham (LL.M. 1984), Justice of the
Alberta Court of Appeal , Canada
Vivien Rose (Trinity),
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2021
Philip Sales, Lord Sales (Churchill),
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2019
Lord James Scarlett (Trinity) (1769–1844), Judge, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Sir
Peter Singer (Selwyn), Judge of the
High Court of Justice of England and Wales (1993–2010)
Sir
Peter Smith (Selwyn), Judge of the
High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman (St. John's College), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1982 to 1994
Choo Han Teck (Hughes Hall), Justice of the
Supreme Court of Singapore (2003–)
Sir
Colman Treacy (Jesus), Judge of the
Court of Appeal of England and Wales (2012–)
Lord Roger Toulson (Jesus), Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2013–)
Evan Wallach (Hughes Hall), Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , former judge of the
United States Court of International Trade
Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe (Trinity College), one of the
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (2002-2009); one of the first
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009-2013)
Walter Woon (St John's), Attorney-General of Singapore (2008–2010)
Legal academics
Journalists and media personalities
Sportspeople
Olympians
Harold Abrahams (Caius), Olympian gold medallist (sprinter, long jumper)
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (Magdalene), Olympian gold Medallist (hurdler)
Stephanie Cook (Peterhouse), Olympic pentathlon gold medalist
James Cracknell (Peterhouse), double Olympic gold medallist
[48]
Billy Fiske (Trinity Hall), youngest US Olympic gold medalist (bobsleigh)
Syed Mohammad Hadi (Peterhouse), multi-talented India international
Peter Jacobs , Olympic fencer
Tom James (Trinity Hall), two-time Olympic gold medallist (2008, 2012)
Paul Klenerman , Olympic sabre fencer
George Nash (St Catherine's), British Olympic bronze medallist (2012)
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (King's),
Nobel Prize winner (runner)
Emma Pooley (Trinity Hall), Olympic silver medal (2008), world time trial champion (2010)
John Pritchard (Robinson), British Olympic silver medallist (1980)
Tom Ransley (Hughes Hall), world champion and Olympic bronze medallist (2012)
Sidney Swann (Trinity Hall), Olympic gold medallist (1912)
Annabel Vernon (Downing), Olympic silver medallist (2008)
Anna Watkins (Newnham), Olympic gold medallist (2012)
Josh West (Caius), British-American Olympic silver medallist (2008)
Kieran West (Christ's/Pembroke), Olympic gold medallist (2000)
Sarah Winckless (Fitzwilliam), world champion and Olympic bronze medallist (2004)
Deng Yaping (Jesus), Olympic gold medalist and world champion
Backgammon
Bridge
Sandra Landy (1938-2017), international player for England and for Great Britain; world champion 1981
Tom Townsend , Britain and England international and writer
Cricketers
Sir
George "Gubby" Allen (Trinity), England captain (1936–1948)
Mike Atherton (Downing), England captain (1993–1998), led England in a record 54 Test matches
Giles Baring (Magdalene), first class (1930–1946)
Mark Bott , first class (1986–)
Mike Brearley (St John's), England captain (1977–1981)
Antony Roy Clark (Downing), first class (1981)
John Crawley (Trinity), England international (1994–1999)
Percy de Paravicini (Trinity), first class (1882–1911)
Ted Dexter (Jesus), England captain (1961–1964)
Phil Edmonds (Fitzwilliam), England international (1975–1987)
Tony Lewis (Christ's), England and Glamorgan cricket captain (1955–1974)
Alfred Lyttelton (Trinity), first man to play both cricket and football for England
Peter May (Pembroke), England international (1951–1961)
Derek Pringle (Fitzwilliam), England international (1983–1993)
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II (Trinity), First Indian player to play for England (1893-1894)
Mountaineers
Racing drivers
Racehorse trainers
Rowers
Rob Andrew (St John's), England international (1985–1997)
Logie Bruce Lockhart (St John's), Scotland international (1948–1953)
Eddie Butler (Fitzwilliam), Wales international (1980–1984)
Mike Gibson (Queens'), Ireland international (1964–1979)
Gavin Hastings (Magdalene), Scotland international (1986–1995)
Damian Hopley (Hughes Hall), England international (1993, 1995)
Liam Mooney (Hughes Hall), Ireland international (1996-2000)
Eric Peters (Hughes Hall), Scotland international (1995-1999)
Martin Purdy (Fitzwilliam), club level (2003–)
Andy Ripley (Hughes Hall), England international (1972-1976)
Mark Robinson (Hughes Hall), New Zealand international (2000-2002)
Ken Scotland (Trinity), Scotland international (1957-1965)
Chris Sheasby (Hughes Hall), England international (1993, 1996–1997)
Tony Underwood (St Edmund's), England international (1992-1998)
Dan Vickerman (Hughes Hall), Australia international (2002–2008)
Wavell Wakefield (Pembroke), England international (1920–1927)
Sports administrators
Explorers
William John Bankes (Trinity), responsible for amassing the largest personal collection of Egyptian artifacts, at the family home
Kingston Lacy
Julius Brenchley (unknown), pre-eminent adventurer of the Victorian era
John Brereton (Caius), chronicler of the first European exploration of
Cape Cod and its environs
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (unknown), responsible for rediscovering the ancient ruins of the city of
Petra , lost for almost a millennium
Sir
Thomas Cavendish (Corpus Christi), first man to intentionally circumnavigate the globe
Walter Butler Cheadle (Caius), explorer of
Western Canada , namesake of
Cheadle, Alberta
Francis Fletcher (Pembroke), accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation of the world from 1577 to 1580 and kept a written account of it, claiming
Elizabeth Island and
New Albion for England
Sir
Vivian Fuchs (St John's), responsible for the first overland crossing of
Antarctica
Kenneth Gandar-Dower (Trinity), led the expedition to
Mount Kenya in an attempt to capture the
Marozi , piloted one of the first flights to India
Bartholomew Gosnold (unknown), instrumental in founding the
Virginia Company , and the
Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English/British settlement in the Americas
Thomas Hooker (Emmanuel), founder of the province of
Connecticut and the settlement of
Hartford
George Mallory (Magdalene), possibly the first man to reach the summit of
Mount Everest
John Mason (Peterhouse), responsible for drawing up the first English map of
Newfoundland and naming
New Hampshire
St. John Philby (Trinity), leading Arabist and explorer of the Middle East
John Robinson (Corpus Christi), pastor of the
Pilgrim Fathers
William Wentworth-FitzWilliam (Trinity), explorer of
Western Canada , first "tourist" to travel through the
Yellowhead Pass
John Wheelwright (Sidney Sussex), early explorer of
New Hampshire , founder of the settlement of
Exeter
Roger Williams (Pembroke), founder of
Rhode Island , known for attempts to cooperate with
Native Americans
Edward Adrian Wilson (Gonville and Caius) who died on the way to the South Pole with
Robert Falcon Scott .
John Winthrop (Trinity), founder and first Governor of
Massachusetts
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